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Jazz (Animated)

2009-11-17T03:26:22Z

209.106.203.249: /* Animated */ AAAAAND we've had a sighting.

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:''Jazz is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:TFA Jazz promoimage.JPG|right|228px|thumb|"When push comes to shove, you've gotta do what you love, even if it's not a good idea!"]]
Though a member of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]], '''Jazz''' is a bit of an independent thinker. He's reluctant to disobey orders, but he has more of an appreciation for the finer things than his compatriots. This is evidenced in his better choice of vehicle mode disguise, a "sweet ride" drawn from Earth culture. He is a [[Cyber-Ninja Corps|Cyber-Ninja]], like [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]]. However, his training is more progressed, and instead of ninja stars he wields a pair of nunchaku. He seems to be the only one of the Elite Guard willing to learn, and fits in with the Earth team pretty well.

He is ''incredibly'' cool.

{{bigquote|Any species that can come up with a sweet ride like this can't be all bad!|Jazz digs his new [[Alternate mode|altmode]] and the humans that created it|[[The Elite Guard]]}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===

:''Voice actor'': [[Phil LaMarr]] (English), [[Jens-Uwe Bogadtke]] (German)

{{note|Events from IDW Publishing are in italics}}
[[Image:Freaked jazz-1.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Booga booga!]]
Jazz accompanied [[Supreme Commander]] [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] to [[Earth]] to retrieve [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]'s crew and the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]]. When Magnus ordered Jazz to activate a [[force field]] around [[Steelhaven (Animated)|their ship]] to prevent [[Human|organic]] contamination, Jazz expressed interest in getting a closer look at them. This caused Sentinel Prime to warn Jazz that the organics would eventually spit acidic goo that would melt through his body armor and destroy vital [[Circuits|circuitry]]. Jazz was...less willing to meet the organics after that.

[[Image:Jazzanimatedaltmode.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Suddenly, Bumblebee's less popular.]]
When [[Sari Sumdac]] managed to sneak aboard their ship, he tried to send her out without provoking her. When she realized that Jazz was afraid of her, she tried to scare him. After [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] explained that Humans were harmless (and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] explained that Sentinel Prime was a jerk), Jazz accompanied the Autobots to a Sumdac manufacturing plant that was going haywire. Jazz and Prowl managed to keep the AllSpark-powered [[police drone]]s away from Sari and Optimus long enough for Sari to shut down the assembly line. He and Prowl traded several martial arts-centered quips throughout the battle, talking about [[Metallikato]] moves like the "[[Five Servos of Doom]]" attack. {{storylink|The Elite Guard|The Elite Guard}}

When Ultra Magnus started to receive reports of [[Decepticon]] uprisings at the rim of the galaxy, Jazz commented that it was probably because they'd "got wind" that [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] was still online.

[[Image:Sentinel vs Optimus%2C with Jazz in the middle.jpg|left|180px|thumb|"Right now, we need to stop fighting each other and start fighting the bad guy. Dig?"]]
Later, Jazz noticed a spike in AllSpark energy, and Ultra Magnus took him to investigate, leaving Sentinel Prime to watch Optimus Prime. Their combined attempt to remove the "SmallSpark", which [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] had booby-trapped, failed, and they were blown off the train in which it was embedded. Optimus and his crew, with the help of Sari and the [[AllSpark Key]], successfully and safely removed the AllSpark fragment, but Jazz could only watch as they received a dressing-down from Ultra Magnus for becoming involved. Then Starscream himself crashed to Earth, courtesy of Megatron's cannon, and knocked out Magnus. Jazz turned to Sentinel for orders, but the panicking Guardsbot was unable to think of anything. Optimus took over, directing his crew and Sari to various tasks; and himself, Jazz and Sentinel to take down Starscream—although Jazz needed to talk down the posturing pair of [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] before they could get to fighting the bad guy.

His nunchaku proved ineffective, however, and he was swiftly knocked out, leaving Optimus to save the day again. Jazz later escorted Optimus's crew in taking the [[Stasis lock|stasis locked]] and gagged Starscream to be imprisoned in the Elite Guard's ship, before the three Guardsbots and their ship departed, leaving Optimus and his crew to deal with the remaining Decepticons on Earth. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished|Mission Accomplished}}

Jazz was present as Starscream escaped the Elite Guard ship. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon|A Fistful of Energon}}

