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:''Jazz is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:jazz-g1-shout-dvds.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He's either about to bust a move or bust your face.]]
'''Jazz''' is [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s [[Second-in-command|right-hand man]]. Unlike [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], Prime's military strategist, Jazz responds well to change and improvisation. Whatever surprises the Decepticons spring, Jazz can deal with it. His position as [[Special Operations]] head calls for all the skills he possesses, yet he still has time to add some style to everything he does. Jazz's upbeat and outgoing personality make him one of the most popular Autobots among the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'s crew.

An admirer of [[Earth]] music of every kind, Jazz loves culture. More than most other Autobots, he has his finger on the pulse of Earth trends and lingo, effortlessly incorporating human slang into his vocabulary. Chances are, Jazz could tell you the status of almost any reality television show and each week's Top 40 list.

He is also known as '''Meister'''.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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[[Image:Jazzg1marvelfirst.jpg|left|100px|thumb|Hey, man, this is not my scene!]]
''Before Optimus became leader, Jazz was part of the self-styled [[Magnificent Six]], a team of Autobot warriors who were tortured and humiliated by the sadistic [[Megadeath (G1)|Megadeath]].'' {{storylink|The Magnificent Six!}}

Jazz was one of the Autobots aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] who crashed on [[Earth]] four million years ago, waking up in 1984. Jazz showed an affinity with [[human]] pop culture almost immediately, responding to [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]'s non sequitur assertion that his "logic center dictates the most advantageous course of action in any situation" with "Well, that is neat-o, Prowl." {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

[[Image:LastStand-Jazzneverfear.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Jazz loves Earth... FRIED!]]

Jazz's first foray into action came when the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] attacked him and his fellow Autobots at [[S. Witwicky Auto Repairs & Tow Service|Witwicky Auto Repairs]], resulting in the kidnapping of [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. {{storylink|Power Play!}} Later, when Sparkplug was rescued and it was learned that the auto repairman had devised a way for the Decepticons to convert Earth fuel into a usable resource, the Autobots were enraged. Jazz shot a stream of fire to prevent Sparkplug's escape, causing the human to suffer a heart attack. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

It was discovered that after the Autobots crash-landed on Earth, a rescue ship was sent after them which was buried somewhere in [[United Kingdom|England]]. The [[Man of Iron (Autobot)|Man of Iron]], one of its crew, had awakened a number of times in England's history and had become a local legend. Jazz, along with [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], and [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]], was dispatched to England under [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s supervision. Jazz befriended (and kidnapped) a young boy, [[Sammy Harker]], whose dad worked at the castle where the Autobot rescue ship had been partially unearthed. After questioning the boy, it became apparent that the rescue ship had to be destroyed. At the climax of a battle with the Decepticons over the buried ship, Jazz fired his weaponry down into it, and it was pulverized. {{storylink|Man of Iron (issue)|Man of Iron}}

[[Image:ManofIron-CodeAdam.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Code Adam! CODE ADAM!]]

''Jazz and a handful of other Autobots were beginning repairs on their crashed spaceship when an electrical accident altered [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]]'s personality in a very bad way. Brawn became violent and paranoid, and Jazz was unable to keep the tiny but mighty Autobot restrained. At the end of Brawn's subsequent adventure, Jazz was relieved to see that he had survived and was back to his old self.'' {{storylink|The Enemy Within!}}

''At some point, the Autobots met the Decepticons in battle at [[Sherman Dam]]. When the dam's structural integrity was compromised, Optimus Prime ordered Jazz and some others to get the neighboring humans to safety before imminent flooding destroyed the area. Jazz and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] raced each other as they carried some younger humans away from the nearby town.'' {{storylink|Decepticon Dam-Busters!}}

After [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], upon his sudden return from being snared in a tar pit for the past 4 million years, destroyed the Autobots with one blast, the Decepticons moved into the Ark, and Jazz's lifeless body was hung with the other Autobots' from the ceiling. {{storylink|The New Order}} [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]], the only surviving Autobot, heard of the fate of his peers and snuck into the Ark to investigate. Sadly, Jazz and the others were still being kept in this sad state. {{storylink|Warrior School!}}

[[Image:DisintegratedCircuits-JazzBlackrock.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Seriously, Jazz, you've really got to stop kidnapping every single person you need to talk to.]]

After Ratchet reclaimed the Ark from the Decepticons, Jazz and the other Autobots were rebuilt and repaired. Ratchet briefly worried about Jazz during a diagnostics run when the Autobot didn't transform like the others. Jazz explained that he stayed transformed because he was listening to a [[Madonna]] song, and it would be rude to interrupt it. After the Autobots returned home, it was Jazz who had a solution to their fuel problems: telling [[G.B. Blackrock]] that with the Decepticons around, owning an oil industry was ''dangerous'' work, and it'd be a ''shame'' if something happened, when for just a bit of fuel, the Autobots could ensure he had "protection". Jazz was given authorization to present Blackrock with this deal, which he did after kidnapping the poor industrialist and driving off a cliff. Despite this rocky beginning, Blackrock knew a good deal when he saw one, and he agreed.

Soon after, Jazz and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] hid behind the stage in their [[alternate mode]]s while Blackrock unveiled his [[Anti-Robot Photonic Multi-Cannon]] to the press. Unfortunately, not only was the cannon sabotaged by the demented and powerful human villain [[Circuit Breaker]], but [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] were there as well to destroy it. The violent efforts of both Circuit Breaker and Starscream put Jazz out of the fight. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}

Blackrock was invited to tour the Ark and was disconcerted by the sight of the Jazz's arm being repaired and reattached while he was still conscious. Jazz assured him this was normal. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}} Meanwhile, the head of Optimus Prime had been held captive by the Decepticons all this time, but surveillance by Prowl revealed that the Decepticons were planning to ditch the head in a swamp. Prowl led Jazz and the other Autobots to that swamp to retrieve it, but there was a slight problem: When they returned the head to Prime's body, they quickly learned that this was an impostor head controlled by Shockwave. Jazz and the other Autobots were torn down by both the impostor Optimus Prime and a group of Decepticons led by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]. Their lives were spared at the end of this battle once Prime's real head was retrieved. {{storylink|Prime Time!}}

[[Image:G1 Jazz ChristmasBreaker.jpg|left|150px|thumb|She's not a material girl.]]

''Jazz later was [[Christmas]] shopping with [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]] when he was again attacked by Circuit Breaker. However, Buster's pleas (and the spirit of Christmas) prevented her from killing him.'' {{storylink|Christmas Breaker!}} ''After this, Jazz took the side against building Autobot [[Ultimate Autobot|super-warriors]] in a heated debate ''{{storylink|Crisis of Command!}} ''and was part of the team retrieving [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] in the Dinobot Hunt.'' {{storylink|Dinobot Hunt!}}

Sans a leg, Jazz was seen once again in Ratchet's repair bay with several others. Because of these drastic losses to the Autobot ranks, Optimus Prime began building additional warriors. {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}}

''Later, Jazz took part in a mission in England to find a power source that reversed Transformers' personalities. Jazz eventually ended up destroying the core of [[Purnel's Auto-Reverse Defence|PARD]] during a battle with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]].'' {{storylink|To a Power Unknown!}}

''Jazz spent three weeks in a shipping container in order to get to Skagway, [[Alaska]] unnoticed by the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]]. [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] then became stuck while scouting the local base, and Jazz suffered brain damage while coming to his aid. Hoist was forced to drag the uncooperative, bewildered Jazz through hostile territory to safety. The damage was repairable.'' {{storylink|The Mission}}

''When [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] time-jumped to 1986, Jazz was sent to scout out Decepticon territory and was captured. He was then [[Variable voltage harness|tortured]] and used as bait to draw the Autobots into an ambush and was told of Galvatron's origin before his brain was operated on to turn him into a murderous [[zombie]]-soldier. He was used against his fellow Autobots and needed severe repairs afterward.'' {{storylink|Target: 2006}}

[[Image:DarkStar-Jazz.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Shot in the crotch, and lore's to blame!]]

Jazz was among the dozens of Autobots who gathered on the Moon to watch Blaster and Grimlock battle for Autobot leadership, and subsequently came under Decepticon attack. {{storylink|Totaled!}}

When an [[Underbase]]-powered Starscream attacked [[New York City]], Jazz was part of the team sent to ambush him. Although most of the team was easily defeated, Jazz managed to hit him with a photon blast from behind, and while Starscream retaliated with a fatal blow, Jazz's attack was still enough to throw him off the Brooklyn Bridge and into the jaws of the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]]. {{storylink|Dark Star}}

[[Image:Autobotclassicpretenders-us58.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Jazz likes humans so much, he wears one as his skin.]]

Later, exhausted from the workload of fixing all the Autobots Starscream damaged, Ratchet began having nightmares of being attacked by his deactivated comrades. The Decepticon [[Sports Car Patrol]] took advantage of this mental breakdown and took control of Jazz and others' circuits to [[Zombie|"zombify"]] them and torment him. When this failed, the [[Sports Car Patrol]] passed themselves off as Autobots and convinced Ratchet to come with them to Cybertron to get medical supplies. Ratchet took Jazz, along with [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], with him, only to find [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] waiting for him! {{storylink|Back from the Dead}} While Ratchet was forced by Megatron to revive Starscream using [[Pretender]] technology, he had an idea of what to do with three discarded Pretender shells... {{storylink|The Resurrection Gambit!}} which turned out to be repairing Jazz, Grimlock and <s>Goldbug</s> Bumblebee! {{storylink|All the Familiar Faces!}}

While the others dealt with Megatron, Jazz had more than his hands full fighting off the Sports Car Patrol, who were definitely tougher than they appeared. Finding out from Ratchet that he could remotely control his shell, Jazz managed to turn the tide against his smaller opponents, but Megatron realized two heads weren't necessarily better than one when he bashed Jazz's head against his shell's and tossed them out of [[Megatron's base|his base]], where Jazz was safe from the explosives Ratchet teleported back from the Ark. {{storylink|Skin Deep}} After the explosion, Jazz searched the detritus for their bodies, but with no success. Ratchet and Megatron were assumed to have been atomized. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}}

Along with Bumblebee and Grimlock, he remained on Cybertron for a while, ''and would be sent to investigate a brutal group-killing'' {{storylink|Demons!}} ''that saw him and several Decepticons battle the ferocious [[Demon]]s.'' {{storylink|Dawn of Darkness}}

[[Image:PrimalScream Jazz fights Bludgeon.jpg|thumb|right|250px|We knew Jazz was badass, but ''damn''.]]

The [[Classic Pretender|Classics]] emboldened the Autobot resistance, leading eight successful raids on [[Decepticon fuel store|Decepticon fuel]] and ammunition depots before getting reassigned to Earth. However, the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] attacked the [[Autobase]] and accelerated the dimensional interface, sending Jazz, Bumblebee, Grimlock and the [[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]] to the heart of Cybertron and face to face with their creator, [[Primus]]! {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}} Despite the objections of Grimlock, Jazz and the others prostrated themselves before their creator and listened to the [[Keeper (Transformer)|Keeper]]'s story of how Cybertron came to be. Interrupted by an assault from the Mayhem Attack Squad, Jazz quickly traded blows with [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] but was overmatched. Thankfully, he was rescued by Bumblebee before Bludgeon could deliver the killing blow. After recovering, he cleverly introduced [[Stranglehold]] to a very hard wall. Unfortunately, a stray shot from [[Octopunch]] awakened Primus, just as the dimensional interface was repaired. Emirate [[Xaaron]] ordered Jazz and company sent to Earth. {{storylink|Primal Scream}}

Along with his Pretender mates, Jazz was part of the team sent to [[VsQs]] to retrieve the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] during the [[Matrix Quest]]. Unfortunately, all they found on VsQs was a creepy, abandoned science station with a closet full of dead scientists. Despite being "scared oil-less," Jazz implored his team to not give up on finding the Matrix, as the fate of their race hung in the balance. They weren't the only mechs looking for the Matrix, however, and Jazz and the others soon found themselves surrounded by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] and his Decepticons. Thunderwing proved too powerful even for all three Autobots put together, but thankfully(?), the battle was interrupted by the [[Matrixspawn]], the frightening creature responsible for the death of the science team. The three Autobots escaped, and when Jazz fell through the floor, the Autobots luckily found the Matrix hidden under there, presumably where the Matrixspawn had stashed it. The fuel-challenged Autobots grabbed the Matrix and ran for it. {{storylink|Dark Creation}}

It was not Jazz and the others who returned to the Ark with the Matrix, however. It was Thunderwing, who had managed to best the Matrixspawn, defeat the weary Autobots, and secure the Matrix for himself. {{storylink|All Fall Down}} After Thunderwing and the Matrix were defeated and shot into space, Optimus Prime sent the [[Powermaster]]s back to VsQs to retrieve Jazz and the others. Jazz and Bumblebee were worse off than Grimlock by then, and had to be carried away on hoverbeds. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}}

Eventually, Jazz fought in the battle against Unicron and was briefly rear-ended on his [[sky-sled|hoverscooter]] by a speeding [[Siren]]. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

[[Image:Furmanismsrod.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Jazz is a [[Furmanism]] machine!]]

In an alternate future of 2009, Jazz was one of the last seven Autobots left alive in the universe. After the destruction of Cybertron and the death of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], [[North America]] was left completely under the control of [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] and the Decepticons. With the rest of the world united as a [[European Crisis Coalition]], Jazz and the human leader, [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]], were left with a 24-hour deadline to show the world America was still fighting. If they didn't, the remaining human governments were going to unleash nuclear armageddon in a last-ditch effort to eliminate the Decepticons. With little time to spare, the few Autobots left staged an assault on the Decepticon powerbase. [[Getaway]], [[Chainclaw (G1)|Chainclaw]] and [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] made a suicidal play to keep the most powerful Decepticons, [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], occupied, while [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]] sacrificed his life to let Jazz and the others in through the base's force field. Forced to fight Galvatron himself single-handedly, Jazz held out long enough for Spike to scale the base's tower and unfurl an American flag, showing the world outside that there was still fight left in the U.S. of A. As if to punctuate that point further, the heralds of Unicron known as [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]] suddenly arrived from cross- and down-time, disabling Galvatron in moments and then vanishing with him in a flash of light. Shocked by his sudden good fortune, Jazz led his two remaining comrades, Prowl and [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], in a renewed effort to save the human race. {{storylink|Rhythms of Darkness!}}
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=====Earthforce=====
{{earthforcefiction}}
[[Image:Jazz life in the slow lane.jpg|left|thumb|Earthforce Jazz likes to wear his pants high.]]
''When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] took the Ark out into space and named [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] as Autobot Commander of Earth, Jazz chose to remain on Earth under his Dino-buddy's leadership as part of [[Earthforce]].'' {{storylink|Break-Away!}} ''His first mission was to recover the poison gas [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] had planned to seed in Earth's atmosphere by [[Global warming satellite|rocket]]. He and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] raced to the site where [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] had forced the rocket to crash, hoping to beat the two Decepticon factions to it before they could recover the poison. They failed, as both the [[Battlecharger]]s and the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] got there ahead of them. Jazz was ready to risk fighting through the 'Cons, but Prowl showed up and pulled him aside. It seemed Prowl had already had plenty of time to render the rocket harmless, and now the Decepticons were fighting over a useless contraption!'' {{storylink|Life in the Slow Lane}}

[[Image:BadGuysBall-Jazzparty.jpg|right|thumb|300px|It's party time! It's party time! Hey, everybody, it's party time!]]

''On another occasion, Jazz joined Sunstreaker, [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] in infiltrating the Decepticon [[Enclave]]. They arranged a fake assassination attempt against Megatron and framed [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s men for it. The feuding that followed carried the Decepticons out of the cave where they were holding their detente, and so Jazz and the others took the opportunity to listen to their music and eat their munchies. Partee!'' {{storylink|The Bad Guy's Ball!}} ''Later, he also joined Earthforce and the [[Survivors]] in bringing down the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]]. He scored an impressive hit against [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], paying him back for [[Primal Scream|past indignities]] that probably did not or would not happen in this timeline.'' {{storylink|Where Wolf?}}

''When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] unveiled his new defense system for the Autobot Earthbase, he forgot to keep track of the little details, like how it wasn't a good idea to bring everyone outside for a demonstration when the defense grid could only be turned off from ''inside the base.'' As Prowl ran the gauntlet to reach the shutdown control center, Jazz and Bumblebee ran interference for him, drawing the fire from some of the defensive cannons to clear his path.'' {{storylink|The House that Wheeljack Built!}} ''Soon after, Jazz helped repel a Decepticon attack on the Earthbase, while their defenses were still down from the earlier incident.'' {{storylink|Divide and Conquer!}}

[[Image:Jazz end of the road.jpg|left|200px|thumb|]]

''As time passed, one Decepticon named [[Octane]] began making even more trouble among the humans than his fellow soldiers. A bully by nature, Octane enjoyed "playing" with humans, scaring them on the highways before ultimately driving them off the roads. Fed up with the Decepticon's antics, Jazz posed as a human vehicle and presented himself as bait. By eluding Octane's attempts to run him down, Jazz enraged the Decepticon to the point where he chased his "prey" without paying attention to where they were going, and so Octane ended up stranded in the middle of a military testing ground, chock-full of inflammable fuel and running the risk of exploding at any second. As Jazz watched from a nearby hilltop, the icing on the cake came when Octane radioed his fellow [[Triple Changer|Triple Changers]] for help, and instead they abandoned him after hearing how he got himself into the mess.'' {{storylink|Manoeuvres!}}

''After training in the Combat Room with Ironhide, Jazz was called into action when the Stunticons kidnapped the Autobots' reporter friend, [[Irwin Spoon (G1)|Irwin Spoon]], and he joined his fellow cars in chasing down [[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]. Jazz managed to get close enough to transform and shoot out the Stunticon leader's rear tires, but this gave [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]] a chance to ram Jazz's legs out from under him as well. Still, Bumblebee and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] managed to catch up to the slowed Motormaster and recover Spoon.'' {{storylink|End of the Road! (UK)|End of the Road!}}

''Jazz, along with [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] and the remaining [[Magnificent Six]], was sent in 1990 to recover any traces of the Underbase in [[Yuss]], where they'd run afoul of [[Megadeath (G1)|Megadeath]]. They re-encountered their old enemy and were tortured by their memories, and it was up to Silverbolt to convince them to fight on. Jazz helped beat Megadeath to death, exorcising his demons.'' {{storylink|The Magnificent Six!}}
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=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
[[Image:Jazz primes rib.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
''Jazz was present in 1995 at the California football stadium where Optimus Prime unveiled [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] to a [[Feminist mob|group of human feminists]] as the "first female Autobot". Observing Prime's misguided efforts to placate the interest group, Jazz tried to explain to [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] the difference between human men and women, but only ended up offending one of the women while describing her "upper chassis".'' {{storylink|Prime's Rib!}}

''In 2007, after the defeat of [[Unicron]], the Autobots were trying hard to defend their territory from Shockwave's Decepticons. Jazz was seen working with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], ambushing a [[Airborne hunter squad|team of Decepticon flyers]] when they made an assassination attempt on Rodimus Prime.'' {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
{{TransformersComicMagazin}}

The Autobot [[Classic Pretender]]s were part of [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]'s squad of Pretenders who helped to rescue an oil tanker captured by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 5|Transformers in the Battle for Peace: A Big Day for Powermaster Optimus Prime}}

When the Decepticons stole three nuclear missiles from the United State Federation to hold the world to ransom, Optimus Prime ordered that Jazz, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] be given the power and abilities of Pretenders and sent to defeat the Decepticons. They arrived outside the Decepticon base, but were attacked by Pretender Starscream! Jazz didn't do too well, and needed his electronic self-preservation system in his shell to reactivate him. He then battled Dreadwind and Darkwing inside the Decepticon base, leaving Bumblebee to take on Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 8|Transformers in Action: Megatron's Ultimatum}}

====Marvel ''Generation 2'' comic====
Before the Autobots broke off into micro-units after [[Klo]], they had another encounter with [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s Decepticons on a long abandoned world. Jazz was part of that unit alongside Prime and the others. He separated from the rest of the Autobots for a time but, when Optimus Prime and [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] discovered the threat of the [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronians]], they called in Autobots scattered across the galaxy, including Jazz. He was first seen as part of the rescue squad Grimlock assembled to pull Prime out of Decepticon clutches on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|The Gathering Darkness}} Jazz remained involved, if peripherally, in the conflicts with the Cybertronians on [[Ethos]] {{storylink|Escalation!}} and Earth over the coming days. {{storylink|Total War!}} When Autobots and Decepticons alike joined forces to defend against the coming [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]], Jazz worked with [[Rotor Force]] member [[Powerdive]] to assemble the shield generators that would protect their position. {{storylink|A Rage in Heaven!}}

====Fleetway ''Generation 2'' comic====
When Bludgeon began his assault on Earth, Optimus Prime was summoned back to the planet by Grimlock and brought Jazz, [[Skram (G2)|Skram]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] with him. While Prime confronted Bludgeon directly, Jazz and his operatives engaged another detachment of Decepticons. Despite their small numbers, Jazz's team defeated their more plentiful opponents thanks to the fact that the 'Cons were operating on reduced power levels. Too much prolonged death and destruction takes its toll. {{storylink|War Without End (issue)|War Without End}} They then joined up with Optimus and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] to drive off the returning Megatron as well. {{storylink|War Zone}}

===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Scatman Crothers]] (English), [[Wally Burr]] (English, "[[Kremzeek!]]"), [[Kōki Kataoka]] (Japanese), [[Tōru Furusawa]] (Japanese, "[[Attack of the Autobots]]"), [[Minoru Inaba]] (Japanese, ''[[The Transformers: The Movie|The Movie]]''), [[Francis Lax]] (French), [[Antônio Patiño]] (Portuguese), [[Carlos Nieto]] (Spanish), [[Staffan Hallerstam]] then [[Peter Harryson]] (Swedish), [[Per Sandborgh]] (Swedish, ''Generation 2''), [[Reinhard Brock]] (German), [[Tonio von der Meden]] (German, ''The Movie'' TV dub, ''Generation 2'' Season 1), [[Willy Schäfer]] (German, ''Generation 2'', "Masquerade"), [[Ulf Jürgen Söhmisch]] (German, ''Generation 2'', "Transport to Oblivion")

[[Image:Cybertronjazz.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Spoiler Alert. HAW!]]
Blacker than the inside of a drive shaft—that's how Jazz described the north side of Cybertron. The slang-talking operations specialist was on a recon mission to ascertain Cybertron's bleak energy reserves, and his reports were what prompted the Autobot mission to search for new sources of energy outside of their home world. Jazz served as pilot for the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] until severe asteroid turbulence knocked him from his seat. The Decepticons took advantage of the confusion and attacked, and both vessels and parties crash-landed on [[Earth]].

Four million years later, in 1984, the Autobots and Decepticons awoke reformatted to fit in on the planet. Jazz traded in his sleek Cybertronian form for an even sleeker Porsche 935 Turbo mode. As a lieutenant to [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]], Jazz was charged with assembling a task force to counter a Decepticon raid on an oil rig, calling the Autobots out and assembling them for battle. Jazz accompanied the first mission to the offshore oil rig, {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} where his wrist-mounted grappling hook and winch came in handy saving Optimus Prime. He used the same line to stop Prime from riding the rapids at [[Sherman Dam]] {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} and to pull [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from an unscheduled lake swim.

[[Image:MTMtE Part3 Jazz ScrapDecepticon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"Man, this is what happens when you only use [[ball joint]]s in a toy."]]

