The Basics Drinking Game: Take a shot when... - "from the Diaclone toyline." - [character] was characterized by Marvel Comics writer Bob Budiansky as... - "toy was discontinued in" - "the heeedmahsters" - "offlined by a cosmically powered Starscream" - "The next time he appeared was in [Beast Era/RID/Unicron Trilogy-era series], though he was unrecognizable." - "[Animated character] was planned to [resolve their character arc], but these plans never came to fruition." - Aligned or Cyberverse incarnations being just the G1 version - finally got actual character in IDW/did nothing important whatsoever in IDW - Cyberverse gets a footnote Makers of The Basics Drinking Game not liable for damages.
"In the comic, meanwhile, injuries inflicted by a Decepticon-controlled copy of Optimus Prime did take Jazz offline." Oh ok. "but he was revived to feature in further stories exclusive to the UK comic." Nice. "before eventually being deactivated once more." Don't you dare. "one of the many victims felled by a cosmically-powered Starscream." *OH COME ON.*
I love how Jazz has kept both his essence and basic design consistent throughout the entirety of the franchise, not even Megatron can boast about that, hell, not even Bumblebee or Optimus can. Maybe Shockwave and Doritoness aside, Starscream.
Megatron design has changed qlot when it comes to series to series. Unlike prime where he is for the most part recognizable in each series. Megatron is not.
@@manjackson2772 true, shockwave acts really different sometimes he's less cruel othertimes he has an accent, starscreams colours are mostly consistant he almost always has red and white on his armor
Derrick Threex technically.... there are two still alive if you include the live action movies. Jazz from the Bay movie era was voiced by Darius Mccrary (aka Eddy Winslow from “Family Matters”)
Jazz being voiced by the Great Scatman Crothers in the original Transformers series instantly made him my Second Favorite Autobot next to Optimus Prime when I was a kid.
He passed away during season three of G1 if memory serves so he was never Samurai Jack. Unless you're thinking of another character with the same name.
6:06 Worth noting that Jazz is one of the very few Bay-era movie transformers to resemble his G1 counterpart in anyway, which can be seen in the head design. Very few other Bay-era designs do, it's pretty much only Optimus, Long Haul, and Jazz
1. jazz 2nd could be evasion mode of optimus prime if he had red and blue collors other bayverse looks nothing like their g1 okay scream dorito has cockpit on his chest okay shockave has one eye okay soundwave has that antennas on Helmet what looks like the horns on the decepticons logo okay bumblebee is yellow etc...but Jazz is rly like his g1 the helmet with visor looks like Jazz's classic helmet with ears like the antennas horns type things on the side of his Helmet something similar has optimus too, his visor on his eyes, chest is the front of his car, the legs have detailes similarities to g1 legs and the personality is lit a bit changed but still great nice cool and chill guy idk why people call him stereotype...how can be living alien robot who can Transform to car be....he is not human and he just adapted to slang..he is not like Mudflap with skids.
The only thing you left out of his Fall of Cybertron appearance is how he worked with Jetfire to defeat Bruticus in order to protect the Ark's engines. Besides that, I always liked Jazz and he's one of the few guys who has stayed solidly liked throughout the years (mostly due to his consistent character)
Jazz has always been another favourite of mine. And, personally, as well as his G1 self, I've always enjoyed his Animated incarnation the most. Not only is he sleek and down to earth cool, but he's also a Ninja! :) Plus, he was voiced by Phil Lamar, and I always enjoy his work. ^.^
@A guy with an anime Profile Pic Because I can Studio Series 86 is a continuation of Earthrise and WFC Trilogy subline anyway, so technically we got earthrise Jazz now lol
The G1 line-up will always have a special place in my heart, and I loved Jazz being Prime's majordomo but also the cool cat that he was, it felt... not really progressive but entirely natural that his personality and implied ethnicity never got in the way of his skills, rank, and how he fills his responsibilities. Once again, thanks for the amazing video, I'd definitely say you did it with style and I found it worth watching! Jazz's consistency between generations means that I love seeing him wherever he pops up, just like how I'm always happy to check my subscriptions and find a new Basics video!
Jazz was clearly the Autobots 2nd in command in the first 3 episodes (pilot) I think due to Scatman's other commitments as a musician he couldn't really commit to Jazz like they wanted. So he wasn't seen as that 2nd in command anymore.
I read that eerie marvel uk story when I was 7, back in 1985 and it stuck with me for years. Absolutely fantastic with amazing artwork for the era. An Autobot had crashed into a hill in the middle ages and become part of UK mythology.
I'd have Jazz and/or Blaster dj one of my parties any day! What I admired about Jazz in G1 was that he had this seemingly laid back attitude and didn't take much too seriously (i.e. joking around and dancing), but when the time came to work he got shit done. The former aspect of his personality didn't transfer well into the comics, but he was tops at accomplishing the tasks and making some hard decisions on the fly, obviously. Michael Bay can take a flying leap for not showing respect.
