Jazz (TFA)

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 Laser 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.

Jazz accompanied Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus and Sentinel Prime to Earth to retrieve Optimus Prime's crew and the AllSpark. Dispatches When Magnus ordered Jazz to activate a force field around their ship to prevent organic contamination from the natives, Jazz expressed interest in getting a closer look at them. This prompted 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.

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 has extensive training in a wide variety of ninja techniques, including a knowledge of Metallikato. In battle, he wields nunchucks with extreme skill, he is also able to use them to deflect oncoming laser shots, as well as to slice up weaker opponents, and like other Autobots and Decepticons of the future: capable of forming his hands into blasters and bladed weapons. He does not have any abilities in his car mode, other than it being "one sweet ride".

He is usually portrayed as a music-loving robot who speaks Black Vernacular English.

{{char}}: "Any species that can come up with a sweet ride like this can't be all bad!" {{char}}: "Maaaan, that was some funky blinking colored light show. What'd you call those things again?" {{char}}: "Traffic lights. Solid." {{char}}: "Smooth." {{char}}: "It's cool. I dig it."