Jazz was one of the first Autobots to discover that a Decepticon "attack" on a fake rocket base set up by the Autobots was, in fact, a decoy attack by animated dummies. With the Decepticons poised to return to Cybertron with a ship full of energon cubes, Jazz made the call for volunteers to go on the dangerous mission to stop them, and joined in the battle himself. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

Taking Spike for a ride through the city and cranking up the tunes, Jazz was the first to notice a blackout originating at a solar power plant, caused by a Decepticon incursion. Jazz joined up with Optimus Prime's strike team as they searched for the Decepticons' new [[space bridge]], battling them in a cave and somehow knocking aside a null ray blast with a stalactite. He's just that cool. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}}

Jazz helped defend Autobot Headquarters against an antimatter-powered Decepticon attack, {{storylink|Roll for It}} and again when Optimus Prime was knocked out of action. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}} He journeyed with a strike team to the [[Arctic|Arctic Circle]], where the Decepticons were draining heat energy from the Earth's core, and helped in the battle to stop them. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}}

[[Image:SOSDinobots Jazz avoids fire.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
The discovery of [[dinosaur]] bones prompted Jazz to opine they must have been mighty ugly. When the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] were built and promptly ran amok, Jazz attempted to stop them and was later part of the "firing squad" who sealed them in a cave. During a battle at the [[Great Falls]], Jazz and the majority of the Autobot forces were captured, and only an attack by the reactivated Dinobots saved them all from termination. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}} Jazz also took part in a mission to [[Peru]], which was successful in preventing [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] from using the [[Crystal of Power]] for evil purposes. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}}

Jazz got to try out some "crazy new waterskis" during an attempt to defend a solar plant on the coast of [[India]], though it all turned out to be a diversion so the Decepticons could kidnap [[Sparkplug Witwicky]]. In turn, he and the other Autobots took part in a diversionary attack on Decepticon headquarters, so another team could sneak in and retrieve Sparkplug. Sparkplug was part of a Decepticon plan to enslave humans using [[hypno-chip]]s, and when the Autobots attempted to stop the Decepticons' latest scheme, they found themselves being attacked by hypnotised humans. They were unable to prevent Cybertron from being dragged into Earth's orbit. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}}

[[Image:CountdownExtinction Jazz plays Laserbeak.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Jazz and Trailbreaker at least got to mock the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] when the environmental conditions caused their weapons to backfire on them. They retreated back to Autobot Headquarters, Jazz using his magnet beams to start locked on Ironhide's tail. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} During later efforts to stop the Decepticons taking advantage of the wild conditions, Jazz surfed in to attack Megatron's [[sea funnel]]. Unfortunately, the Autobots crashed along with the wave, and the Decepticons escaped with the energon they'd collected. Despite the failure, Jazz took part in another attack on Megatron's shuttle, and the Autobots were able to destroy it, knocking Cybertron out of orbit. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

Though the Autobots were occupied for a time rebuilding Earth, they were soon able to pick up the Decepticons' trail. After being led into a quick sand trap, Jazz was able to play Laserbeak, revealing that the Decepticons were heading for [[Doctor Arkeville]]'s laboratory. The Autobots reached the lab in time to prevent Arkeville's [[Exponential Generator]] from destroying the planet. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}} Jazz was also among the Autobots who turned out to cheer on Optimus during a duel with Megatron, only to watch in horror as their leader was beaten. It later turned out that Megatron had cheated, freeing them to fight back and blast the Decepticons into a crevasse full of lava. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

[[Image:ChangingGears jungleclearing.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Cram it, Nature!]]
Jazz took part in the battle to rescue Spike from the Decepticons, after the boy's mind was transferred into a robot body and subsequently warped by Megatron. Following Spike's realisation that he was on the wrong side, Jazz was present when his mind was transferred back into his human body. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Following another battle, during which the Autobots were struck down by "energised boulders" and [[Gears (G1)|Gears]] was captured by the Decepticons, the Autobots travelled to Africa to mount a rescue. Jazz and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] cleared a path through the jungle by riding on the sides of Optimus Prime's cab and lasering the way ahead, all so they could reach Megatron's [[Solar Needle]]. {{storylink|Changing Gears}}


[[Image:AutobotRun Bonecrusher throws Jazz.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Here's the wind-up...]]
As one of the faster Autobots, Jazz excelled in the charity race the Autobots organised and even provided some driving music. He was one of the first Autobots across the finish line, though they soon discovered that they were unable to transform, due to the effects of Megatron's [[Transfixatron]], which had been surreptitiously used on them during the race. Forced to a ghost town where Megatron had constructed a crushing machine, the Autobots attempted to protect Ironhide, but Jazz was simply tossed aside so that the Constructicons could get to their victim. Help soon arrived in the form of an [[anti-transfixation grenade]], and the Autobots were finally able to fight back. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}}

Jazz set out with Bumblebee one day to test out his sound system, newly souped up by Spike and Sparkplug. The deafening music was enough to disrupt a nearby cliff, prompting Jazz and his human pals to beat a hasty retreat. Returning to Autobot Headquarters, Jazz immediately came under attack by Bluestreak. Subduing his manic comrade, he and Bumblebee soon discovered that they were the only Autobots not transmutated to an evil state by a [[personality destabilizer device|personality destabilizer]] planted in the Autobots' [[recharging chamber]]. Jazz helped test out an "[[attitude exchanger]]" built by Sparkplug to restore the Autobots to their normal state, first distracting Bluestreak, and later applying exchangers to Hound and Ratchet. With the other Autobots restored, Jazz used his sonic abilities to cripple a Decepticon rocket before it could escape Earth's atmosphere with a valuable solar satellite. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}

[[Image:EntertheNightbird Jazz sound and light show.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Jazz likes disrupting motor functions!]]
The theft of some experimental [[electro-cell]]s resulted in Jazz being part of an unsuccessful mission to recover them from the Decepticons. {{storylink|Traitor}} When Wheeljack demonstrated his [[Wheeljack Instant Immobilizer|Immobilizer]] by freezing a river solid, Jazz wasn't quite convinced...until he tried leaping onto the solidified water and found it harder than rock. Later, with the device in Decepticon hands, Jazz provided a crucial distraction with his [[sound and light show]] while [[Carly]] and Brawn sabotaged the device. {{storylink|The Immobilizer}}

Jazz was present when Optimus called for volunteers to investigate mysterious energy readings at the bottom of the Atlantic, but didn't volunteer. Maybe he preferred football with the Dinobots. {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}} He revealed that he'd been reading up on ninjas while the Autobots guarded [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]]. After the robot was stolen by the Decepticons, he promised [[Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist|Doctor Fujiyama]] they'd get her back unharmed. Instead, the Autobots ended up pursuing Nightbird after she stole the [[World Energy Chip]]. Jazz's attempt to disable her with his sound and light show failed when she busted his speakers with throwing stars. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}

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He was impressed by a huge deposit of [[korlonium crystal]]s, thinking that they put his light and sound show to shame. After a battle with the Decepticons, the Autobots returned to base, only to discover that somehow they'd picked up an [[Optimus Prime clone|extra Optimus Prime]]. After a series of inconclusive tests to determine which Prime was the real deal, the Autobots returned to the crevasse, where one of the two Primes destroyed [[Starscream clone (G1)|Starscream]], finally convincing the Autobots he was the genuine article. It wasn't until he chose to pass up rescuing Spike that Jazz realised that he was the fake, and the Autobots blasted the faux Optimus into the crevasse. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}}

Jazz was part of Sunstreaker's team when they stumbled on a Decepticon installation along a river and were attacked by [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. After some unsuccessful attempts to engage the combiner in combat, Jazz used his sound and light show to distract the giant long enough for [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and Sunstreaker to take him down [[AT-AT|Imperial walker]] style, and the Autobots escaped. They later mounted a commando operation, attaching [[dominator disc]]s to the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s to bring Devastator under their thrall. Back at base, Jazz was repaired by [[Hook (G1)|Hook]], but during the later attack on the Decepticon position, Megatron was able to override the dominator discs. Ultimately, the Autobots succeeded in destroying Megatron's drill and saving the Earth, so it wasn't a total loss. {{storylink|The Core}}

[[Image:Insectsyndromejazzhelps.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Peekaboo! I see you!]]
Jazz took part in attempting to defend the [[Nova Power Plant]] against the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and he was impressed by [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]]'s sharpshooting. He rescued some pilots who were trapped in a crashed helicopter and helped pull [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] out from under a destroyed tower, helping Wheeljack to climb into Prime's trailer for the trip back to base. He later took part in the attempt to defend the [[Iron Mountain]] military base, and he was the only Autobot with the sense to take cover when [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] exploded. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}}

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During another rampage on the part of the Dinobots at Autobot headquarters, Jazz had to get out of the way of Inferno and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] as they rushed to extinguish a fire. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} After strange time warps began opening, he, Inferno, Red Alert and Prowl interceded in a conflict between some cowboys and bikers. Jazz used his sound and light show to scare the cowboys off. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

Jazz took part in [[Autobot Day]], a celebration which quickly turned sour when incriminating footage of the Autobots was broadcast. After a remarkably swift trial, the Autobots were all ordered to leave the planet, and they departed in a spaceship provided by [[Shawn Berger]]. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} While the footage was revealed on Earth as a frame-up job by the Decepticons, the Autobots found themselves on a collision course with the [[Sun]]. Fortunately, they were able to escape their fiery fate and return to Earth in time to free it from Decepticon tyranny. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

[[Image:DesertionDinobots1 Jazz half transformed.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Transformer version of a car seat?]]
While engaging the Decepticons in battle to prevent them from stealing the plans to the [[Ultra Plane]], Jazz was able to use his sound and light show on the enemy, and he was impressed by Hound's use holographic trickery to persuade the Decepticons to retreat. A [[cybertonium]] deficiency later caused the Autobots to start malfunctioning—starting with Jazz having trouble transforming. Then his sound and light show went on the fritz, and he was blasted by [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]. By the time they got back to Headquarters, Jazz was unable to transform fully. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} Luckily, Spike, Carly and the Dinobots brought some more Cybertonium back from Cybertron, and everyone was repaired. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

When Blaster broadcast a heavy metal rock concert directly into Autobot Headquarters, Jazz found that it had a good beat and you could dance to it. The other Autobots weren't nearly as sanguine about the high-volume intrusion, and it stopped them from preventing the theft of the [[Voltronic Galaxer]]. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}} Jazz was among the Autobots who coated themselves in [[electrum]] to strike back against the Decepticons. Unfortunately, the pool of electrum and surrounding area did not survive the battle. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}}

[[Image:GodGambit Jazz on Starscream action.jpg|thumb|200px|left|So is this "doing it with style"?]]
Jazz tagged along with Perceptor and Omega Supreme on a mission to rescue Cosmos from where he had crashed on [[Saturn]]'s moon of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. He helped free [[Titan (species)|the locals]] from subjugation by Decepticons pretending to be gods and appeared particularly horrified at the Decepticons' use of religious enslavement. He did his best to explain to the natives that he and his fellow visitors weren't gods, "just fancy machines". {{storylink|The God Gambit}}

During an initiative by the Autobots to clean up [[New York City]], Jazz was part of a team who came to [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]]'s aid when he stumbled on a Decepticon plot, and he took part in a later assault on a Decepticon base in the [[Pine Barrens]]. {{storylink|Make Tracks}} Unfortunately for Jazz, he was [[Kremzeek]]'s first victim, having his circuits thoroughly scrambled by the tiny energy critter. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}} His bad luck would continue; During a search for Tracks and Bumblebee, Jazz was snared by [[Chumley|Lord Chumley]]'s diabolical car wash trap. At Chumley's castle, he was subjected to some unknown torture until Optimus Prime finally succeeded in freeing all of the captives. {{storylink|Prime Target (episode)|Prime Target}}

Jazz rolled out to stop the Decepticons from turning Earth into metal using the [[Key to Vector Sigma]], but didn't last long in the battle before he was knocked into a tree by [[Drag Strip (G1)|Drag Strip]]. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}} He later came to the aid of the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] when they were led into a trap by the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]], {{storylink|Aerial Assault}} and was infected by [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] but was cured in time to help defend the [[Statue of Liberty]] against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

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Jazz and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] attended the dedication of an [[Optimus Prime memorial]]. No sooner had Jazz unveiled the statue than they were attacked by [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] and the Combaticons, who took them prisoner and took their [[energy absorber]]s. The pair were left chained up at a power plant until the arrival of Megatron's forces provided a distraction so that the Autobots could rescue them. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

After intercepting the Stunticons during another of Megatron's plans, a group of Autobots disguised themselves as the Decepticon team in order to find out what was going on. Jazz disguised himself as [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]] and seemed quite cool with the whole thing, unlike [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]]. They were even able to take the ruse as far as merging into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], though when the deception was eventually uncovered, they found themselves battling the real thing. Luckily, the rest of the Autobots arrived to provide backup. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

[[Image:JazzTFmovie.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Did I ever tell you folks about "The Shine"?]]
By 2005, those dang Decepti-jerks had overtaken all of Cybertron, forcing the Autobots to operate on [[Moonbase One]], [[Moonbase Two]] and [[Autobot City]] on Earth. Though most of the Autobots' senior command staff were killed as a result of the Decepticons' [[Battle of Autobot City|attack on the city]], Jazz remained on Moonbase One, where he and Cliffjumper survived. Bad news was, the ginormous [[Unicron]] arrived and unceremoniously began devouring the entire moon, base and all. Jazz and Cliffjumper's attempt to escape in a shuttle failed, and they were sucked into the monster's maw. Winding up on a deadly conveyor belt in Unicron's depths, Jazz, Cliffjumper, Spike, and Bumblebee were all spared when Spike's son [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Daniel]] saved them from being dropped in an acid pit. Jazz and the other Autobots drove out of Unicron (and through space) and arrived on Cybertron, where he joined in the chanting of "[['Til all are one]]" as Unicron's severed head orbited Cybertron. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}


With peace restored to Cybertron, Jazz took up more pleasurable pursuits and was seen participating in and winning a race in the [[Galactic Olympics]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1}} Not long after, he defended Cybertron against a massive Decepticon attack, fighting alongside his new leader, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

In 2006, he was seen racing again, only this time, he wound up trapped in a time loop, repeating the race over and over again, thanks to chronal energy leaking from a [[Quintesson]] time window. {{storylink|Forever Is a Long Time Coming}} Later in the year, when [[Tornedron]] attacked Cybertron, Jazz was seen rushing to his post with Bumblebee at his side. {{storylink|Call of the Primitives}}

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====Japanese cartoon continuity====
{{note|The events of the American animated series occur in Japanese continuity as noted above, except that the events of 2006 were moved back to 2010. Japanese animated continuity inserts a large number of additional storylines, told through various different media, into the timeline, as detailed below.}}

=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' story pages=====
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When Jazz and his fellow sports car Autobots were keeping themselves in shape by having a friendly race, they wound up wandering into a Decepticon ambush, courtesy of Soundwave. Hound was able to take care of Soundwave, punching out his chest window, while Jazz grappled with the outmatched Laserbeak. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (story page)|Sic 'em, Hound!}}

=====''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic=====
When the Decepticons began focusing their attacks on [[Japan]] in the late 1980s, Jazz was among the Autobots who relocated to the country to help protect it. Along with [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]], Jazz responded to news of a Decepticon attack on Yokohama, but he never expected to be facing the power of Megatron's newest transformation, the "Super Megatron Gun"! Jazz tried to dissuade Warpath from making a headlong charge at the Decepticons, but the feisty little 'bot didn't listen, and got crushed beneath [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]'s treads for his trouble. Jazz could do little against the Decepticons, and was content to watch and cheer as Optimus Prime and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] arrived to beat the stuffing out of them. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 4|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #4}}
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=====Scramble City: Mobilization=====
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Before the 80s were through, the Autobots began construction of a mobile battle fortress dubbed "[[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]". When the Decepticons discovered Scramble City's construction site and sent the Constructicons in to destroy it, Jazz was among the Autobots who rolled out to stop them. The battle was going well until the Constructicons formed Devastator, who nearly crushed Jazz and Optimus Prime with a boulder, and then sent them flying with a laser blast. As [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] tended to the fallen Jazz, the Aerialbots appeared on the scene to force Devastator back. Jazz and the Autobots returned to their headquarters, but soon had to depart for battle once again when the Stunticons came a-knocking. This time, it took the power of the completed Scramble City, which transformed into its robot mode of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]], to end the fight. {{storylink|Scramble City: Mobilization}}

=====Full Throttle Scramble Power!=====
Jazz was stationed at Scramble City in Japan when the Decepticons threatened the world with their new [[Omega Whip]]. He rolled into action with Optimus Prime and another team of Autobots to rescue their human allies [[Toru]] and [[Jenny (G1)|Jenny]] from the Decepticons' clutches, but during the battle that erupted, he got clobbered by Menasor. Luckily, the arrival of Metroplex and the entire Autobot army tipped the scales of battle just a teeny bit. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}

=====''The Battle of the Star Gate''=====
[[Image:Stargatebattles_jazz.jpg|right|thumb|250px|...to get down and boogie.]]

Continued interaction between the Autobots and humanity led to a formal alliance being forged between the heroic robots and the government of the United States in the 1990s. Jazz was one of a delegation of Autobots who attended a press conference to announce the creation of the interstellar teleportation system known as the "[[Trigger]]" to the world. Despite his best efforts, Jazz couldn't get Wheeljack and Ratchet to shush during Optimus Prime's speech. Three days later, when the Decepticons staged an attempt to take the Trigger for themselves, Jazz joined a team of Autobots in rescuing the Trigger's human crew and fending the villains off. {{storylink|First Contact}}

Several months later, once the Trigger had been repaired, the Decepticons predictably made another play for it, and Jazz was once again present to fight them off. This battle went strangely: Starscream fused himself with the Trigger and began attacking all the Autobots and Decepticons, requiring Prime and Megatron to unite their power to stop him. The explosion created by their combined might was so colossal that Jazz and all the other Transformers were caught in the backwash and sent plummeting down to Earth, burning up in free-fall, not to be heard from again for several months. {{storylink|The Battle of the Star Gate}}

=====''Story of Binaltech''=====
[[Image:Binaltech meister card art.jpg|left|thumb|225px|"Hey you! I don't see you boogieing!"]]

In 2004, when Megatron was making his big push to take over Cybertron and the Earth was comparatively unguarded, the Autobots were struck by a Decepticon sneak attack and infected by a plague of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Jazz was stationed on Earth at the time, but was lucky enough to avoid contamination. Many of his fellow Autobots were not so lucky, but were saved and made battle-ready again by an alliance with the [[Earth Defense Command]] that led to the foundation of the [[Binaltech Project]] and the construction of brand new powerful bodies for the fallen warriors. {{storylink|Story of Binaltech, Chapter 1}}

To counteract the Autobots' new strength, the Decepticons, with the aid of [[Doctor Arkeville]] and the human cabal known as the [[Concurrence]], infiltrated the Binaltech Project and began co-opting Binaltech bodies for their own soldiers. {{storylink|Arise! Evil Binaltechs}} When their actions were uncovered, a wave of mistrust and suspicion threatened to tear the Autobot-E.D.C. alliance apart. In order to corral the situation and weed out any traitors in the system, "[[Operation: Carwash (operation)|Operation: Carwash]]" was put together, headed up by [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|D.R. Faireborn]] and Jazz. Given the dangerous situations the upcoming undercover work was going to place him in, Jazz agreed to upgrade himself into a Binaltech body equipped with the [[Genetronic Translink System]], which would allow him to control multiple bodies at once. One of these bodies was a red version of himself, outfitted with a learning A.I. system based on Jazz's personality, which Jazz decided to nickname "[[Zoom-Zoom]]". {{storylink|Operation: Carwash}} Together, the team discovered that there were no true traitors: the moles in the system were unfortunate victims of Arkeville's mind-controlling [[hypno-chip]] technology. {{storylink|Expose All of Evil's Designs!}}

As the Binaltech conflict continued, the actions of the time-tossed Decepticon [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] resulted in history being altered when he transported Megatron and the Decepticons outside of time so the Autobots would have to face to the looming threat of [[Unicron]] alone. {{storylink|Changing Lanes}} Thanks to a mysterious being from beyond time and space known as the [[Optimus Primal|Protector]], the timeline was corrected, and the alterate "BT World" timeline to which the Binaltech warriors belong was preserved as parallel timeline. Following the defeat of Unicron, however, Jazz was the one to report on the return of Megatron's forces from beyond time, still in fighting trim and poised to wipe out the Autobots, who had been weakened by their battle with the planet-eater. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

{{Note|At this point, the original timeline was retroactively restored and the events of the ''Story of Binaltech'' diverged into a parallel universe. Skip to the next section to continue reading about the original timeline; exactly how many (if any) of the events related in this section, even prior to the divergence, occurred in the original unaltered timeline are unknown.}}

The Decepticons were successful at first and overran Cybertron, but were stopped with the activation of the Quintesson [[large switch|kill switch]] which shut the villains down while leaving Jazz and the other Binaltech Autobots unaffected. {{storylink|Kill Switch}}

As the Autobots picked up the pieces, they encountered a surprising visitor from another dimension: the [[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] who hailed from the original, unaltered timeline. The [[spark]] of the BT World's [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] had previously been lost in a [[subspace]] accident, and Bluestreak revealed that it had materialized in his dimension, but that a signal emanating from the BT World was destabilizing it. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 1}} Analyzing Bluestreak's [[energy wave tracker]], Jazz pinpointed the source of the signal and lead an Autobot raiding part straight to it. The signal was coming from an artificial [[electrum]] giant created by Doctor Arkeville, which was drawing power from Prowl's spark. Activating his powerful new "Argent Armor", Jazz was able to convert his own armored hide into synthetic electrum, which proved powerful enough to go up against the giant's metal skin. Grimlock tossed Jazz his sword, and Jazz extended his electrum armor to cover it, then used the blade to penetrate the giant's hide and destroy the subspace node draining Prowl's spark. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 2}}

=====''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers'' comic=====
Jazz was stationed at Autobot City when it was attacked by [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] in 2010. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 3|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #3}}

=====''The Headmasters'' cartoon=====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Masato Hirano]] (Japanese), [[Roberto Alexander]] (Latin American)

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In 2011, Jazz was stationed at the Autobots' secondary headquarters on the planet [[Athenia]], under Optimus Prime. When the Decepticons began a full-scale assault on Cybertron in order to get their hands on [[Vector Sigma]], he followed his leader to the planet to help reinforce their defenses, and was seen shooting down [[Blast Off (G1)|Blast Off]]. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}} When the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] arrived to tip the battle in the Autobots' favor, Jazz was able to return to Earth, where he helped co-ordinate the effort to locate the missing [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Jazz was then among the Autobot units who ran interference for [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]], helping to keep the Decepticons off his back as he began his Matrix quest. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

Following the successful recovery of the Matrix, Jazz stayed on Earth, working under [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] at [[Autobot City]]. Together, Jazz and Magnus took Metroplex into battle against Trypticon when the giant Decepticon city appeared to be attacking an oil field, but neither Autobot realized they were walking into a trap. Metroplex was zapped by the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[Madmachine]], which scrambled all of Jazz's computers and left Metroplex helpless. After the Decepticons pulled out, Jazz analyzed what data he could recover from the computers, and had Magnus pass it along to Rodimus Prime on Athenia as a warning against future Madmachine attacks. {{storylink|The Great Cassette Operation}}

Jazz returned to defend Cybertron again when Galvatron sought to steal the new [[Cybertonuron]] super-metal, and was again seen shooting down Blast Off. He must really not have liked that guy! {{storylink|Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2}} Later, when the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] were ambushed by [[Sixshot]] and [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], Jazz made his final appearance, helping Ultra Magnus mobilize Metroplex to come to the rescue. {{storylink|Explosion on Mars!! Maximus Is in Danger}}

