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human
[Michael Bay Transformers] Why is it that the Transformers can have chunks taken out of them in robot form, but appear completely undamaged in vehicle form?

When the Transformers are fighting, they appear to take physical damage, but when they transform, the cars/planes/helicopters are perfectly unharmed. No scratches or anything. Do Transformers have a healing factor?
gpt
As we've seen, Transformers can scan a vehicle and almost instantly change themselves to be able to transform into said vehicle. It's therefore not hard to imagine that they have self-repair and bodily reconfiguration abilities. Perhaps these abilities are fairly power intensive, which is why they aren't during combat, when more power would be diverted to hitting harder.