Talk:New Recruit

Explanation

I think Smokescreen may have slowly deactivated the phase shifter as he kicked though the Apex Armor. That is, assuming it works that way, which we don't know --75.82.9.197 14:08, 8 September 2012 (EDT)

The operative words being "we don't know." -- spyder 14:22, 8 September 2012 (EDT)

We don't know how the Phase Shifter is designed to work. Therefore, I do not think we can call what happened on screen a "continuity error." What happened on screen is just how the Phase Shifter operates. If you want a theory: the phase shifter attaches to a Transformer's wrist and phases out all "Transformer matter" in continuous contact with it. So Smokescreen phased through the Apex Armor and came in contact with Starscream forming a continuous link of "Transformer matter" which phased both Smokescreen and Starscream all the way through the Apex Armor. - Starfield 16:30, 8 September 2012 (EDT)

Or it could be like most other cases of phasing through objects in television, where the person doing the phasing can control which objects are passed through and can take other people through objects with them. So Smokescreen passes through the Apex Armor, comes into contact with Starscream and transfers some intangibility to him, and both come out the other side of the Apex Armor. Having control over the phasing also explains why Smokescreen doesn't just fall into the ground while intangible.--Megabob452 21:51, 8 September 2012 (EDT)