Israel immediately dismissed al-Rantissi's statements as insincere and a smokescreen for military preparations. The naval group then started laying a smokescreen to create a diversion. Using a smokescreen, the Earth-1 Batman manages to trap Owlman and Joker. By this interpretation, his task was to create a "smokescreen" that hid Austria's true weakness. Instead of risking further combat, "Thor" made her escape under cover of a dense smokescreen. Tait was also pleased to see a column of black smoke rising through the smokescreen. As Japanese destroyers laid a smokescreen, the cruisers of both fleets opened fire. Their advance would be protected by a large smokescreen laid down by Canadian artillery. "Evertsen" was hit repeatedly, but temporarily disengaged under a smokescreen. Under the cover of the smokescreen from the destroyers, "Roberts" escaped detection. Two brigades of the 12th Division attacked at with the left covered by a smokescreen. According to Callender, that was just a smokescreen. "It was all a smokescreen", he says. In 1997 he was released as a black redeco of "Generation 2" Smokescreen. The fourth and final one was inside Smokescreen the whole time.