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Maybe I should help them.... or maybe I should just help myself!
~ Swindle

Swindle is a self-described "intergalactic arms dealer" and a recurring antagonist of Transformers Animated. While nominally on the side of the Decepticons, Swindle saw the Great War as a business opportunity.

He was voiced by the late Fred Willard.

Biography[]

Everything Must Go[]

Swindle visited the Decepticon base on New Kaon while Blitzwing was fighting with Lugnut over him negotiating with the bounty hunter Lockdown for Optimus Prime. Seeing an opportunity, Swindle outfitted the Triple Changer with enhanced weaponry (and a convenient payment plan), and watched as the fight escalated. Each time, he was more than happy to provide each side with ever-increasing hardware, up to and including planetbuster weaponry. Once the pair of Decepticons found out that Swindle was arming both of them, they mangled him into a ball, leaving Swindle a fair bit worse for wear, but he took it in stride.

Society of Ultimate Villainy[]

After discovering the situation on Earth from a business transaction with Lockdown, Swindle anonymously aligned himself with the Society of Ultimate Villainy, funding them if they stole certain components. Posing as the "gift" of a getaway vehicle, he communicated through the radio. After the parts were stolen, he had them construct a generator. After Slo-Mo refused to hand over her AllSpark powered timepiece, Swindle revealed himself. 

He dealt with most of the SUV, using his force field to protect himself from the temporal effects of Slo-Mo's watch. He took it from her, contacting his old client Megatron. Swindle demonstrated the generator's ability to freeze everything mechanical in Detroit, including the Autobots. However, Bumblebee, who had shielded himself from the generator's effects, along with the SUV, burst in and managed to knock him over the side of the parking block on which he had stationed himself. While he managed to reacquire the watch, he was frozen in his vehicle mode when a blast ricocheted off of the Autobot's shield. He was last seen being towed by the police, who promised to strip apart the paralyzed Decepticon and sell his parts at a police auction.

Decepticon Air[]

After being captured by Sentinel Prime along with other Decepticons and is taken back to Cybertron, Sentinel recklessly order the Elite Guard to get pass through an energy cloud because it is the quick way to get back to Cybertron, but it accidentally awaken Swindle, who turns himself back into robot mode and released his fellow Decepticons and offered them weapons and accessories. While they're confronted the Elite Guard, Swindle reveals that his Sonic Jammer 3000 hacked into the alarm systems and prevent it from making sounds. He then used it to trap both Jetfire and Jetstorm inside a bubble with a stasis suspension ray. After defeating the Elite Guard, he convince his fellow Decepticons to spare them just to sell their spare parts to retire to beach island on Nebulos. While holding the Elite Guard prisoners, Optimus managed to get inside the Elite Guard's spaceship and attacked the Decepticons. Lugnut orders Swindle to keep an eye on the prisoners while they went to pursue Optimus, but only for him to leave the job and went to retrieve the weapons from a storage room. Instead of helping his fellow Decepticons, he escapes the Elite Guard's spaceship with an escape pod, happily getting away from his crimes.

Trivia[]

  • Swindle's design is heavily modelled on his G1 counterpart, and the character was a favourite of Derrick J Wyatt, who lobbied for Swindle to appear in the show.
  • Swindle was intended to have been an Autobot who switched sides, which is implied by his size and vehicle mode. The Allspark Almanac II guidebook states Strika doesn't trust ex-Autobots and heavily dislikes Swindle. 

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           Transformers Animated Villains

Decepticons
Megatron | Starscream | Lugnut | Blitzwing | Blackarachnia | Shockwave | Soundwave | Laserbeak | Ratbat | Swindle | Waspinator

Starscream Clones
Skywarp | Thundercracker | Sunstorm | Ramjet | Slipstream

Team Chaar
Strika | Spittor | Blackout | Oil Slick | Cyclonus

Constructicons
Scrapper | Mixmaster | Dirt Boss

Stunticons
The Motor Master | Breakdown | Dead End | Drag Strip | Wildrider | Toxitron

Others
Lockdown | Colossus Rhodes | Prometheus Black | Nanosec | Professor Princess | Angry Archer | Slow-Mo | Henry Masterson/HeadMaster | Porter C. Powell | Master Disaster | Wraith | Stiletto

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