Swerve (Cybertron)
| The name or term "Swerve" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Swerve (disambiguation). |
- Swerve is an Autobot from the planet Velocitron during the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy.
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-processees; 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 neccessarily who reaches the finish line first, but who reaches it alive. He's heavily modified his own body with parts wrested from the losers of these races.
Fiction
Cybertron animated series continuity
Black Sea of Sandokan
Cyber Key Code content
Swerve's current body is actually his 16th one. Originally he had a body similar in size to Crumplezone, but found it far too slow. After constantly bootlegging, manufacturing and salvaging new parts, Swerve eventually found a balance between speed and firepower that was to his liking.
Toys
Cybertron
- Swerve (Scout-class, 2005)
- A redeco of the Cybertron Clocker toy, Swerve transforms into a Cybertronic (Velocitronic?) sports car with open-to-the-air driver/passenger compartment. Inserting a Cyber Planet Key into the trunk setion of his car mode flips up the side panels, revealing non-firing blasters. This assembly becomes a hand-weapon for robot mode. His side-pipes are removable, and can be mounted on his legs or used as hand-weapons as well. He came with a silver-bordered Velocitron-style Cyber Planet Key with the Key code s12r on the back.
- This mold was also redecoed and retooled to make the BotCon 2006 exclusive versions of Cheetor and Tigatron. It is also the basis of the non-toy Maximal Command Security Force characters.
Trivia
- 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.
