While he would mostly appear as part of the Combaticons, the episode 'B.O.T.' would spotlight Swindle near exclusively. They were eventually stopped by Optimus Prime, Megatron and Starscream, but they survived - under Megatron's control. Ridding themselves of Starscream they would then attempt to conquer Cybertron, defeating Shockwave's army, and then attempt to destroy Earth by sending it towards the sun.

After a series of attacks on both Autobots and Decepticons they were defeated by Menasor and exiled to space. Hitting on the idea of creating his own loyal troops from the wrecked vehicles on Guadalcanal, he installed their personality components into the rebuilt vehicles, thus creating the Combaticons, with Swindle having the alternate mode of a jeep. Their personality components extracted by Shockwave, they were later recovered by Starscream in the episode 'Starscream's Brigade', himself exiled from the Decepticons after one clash too many with Megatron. Swindle was originally one of five Decepticon criminals that had attempted to overthrow Megatron on Cybertron. Because of his alternate form, he was the smallest Combaticon despite his toy being the same size as the others aside from team-leader Onslaught. Unlike his toy, the front of the jeep and its windscreen becomes Swindle's chest. Swindle is most notable for receiving a new look for his animated appearance. In the Unite Warriors line he is mentioned as having done arms deals with Trickdiamond. Swindle is also the brightest among his fellow Combaticons (and the Decepticons as well), describing himself as a ' one-robot black market', Swindle would even sell his goods to the Autobots if he thought he could get away with it. With the born personality of a salesman, Swindle would sell anyone anything - be they weapons, parts or bits of his own comrades. Whereas other Decepticons were motivated by lust for power or sheer love of carnage, Swindle's sole motivation was turning a profit. As a basic sized combiner limb, Swindle could become the arm or leg to any similar combiner Transformers he was usually found to be the right leg of Bruticus. Swindle originally appeared as a member of a group of five Decepticons known as the Combaticons who were able to combine together to form a larger robot known as Bruticus.

XR311 Combat Support Vehicle, Jeep Wrangler, AH-64 Apacheīlast Off, Brawl, Onslaught, Shockwave and VortexĬombaticions, Deluxe Vehicles, Elite Guard, Scouts

Swindle series in order