Transformers Named Swerve And Their Weird Stories

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A lot of random toys ended up with the name Swerve, and most of them have bizarre stories to tell.
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[@francobonazzola5012]

At least he got more new head molds than poor Cliffjumper

[@NightmareZerogbs]

I knew he was the go-to name for red repaints, but I had never considering how weird each case was!

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

To add to the weirdness Aveo Swerve’s hand holes are slightly smaller than the standard 5mm, so he can’t hold any standard weapons.

[@edaniels240]

The GDO remolds weren't only sold at Toys R Us cause I got that figure from a comic book store as soon it came out

[@shockwave_thepepe]

Swerve is one of the characters of all time

[@Martynde]

IDW Swerve is more of a characterisation being conceived first then applied to a mostly blank slate of an existing toy. Tailgate too. I think Bluestreak and Powerglide were originally chosen for the characterisation that went to Swerve and Tailgate but the writer was told not to.

[@jaredhawken3692]

getting stoned and watching your channel is one of the only things keeping me going rn fr

[@moonwhooper]

💀

[@UnknownJ25]

Comic Swerve is one of my favorite transformers and this history is so wild to me

[@Heroduothecomedian]

I'd hate to ask this but my big brother scotty is in the hospital in a coma right now, doctors say if he wakes up his whole right side will be paralyzed and it's been over a week since he been in the coma.i wouldn't be into transformers if it wasn't for him so could you all please send him good vibs/prayers

[@IsiahTomas]

It'd be my pleasure. And in spades. Hope all gets well for all of you.

[@jackofallclaws6672]

Well wishes for you and your brother.🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

[@Cdr2002]

I hope everything goes well and wish you the best

[@NovaFanUnzip]

Damn that sucks! Hope your bro get better!

[@douglasburck1611]

Yes I can 😊

[@RobinSwede]

The armada blurr repaint was one of my first transformers. I thought it was supposed to be hotrod for the longest time.

[@saorlathesurly]

One of my absolute favourite things is looking at the various interpretations of Transformers characters and trying to blend them together, especially for characters like Swerve who've had their names applied to various radically different designs and personalities.

[@solusquatro3448]

Have fun with Dead End

[@TotalJusticeGaming]

Did you hear about the Quest, cause I heard Swerve is into quests. He be questing.

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Don’t ask him about the Kiss Players Quest.

[@chriscaseyg9362]

Alternator Swerve would have made a decent Hot Rod imo.

[@Delirium420x]

There's a prototype of gears from the ratchet mold. That could explain the similarities

[@RHM087]

Plus of course Alternators Tracks didn’t get his signature hood flames design but for some reason Swerve did

[@retrosympathizer8776]

I'm pretty sure Hasbro released a sticker for their version of Tracks

[@TJOmega]

The sticker was included with Swerve, so you could apply it to Tracks instead if you wanted to.

[@retrosympathizer8776]

@@TJOmega Huh, kinda weird how they included it with Swerve but not Tracks. More WEIRDNESS

[@IrishKyokushin]

Binaltech Tracks came with the stickers. The red repaint should have been Road Rage.

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Swerve: Autobot Costanza

[@jeebus2313]

2:07 Well, I suppose "Swerve" is an appropriate name for a terrible driver.

[@bilal_Hadjlaoui907]

Swerve has to be one of my fan favourite mini bots after windcharger and gears and beachcomber-powerglide and pipes and huffer,i always loved his design and his personality in idw,his japanese exlusive transformers prime toy looks really unique and fits with the bulky design of breakdown,i do wish if kingdom gears wasn't cancelled so we can get a wfc triolgy swerve out of him

[@redlion-paladin4609]

The canceled Kingdom figure might come out in legacy, just have to wait and see I guess.

[@TrueNomadSkies]

I have this Arms Micron Swerve. Always thought it was strange, but love the molds. Red is my favourite colour, and the head is hella neat. It's like, he got big!

[@pizzacade8594]

There's also the real life Swerve's in Universal Shanghai.

[@JacobHillSBD]

I wish I could go

[@ryansargent661]

Great video, I enjoyed it, thank you!

[@rodimusunicronus2089]

swerve greatest thing he did in g1 cartoon continuity was in the legend comic where he got his revenge and defeat trypticon ( strapping himself with explosive and blow trypticon,basically a walking land mine and even survived )

[@michaellombardi1620]

G1 was my first transformer!

[@Boomtox]

Out of all topics to do this is not one I expected

[@walterlopez5054]

I wanna pick up that arms micron swerve to repurpose him as Big Red from the marvel comics.

[@sebastchachacha]

I actually have the aveo swerve as my mum worked at McCann in Ecuador and McCann has this global deal to make all the ads and publicity for chevy so one day in her office there was this box full of these things and they gifted them to the employees of the agency so i actually had 2 (my dad also worked there) but one broke, i still have the other one though.

[@ryanfab4593]

Hey TJ. Been a big fan for a decade now. Haven’t seen a topic like this covered. Please do more videos like this and keep up the quality!

[@ORLY911]

you could actually turn the random completely different iterations as part of a compelling character development, he starts as a fumbling geologist and wants to get better, leading him to keep upgrading himself more and more and becoming more wreckless and even go as far to serve under Unicron (analog to the armada version).

[@russellharrell2747]

A lot of staying power for a retool minibot that was originally part of the Mysterians.

[@mechaman7818]

2:05 Maybe he's drunk on energon juice all the time. He couldn't hit a damn thing and was all over the place, so they called him Swerve.

