Jazz

Jazz, Autobot Elite Ninja, First Lieutenant of Special Operations, Saboteur.

Jazz (ジャズ, Jazu), is both a fictional character and protagonist from the Marvelous DC series created by C. B. Cebulski and Jim Lee. He is a cool and collected Autobot and Optimus Prime's right-hand man. Unlike Prowl, Jazz responds well to change and improvisation.

Before the war he was part of the caste tasked with cultural observation and analysis, which gave him more freedom and a wider perspective on the world than his good friend Orion Pax. Whatever surprises the Decepticons spring, Jazz can deal with it.

Though the war has changed much of his life (he is now a skilled and deadly combatant), two things remain constant: his dedication to the friend who is now also his leader Optimus Prime, and the interest he takes in all facets of culture, wherever his travels lead.

"Have your own style of doing things or have none at all."

—Jazz.

Appearance & Biography

Voice Actor: Arif S. Kinchen (English), Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Reginaldo Primo (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Xia Zhiqing (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Dutch), Petri Hanttu (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Francis Lax (French), Not Known (Galician), Reinhard Brock (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Gabriele Calindri (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Antônio Patiño (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Carlos Nieto (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

Appearance

Vehicle Mode

His vehicle mode on Cybertron was a Cybertronian car, when arriving to Earth he has adapts the Earth vehicle mode of a modified Porsche 935 Sports Race Car.

• Hair Color: N/A
• Skin Color: Not Known
• Eye Color: Blue
• Age: Not Known
• Birthday: Not Known
• Height: Not Known
• Weight: Not Known

Gallery

Jazz's Earth vehicle mode.

Relationships

Friends/Allies

• Autobots
  • Arcee
  • Ratchet
  • Prowl
  • Smokescreen
  • Strongarm
  • Sideswipe
  • Bumblebee
  • Drift
  • Windblade
  • Sunstreaker
  • Warpath
  • Cliffjumper
  • Alpha Trion
  • Prowl
  • Blurr
  • Chromia
  • Perceptor
  • Dynasty of Primes
    • Zeta Prime
    • Optimus Prime
  • Wreckers
    • Ultra Magnus
    • Bulkhead
    • Wheeljack
  • Computron
    • Quickshot
    • Afterburner
    • Lightspeed
    • Nosecone
    • Strafe
  • Volcanicus
    • Grimlock
    • Swoop
    • Snarl
    • Sludge
    • Slug
  • Defensor
  • Superion
  • Victorion
    • Pyra Magna
    • Jumpstream
    • Dust Up
    • Stormclash
    • Skyburst
    • Rust Dust
  • Fortress Maximus
  • Emissary
• Mini-Cons
  • Fixit
• Justice League
  • Superman
  • Batman
  • Wonder Woman
• Teen Titans
  • Robin/Nightwing
  • Starfire
  • Raven
  • Cyborg
  • Beast Boy
  • Kid Flash
  • Terra
  • Blue Beetle
  • Robin
  • Wonder Girl
• Titans East
  • Bumblebee
  • Speedy

Enemies

• Decepticons
  • Fallen
  • Overlord
  • Megatron
  • Shockwave
  • Blitzwing
  • Lugnut
  • Soundwave
    • Frenzy
    • Rumble
    • Laserbeak
    • Buzzsaw
    • Ravage
  • Knock Out
  • Airachnid
  • Nightjaw
  • Underbite
  • Thunderhoof
  • Fracture
  • Bisk
  • Lockdown
  • Dreadwing
  • Shadow Striker
  • Seekers
    • Starscream
    • Thundercracker
    • Skywarp
    • Acid Storm
    • Slipstream
  • Insecticons
    • Sharpshot
    • Kickback
    • Hardshell
  • Devastator
    • Scrapper
    • Mixmaster
    • Scavenger
    • Long Haul
    • Bonecrusher
    • Hook
  • Predaking
    • Razorclaw
    • Tantrum
    • Divebomb
    • Headstrong
    • Saberclaw
  • Menasor
    • Motormaster
    • Breakdown
    • Wildrider
    • Dead End
    • Drag Strip
• Scraplets
• Deathstroke

History

Past

Early life

During the War

Jazz was one of many Autobots who was captured by the Decepticons and sent to the Kaon prison complex. He passed the time in incarceration by doing push ups in his cell, waiting for the day he would be able to break out. That chance came when Optimus, Bumblebee and Sideswipe (who had allowed themselves to be captured) opened all the cells in Kaon during a daring attempted rescue mission of Zeta Prime. Air Raid led the prisoners to transport ships, with which they escaped. He could be seen waving Autobots onto the closest ship through the window from above.

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.

Dark Spark Incident

Jazz led the Autobot attack on Kaon to reclaim the Dark Spark from the Decepticons. When Bruticus incapacitated and captured Cliffjumper, Jazz called for a ceasefire and begged Shockwave to return Cliffjumper, claiming that the Decepticons had got what they wanted, and didn't need to take Cliffjumper. Shockwave responded by simply laughing as he led Bruticus and unconscious Cliffjumper into Kaon.

Jazz had then reported Cliffjumper's capture to Optimus, and subsequently accompanied his leader to the Decepticon base Kolkular to retrieve their comrade and destroy the Dark Spark. Jazz was responsible for freeing Cliffjumper while Optimus covered them, but was captured, along with Optimus and Cliffjumper, by Megatron. They were freed when Jetfire commandeered the wrecked Trypticon's weapons systems and fired upon Kolkular, and the 'bots parted ways when Optimus ordered Jazz to take Cliffjumper and escape the base while Prime faced Megatron himself in order to reclaim the Dark Spark.

Departing Cybertron

After Grimlock went missing from his post, Optimus Prime met Cliffjumper and Jazz in the armory as they were preparing to go find Grimlock and his team. Sideswipe took the duo in a dropship to the Sea of Rust where they explored the ruins, with Cliff managing to save Jazz's life when he was trapped under debris. The pair tracked a distress signal to a huge pit, which Jazz opted to venture into alone. He immediately got into trouble in the form of Insecticons. He escaped by flooding the pit with toxic waste. Exploring further, they found an energon lake and spotted the huge tower in which Shockwave was conducting his space bridge experiments. Jazz and Cliffjumper infiltrated the facility, eventually finding Shockwave himself. The Decepticon trapped Cliff behind a force field and Jazz was forced to fight off wave after wave of Insecticons while the other Autobot worked out a way to destroy the base. They escaped just before the place exploded and reported the energon lake back to Optimus before returning to finish preparing the Ark for launch.

After takeoff, the Ark headed for a space bridge Shockwave had opened but was pursued by the Decepticons aboard their flagship the Nemesis. Jazz served as pilot for the Ark until severe asteroid turbulence knocked him from his seat. The Decepticons took advantage of the confusion and attacked the Ark and Jazz responded to a report that Bruticus was on board. His arrival was cheered by the defending Autobots, but even though Jazz made full use of his grapple and shot Bruticus repeatedly in the face the giant Decepticon seemed unstoppable. However, with the help of air strikes from Jetfire and the Aerialbots, Jazz managed to knock Bruticus off-balance enough for the air strikes to knock him clean off the Ark and back to the Nemesis, but both vessels and parties crash-landed on Earth.

External links

• Jazz Wikipedia
• Jazz TTeletraan 1: The ransformers Database
• Jazz Transformers Wiki

Notes & Trivia

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