Jesse (G1)
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| The name or term "Jesse" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Jesse (disambiguation). |
- Jesse is a human from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Jesse (also Jessie) is a stunningly-attractive high school student. She attends ballet class, wears fashionable Eighties berets, and—luckily for Buster Witwicky—leaps lustfully into the arms of skinny, bookish, and sensitive boys. She can be a little dense when it comes to others' feelings, but she always apologizes for it.
A few years later, she would grow up to have a slightly more-questionable fashion sense.
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Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
When Jesse was twelve, she went snorkelling with her mom and dad in Key West. She was good at it, but didn't repeat the experience for years afterward. Club Con!
Years afterward, while watching A Kiss for Us at the Community Drive-In, Jesse and Buster were making out in his car (while their friend "O" watched) when it was rear-ended by a mysterious Volkswagen Beetle (surprise, it's Bumblebee!). During the following Decepticon attack, Buster told Jesse and "O" to find help, while he drove away in the Bug. The Transformers Buster was unreachable for some time, which worried Jesse and "O", but while walking about, listening to the Dazzler on their stereo, Buster returned with Bumblebee and explained that he had been caught up in the Autobot/Decepticon war. Buster and Bumblebee drove away before his friends could process this incredible information. Power Play!
Tragically, Buster's father, Sparkplug Witwicky was kidnapped by the evil Decepticons, forcing Buster further into the conflict. As he drove away inside Optimus Prime to rescue his father, Jesse was starstruck by his bravery, though she was terrified for his safety. She knew that he was sensitive, but she had not realized that he was so brave! Prisoner of War! She futilely tried to escape her worries by retreating to her ballet class, but as they watched their neighbors pack up and leave town, even there, the Transformers conflict was made evident. She wondered if she would ever see Buster again. She soon after received news that Buster and his father were at the Greater Portland Medical Center, and came to support Buster as his father recovered from a heart attack. The Last Stand
Afterwards, "O" and Jessie came to visit Buster in his father's autorepair shop. Buster was understandably cross, but his friends made matters worse when they indirectly suggested that autorepair is an easy skill to pick up. Enraged on behalf of his father's profession, Buster shooed his friends out of the garage. Warrior School! After a period of not talking to Buster at school, Jessie surprised Buster by asking him if he would accompany her on a bike ride to the falls. Though she avoided the subject of their recent fight, when her bike's chain suddenly broke, she had no choice but to bring up the subject. She apologized.
Her apology was interrupted by Buster's father, Bumblebee, and Bluestreak, of which the latter two were curious about Buster and Jessie's romantic display. They were further interrupted by an attack from both Laserbeak, who had been spying on them, and later the newly-built Decepticon, Jetfire. Buster stopped the attack by revealing that he had been in possession of the Autobot Creation Matrix for some time, and he used it to disassemble Jetfire dramatically before their eyes. Brainstorm!
Seeking revenge for his prior humiliation, Shockwave ordered Soundwave to abduct Buster. In the wake of Buster's returning the Creation Matrix to Optimus Prime, the Matrix-induced nightmares that remained began to take their toll on Buster and Jessie's relationship, a problem that Sparkplug hoped would be resolved by a trip to the local demolition derby. Soundwave and the Constructicons arrived in the middle of the derby, and when the Constructicons combined into Devastator, Buster grabbed his head and screamed. As he collapsed in Jessie's arms, she cried, assuming the worst. Cradling his limp body, she angrily guarded him as Soundwave advanced. But instead of grabbing the boy, Soundwave became intrigued by the situation and read his mind. His sensors detected within Buster's Matrix-enhanced brain lay the keys to the future of the Transformers race. He abruptly called for a retreat. Jessie loaded Buster, who was now awake, but delirious, into Ratchet, and they hurried back to the Ark. Devastation Derby!
Once Sparkplug, Jessie, and her boyfriend arrived, Optimus Prime decided that the only way to get to the bottom of Buster's visions of a second generation of Transformers was for him to monitor Buster's dreams as they both slumbered. When Buster and Optimus woke up, excitedly (and in unison) proclaiming the imminent arrival of the Special Teams, Buster began talking nonsense about Superion, Menasor, and other creatures. Regardless, he was smiling again, so Jessie and Sparkplug were relieved all the same. Second Generation!