[@1505627]

I have to say, I'm a fan of name dumping, and I wish it were more common nowadays.

[@Ranma_Leopard]

Very intriguing video

[@elbliztwingsovietico2180]

i have my ROFT Swerve and i like him my favorite toy.

[@primusvsunicron1]

Vince Russo’s favorite Autobot

[@javivaki]

15:48 Giga Swerve

[@cartkart1]

Now Swerve, at the bar, is a friend of mine… He gets me my drinks for free! And he’s quick with a joke, or to light up your smoke, But there’s some place that he’d rather be…

[@metalheadrobredbar6899]

Cool, I didn't know much at all about this guy.

[@mariodude345]

Do a follow up about all the Decepticon Ransacks

[@danieljeyn9847]

Question for the ages is why that Breakdown mold wasn't reformed into Ironhide?

[@qq13563817153]

I, for one, would love to live on Swearth

[@tvbox66]

when he said spychanger my brain thought eggplant

[@omegamaximus1727]

5;59 That is Generations GDO.

[@medafan53]

Something about Arms Micron Swerve really makes me wish that someone did the Breakdown mold as a version of the Iron Man Hulkbuster Armour (probably the red) I doubt it'd ever appen, the mold's what? a decade old at this point, but hey Collaberative's a thing and a guy can dream.

[@iodaspark]

'Swerved' nomenclature indeed! ;-)

[@andrewgrant2990]

My favorite Swerve is the one a certain cosplayer did @ a convention! She was the human avatar of the bartender Swerve from IDW. :)

[@starcatcher1290]

Swerve right swerve leeft

[@jrock32379]

I have Aveo Swerve and I love him very much.

[@mrheroprimes]

arms micron Swerve is both The Bouncer and the bartender. if you break the rules of his bar he'll personally throw you out with the trash.

[@fenixcay8130]

So the pickup retool is the Henkai/Universe Kup.

[@swerveofhelex3717]

Hmm... Informative!

[@iodaspark]

Unusually 'unusual'! ;-)

[@johnosbourn4312]

You got it right, TJ, the name of this version of Swerve's car mode is Aveo.

[@edaniels240]

Still have G1, Cybertron, & Generations

[@LanceTheAutobot]

Interesting Video however the only thing I heard was swerve swerve swerve swerve swerve swerve swerve swerve swerve swerve swerve and swerve 😁

[@Transformatics]

There were a few 3rd party Swerves too! As for Aveo Swerve, I got one at 2011 TF-con in Toronto for 30 bucks Canadian. :) so about 24$ U.S.. I got the I-Gear Faith Leader too that year too, the 3P mini MP-01. Still have it as well.

[@charperalta9489]

wait they were all swerves

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Always have been

[@charperalta9489]

@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho then that means...... Swerve = God!!!!!

[@VlvrdMlgm]

Cybertron Swerve = Cybertronian of Theseus?

[@jacksonfite8599]

Hey TJ, are you going to botcon next month?

[@TJOmega]

Considering it's a fake Botcon run by the same problem people who ruined the previous Botcon? No.

[@jacksonfite8599]

@@TJOmega Who is running it now, and what problem did they cause? I haven't heard much about this, but I know botcon got cancelled for a few years.

[@jeff6872]

What didn't people like about IDW 1.0's storytelling? I've seen nothing but praise online, especially for more than meets the eye.

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Spotlight: Arcee, the moral prickishness and/or depravity of many characters (Prowl, Metalhawk, Star Saber), its deconstruction of everything mythical about the franchise, the Optimus-bashing during ex-RID and Optimus Prime (the comic), and Lost Light’s virtue signaling being ratcheted up something fierce compared to MTMTE.

[@Sbungo61]

@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho honestly, the obliteration of the mythical bs was the best thing idw ever did, everything else was mid at best

[@NerdRahtio]

Making the autobots racists, lack of subtly , and all the things mentioned by Luke

[@RialVestro]

I'm surprised you didn't mention that even though they called it Swerve they basically just repainted movie Sideswipe in G1 Sideswipe colors. Also Alternators Swerve is basically just Road Rage... I mean a red repaint of Tracks, that's Road Rage. The only thing that makes it Swerve is the head sculpt but in vehicle mode I'd be hard pressed to tell the two vehicles apart.

[@douglasburck1611]

So...swerve is the most common name on Cybertron?

[@Rustudio.]

The GDO version looks like ironhide more than swerve

[@bulbafett5787]

Really hope a new swerve will come out soon. The old one is expensive on the after market

[@cheezwiz6256]

Car guy here. We do not care about the Chevrolet Aveo

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Who's house? Swerve's house

[@tfrwldnas9725]

It's spookily Ironic you doing this Video on the spurious repaints of Swerve cos I've just snagged a Chevy Aveo Swerve and it got me thinking just how many other mold repaints of Swerve are there? Cos he seemed to be the defacto character for Red repaints of many molds I'd seen especially Movie verse ones, so yeah great video and I think he would make a great character to Mold Set Collect as there are some real hard to get items in there.... 😄 BTW I also have the Prime Arms Micron Swerve as well

[@mattr75]

Name reuse is a weird thing for many characters, though Swerve certainly had his fair share

[@carlhenriknord7310]

Whery intresting😀

[@danieldees9686]

Swerve is my favorite Autobot. He's like Gears, only WAY cooler!

[@smiles_selims]

Swerve is red and white, I leik him

[@AfterAllWeAreHuman]

ARMADA BLURR MOLD IN RED and Roadhandler. Imo it looks sick. There is enough paint apps for me to enjoy him. But i respect your opinion.