''When the Elite Guard decided to begin [[Safeguard (Animated)|Project Safeguard]], Jazz and Sentinel voiced dissent, stating that Autobots don't fly. Jazz's discomfort only worsened when he saw [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]]. He was soon assigned to train them. While taking them on in battle to guage their abilities, Jazz seemingly won quite quickly, but as soon as he turned his back the twins defeated him with ease. Later, he was observing the twins in simulated training when [[Perceptor (Animated)|Perceptor]] tried putting Starscream's coding into the program. The Starscream code took over, trapping the twins and preventing Jazz and Sentinel from disconnecting them. They were powerless to help, and the twins had to save themselves by discovering the ability to merge into Safeguard. {{storylink|First (and Second) in Flight}}''

Jazz was later onboard the Elite Guard ship, along with Ultra Magnus and Sentinel, during the galactic battles with the Decepticon rebels when the received a transmission from [[Rodimus Prime (Animated)|Rodimus]] requesting back-up. Jazz had told him to hold on a little longer. But by the time the Elite Guard had arrived, [[Team Chaar]] had already left, albiet [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] orders. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

[[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime]] had later sent Jazz, accompanied by Sentinel, Jetfire, and Jetstorm, to go after the supposed traitor [[Wasp]]. However, Wasp had retreated to Earth, much to Longarm's dismay, as he had ordered all contact with that planet be filtered through him. Despite this, Jazz and the others still went after the traitor. When they found Optimus Prime's crew, they revealed that Longarm was really Shockwave, a Decepticon double-agent, and that Wasp had been innocent the whole time. Despite this, Sentinel Prime still wanted Wasp brought in, but the crazed Autobot got away. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

Sentinel had later succeeded in capturing [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]], [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sunstorm]], [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]], and [[Lugnut]], leaving [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] to suspect he was getting help. Jazz had this suspicion, too, and followed him to find that he was bargaining with [[Lockdown (Animated)|a double-dealing bounty scum]]. Jazz and the others defeated Lockdown, along with [[Ramjet (Animated)|another Decepticon fugitive]]. While they had captured the clone, Lockdown had escaped. Jazz later became impressed by Prowl's new armor, especially [[Yoketron]]'s helmet. {{storylink|Five Servos of Doom}}

When Sentinel realised he was needed on Cybertron, the Elite Guard packed up and headed for home. Jazz was disappointed, as he had enjoyed being on Earth. {{storylink|Predacons Rising}}

On the return trip, Jazz and Sentinel were contacted by the Autobot council, who wished to discuss Sentinel's temporary promotion. Sentinel let this go to his head, and told Jazz to refer to him as "Commander". He also directed Jazz to take them through an unstable ion storm, despite Jazz's protests. As Jazz piloted them in, energy from the storm somehow restored Swindle, who had been stuck in [[Alternate mode|altmode]]. Swindle instigated a prisoner break, releasing the other Decepticons, and lead them in an attack on the Elite Guard. Jazz requested that Sentinel contact Cybertron for help, but fearing repercussions for allowing the escape to happen on his watch, he sent a coded message to Optimus instead. Appearing unexpectedly through a Transwarp link within Swindle's chest, Optimus Prime was able to free the Elite Guard. He then made sure the Decepticons could hear him order Jazz to modify the ship's decontamination chamber to freeze its occupants. However, he simultaneously gave Jazz a secret coded order to set up the chamber to freeze those ''outside'' of it. Thus, when the Decepticons eventually recaptured the Autobots and placed them in the chamber, it backfired, allowing the Autobots to escape and recapture all the prisoners but Swindle and [[Lugnut]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}}

Having returned to Cybertron, Jazz began chafing under Sentinel Magnus' militant approach. When [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] and [[Captain Fanzone]] accidentily transwarped to Cybertron, Jazz followed orders and helped capture them. However, once they had escaped he tailed them, and eventually helped them by granting them access to the Elite Guard infirmary so they could search for [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]. After battling [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]], Ratchet was able to recapture the [[Magnus Hammer]], but refused to give it to Sentinel. Instead, he escaped took it with him back to Earth, intent on keeping it from Sentinel and protecting it for Ultra Magnus. Sentinel started to follow him, but Jazz volunteered to go instead. Upon his arrival on Earth, he informed Ratchet that he'd had enough of Sentinel and promptly volunteered his services to the Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}
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{{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}
{{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

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==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Animated jazz both mode1.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Enter the Dragon Wagon]]
*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Deluxe, 2008)
**''Accessories'': 2 side-pipe "energy chucks"

: Part of the third wave of ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' deluxes, Jazz transforms into a car that looks like a cross between [[Jazz (G1)|his Generation 1 counterpart]] and a 1950s Corvette. The toy features translucent blue [[light-piping]] for its visor, as well as translucent blue headlights. Curiously, all the toy's vehicle mode windows are ''also'' cast from this plastic, but tinted black by [[Paint operation|paint applications]]. The toy's exhaust pipes can be removed from its forearms, and are connected by a short length of string to serve as nunchaku-style "energy chucks" weapons. They can also be assembled into claw-like weapons.