No matter what the incarnation or the era...Jazz will forever be eternally awesome. One of the greatest Transformers if all time. When I went to Comic-Con a few years ago, I had the chance to meet Phil La Marr (who voiced Jazz in Animated). Needless to say, it was a cool experience. And I told him his voice-work was worthy of the late, great Scatman Crothers. Phil told me that for the first auditions, he did an impersonation of Scatman, and the producers immediately said, “No! Just do it like Phil La Marr would!” And the result worked. La Marr’s voice work was distinctive and just as cool for Jazz.
While I didn't get to own Jazz's 2008 TF: Universe Legion Class toy, I happen to own his POTP toy and 2015RID toy. Looking forward to see if Jazz gets full figure in Cyberverse as his only toy for now is One-Step Changer toy.
IDW comics must be something special. Because if I had a quarter for every time Chris said “this character’s most prominent role was in the IDW comic line” I’d be a rich man.
Original: I wish the 1984 toy had still been on shelves in 1986, just as the same-aged Bumblebee and Starscream had. Overall, more continuity between cartoon and catalogues would have been great. Live Action: One of the three key things I would change in the 2007 movie is which Autobot died. The death of Jazz was pathetic and he would frankly have been a more cautious and shrewd fighter. I would rather it have been Ironhide who almost matched Megatron in battle till the Decepticon resorted to his twin arm blast.
Jazz has become one of my favorite characters from Transformers. I understand why he died (in a sense) for the 2007 movie, but I wish he could have been in the final battle a bit longer. Though Mirage is cool, I still personally think Jazz would have been a better choice for Rise of the Beasts. I hope we get to see him again soon in live-action.
Jazz was the first Transformers toy that I got in the 80's. That right I had A G1 Jazz the coolest Autobot and one of the greatest transformers of all time. To All Are One. Thank you for all of the basics video's you put up and please keep them coming. Now Roll Out to the next one.
Characterization: G1, of course. The thing with Jazz & Cliffjumper was their voice actors; Casey Kasem quit because he didn't like the stereotypical portrayal of Arabic people in the show. Scatman Crothers died somewhere between the end of production of the movie and the start of production of season 3; it's why he's *seen*, but doesn't say anything. Animated Jazz is a close second, pretty much THE best characterization on screen outside of G1. And QUITTING the Elite Guard!? Damn, they should've let Animated go for another season or two!! Toy: The Reveal the Shield "Special Ops" Jazz is by far my favorite. Granted, there's a couple of missed cues: NO shoulder rocket launcher, the Prowl style door wings, and then NO retooling for Stepper/Ricochet (the Takara exclusive via Million Publishing) to have a 5mm port in vehicle mode for Nightstick to actually be useful there, but, it's still THE BEST modern interpretation of a G1 Jazz. Animated Jazz is a close second, specifically the 2007 Movie colored "Freeway Jazz" repaint (which really needs to be done for the Reveal the Shield figure). And MPM9 could be a favorite for fans of previous Movie Jazz figures due to its...ability. 😏😏😏😏😏
The demise of Animated still lingers as one of the worst decisions Hasbro has made in recent memory. Hell, if they were somehow able to get a deal with Cartoon Network, or were able to get a new, consistent team to animate it, the show could have been what they used to jumpstart the launch of The Hub.
It's ya boi! Edit: If I hear "cosmically powered Starscream" I'm gonna flip out 🤣🤣🤣 Edit 2: !!! Cyberverse Jazz is gonna be awesome! Cyberverse is pretty entertaining so far so I'm sure Jazz will add a lot of fun to the show.
@@slave7022 that's pretty true. How are you enjoying the show so far? Tbh, it's getting much more of my involvement and emotion then I thought it would 🤣
I think the reason jazz has never really changed in any way is because he's set to his name. When you have a bot with the name 'Jazz' it kinda sets up his character as a music lover. Unlike a bot like cliffjumper, swindle or sideswipe
I'm surprised you didn't mention the brief time Hasbro lost rights to the name Jazz. I have they Alternators toy where they had to call him Meister. Then there was a time they had to call him Autobot Jazz before they could go back to just calling him Jazz.
Scatman was awesome, always read the comics in his voice but it took me a while to get used to him doing Jazz at first due to all of those Hong Kong Phooey episodes he also provided the voice for.
