Swoop (G1)

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:''Swoop is a [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] and [[Autobot]] in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. He used to go by the name '''Divebomb''' and might someday call himself '''the Veteran'''.''

[[Image:SwoopUniverse1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ugly, yes, but he has a ''great'' personality.]]

'''Swoop''' is the friendliest and most outgoing of the Dinobots. He's surprisingly good natured, kind, and upbeat. Few of his comrades realize this however, as his team's reputation and his alt-form, considered (for some reason) particularly "horrifying" to Transformer aesthetics, makes others wary of getting close enought to learn about the bot himself. Swoop is an excellent aerial combatant and bombardier, and has become skilled at using the fear his alt-mode creates in battle. He considers it his greatest weapon. Like all the Dinobots, Swoop tends to be arrogant, disobedient, and generally disagree with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s leadership style. He's also a bit of a show-off.

:''Preliminary names'': '''Wing''', '''Divebomb'''
:''French-Canadian name'': '''Assailo'''<br>
:''Italian name'': '''Reptilo'''<br>

== Fiction ==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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''On Cybertron, Swoop was once a member of the Autobots' [[Elite Flying Corps]] and named Divebomb. After disobeying orders from [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] he came into battle with the Predacon now called [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]], who defeated him and stole his name. {{storylink|What's in a Name?}} This began a continuing rivalry between the two. Millions of years later on Earth they clashed again intending to finish things between them once and for all, but their respective team mates interfered and the battle went unresolved. {{storylink|Grudge Match!}}''

Swoop was one of the original crew of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. After it crashed, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] came to Earth in pursuit and landed in the [[Savage Land]]. The Ark rebuilt Swoop along with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] and [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] into the Dinobots and sent them to the Savage Land to defeat Shockwave. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} The battle ended with the Dinobots submerged in a tar pit where they remained until they were dug out by Ratchet millions of years later. Swoop along with the other Dinobots then helped [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] defeat [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and reclaim the Ark and free the deactivated Autobots within. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

[[Image:Swoopg1marvelukfirst.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Swoop intends to be the first to get his hands on a PlayStation 3!]]

''Upon their return to the Ark however Swoop was badly damaged and thought destroyed when he attempted to fly the booby trapped battle droid [[Guardian]] away from the Ark to prevent the explosion from destroying [[Mount St. Hilary]]. {{storylink|The Wrath of Grimlock!}}''

''In reality he was blown clear and crashed into a nearby lake where he was later found by [[Professor Morris]]. The professor had developed a machine capable of transferring his consciousness to a robot allowing him to take control of it. He recovered Swoop’s body and used the machine to take control of him. He used Swoop to attack the Autobots who he had mistakenly assumed were under the control of his company’s competitor [[G.B. Blackrock]]. Swoop’s personality eventually broke free of the professor’s control however. {{storylink|The Icarus Theory}}''

''Not long after this he went mad due to the burning out of his cybodendrons after being submerged in the tar pit for millions of years. He was subdued and went into a coma like state. This alerted the Autobots the danger that the other Dinobots were in and they set out to find them. {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}''

''Swoop later recovered from his coma along with the other Dinobots. {{storylink|Second Generation!}} He and the other Dinobots left the Ark shortly afterwards to help Sludge save his friend Joy Meadows from both the Decepticons and Swoop’s former tormentor Professor Morris and his new robot [[Centurion (Marvel)|Centurion]], funded by [[Intelligence and Information Institute|Triple-I]]. {{storylink|In the National Interest}}''

''Swoop would later battle the future Decepticon Galvatron, being severely beaten in the process. {{storylink|Fallen Angel}}'' After the death of Optimus Prime, Swoop helped to battle [[Trypticon]] who had been sent from Cybertron by [[Ratbat]] to attack the Ark. Having driven Trypticon away Swoop and the Dinobots returned to the Ark where Grimlock was declared Autobot leader. {{storylink|King of the Hill!}}

Following the return of Optimus Prime as Autobot leader, Swoop and the other Dinobots were critically damaged by the [[Underbase]]-powered [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. After being repaired by Ratchet using [[Pretender]] technology, Grimlock took Swoop and the Dinobots to [[Hydrus 4]] and restored them using [[Nucleon]]. This ultimately caused Grimlock to lose the ability to transform but it is not know if Swoop suffered any similar side effects. {{storylink|The Price of Life!}}

At some point Swoop was sent to Earth to become part of the [[Earthforce]] team under the command of Grimlock. He later returned to Cybertron and took part in the battle against [[Unicron]] which he survived. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