=====Hero Set=====
In year 2025, Jazz joined Grimlock and Bumblebee in battling Starscream in the far reaches of space. <ref>Packaging blurb for the Japanese-exclusive "Hero Set" release of the [[Classic Pretender]] versions of Bumblebee, Jazz, Grimlock and Starscream, confirmed to be part of cartoon continuity by Takara's [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|2007 timeline]].</ref>

===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
[[Image:Jazz day of the decepticons.jpg|thumb|left|150px|"What, these G1 faction symbols? Ignore 'em. G2 all the way, baby!"]]
Jazz served as Optimus Prime's second-in-command on Cybertron. He was instrumental in the defence of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and saved his leader's life after a surprise attack rendered Prime non-functional. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Jazz's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}}

Jazz, along with the rest of the Ark crew, crash-landed on Earth and awoke millions of years later to find that the war continued there. As part of a plan devised by Optimus Prime's new second-in-command Prowl, Jazz and the other Autobots were stationed at [[Table Mountain]] in [[Africa]] to defend a newly discovered spaceship with the power to return them to Cybertron. When the Decepticons arrived to take the ship by force, Jazz was easily swatted aside by Megatron, and the Autobots retreated to let the victors claim their prize. The doors of the ship slammed shut, and it began to hurtle uncontrollably away from the planet, leaving the Decepticons to realise they had walked into a trap and leaving Jazz back on Earth to ponder: If they'd conned the Decepticons, did that make them ''Deceptibots''? {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}

Jazz was on duty at the Ark when one of its automatic sensors picked up a Transformer power emission emanating from [[Brazil]], and he, Optimus Prime and [[Blaze]] drove there to investigate. Upon arrival in Brazil, Jazz was immediately knocked offline by [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and played no further part in the proceedings. {{storylink|The Dinobots!}}
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===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
[[Image:Agenda3-AutobotsonArkattack.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He's fallen and he's not getting up.]]
Four million years ago, Jazz, Ratchet, Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Ironhide were on the bridge of the Ark when it was suddenly attacked by the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. It crashed in a dormant volcano for untold years until it was disturbed by the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], who had traveled from the far future. Jazz's body was sprawled across a section of the navigation controls. Frozen in [[stasis lock]] as he was, Jazz was unable to stop the Predacon from assassinating the equally comatose Optimus Prime. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}} This act would have rewritten history from that moment forward, but the ensuing time storm was stopped by [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] and some time-traveling [[Maximal]]s. {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}
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===Dreamwave ''Generation 1'' comics===
8.2 million years ago, Jazz and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] met [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] in the remains of [[Praxus]]'s [[Helix Gardens]] to discuss the worthiness of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] to lead the Autobots. Jazz later attended the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]-transfer ceremony at the [[Chamber of the Ancients]]. He attempted to save Optronix—now Optimus Prime—when Prime was attacked by [[Decepticon|Decepticons]], but was restrained by Grimlock. When Prime defeated the assassins, Jazz was convinced of his worth. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

[[Image:Jazz war within.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Exits to the sides and rear, dig?"]]
Soon afterward, Jazz questioned Prowl's decision to allow Prime to explore the depths of the planet alone, but was prevented from pressing the issue any further when [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] attacked [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] with an army of Decepticons. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} Jazz helped direct the battle from the [[Decagon]], but the defenders were soon overwhelmed. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} Jazz was forced to begin evacuating important artifacts and hardware from the city, but was unable to finish before the Decepticons overran the Decagon. {{storylink|The War Within issue 4|The War Within #4}} He and a handful of Autobots made a desperate last stand, {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} but were saved from extinction when [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] activated the planetary engines, devastating the city and forcing Shockwave's army to retreat. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}}

7.4 million years ago, Jazz witnessed the [[space bridge]] explosion that seemingly killed Prime and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. After the subsequent fragmentation of the Autobot faction, Jazz remained with the Prowl-led Autobots, though he longed for the days when the Autobots were a united force. {{storylink|Fragmentation}} He accompanied a group of Autobots to investigate a [[Trypticon (G1)|new mobile battle base]] at the [[Praetorus Wharf]], only to learn that the base was fully operational. {{storylink|Devastation}} Despite the arrival of reinforcements, the titan was too much for Jazz and his cohorts; only when Shockwave recalled Trypticon to the [[Neutral Territories]] were they saved from certain doom. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}}

Battered, Jazz and the others limped back to Iacon, only to be forced to repel an attack on [[Autobase]] by [[The Fallen]]. Although Jazz, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] fought valiantly, the mysterious entity defeated them and achieved his objective: freeing [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] from captivity. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}}

Jazz was among the crew of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] when it crashed on [[Earth]], and he awoke in 1984 to battle the Decepticons. After years of fighting, Jazz and the other Autobots took part in [[Operation Liberation]] in 1998, a joint human/Autobot operation that defeated and captured the Earth-bound Decepticons. However, the ''[[Ark II]]'', which was meant to convey the Autobots, the captured Decepticons, and a number of humans back to Cybertron, was sabotaged by General [[Robert Hallo]], sending Jazz and his comrades to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}}

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A few years later, Optimus Prime awoke Jazz and a number of other Autobots to combat the sinister [[Lazarus]]. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} He aided in the cleanup of Lazarus's latest target, the SmitCo oil refinery, and then moved on to Lazarus's base, which had been taken over by a revived Megatron and his deadly "metal virus". Jazz and the others briefly battled the Decepticons, but were stopped in their tracks when Hallo dropped a nuclear bomb on them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} The virus absorbed most of the blast, leaving the Transformers unharmed, but continued to expand across the countryside. Jazz remained behind with a team to combat the virus, while Optimus Prime took a contingent of warriors to combat Megatron in [[San Francisco]]. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Armed with [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]-designed blasters to combat the virus, Jazz and his squad fought bravely, despite the blasters draining their energy and the well-meaning interference of the [[Canada|Canadian]] Army. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} But soon the virus overwhelmed them, forcing Wheeljack to sacrifice himself to destroy it. Jazz mourned over Wheeljack's fallen form. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

Some time later, Jazz participated in a battle in Alaska over possession of an escape pod containing [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], only to be forced to flee with the other Autobots when Shockwave arrived from Cybertron, proclaiming a new era of peace. As the other Autobots bickered over what to do, Jazz told them to shut up, as they were making his head hurt. {{storylink|New World Order}} Jazz couldn't believe [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] working as Shockwave's lieutenant, and almost got into a fight with Grimlock over the matter. Though he wasn't confident about his abilities, Jazz was left behind on Earth to command a small team of Autobots while Optimus and the rest of the Autobots surrendered to Magnus. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}} After Magnus and Prime had departed, Jazz, [[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]], and [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] returned to the battlefield, but found no trace of the pod or Scourge. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}}

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When Starscream returned to Earth with a small unit of Decepticons, Jazz and his team fought back against them and managed to capture most of the invaders. Starscream's enforcer [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], however, proved to be too much for them to handle, and Jazz was deactivated and left to rust at the bottom of a lake by the mighty super-robot. {{storylink|Night of the Combaticons}} He was eventually fished out by [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] and [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] (who had arrived from Cybertron with Bumblebee with supplies), but they were waylaid by [[Earth Defense Command]]. {{storylink|The Omega Effect}} The EDC completed the repairs on Jazz, Sunstreaker and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] themselves, and asked a favor in return: for the Autobots to accompany their agents in investigating [[San Desto|a small town]] which had mysteriously gone off the grid a few days before. With [[Marissa Faireborn]] and some [[EDC Night Force Unit|EDC soldiers]], they explored the deserted town, only to find the cause of the problem — a swarm of techno-organic [[Insecticon clone|Insecticlones]] which rose out of the ground and surrounded them. {{storylink|Infestation (Dreamwave)|Infestation}} Jazz and Marissa [[Crothers Auto-Body|escaped]] the swarm and found the hatching facility beneath [[Aztec Theatres|a theater]]. Jazz torched the eggs, only to confronted by [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] and [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]], who were mighty annoyed that he'd destroyed the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s' work. Back on the streets, the Autobots were confronted by the towns people, rendered zombies by [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]]'s [[cerebro-shell]]s, and the Autobots were unwilling to fight against human foes. [[Bumper (G1)|Bumper]] was able to use a spare shell to disable Bombshell's control, saving them all. {{storylink|Extermination}}

Afterward, Jazz farewelled Marissa at the EDC base in Nevada, as the Autobot forces departed for Alaska in the ''[[Orion]]''. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} In Alaska, they found Prowl's forces constructing [[Autobot City]]. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

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===''G.I. Joe vs. Transformers''===
[[Image:GIJoevsTF2_Jazz_Stun.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
Jazz was aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' when it crashed on Earth several million years in the past. The vessel was eventually discovered by the human terrorist organization [[Cobra]], who decided to use its deactivated occupants for their own needs. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1}} Jazz was reprogrammed to serve Cobra and rebuilt to transform into a three-wheeled Cobra [[Stun]] vehicle. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

When the reprogramming was undone by [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], Jazz joined [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] and continued the battle against the Decepticons, who had also been freed. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} Jazz warned a damaged [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] about attacking [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] head-on, but was rebuffed, as there was no other option. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} The Decepticons on Earth were eventually defeated with help from [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], and the Autobots returned to Cybertron aboard a new ''Ark''. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}

[[Image:GIJoeTFJazzPimpmobile.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Number 5, Pimpmobile.]]
Unfortunately, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] had all but conquered the planet in their absence, and the Autobots became little more than a team of resistance fighters. After a successful mission to steal [[energon cube]]s from the Decepticons, Jazz was suddenly sent to 1970's Earth when a malfunctioning [[Teletran 3]] cracked the timestream. As complicated issues with time travel threatened to destroy Earth, a number of G.I. Joe and Cobra members followed Jazz into the past in order to retrieve him. Finding Jazz trapped in the form of a car owned by a [['70s pimp|local pimp]]: a 1970s [[Wikipedia:Cadillac Eldorado#1971-1978|Cadillac Eldorado]], [[Snake-Eyes]] planted a [[disruption unit]] on the Autobot, allowing him to reboot and help them find other trapped Transformers. Together the group located [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] before returning to present-day Cybertron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}}

However, this mostly meant that Jazz had to sit tight inside a force field surrounded by the entire Decepticon army. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #2}} The Autobots were captured when the force field went down, but were soon saved by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]. The following day, Jazz joined Bumblebee and Optimus Prime in saying goodbye to the Joes and Cobras. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
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Jazz was among the Autobots that lay dormant and buried somewhere on the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years until [[1939]], when [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] accidentally awakened them. After getting reformatted into a military jeep, Jazz voiced his gratitude to the humans for bringing him and his friends back online. {{storylink|Transformed}}

Though not clearly seen again during the following conflict with Cobra and the Decepticons, Jazz was presumably deactivated with all the other Transformers when [[Snake-Eyes]] shattered the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

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===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
When a badly-damaged Starscream was brought to the Ark, Jazz was firmly of the opinion that it was a trap. He later spoke up in favor of fiddling with the helpless Decepticon's logic centers. Though the amnesiac Starscream seemed to side with the Autobots for a while, once he regained his memory, he promptly rejoined the Decepticons, which Jazz decided proved his earlier theory. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}

===IDW comics continuity===
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[[Image:SpotlightJazz-promise.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Don't give up hope! We're from 1984!]]
Millions of years ago, Jazz was a member of the Kaon Security Services prior to the Decepticon uprising and the subsequent civil war. He spent many an hour being bored to death by Prowl. How little things change. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}}

During the war, Jazz was part of a team taking part in a rescue mission. He managed to find the blinded lone survivor, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], but before the two could be extracted, their transport was destroyed by the Predacons. Though Tracks was rightfully frightened to face Megatron's most elite troops, Jazz convinced him to not give up hope. Jazz's first attempt to ambush the Predacons met with some success, but Jazz was heavily damaged as a result. The two fled, but they wouldn't escape the Predacons for long. Finally, after Jazz dressed down Tracks for giving up hope, they were surrounded. Jazz fought the Predacon leader, [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]], in a one-on-one battle that would have ended badly for Jazz if a second extraction team hadn't found them. Tracks and Jazz were lifted away and sent off for repairs. Tracks never did learn Jazz's identity, but he did learn a strong lesson from his mysterious helper. {{storylink|Spotlight: Jazz}}

Four million years ago, Jazz was present at a victory celebration after the Autobots halted a major Decepticon energon convoy. {{storylink|The Iron Age}}

[[Image:SpotlightBlaster Jazz Smokescreen Landfill.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Let's see if there's anything on that screen. I hope it's CMTV!]]
Shortly after [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]]'s rampage across Cybertron, Jazz was holed up in a bunker with [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] and [[Landfill (G1)|Landfill]] while they awaited a rousing, morale-boosting broadcast from [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], a transmission that was never made. Shortly thereafter, their position, along with every other Autobot position on the planet, was hit by the Decepticons. {{storylink|Spotlight: Blaster}}

In modern times, Jazz was the first Autobot to be stationed on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Police Action: Part 1}} His detachment of Autobots had operated covertly on the planet for at least four years, attempting to foil a Decepticon insurgency. He was present when Prowl gave [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] a dressing down for risking their secrecy by saving [[Verity Carlo]], [[Hunter O'Nion]] and [[Jimmy Pink]] from the Decepticon [[Infiltration protocol|infiltration team]]. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 3|Infiltration #3}} When Ratchet and Bumblebee's unauthorised sojourn to the abandoned Decepticon bunker in [[Nebraska]] uncovered [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s plans for [[Ultra-Energon|Ore-13]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s arrival on Earth, Jazz and the rest of the Autobots moved out to the Decepticon Siege Armature in [[Oregon]] in the hopes of containing the confrontation between the Decepticon leaders. Fortunately for all concerned, Megatron downgraded the Infiltration status of the mission and left the Autobots alone. {{storylink|Infiltration issue 6|Infiltration #6}}

Jazz went with the Autobots to investigate Decepticon activity in the country of [[Latveria]]. There they discovered a heavily shielded "array" that the Decepticons were using as a base. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part One}} They skirmished with the humans that were assembled outside who were under the influence of the Decepticons' mind-altering [[Psycho-Prism]]. Bumblebee used his holomatter avatar in a "damsel in distress" ruse. While [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]] was distracted trying to tell [[Luke Cage]] that the projection had no scent, Jazz was able to run him over, pinning him to the ground. Jazz got his tire slashed with adamantium claws for his trouble. Ratchet was able to attach an inhibitor device to [[Captain America]] which nullified the effects of the Psycho-Prism. He gave Captain America enough devices for everyone on his team. Now calmed down, the two groups teamed up to destroy the Psycho-Prism. They began attacking the array's defenses which caused the Decepticons to attack. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Two}}

As they fought, Ratchet, Prowl, and Luke Cage were able to slip into the array. Outside, Bumblebee, Jazz, and Prime gave a power-boost to [[Iron Man]] in his Transformer-sized armor. After the battle quieted down, Megatron communicated via hologram from inside the array with his new ally [[Doctor Doom]]. They showed their captives, Ratchet, Prowl, Luke Cage, and [[Spider-Man]]. Megatron ordered their surrender or the captives would die. Optimus Prime ordered the quick destruction of the array. After a brief discussion, they all attacked the array. Megatron turned on Doctor Doom for being incorrect about them surrendering. Megatron didn't go through with his threat to kill his captives, instead he went outside to face his opponents and carrying Luke Cage. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Three}}

While Megatron was attacking, Bumblebee, Jazz, and [[Wolverine (superhero)|Wolverine]] [[orbital jump|orbital bounced]] into the array. They found that Doctor Doom switched sides and freed Spider-Man, so they went to find the Psycho-Prism. They found it guarded by [[Ramjet (G1)|Ramjet]], who wasn't in the mood to fight for Megatron's cause and left. Wolverine destroyed the Prism. {{storylink|Man and Machine, Part Four}}

[[Image:Escalation2 Jazz transform.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Whoops! I better wind down my woofers!]]

Shortly after the arrival of Optimus Prime on Earth, Jazz received a crash course on Earth culture by Hunter, Verity and Jimmy, and was surprised to find the emotionless, dead-eyed fixed smile on his [[holomatter]] avatar creeped people out. However, the humans were forced to leave the ''[[Ark-19]]'', ostensibly for their own safety. Jazz observed how unhappily the humans took their eviction, so he later thanked them for their help. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1|Escalation #1}} After Ironhide and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] were ambushed (and the latter thought to have been destroyed) by [[Machination|a highly skilled and organized human group]], Jazz and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] were attacked by the clandestine organization's agents when trying to locate (Sunstreaker's remains, but fortunately survived. {{storylink|Escalation issue 2|Escalation #2}} He was later deployed to [[Brasnya]] with the other Autobots to investigate Megatron's meddling in the fragile region's politics. He remarked that [[orbital jump|orbital bounces]] scrambled his circuits, to which Prowl told him to shut up. Prowl is a jerk. {{storylink|Escalation issue 3|Escalation #3}} He was forced to engage the Decepticons when they tried to stop the Autobots from capturing the [[Georgi Koska]] [[facsimile construct]]. {{storylink|Escalation issue 4|Escalation #4}} After Optimus Prime was [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|seemingly killed]] by Megatron, Jazz didn't think even their best efforts could stop the Decepticon leader. Fortunately, Optimus Prime returned from the brink of death and Megatron was forced to retreat. {{storylink|Escalation issue 6|Escalation #6}}

[[Image:Devastation4 Sixshot Jazz armrip.jpg|left|250px|thumb|[[DIS-Integrated Circuits!|He's had worse.]]]]
After it was decided to move the ''Ark-19'' due to the Machination's knowledge of their whereabouts, Jazz brushed off Verity and Jimmy when they pointed out that the Autobots were doing very little to find out about Sunstreaker and Hunter's disappearance. Jazz was tasked with monitoring the engines when the ''Ark-19'' lifted off from [[Lake Michigan]] and subsequently shot down by the Decepticon "living weapon" [[Sixshot]]. {{storylink|Devastation issue 1|Devastation #1}} He fought Sixshot alongside the other Autobots, but was seriously injured when the Decepticon tore off his right arm with apparent ease. {{storylink|Devastation issue 4|Devastation #4}} He was still injured when Optimus Prime ordered the Autobots to leave Earth for [[Garrus-9]] due to the liberation of the prison's [[Pretender Monster|newest inmates]]. {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}

Jazz soon returned to Earth with the other Autobots, only to be lured into a Decepticon trap due to a traitor among the Autobot ranks. They were summarily defeated by [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] and thrown in a portal leading to Cybertron, where the [[Insecticon swarm]] was waiting for them. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} With Optimus Prime severely injured, Jazz took command of the Autobots. At one point, Prowl brought him some bad news which left him despondent. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1|All Hail Megatron #1}}

The Autobots had begun to despair due to their situation, but Tracks told the story of how he was rescued by a mysterious Autobot from the Predacons. His peers' spirits lifted, Jazz thanked Tracks for giving them hope. {{storylink|Spotlight: Jazz}}

Jazz then had to sort out an argument between Prowl and Ironhide that ended with Ironhide punching Prowl after he told Ironhide that he might be the suspected Autobot traitor that put them in this predicament. Prowl wondered why Ironhide wasn't afraid of him, but was of Jazz, to which Jazz replied "tone", after which they discussed their situation. Later, Jazz and Ironhide talked about the good old days, with Ironhide getting upset that Jazz was hiding something from him and the Autobots. Ironhide also believed that [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] was the one who'd sold them out, but Jazz told him to leave Mirage alone. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4|All Hail Megatron #4}}

[[Image:AHM4-Jazztone.jpg|right|thumb|300px|His tone is "I'll kick your ass."]]

Not long afterwards, the ''[[Trion]]'' crashed on Cybertron, and Jazz met with the commander of the vessel, [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]. Kup wasn't too impressed with Jazz's supposed "special ops" skills, but changed his mind after seeing Jazz shove a gun in his face after taking out [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] in mere seconds. After Jazz had proved himself to Kup, he showed Optimus's comatose body to the older Autobot. Kup easily figured out what it was Jazz was keeping secret from the other Autobots: Megatron had seized the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}}

Jazz and Kup subsequently combined their forces, with Kup offering Jazz the position of his second-in-command. However, Jazz didn't approve of the way Kup's team worked, and was none too happy about becoming "another of Kup's little soldiers". Kup retorted that Jazz's hands weren't exactly clean either—he had read files on the top secret missions Jazz had carried out in the past. While at first speechless, Jazz quickly realized that arguments would get them nowhere, and accepted the position at Kup's side. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}} Later, he gave Kup a detailed story about how his team had ended up on the planet. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7|All Hail Megatron #7}}

[[Image:AHM10 ProwlandJazz.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Never tell me the odds!]]

After [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] revealed himself as the traitor, and subsequently killed himself, Jazz told [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] not to confront Ironhide about it. Drift didn't listen. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 8|All Hail Megatron #8}} When Optimus Prime recovered from his injuries, Jazz stood by his side. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} Shortly afterwards, he asked Prowl what he thought about an incoming swarm attack. When told that there was less than .01% of an Autobot victory, he suggested that Prowl keep that little calculation to himself. Luckily, Prowl hadn't anticipated that [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] would appear out of nowhere and save them. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}}

Omega carried Jazz and the others back to Earth, where they confronted the Decepticons in [[New York City]]. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} They won, but were left knowing the Decepticons were dropping a nuclear bomb on the city. Jazz stated the obvious in that they needed someone who could fly in order to take it out. Thankfully, the Decepticon [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] offered to do it, and Jazz and the others celebrated as the nuke was diverted and the Decepticons left Earth. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}} When Bumblebee went missing in one of the human disaster areas after the Decepticons evacuated, Jazz was part of an Autobot squad who went in to retrieve him. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 16|Hidden}}

[[Image:EnemiesoftheSystem-Jazz.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Hot Rod stole [[:Image:GIJoeTFHotRod70s.jpg|my chest]], so I stole [[:Image:Alternators Rodimus toy.jpg|his!]]]]

