Editing Mystery of Smearing Salt in the Open Wound

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|otherseries=''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (cartoon)|Q-Transformers]]'' ep 3
|image=QTransformers3.jpg
|caption=
|prev=Mystery of Reliably Crappy Games
|next=Mystery of the Stage Bosses
|title="Mystery of Smearing Salt in the Open Wound"
|japanese=傷口に塩を塗るの謎
|romaji=Kizuguchi ni Shio o Nuru no Nazo
|airdate=[[January 20]], [[2015]]
|production company=
|writer=[[Kotaro Ishidate]]
|animation studio=[[DLE]]
|director=Kotaro Ishidate
}}
'''Optimus, Bumblebee and Lockdown discuss human expressions.'''

==Synopsis==
As [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] continues to lose at ''[[Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns (mobile game)|Mystery of Convoy Returns]]'' and [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] urges him to keep trying, [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] demands they answer his question as to ''why'' they have to play a stupidly hard game based on a crappy 30-year old game. Optimus takes offense, ramming Lockdown in vehicle mode and pointing out that the original ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Mystery of Convoy]]'' wasn't a ''crappy'' game, it was just an ''unreasonable'' game and it sold 61 000 copies at that, a number that doesn't impress the [[Decepticon]]. Lockdown also rejects Bumblebee's explanation that the remake was made in celebration of the 30th anniversary, questioning why they didn't just make a new game instead of smearing salt in an open wound. Bumblebee doesn't understand the saying, so Optimus explains that it means "making something bad even worse", although as super robot lifeforms, putting salt on ''their'' wounds wouldn't hurt.

The three decide to think of other examples of the saying, and Bumblebee suggests a situation where a bird poops on you, followed by a giant meteor crashing on you. The others find that kind of crisis a bit extreme, and Lockdown instead thinks of a situation where you accidentally text your dad "I love you" instead of your girlfriend, and to top it off your dad responds with "is that so". They get into a discussion about what the proper response would be from the dad's side, and Optimus suggests [[Han Solo|"I know"]], a line so cool that it strikes Bumblebee and Lockdown speechless.

==Featured characters==
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*[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] (2)

|c2=
*[[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] (3)
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*Only [[Han Solo|one man]] is cool enough to respond to "I love you" with "I know".  And it ain't Optimus.

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