====''Another Time and Place''====

Several months after the golden age of Cybertron was reintroduced, Swoop and most of his fellow Dinobots had succumbed to the transfiguring effects of Nucleon and lost their ability to transform. When Grimlock received information that the Hydrus Four facilities had reopened, and discovered a means of reversing Nucleonic changes, the Dinobots jumped at the idea. Despite Prime's half-hearted warnings, Swoop and his teammates followed Grimlock back to Hydrus Four in the hopes of becoming Transformers once again. They were followed by the "exiled" Decepticons, however, and a battle with a huge native creature delayed the Dinobots long enough for Bludgeon's crew to get ahead of them and take over the Nucleon facility. The Dinobots were laid low by a [[Holocaust Trigger]], overloading their sensory circuits so that they were helpless before the Decepticons. Cruelly tortured, the Dinobots were still left alive so that they could witness the rebirth of Megatron, thanks to the Nucleon infusions Bludgeon was feeding him. For some reason, Swoop clearly got the worst of the treatment, with metal shredders taken to his wings, hooks gouged through his skin, and his leg tore almost completely out of joint.

Luckily, the Autobots had long since learned to become worried whenever the Dinobots were out of sight for too long, and had followed them to Hydrus Four. [[Roadhandler]], [[Tote]] and several [[Micromaster]]s managed to free the injured Dinobots, and an Autobot strike force brought down their Decepticon captors. Swoop managed to personally crawl over to the control console for some medical equipment, dropping a giant spidery set of waldoes on Bludgeon. In a matter of seconds, the machine tore apart the Decepticon leader, leaving nothing more than a few decentralized components. The Nucleon reversion process was a success, and Swoop and his comrades were restored to fully operational Transformers. {{storylink|Another Time and Place}}

====Generation 2====
Swoop and the Dinobots were fighting alongside Grimlock and a small group of Autobot firestormers when they uncovered the [[Cybertronian Empire]] and their terraforming measures. After calling in Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots, they became part of a major offensive against not only [[Jhiaxus]] and his ilk, but everything they represented. {{storylink|War Without End!}} Despite Prime serving as overall commander, however, Swoop and his buddies were still Dinobots first and foremost. So when Grimlock wanted to take first strike action against Prime's orders, there was no question who they'd follow. Swoop and the others were captured almost immediately, though, and only escaped thanks to the timely intervention of Optimus Prime and his more loyal group of soldiers. {{storylink|Devices and Desires!}}

Swoop continued to fight alongside the Autobots with his Dinobot comrades, on both Earth and [[Ethos]]. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}} {{storylink|Escalation!}} In the epic final conflict with the [[Swarm]], Swoop was seen manning one of the shield generators the united Autobot/Decepticon alliance was using to defend themselves. {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

====Classics====

{{note|The ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' story takes place in a post-Marvel Generation 1 comics universe where neither [[Generation 2]] nor the Marvel UK material happened.}}

After the defeat of Bludgeon's forces, the already nucleon infused Swoop was caught in a titanic explosion at a nucleon-processing plant and was drastically mutated. The quick reaction of the Autobot [[Mini-Con]]s saved him and ''boom''; Mini-Con Swoop was born. One would think a Dinobot would dislike being given such a small form, but Swoop is just as powerful as he ever was (if not more) and is now ''much'' faster and more precise. These augmented abilities are enough to make him quite satisfied with this state of affairs.

Swoop is part of Grimlock's crew on the ''[[Graviton (Classics)|Graviton]]''.

===Animated continuity===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Michael Bell]] (English), [[Yoku Shioya]] (Japanese)

While guarding a mysterious meteorite, the original Dinobots, Grimlock, Slag and Sludge, were fooled by Megatron into joining the side of the Decepticons. To counter the threat of their former comrades, the Autobots constructed two new Dinobots; Snarl and Swoop. Snarl and Swoop did battle with the original Dinobots but were only strong enough to force them into a stalemate. The original Dinobots chose to return to the Autobots after their leader, Grimlock, was saved from the exploding meteorite through a selfless act of heroism from Optimus Prime. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

Swoop was rarely seen apart from the other Dinobots. Together, they fought the likes of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}} and moved to a bizarre island (later dubbed [[Dinobot Island]]) to hone their skills. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

