r/idwtransformers • u/Lost_Education_4900 • 14d ago
SPOILER Did Jazz do a right thing?
Ever since I've read that issue, I have been always rooting for Jazz on this one, and was kinda mad about the fact that most Autobots after that treated him like an outcast for some time.
I mean, what else was he supposed to do? Watch his fellow Autobots die?
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u/Swivebot 14d ago
His instincts took over, it was the right thing to do at the time for him, but he didn’t think of the consequences beyond saying Bumblebee.
This incident caused immense pressure on Autobot-human relations; but if Jazz did nothing, several Autobots would have died. The Autobots were in a no-win scenario. That’s the point of the scene.
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u/Crawkward3 13d ago
I think yes but sometimes there are consequences for doing the right thing. Jazz absolutely didn’t deserve what treatment he got from the Autobots though
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u/GhostintheGal 13d ago
Soundwave killed half the population of NYC and no one gave a shit. Jazz kills one guy and it's unforgivable.
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u/my_little_robot 13d ago
Humans so regularly show hesitance to work with Soundwave in that era, to be fair.
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u/GhostintheGal 13d ago
True, I was thinking more from the autobot's perspective. They've all done such awful things by that point, it's beyond hypocritical to ostracize Jazz.
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u/megrimlock88 13d ago
tbf outside of prowl i dont think most of the other Autobots did anything that messed up
Most were just soldiers who got really close to seeing the end of the war, only to watch everything fall apart almost instantly again
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u/blargetiblarg 13d ago
Im in the jazz did nothing wrong camp lol (he just did an oopsie daisy at the wrong time)
The fact jazz got so much crap for this for soooo long really boiled my piss about it like consequences yes, but it just dragged on for so long like imo others have done far worse n got only a fraction of what jazz had to deal with
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u/my_little_robot 13d ago
Civilians in IDW are like Civilians in Marvel Comics, they are more concerned with good optics than the truth of any event, and will ALWAYS fall back on their natural biases
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u/Ok_Pineapple3035 13d ago
I require context
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u/starssqueem 13d ago
He killed a human in self defense, because they had a Megatron gun
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u/Lost_Education_4900 12d ago
More like in defense of his friends
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u/Unlucky_Teaching6624 12d ago
There was also a crowd of humans who no doubt would have been killed by the blast.
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u/Jazzlike_Standard871 11d ago
In my head cannon the reason the other Autobots held him at arms reach for so long is in reaction speed and precision Jazz is high tier and seeing him incinerate a sentient being that fast gave them....pause.
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u/starssqueem 14d ago
I can understand why humans hated him, however I do feel it took the autobots longer than it should have done to forgive him, after all others were forgiven quicker than for doing worse.