Transforms from jeep to robot and back!

COMBATICON: SWINDLE

FUNCTION: MUNITIONS EXPERT
"Make deals, not war."

Easy-going and good natured, but within him beats the fuel pump of the most greed-driven street hustler. Thrives on wheeling and dealing, works for his own personal material advancement. A one-robot "black market". Uses a scatter blaster that sprays explosive pellets, gyro gun that disrupts Transformers' balance center. Combines with fellow Combaticons to form "Bruticus". Prone to overturning on sharp turns.

• Strength: 5
• Intelligence: 9
• Speed: 5
• Endurance: 6
• Rank: 6
• Courage: 5
• Firepower: 9
• Skill: 10

Swindle's personality actually got depicted in the cartoon at least once or twice, when some creative deal brokering needed to be made. The toy was, strangely, sleeker in vehicle mode but unattractively boxy (and short) in robot mode, but the authenticity of the military vehicle's appearance managed to make up for that.

Swin"dle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling (?).] [See Swindler.]

To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle.

© Webster 1913.

Swin"dle, n.

The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

© Webster 1913.