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[MongooseLady19]

Swatbot's Scared me when I was a kid but now they only make me laugh How can they be so stupid I mean the only time's they scare me now is when they grab princess Sally or Some other Freedom Fighter's

[chief]

The Swatbots are ment to show off as the "brainless soldier". Useless alone, they are meant to be in pack. They would be like... The Zergling in Starcraft. Just, not as fast and more breakable.

[MongooseLady19]

Yeah I just thought that they would be a little smarter then they are because the SATAM Robotnik Scares the crap out of me to this day (unlike the AOSTH Robotnik) But there dumb enough to have been bult by him and they couldn't shoot the bround side of a barn I mean what's the point of giving them Laser's if they can't even aim properley

[pacmancdi]

I don't know if they were really supposed to be scary. I mean in the first episode "heads or tails" sonic plows through them with ease on the rooftop.

[MongooseLady19]

Yeah I but with Princess Sally once they grabed her there was no letting her go and I found that scary because I was a kid and If they grabed me then I would'nt be able to get away and I would be Robotized witch I thought was scary

[MistressAli]

I don't think they're supposed to be geniuses, but on the other hand, most of their stupidity is from Robotnik's obsession with Sonic. He programs them to pursue Sonic no matter what, instead of keeping them in place to guard vulnerable areas of the city. Against regular Mobians, the SWATs do fine most of the time. (They do seem to have bad aim though )

[MongooseLady19]

Good point and yes they have the worst aim ever

[Cheezmatt]

Mongoose lady, I'll have to ask you to improve your spelling and grammar for future posts. Even Chief uses punctuation.

SWATbots are actually pretty effective in Season 1, with the Freedom Fighters either being captured or just barely escaping their encounters. Only Sonic evades them with any regularity, and even he breaks into a sweat from time to time. It's not until Season 2 where Sonic is completely overpowered that it becomes ridiculous. Season 2 is just lighter overall.

[MongooseLady19]

Good point and that's why they scared me when I was a kid it was't until yesterday that I realized how stuipid they truely were When Sonic appeared right in front of them and they just looked at themself's and THEN started shooting and They're aim was terrible and I'm sorry for my grammer but I don't have very good grammer maybe I should just stay off the forum's from now on if people keep complaining about is.

dawn typo's.

[chief]

Don't worry about it. You are a lot more legible then others I have seen.

[Silent X]

Had I watched Sonic when it first came out I'd have been afraid of those 'bots too. Aside from Ari when he rammed them from behind, Sonic's the only one I can recall who took out those SWATbots with pure ability. Everyone else basically took it in the ass and allowed those bolt brains to take off with them.

[MongooseLady19]

Yeah I can't remember how old I was when I first saw SATAM but I know I was under 10 maybe I was five or six I can't remember hell I can bearly remember anything from any episode that I saw back then that's why I'm watching them again. It's funny that Robotnik still scare's me silly though.

[LaserX5]

The Swatbots are ment to show off as the "brainless soldier". Useless alone, they are meant to be in pack. They would be like... The Zergling in Starcraft. Just, not as fast and more breakable.

Sad, but true.

I would have loved to see the Swatbots upgraded to the point to where they were as deadly of a foe to the Freedom Fighters as the Terminator robots.

[Vlad Yvhv]

I think the problems with the Sally-bot probly turned Robotnik off of the idea to use more advanced and dangerous robots against the Freedom Fighters. The deficiencies in the Swatbots seem to stem from them being easy and cheap to produce, and being based on non-combat robots, rather than origional designs. They're supposed to be cannon fodder.

[Cheezmatt]

Methinks people are overexaggerating their deficiencies here. In addition to all the stuff I said above, I'll repeat this relevant post from another topic:

The inefficiency of the SWATbot model is nothing short of a misconception, purveyed by individuals judging its combat prowess based upon its success rate against Sonic. Evidently, SWATbots weren't programmed to handle anomalous creatures that travel at supersonic speeds. Although it is true that Robotnik could have improved the design by introducing a sub-class specifically built to combat Sonic, his failure to follow through with that alternative in no way reflects the inferiority of the SWATbot.

Even then, Sonic came very close to biting the dust in numerous episodes, usually only being saved by a Power Ring.

[MongooseLady19]

Yeah good point (now I wounder why I even started this topic) well I thought that it would last longer.

[Gojira007]

I agree with Cheezmatt: in the annals of Faceless Grunts, the SWATBots make a pretty respectable showing for themselves all thing told. They always struck me as being strong if simple, and the fact that the Freedom Fighters always worked to avoid directly confronting them seems to confirm that; even Sonic wound up running away from them more often than not.

[MongooseLady19]

So there like Zombies.

[Vlad Yvhv]

So there like Zombies.

"they're".

And no. They're more intelligent than Zombies. But they have problems with the programming Robotnik's done. It's probly more akin to the problem that arose when they overloaded Robocop with extra directives in Robocop 2. If you stripped out stuff like the Priority One thing, they might actually start acting smarter. And if you took Sally, Sonic, Bunny, Tails, and possibly Rotor out of the picture, they might actually pose a similar level of threat to the other Mobians as terminators. Heroes have a tendency to make their enemies look weaker in comparison.

[Cheezmatt]

It's Worker Bots who are the 'zombies' of the series. See Chuck's appearance in Ultra Sonic.

And if you took Sally, Sonic, Bunny, Tails, and possibly Rotor out of the picture

Heck, just take Sonic out of the picture and they'll be in trouble. They were caught several times and only Sonic could save them.