: Also, in vehicle mode, if you flip the trunk open and leave it that way, Jazz will appear to have spoilers, similar to his [[Jazz (G1)|G1 counterpart]]'s vehicle mode.

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[[Image:Animated-toy_FreewayJazz.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
*'''Freeway Jazz''' (Deluxe, 2010?)
**''Accessories'': 2 side-pipe "energy chucks"

: Freeway Jazz is a [[redeco]] of Deluxe Autobot Jazz in [[Jazz (Movie)|movie]]-inspired colors.

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[[Image:BumperBattlers Jazz toy.JPG|right|300px|thumb|Comes with the world's shortest jump rope.]]
*'''Jazz''' (Bumper Battler, 2008)

:Jazz is part of the second wave of [[Bumper Battlers]]. Pressing on the vehicle mode's front bumper activates electronic noises and pops up the roof, revealing a relief of Jazz's robot form. Pressing on the Autobot faction symbol on the hood activates a random string of sound effects and voice samples from the samples available on the toy's sound chip.
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*'''Stealth Ninja Jazz''' (Bumper Battler, 2010?)

: A silver redeco of Bumper Battlers Jazz.

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==Trivia==
* Jazz's [[Character model|model sheet]] identifies his weapons as "Laser Nunchako." {{fact}}

==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/Jazz/jazz.htm Jazz at TFU.info]

[[Category:Animated characters]]
[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Elite Guard]]
[[Category:Ninjas]]

Matt Moylan

2009-05-04T14:44:14Z

209.106.203.249: Undo revision 282552 by MattMoylan (Talk)

[[Image:MattMoylan headshot.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Matt ponders yet again... "Where DOES Optimus' trailer go?"]]
'''Matt Moylan''' is a former editor and staffer for [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s Generation 1 comics. Currently, Matt works as Managing Editor for comic publisher and art house UDON Entertainment. He is also a contributor to [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club]] magazine, providing ''[[Lil Formers]]'' strips.

Matt also designed the logo for [[Fun Publications]].

He feels Transformers was [[ruined FOREVER]] after the [[Live-action film series|film]] and [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|television]] franchises that launched in 2007.

==Works==
===Dreamwave Productions===
*''[[Prime Directive|Prime Directive (G1 Volume 1)]]''
*''[[War and Peace|War and Peace (G1 Volume 2)]]''
*''[[Generation 1 (Dreamwave comic)|Generation 1 Ongoing (G1 Volume 3)]]''
*''[[The War Within]]''
*''[[The War Within: The Dark Ages]]''
*''[[The War Within: Age of Wrath]]''
*''[[Micromasters]]''
*''[[More Than Meets The Eye]]'' (G1)
*''[[More Than Meets The Eye]]'' (Armada)
*''[[Dreamwave Summer Special|20th Anniversary Transformers Summer Special]]''
*''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe Vol. 1]]''
*''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe Vol. 2]]''
*''[[Armada (Dreamwave comic)|Armada]]''
*''[[Energon (comic)|Energon]]''
*''[[Armada (mini-comic)]]''
*''[[Energon (mini-comic)]]''

===Devil's Due/UDON===
* [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War]]

===IDW Publishing===
* [[Spotlight: Sixshot]]
* [[Spotlight: Wheelie]]
* [[Transformers: The Animated Movie]] [[Matrix Quest!|#4]]

===Fun Publications===
* [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 21]]
* [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 20]]
* [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 18]]
* [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17]]
* [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 16]]
* [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 15]]
* [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 14]]

==Convention appearances==
* [[TransformersCon]] (2005, 2007, 2008)

==External links==
* [http://MattMoylan.deviantart.com/ Matt Moylan at deviantART]
* [http://www.lilformers.com/home.php/ Lil Formers website]

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Skywarp (Animated)

2009-04-17T18:21:02Z

209.106.203.249: Undo revision 274215 by Tupka86 (Talk) this was a meme before the crash

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|''The name or term Skywarp refers to more than one character or idea, which very much frightens the character featured here. For a list of other meanings, do not be afraid to see [[Skywarp (disambiguation)]].''
|}

:''Skywarp barely musters up the courage to be a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Cowardscream-ABTF.jpg|thumb|300px|<small><center>The second color scheme.</center></small>Hear this, because it's only coming once: I surrender totally and without condition. Additional: Sorry to take up your valuable time. Sorry. Thank you. Sorry. Bye.]]