Jazz was still on Earth two years later, hiding in a cave system along with the other Autobots. {{storylink|New Arrivals, Old Encounters}} After Bumblebee was elected to be their new leader, Jazz listened to his speech about how they would stand up to their treacherous ally, the [[Skywatch]] Colonel [[Gordon Horiuchi]]. {{storylink|The Impossible Knot}}

When [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] learned that [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]]'s splinter faction of Autobots had joined forces with the Decepticons to build an illegal spacecraft, Jazz was one of the Autobots recruited by Magnus to arrest Hot Rod and the others. These Autobots escorted Ultra Magnus to the construction site, where it was discovered that the Decepticons who Hot Rod had taken under his wing had double-crossed him, and in a very bad way. Jazz watched as the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]]s merged for the first time into [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]], a recent creation of the treacherous [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]. {{storylink|Enemies of the System}}

After the Autobots and Skywatch had unofficially formed an alliance, Jazz was one of several Autobots sent to [[South Korea]] when the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] invaded under the command of [[North Korea]]. Because the [[President of the United States]] had unwittingly declared that nations using Cybertronians as mercenaries would be considered to be using weapons of mass destruction, the Autobots and Skywatch were forced to operate in disguise, fighting in vehicle mode with Skywatch weapons bolted onto their bodies. During the ensuing battle, Jazz fought [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]], but at a disadvantage in vehicle mode, failed to prevent the Decepticon's escape. {{storylink|International Incident Part 2: "Ranks of Bronze"}} After their initial failure to apprehend the Combaticons, the Autobots formulated a new strategy that would allow them to fight in robot mode whilst spy satellites monitoring the situation would be none the wiser. Now, without needing to be stuck in vehicle mode, Jazz helped Prowl fight Brawl by holding his tank turret in place while his comrade blasted at the gap between the turret and hull. Then the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] showed up. {{storylink|International Incident Part 3: "Hawk Among the Sparrows"}}

Thanks to some aggravating from the Combaticons, a battle broke out between the Autobots and Predacons, but it was cut short when the spy satellite plan failed and the conflict was revealed to the world. [[Russia]] immediately attempted to nuke the Transformers, causing the Predacons to flee while the Autobots figured out a plan to stop the incoming warhead. Jazz was hoping that their temporary ally Thundercracker could do his nuke-aversion-trick again, but dismissed the Decepticon as a coward upon hearing that he had already flown off somewhere. {{storylink|International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"}}

After the day was saved once again, the Autobots began to return home on a Skywatch plane. During the trip, Jazz began feeling like something bad was going to happen, and sure enough, a pilot soon reported that something was approaching them at high speeds. Jazz shouted at the humans to hurry into their [[crash suit]]s, and moments later, the plane was shot down. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 1: The Demolished Man}}

The Autobots and suited-up humans survived their impact with the Pacific Ocean and made it to shore. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 3: Woken Furies}}

Prime's team learned that Megatron had dumped the injured Autobots in the city, and that they were being threatened by civilians with Megatron-guns. Prime sent Jazz to transport [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] and [[Campolongo]] into the city to take control of the situation. Although Prime incapacitated Soundwave and stopped the signal inciting the humans, a lone cop threatened to shoot the Autobots just the same. While Bumblebee attempted to reason with the officer and began to have some success, Jazz panicked and killed the officer point blank with his photon gun. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome}}

Jazz was later dressed down by Optimus Prime, being relieved of duty until Bumblebee was well enough to deal with him. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine}} He was present when Hot Rod (now "Rodimus") returned to Earth with news that Cybertron was now healed but had come under the control of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. Most of the Autobots wasted no time in leaving Earth to liberate their home planet. {{storylink|Space Opera—Final Tableaux: Orphans of the Helix}}

A few of them, including Jazz, were chosen to remain on Earth under Bumblebee's command. He disapproved of Bumblebee focusing on an investigation of Spike instead of tracking down the Decepticons on the planet, and even offered to do it all by himself, but Bumblebee refused to let him out into the field after his killing of a human. Jazz tried to explain that he was more horrified than anyone over his actions, but his words fell on deaf ears, and he stormed out. {{storylink|Police Action: Part 1}}

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===''Wings Universe''===
Jazz was part of the new Autobot military created to be led by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] by the [[Autobot High Council]]. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 1}} The team was assigned the mission of finding and stopping [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], which Jazz posited would be a piece of [[oil cake]]. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 2}} A week later, he was part of the Autobot forces at [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]'s city walls as the Decepticons broke through with [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]]. He possibly regretted his earlier suggestion. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 5}} They managed to fight off the Decepticons, albeit with the loss of several of their number. Much later in the war, Jazz reported the lack of energy in the north side of Cybertron to Optimus, and the Autobot leader decided to lead a mission off the planet to look for more. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 6}}

Jazz was back on Earth in 2010 after [[Moonbase One]] got gobbled up by some gi-normous planet. At [[Autobot City]], he got word that some Auto-buddies were having Decepticon trouble in Switzerland, so he assembled a team to respond. Using the Geneva [[space bridge]] nexus, the Autobots soon rolled onto the scene and joined the fight against the Syndicate. {{storylink|Generation 2: Redux}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, he could chance upon Jazz to navigate inside the Decepticons' maze-like base. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (1985)===
Jazz was among the few remaining Autobots in the wake of the Decepticon creation of ROBO-CLONING technology. With his energy-starved comrades, he desperately sought pieces of the Autobot Energon Cube before the Decepticons could get their hands on them. {{storylink|The Transformers (Commodore 64)|The Transformers}}

===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
:''Voice actor:''

In 2003, Jazz accompanied [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] to the planet [[Zel Samine]]. A spacetime anomaly had recently occurred in the area, and an Autobot research team had lost contact with home base. Optimus and his lieutenants arrived to assess the situation. They soon learned that [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and the Decepticons were also on Zel Samine looking for the anomaly, and willing to help themselves to the planet's power supplies in the meantime.

Jazz and the Autobots thwarted Decepticon efforts to steal energy from the Zel Samine wind, geothermal and hydroelectric power plants. During the conflict, they were joined by [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] of the research team, who provided them with more information about the UFO that fell to the planet after the spacetime anomaly.

While mulling over the new information, the Autobots received an SOS call from elsewhere on the planet, and raced to answer it. After fighting through the forces of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], Decepticon of the future, Jazz and his compatriots met up with [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and the Autobot leader of 2010, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]]. Rodimus explained that in their time, the Decepticon military commander [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] acquired a source of infinite power called [[Zel Quartz]]. It drove him to madness, and he destroyed Cybertron while threatening to lay waste to the rest of the galaxy. Rodimus Prime and the Autobots desperately coordinated with the [[Quintesson]]s to use a timeslip device and travel back in time, preventing Shockwave from ever getting his hand on Zel Quartz. Unfortunately, Galvatron and the remaining Decepticons learned of the mission, and intercepted the Autobots on the way through the timeslip. Crashing in 2003 on Zel Samine, Rodimus was separated from his full team. Rodimus, Kup and Arcee joined up with Jazz and the present day Autobots to search for the Zel Quartz before the Decepticons could find it.

Wheeljack searched the planet for any records or power signatures that might be Zel Quartz. After three false leads, they finally located Zel Quartz at the [[Enormous Laser Transmission Array]]. After fighting through numerous Decepticon lieutenants, and facing the might of Megatron and Galvatron united, Jazz and the Autobots secured the Zel Quartz and ultimately disposed of it so that it could do no further harm. {{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}
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==Commercial appearances==
[[Image:1986 Comm Jazz and Thundercracker Party.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Not cosplay—cos'''work'''.]]

[[Image:PretenderJazzModel.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Dag! My visor's all outta whack!]]

[[Image:Hotrodpatrolcommercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
Jazz has appeared in numerous [[Commercial|television commercials]] over the years:

* He appears in the first Transformers appearance ''ever'', an animated advertisement for [[The Transformers (issue)|the first issue]] of the Marvel Comic. The animation features [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] attacking a power plant; Jazz, [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] drive out from their headquarters to counterattack. When Megatron joins the battle, the three Autobots fly away. The cover of Marvel #1 is shown, with a note that it's "Coming Soon". Non-speaking role.

* In an advertisement for the 1985 Autobot cars, Jazz is briefly shown fighting alongside Optimus Prime in Earth's ubiquitous rocky deserts. Non-speaking role.

* Jazz is featured in a 1986 commercial for the [[Prizes in Disguise]] contest. When some humans approach an Autobot base, Jazz orders to Cosmos to shine their headlights on them, to reveal their allegiance. Jazz then declares that it's okay, since they humans are wearing Transformers [[Iron-on patch|reflective patches!]] Jazz is voiced by [[Scatman Crothers]], his usual voice actor on the cartoon. One of the contest prizes was a party with "life-size" Transformers! Among the "life-size" Transformers shown were Jazz and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]]. If you actually did party with Jazz and Thundercracker, please let us know.

* Jazz next appears in a 1988 commercial for the [[Classic Pretender]]s, emerging from his shell alongside Bumblebee and running up to help Optimus Prime in a darkened city. Prime gives them both a hug. Non-speaking role. This marks a rare use of his Pretender Classics animation model; for his Pretender appearances in the Marvel Comics, his original design was used.

* He appears ''very'' briefly in an ad for the Micromaster base; he can be glimpsed alongside Bumblebee as they pull two Micromaster vehicles into an Autobot base.

* Jazz returned a year later in the first [[Action Master]] commercial. When Prime challenges a group of Autobots to give up their transforming powers to become "faster stronger more alive", Jazz is the first to volunteer. He's voiced by a sound-alike doing a passable Scatman Crothers imitation.

* Jazz appeared soon afterwards in an ad for the [[Hot Rod Patrol]], telling Optimus Prime to check them out. The same voice actor provides his one line.

* Jazz appeared in one of the first ''Generation 2'' commercials; he was depicted in CGI driving down a ramp in a city and transforming. Victor Caroli noted that he came equipped with a "robot ripping rocket launcher".

==Toys==
{{main|Jazz (G1)/toys}}

==Notes==
[[Image:UnicronTrilogy jazz.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Fire, Heart, Wind and Rock n'Roll]]
*Jazz's preliminary name was '''Jazzz'''.
* In recent years, toys sporting the name "Jazz" require an additional prefix to make it easier to defend as a [[trademark]]. The most common prefix is "Autobot", hence making the toys' official name "'''Autobot Jazz'''". Other variants, most of them used for [[Jazz (disambiguation)|different-universe counterparts]] of Jazz, include "Final Battle Jazz", "Battle Jazz", "Stealth Ninja Jazz", "Freeway Jazz" and "Special Ops Jazz". For his ''Alternators'' toy, meanwhile, Hasbro used his traditional Japanese name, "Meister", which is the German word for "master" (used mostly in the "someone who excels in his field" sense). Ironically, [[Bob Budiansky]]'s original version of the character's name had it spelled "Jazz'''z'''", with three "z"s, which might or might not have made it easier to defend as a trademark in recent years.

*Early in development, Bob Budiansky's original profiles for the Transformers characters also included nicknames by which they were known; Jazz went by "'''Coolsville'''". These nicknames were removed from the profiles when they were published as Marvel's ''[[The Transformers Universe|Transformers Universe]]'' series, but some of them saw publication in ''[[The Transformers Comics Magazine]]''.

* An actor in a Jazz costume was among "live" Transformers one could meet at the 1985 [[Universal Studios Tour]].

* Jazz is in the unusual position of appearing a few times in season three of ''The Transformers'' without having a toy on the shelves at the time (the only other such characters were the iconic Optimus Prime, and a handful of [[Windcharger (G1)|probable]] [[Brawn (G1)|animation]] [[Huffer (G1)|errors]].) He had no spoken lines, however; fans often claim that he was planned to have a larger role in the season which was cut following the death of his voice actor [[Scatman Crothers]], but no real evidence exists to support this notion. Jazz is given speaking lines and more on-screen time, however, in the Japanese-exclusive ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters (cartoon)|Headmasters]]'', a cartoon far less concerned than ''The Transformers'' about what toys were on the shelves.

* Scatman Crothers (as Jazz) is often credited as having coined the term "ginormous" (a portmanteau of "gigantic" and "enormous") when using it to describe [[Unicron]] in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', a term which was officially added by the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary in 2007<ref>[http://www.m-w.com/info/newwords07.htm Merriam-Webster adding the word "ginormous]</ref>; however, the term has actually been around for much longer, being listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as a "British informal" word that has existed since at least the mid-20th century. <ref>[http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=ginormous&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact Oxford dictionary entry for "ginormous"]</ref>

* Like a lot of other Generation 1 characters, Jazz's character model was subject to a few re-uses in the [[Unicron Trilogy]], first apppearing as a hapless victim of Unicron who had been absorbed into the chaos-bringer's body in the ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]'' episode, "[[Portent]]". Later, in the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' episode, "[[Balance]]", Jazz turned up in a less-generic capacity, as one of the [[ancients]] who began the [[space bridge]] program—although he seemed a little like the odd 'bot out in the group, given that the others were Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime. Curiously, neither appearance adheres strictly to his original character model—"Portent" gives him individual eyes, rather than a visor, and "Balance" outfits him with [[Show-accuracy|toy-accurate]] shoulder-doors.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Meister''' (マイスター ''Maisutā''), '''Jazz''' (ジャズ ''Jazu'')
*''English:'' '''Marshall''' ([[Omni Productions]] dub)
*''French:'' '''Saxo''' (Canada)
*''Italian:'' '''Tigre''' ("Tiger"), '''Folgore''' (Set Commandos four-pack), '''Bionic''' (Action Master)
*''Portuguese:'' '''Lero-Lero''' (Brazil comics)
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Dzhaz''' (Джаз)

==References==
<references />

==External links==
* [http://www.toybin.org/search.php?q=1984+Autobot+Jazz ToyBin Jazz Toy Gallery]
* [http://www.tfu.info/1984/Autobot/Jazz/jazz.htm Jazz at TFU.info]
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Jazz Jazz's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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Grimlock (G1)

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:''Me Grimlock am [[Autobot]] [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] and later [[Maximal]] from [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[Image:BoUK Dinobots 5a .jpg|right|300px|thumb|Me Grimlock kill everyone... this good day!]]

Some Autobots wonder why '''Grimlock''' is even on their side. His disposition is much more suited to the [[Decepticon]]s. After all, he values power and strength over wisdom and compassion, and furthermore, he doesn't really get along with most Autobots. When faced with a problem, his usual responses are to slice it with his [[Energo weapon|energo-sword]], tear it to pieces with his bare hands, or outright eat it. He is more willing to accept casualties than most of the Autobot leadership, and doesn't seem particularly concerned about the [[Human|fleshies]] either. These things, coupled with his dislike of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], have led to a defection or two on Grimlock's part. He'd have no problem offing the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] if he thought he could get away with it, though.

What the Autobots don't realize is that the only thing he hates more than weakness is those who abuse their strength, meaning when push comes to shove, Grimlock will always fall in on the right side of the fence. And despite their disagreements, Grimlock holds a respect for Prime's strength and leadership.

Grimlock is the leader of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], a small but powerful strike squad. Grimlock himself is extremely strong and durable, and is one of the few Transformers who can not only stand toe-to-toe with Optimus Prime and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], but actually give them a run for their money. Despite his strength and prowess, Grimlock continually struggles with his pronouns.

{{bigquote|"Me, Grimlock — '''BADASS'''!"|Grimlock on himself|[[The War Within issue 5|''The War Within'' #5]]}}

{{note|Grimlock's intelligence level in the cartoon was substantially lower than in most of his other portrayals. See the entries below for details.}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{main|Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
[[Image:G1-grimlock-s112-newhead.jpg|thumb|]]
Inspired by dinosaur fossils, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] built Grimlock, [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] and [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]], who promptly went on a rampage. Wheeljack convinced Optimus to lock up the Dinobots, rather than destroy them. Upgrading them to be smarter and more obedient, Wheeljack sent the Dinobots to rescue the Autobots. Frustrated by the Dinobots' success, Megatron learned Grimlock desired to be Autobot leader and tried to trick the Dinobots into serving him, but Optimus's selflessness convinced Grimlock otherwise. The Autobots called upon the Dinobots whenever they were overwhelmed, but Optimus deemed them too chaotic to work at the [[Ark (G1)|Autobot base]] and even had them sent to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|an island populated by living dinosaurs]]. Angered by being taken for granted, Grimlock left, until [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] convinced him to help when the Autobots began to suffer from [[Cybertonium]] deficiency.

In 2005, Grimlock battled [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] at the [[Battle of Autobot City]], rescued [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Hot Rod]] and [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] on [[Quintessa]], received his first [[kiss]] from [[Re-Cycle]] on [[Junkion (planet)|planet Junk]], and kicked the butt of [[Unicron|a god]]. Still an active Autobot soldier, Grimlock even received a temporary boost to his intelligence, allowing him to create the [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]].

===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{main|Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}
Grimlock lay dormant on the Ark when the ship detected [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in the [[Savage Land]]. Fitting Grimlock and his four comrades with alternate modes based on the local fauna, the Dinobots battled Shockwave until they became stuck in a tar pit. In the present, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] discovered their location. Grimlock almost immediately began butting heads with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and soon he and his team left the Autobots.

Following Prime's death, Grimlock returned to nominate himself for the position of leadership, and proved his worth by leading the Autobots in battle against [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. Unfortunately, power corrupted Grimlock, who lived up to his alternate mode's name by constructing a [[variable voltage harness]] to torture defectors like [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], and picking a fight with Autobots from [[Nebulos]] led by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]. Prime was rebuilt as a [[Powermaster]], and appointed Grimlock and Fortress Maximus as his lieutenants.

Grimlock was deactivated in the wake of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s [[Underbase]]-fueled rampage, but Ratchet revived him as a [[Pretender]] to battle [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]. Battling the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]], Grimlock found himself in the heart of Cybertron where [[Primus]] lay, much to his [[atechnogenesis|disbelief]]. A blast by [[Octopunch]] intended for Grimlock hit Primus, awakening him and alerting [[Unicron]] to his presence. After returning to Earth and warning Prime, Grimlock joined the search to recover the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. During this time he stocked up on [[Nucleon]], which gave him a more powerful body, but at the cost of his [[transformation]] abilities. After Prime sacrificed himself to defeat Unicron, Grimlock was Autobot leader once more, and participated in a disastrous battle with [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s soldiers on the planet [[Klo]]. Astonishingly, Prime returned with the [[Last Autobot]], who resurrected the fallen Autobots and ended the war.

In various [[splinter timeline]]s, Grimlock led the [[Earthforce]], helped Optimus and Megatron battle [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronians]], and rallied with [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] to hold out against the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]]. In one, Grimlock captained the ''[[Graviton (Classics)|Graviton]]'', patrolling the universe for signs of Decepticon activity, for over a decade of peace before Megatron returned.

===Transformers PD-Type===
[[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] recruited Grimlock as backup for a duel with [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. Grimlock became bored watching the two of them fight in the sky, but when Star Saber finally succeeded in knocking Deathsaurus to the ground, Grimlock gnawed on his head while Star Saber looked on, pleased at the outcome of his clever plan. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##8 "Me Strongest! Me Grimlock!"|Me Strongest! Me Grimlock!}}

===3H comics===
Grimlock was among the legendary Transformers summoned from [[J'nwan]] by [[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]] to help battle [[Shokaract]]. {{storylink|Terminus}}

Grimlock was one of several Transformers being monitored by [[Primus]] and [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] as the Universe war began. {{storylink|Abduction}}

Hailing from an earlier era of the Cybertronian wars, Grimlock arrived in the [[Cauldron]] and soon found the unlikely allies of [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Primal]]. They were confronted by two of [[Unicron]]'s Dark Generals, [[Reptilion]] and [[Striker]]. {{storylink|OTFCC Live-Action Drama}}

Striker was overpowered and held prisoner beneath Grimlock's mighty boot. Using his spark telepathy, Primal was able to at least temporarily override Unicron's corruptive influence on Striker (although Grimlock remained somewhat unconvinced). Grimlock's concerns became academic as Reptilion returned with Unicron's other generals, [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]]. Luckily, [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]] and [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] managed to orchestrate a jailbreak among the Cauldron's other "guests", so Grimlock and Megatron soon had all the reinforcements they needed. The [[Matrix Templar]] known as [[Snarl (BM)|Snarl]] helped forge a connection with Primus, creating a way out for the escapees. Grimlock was apparently dispatched back to his own era along with the other displaced [[Children of Primus]]. {{storylink|Escape (issue)|Escape}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
{{bigquote|Me not like Optimus Prime or Autobots that much... but me like you and yours even less!|Grimlock's voice recording on a bomb he left for the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]|"[[The War Within Preview]]"}}

Years ago, before the war, Grimlock was part of a cage-fighting arena. He and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] fought beside and against each other on numerous occasions. Starscream believed Grimlock was a natural born killer, but Grimlock really just carried a lot of rage and needed an outlet.

[[Image:Skidswheeljackgrimlockkupironhidetww.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock great at retreating.]]
When the war began, Grimlock sided with the Decepticons. Then, after a while, he switched sides and went to the Autobots. Nobody is quite sure why or what happened. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}} He eventually became leader of a squad including [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]].

By the time [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] was killed and a new leader had to be chosen, the Autobots were losing the war, and Grimlock was growing impatient with the [[Council of Ancients]]' strategy. Grimlock called a secret meeting at the [[Helix Gardens]] with Prowl, Jazz, and his running crew: If the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] wasn't up to doing what had to be done, then they'd do it for him—and take the Prime out in the process. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}}

Optimus Prime, having defeated a team of Decepticons by himself, still didn't settle Grimlock's nerves. Prime's decision to evacuate Cybertron did it; Grimlock had enough. He left and went to brood by himself. {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} Starscream and his Seekers dropped by while Grimlock was alone. Starscream baited Grimlock, telling him he was a Decepticon inside and was just in denial. He gave him a choice: go to [[Sector Zero-Six]] and help the Seekers take out the Autobot command post, or warn the post about their arrival. Grimlock, out of spite, instead evacuated the Autobots from the base and left the Decepticons a present: a bomb. {{storylink|The War Within Preview}}

[[Image:Grimlocktwwmycall.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Me Grimlock squat a lot.]]

While he was on his way back to [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] to help with the defense, Prowl ordered him away, instead telling him to go find Optimus Prime. Grimlock decided that it was a good opportunity to give the new Prime a piece of his mind. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} While he and the team went deep into Cybertron's core to find Prime, they found out about Megatron's plan to win the war and turn Cybertron into a mobile battle station with which to conquer the universe. Grimlock split up his team: He would go find Optimus Prime, and the rest of the team would shut down the transformation system for Cybertron. To his surprise, Prime abruptly was standing next to him. Prime ordered Grimlock to help him find Megatron. Grimlock shoved his [[Energo weapon|energo-sword]] into Prime's hands and gave clear instructions: If Megatron is the problem, then fix it. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} When the crisis was over, Grimlock no longer questioned Optimus Prime. He knew that Prime had figured things out, and though he hadn't executed Megatron, he wasn't going to spend his time in the war running away. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}}

[[Image:Grimlockultramagnusnoooo.jpg|left|200px|thumb|ME GRIMLOCK DAMN YOU, SALAZAR!]]
During the Dark Ages, Optimus Prime and Megatron were seemingly destroyed in a [[space bridge]] explosion, which created a crack in space through which the ancient being known as [[The Fallen]] emerged. With the loss of Optimus Prime, Grimlock broke off from the Autobots now led by Prowl and formed the [[Lightning Strike Coalition]]. Grimlock was targeted, along with [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]], by The Fallen, who wished to use their apparently unique [[Spark]]s to help in his revival of [[Primus]], which would allow Unicron to locate him. {{storylink|Fragmentation}}

The Fallen sent [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] and [[Bugly]], who arranged for Grimlock to receive a communication between Jetfire and Shockwave. {{storylink|Devastation (Dreamwave)|Devastation}} Believing Jetfire was intending to defect, Grimlock headed for the meeting. However, when the [[Chaos Trinity]] arrived and captured Jetfire, Grimlock jumped out of the shadows and attacked. The Fallen had to watch his followers take a sound beating. After dispatching the mystics, Grimlock attempted to execute Jetfire. The Autobot scientist was saved only because The Fallen himself soon arrived. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}}

Grimlock being Grimlock, he launched himself at The Fallen, but was completely overwhelmed. {{storylink|Confrontation (issue)|Confrontation}} He woke up later strapped to a table and had to listen to Jetfire trying to convince him to help them both escape. Grimlock broke free with ease and was part of the multi-faction army that attempted to halt The Fallen's plans. {{storylink|Conflagration}}

Later, Grimlock served both as leader of the Dynobots and the right-hand bot to Ultra Magnus, who had taken control in Optimus' absence and had managed to secure a truce with Shockwave. Grimlock was less than happy about this, partly because he didn't trust the Decepticons, and partly because he had no idea what to do with himself in peacetime. He never got to find out, as the truce was betrayed by Starscream's forces, and Grimlock was apparently killed when he dove in front of a shot meant for Magnus. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}}

{{note|Due to [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s closure, the conclusion of the ''War Within'' series was never seen, though years later [[Simon Furman]] released the unpublished scripts to the final three issues. Primus preserved Grimlock's lifeforce within an [[Aerospace Extermination Squadron]] drone, for Grimlock's lineage stretched back to the [[Thirteen]] and with the Prime lineage at risk, there was need for a new savior. After repelling a second Quintesson invasion, Perceptor rebuilds Grimlock into his old form. <ref>http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/comics-16/the-war-within-the-age-of-wrath-issues-5-and-6-summary-173018/</ref>}}

[[Image:Extermination-Grimlock.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Yes, definitely refer to "[[Rules of Extinction]]."]]

