Swayzak

**Swayzak** (katakana: **スウェイザック**) is an obscure villain from Toonami whom Yuuki had a crush on as a kid. He is one of Yuuki's favourite fictional characters.

## Appearance

Swayzak is a holographic entity that looks like a cross between Emperor Zurg and the Robot Devil from *Futurama*. He is lean with an angular helmet with jagged triangles sticking out of both sides, glowing yellow eyes, and a vented, glowing yellow mouth. He wears a red battlesuit practically grafted onto his body with a zig-zagged collar and cuffed sleeves, and a maroon diamond as the centerpiece.

His full body (only shown in the online tie-in game to his story arc) had a thin, pinched-in waist, digitigrade legs thin enough to be almost sticks, and boxy feet with cablewires as toes.

## In the Yuuki lore

Yuuki either saw Swayzak in commercials promoting the *Trapped in Hyperspace* event in which he debuted a week before, or on day one of the event proper. Whatever it is, Yuuki remembers wearing a Face T-shirt and chowing down on Cool Ranch Doritos while episode 1 aired, and when Swayzak first spoke, she actually spat out what she was eating. Yuuki also remembers finding as many pictures as she could of Swayzak that day and downloading them to her family's computer.

Yuuki played the now-elusive *Trapped in Hyperspace* game in which Swayzak had a New Zealander accent. Yuuki thought it was Australian and became obsessed with Australian movies and shows, including *Rocko's Modern Life*.

Yuuki also liked Swayzak's hands, which she thought were strange and mesmerizing, especially the long fingers. In short, she basically wanted Swayzak to finger her. This makes her both laugh and shudder looking back, even though she had no idea of the sexual connotions back then.

Yuuki forgot about Swayzak after the *Trapped in Hyperspace* game got taken off Cartoon Network's site in July 2004, until she was reminded of him in 2013. She eventually discovered that Swayzak's accent was in fact New Zealander, and began studying Kiwi culture.

### Things that remind Yuuki of Swayzak

There were lots of things in Yuuki's childhood that made her think of Swayzak. Here are some of them.

* Computer viruses (sentient ones, of course; from humanoid ones like the Phantom Virus from *Scooby Doo*, to non-physical ones like the Freebee virus from the *Between the Lions* "The Good Seed" episode)
* X:/ No Way Out at Thorpe Park (because the title "X:/" implied a computer virus)
* Zonga at Six Flags Marine World (due to the name having a "Z" in it, and the overall name sounding "alien computer virus"-y)
* "Sing It Back" by Moloko
* "Dominoid" by Moloko
* Martian Manhunter
* The *Plok!* boss theme (apparently the music during Swayzak's boss fight in the *Trapped in Hyperspace* game sounded like it)
* N. Tropy from *Crash Bandicoot* (he sounded like Swayzak's voice in Toonami's review of *Rez*)
* X at Six Flags Magic Mountain (due to having red and yellow coloring and a "spinning out of control" motif, like how The Absolution was spinning to certain doom after Swayzak invaded its system)
* Spawn
* "How Bizarre" by OMC
* Jango Fett
* "James Brown Is Dead" by LA Style
* *Cyberchase*
* The year 2002 (because he debuted then)

## External links

* Swayzak on the Toonami Wiki
* Swayzak on the Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
* Swayzak on the Space Ghost Wiki
* Swayzak on the Super Friends Wiki