Jazz is honestly one of my favorite transformers I’m always sad that he’s not really relevant in a lot of shows. Def wish him being Optimus’ best friend was a more common thing
Great Stuff as always. Your work is always _reliably_ kind, conscientious, thorough and (because of your voice, enthusiasm, understanding and appreciation of the material) highly re-watchable. Please keep up the good work on this platform which is not the kind of place you’d find such decency normally. This channel is definitely on a short list of sane TH-cam content. So far so good! Jazz was hard to come by as a kid, and as a favorite he was a poor choice to be killed off in such a manner in the 2007 film _(just another reason to avoid politics in children’s content. Edit: and if anyone asks just consider Skids and Mudflap in the follow-up film. Those are terrible optics)._ When I was personally going through a rough patch I deeply desired the Human Alliance action figure of Jazz based on the film as it was the most screen accurate version at the time. I’m glad (that despite being the smallest) Hasbro managed to keep and update some of the most essential aspects of this character’s design. I couldn’t manage a collection at this time, but once I get the chance Jazz will definitely be on one of my shelves, among others. Great Stuff, _as always._
6:31 that would explain why he appeared in transformers 2 but only in the video as a dlc only but maybe hopefully in transformers 6 I hope the surviving autobots can used the all sparks to revive all the defeated autobots that fought there best to succeed we hope they will revive them
Ahh! I’ve been waiting for this episode! Jazz is one of my favorite Autobots alongside Cliffjumper. Didn’t know about that mission in Fall of Cybertron. But knowing that exists makes me extremely happy! Funny how Jazz became one of my favorites despite my introduction to the franchise being the 1986 movie when I was a tiny child. (funnily enough, also working alongside Cliffjumper.) But his voice and way of talking always stuck out in my mind. And when I subsequently watched the G1 Cartoon, I really enjoyed the way he obsessed over Earth Culture. Maybe I’m projecting a bit. But I have asperger’s syndrome. A type of autism. And his obsession with Earth reminds me of how I hyper obsess over things I like. It’s relatable. I’m always happy to see him make a return, and if I ever find an original G1 toy of him, I just might completely freak out.
Characters such as Jazz are the reason why I wish Transformers Animated had a season 4. Maybe one day there could be a revival or a fan project, but I don't see that coming any time soon. He deserved so much better, and he deserved to have that character arc come to fruition, especially after watching Prowl sacrifice himself to save Detroit and defeat Megatron. After all, Jazz IS technically a teacher in the Animated franchise because he had to train the twins and then helped Prowl finish his training. Something hitting hard like that probably would have been the final reason to leave the Elite Guard.
My absolute favourite Transformers character; hell he was the basis for my screen-name. I would have to say the Bayverse design is my favourite; the silver version of the animated one is great as well. Looking at your video and seeing the FOC toy; I hope they remake that into a Siege form.
God I love this channel, I love the TRANSFORMERS, BACK in 1985 86 , 5 of us right after high school we would walk right to our friends house 20 min walk, on our way there we were preparing go there and watch tv, first THUNDERCATS then I G.I. JOE. HE-MAN THEN OUR FAVORITE TRANSFORMERS WE Loved it. We diidnt care if it was a rerun. So for almost 2 school years we did this. They great times.....miss them
Jazz may have died early but he got something none of the other autobots from the first movie got: a respectable death. Ironhide? Shot in the back by Sentinel Ratchet? Hunted by humans and killed by lockdown Optimus? Stabbed in the back by Megatron (granted this was after basically winning a 3 on 1 fight) Jazz on the other hand? He had the balls to fight Megatron *alone*! Megatron was like 3, maybe even 4 times his size; the only other Autobot with the balls to fight Megatron alone was Optimus and he was twice Jazz's size! A bad ass through and through
@@twistedgaming9185 It was interesting to find out that millions of years before human race was born Jazz already had his slang, he didn't copy human culture, human culture copied him.
I wonder why the position of his wheels in robot mode can never be agreed on. Wheels on top of his shoulders or wheels behind his shoulders? If Mirage and Trailbreaker get Official Masterpiece treatment, I wonder what could be done to force Porsche's hand to allow the 1984 Masterpiece Autobot Cars to be completed.
I absolutely love jazz! Hes one of my all time favorites! Hes such a cool, chill, groovin, and smooth talkin dude! Love his design and personality! Just about every incarnation is phenomenal! G1 jazz is ICONIC, and I also love animated Jazz voices by the incredible legend Phil Lamarr! Such a damn good classic character! ❤😁👍🏻 :')
One of my favorites as a kid (but I was a bayverse child) when he got killed off so quick I went around and found his old versions. I think I owned like... 3 jazz figures I wish I didn’t loose them all
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The Basics Drinking Game: Take a shot when...
- "from the Diaclone toyline."
- [character] was characterized by Marvel Comics writer Bob Budiansky as...
- "toy was discontinued in"
- "the heeedmahsters"
- "offlined by a cosmically powered Starscream"
- "The next time he appeared was in [Beast Era/RID/Unicron Trilogy-era series], though he was unrecognizable."
- "[Animated character] was planned to [resolve their character arc], but these plans never came to fruition."
- Aligned or Cyberverse incarnations being just the G1 version
- finally got actual character in IDW/did nothing important whatsoever in IDW
- Cyberverse gets a footnote
Makers of The Basics Drinking Game not liable for damages.
-Beast flesh and Transformer metal fused at the cellular level.