Millennia later, the Ark and the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' left Cybertron in search of new resources to fuel the war, but never returned. Grimlock and the Dynobots followed a [[Insecticon (G1)|group of Decepticons]] to a primitive world that would later be known to them as Earth, all of them looking for the lost Ark. The Dynobots assumed alternate forms similar to Earth's indigenous giant reptiles, dinosaurs, and fought off an attempted ambush by the small crew of Decepticons they had been tracking. {{storylink|Extermination}}

[[Image:DWPrimeDirective3_Grimlock.jpg|left|200px|thumb|"Me fight with all me—"? Me Grimlock not Irish!]]

Millions of years later in 1984, the other Autobots and Decepticons on Earth awakened and the Great War began anew. The Autobots and humans eventually defeated the Decepticons and all the Transformers were to be sent back to Cybertron on the ''[[Ark II]]''. However, the ship was destroyed during launch due to sabotage by General [[Robert Hallo]] and [[Lazarus|Adam Rook]], in the hopes of recovering the Transformers and reprogramming them to be war machines. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1}}

At some point, Megatron captured the other four Dinobots, a fact which he used as leverage to get Grimlock to turn traitor and join the Decepticons after they were reactivated by Lazarus. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}} Grimlock's only real contribution to the Decepticons was crushing unoccupied cars in [[San Francisco]] {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} and being beaten up, and beaten down by [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]. After the Decepticons abandoned him, Optimus Prime offered to take Grimlock back, but he refused, stating circumstances had changed too much. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

[[Image:NewWorldOrder Grimlock Blitzwing.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock silence Blitzwing, then Prime next.]]
Grimlock's apparent allegiance to the Decepticons didn't last very long, though, as [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] soon showed up with his [[Triple Changer]]s. Grimlock's true loyalty became obvious when he stopped Blitzwing from blowing off Optimus's head by grabbing his tank turret and bending it into a pretzel with one hand. After that, Shockwave sent Megatron off to Cybertron, prompting Grimlock to rejoin the Autobots in the ''Ark''. {{storylink|New World Order}} When Optimus's group surrendered to Ultra Magnus, some of the Autobots remained on Earth, Grimlock among them. He travelled to the frozen north, and freed the other Dinobots from Megatron's holding tank. {{storylink|Brothers' Burden}}

Stealing a Decepticon shuttle, the Dinobots then headed for Cybertron, intending to free Optimus Prime and his group. After a rough landing in the [[Wastelands]], they acquired [[Sixshot|some transportation]] from [[Octane]] and hurried to Iacon. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} There, Grimlock did his part by leading a massive Dinobot assault on [[Shockwave's Tower]], before breaking off to take care of the Decepticon leader himself. Blitzwing again got in his way, and Grimlock was forced to battle both, a battle that was going his way until Ultra Magnus shot him in the face. {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} Perceptor repaired the Dinobot commander, and Grimlock did his part for the rebellion by giving Hot Rod some back-up. For a third and final time, he fought Blitzwing, this time taking out the Decepticon with ease, grabbing him by the tank turret and throwing him into a [[Guardian robot|Guardian]]. Leaving the main conflict, Grimlock followed Shockwave, Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus into the citadel, and ended up saving the two Autobots, stating that he'd hate to lose the chance to pay back the "stuffy traitor". Optimus Prime thanked Primus, but Grimlock said Prime should be thanking ''him''. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

While the main group of Earth Autobots returned, the Dinobots remained on Cybertron to give Ultra Magnus some needed muscle. They were assigned to help Kup fortify the new Autobot bases on Cybertron's moons. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

{{note|As noted above, any further exploits of Grimlock in the present were cut short due to Dreamwave's bankruptcy.}}

===Dreamwave ''Transformers/G.I. Joe'' comics===
Grimlock was among the Autobots who were awakened by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] in [[1939]] after laying dormant on the [[Fera Islands]] for three million years. He was eager to start smashing Decepticons again, and probably would've smashed the humans as well if [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] hadn't been here to tell him they were friendly. While the other Autobots were a bit wishy-washy about helping G.I. Joe in their fight against [[Cobra]] and their Decepticon allies, Grimlock threw himself into battle almost immediately, using his [[World War II]]-era tank mode to destroy one or two incoming [[Rattler]]s. {{storylink|Transformed}}

With [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] as company, Grimlock fought his way across the Fera Islands until he ran into [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], whose earthquakes were too much for him and the other Autobot tanks to handle. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} Grimlock was knocked off a cliff by Rumble's attacks, and as he was struggling to keep himself from falling to his doom, he urged Roadblock to save himself. However, the human refused to let Grimlock give up, and stayed behind to motivate him, drill sergeant style. While the human's words did give Grimlock newfound strength, the cliff still crumbled, and he and Roadblock fell. Thankfully, [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] saved them just in time, although Grimlock didn't enjoy feeling small in comparison to the combiner. {{storylink|Wolves}}

On the way to the Cobra [[Terrordrome]], Grimlock listened to [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]] being pessimistic about their chances of survival, and casually asked the human if he was a coward. Upon reaching the Terrordrome, Grimlock fought and defeated [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], having always hated him for his cowardly guerilla tactics back on Cybertron. Shortly thereafter, the Autobots and Joes came under attack from [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], and Roadblock suggested that Grimlock show the giant some real firepower... only for the Dinobot to be swatted aside like a fly. Grimlock presumably died along with the other Transformers when the [[Matrix of Leadership]] was destroyed in order to stop Bruticus. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''G.I. Joe vs the Transformers''===
{{bigquote|It just isn't a proper party without Grimlock around. That guy is nuts.|Hot Rod}}

[[Image:DDGrimlock.jpg|right|120px|thumb|All the grace of an earthquake.]]
Grimlock and his team were transported to Earth's prehistoric past by a malfunctioning [[Teletran 3]]. A joint [[Cobra]]/[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team traveled through a time portal to bring them back. Unfortunately, Shockwave's Decepticons blocked their return. Just as Shockwave's victory appeared complete, [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] and [[Lady Jaye]] successfully opened up the final time portal, and the humans returned, with some heavy artillery in the form of the five Autobots, now reformatted in huge, powerful dinosaur bodies. Grimlock took the lead by knocking Shockwave through a wall, and beating the tar out of the 'Cons, alongside his new Dinobots, their new abilities more than a match for the Decepticon forces. When the Decepticons retreated, Grimlock transformed and requested an audience with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

Grimlock was part of the small team sent to help with the Joes' decommissioning of their Cybertronian mechs. Grimlock was more than a little vocal about his distaste for the post, and lack of interest in the humans. He was, willing to help the Joes fight Cobra, when the latter attacked en masse... even if he complained about helping the weak fleshlings. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} When [[Cobra Commander]] was cornered in an underground facility, Grimlock did his part by terrifying him into talking. They were interrupted when [[Serpentor|Serpent O.R.]] appeared, and attempted to take control of both Grimlock, and [[G.I. Joe battle mech|Roadblock's robot]]. Grimlock resisted, but Roadblock's robot turned around and punched him in the face. Grimlock responded by ripping its arm off. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}

As Serpent O.R. teleported to Cybertron, Grimlock's team pursued him, but ended up having to fight off [[cannibalizer]]s in a junkyard. Although Grimlock was shot in the face and knocked down, he soon got back up and continued the hunt for Serpent O.R., only to run into his new troops—the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] and [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]]. The Autobots and their human companions were captured and imprisoned in the Decepticons' base in the [[Gladiator Zone]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} They eventually managed to escape thanks to [[Snake-Eyes]], but Grimlock insulted the humans anyway. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

After hearing that Serpent O.R. had captured Optimus Prime, Grimlock violently interrogated [[Runamuck (G1)|Runamuck]] for directions to where Prime was being kept. By the time the team arrived, they found that Serpent O.R. had stolen the [[Matrix of Leadership]], only to have his new "Serpentor Prime" body taken from him by Cobra Commander. Grimlock and Snake-Eyes attacked him, but were smashed into a wall by his tentacles and taken out of action. After [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] defeated Cobra Commander, Grimlock admitted that the humans were great warriors and great friends, and apologized for being hard on them. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

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===The Beast Within===
In a devastating battle with the Decepticons, Grimlock made the decision to combine with the other Dinobots to form the "[[Beast (G1)|Beast]]". {{storylink|The Beast Within}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
Grimlock's response to the Autobots finding a badly-damaged and helpless Starscream was to suggest that they should throw the garbage out in as many pieces as possible. When that turned out to be off the table, he was happily in support of brainwashing Starscream instead. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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{{bigquote|Will he be pleased to see us?|[[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]]}}
{{bigquote|Hell no. He's never pleased to see '''''anyone'''''.|Kup|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #4]]}}

Grimlock is the leader of the D'''y'''nobots, a group of close knit hunters and guardsmen who, in no small part due to Grimlock's influence, prefer to work outside the Autobot rulebook.

At the start of Megatron's rise to power, the Dynobots turned out to an open casting call for Megatron's underground gladiatorial games, and got a good deal more respect from the Predacons than the other attendees. It turned out to be a recruitment drive for the Decepticon army. What they thought of that is unknown, as Autobot security forces raided the party soon after. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}}

He later met Slag again in a brig; Grimlock had angered a field commander but Slag had shot a vice-admiral in the back to con him into a frontal assault, so Slag won. Grimlock thought this Slag guy sounded like a good bloke, and the two of them discussed the formation of their own rule-breaking strike team. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 2}}

[[Image:SpotlightShockwave GrimlockSlag trexscan.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Me Grimlock in love!]]

After [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] destroyed a cache of energon the Dynobots had been hoarding, causing them severe energon burns and equally severe humiliation, they swore revenge. So, against orders from Optimus Prime, they followed Shockwave when he left Cybertron to stabilize "[[ultra-Energon]]" deposits he had sent to other worlds as a precaution against the depletion of Cybertron's own energon reserves.

When Shockwave reached his first destination—Earth, at the end of the last Ice Age—the Dynobots destroyed his ship, but Slag revealed that the high energon levels of the planet would put them in stasis lock, since they hadn't come prepared like Shockwave. Slag then came up with the idea that they should scan the local life forms and create alt-modes based on those animals, but with synthetic flesh coatings to protect against the high levels of energon radiation. Grimlock was
completely against the idea, but since Slag couldn't come up with something better, he relented. However, he refused to take on the form of the weak mammalians that dominated the planet, demanding "something with some... bite." Scanning fossil deposits, Slag found the remains of some [[Dinosaur|extinct reptilian animals]] and brought up a holographic representation of one to see if Grimlock approved. What popped up was a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', which Grimlock seemed to fall in love with the moment he saw it. The choice made, Grimlock took the Tyrannosaur as his altmode and had Slag find more dinosaurs as templates for the rest of the Dynobots.

[[Image:SpotlightShockwave Grimlock stasislock.jpg|left|180px|thumb|One, two three... Red light!]]

On teleporting down to the planet's surface to confront Shockwave, they gained an initial advantage, as Shockwave's logic was unable to comprehend the effort and risks they had taken for their revenge. However, when Shockwave recognized this weakness, he shut down his logic processors and executed a "rage" program to enable him to operate on pure instinct. He shrugged off the Dynobots' attacks and beat them severely, ending the assault by burning off their organic coatings.
Unable to accept another defeat, Grimlock transformed to robot mode and fought against his imminent [[Stasis lock|stasis lock]] to no avail.

However, before leaving the Dynobots' ship, he had enabled a "dead man's switch" designed to take Shockwave with them if they were defeated. When he entered stasis lock, this failsafe activated, firing on a nearby dormant volcano and causing an eruption which buried Shockwave and the Dynobots under ash and lava. Thousands of years later, their entombed bodies were discovered by a human archaeological team. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

[[Image:SpotlightGrimlock punch KLUNG.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, Punch! Daylight come and me Grimlock wanna go home.]]

Thousands of years later in 2007, the [[human]] organization [[Skywatch]] took over jurisdiction of the dig site and excavated Shockwave and the Dynobots. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5}}

When the [[Reaper]]s attacked the Decepticons, Skywatch decided to awaken the most advanced of their "Eureka Six", which turned out to be Grimlock. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5}}

Grimlock's reactivation was sabotaged by an agent of the [[Machination]] and when he awoke, they had no control over him. He escaped the facility, confused and angry. His escape was engineered by the head of the Machination, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], who wanted Grimlock to join him in the Machination plot to dominate the Earth by running interference and delaying Megatron's plans long enough for the Machination to put their plans into action.

[[Image:GrimlockMaxDino01.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Me Grimlock's roar sound funny...]]

Grimlock considered for a second, but refused the offer for two reasons: he could turn Scorponok in to Ultra Magnus for redemption, and as revenge for Scorponok once robbing an installation the Dynobots were guarding. The two fought and Scorponok quickly gained the upper hand, mostly due to his [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] upgrade. Grimlock was able to activate his transporter chip, which beamed him back to his ship, the ''[[Skyfire (ship)|Skyfire]]'', which was buried deep in ice somewhere. Grimlock hoped he could use the ship to find the other Dynobots. {{storylink|Spotlight: Grimlock}}

Finding himself trapped, both on a useless ship and in a less than inconspicuous form, Grimlock was forced to try and contact some of his less reputable acquaintances in an attempt to get the ''Skyfire'' into some sort of working order. Meanwhile, the Machination had tracked him down and had sent their [[Sunstreaker clone|Tsunami Unit]] to apprehend him. Grimlock's early warning system detected them, and he circled round as they began to attack, bursting from the ice and transforming. The battle very quickly turned in his favor with four of the clones falling in the opening moments. The surviving Headmasters were rather shaken, but managed to fulfill their mission: attach a device which would [[Orbital jump|orbital bounce]] him to Nevada, near Skywatch's base. Grimlock materialized in the middle of a busy street in [[Fallon]]. As a car crashed into his toe, he realized things had just gone from bad to worse. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 1}}

[[Image:GrimlockSludgeSwoopMaxDino02.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Hey... he stole that move from Shockwave!]]

Grimlock knew Scorponok was trying to deliberately set him up as a rampaging monster, but ''didn't'' expect his fellow Dynobots to be sent to take him down! He was able to fight them all off but unable to break their reprogramming by appealing to their team ethos ... and when they ''did'' regain sentience and memory, it was because Scorponok let them so they could get pissed off at the knowledge Grimlock had set up a "dead man's switch" ''without'' informing them. Grimlock's defence was that such a sneaky, amoral and rule-breaking act was what the Dynobots were ''all about'', which surprisingly worked. While saying this, he grudgingly and with much moaning saved a human from burning to death. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 2}}

Convinced he'd brought his team round, Grimlock began issuing orders, only to be met by an icy silence. Swoop spoke for the group, saying his trust was hard earned and Grimlock tossed it away. Disgusted he abandoned the team, prompting the others to follow. Grimlock tried pleading with them, then turned in a huff, stating he'd be better off on his own. He was interrupted by the arrival of the Sunstreaker clones, who blasted him in the chest. Enraged, he vented his frustrations on the clones until their numbers began to tell. He was saved by the arrival of the other Dynobots, who felt that whatever had happened, they were still a team. However, they were overwhelmed by the sheer number of clones, until the arrival of the "help" Grimlock had requested earlier: the [[Monsterbot]]s. Seeing the newcomers take the fight to the enemy, Grimlock extolled his unit to show the Monsterbots how it's ''really'' done. Decimated and demoralized, the surviving Machination clones escaped with their lives. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 3}}

[[Image:MaxDinos3 Grimlock SS clone.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Me Grimlock best is at what do. And it not very nice.]]

Aboard the Monsterbots' ship, the Dynobots wondered why Grimlock would side with the outcasts. They gave Grimlock a stern look when he exited the cockpit. The Dynobots didn't see the point of fighting Scorponok, but Grimlock said that Scorponok made it their fight when he turned the Dynobots against him. Snarl disagreed, saying that it had always been Grimlock's fight, that he and the other Dynobots went along with him, and that it was now Grimlock's wounded pride at stake. After the Monsterbots blasted away the defenses, Grimlock exited the ship, saying that there was no way he could let this go, and that with or without the Dynobots, there would be a reckoning for Scorponok. The Dynobots decided that arguing was pointless and followed Grimlock. When [[Hunter O'Nion]] pulled the cords from [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]'s head, shutting him down, the clones ceased to function. Sludge cried out in victory, but the moment was short-lived as Scorponok blasted Sludge into stasis. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|Maximum Dinobots #4}}

[[Image:MaxDinos5 Grimlock Sludge.jpg|right|300px|thumb|He's dead, Grim.]]

Grimlock stared down at Sludge's dead body, brooding about how it was his fault Sludge was dead... while a battle between Scorponok and Shockwave (for rights of revenge upon Grimlock) raged on around him. Eventually Snarl, Slag, and Swoop decide to get to the Monsterbots' ship while the getting was good, but Grimlock stayed behind with Sludge. Grimlock tried infusing some of his [[spark]] energy into Sludge to revive him, but it seemed to have no effect. Shockwave got the upper hand and let Scorponok escape, and in frustration, Grimlock attacked Shockwave. Grimlock and Shockwave were too busy fighting to notice the return of Slag, Snarl, and Swoop, who reasoned that, while helping Grimlock might not be much of a cause, it still beat being no better than the Monsterbots. They were noticed by Sludge, who seemed to have recovered due to Grimlock's treatment after all. The four of them dove into the fray proper, but Grimlock ordered them to go after Scorponok instead. When [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] was about to get squished by Scorponok, the remaining Dynobots showed up in just the nick of time. At Hot Rod's urgings, Swoop severed the connections keeping Scorponok's head conscious. Grimlock in the mean time had found out Shockwave was using their battle to stall for time so that Soundwave could free him from Skywatch's control. The Decepticon attempted to abandon the fight, but Grimlock stubbornly refused to let him walk away, and rolled out a grenade, which incapacitated them both.

[[Image:MaxDinos5 Grimlock Magnus.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Magnus was unaware that Grimlock had watched ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', and had already hired a fat man to bring the fences down.]]

By this time [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] had arrived and taken Scorponok into custody. Grimlock and Shockwave were both arrested and taken off-world. Ultra Magnus later told Grimlock that having Scorponok and Shockwave in custody could help offset Grimlock's own sentence. Grimlock wasn't interested, asking only that the blame was put squarely on him and that the other Dynobots' warrants were cancelled. Magnus agreed, and Grimlock was left to muse on the fact that Sludge and his team were alive and well, thanks to him. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}}

Grimlock was taken to [[Garrus-9]]. However, shortly afterward, [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] and the [[Predator (subgroup)|Predators]] launched a devastating assault on the detention facility, killing or capturing most of the Autobot guards. When the [[Wrecker]]s broke into the jail in an attempt to liberate the facility, Kup and Guzzle were sent to maximum security to fetch Grimlock as back-up. However, upon reaching his cell, they found it was empty. The Decepticon [[Snare]] revealed that Grimlock was "long gone". When asked if Overlord had killed him, Snare replied that instead he had kept him alive, sending him footage of the pit fighting, forcing to watch the horrific events while he was powerless to intervene. Snare believed it may have driven him mad. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4}}

His location and mental state remain unknown.
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===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
{{bigquote|Shadows lengthen. The twilight of the Cybertronian race gathers. The end is nigh.|[[Shokaract]]}}
{{bigquote|Reminds me of the good ol' days.|Grimlock}}

[[Image:BWTheGathering4_Grimlock_KingofBeasts.jpg|thumb|200px|Intelligent, sickle toed murder-lizard.]]

Grimlock was less than thrilled about being forced to go through the [[Maximal]] downsizing. To add insult to injury, the resulting peace meant he had no outlet for his warlike tendencies. As such, he frequently volunteered for any dangerous, potentially risky or outright suicidal missions, and when forced on to a science or exploration vessel, he preferred to spend the entire trip in stasis, rather than dealing with the prolonged inactivity. He had a personalized reformatting chip installed that deliberately seeks out only the strongest, deadliest beast modes (alive or extinct) on a planet. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook 2}}

Grimlock was among the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s protoforms when the ship crashed on Earth. When [[Razorbeast]] and [[Optimus Minor]] were attempting to "rescue" [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] from [[Magmatron]], the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] detected a spark signature that was apparently off the scale, big and mad. Grimlock showed up and acted as the perfect distraction, making ''very'' short work of the Predacons. (Apparently, he was in a very bad mood after waking up and took it out on the Preds.) Magmatron offered Grimlock the chance to withdraw, and when the incredulous Grimlock refused, the Predacon general attacked. Magmatron narrowly arose as the victor by use of his triple beast modes. Grimlock was knocked out, but later helped to construct the Maximals' new base. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4|The Gathering #4}}

Later, when [[Prowl II|Prowl]] remarked they had work to do on Earth, with [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]'s Predacon militia still a threat, [[Wolfang (Maximal)|Wolfang]] reminded him that they had Grimlock on their side. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}} The bot in question was patrolling the jungle around the base at the time and bumped into the three-mech team of [[Manterror]], [[Retrax]] and [[Snapper]]. He only noticed Manterror and Retrax however, as Snapper was being crushed under his right foot at the time. While Retrax rolled for his life, Manterror had to face Grimlock on his own, and lost his wings for his trouble. This little group turned out to be a distraction, however, intended to lure the Maximals' big gun away while Ravage led an all-out strike on the base.

[[Image:BWTheAscending4_Grimlock_Convoys_Ravage.jpg|left|400px|thumb|Me Grimlock have to pull newbies out of fire.]]

The former Dinobot wasn't about to be left out in the cold, however, and he returned to base ready for "the main course," which consisted of crushing [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]] under his foot and tearing apart [[Iguanus (BW)|Iguanus]] and half a dozen other Predacons. Still, even with him and [[Torca]] working overtime, things might have gone poorly without [[Lio Convoy]]'s arrival. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}}

When Lio Convoy and Ravage led a joint force to stop [[Shokaract]], Grimlock accompanied them. The former Autobot and former Decepticon had a moment of antagonism when the fight started. But once the battle got underway, Grimlock fell in with the Convoys. As Shokaract declared the end of the Cybertronian race, Grimlock seemed to reminisce, even as he transformed to his beast mode and led a charge. He was one of the survivors, although presumably, he would be a victim of Megatron's [[Transformation virus]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in comics===
[[Image:Henkei grimlock pack in.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Me Grimlock no understand what I said.]]

When [[Megatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Megatron]] and the Decepticons attacked Earth in the 21st century, Grimlock and the Autobots were there to stop them. During a battle in Tokyo, when [[Bumblebee (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Bumblebee]] doused [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Starscream]] with a fire engine's hose, Grimlock exploited the opening to lash the Decepticon with his tail and sending him crashing into Megatron. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}}

Later, Grimlock saved a runaway train when it was forced off the tracks by [[Astrotrain (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! pack-in comics|Astrotrain]], {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} then joined the other Autobots in battling the rampaging Triple Changer. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}}

Some time later, when the newcomer [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] was brought into the Autobot ranks, he and Grimlock decided to fight immediately upon meeting each other. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 11}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun'' manga===
Grimlock was part of a small Autobot team led by Optimus Prime who left Cybertron to pursue the [[Energon Cube]] through space. When the giant energy source crashed on Earth, in the Japanese town of [[Hoshinochō]], it shattered into fragments that were scattered far and wide. Grimlock and the other Autobots set up a subterranean base below the Cube's impact crater, and began their search for the shards, taking the forms of local vehicles to hide their activities (Grimlock, in contrast to his comrades, took the conspicuous form of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', for reasons best known to himself). Despite their attempts at remianing unseen, glimpses of the Autobots only magnified the reputation the crash of the Cube (believed by humans to be a meteor) had given Hoshinochō: that of a hotbed of rumored alien and UFO activity, Japan's answer to [[United States of America|America]]'s Roswell.