Some time after that, the Dinobots chose to desert the Autobots during their time of need (the Autobots were dying from lack of [[Cybertonium]]) and go to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]], [[Spike Witwicky|Spike]], and [[Carly]] sought out the Dinobots to convince them to help, but Grimlock, angered that they had been followed, decided to crush them. Swoop, however, saved them, wanting to hear the "brilliant part" from the humans. Grimlock was convinced to go, but instead led the Dinobots to Cybertron itself {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}}. All the Dinobots were captured by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], reprogrammed and forced to work in the cybertonium mines at the planet's organic core. All, that is, except for Swoop. Swoop soon encountered Spike and Carly, the Autobots' human allies, deep within the bowels of the planet. The three teamed up and, after learning a brief history of the Transformer race, freed the Dinobots and returned to [[Earth]] with a shipment of Cybertonium. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

In 2005, Swoop and the other Dinobots fought Devastator during the battle of [[Autobot City]]. They didn't fare too well. They later evacuated the city (reluctantly) when [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] attacked. Swoop and the Dinobots became briefly stranded on [[Quintessa]] along with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Kup]] when their ship was shot down. With help from [[Wheelie]], the Dinobots found their friends, with Swoop using [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]]s as bombs. The Autobots escaped Quintessa and rescued the remaining Autobots on the [[Junkion (planet)|Planet of Junk]] from a horde of confused [[Junkion]]s. Later, Swoop did one of his greatest life accomplishments when he bombed the butt of [[Unicron|a god]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie|TFTM}}

In the year 2006, Swoop and the other Dinobots spent much of their time on Cybertron fishing for robot fish (or organic fish, depending on which shot you're looking at). Swoop and the others briefly ostracized Grimlock when he attained super intelligence. Grimlock eventually returned to normal and was welcomed back among their ranks. Swoop and the Dinobots were also summoned by [[Oracle (G1)|Primacron's Assistant]] to do battle with [[Tornadron]], a creation of the villainous [[Primacron]]. Swoop failed to defeat the enrgy monster, but Grimlock managed to save the day just in the nick of time. {{storylink|Call of the Primitives}}

===Big Looker storybooks===
During an incomprehensibly heavy-handed Decepticon plot to steal a single fuel tanker, the Autobots - also oddly determined to protect this single tanker - found themselves outnumbered and outgunned. Swoop, still recovering from a previous battle, arrived to assist, and was fired on by Megatron. This so enraged the mild-mannered Autobot that he dropped an air-to-air missile launcher (?) with the power of 5000 pounds of TNT. Swoop comes across as uncharistically modest, and grateful just to be able to help Prime and pals. Also, Swoop has hair. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}

===Dreamwave continuity===
Swoop was an Autobot once named Divebomb, though the circumstances sorrounding his name change are unspecified. When Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] disappeared, Swoop joined Grimlock's [[Lightning Strike Coalition]]. When Grimlock took the future Dinobots to execute [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and Shockwave, Swoop argued that they should instead focus on [[Trypticon|the new battle base]] the Decepticons had built. Once the base was called away to rescue Shockwave, Swoop told him to come back and fight, then called him a coward (once the base was already leaving). Heading to the [[Neutral Territories]], they found no sign of Grimlock or Jetfire. Tracking Shockwave down, the LSC worked with the Decepticons to locate their missing members. {{storylink|The War Within: The Dark Ages}}

===3H comic continuity===

In a distant future of the [[Beast Wars]] timeline, the dark warlord known as [[Shokaract]] had conquered Cybertron and much of the galaxy. Only a handful of Maximals and Predacons survived to oppose him, under the command of the Predacon [[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]]. Among them was an ancient warrior known simply as the Veteran. Reflecting on his long history and all his many departed comrades, the Veteran began to wonder if he had survived so long as to become a ''figurative'' dinosaur.

The Veteran's finely honed skills and instincts allowed him to survive an assassination attempt by the Cub, one of Shokaract's servants. Returning in defeat, the Cub was severely wounded as punishment for his failure and left to die in the wilds of Cybertron. Before he could perish, however, Sandstorm's band of rebels recovered him. In an attempt to learn more about Shokaract's plans, the Veteran merged his Spark with that of the Cub, and thus was born the dual-Sparked [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]].

Though Windrazor was essentially a new being, within him the Sparks of the Veteran and the Cub continued to grapple for control and dominance of their joined form.

