Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy

Premise

Characters

Autobots

Rescue Bots Recruits

• Hot Shot is a former Cube player recruited by Optimus Prime, who also gives him a Mul-T-Change T-cog that lets him use a different vehicle mode per day. His regular vehicle mode is a red and yellow ATV, while his alternate forms are a red jet plane and a yellow and red hovercraft boat. He later gains a fourth vehicle form in Season 2 by scanning Heatwave's fire truck mode.
• Whirl is an enthusiastic police trainee who, like Chase, has studied the rules of being a Rescue Bot, and who serves as the team's optimist and sister figure. She transforms into a blue and light gray police helicopter, and later adopts Chase's blue squad police car form during Season 2's Multi-change story arc.
• Hoist is an aspiring inventor and mechanic who transforms into a teal green tow truck. In Season 1, he was revealed to be afraid of dinosaurs when Grimlock arrived at the academy, later fully overcoming his fear in Season 2's "Mission Dinobot." During season 2's T-cog story arc, he scanned Grimlock's Tyrannosaurus Rex form to become a Dinobot himself.
• Medix is a Rescue Bots recruit who does not like surprises and works purely with logic. He serves as the team's intelligence officer on missions and transforms into a white emergency response car with green and a red light bar mounted on the roof. During Season 2's T-Cog story arc, he gains Blade's white and orange rescue helicopter form as a second form.
• Wedge is a former Decepticon turned leader who turns into an orange payloader. He had a rivalry with Hot Shot in Season 1 and shares Blades' fanboy attitude towards Bumblebee. He even has a collection of trading cards detailing all the major Autobots called "Heroes of Cybertron." His Decepticon past is revealed in the Season 2 episode "More Than Meets the Eye" when the team is not certain how to deal with Laserbeak. Like Hot Shot, Optimus Prime believed he had potential and recruited him. He later gains a second sports car mode in homage to his idol Bumblebee. Wedge has a fear of heights as first stated in season one.

  Rescue Force Sigma-17 and Faculty

• Heatwave is the leader of Rescue Force Sigma-17 and the academy's chief instructor. He transforms into a red fire engine with an extending ladder, a red fire boat, and a brontosaurus due to the events of the original TV cartoon. In the second season he becomes Hot Shot's mentor, and allows Hot Shot to scan his form in the same season.
• Chase is a second-in-command for the Rescue Bots, Chase is a by-the-books police officer and one of Whirl's favourite teachers. He transforms into a dark blue and white police car, as well as a robotic stegosaurus due to the events of the original TV series. In the second season he becomes Whirl's mentor, and allows Whirl to scan his form in the same season.
• Boulder is a gentle giant who serves as the bulk and science officer of Rescue Force Sigma-17. He serves as the trainees' teacher on Earth studies and transforms into a green bulldozer in addition to his robotic triceratops form from the original TV show's third season.
• Blades is a perky Rescue bot who turns into a rotund orange and white rescue helicopter and is one of Whirl's favourite teachers. In the original TV series, he also transformed into a white and orange pterodactyl. In the second season he becomes Medix's mentor, and allows Medix to scan his form in the same season.
• Grimlock – portrayed as a hybrid of his Fall of Cybertron and RID 2015 selves, Grimlock is an old friend of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee who serves as the bots' gym and field operations coach, He transforms into a mechanical T-Rex and still has his cat phobia from Transformers: Robots in Disguise. In the second season he becomes Hoist's mentor, and allows Hoist to scan his T-Rex form in the same season.
• Bumblebee is a member of Optimus Prime's team who transforms into a yellow muscle car with black racing stripes, and Grimlock's former commanding officer from Bee Team. In the second season he becomes Wedge's mentor, and allows Wedge to scan his sports car form in the same season.
• Ratchet is Optimus Prime's friend and chief medical officer who transforms into a white Ford ambulance. He is later revealed to be Medix's uncle and one of the academy's guest lecturers.
• Perceptor is an Autobot science and intelligence officer who served alongside Optimus during the Great War for Cybertron. He transforms into a red science expedition vehicle and can downsize himself into a microscope that can be used by other Transformers. In his debut episode, Bumblebee convinces Perceptor to join the academy as its math and science professor.

  Cube Players

• Scorch is Hot Shot's old friend and leader of the Cyberblazers Cube team.
• Mach is a Cube player who turns into a sports car.
• Glow is a female Cube player who resembles the Decepticon Glowstrike from 2015's Robots in Disguise spinoff to Transformers: Prime. She seems to turn into a red motorcycle.

  Others

• Optimus Prime is the benevolent leader of the Autobots who turns into a semi-trailer truck cab.
• Sludge is a Dinobot science officer who transforms into a metallic apatosaurus with red and silver body Armor. He has not been seen since the Transformers: Prime tie-in comics, Rage of the Dinobots, and Transformers Beast Hunters issues 1–8.
• Snarl is the Dinobots' tactical officer and one of Grimlock's old war friends who tends to be grouchy. He transforms into a mechanical stegosaurus with red spinal plates.
• Slash is a female dinobot who turns into a velociraptor. She is an expert tracker and an old friend of Grimlock's who prefers to work alone. After getting herself in trouble while trying to rescue Griffin Rock news reporter Huxley Prescott, Whirl teaches her it pays to have a partner watching out for her.
• Brushfire is a lone Cybertronian on Earth in Australia who transforms into an orange halftrack ATV. She previously appeared exclusively in the toy line, and makes her onscreen debut in Season 2's 31st episode "Brushfire," where she meets and befriends Whirl when the Rescue Bots arrive to help her with mobs of kangaroos.

  Decepticons

• Lazerbeak is Soundwave's former helper and a retired Decepticon. Lazerbeak was found injured by the Rescue Bots in "More than Meets the Eye" when his shuttle was damaged and Hoist retrieved his cassette form before waking him up. After Wedge got rid of their prejudice, the Bots took him back to the academy to heal the wound on his left wing.

  Humans

• Cody Burns is the first kid who befriended Heatwave's team in the original series, and the youngest member of the Burns Family Emergency Response team; he helps Heatwave teach the recruits whenever he is not too busy.
• Wes is a member of Cody's Teen Pioneer troupe who is a fan of the Rescue Bots and idolizes Wedge.
• Francine Greene is Cody's best friend since childhood and the second youth to learn the Autobots' true nature in the original series, Frankie is the eldest child of Griffin Rock's resident genius scientist, Dr. Ezra Greene, and is a science prodigy. She and Doc make their first reappearance in the Season 2 episode "Partners."

  Other cast

• Tough Luck Chuck
• Scraplets –
• Citadel Secundus is a Titan

  Episodes

Series overview