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===''Wings Universe''===
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==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{Note|Grimlock is a non-playable character. He appears among the legion of Autobot duplicates in the Decepticon campaign.}}
{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

===3D Battle-Card Game===
Grimlock battled [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s Decepticon forces under [[Optimus Primal]]'s leadership, alongside several Autobot allies. {{storylink|3D Battle-Card Game#Energon Wars expansion|Energon Wars Expansion Set}}

===''Sector Seven'' game===

Dubbed "Non-Biological Entity - 08", a video of Grimlock stomping through a construction site in dino-mode reached the public through "hacked evidence" files. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)}}

===Transformers G1: Awakening===
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==Toys==
:''Main article: [[Grimlock (G1)/toys]]''

==Merchandise==
:''Main article: [[Grimlock (G1)/toys|Grimlock (G1) merchandise]]''

==Notes==
*Grimlock has had a number of preliminary names, one being '''Tyrannobot'''. The [[The Transformers (cartoon)|''Transformers'' cartoon]] [[production bible|series bible]] contains one description of him that was originally typed with the name "'''Trapjaw'''", then its title was crossed out by hand and rewritten "Grimlock". Another description was typed with "'''Jawbreaker'''", again crossed out and relabeled "Grimlock". Another preliminary name is "'''Tyrex'''", from the [[Sunbow Productions]] cast list page for "[[Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction]]"; this was evidently coined by writer [[Donald F. Glut]].<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070217131842/http://members.aol.com/tfencyc/interview_glut.html ZMFTS interview with Donald F. Glut] (archive copy)</ref>

* An actor in a Grimlock costume was among "live" Transformers one could meet at the 1985 [[Universal Studios Tour]].

* Grimlock's speech impediment is caused by varying conditions, depending on continuity. The difference between Grimlock's speech in the UK and US Marvel comics' writing styles was explained in the UK booklet "[[Transformers: The Facts]]" to be a ruse, as Grimlock didn't want to sound intelligent because he regarded intellectuals as weak. In the cartoon it was a result of primitive thought processes, something found in all Dinobots. In Dreamwave's ''[[More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|More Than Meets The Eye]]'', it is explained as the result of a virus, while the [[Transformers Hall of Fame]] blames it on a battle with Scorponok. In ''[[Spotlight: Grimlock]]'', there was a brief mention of a damaged vocal processor. This was not only ignored by subsequent issues, but the rest of the spotlight. Devil's Due didn't bother explaining, they just got him in the "Me Grimlock's" during part three.

* Grimlock is generally regarded as [[Simon Furman]]'s signature character.

* Grimlock has his very own fanboy, [[Noise]], who someday wants to grow up and be just like him—a godless killing machine.

* Grimlock's beast mode in ''The Gathering'' does not actually match any dromaeosaur on record, seeming to combine elements of both the dromaeosaur body type with that of a carnosaur or tyrannosaurid. The ''Beast Wars Sourcebook'' profile seems to have tried to rectify this by calling him a ''Megaraptor''. Which is fine...except ''Megaraptor'' was later determined to be a misidentified carnosaur.

* In almost every instance in which Grimlock is drawn by [[Pat Lee]], [[:Image:PatLeeGrimlockHead.jpg|Grimlock's eyes protrude past his faceplate]], rather than sitting behind it like normal. This becomes especially pronounced (and comical) towards the end of Dreamwave's [[Prime Directive|first mini-series]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Grimlock''' (グリムロック ''Gurimurokku'')
*''French:'' '''La Menace''' (Canada, "The Threat"), '''Menace''' (Canada ''Beast Wars'', "Threat")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Mogorva''' (''The Movie'', "Grimlock")
*''Italian:'' '''Tiran''', '''Drago''' ("Set Commandos" four-pack)
*''Mandarin:'' '''Gāng Sǔo''' (鋼鎖, "Steel Lock"), '''Sz Sǔo''' (Taiwan ''Generation 2'' cartoon, 死鎖, "Dead Lock")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Trancoso''', '''Grunhido''' (Brazil comics, "Grunt"), '''Implacável''' (Portugal, "Cutthroat")
*''Russian:'' '''Smel'chak''' (Смельчак, "Daredevil")
*''Spanish:'' '''Ferozaurio''' (''Beast Wars'')
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Tverdokhvat''' (ICTV, Твердохват, "One Who Snaps Firmly")

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Grimlock Grimlock's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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Shockwave (G1)

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:''Shockwave is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|continuity family of the same name]].''

[[Image:Shockwavearealldead.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Transformers images don't GET much more awesome than this. Or [[:Image:R0S 1 b.jpg|imitated]].]]

'''Shockwave''' has been referred to as "a computer on legs." This is not far from the truth. Logic rules Shockwave's thought processes and is the source of his every inspiration. He sees emotion as a weakness and a distraction. His cold and calculating ''modus operandi'' is supported by his frightening and exceptionally powerful form.

Shockwave is possibly even more powerful than [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Perhaps logic may one day dictate that the time to replace Megatron's flawed, emotion-fueled rule is at hand. After all, the only logical choice for [[Decepticon leader]] would be Shockwave himself.

As an [[Action Master]], he is [[Action Master partner|partnered]] with [[Fistfight (G1)|Fistfight]]. He is also known as '''Shockblast'''.

{{bigquote|Ultimately, I serve only one master... pure logic.|Shockwave on his true loyalties|''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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''Millions of years ago, on the troubled planet Cybertron, Shockwave was the military ruler of the city-state of [[Tarn]]. Following a botched attempt by [[Vos]] to ignite war between [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and Tarn, Tarn went to war with Vos, and both cities were destroyed by an exchange of [[Photon missile|photon missiles]]. The survivors of both cities—presumably including Shockwave—were gathered together by the ex-gladiator [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], who used their bitterness towards Iacon to unite them under his control as the Decepticons.'' {{storylink|State Games}}

[[Image:Laststand-autobotsarenomore.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shockwave shot the mini out of miniseries.]]

As Military Commander, Shockwave planned the strategy of the Decepticon assault on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. After the Autobots had successfully destroyed the asteroids threatening [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatron and the other Decepticons attacked the ship while Shockwave remained behind on [[Nemesis (G1)|their ship]] to pilot it and act as a potential backup. When the Ark subsequently crashed on [[Earth]], deactivating all those within, Shockwave followed the ship down, but the planet's magnetic fields caused a malfunction in his guidance systems, resulting in him landing half a world away, in the tropical Antarctic jungle known as the [[Savage Land]].

The Ark's dying computer detected Shockwave's presence on the planet, and reactivated five Autobots to combat him, rebuilding them in the shapes of the Savage Land's native dinosaurs. {{storylink|The Last Stand}} These "[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]" battled Shockwave, a battle that ended in permanent stalemate when [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] brought down the mountain that Shockwave stood upon, knocking all the combatants into a tar pit. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

[[Image:Megatrong1marvelhumiliation.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Early on, Shockwave establishes the pecking order.]]

In 1984, when the rest of the Transformers aboard the Ark were awakened by a volcanic eruption, the Autobots attempted to track down their five missing comrades. A sensor drone tracked them to the Savage Land, but inadvertently wound up reactivating Shockwave, who headed straight for [[Oregon]]. He arrived just as the Autobots had claimed victory over the Decepticons, and his explosive entry saw all the weakened combatants knocked off-line. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Rounding up the bodies, Shockwave took control of the Ark, strung up the Autobots for spare parts, decapitated [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and restored his fellow Decepticons back to health. This came as something of a rude shock to Megatron, who awoke to find that Shockwave had decided it was only logical for him to take over leadership of the Decepticons in light of Megatron's failure. After declaring his leadership and the superiority of Decepticons over humans, he flew off to begin his conquests. {{storylink|The New Order}}

Shockwave's first attack was on the new offshore oil-drilling platform of tycoon [[G.B. Blackrock]]. Tearing his way through the rig's defenses, he quickly secured it for use as a secondary base of operations. Unbeknownst to Shockwave, the violent attack crippled the human Josie Beller, leading to her transformation into [[Circuit Breaker]]. When Shockwave returned to the Ark, a weakened Megatron engaged him in combat for leadership. Despite his power, Megatron was soundly defeated. Shockwave dumped Megatron's broken body before the troops he had once commanded, and demanded that they vow to serve Shockwave alone. They didn't argue. Megatron grudgingly swore his fealty as well. {{storylink|The Worse of Two Evils!}}

[[Image:Repeatperformance-preparedtheprisoner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Dammit, woman! Where's my supper?!]]

Shockwave's next attack came through [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], who took control of the [[Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One]]. After Soundwave reported his success, Shockwave traveled from the oil platform to the Ark, checking in with Megatron and reminding him again of where he stood. From the Ark, he transported Optimus Prime's head to the Aerospace Plant. Shockwave effortlessly blasted his way past the Army cordon surrounding the plant, all the while lecturing the foolish humans about the raw strength of his armor. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

Shockwave quickly began setting up the Aerospace Plant's facilities to carry out his plans; however, this was rather boring work for Decepticon warriors, leading to some diminished morale; Shockwave had to sic [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] on [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] when the latter started throwing a temper tantrum over threats from the human G.B. Blackrock. Still, accepting Starscream's argument that morale could use a boost, Shockwave granted permission for Starscream and Frenzy to destroy Blackrock's weapon. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}

[[Image:Buzzsawyikes1.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Speaking of "pecking order"...]]

After some time, the plant was ready, and Shockwave used it to create the bodies of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], whose brain modules had already been brought to life with the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] drained from Prime's head. Shockwave then began work on his next project, the superjet [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], but was startled to find that he could not bring him to life. {{storylink|The Next Best Thing to Being There!}}

Shockwave had the plant's captive workers begin construction of a hundred jet warriors; meanwhile, he tried yet again to bring Jetfire to life. When the process failed, he deduced that Optimus Prime must have hidden the Matrix somewhere. Scanning the memory banks of [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], he discovered that Optimus had transferred the Matrix into the mind of the human, [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]. Shockwave programmed Jetfire to capture Buster, but the boy was able to use the power of the Matrix to bring the robot under his own control. {{storylink|Brainstorm!}}

[[Image:Brainstorm-welcomeboost.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Hasbro probably sold a LOT of Shockwave toys just from this panel.]]

Buster used Jetfire to travel to the Aerospace Plant, intending to free Optimus Prime. Jetfire's pre-programmed response to an Air Force attack, however, meant that Buster was knocked unconscious and delivered to Shockwave as a captive.

The Autobots' attempts to keep Buster away from the Decepticons led Shockwave to suspect that his headquarters was bugged. Soundwave soon ferreted out a telephone link that was allowing the Autobots to listen in on their plans. Shockwave used the link to manipulate the Autobots into bringing their leader's body with them to a nearby swamp, where his head was to be deposited, there to corrode away forever. The head that actually arrived there, however, was a false one constructed by Shockwave, which attacked the Autobots once it was joined with Optimus Prime's body.

Shockwave had reckoned without Buster's fighting back, however; as Jetfire was about to take the real head of Optimus Prime and pitch it into the swamp, the captive human used his Matrix powers to take control of Jetfire and knock out Shockwave. Shockwave awoke to find both Optimus Prime and the human workers gone; he quickly deduced what had happened, and flew to the battle site. There he engaged the newly-whole Optimus in a one-on-one battle which ended when the Decepticon leader was tossed into a swamp. {{storylink|Prime Time!}}

''Finally extricating himself from the swamp after being trapped for several months,'' Shockwave returned to leadership of the Decepticons with some new ill-fated plans involving stealing sonic energy from a rock concert {{storylink|Rock and Roll-Out!}} and attempting to exploit [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] as a weak link in the Autobot forces. {{storylink|Plight of the Bumblebee!}}

[[Image:ShockwaveSecondGeneration1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Uh...you're on your own, kid. See ya!]]

''When [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] built Buster a [[Buster's battlesuit|mechanoid battlesuit]], the human test-drove it by attacking [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]. Shockwave responded to the attack, only to be briefly blinded when a desperate Buster flung a handful of sand into his optic sensor. The darkness this brought about revived memories of his four-million-year burial and his humiliating swamp submergence, and an enraged, barely-sane Shockwave disregarded logic in a desire for revenge that saw him pursue Buster throughout the night. As the new day dawned, Buster made one final attack with all the suit's power, which destroyed it but merely injured Shockwave. Seizing the boy in his hand, Shockwave was about to crush the life from him when the Autobot forces arrived to rescue him.'' {{storylink|Robot Buster!}} ''His rationality returning, Shockwave realized that Buster could potentially be a powerful tool to use against the Autobots, and had the Constructicons attempt to abduct him, but during the battle, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] discovered that the Matrix had planted in Buster's mind a vision for the future of the Transformer race.'' {{storylink|Devastation Derby!}} ''Shockwave watched intently as Soundwave tapped into Buster's dreams, and witnessed a vision of [[combiner]] Transformers battling. Little did he know that Soundwave was also beaming the vision to Megatron (now operating independently of Shockwave), who decided that it was time for him to retake Decepticon leadership. Shockwave and Megatron battled once more, but with Megatron at full health, the fight was much more evenly matched and drawn-out, and was even televised by the Decepticons' unwilling human ally, [[Donny Finkleberg|Robot Master]]. To prevent the Decepticons from being made to look like fools, Soundwave demanded they cease fighting and consent to a joint leadership. Begrudgingly, both agreed.'' {{storylink|Second Generation!}}

This joint leadership did not last long. Leaving Shockwave in charge of the Decepticons' [[Wyoming base]], Megatron led a team of Decepticons to attack the Autobot base, only for the majority of their number to be deactivated and captured by [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]]. At the same time, however, the Autobots attacked the Decepticon base to draw out [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], to learn more about the combiner process. With the day having firmly been won by the Autobots on both fronts, Megatron argued that although he may have charged into a trap, Shockwave had been ineffective enough to do nothing, and had allowed a trap to spring up around him. Bowing to the logic of this argument, Shockwave stepped down and allowed Megatron to resume sole command. {{storylink|Command Performances!}}

''Shockwave's movements were unknown for the brief time that followed this embarrassment. He was absent from the Decepticons' base when the time-traveling future Decepticon [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] arrived from 2006 and temporarily disposed of Megatron, but returned not long thereafter. Wondering where everyone was, he was met by [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and Frenzy, who had escaped their confinement in the Autobot base, but then, abruptly, all three were mass-displaced into [[limbo]] when three future Autobots traveled back in time to thwart Galvatron's plans.'' {{storylink|Target: 2006}} ''In limbo, Shockwave and his two companions battled alongside the similarly-displaced Optimus Prime, [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] and Ratchet against the deadly illusions created by the dimension's [[Limbo parasite|native lifeforms]], before returning to their natural place in space and time when the time-travellers returned to their point of origin.'' {{storylink|Distant Thunder!}}

''It was not long before Shockwave began scheming to return to the position of leader, and when Megatron summoned the Decepticon hunters the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] to Earth to stalk Optimus Prime, he saw his opportunity. Conspiring with them, Shockwave arranged for the team to turn on Megatron during the hunt, depriving him of his weapons, expecting that he would have no chance against Prime one-on-one.'' {{storylink|Prey!}} ''When Megatron did not return, Shockwave believed him dead, but in truth, he had escaped to Cybertron—though this was of little concern to the cyclopean schemer, who took up the mantle of leadership in his absence again. It was not long after this that Galvatron returned, having traveled back from the future once more, and now dancing dangerously on the edge of sanity. Fearing the threat Galvatron might pose to his own leadership, Shockwave had the Decepticons aid the Dinobots in battling him, and Galvatron departed rather than fight his own future troops.'' {{storylink|Fallen Angel}} ''Shortly thereafter, Megatron returned from Cybertron with a case of amnesia, sparing Shockwave any retribution for his actions.'' {{storylink|Resurrection!}}

Not long afterwards, Optimus Prime perished in a video game duel with Megatron, but the Decepticon leader grew progressively more paranoid, fearing his foe had survived. Apparently attempting to shock Megatron back to his senses, Shockwave had the Predacons come to Earth and force him into a combat situation, implanting a copy of his personality program in the team so that he could "be part" of the battle from a safe distance. Events culminated in Megatron's apparent death when, having fully plunged into insanity, he blew the space bridge up while standing on it. Once again, Shockwave was leader. {{storylink|Gone but Not Forgotten!}}

Shockwave established regular contact with Cybertron Decepticon commander [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], {{storylink|King of the Hill!}} ''and had the [[Seacon (G1)|Seacons]] sent from Cybertron so that they could use their aquatic abilities to help fortify the Decepticons' new artificial mobile island base. It was while they were performing this task that Galvatron returned, advancing on the island, much to Shockwave's distress. He ordered the Seacons to attack, but Galvatron tore through both them and the base walls—he had, he claimed, come in peace, but Shockwave's attack had made an enemy of him, putting all Decepticons in danger. This of course, was a complete lie, but it turned the Decepticons against Shockwave, thereby disrupting the one-eyed warrior's command.'' {{storylink|Enemy Action!}}

[[Image:Shockwaveburnsup.jpg|thumb|250px|Shockwave's mistake was whittling [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] down to the story-protected [[human]] center.]]

After interfering in a scheme of Ratbat's, Buster Witwicky was captured by the Decepticons and brought to their island, which Shockwave then transformed into spaceship mode and took to the fringes of Earth's atmosphere. Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] leader [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] pursued the craft and battled Shockwave in the void of space, where he defeated him and sent him tumbling back through Earth's atmosphere in free-fall. {{storylink|The Desert Island of Space!}} ''Although thought dead by many, Shockwave in actuality survived and returned to the Decepticons' original fortress base, where he concentrated on resolving the threat posed by Galvatron. Seeking to use the missing Megatron as a weapon against him, Shockwave had the small number of Decepticons still under his control recover a [[Straxus (G1)|clone of the departed leader]] from the Thames river, which he and [[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]] repaired and brainwashed using the [[psycho-probe]].'' {{storylink|Salvage!}} ''Around the same time, Galvatron's fellow time-travelers [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] had joined up with Shockwave's Decepticons, but, chafing in his service, Cyclonus wound up accidentally blurting out that they would be responsible for killing him in the future of 2008. Seeking to preserve his continued existence, Shockwave unleashed the Megatron clone upon them, resulting in the death of Cyclonus. Satisfied with the clone's performance, he dispatched him against Galvatron.'' {{storylink|Dry Run!}} ''The battle had an unexpected conclusion, however, when "Megatron" found a kindred spirit in Galvatron and actually joined forces with him.'' {{storylink|Altered Image!}}

[[Image:Shockwavetimewars.jpg|thumb|left|250px|It's okay, [[Time Wars]] didn't make sense to any of us, either.]]

''This unfortunate chain of events led to Shockwave losing his grip on sanity. Unable to logically fathom the situation, he slipped into despondency, stringing up the remains of Cyclonus on the walls of his castle as a twisted trophy. What Shockwave did not realize, however, was that the repeated time-travel and the death of Cyclonus had caused a rift in space-time that threatened the stability of reality. Hoping to restore the balance by returning all time-travelers to their proper place in time, Scourge attempted to reclaim Cyclonus's body, but was shot down by Shockwave for his trouble. At Scourge's urging, [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] was able to present events logically enough to Shockwave to restore some semblance of coherency to his thoughts, and Shockwave himself deposited Cyclonus's remains in the rift, and sealed it with an x-ray blast.'' {{storylink|Time Wars}}

[[Image:Shockwavefightmoretalkless.jpg|thumb|250px|Hypothesis: Shockwave should internalize his thought process.]]

It would be some time before Shockwave next resurfaced, emerging from the sea on the coast of Blackpool, England, and killing a human who had seen him. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} Seeking to establish his own faction of Decepticons, he saved [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from Circuit Breaker, {{storylink|The Human Factor!}} and the pair, along with Ravage, recruited those who had grown disenfranchised with the leadership of the current Decepticon Earth commander, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]]. {{storylink|Eye of the Storm}} The small group staged an attack on Scorponok's [[New Jersey (Earth)|New Jersey]] base, and Scorponok and Shockwave battled in the waters around Manhattan before being interrupted by the super-team, the [[Neo-Knights]]. {{storylink|...All This and Civil War 2}} Shockwave used the ensuing confusion to implicate the Autobots in an attack on the human team, but was later recognized by Circuit Breaker as the robot responsible for crippling her, and was blown out of the sky by her powers. {{storylink|Out of Time!}} Abruptly, the battle was ended when the Transformers were all teleported to Cybertron to face the threat of [[Unicron]], but even Shockwave's data grid could not compute the vastness of the threat the chaos-bringer posed. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

After Unicron was destroyed, Shockwave teamed up with Starscream once more to find the remains of the Autobots' Ark, which had crashed during the battle. {{storylink|Still Life!}} The pair succeeded in getting the craft airborne again, but were unaware that the numerous damaged Transformers in the ship's stasis pods had been reactivated with [[nucleon]]—Megatron among them—and that an alternate future version of [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]] was also on board. {{storylink|Exodus!}} Conflict erupted when Megatron and Galvatron met, but the sight of Shockwave saw the two Decepticons team up against him. To put an end to things once and for all, the revived Ratchet sent the Ark crashing to Earth. {{storylink|A Savage Circle}}

=====Marvel UK future timelines=====
''In the alternate future timeline of [[Earth-120185]], Shockwave attacked the unveiling of the first female Autobot [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] in 1995 with [[Fangry]], [[Squeezeplay]] and [[Horri-Bull]]. When Arcee quickly disabled his men, though, Shockwave took off and left them to fend for themselves.'' {{storylink|Prime's Rib!}} ''Years later, in 2004, he staged an attack on the opening day of [[Autobot City]], but was defeated by the extremely illogical actions of [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], who threw him down a mountain, and jumped along with him for the ride.'' {{storylink|Aspects of Evil!}}

''After Decepticon commander [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] disappeared following Unicron's attack on Cybertron in 2006, the new Autobot leader [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] devoted his forces to searching the galaxy and making sure the Decepticon was truly dead. This diverted attention allowed Shockwave to assume leadership of the Decepticons in the chaos that followed, and he consolidated them into a strong force on Cybertron that ultimately resulted in a stalemate between the factions by 2008.'' {{storylink|Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!}} ''Knowing that the freelance peacekeeping agent named [[Death's Head (G1)|Death's Head]] had a grudge against Rodimus Prime, Shockwave had [[Blot (G1)|Blot]] hire him for 10,000 [[shanix]] to hunt down and exterminate the Autobot, providing him with secret entry into Cybertron and information about Prime's movements. At the same time, Shockwave allowed Scourge and Cyclonus, Galvatron's former top two lackeys, to brazenly go after Rodimus Prime themselves. Seeing the powerful duo as a potential threat to his position, Shockwave hoped that by tossing these various parties into the mix together, at least some of his problems would turn out dead.'' {{storylink|Headhunt}}

''Unfortunately for Shockwave's plans, it was then that Unicron's influence was felt again, as he mind-controlled Cyclonus, Scourge and Death's Head into trying to assassinate Shockwave. Death's Head used the supposedly deactivated bodies of the duo to gain access to Shockwave's audience chamber, and then left his "comrades" to seal the doors while he chased down the Decepticon leader. After a hard-fought battle, Shockwave was ultimately destroyed, his body blown to pieces and his memory module crushed between Death's Head's fingers, ensuring that he could never return. Still, the hunter was sickened by being forced to kill against his will, and Death's Head promised Shockwave's corpse that he would eventually avenge them both. ''{{storylink|The Legacy of Unicron!}}

=====Earthforce=====
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''Reality unfolds in many ways, across many dimensions. In one such dimension, it was not Scorponok that Shockwave challenged for leadership in the [[Decepticon Civil War]], but a returning Megatron, and the two of them built their armies up for a renewed battle for control over the Earth. Upon hearing that [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] had somehow restored his Dinobots to life without the Creation Matrix, Shockwave and his soldiers attempted to force the secret out of the Dinobots. They failed, miserably.'' {{storylink|Two Steps Back!}}

