Jazz (G1)

===IDW comics continuity===
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What appears to be a pre-war Jazz was a member of the Kaon Security Services, where he spent many an hour being bored to death by Prowl.  How little things change.  {{storylink| Megatron_Origin_issue_2|Megatron Origin #2}}
[[Image:IDW_Jazz.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Whoops!  I better wind down my woofers!]]

At some point during the war, a mysterious Autobot (Jazz, though only a few actually know that) rescued a young warrior named [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], the only survivor from his sqaud.  However the rescue craft was destroyed and the two Autobots were forced to run from the [[Predacons (G1)|Predacons]]. Tracks was sure they were dead bots walking, being hunted by Megatron's elite party, but Jazz told him that they weren't lost so long as they could keep fighting.  Amazingly, Jazz defeated three of the Predacons in a matter of seconds, disabling [[Tantrum (G1)|Tantrum]] in hand to hand, while tricking [[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] and [[Headstrong]] to blow themselves up.  Jazz told Tracks to flee while he confronted the remaining pair of Decepticons despite concerns regarding his condition, but, inspired, Tracks managed to disable [[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] in a nearly suicidal impact.  Jazz was left to confront [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] and landed several crushing blows but eventually lost the upper hand to his opponent and was nearly defeated when a secondary rescue squad saved the pair.  During the exile on Cybertron, Tracks would recount the story of the mystery Autobot to inspire his fellow troops.{{storylink|Spotlight: Jazz}}

Jazz was part of a detachment of Autobots that operated covertly on [[Earth]] for at least four years, attempting to foil a Decepticon insurgency. His role within the Autobot detachment has not been revealed as of yet. He got a crash course in Earth culture from [[Verity Carlo]] and her friends, and was surprised to find the emotionless, dead-eyed fixed smile on his [[holomatter]] avatar creeped people out. {{storylink|Escalation issue 1}} He and [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] were sent to locate (what was thought to be at the time) [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]'s remains, only to discover [[Machination]] agents had arrived first.  Both managed to survive their surprisingly formidable attack, though Jazz' pride took some time to recover.{{storylink| Escalation issue 2|Escalation #2}}  He later participated in the battle with the Decepticons at [[Brasnya]], forcing Skywarp into a tactical retreat...again with assistance from Wheeljack. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5|Escalation #5}}

Jazz was aboard the ''[[Ark-19]]'' when it was shot down by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] and he was seriously injured by the Decepticon "living weapon" during the subsequent battle - Sixshot tore off his left arm with apparent ease. {{storylink| Devastation issue 4| Devastation #4}} He was still injured when Optimus Prime ordered the Autobots to leave Earth for [[Garrus-9]]. {{storylink| Devastation issue 6| Devastation #6}}

A year later, he was serving in a high command position; Optimus was severely injured and the Autobots were hiding on Cybertron, so whatever put him in this role wasn't fun. Prowl brought him some bad news, which left Jazz despondent. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 1}}
Jazz watched Prowl and Ironhide fight about who betrayed the Autobots to the Decepticons, which ended with Prowl getting punched in the face by Ironhide. Jazz then had to break up the fight, and sent Ironhide off. Then he talked to Prowl about the little energon they have left to keep Optimus Prime alive. Later, he talked to Ironhide about who betrayed them, and Jazz told Ironhide to leave things alone for now. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 4}}

After finding Hot Rod, Jazz and the other Autobots listend to how Hot Rod and the others got on Cybertron. Then Kup and his team of Autobots arrived. Things were tense between the two Autobot teams for a moment, with Jazz feeling the need to prove himself to Kup (much to the regret of [[Blurr (G1)|three]] [[Springer (G1)|seperate]] [[Kup (G1)|faces]]), but the two teams soon joined forces. Then Jazz took Kup to show him how badly damaged Optimus Prime was, and told him that Megatron had taken the Matrix. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5}}

Kup took over command of the combined teams, usurping it placing Jazz as his second in command using a threat of top secret knowledge of Jazz's past missions to do so.{{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6}}

Jazz eventually got over it and worked with Kup, filling him in on how the Autobots of Earth had been so completely defeated. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 7}}

Jazz eventually travelled back to Earth with the rest of the Autobots to defend Earth and took part in the great battle in New York City.

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