'''Skywarp''', the '''Coward Starscream''', is a [[Starscream clone]] embodying the [[Starscream (Animated)|original Starscream]]'s cowardly side, although it seems to have been greatly enhanced. So much that he's basically afraid of ''everything''. He can't even stand still; even when nothing is going on, he's trembling at some imagined threat.

Naturally, this makes him something of a liability in battle. But he does make one fine decoy to draw enemy fire.

{{bigquote|Us? Against Megatron? Are you ''insane?!'' (''whimpers'') I... think I just sprang an oil leak. |—The second Skywarp, right after his activation, "[[A Bridge Too Close, Part I]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Tom Kenny]] (English), [[Stefan Staudinger]] (German)

====First coward====
[[Image:StarscreamPurpleCoward.jpg|150px|thumb|left|When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.]]
The first Coward had a "cool" version of Starscream's normal colours, heavily tending toward purple with gray extremities. He bolted after [[Lockdown]] and [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] tracked him down, confusing him for the real Starscream, though both were a little taken aback by how chicken "Starscream" was being. Prowl was able to take the fleeing jet out of the air using his fancy new mods. The clone begged and pleaded with his captors not to be given to [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], who had ordered a bounty on Starscream's head. As Prowl explained he was going to be given to the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]], Lockdown tied Prowl up, then ran off with the clone and dragged him to his rendezvous with Megatron.

As Megatron was about to [[Death|make an example of him]], the [[Autobot|Autobots]] arrived with another Starscream clone, the [[Sunstorm (Animated)|Sycophant]], prompting a Mexican standoff. Both clones had bombs implanted in their spark chambers and were used as bait to draw all of Starscream's enemies to one spot. As Lockdown and the Decepticons made a break for it, Prowl welded his borrowed mods to the pair and launched them into the sky, where they exploded. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon}}

====Second coward====
A second Coward would later appear, this time with a black, purple and grey colour scheme. He was the last clone brought online before Starscream led his new force to [[Earth]]. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

In the battle for the [[space bridge]], he mostly cowered and pleaded. [[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] got a pair of [[stasis cuffs]] on him, which absolutely terrified him, as he claimed that he had an irrational fear of stasis lock. But then both of them and [[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker]] were accidentally stuck in [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmasters]]'s glue-like cement and hurled into the space bridge, their destination unknown. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

Skywarp's personal hell only continued on the other side of the space bridge. He was trapped with Blurr and Thundercracker in the glue, and it was sepping into his circuitry! Even worse, Blurr's idea to get out of the glue was to release short wave sonic pulses, which Thundercracker did, causing an explosion. He could have been hurt! Fortunately, he wasn't. Needless to say, Skywarp did not join Thundercracker in pursuing the Autobot. He might have shot back! {{storylink|TransWarped}}

==Toys==
===Transformers Animated===
[[Image:Animated_Skywarp_Voyager.jpg|thumb|right|300px|You want anxiety? We haven't told him he's a [[black repaint]] yet.]]
*'''Skywarp''' (Voyager, 2009)
*''Accessories'': 2 missiles
: A [[redeco]] of Voyager-class [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], Skywarp transforms into a futuristic, forward-swept wing fighter jet based upon the [http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/ Su-47 (S-37) Berkut Experimental Fighter] and the [http://www.new-un-spacy.com/macrossplus/yf-19.htm YF-19 "Alpha One"] from the series ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macross_Plus Macross Plus].'' This shape allows him to have his faction symbols right-side-up on his wings in robot mode. He features a pair of spring-loaded missile launchers, available in both robot and jet modes.

==Trivia==
* Skywarp was announced as a toy at [[BotCon 2008]]'s [[Hasbro]] toy panel. The Hasbro presenters were pretty insistent that he was developed as a non-show character, simply a way to re-use the Voyager Starscream mold.
* Later in the weekend during their designers panel, they revealed a "concept colors" illustration to show that they considered the redeco potential of their molds early in the development process. This illustration showed line-art of ''Animated'' Starscream in both Skywarp and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]-inspired colors. This (of course) has led some fans to conclude Thundercracker was in the pipeline... but at no point did Hasbro ever say they were, merely that his deco was among the options they looked at (which isn't exactly a shock).
* Skywarp's given name in the scripts for the episodes in which he appeared was "Coward Starscream." The fact that people now know his name no doubt terrifies him.
* His bio states that he has teleportation powers like his [[Generation 1]] [[Skywarp (G1)|counterpart]], but he's definitely not brave enough to push anyone down the stairs. They might get back up!

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Skywarp/skywarp.htm Skywarp at TFU.info]

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[[Category:Decepticons]]