''Unable to gain an advantage over Megatron, Shockwave was forced to suggest an [[Enclave]], a truce whereby the Decepticons could meet and hopefully overcome their differences as they had in the past, for the mutual goal of destruction of the Autobots. Certainly, the Autobots had something to say about that, and they rigged a scenario so that Megatron was tricked into thinking Shockwave had sent an assassin sniper to kill him during the meeting. A brawl broke out, and any chance at peace was chucked out the window, along with several dismembered body parts.'' {{storylink|The Bad Guy's Ball!}}

[[Image:Triple changers shockwave secrets.jpg|left|200px|thumb|]]
''Thanks to a [[Soundwave (G1)|secret informer]] inside Megatron's camp, Shockwave was able to surprise his rival at the site of an energon delivery, and he and the [[Triple Changer|Triple Changers]] overpowered Megatron and tossed him over a cliff, claiming his energon as their own.'' {{storylink|Secrets}} ''Turnabout's fair play, however, and Shockwave's own lieutenant Starscream tipped off Megatron about when Shockwave would be alone and open for attack. What's worse, Starscream and Soundwave took advantage of their leaders' absence to stage a coup, and so Shockwave and Megatron were left on the run from [[Earthforce]] while their troops abandoned them to their fates.'' {{storylink|Internal Affairs!}}

''Shockwave and Megatron subsequently organized a hit on Starscream, using a [[Louisiana bounty hunters|series of cheap assassins]] to trick Starscream into assuming Soundwave wanted to wipe him out and assume sole command of the Decepticons. '' {{storylink|Assassins}} ''They then attacked their betrayers personally when it didn't go to plan, but were countered by the Earthforce, who needed Starscream alive to help heal [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]], afflicted with [[Corrodia Gravis]]. Even with the help of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s [[Mayhem Attack Squad]], Megatron and Shockwave were forced to retreat.'' {{storylink|The Lesser Evil!}}

====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====
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Shockwave served as joint leader with his rival [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]]. Together, they worked out that hijacking the oil reserves of [[Alaska]] would make more sense than hitting oil refineries, and battled the Autobots to seize the Alaskan oil. They were driven off by[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 2|Transformers in Action: Attack at Dawn}}

He was present when Megatron made peaceful gestures to Humanity in [[New York City]] and gave a speech about how Megatron was an "intergalactic diplomat", who managed by "the greastest possible personal investment" to reconcile "such different citizens of the galaxy as TRANSFORMERS and humans". He then gave a "statue" of [[Snaptrap (G1)|Snaptrap]] as a gift to the city. Unsurprisingly, once Humanity was off-guard, the Decepticons struck, and the Autobots barely stopped them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 4#Transformers in Action: The Troy Principle|Transformers in Action: The Troy Principle}}

Shockwave aided Megatron in capturing an oil tanker, and then using it as a distraction to launch a series of raids. He helped Megatron to battle a squad of Autobot Pretenders aboard the tanker, but was eventually defeated. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 6|Transformers in the Battle for Peace: A Big Day for Powermaster Optimus Prime}}

Later, he was present when the Decepticons unleashed a robotic hell-beast known as 'King Con' on New York and helped Megatron and Soundwave to set up a mine belt around the harbor. However Optimus Prime rented a helicopter to fly a banner announcing huge raw oil deposit finds in the Rocky Mountains. After a short hesitation, the Decepticons retreated to pursue these findings. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 7|Transformers — Transforming Robots in Action: New York — A City Sinking in Terror}}

====''Classics''====
[[Image:Timelines shockwave - alex milne.jpg|thumb|200px|right|It's a life of quiet dignity. Minus the quiet. And the dignity.]]
Megatron decided to keep Shockwave alive in spite of past betrayals because of the use of his logical skills. However, he decided to prevent further betrayals by keeping him only as a head hooked to some sort of life support. Megatron queried him on information regarding [[Bug Bite (G1)|Bug Bite]] and Shockwave told him all he knew, but when he requested computer access for more information, Megatron refused and closed up the chamber. {{storylink|Games of Deception}}
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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Corey Burton]] (English), [[Yū Shimaka|Yutaka Shimaka]] (Japanese), [[Peter Musäus]] (German; Generation 1), [[Claus Brockmeyer]] (German; The Movie & Generation 2 Season One), [[Vladimiro Conti]] (Italian, second dub), [[Georges Atlas]] (French), [[Jorge García]] (Latin American)

{{note|Shockwave’s cartoon portrayal is highly inconsistent with his appearances in all other fictional media. Instead of a coldly logical, power hungry rival to Megatron, in the cartoon Shockwave is consistently loyal and subservient. In a [[Shout! Factory|2009 retrospective documentary about the brand]], [[Hasbro]] staff said this disparity was a simple — though extreme — result of there not having been enough time during the production of the G1 cartoon and comic to get all the story basics firmly and consistently established from the outset. The character descriptions in the cartoon's [[production bible]] are mostly abridged versions of [[Bob Budiansky]]'s original character writeups, which went on to become the toys' [[Tech Spec|tech specs]]... yet Shockwave's show bible description is entirely different from his tech spec [[bio]].}}

[[Image:ShockwaveUltimateDoom3.jpg|thumb|Sorry, but you kids are going to have to play somewhere else.]]

Shockwave was a highly ranked and staunchly loyal Decepticon, and with Soundwave, apparently one of the first at [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]]'s side. {{storylink|War Dawn}} Certainly he was one of Megatron's more favored troops, in that Megatron's constant praise of him seemed to annoy Starscream to no end. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

Shockwave was entrusted with the [[Cybertron Guard|stewardship of Cybertron]] by Megatron when the latter left to intercept an Autobot mission surveying for new forms of energy. Neither Decepticon suspected that Megatron's absence (and Shockwave's command) would last four million years. Little changed on Cybertron during those years, although Shockwave apparently lost his left hand and replaced it with a laser cannon. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}

He oversaw all Decepticon activity on the evidently near-empty Cybertron. His keen scientific mind resulted in several incredible devices, including the [[space bridge]]. Although he was able to keep Cybertron functional for the extended length of time, he continued to try to contact Megatron in hopes of finding an energy source to revitalize the planet. In 1984, he finally reestablished contact with the Decepticon leader. The two coordinated the refinement of the space bridge, first to send [[energon cube]]s, and eventually as an easy method of transport for Decepticons. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} {{storylink|Roll for It}} However, Autobots would also occasionally hijack use of the bridge, and Shockwave found himself having to repel stowaways on more than one occasion. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

Eventually, Megatron and Shockwave developed a space bridge powerful enough to transport Cybertron itself to Earth. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} The close proximity of the two worlds caused horrible weather disturbances that the Decepticons were able to utilize as sources of energy which could easily be shipped back to their homeworld. It was during this affair that Shockwave and his men had to stop an attempt by several Autobots and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] to rescue [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Spike's father]], who was being held on Cybertron as a slave. The Autobots were eventually able to escape with both Sparkplug and the data for [[Doctor Arkeville]]’s mind-control hypno chips. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

Even though he partook in the near-destruction of the Earth, he could also be credited with helping save it shortly after. With Megatron presumed dead following an explosion on his star cruiser, Starscream assumed command on Cybertron. He rigged Dr. Arkeville's exponential generator to blow up the Earth so the Decepticons could harvest the release of energy. Despite Starscream's orders, Shockwave continued to make communications to Earth, finally reaching Megatron, who wasn’t dead after all, and warning him in time to disable the generator. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}

He once came to Earth, but only for a short time. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}}

[[Image:ShockwaveDesertionOfTheDinobots1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shockwave bought himself on eBay!]]

When all the Earthbound Transformers began to malfunction due to the deterioration of the essential element [[Cybertonium]] in their bodies, Shockwave was tasked with having more mined from Cybertron to send to the Decepticons. The Autobots sent the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] to attack the space bridge and snatch some Cybertonium for them. Instead, the rebellious Dinobots used the space bridge to travel to Cybertron, where they intended to stay. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} They were captured by Shockwave’s sentinels, rewired, and put to work in the Cybertonium mines. Spike and [[Carly]] were also captured when they attempted to rescue them, but Shockwave underestimated the two humans. Once they were put in the mines, Spike and Carly were able to fix [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]] and the others. The Dinobots broke free and were able to escape Shockwave with enough Cybertonium to repair the Autobots. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

[[Image:SearchforAlphaTrion Shockwave gun mode.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"I will not be manhandled by you, Starscream!"]]
Though he'd believed them to be extinct, Shockwave discovered a small group of [[Female Autobots]] when they attempted to raid his energon stockroom. Although they got away with some supplies, he was able to track them to their hidden hideout. He alerted Megatron, who devised the plan of kidnapping their leader, [[Elita One]]. Megatron knew she had a relationship with [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Sure enough, after her capture, Optimus raced to Cybertron to rescue her, only to be captured himself by Starscream. Thanks to Elita's special power, she and Optimus were able to escape. Meanwhile, Shockwave, Starscream, and the other Decepticons had to contend with Ironhide leading a small group of Autobots who had followed Optimus Prime. With the help of the Female Autobots team, they eventually cornered the Decepticons, until Shockwave blasted them off the bridge with his gun mode. He would’ve been able to finish them off had Prime and One not intervened at the last moment to save their comrades, send Starscream and the others running off, and blast Shockwave down into the pits of Cybertron. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}

He wasn’t out of action for long. After Megatron built his new combiner team, the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], Shockwave helped locate the key to [[Vector Sigma]], the computer that gave life to all Transformers. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} He later learned and reported to Megatron that the key had other unknown properties on other worlds, which Megatron discovered meant turning organic matter into metal. Unfortunately for Megatron, [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] was able to score a precise shot, blowing apart the key before Megatron could get away with it. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

Another device built by Shockwave was the [[Kronosphere]], a time machine that was used to dispose of the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]]. When the Autobots were able to drive the Decepticons out of their hideout, Shockwave helped Megatron reactivate a fallen [[Guardian robot]] to try to take back the base. In the end, the Autobots were able to bring the Aerialbots back to the present, and with their help, drove the Decepticons away for good. {{storylink|War Dawn}}

Later, Shockwave alerted Megatron to the theft of five personality components from the [[Decepticon Detention Center]] on Cybertron. These were stolen by Starscream to build his own force to defeat Megatron, the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]]. {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

[[Image:RevengeOfBruticus Shockwave on Starscream.jpg|200px|thumb|left|No caption is needed for this image.]]

This coup failed, and Starscream and the Combaticons were exiled to deep space. While Starscream went off on his own, the Combaticons instead made their way back to Cybertron, where they attacked Shockwave and his sentinels and succeeded in taking over Decepticon headquarters. Shockwave ran into Starscream, and the two teamed up to stop the Combaticons and their plan to use the space bridge to push the Earth into the Sun. However, Starscream saw an opportunity to assert power over Megatron, who was still on Earth. He turned against Shockwave, the two fought each other, and they were captured by the Combaticons. They were both eventually freed when Megatron and Optimus Prime came to Cybertron to defeat the Combaticons themselves. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

[[Image:Shockwave5Faces.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Shockwave didn't die. He just got a new [[Six Shot|paint job]].]]

By 2005, Megatron had returned to Cybertron and completely conquered the planet, leading Shockwave to rejoin Megatron's inner circle. He participated in the [[Battle of Autobot City]] and was present for both Starscream's coronation and his subsequent destruction by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], the reformatted version of Megatron. With Galvatron indisposed, Shockwave commanded the Decepticon forces during [[Unicron]]'s attack on Cybertron, but for some reason was never seen again. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

{{note|Even though Shockwave's death was written into the movie's script, it did not even show on the released film. However, IDW's [[Transformers: The Animated Movie#4|20th Anniversary comic adaptation]] did include Shockwave's death. Shockwave's model did show up in season 3, utilized for several [[generic]]s. Specifically, a yellow version appears at the start of the [[Title sequence|"Five Faces of Darkness" title sequence]], a green version shows up in "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3]]" and two Constructicon-colored guys are present among the Decepticon troops in "[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4]]".}}

====''Story of Binaltech''====
[[Image:Binaltech shockwave.jpg|left|thumb|225px|It doesn't get happy; it doesn't get sad; it doesn't laugh at your jokes; it ''just runs programs''!]]

In 2004, as the battle for control of Cybertron was reaching fever pitch, Shockwave was among the casualities of war, his body destroyed but his personality component intact. Around this time, the time-tossed Decepticon [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] took control of the Kronosphere, seeking to use it to alter the course of history. Ravage used the Kronosphere to teleport Megatron and the majority of the Decepticons outside of time, knowing that this would leave the Autobots to face the looming threat of Unicron alone. To keep the remaining Decepticons organized until then, Ravage realized they would need a leader, and Shockwave was elected for the task; his personality component implanted into a vehicle outfitted with molecular-manipulating [[Transmuter (Binaltech)|Transmuter]] technology, Shockwave was reborn in a powerful Binaltech body and rallied the Decepticons under his command. {{storylink|Changing Lanes}}

Although they were forced off of Earth by the Autobots there, Shockwave's Decepticons continued to operate within the [[solar system]], and were discovered in the vicinity of [[Saturn]]'s rings by a [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]]. Alas, Prowl did not make it back to Earth after making his discovery: Shockwave led an attack on his shuttle and Prowl's [[spark]] was lost when he attempted to transfer it to safety through [[subspace]]. {{storylink|Prowl & Chase}}

Through the efforts of the mysterious time- and space-bending entity known as the [[Optimus Primal|Protector]], the changes Ravage wrought upon the timeline were undone, and history was corrected. The altered version of the timeline, however, was also preserved as a parallel dimension (colloquially known as the "BT World"), and in that alternate dimension, the Autobots were successul in defeating Unicron alone. In accordance with Ravage's plan, however, Megatron and his forces then returned from beyond time, immediately launching a ferocious attack upon the weary Autobots.

The Autobots' total defeat was only delayed by Megatron's encounter with [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]], an Earth-made robot which had taken the side of the Decepticons, who challenged Megatron during an attack on the [[Earth Defense Command]] base on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] for ownership of Earth's solar system. While Megatron and Nemesis Prime battled, across the galaxy, [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] ventured into the depths of Cybertron and activated the [[Quintesson]]s' [[large switch|killswitch]], deactivating all non-Binaltech Transformers throughout the universe. With Megatron deactivated right in front of him, Nemesis Prime declared himself Decepticon leader, and summoned Shockwave to his side, instructing him to gather up as many fallen Decepticon as he could before the humans' took possession of them. Shockwave hesitated momentarily, but quickly acquiesced to the logic of the plan and complied. {{storylink|Kill Switch}}

===Grandreams ''Generation 2'' comics===
Shockwave participated in the Decepticons' attack to capture a crashed spaceship from the Autobots atop [[Table Mountain]], blasting Optimus Prime with a laser. Alas, the "spaceship" was an Autobot trap that fired Shockwave and the other Decepticons randomly into space. {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[Image:Shockwavedwtww1.jpg|thumb|left|Dreamwave is all his fault.]]

As a major player in the Decepticon army in Cybertron's past, Shockwave led the main attack on the Autobots' stronghold shortly after the appointment of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} {{storylink|The War Within issue 4|The War Within #}} and personally destroyed two [[Guardian robot|guardian robots]] with one blast in space gun mode. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} As a [[planetary engine]] destroyed Iacon, Shockwave ordered a retreat back to [[Kolkular]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}}

After Megatron's apparent death in an early space bridge test, the Decepticon faction splintered, with [[Air Commander]] [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] creating the [[Predacon (War Within)|Predacons]] and High Auditor [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] the [[Ultracon|Ultracons]], while Shockwave led the Decepticons through the [[Dark Ages]] of Cybertron. During this period, his logic allowed him to put aside differences with Jetfire and the Autobots in order to defeat the greater evil of [[The Fallen]]. Meeting up with Jetfire to discuss the upsurge in violence, the two were attacked by the [[Chaos Trinity]], and Shockwave was taken down. {{storylink|Revelation (The Dark Ages)|Revelation}} Recovered by the newly built [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], Shockwave organized a counter strike against the three mystics that included Trypticon, [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]], and the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]]. Exactly how logic dictated that Shockwave bring an entire army to deal with three rogue Decepticons is unknown. Grimlock's [[Lightning Strike Coalition]] arrived, saying that they had a stake in this, and Shockwave agreed to a temporary ceasefire. After the Fallen was defeated, Shockwave and [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] agreed to seal the [[Well of All Sparks]] with six coded barriers for each faction. They were to remain in place until Cybertron was united. Or, as Shockwave put it, [['Til all are one|until all are one]]. {{storylink|Conflagration}} As the Dark Ages came to an end, Shockwave was ready to sign a peace treaty with Ratbat's Ultracons and the Autobots, but the return of Megatron derailed the plan. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}} Shockwave was tasked with reverse engineering the [[Quintesson]]-created clones he brought back to the planet with him, which suffered difficulties due to Megatron's refusal to divulge their origin, but greatly intrigued Shockwave. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}} Progress wasn't helped by [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]'s treatment of his equipment. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.3}}

Shockwave was left behind on Cybertron while Megatron's forces pursued Optimus Prime and were subsequently lost on Earth for four million years, and became Decepticon leader on the planet. He began experimenting with cloning, and through studies of [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] and [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]], began to conceive the idea of a Transformer with multiple alternate modes. Cybertron, however, was steadily growing lower and lower on energy, and in an attempt to create new energy-conservative Transformers, Shockwave allied with the Autobots for a pooling of resources that created the [[Micromaster]]s. {{storylink|Destined for Nothing}} This came back to bite him, however, when the Decepticon Micromaster [[Skystalker (G1)|Skystalker]] attempted to overthrow his command, knocking him offline and decapitating him to use in a grotesque puppet show, giving orders to the other Decepticons by holding Shockwave's severed noggin up to a video screen. {{storylink|Victims of the Revolution}} When Skystalker was defeated, Shockwave was repaired, but eventually, he and all the other Transformers on Cybertron succumbed to stasis as the planet's energy ran out, and it entered a hibernation phase known as the "[[Great Shutdown]]".

3000 years ago, Unicron's herald [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] located the dead planet, and reactivated Shockwave for study purposes. {{storylink|Generation One issue 0|Generation One #0}} However, when Shockwave was attacked by a swarm of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]], Scourge intervened and saved him, {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} only to be shot in the back by the Decepticon and captured. Dissecting and studying Scourge, Shockwave learned many secrets about the function and purpose of Transformers and Cybertron from the secrets hidden within him. Using that knowledge, Shockwave steadily worked to restore Cybertron, reactivating its population and solving their energy needs, ending the war and unifying the planet. He also continued his experiments into multiple transformations, yielding the unstable [[Duocon]]s, and then successfully mastering the process with [[Triple Changer]]s. Capturing [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], Shockwave sought to unlock the full secrets of [[Vector Sigma]], having already learned of the mysterious significance of Earth to the Transformer race. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} In preparation for the invasion of the planet, Shockwave subliminally influenced the population of Cybertron to become more violent, {{storylink|Passive Aggression}} and prevented the return of Optimus Prime and Megatron aboard the ''[[Ark II]]'' by having a [[Robert Hallo|human agent]] blow it up. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

{{note|The [[Keepers Trilogy]] novel "[[Hardwired]]" made a brief reference to Shockwave being part of the Decepticons on Earth, but having been incommunicado for months prior to the disappearance of Megatron in [[Tokyo]]. This statement is at odds with Dreamwave continuity established after the novels.}}

[[Image:Shockwavedwwarandpeace.jpg|thumb|250px|Deja vu all over again.]]

In 2003, Shockwave made his move, heading to Earth with his Triple Changer troops and capturing Megatron and Optimus's forces, planning to try the two leaders as war criminals. Megatron was jettisoned into space by Starscream, {{storylink|New World Order}} while Prime escaped from his clutches and fell in with a rebel group. {{storylink|Cold War (issue)|Cold War}} Mobilizing the planet's Autobots, Prime led an attack on [[Shockwave's Tower]], and confronted Shockwave himself, only to be defeated by the Decepticon, who ripped the Matrix from him. Using the Matrix to activate Vector Sigma, Shockwave downloaded the compressed contents of the mega-computer into his network, but before he had an opportunity to view the data, he was pulled into a battle with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. In the course of the fight, the fuel line to his cannon was severed, and the resulting explosion destroyed his citadel and knocked him into a chasm. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}}

While the rest of Cybertron believed Shockwave to be deceased, he had actually survived the explosion and gone underground in the wastelands of Cybertron. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} In addition to re-establishing communications with the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] on Earth (who had been operating there as an advance squad preparing the way for his invasion), {{storylink|Extermination}} Shockwave continued his experimentation, resulting in the creation of [[Sixshot]]. Soon after, however, Megatron returned to Cybertron and bested Shockwave, {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} taking him to Earth where he did the same to Starscream. But now, the three players were assembled, each knowing certain dark secrets of Cybertron's past... {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

{{note|...and then Dreamwave went out of business. Dag, yo.}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. Transformers''===
[[Image:Shockwave-ddp2-2b1.jpg|thumb|left|There are so many ways to make him look awesome.]]

In the absence of Megatron, Shockwave had assumed command of the Decepticons on Cybertron, and had successfully driven the Autobots into an underground resistance movement. When a number of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] and [[Cobra]] troops, along with the captive Starscream, accidentally arrived on Cybertron via an overloaded wormhole gate, Shockwave and his troops immediately surrounded them. The same wormhole malfunction blasted a number of Transformers off of Cybertron and into random points of Earth's past, a temporal anomaly that threatened to scour the Earth's face with fire if the Transformers were not brought back.

Ultra Magnus and Perceptor arrived and were able to hold off the Decepticons for a time with a force field, while teams of humans were time-ported away to retrieve the missing Transformers and end the anomaly. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} Magnus's force field power ran out before all the teams had returned, and Shockwave had his troops capture the Autobots. He took personal pleasure in blasting Ratchet when he was returned through the gate.

Revealing that he had intended all along for the humans to discover the wormhole gate technology, Shockwave set the gate to continue operating but blocked the last remaining group from returning—thus condemning Earth to destruction, easy pickings for conquest. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #3}} Fortunately for Earth, two members of the G.I. Joe team were able to reactivate the gate, allowing the newly-created Dinobots to return to Cybertron. The Dinobots' power quickly drove Shockwave's Decepticons into retreat.

