New Recruit

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"New Recruit"
Production company	Hasbro Studios
Airdate	September 7, 2012
Animation studio	Polygon Pictures

Starscream uses the Apex Armor to go on a quest for Hypergon - aka Red Energon, meanwhile an escape pod from Cybertron crashes to Earth, and Smokescreen, a "new" Autobot, emerges -- but is he all that he seems?

Synopsis

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Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Others
Bumblebee (1) Ratchet (4) Bulkhead (6) Optimus Prime (7) Arcee (8) Smokescreen (11)	Vehicons (9) Insecticons (10) Airachnid (13)	Raf Esquivel (2) Jack Darby (3) Miko Nakadai (5)	Starscream (12)

Notes

Continuity notes

• Bumblebee seems to have gained more pictures of himself on conspiracy websites since "One Shall Fall".
• The Autobots remember when Wheeljack first arrived and how that turned out.
• Ratchet is pissed at Wheeljack for pulling that "revenge stunt" with Miko in "Hurt".
• Bulkhead is still suffering injuries from "Toxicity", but now he can walk a bit.
• Jack references the spark extractor, gained in "Operation Bumblebee, Part 1" and the phase shifter, gained in "Tunnel Vision", the latter of which Smokescreen uses against Starscream.
• Airachnid is shown in stassis lock in an Insecticon pod from "Armada".
• Starscream still has the Apex Armor he obtained in "Triangulation". Well, that is until Smokescreen takes it.

Transformers references

• Smokescreen references Constructicons, Halogen, Alpha Trion, the Elite Guard, and the High Council.

Real-world references

• Ratchet mentions the human phenomenon the clown car.

Trivia

• Starscream finds Earth humor funny. Guess Ratchet isn't the only one.