Swerve (Cybertron)

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Swerve is a Velocitronian Autobot from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Look, can't we just get beyond Thunderdome?

It's a bit of a mystery why Swerve joined the Autobots. It's possible he just really hates the Decepticons that much. Anger certainly features heavily into Swerve's thought-processes; his internal CPUs are always running way too hot despite numerous cooling systems, giving him an incredibly foul and violent disposition.

Swerve was (and likely still is) a contender in Velocitron's illegal underground "oil-sports", races where it's not necessarily who reaches the finish line first, but who reaches it alive. He has heavily modified his own body with parts wrested from the losers of these races.

Fiction

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Cyber Key Code content

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Swerve's current body is actually his sixteenth. Originally, he had a body similar in size to Crumplezone, but found it far too slow for his liking. After constantly bootlegging, manufacturing, and salvaging new parts, Swerve eventually found a balance between speed and firepower that was to his liking. Swerve's Cyber Key Code text

Timelines

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Alongside fellow crewmembers Blurr, Excellion, and Longrack, a remarkably even-tempered Swerve served as a member of Override's crew aboard her ship, the Star Arrow. After their ship crashed on the planet Sandokan, Swerve made deft use of the salvage skills he honed on Velocitron to locate an emergency distress beacon amid the wreckage. He went on to get sucker-punched by the beast of Sandokan, Synthos, taken hostage by Astrotrain, and even shot by Override. He took all of this rather well.

He also got to help steal Cannonball's ship. That has to count for something. The Dark Heart of Sandokan

TransTech

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Swerve was known to attend Gutcruncher's meetings. Gone Too Far

End of G1 Universe

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Swerve was one of the initial colonists of Velocitron, helping build the planet's infrastructure under the leadership of Optimus Prime. Star of the Dark God, Part One

Toys

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Cybertron

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"Can you tell which side I'm on? I'm worried I'm being too subtle."
  • Swerve (Scout Class, 2005)
Premiering in the fifth wave of Cybertron Scout-class toys, Swerve is a redeco of Clocker, transforming into a Velocitronian open-topped race car, complete with driver's and passenger's seats. Plugging a Cyber Planet Key into his rear assembly pops up a pair of thrusters with pull-out non-firing blaster barrels. This assembly becomes a hand-held weapon for robot mode. He also has a pair of removable side-pipes that can also be used as hand-weapons.
This mold was also used to make the live-action movie Clocker. It was further redecoed and retooled to make the BotCon 2006 exclusive versions of Cheetor and "Unit-2". It is also the basis for the numerous non-toy Maximal Command Security Force characters.

Notes

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So why EXACTLY did you NOT use this as a generic in the show proper, Gonzo?
  • Swerve's coloration is based on a GONZO test-run of the Clocker CGI model produced before Clocker's colors had been finalized. Apparently, the Hasbro team liked the general look of the model enough to turn it (or an approximation of it) into a toy.
  • Much like his mold-mate, he never had the exhaust pipes present in his only physical appearance in "The Dark Heart of Sandokan".
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