-BotCon, the official Transformers convention.
-the Deaaaaaaad Universe.
Are you trying to kill everyone
Annnnnnd I’m drunk 🥴
No, you fool! You'll see us all dead of alcohol poisoning!
I tried this and I got offlined by cosmically powered starscream
"In the comic, meanwhile, injuries inflicted by a Decepticon-controlled copy of Optimus Prime did take Jazz offline."
Oh ok.
"but he was revived to feature in further stories exclusive to the UK comic."
Nice.
"before eventually being deactivated once more."
Don't you dare.
"one of the many victims felled by a cosmically-powered Starscream."
*OH COME ON.*
He also looked like Judge Dredd for some reason.
He is what I call a *prime* character
Some one that they just like to kill and bring back
@@cupcakeprime559 XD
DrXshock " *OH COME ON* " is a pretty appropriate reaction towards......THAT
Are we gonna ignore when Fall of Cybertron Jazz fought flippin' Bruticus and won!? If that doesn't spell awesome, I don't know what does.
Firebrand128 With Jetfire/Skyfire, as well as a couple random Autobots who almost always die freaking immediately’s help*
@@tracytron7162 True, but he did a lot of the heavy lifting. Still awesome.
@@tracytron7162 XD
Firebrand128 that is what i call awesome
"Don't worry, I'll just keep shootin' until somethin' breaks!"
“Do it with style, or don’t do it at all.”
- Jazz
"We gotta blast free/if we can."
I agree to that though.
I love how Jazz has kept both his essence and basic design consistent throughout the entirety of the franchise, not even Megatron can boast about that, hell, not even Bumblebee or Optimus can. Maybe Shockwave and Doritoness aside, Starscream.
Shockwave has had wildly different personalities, and Starscream looks totally different in Armada and the Bayvies.
Yeah Unicron Trilogy Optimus was starkly different enough from his classic appearance
His glory his grace his a dorito from space!
Megatron design has changed qlot when it comes to series to series. Unlike prime where he is for the most part recognizable in each series. Megatron is not.
@@manjackson2772 true, shockwave acts really different sometimes he's less cruel othertimes he has an accent, starscreams colours are mostly consistant he almost always has red and white on his armor
Fun Fact: Jazz was one of the few transformers voiced by an African American. The other being Devastator and Blaster.
Of the 3, Arthur Burghardt (Devastator) is the only one still alive.
Derrick Threex technically.... there are two still alive if you include the live action movies. Jazz from the Bay movie era was voiced by Darius Mccrary (aka Eddy Winslow from “Family Matters”)
What?????!!!!! I never knew buster Jones was African American
Does that ,ake jazz black
Zebulen Yager He was the replacement voice actor of Winston Zeddmore in The Real Ghostbusters, after Arsenio Hall.
Jazz being voiced by the Great Scatman Crothers in the original Transformers series instantly made him my Second Favorite Autobot next to Optimus Prime when I was a kid.
Literally no one:
A Cosmic-ly Powered Starscream: "It's free real estate."
You've combined some of the two worst internet fads.
Congratulations.
@@youtubedj9298 it's called memes boomer
@@tausiftaha12 they were joking along boomer
@@sizzler9731 10 months ago, sorry if I didn't understand that.
I can never forgive bay for killing jazz off so quickly in the movie verse
He would've died later on anyway
@@OFFlClALTH-cam better later than the first damn movie
The moment the movies lost me.
Ah! Michael Bay, a disgrace to the true Transformers fans!
@@ubserrano8180 What even is a "true fan"?
Chris: What’s your favourite version of Jazz?
Me: Yes.
All Jazz's are good Jazz's. I think the worst would be Bayverse but he was literally the only one with somewhat of a personality
Mine was the the Animated version voiced by Phil Lamarr.
Fall of cybertron Jazz looks awesome
@@carktheshark Which is why he had to die. ::sigh::
@@carktheshark how is bayverse the worst.
G1 - The personality, voice and robot mode are what made him great.
Definitely! When I was a kid he was a smooth talking brother with a voice of GOLD!
Jazz is one of the best characters thanks to his personality.
So easily recognizable and just as easily loved.
Jazz?
As I believe the Earthlings say, lay it on me, man.
Dang, I was hoping there would be a shout out about Jazz's voice actor being HONG KONG PHOOEY! or in Animated- SAMURAI JACK! Jazz is just a cool dude!
@@GalacticHappyHour same
He was also in the Aristocats (Scatcat) and also appeared in The Shining.
He passed away during season three of G1 if memory serves so he was never Samurai Jack. Unless you're thinking of another character with the same name.
@@ShadowWingTronix He specified "In animated" meaning he's talking about two different voice actors playing Hong Kong Phooey and Samurai Jack
Okay, I didn't catch that. Yes, Phil LaMarr did both Jack and Animated Jazz. My error.