Jesse visited Buster at his father's workshop after the latter had installed a Wash and Roll car wash station next to it, providing the family business with a flood of new customers. Though Buster was too busy to hang out during the day, she returned after hours so they could try out the wash themselves in her brother's car. Upon realizing that she had committed a faux-pas in making stick around at his job longer than he had any need to, she apologized by initiating a make-out session. But what neither teenager knew was that the Wash and Roll franchise was really a Decepticon fuel-gathering plot in disguise. (Yes, really). Jesse was almost brainwashed into serving the Decepticons by the wash, but Buster managed to get her out of the highly suggestible state of mind she was in, and together they discovered the full extent of the Decepticons' plans. Ratbat was ready to move on to the next phase of his plan when the couple overheard him addressing his underlings, and planned to permanently hypnotize the humans under his thrall with an improved version of the Wash and Roll. Working together, Jesse and Buster snapped all of the hypnotized people out of their trances, and the humans forced Ratbat to flee by attacking him en-masse. And then, to thank her boyfriend for his heroism, Jesse started making out with him again. Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom
Later, while Buster was being held captive by Decepticons, Jesse visited Sparkplug at his house. Blaster arrived in an egg transport seeking help spying on the Decepticons at their island base, disguised at the vacationing resort "Club Con," and possibly rescuing Buster. It was agreed that Jesse would blend into the crowd at Club Con better than Sparkplug, so she and Blaster visited the place as tourists. While snorkeling, Jesse discovered an underwater entrance to the island used by the Seacons. She snuck in with Blaster, despite his objections.
Inside, they found Buster chained to the wall. Buster told them what Decepticons were up to, but the room was too small for Blaster to transform and cut the chain, so they had to leave him behind. Against Blaster's advice, Jesse snuck into a Decepticon meeting and stole Raindance and Grandslam, two dormant Autobots the Decepticons had secured. The theft was soon discovered, and Ratbat sent the Seacons to the beach in pursuit. Blaster transformed to protect the tourists. The battle went against his favor, so Blaster spit the mini-cassettes into the ocean to lure the Seacons away.
Blaster transformed again and the two were able to blend into the crowd once more. Jesse apologized for messing things up, but Blaster told her she was a big help in finding out important info. Plus, she was able to get a tan, so the mission wasn't a total waste of her time. Thrust and Vortex gave the tourists a ride home while Starscream apologized for the disruption. Club Con!
Regeneration One
While Megatron's conquest of Earth was getting under way, Buster and Jessie (now married) raced through the streets trying to escape Megatron's zombie-cons.
They initially managed to avoid Thundercracker, Bugly, and Ratbat, and Buster told Jessie to call up Spike who did not answer his phone. After a rather heated voice message, brother-to-brother, about how they needed Fortress Maximus, Buster and Jessie once again avoided Thundercracker's attack and drove to cover inside of a car wash. Just as Buster proclaimed his love for Jessie and bade her a final goodbye, Ratbat blasted them both into atoms. Less Than Zero
Classics
Jesse and her son, Galen, interrupted a video-call her husband was making to his brother. Their intrusion allowed Spike to sidetrack the conversation, and dodge any further inquiries Buster was making about his mission. Assembly
Marvel coloring books
As an adult in the year 2005, Jesse had married Buster and together they brought up their son Daniel. The latter hung out with the Autobots a lot, which his parents were fine with. However, when the Autobots planned a search for a lost crate of energon cubes, Jesse and Buster drew the line and forbade their son to go along. The Lost Treasure of Cybertron
Earthquake
Buster and Jessie were hiking in the wilderness when they came upon a secret passage which led to a secret Decepticon fortress. The pair then bumped into Beachcomber, and relayed to him their findings. Not long afterwards, however, the Decepticon Ramjet happened upon the trio, and after a brief attack, captured Jessie.
Thrust then handed Jessie over to Thrust and Soundwave to be put away in a cage. Though she struggled fiercely, the robots were much too powerful for Jessie to do anything against them.
In one possible scenario, Buster and Beachcomber came upon Jessie being put away in her cage. Once the Decepticons left the scene, Beachcomber wasted no time in breaking Jessie out of her prison. The three of them then set out to find the Decepticons’ lab. But after running around blindly for some time, they were unable to find the room in which the Destruction Beam was stored. Giving up their search, they headed back to Autobot Headquarters, where they related their findings to the rest of the Autobots.
In one possible turn of events, Jessie was brainwashed by the Decepticons, and helped them trap the Autobots.
In another possible turn of events, the Autobots deactivated the Destruction beam and the Decepticons, and then found Jessie tied up in a cell. When she and Buster were reunited, they celebrated with a couple of super-fudge ice cream sundaes Earthquake
Notes
- Marvel Comics' original treatment nicknamed her "Worm" before being crossed out and renamed "Jessie".[1]
Foreign names
- Portuguese: Zézé (Portugal comics)