Talk:Combination Stealth Mode

According to episode 31 of the cartoon, it turns out that Formation Scream is not the name of this combined form (which has no name as far as the cartoon is concerned), but is instead the name of an attack used by Starscream and BB together in their (separated) vehicle modes. It involves the two firing their entire arsenal of missiles all at once, with narration from the episode describing it like so: "Formation Scream is a desperate technique which exhausts all of the pair's energy."

Now, I know nothing of what, if anything, is said about Formation Scream in the manga, the toys' original packaging, the toys' instructions, the catalogs, the magazines, or any other vintage BWII media, but in the cartoon at least, Formation Scream is a technique, not a mode. --Sabrblade (talk) 01:53, 30 July 2017 (EDT)

Starscream's profile card also calls it an attack, a "combination → separation attack" to be precise. --Apoc (talk) 09:26, 30 July 2017 (EDT)

Well, shoot. According to Episode 39's Transformation Corner, the combined form is named Formation Scream after all. And both the BWII Databook and the BWII Encyclopedia describe "Formation Scream" as Starscream's ability to combine with BB, but skirt around the idea of it being a mode or a combiner. Still, it's looking more and more like episode 31's instance was an isolated case of diverging from what everything else says. I'll keep looking into this further for any more info on the matter. --Sabrblade (talk) 14:33, 3 August 2017 (EDT)