You should do the basics on everyone who was killed by “The Cosmically Powered Starscream”
That would be longer than the eventual basics on Optimus Prime
You mean “offlined”, right?
@@chunky_kit-kat1343 offlined deactivated killed basically the same
@@drxshock6957 You are right.
Oh you're a Transformers fan? Name every character killed by a cosmically powered Starscream
I'm convinced it was Scatman Crother's top tier voice work that saved Jazz from the scrap heap after his toy was discontinued.
6:06
Worth noting that Jazz is one of the very few Bay-era movie transformers to resemble his G1 counterpart in anyway, which can be seen in the head design. Very few other Bay-era designs do, it's pretty much only Optimus, Long Haul, and Jazz
Long haul? Other than transforming into a dump truck, his robot mode looks nothing like his g1 version.
@@billyr2904 he's got both the color and the alt mode right, more than you can say for bumblebee or ratchet for example
1. jazz 2nd could be evasion mode of optimus prime if he had red and blue collors other bayverse looks nothing like their g1 okay scream dorito has cockpit on his chest okay shockave has one eye okay soundwave has that antennas on Helmet what looks like the horns on the decepticons logo okay bumblebee is yellow etc...but Jazz is rly like his g1 the helmet with visor looks like Jazz's classic helmet with ears like the antennas horns type things on the side of his Helmet something similar has optimus too, his visor on his eyes, chest is the front of his car, the legs have detailes similarities to g1 legs and the personality is lit a bit changed but still great nice cool and chill guy idk why people call him stereotype...how can be living alien robot who can Transform to car be....he is not human and he just adapted to slang..he is not like Mudflap with skids.
Video hasn't even started playing and I already liked and commented on this. Jazz is my favorite character out of all the Transformers.
I always thought Jazz was phased out of the cartoon due to Scatman Crother’s death.
That was probably part of it
That is why his cameos post-movie were non-speaking and faded out by the latter half the season, yes.
I came just to say this as well. Important part of his history. Kinda sucks it was left out amongst all the other facts
@@SwiftpawWolffox ikr
Nah, Scatman Crothers died after Season 3 was done recording. There were all of two episodes left in the season by that point.
3:35 GUESS WHO'S BACK, BACK AGAIN, COSMICALLY POWERED STARCREAM'S BACK, TELL A FRIEND. (And hope he doesn't kill you)
The friend or Starscream?
I loved Jazz in TFA, he was so likable!
Then why did you kill him!?
YUP!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!😂
Starscream Megatron wants to speak with you.
Me too
The only thing you left out of his Fall of Cybertron appearance is how he worked with Jetfire to defeat Bruticus in order to protect the Ark's engines. Besides that, I always liked Jazz and he's one of the few guys who has stayed solidly liked throughout the years (mostly due to his consistent character)
I liked the gen 1 and Animated Jazz the most. They seemed to have the most character development and best writing, I thought.
Best Jazz? Of course the G1 Jazz, followed by the animated Jazz!
Facts
Which G1 Jazz? (Get it because there so many versions of G1)
Jazz and Soundwave were my favorite G1 characters :) I was so happy they made it through the original movie as a kid.
Do people want a piece of this episode? Or do they want two?
I know Megatron does.
👆🥴
NO! I WANT TWO!
Yes
Jazz has always been another favourite of mine. And, personally, as well as his G1 self, I've always enjoyed his Animated incarnation the most. Not only is he sleek and down to earth cool, but he's also a Ninja! :) Plus, he was voiced by Phil Lamar, and I always enjoy his work. ^.^
Heres hopeing we get an earthrise jazz
Hell probably be a retool of the prowl mold
I would love that! :D
@A guy with an anime Profile Pic Because I can Studio Series 86 is a continuation of Earthrise and WFC Trilogy subline anyway, so technically we got earthrise Jazz now lol
The G1 line-up will always have a special place in my heart, and I loved Jazz being Prime's majordomo but also the cool cat that he was, it felt... not really progressive but entirely natural that his personality and implied ethnicity never got in the way of his skills, rank, and how he fills his responsibilities.
Once again, thanks for the amazing video, I'd definitely say you did it with style and I found it worth watching! Jazz's consistency between generations means that I love seeing him wherever he pops up, just like how I'm always happy to check my subscriptions and find a new Basics video!
Jazz was voiced by Darius McCrary (Eddie Winslow) in the Bayformers movie
Uuuuntil he was insta-killed in the first few mins of the final fight.
Jazz was clearly the Autobots 2nd in command in the first 3 episodes (pilot) I think due to Scatman's other commitments as a musician he couldn't really commit to Jazz like they wanted. So he wasn't seen as that 2nd in command anymore.
The character was discontinued 1986, the year Scatman died.
I read that eerie marvel uk story when I was 7, back in 1985 and it stuck with me for years. Absolutely fantastic with amazing artwork for the era. An Autobot had crashed into a hill in the middle ages and become part of UK mythology.
