Being underexposed in the movie doesn't make his death any less heroic.
Let's examine the sequence of events...
1. We see Devastator roll in - humans in danger! It is Jazz who leads the counter-offensive against Devastator - he is the first to roll followed by Ratchet, the U.S. Army and Ironhide).
2. As you can see at the end of that clip, when Megatron arrives and more humans are endangered, it is Jazz who tells the others to flee, takes out his shield and makes a stand against Megatron to buy the others precious time.
Pretty much. He went down fighting - trying his best to delay Megatron as long as he could. And the taunting was part of that diversionary tactic (and also part of psychological warfare - 90% of a fight is psychological) not to mention an act of defiance - by that stage Jazz knew he was done for. But he wasn't going down without a big "eff you!" to Megatron. It's similar to that scene in Saving Private Ryan where we see Tom Hanks' character shooting at a German tank with a pistol. There's no way that pistol was going to do anything to that tank - it was nothing more than a symbolic gesture of defiance to say "you're not taking me without a fight." Ditto Chewbacca.Originally Posted by springah
It wasn't the most magnificent of deaths, but MOST deaths in war aren't! Disease killed more soldiers than enemy bullets in Gallipoli because they lived in filthy trenches where they urinated and excreted inside their own uniforms. Forget notions of heroism, that kind of death is utterly humiliating and lacking in dignity - you wouldn't want an animal to die that way. Sadly that is the nature of war.
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