Jazz (Animated)

2009-03-20T23:55:34Z

Bumblebeegirl: /* Animated cartoon */ jazz was told by ultra magnus to gather troops for captureing the spybot.transwarped part 3

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<div id="title-factionicons" style="float: right; display: none;"><div style="position: relative;">[[Autobot|<img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/f/fe/Symbol_autobot_reg.png/30px-Symbol_autobot_reg.png" width="30" height="30" border="0"/>]]</div><div style="position: relative;">[[Elite Guard|<img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/d/df/Cyb_Elite_Guard_Badge.png/52px-Cyb_Elite_Guard_Badge.png" width="52" height="30" border="0"/>]]</div></div>
:''Jazz is an [[Autobot|Autobot]] from the [[Transformers Animated|Transformers Animated]] [[Continuity family|continuity family]].''

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

He is ''incredibly'' cool.

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<td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Jazz digs his new altmode and the humans that created it, "[[The Elite Guard|The Elite Guard]]"</cite>

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==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
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<td><span style="font-size:10px;line-height:1;">This section covers fiction that is '''ongoing'''. It will be added to as the story progresses. If it isn't current, you can help by <span class="plainlinks">[http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Jazz_%28Animated%29&action=edit updating it]</span>.</span>
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:''Voice actor'': [[Phil LaMarr|Phil LaMarr]] (English), [[Jens-Uwe Bogadtke|Jens-Uwe Bogadtke]] (German)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==Toys==
===Animated===
[[Image:Animated jazz both mode1.JPG|right|250px|thumb|Enter the Dragon Wagon]]
*'''Autobot Jazz''' (Deluxe, 2008)
*''Accessories'': 2 side-pipe "energy chucks"

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

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[[Image:BumperBattlers Jazz toy.JPG|right|200px|thumb|]]
*'''Jazz''' (Bumper Battler, 2008)

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

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

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

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