JaAm

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JaAm is a mysterious quantity from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

jAaM jaAm rEvOLutiOn

Hot Shot is obsessed with JaAm. No one's really sure what it is, though Hot Shot's Autobot peers have suggested it may be some mysterious fuel source. Regardless, it's important enough to Hot Shot that he had a vanity license plate made to proclaim his love for it!

WhAt iS jaAm??

Just before the Armada toyline's imminent release in 2002, scans of the first pack-in mini-comic were put online both at Transformers.com and at Ben's World of Transformers, the latter of which received early production samples from Hasbro for review. The original comic was trilingual, forcing the writer to fit three languages worth of dialogue into tiny word bubbles, resulting in short, stilted, and unintentionally goofy-sounding prose. Because of these limitations, many found the mini-comic to be a bit lacking. The British fan Yartek took it upon himself to rewrite the dialogue as nonsense. Among other things (such as Cyclonus asking what the hell he turns into and Optimus Prime wondering where his feet are) Hot Shot was famously depicted as a mentally challenged, tortured freak of nature, randomly screaming non sequiturs as "mY liFE iS PaIn" and "WhY mY ShOuLdErS hUrT?" in randomly uppercase and lowercase letters using the much-reviled Comic Sans font. (This was, perhaps, Yartek's commentary on the art.) The most famous quote, "jaAm", comes from Hot Shot's description of the large green energy-draining device, which he mistakes for a container of jam.

The rewritten mini-comic proved to be wildly popular in the fandom and grew to be one of the most persistent memes through the duration of Armada and beyond. When Ben Yee overhauled his toy review system, he commissioned Hot Shot fan David Willis to create a series of images based on the mini-comic. Ironically, the Hot Shot toy itself rated poorly on Ben Yee's scale.

|left|150px|thumb]] Hot Shot's love of JaAm was referenced twice on his Universe toy—once on his vanity license plate, and about a quarter of his packaging bio is dedicated to it. Hasbro stayed up too late one night drinking, it feels like. Who's complaining?

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• The specific capitalization of "JaAm" never actually appears in the comic, but Hasbro has used this capitalization on the back of Universe Hot Shot's packaging, with the second "A" being larger than the other—perhaps, we humbly propose, because that's how we've spelled it on this wiki.

ExTeRnaL LiNKs

• "Armada - The REAL Story", by Yartek
• Jam on Wikipedia