I'd have Jazz and/or Blaster dj one of my parties any day!
What I admired about Jazz in G1 was that he had this seemingly laid back attitude and didn't take much too seriously (i.e. joking around and dancing), but when the time came to work he got shit done. The former aspect of his personality didn't transfer well into the comics, but he was tops at accomplishing the tasks and making some hard decisions on the fly, obviously.
Michael Bay can take a flying leap for not showing respect.
No matter what the incarnation or the era...Jazz will forever be eternally awesome. One of the greatest Transformers if all time.
When I went to Comic-Con a few years ago, I had the chance to meet Phil La Marr (who voiced Jazz in Animated). Needless to say, it was a cool experience. And I told him his voice-work was worthy of the late, great Scatman Crothers. Phil told me that for the first auditions, he did an impersonation of Scatman, and the producers immediately said, “No! Just do it like Phil La Marr would!”
And the result worked. La Marr’s voice work was distinctive and just as cool for Jazz.
Jazz: *eats the energon cake
Jazz to Bumblebee: You wanna piece?
Megatron: I want too!
God damn it
Dang man but that's clever
Beast Wars megatron: yessss
Was so happy to see him in Transformers One. Also, I wish we saw Jazz in TF Prime instead of Smokescreen.
"Roger me! Wilco me! Hello, hello, Earth!" That line from the movie gets me every time.
While I didn't get to own Jazz's 2008 TF: Universe Legion Class toy, I happen to own his POTP toy and 2015RID toy. Looking forward to see if Jazz gets full figure in Cyberverse as his only toy for now is One-Step Changer toy.
IDW comics must be something special. Because if I had a quarter for every time Chris said “this character’s most prominent role was in the IDW comic line” I’d be a rich man.
Original: I wish the 1984 toy had still been on shelves in 1986, just as the same-aged Bumblebee and Starscream had. Overall, more continuity between cartoon and catalogues would have been great.
Live Action: One of the three key things I would change in the 2007 movie is which Autobot died. The death of Jazz was pathetic and he would frankly have been a more cautious and shrewd fighter. I would rather it have been Ironhide who almost matched Megatron in battle till the Decepticon resorted to his twin arm blast.
Great video for a great character! I've always considered him a core Autobot.
About time jazz was on here. This has been one of my favorite episodes yet
The basics on the basics would be amazing because i would like to see his process for making these because they are amazing
Jazz is one of the coolest characters from the TF franchise. Animated is my personal favourite and I wish the show got that 4th season.
The movie version had a great personality and movement. I would have loved to see him dance-fighting more Cons.
You can also see Scatman in the dark comedy classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
I love jazz he one of the coolest transformers ever
Sideswipe is the coolest Autobot that I've seen, Shockwave is the coolest Decepticon, and Lockdown is the coolest badass without a side.
The 2 main things I will always remember Jazz by.
1) His bromance with Cliffjumper in Fall of Cybertron.
2) "What's crackin' bi-"
Jazz has always been one of my favorites , i was sad in what happened in the BAYformers , but with a new movie continuity he has a chance again
Scatman has background in jazz music...hence, it is fitting that he voiced Jazz in the G1 animated series
Still one of my favorite Transformers ever! Happy to see him get his episode finally.
Jazz has become one of my favorite characters from Transformers. I understand why he died (in a sense) for the 2007 movie, but I wish he could have been in the final battle a bit longer. Though Mirage is cool, I still personally think Jazz would have been a better choice for Rise of the Beasts. I hope we get to see him again soon in live-action.
TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE sadly marked the last time we would hear Scatman Crothers doing the voice of Jazz.
Jazz was the first Transformers toy that I got in the 80's. That right I had A G1 Jazz the coolest Autobot and one of the greatest transformers of all time. To All Are One. Thank you for all of the basics video's you put up and please keep them coming. Now Roll Out to the next one.
This video: * exists *
Prowl: * busts down door * open up
The jazz one off where he fights the predicons guerrilla style was so sick
Characterization: G1, of course. The thing with Jazz & Cliffjumper was their voice actors; Casey Kasem quit because he didn't like the stereotypical portrayal of Arabic people in the show. Scatman Crothers died somewhere between the end of production of the movie and the start of production of season 3; it's why he's *seen*, but doesn't say anything.
Animated Jazz is a close second, pretty much THE best characterization on screen outside of G1. And QUITTING the Elite Guard!? Damn, they should've let Animated go for another season or two!!
