Jazz (Animated)

The name or term "Jazz" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Jazz (disambiguation).

Jazz is an Autobot from the Transformers Animated continuity family.

"When push comes to shove, you've gotta do what you love, even if it's not a good idea!"

Though a member of the Cybertron Elite Guard, Jazz is a bit of an independent thinker. He's reluctant to disobey orders, but he has more of an appreciation for the finer things than his compatriots. This is evidenced in his better choice of vehicle mode disguise, a "sweet ride" drawn from Earth culture. He is a Cyber-Ninja, like Prowl. However, his training is more progressed, and instead of ninja stars he wields a pair of nunchaku. He seems to be the only one of the Elite Guard willing to learn, and fits in with the Earth team pretty well.

He is incredibly cool.

“	Besides... any species that can come up with a sweet ride like this can't be all bad!	”
—Jazz digs his new altmode and the humans that created it, The Elite Guard

Fiction

Animated cartoon

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

Events from IDW Publishing are in italics

Booga booga!

Jazz accompanied Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus and Sentinel Prime to Earth to retrieve Optimus Prime's crew and the AllSpark. When Magnus ordered Jazz to activate a force field around their ship to prevent 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. Jazz was...less willing to meet the organics after that.

Suddenly, Bumblebee's less popular.

When Sari Sumdac managed to sneak aboard their ship, he tried to send her out without provoking her. When she realized that Jazz was afraid of her, she tried to scare him. After Bulkhead explained that Humans were harmless (and Bumblebee explained that Sentinel Prime was a jerk), Jazz accompanied the Autobots to a Sumdac manufacturing plant that was going haywire. Jazz and Prowl managed to keep the AllSpark-powered police 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 moves like the "Five Servos of Doom" attack. The Elite Guard

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

"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 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, successfully and safely removed the AllSpark fragment, but Jazz could only watch as they received a dressing-down from Ultra Magnus for becoming involved. Then Starscream himself crashed to Earth, courtesy of Megatron's cannon, and knocked out Magnus. Jazz turned to Sentinel for orders, but the panicking Guardsbot was unable to think of anything. Optimus took over, directing his crew and Sari to various tasks; and himself, Jazz and Sentinel to take down Starscream—although Jazz needed to talk down the posturing pair of 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 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. Mission Accomplished

Jazz was present as Starscream escaped the Elite Guard ship. A Fistful of Energon

When the Elite Guard decided to begin Project Safeguard, Jazz and Sentinel went against the idea, saying Autobots don't fly. Jazz's discomfort only worsened when he saw Jetfire and Jetstorm. He was soon assigned to train them. Jazz defeated them easily, but just as he had turned his back on them, the twins defeated him with ease. Later, he saw the twins try simulated training, but when Perceptor tried putting Starscream's coding into the program, it turned into an Elite Guard nightmare and when Jazz and Sentinel had tried to disconnect it, they found it completely impossible and saw the effects of the simulated training before Preceptor had finally regained control of the program. Rise of Safeguard

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

Longarm Prime had later sent Jazz, accompanied by Sentinel, Jetfire, and Jetstorm, to go after the supposed traitor Wasp. However, Wasp had retreated to Earth, much to Longarm's dismay, as he had ordered all contact from the said planet be filtered through him first. Despite this, Jazz and the others still went after the traitor, where they found OP's crew, who revealed that Longarm was really Shockwave, a Decepticon double-agent and that Wasp was innocent the whole time. Despite this, SP still wanted Wasp brought in, but the crazed Autobot got away. Where Is Thy Sting?

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

Jazz and the Elite Guard left the next day, much to Jazz's disappointment, as he enjoyed being on this planet. Predacons Rising

Now that Sentinel had become acting magnus, Jazz had to refer to him as such or the cyber-ninja would have to stay with the Decepticons. Soon, the Decepticons had broken free and held the Elite Guard hostage. It was then that Optimus had arrived and freed them. Jazz, under Optimus's orders, went to rewire the decontamination chamber into a freezing unit. However, he failed and the Autobots were defeated. At least they thought he did. Jazz tricked tehm and the Elite Guard returned to Cybertron with the Decepticon prisoners. Decepticon Air

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Jazz still had to take orders from Sentinel. When Sentinel had ordered him to take in Ratchet and Captain Fanzone, the latter of whom reminded him how much he hated machines, Jazz helped them instead and later, sick of Sentinel's constant rambling, returned to Earth. This Is Why I Hate Machines

Toys

Animated

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Enter the Dragon Wagon

• Autobot Jazz (Deluxe, 2008)
  • Accessories: 2 side-pipe "energy chucks"

Part of the third wave of Animated deluxes, Jazz transforms into a car that looks like a cross between his Generation 1 counterpart and a 1950s Corvette. The toy features translucent blue light-piping for its visor, as well as translucent blue headlights. Curiously, all the toy's vehicle mode windows are also cast from this plastic, but tinted black by paint 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.

Comes with the world's shortest jump rope.

• Jazz (Bumper Battler, 2008)

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

Trivia

• Jazz's model sheet identifies his weapons as "Laser Nunchako."

External links

• Jazz at TFU.info