{{note|Though never named specifically, it is strongly implied that the Veteran is Swoop. The Veteran also appears in Simon Furman's pseudo-canonical story "[[The Last Days Of Optimus Prime]]" and is depicted as having a pterosaur-like silhouette.}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Swoop''' (Dinobot, 1985/1986/1991/1992)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''30'''
**''Accessories'': "Thermal Sword", 2 missile launchers, 3 missiles

[[Image:G1_Swoop_toy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Unlike the others, who have [[energo-sword]]s, Me have a thermal sword.]]

: Swoop's toy transforms into a robotic pteranodon. Swoop can stand on his dinosaur feet or lie on his stomach in this mode, but additionally has fold-out wheels located in his feet and chest (though one has to split his chest open to access the latter wheel). His beak and tail were rounded [[for safety reasons]] compared to the original ''[[Diaclone]]'' release. However, the remolding of the tail kept the tail sticker from fitting correctly. Interestingly, despite being a former ''Diaclone'' toy, Swoop is the only Dinobot not to have an obvious cockpit for a ''Diaclone'' driver figure.

:Swoop's die-cast metal chest is painted red, which is his ''Transformers'' color, as opposed to his cartoon color scheme which was based on the ''Diaclone'' toy. Along with his sword, he also comes with two spring-loaded missile launchers, the only Dinobot to have two projectile-launchers (and no non-firing gun to boot.)

: Swoop is notable for being one of the most fragile Generation 1 toys, and as such commands a respectable amount of money on the secondary market due to the difficulty in finding one intact.

: In Japan, Swoop and the other Dinobots were offered as mail-away items during ''[[Operation Combination]]''. Swoop cost 1800 yen (his original retail price, less than the other four) and two [[robot points]].

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===Classics===
*'''Dinobots''' (Mini-Con Team, 2006)

: Swoop transforms into a robotic pteranodon. His jointing allows him to stand on his hind-feet as well as assume a normal "flying" position. He was only available in a Mini-Con Team set with [[Knockdown (Classics)|Knockdown]] and [[Terrorsaur (Classics)|Terrorsaur]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Reptix]].

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==Trivia==
* Swoop was originally a ''[[Diaclone]]'' Dinosaur Robo Pteranodon type piloted mech. Whoever made Swoop's animation model used this ''Diaclone'' toy as a reference, as the Dinobot sports the pre-Transformer's blue chest, and gold lower beak, missiles, and dino feet. Swoop's box art has the Transformer toy's red chest, but keeps the gold parts from the Diaclone toy.

* This ''Diaclone'' incarnation of Swoop was also used as the model for the "restored" version of the Autobot [[Ravenus]] in the ''[[Armada|Micron Legend]]'' "[[Linkage (comic)|Linkage]]" mini-comics.

* Thanks to the ''[[Robo-Capers]]'' strip in the UK Comic, Swoop became the first and possibly only Transformer to defecate in a licensed and approved presentation.

[[Image:Swoop iconic.jpg|thumb|100px|right|New "Wildberry" Swoop is two, two, two flavors in one! ]]

* Swoop and Sludge's absence from ''Generation 2'' has never been fully explained, though rumors of what might have been persist. Recently, packaging art of both in new colors was unearthed, indicating what he ''might'' have looked like in the line. This art surfaced alongside a screaming yellow and turquoise Grimlock, so it is possible that the three were at one time planned for a second wave of Dinobots.

* The ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Swoop (Energon)|Swoop]] toy was originally intended to be the original Generation 1 character, and was to be released in ''[[Universe]]''. However, it was ultimately shunted into ''Energon'', reportedly for a combination of budgetary concerns and keeping the combination gimmick (since he combines with the packed-in [[Grimlock (Energon)|Grimlock]] to form a [[Mega-Dinobot|super robot]]) only in the main-line, which had combination as a central theme.

* Swoop is the only original Dinobot who is not technically a dinosaur. Following in his foot-steps are [[Terranotron (BM)|Terranotron]], [[Sludge (Dinobots)|Wal*Mart Sludge]], [[Paddles (character)|Paddles]], and two-thirds of [[Magmatron]].

* There are numerous [[paint application]] differences between the Classics Swoop pictured on the cardback and the final product. One possibility is that since the molds were originally intended to be in two-packs rather than three-packs, the number of available paint applications (which are carefully monitored) per piece was larger in the two-pack arrangement, necessitating some omissions for the three-pack release.

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==External links==
* [http://tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Swoop/swoop.htm Swoop at TFU.info]

* [http://www.diaclone.net/orid/diadino/d090.html ''Diaclone'' Swoop at DIACLONE.net (Japanese-language site)]

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