Toy: The Reveal the Shield "Special Ops" Jazz is by far my favorite. Granted, there's a couple of missed cues: NO shoulder rocket launcher, the Prowl style door wings, and then NO retooling for Stepper/Ricochet (the Takara exclusive via Million Publishing) to have a 5mm port in vehicle mode for Nightstick to actually be useful there, but, it's still THE BEST modern interpretation of a G1 Jazz. Animated Jazz is a close second, specifically the 2007 Movie colored "Freeway Jazz" repaint (which really needs to be done for the Reveal the Shield figure). And MPM9 could be a favorite for fans of previous Movie Jazz figures due to its...ability. 😏😏😏😏😏
The demise of Animated still lingers as one of the worst decisions Hasbro has made in recent memory. Hell, if they were somehow able to get a deal with Cartoon Network, or were able to get a new, consistent team to animate it, the show could have been what they used to jumpstart the launch of The Hub.
Wait... What's the "ability"?
Jazz was not in cyberverse but he was mentioned in the episode wild wild wheel as a cameo
It's ya boi!
Edit: If I hear "cosmically powered Starscream" I'm gonna flip out 🤣🤣🤣
Edit 2: !!! Cyberverse Jazz is gonna be awesome! Cyberverse is pretty entertaining so far so I'm sure Jazz will add a lot of fun to the show.
Carrie Thomas COSMIC POWERED STARSCREAM .
@@shadowclaw7210 I DID A FLIP BECAUSE OF YOU!
Carrie Thomas You’re welcome Buddy
Is cyberverse, Starcream got pretty close to being "cosmically powerd".
@@slave7022 that's pretty true. How are you enjoying the show so far? Tbh, it's getting much more of my involvement and emotion then I thought it would 🤣
I think the reason jazz has never really changed in any way is because he's set to his name.
When you have a bot with the name 'Jazz' it kinda sets up his character as a music lover.
Unlike a bot like cliffjumper, swindle or sideswipe
That’s why I liked him like I always say stay cool jazz.
I really enjoyed the Animated version. Phil Lamarr really did a good on that role.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the brief time Hasbro lost rights to the name Jazz. I have they Alternators toy where they had to call him Meister. Then there was a time they had to call him Autobot Jazz before they could go back to just calling him Jazz.
6:18: and he was voiced by Darius McCrary (Eddie Winslow from Family Matters)
You had the perfect chance to say "you like jazz?" And you through it away
Animated and FOC Jazz are my favourites by a mile.
Scatman was awesome, always read the comics in his voice but it took me a while to get used to him doing Jazz at first due to all of those Hong Kong Phooey episodes he also provided the voice for.
Jazz was one of my favorites as a kid watching early G1. I always thought he was cool so they did their job there lol.
jazz was not featured in cyberverse ,but he was mentioned by the autobot wild wheel
Please do these in the future
Whirl
Hot rod
Brainstorm
Pipes
Skids
Waspinator
And roadbuster
And Wheelie and Blurr
@@luvblueybingoheeler3150 Please not wheelie
I wonder how many of these were offlined by a cosmically powered Starscream
Elesh Lee whirl and roadbuster weren’t they never showed up in Marvel US
Jazz is honestly one of my favorite transformers I’m always sad that he’s not really relevant in a lot of shows. Def wish him being Optimus’ best friend was a more common thing
Ya my favorite he’s finally here what took so long
I like the idea Jazz is both stylish and fun lover AND a responsible lieutenant for Optimus Prime.
Kinda like work hard, play hard kind of character.
Great Stuff as always.
Your work is always _reliably_ kind, conscientious, thorough and (because of your voice, enthusiasm, understanding and appreciation of the material) highly re-watchable.
Please keep up the good work on this platform which is not the kind of place you’d find such decency normally. This channel is definitely on a short list of sane TH-cam content. So far so good!
Jazz was hard to come by as a kid, and as a favorite he was a poor choice to be killed off in such a manner in the 2007 film _(just another reason to avoid politics in children’s content. Edit: and if anyone asks just consider Skids and Mudflap in the follow-up film. Those are terrible optics)._ When I was personally going through a rough patch I deeply desired the Human Alliance action figure of Jazz based on the film as it was the most screen accurate version at the time. I’m glad (that despite being the smallest) Hasbro managed to keep and update some of the most essential aspects of this character’s design. I couldn’t manage a collection at this time, but once I get the chance Jazz will definitely be on one of my shelves, among others.
Great Stuff, _as always._
Jazz got ripped a new one, by optimus having only said 'awh, jazz' after his death. Im sure he feels th9se words on his way the the allspark
Young autobot:uh... optimus?
Optimus:yes young one
Young autobot:who was starscream?
Optimus:(Vietnam flashback)
6:31 that would explain why he appeared in transformers 2 but only in the video as a dlc only but maybe hopefully in transformers 6 I hope the surviving autobots can used the all sparks to revive all the defeated autobots that fought there best to succeed we hope they will revive them
Ahh! I’ve been waiting for this episode! Jazz is one of my favorite Autobots alongside Cliffjumper. Didn’t know about that mission in Fall of Cybertron. But knowing that exists makes me extremely happy!
Funny how Jazz became one of my favorites despite my introduction to the franchise being the 1986 movie when I was a tiny child. (funnily enough, also working alongside Cliffjumper.) But his voice and way of talking always stuck out in my mind.