Regrouping on the other side of the planet, Shockwave had the long-missing Starscream brought before him. As Starscream attempted to explain his way out of being seen as a traitor, a recording of Cobra Commander's voice suddenly began to play, explaining that he had lined Starscream's hull with explosives. Shockwave leapt to try and stop the process, but the entire building exploded, apparently taking the two Decepticons with it. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

With Shockwave's defeat, peace returned to Cybertron, and the Decepticons were driven back to a region known as the [[Gladiator Zone]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} One of the mish-mash of robot parts known as the [[cannibalizer]]s was seen with Shockwave's blaster hand grafted onto its arm. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}}

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
[[Image:Shockwavetfjoetrenches.jpg|thumb|100px|First guy to call him "Big Bertha" gets it in the face.]]
As one of the Decepticons who crashed to [[Earth]] in the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' millions of years ago, Shockwave was retrieved by [[Cobra]] and pressed into service, taking on the alternate form of a massive artillery cannon. Chafing under the leadership of [[Cobra Commander]], he was ordered to transform and destroy the [[Autobot]] [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]. {{storylink|Trenches}} Although he did so, he was forced to fire sixteen consecutive times, despite needing to repair himself after every shot. The resulting strain on his structure irrevocably damaged him, and Cobra Commander refused to allow [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] to use the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to restore him. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

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===''Transformers Legends''===
During a gladiatorial match in the depths of Cybertron, Shockwave detected incoming security forces and raised the alarm. When Megatron mused that perhaps it was time to start their rebellion by destroying the incoming forces, Shockwave suggested they wait and build up their numbers. Megatron agreed and the pair departed. {{storylink|Parts}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
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Long before the war, Shockwave was an understudy of some sort for the mad scientist [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}
[[Image:Shockwave Regenesis.jpg‎|200px|thumb|left|IDW is mostly his fault.]]
Six hundred thousand [[Units of time|meta-cycles]] ago, he had become a Decepticon scientist. He predicted the eventual destruction of Cybertron as a result of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], driving the combatants out across the galaxy. Knowing that control of resources in this period would be crucial, Shockwave decided to create his own secret network of energon sources on scattered planets, a tool he could use to ensure his own domination. Calling the project "[[Regenesis]]", Shockwave covertly launched rockets from Cybertron to several worlds with specific geological properties. The rockets contained a distilled form of energon that would act as a catalyst in their target planets, sparking chain reactions that, if properly regulated, would create seams of an extremely potent [[Ultra-Energon|energon ore]]. One of these planets was Earth, and after a long period (possibly millions of years), the energon reaction reached a critical point. Shockwave needed to plant global dampers to prevent the reaction from spiraling out of control, so he traveled to Earth and found it at the end of its [[Wikipedia:Pleistocene|most recent ice age]]. As he went about his business, he was unaware of a threat that had shadowed him.

Before departing Cybertron, Shockwave had been dispatched to "tidy up" after an energon raid by the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]], following the team of misfits back to Autobot territory and blowing up their stolen fuel. The Dynobots had vowed revenge, and after their explosion-inflicted injuries had been repaired, they tracked Shockwave to Earth. While Shockwave was busy on the planet, the Dynobots either destroyed or disabled his ship and then altered their own bodies to withstand the energon-rich atmosphere.

[[Image:Shockwaveg1idw.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Shockwave began to have second thoughts over his choice of manicurists.]]
As Shockwave finished planting the dampers and was preparing to visit other Regenesis worlds, the Dynobots teleported upon him. The attack threw Shockwave off-kilter with both its ferocity and its unexpectedness, as he had anticipated a stab in the back from Megatron but had failed to consider the simple vengeance of the Dynobots. Mentally and physically confounded by the assault, Shockwave deactivated his higher reasoning and allowed a subroutine simulating rage to take over. This brutal, violent Shockwave decimated the Dynobots, burning off the organic coating shielding them from the planet's high energon fields and forcing them into [[stasis lock]]. As the battle concluded, Shockwave restored his full neural operations and logged the emotional experience for further study. But, as his logic center churned away once more, it again failed to anticipate his enemies' chaotic nature. Specifically, Grimlock had set a dead-man's switch on [[Skyfire (ship)|the Dynobots' ship]], and before Shockwave could act upon his own victory, the ship shot an energy beam into a nearby volcano, causing it to erupt and consume all of the combatants.

Megatron became suspicious of Shockwave's absence and assigned [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] to search through Shockwave's files. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}} Bludgeon discovered the Regenesis project but kept the information to himself and his close-knit team. Some time after the [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] catastrophe but before Cybertron had been declared off-limits, Bludgeon's team set upon the goal of bringing Thunderwing back to life using Shockwave's seeded Ultra-Energon. To this end, they covertly restored Shockwave's old subterranean laboratory and recovered Thunderwing's body, staying on Cybertron long after the planet was officially evacuated and quarantined. After lengthy preparations, the group headed to Earth and became the first beneficiaries of Shockwave's labor, harvesting all the energon ore they needed in a base inside [[Mount St. Helens]]. They were briefly interrupted in the year [[1984]] by [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], who had been spying on them all along and sought to both secure the ore for himself and prevent Thunderwing's return. But Bludgeon's swordsmanship made short work of Soundwave's [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|cassette]]s [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], and [[Iguanus (G1)|Iguanus]] took Soundwave down with a weapon from Shockwave's lab, an energy gun that forced Soundwave into his [[alternate mode|alt-mode]] and locked him in that form. As Bludgeon's group left with their bounty, they induced a volcanic eruption, burying their opponents. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}} A little over twenty years later, Bludgeon finally completed his task and resurrected Thunderwing. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}}

[[Image:Shockwave Agent Red.jpg‎|200px|thumb|left|[[Transformers (2007)|Call him NBE-1]].]]
Coindentally, around the same time ([[2006]], to be precise), a [[Goring|human archaeological team]] uncovered Shockwave's body. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}} As the dig continued and the Dynobots also began to be unearthed, a government organization swept in and took the operation over. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5|Escalation #5}} This organization, [[Skywatch]], had also recovered Ravage and Laserbeak back in 1985. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}}

Skywatch repaired and attempted to control their captives through neural inhibitors, but the results were consistently disastrous. As the Dynobots and cassettes wreaked havoc (due to the [[Machination]]'s interference) or otherwise pursued unknown agendas (due to Soundwave's interference), Skywatch commander [[Joshua Red]] decided to use a less sophisticated method on their last remaining subject. Bringing Shockwave online in their [[Salt Lake City]] base, Red told him there was a bomb in his head set to detonate in 24 hours if Skywatch didn't transmit a reset code. Shockwave's task was to take down the rogue [[Transformer]]s in that time. Shockwave casually asked if they knew how much damage he could do in 24 hours, then he made a beeline for Soundwave, who was active but still mode-locked in a [[Portland]], [[Oregon]] child's possession. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 3|Maximum Dinobots #3}}

[[Image:Shockwave V Scorponok MD.jpg‎‎|200px|thumb|right|Hypothesis: [[...All This and Civil War 2|Turnabout is fair play]].]]
At the same time, Soundwave was using his broadcast abilities to block Skywatch's control over Ravage and Laserbeak, who retrieved Soundwave from his human captivity. The three returned to Mt. St. Helens, where Shockwave joined them and struck a deal. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|Maximum Dinobots #4}} Deducing that his own weapon had mode-locked Soundwave, Shockwave offered to undo its effects, but only after they helped him thwart Skywatch's threat to himself. They agreed, and the first step of the plan was for the cassettes to help Shockwave feign obedience to Skywatch. Shockwave told Skywatch where to find the cassettes, and indeed Ravage and Laserbeak allowed themselves to be recaptured without a fight.

[[Image:Shockwave V Dynos.jpg‎|250px|thumb|left|"And we'll KEEP dancing until we get it RIGHT!"]]
Meanwhile, Shockwave played out his own part by seeking the Dynobots. But he found them already engaged with [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and the Machination, whom Shockwave decided to attack first so he could destroy the Dynobots himself. Observing the battle, Joshua Red ordered the explosives detonated only if Shockwave ''succeeded,'' since it would guarantee a "clean sweep" of all the combatants and their bodies. If Shockwave was still in battle when the 24 hours were up, Red wanted the reset code sent instead, presumably because he feared anyone but Shockwave walking away alive and unsubdued. It is unclear if Shockwave had deduced this, but his actions produced the effect he desired. By the time Shockwave beat Scorponok, only 12 minutes remained, and Grimlock proved to have more than 12 minutes' worth of fight left in him. On the 30-second mark, the two were still grappling in a Machination arms bunker, so Red ordered the reset code sent. The code was intercepted and decrypted by Soundwave, who transmitted the information to Shockwave, who in return sent him instructions to mentally disable the mode-lock. Soundwave transformed, his cassettes attacked their would-be captors, and Shockwave abruptly walked away from his fight, declaring an end to the "charade." But Grimlock would not be denied his revenge, so before Shockwave could leave, he detonated a grenade that blew the arms bunker sky-high. The two were soon recovered, still functioning, by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], who took both Shockwave and Scorponok into custody. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}}

Later, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] reflected on an event he called "Shockwave's resurgence." It is unclear exactly what this was or when this happened. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}

During Shockwave's time in Skywatch captivity, the researchers had gathered enough information about him to design a weapon based on his technology. According to [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Cmdr. Spike Witwicky]], the first working prototypes were the size of a house, but with some unspecified "outside help," they were able to condense it to a size small enough for hand-held use by a human. It was stored in a secret [[New York City]] facility, and when the city was overrun by Megatron's forces, Spike was sent in with a military squad to retrieve it and use it to kill Megatron. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} Though his team perished, Spike survived, got the weapon, and successfully shot Megatron in the head, ending the Decepticon occupation. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}}

[[Image:LastStandoftheWreckers3 - Shockwave.jpg|150px|thumb|right|So do we blame Shockwave for letting Overlord off his leash, or Overlord for unleashing the one-eyed purple people eater again?]]
The Autobots imprisoned Shockwave at [[Garrus-9]], separating his head from his body in the process. However, one year after [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]'s arrival in Garrus-9, he revived Shockwave. In exchange for his freedom and a hand-picked crew, Overlord wanted Shockwave to remove a virus Megatron had implanted in him prior to his rebellion. Shockwave agreed to the terms as they served his own purposes, however he was quick to comment that Overlord's actions on Garrus-9 were less about the former general's gratification and more about attracting Megatron's attention. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}

Shockwave eventually wound up on the same asteroid where many Decepticons had set up camp after escaping from Earth. He claimed to be working on rebuilding the [[space bridge]]. However, no one had bothered to observe his work, and even if they had, none of them had the knowledge to understand what he might be doing. {{storylink|All His Engines}}

Shockwave later assisted Soundwave in building a new body for Megatron after the shot to his head had left his old one beyond repair. Together they rebuilt their leader and used his old body to make tiny replicas of his gun form, with plans to distribute them amongst the population of Earth in order to create chaos amongst both the humans and Autobots. Starscream, who had taken up leadership after the fall of Megatron, was furious that Shockwave had squandered their resources on something like that rather than build a space bridge, only for Shockwave to reveal that he had integrated space bridge technology into Megatron's new body. He then carefully calculated that [[Quetzaltenango]], [[Mexico]] was the most appropriate location to deposit the Megatron guns, and stood by Megatron as he sent the weapons through the space bridge to Earth. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 2: Altered Carbon}}

Four months later, the Decepticons themselves traveled to Earth, where Soundwave was heavily injured in a confrontation with Optimus Prime. When ordered to repair him, Shockwave protested that he no longer had the resources he had used to rebuild Megatron, but when pressed, affirmed that he could in fact save Soundwave's life. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine}}

[[Image:Needlenose Autonomy Lesson.jpg|left|250px|thumb|]]
Megatron would later use the space bridge technology built into in his new body to summon Shockwave and the rest of the Decepticons to him on Cybertron. At first they did battle with the Autobots, but were soon mind-controlled by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] into combining with his [[Sweep]] army and forming a huge [[Deceptigod|monster]]. {{storylink|Chaos Part Three: Kings}} Once Galvatron and the monstrosity were defeated, the weakened Decepticons were rounded up and captured by the Autobots. After a few weeks in imprisonment, they were released to deal with rioting "[[NAIL]]s" who had returned to repopulate Cybertron, and did so with glee. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime}}

{{spoiler|The World & Everything in It|March 22, 2012}}
[[Needlenose]], fed up with working as an enforcer for the Autobots, accused Shockwave, Soundwave and [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] of just sitting around instead of doing something about the Decepticons' situation. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson}} Of course he was wrong: Shockwave is always doing ''something''. In this case he, along with Soundwave, worked with [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]] to take control of the [[inhibitor/deterrence chip]]s implanted in them by the Autobots. He seemed uninterested in Ratbat's further plans to fight their captors, only saying "Events will play out as they will." when asked for his opinion. {{storylink|The World & Everything in It}}
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===''Hearts of Steel''===
After awakening in 19th century America, Shockwave took on the form of an ironclad warship and recruited inventor [[Tobias Muldoon]] to the Decepticon side (by pretending to be a friend to humanity). {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}} He took Muldoon to his Decepticon comrades underwater, where he was questioned by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}

Years later in [[1888]], the surviving Decepticons came under the influence of the invading [[Elder God]]s. Shockwave was among those who accepted the beings as their new masters and defended [[Port Cenotaph]] on their behalf from intruders. {{storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|Infestation 2: The Transformers #1}} He soon defended the town against an international fleet, but was shot down. {{Storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 2|Infestation 2: The Transformers #2}}

===''Wings Universe''===
When the [[Decepticon Warlord]]s formed a war council to discuss ways to eliminate the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]], [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] sent Shockwave along to the meetings as his spokescon. When [[Trannis]] reacted to footage of Megatron's men being destroyed by the Elite Guard by dismissing it, Shockwave agreed with [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] in that the Elite Guard did not discriminate between Decepticon factions. Shockwave's real reason for being at the meetings was not to share information, but to gather information on the other Warlords. The information was subsequently used to persuade [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] to amalgamate their armies with Megatron's. Shockwave didn't attend the following meeting, which was just as well for him, since [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] blew it up, killing everyone present. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}

When Megatron later captured Deathsaurus's base, Shockwave was by his side. He took part in the later attack on [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] blasting [[Rumbler (G1)|Rumbler]] and [[Sprocket (G1)|Sprocket]] as [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] broke through the city walls. {{storylink|Battle Lines, Part 5}}

==Games==
===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{bigquote|Megatron's personal watchdog. With the ability to transform into a laser gun, Shockwave boasts a powerful attack!|The [[narrator]]|"[[The Transformers (PS2)]]"}}
:''Voice actor'': [[Barry Gjerde]]
[[Image:Ps2tatakai shockwave1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Absolute Power, etc., etc.]]

In an alternate future, the Shockwave of that time grew frustrated with [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s increasingly abusive leadership, and when he discovered the [[Zel Quartz]], which could vastly boost the power of a Transformer, he implanted it into himself and staged a one-robot mutiny. Unfortunately, the power proved too much for Shockwave's systems and he ran wild. Neither the Autobots nor the Decepticons could stop him and they took massive casualties in the attempt. Shockwave eventually destroyed Cybertron, then set out on a quest to destroy all planets with life. Elite teams of Autobots and Decepticons traveled to the past to prevent these events by either destroying or seizing the Zel Quartz years before Shockwave would find it.

In the Autobot story, the present-day Shockwave was the main boss in the geothermal power plant, protecting the main turbine of the plant. When Optimus Prime and his team reached the main turbine, Shockwave slowly descended from the ceiling in his alternate form. He then changed to his robot form and dropped to the floor, announcing that he was collecting energy for Megatron. He warned the Autobots that anyone who stood in his way should not expect any mercy from him. When Optimus Prime stated that the Autobots were going to stop the Decepticon's plundering of [[Zel Samine]]'s energy, Shockwave suggested that they should settle this feud, by fighting. Eventually, the Autobots over-powered the Decepticon, and a battered Shockwave warned Optimus that he would remember the outcome of the fight before disengaging and fleeing the power plant. Later, Shockwave appeared in the valley where the Autobots detected an SOS signal and had a rematch with the Autobots, but was defeated again.

During the Decepticon storyline, Shockwave was a member of a team that Megatron sent to investigate a mysterious UFO that was spotted in the area of Zel Samine. Something caused the team to lose contact with the main Decepticon forces, and they found out that they could not leave the planet, as Zel's sun, Paradius, emitted electromagnetic rays that was harmful to them. Unable to contact Megatron and with no way to leave the planet safely, Shockwave and the others scattered across Zel, with Shockwave himself eventually finding his way to the Atalstan gem mine. When the Galvatron of the alternate timeline told the Megatron of the present the "truth" about the Zel Quartz, he asked his past self if Shockwave was around before telling it.

Once the main Decepticon forces arrived at the Atalstan gem mine and found the giant ore that they suspected to be the Zel Quartz, Shockwave analyzed the group and when he concluded that they were Decepticons. He hovered downward in his handgun mode. Transforming into robot mode, he made a short drop to the floor and announced that he had finally achieved rendezvous with his fellow warriors. When Megatron expressed partial surprise in the fact that Shockwave had survived, Shockwave confirmed him and announced that he was awaiting Megatron's orders.

For the remainder of the game, Shockwave remained ignorant of the circumstances that prompted their arrival. What's more, despite which side won, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] accidentally negated the quartz's powers, and Shockwave's reign of terror in the future was averted. {{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

===Transformers G1: Awakening===
[[Image:Gluawakening shockwave.jpg|right|thumb|200px]]
Shockwave enslaved every Autobot on Cybertron millenia before the Autobots returned to Cybertron. He planned a "welcome party" for the Autobots when they arrived through the space bridge, captured them, confiscated their weapons, and put them in a prison(which used to be a field hospital). It's also a possibility that he was the one who turned the hospital into the prison. {{storylink|Transformers G1: Awakening}}
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==Toys==
{{main|Shockwave (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Shockwave (G1)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
* [[Bob Budiansky]] said Shockwave was "my attempt to take [[Spock]] from ''Star Trek'' and make him into a Decepticon".<ref>[http://rustingcarcass.yuku.com/topic/954/t/Bob-Budiansky.html Rusting Carcass interview]</ref>
[[Image:StudioOxCybertronBattleCons.jpg|250px|thumb|It's not easy being grey. It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.]]
* According to early drafts of the script for the series' pilot episode, Shockwave was at one point to be called "Flash Beam".
* A Cybertronian battle scene in ''[[TV Magazine]]'' (reprinted in ''[[Transformers Generations]]'' and ''[[Transformers Visualworks]]'') depicts Shockwave not in purple, but in the original grey color scheme of the Astro Magnum/Galactic Man toy.
* Shockwave has been periodically drawn with two hands in various media. He first shows up this way in [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]], and the condition briefly reappears in [[Divide and Conquer]]. He also wound up this way on the cover of ''[[Ashes, Ashes...|G.I. Joe and the Transformers]]'' #3.
* Voice actor Corey Burton based Shockwave's voice on that of actor [[wikipedia:David Warner (actor)|David Warner]], specifically his role as evil computer thingy [[wikipedia:Sark (Tron)|Sark]] in ''[[wikipedia:Tron (film)|Tron]]''.<ref>[http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com/60-astrominutes/corey-burton/corey_burton_1.html Corey Burton interview on the Cybertron Chronicle]</ref> Burton even provided the voice of Sark in the video game ''[[wikipedia:Kingdom Hearts II|Kingdom Hearts II]]''.
* In contrast to Megatron, when Shockwave transforms, he does not [[Size changing|change size]]. He can also fly, aim, and fire himself in gun mode. [[Combiner|Combiners]] are large enough to wield him. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}
* In the Japanese dub of the Generation 1 cartoon, Shockwave's personality was altered from the American interpretation—he was presented like a grizzled old man with a loud, raspy voice and a very short temper.
* Shockwave is, of course, the basis for the ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' Decepticon [[homage]] [[character]] [[Shockblast]].
* A company named Lanard Toys held the "Shockwave" [[trademark]] in the "toys" field for several years. For that reason, the ''Energon'' toy/character mentioned above was given the substitute name "Shockblast". The same name was later given to the ''[[Alternators]]'' version of G1 Shockwave for the same reason. However, by that point Lanard had abandoned their "Shockwave" trademark, making it available to Hasbro again. Unfortunately, the packaging for ''Alternators'' Shockwave had already been printed by that point, so Hasbro decided to go with the substitute name. They then slapped the name "Shockwave" onto the [[Shockwave (Cybertron)|next available]] [[Mini-Con]] just so they could reclaim the trademark. Subsequently, all new toys of the G1 Shockwave character, as well as [[Shockwave (Animated)|homage]] [[Shockwave (Movie)|characters]], were released under the name "Shockwave" again. (Ironically, [[Hasbro]] later used the name "[http://www.yojoe.com/action/08/shockblast.shtml Shockblast]" for new toys of a ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I.Joe]]'' character originally also named "[http://www.yojoe.com/action/88/shockwave.shtml Shockwave]", possibly in order to avoid brand confusion; apparently, Hasbro view the name "Shockwave" as more iconic for the Transformers character than his G.I. Joe namesake.)

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Laserwave''' (レーザーウェーブ ''Rēzāwēbu'')
*''French:'' '''Onde de Choc''' (Canada, "Shockwave")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Sokkoló''' ("Shocker")
*''Italian:'' '''Brutal'''
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jèn-pō''' (Taiwan, 震波, "Shock Wave")
*''Portuguese:'' '''Onda-Choque''' (Portugal comic, "Shock-Wave"), '''Onda de Choque''' (Brazil comic, "Shock Wave")
*''Russian:'' '''Vzryvala''' (Взрывала, "Blaster")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Shokun''' (Шокун, "Shocker")

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1985/Decepticon/Shockwave/shockwave.htm Shockwave at TFU.info]
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Shockwave Shockwave's Universe profile at NTFA.net]

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''' '''

==Synopsis==
At a meeting of the [[Senate]] in the [[Citadel]], [[Zeta Prime]] reviews the situation concerning [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s [[Decepticon]]s, especially of their recruiting of [[Nyon]]'s populace. It is fortunate, then, that he has found the perfect weapon to destroy them all: [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s [[Vamparc Ribbon]]. As he is about to elaborate, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] arrives at the proceedings as a "delegate". Zeta Prime gives a firm reminder to the Decepticon that nothing forces him to respect his presence, but moves on to a demonstration of the Vamparc. The subject: the captured [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]].

In the Citadel's sparring rooms, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] wrestles with [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] while the two talk of Orion's newly-developed temper and of the morality of their efforts to contain the Decepticons.

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*[[Zeta Prime]] (1)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] (5)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (6)
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (7)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (8)

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*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (2)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (3)
*[[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] (4)
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==Notes==
===Errors===
*[[Nominus Prime]] is strangely referred to by [[Zeta Prime]] as his predecessor who "couldn't contain this upstart rebellion", when [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] was the Prime directly preceding Zeta and the one who failed to stop [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s rebellion in ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]''.
*When Zeta Prime mentions [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] as the inventor of the [[Vamparc Ribbon]], the scientist's name is misspelled as "Jihauxus".

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Parasites

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Livio Ramondelli

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[[Image:Livio Ramondelli.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Who isn't happy to see the [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Boss-Bot]] with a big gun?]]

'''Livio Ramondelli''' is an American comic-book artist who graduated with a Masters degree from the Academy of Art University in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], as well a Bachelor's degree from [[Pennsylvania]] State University. He began regular work on Transformers comics with the ''Chaos'' storyline and is now working on Autocracy

==Comic book art==
===IDW===

* ''[[The Transformers: Best of Optimus Prime]]'' (cover) (June [[2010]]) ISBN 1600106668
* ''[[The Transformers: Best of Megatron]]'' (cover) (August 2010) ISBN 160010701X
* ''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' [[Chaos Part One: Lamentations|#24]], [[Chaos Part Two: Numbers|#26]], [[Chaos Part Three: Kings|#28]], [[Chaos Part Four: Genesis|#30]]
* ''[[The Transformers: Autocracy]]''

==Convention appearances==
* [[BotCon 2011]]
* [[BotCon 2012]]

==Gallery==
<center><gallery>
Image:BestofMegatron.jpg|''Best of Megatron'' cover.
Image:BestofOptimus.jpg|''Best of Optimus Prime'' cover.
Image:HOD 4C.jpg|''[[The Transformers: Heart of Darkness]]'' #4, cover C.
Image:IDW_TF_28_B.jpg|''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' [[Chaos Part Three: Kings|#28]], cover B.
</gallery>

*''[[:Category:Images by Livio Ramondelli|Extended Livio Ramondelli gallery]]''</center>

==External links==
*[http://www.livioramondelli.com/ Portfolio]
*[http://livio27.deviantart.com/ Livio's DeviantArt]
*[http://therealmtoys.com/wordpressorg/18157/comic-con-2011-interview-with-livio-ramondelli/ Interview with Livio Ramondelli at The RealmCast]

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[[Category: Illustrators|Ramondelli, Livio]]