In addition to the named guys, our heroes are followed by a yellow Seeker, a green Seeker, and a blue Seeker. In homage to this opening scene, War For Cybertron - Siege opens in a similar way, with Wheeljack and Bumblebee on the run from a multicolored gaggle of Seekers (and Jetfire). Years later, they’d be given names: Sunstorm, Hotlink, Bitstream, and Nacelle, respectively. In its opening scene, Wheeljack and Bumblebee are chased across the surface of their home planet Cybertron by, yes, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp, but they also confront four other guys, a “Welcoming Committee” that includes an orange Seeker, a purple Seeker, a light blue Seeker, and a dark blue Seeker.
The original 1984 cartoon pilot gave us a murderous rainbow of even more Seekers. The most infamous practitioners of this were Starscream and his two Seeker buddies, Skywarp and Thundercracker. There were 28 characters in the original 1984 Transformers lineup, and 11 of them were differently hued twins of another toy. Dunking an Autobot or Decepticon in a different set of paint and calling it a different robot is a practice as old as the Transformers franchise itself.
