Jazz (Transformers)

Lieutenant Jazz

Autobot
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Sub-group	Autobot Cars, Protection Masters, Laser Cycles, Micro Vehicles, Spy Changers
Function	First Lieutenant, Second-in-Command, Head of Special Operations, Saboteur
Rank	8
Partner	Optimus Prime, Cliffjumper
Motto	"Do it with style or don't bother doing it."
Series	Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers: Generation 2 Transformers: Universe Transformers: Alternators Transformers: Titanium Transformers: Reveal the Shield
English voice actor	Scatman Crothers (Television Series, The Movie) Wally Burr (episode "Kremzeek!") Frank Welker (Micromasters commercial)
Japanese voice actor	Kōki Kataoka (Television Series) Kenyū Horiuchi ("The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2") Tōru Furusawa ("Attack of the Autobots") Toshio Ishii (Scramble City OVA) Minoru Inaba (The Movie) Masato Hirano (Headmasters) Kōji Yusa (Q Transformers: Mystery of Convoy)

Jazz

The custom Pontiac Solstice that represents Jazz's alternate mode
Autobot
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Sub-group	Deluxe Vehicles, Fast Action Battlers, Micro Vehicles, Security Forces
Function	First Lieutenant, Second-in-command (2007 film)
Rank	9
Partner	Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Capt. William Lennox, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Sam Witwicky, Mikaela Banes
Motto	"Do it with style or don't bother doing it." "If you got it, you got it, and I got it." "You want a piece of me, you want a piece?! "
Alternate modes	Cybertronian Entry Mode Protoform, Pontiac Solstice GXP Weekend Racer Concept
Series	Transformers Cinematic Universe Transformers (2010)
English voice actor	Darius McCrary (film) Andrew Kishino (2007 video game), Nolan North (2009 video game)
Japanese voice actor	Taiten Kusunoki

Jazz

Animated Jazz toy
Autobot
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Sub-group	Deluxe Vehicles, Elite Guard
Function	Elite Ninja
Rank	8 (Takara)
Motto	"Cybertron is cool, but Earth rules."
Alternate modes	Futuristic Sports Car
Series	Transformers Animated
English voice actor	Phil LaMarr
Japanese voice actor	Hideo Ishikawa

Jazz is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers franchise. He is usually portrayed as a music-loving robot and speaks in slang. He is also Optimus Prime's good friend and right-hand man.

Jazz (Tigre in Italy) is the "very cool, very stylish, very competent" member of the Autobots in the Transformers television and comic series based on the popular toy line produced by Takara and Hasbro. His original vehicle mode is a Martini Porsche 935 turbo racing car. Self-possessed, calm, and utterly collected, Jazz is Prime's subordinate and first lieutenant of the Autobots, as well as head of Special Operations, with his own dedicated roster of agents. He often gives the most dangerous assignments to himself. It's not a matter of ego—he just really is the coolest head for the toughest missions. Jazz's ease extends to whatever environment he finds himself in, no matter how weird or wonderful. He effortlessly tunes into the local culture, assimilating and improvising, and making creative command decisions, making him an indispensable right-hand bot to Optimus Prime.

Jazz was one of the favorite Autobots of IGN.

Jazz was among the Autobots who followed Optimus Prime on his mission aboard the Ark. They were attacked by Megatron's ship, the Nemesis, and crash landed on Earth, where all on board were preserved in emergency stasis. Four million years later, in 1984, a volcanic eruption awakened the Ark's computer, Teletran-I, and it repaired all on board. It reformatted Jazz in the form of an Earth race car. Jazz then became a regular character throughout the show's first two seasons serving as Optimus Prime's second-in-command (Ironhide and Prowl seemed to share this role with him though).