And when I subsequently watched the G1 Cartoon, I really enjoyed the way he obsessed over Earth Culture. Maybe I’m projecting a bit. But I have asperger’s syndrome. A type of autism. And his obsession with Earth reminds me of how I hyper obsess over things I like. It’s relatable.
I’m always happy to see him make a return, and if I ever find an original G1 toy of him, I just might completely freak out.
Characters such as Jazz are the reason why I wish Transformers Animated had a season 4. Maybe one day there could be a revival or a fan project, but I don't see that coming any time soon. He deserved so much better, and he deserved to have that character arc come to fruition, especially after watching Prowl sacrifice himself to save Detroit and defeat Megatron. After all, Jazz IS technically a teacher in the Animated franchise because he had to train the twins and then helped Prowl finish his training. Something hitting hard like that probably would have been the final reason to leave the Elite Guard.
Keyan Carlile has you covered, for 4 episodes so far.
My absolute favourite Transformers character; hell he was the basis for my screen-name.
I would have to say the Bayverse design is my favourite; the silver version of the animated one is great as well.
Looking at your video and seeing the FOC toy; I hope they remake that into a Siege form.
Agree but it was strange to see Jazz smaller than Bumblebee.
Unfortunately i thi seige is over. Now its earthrise and back to earthmodes, so if they do make a jazz hell probably be a lot closer to his G1 version
@@Hektols The Pontiac Solstice is a really tiny car, turns out.
I like that in Fall of Cybertron they kept his grappling hook from G1
Jazz: “You want a piece of me?!”
Megatron: “No, I want 2!”
God I love this channel, I love the TRANSFORMERS, BACK in 1985 86 , 5 of us right after high school we would walk right to our friends house 20 min walk, on our way there we were preparing go there and watch tv, first THUNDERCATS then I G.I. JOE. HE-MAN THEN OUR FAVORITE TRANSFORMERS WE Loved it. We diidnt care if it was a rerun. So for almost 2 school years we did this. They great times.....miss them
I'm surprise you didn't mention his grapling hook.
Animated Jazz is my favorite. Voiced by Phil Lamar and he had nunchucks. Kinda had a Black Belt Jones vide!
Jazz may have died early but he got something none of the other autobots from the first movie got: a respectable death.
Ironhide? Shot in the back by Sentinel
Ratchet? Hunted by humans and killed by lockdown
Optimus? Stabbed in the back by Megatron (granted this was after basically winning a 3 on 1 fight)
Jazz on the other hand? He had the balls to fight Megatron *alone*! Megatron was like 3, maybe even 4 times his size; the only other Autobot with the balls to fight Megatron alone was Optimus and he was twice Jazz's size! A bad ass through and through
Jazz will always be my favorite Transformers and the only bot(besides Magnus and Prowl) to be worthy of the title Autobot Second in Command!
2:06 my man just shat out a gun
Jazz is a really cool Autobot, Scatman is a fine voice actor for Jazz and as the Leader of the Harlem Globetrotters, Meadowlark.
Original series and figure wise RTS Spec-Ops Deluxe class!
it's always excellent to see the coolest bot around, and when Jazz appears it's gonna be fun.
Who here likes transformers fall of cybertron jazz
Aye
I loved movie Jazz not only did we get one piece we got two.
@@GalacticHappyHour With Activision no longer having the Transformers game license, it's unlikely to continue.
@@twistedgaming9185 It was interesting to find out that millions of years before human race was born Jazz already had his slang, he didn't copy human culture, human culture copied him.
D.S Black I don’t appreciate this.
My favorite version of jazz and this is no surprise is generation 1 the original!
I wonder why the position of his wheels in robot mode can never be agreed on. Wheels on top of his shoulders or wheels behind his shoulders?
If Mirage and Trailbreaker get Official Masterpiece treatment, I wonder what could be done to force Porsche's hand to allow the 1984 Masterpiece Autobot Cars to be completed.
Trailbreaker already got one
Or *BE* his shoulders
abdiel miranda That’s third party, not masterpiece
I absolutely love jazz! Hes one of my all time favorites! Hes such a cool, chill, groovin, and smooth talkin dude! Love his design and personality! Just about every incarnation is phenomenal! G1 jazz is ICONIC, and I also love animated Jazz voices by the incredible legend Phil Lamarr! Such a damn good classic character! ❤😁👍🏻 :')
I love your videos so much, keep up the good work.
One of my favorites as a kid (but I was a bayverse child) when he got killed off so quick I went around and found his old versions. I think I owned like... 3 jazz figures I wish I didn’t loose them all
Okay but can we appreciate that Chris pronounced 'Nun-chakku' right?
Jazz was my first Transformer back in the day. Thank you for this.
3:28 ugh look at his face
Hes one of the few who never really changed. Im glad he's always had that "smooth criminal" kind of personality