Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy

***Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy*** is a Flash animated children's television series based on Hasbro's Transformers franchise and a sequel to *Transformers: Rescue Bots*; however, none of the voice cast from *Resue Bots* reprised their roles, with existing characters recast with New York-based voice actors. The show aired for two seasons on Discovery Family from January 5, 2019 to June 5, 2021.

## Premise

The show follows Heatwave, Chase, Blades, and Boulder as they train a new batch of recruits. Just arriving on Earth from their home world of Cybertron, young Cube player Hot Shot, aspiring hero Hoist, the enthusiastic Whirl, construction bot Wedge and field medic Medix have the honor of being the first in class in history to enroll in the Rescue Bots Academy, a highly advanced training facility located at a top-secret base. With encouragement from Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Grimlock, the new recruits learn the power of team building through simulated and real-life rescue missions that highlight the importance of heroism, teamwork, and most importantly, friendship.

## Characters

### Autobots

#### Rescue Bots Recruits

* **Hot Shot** (voiced by Pierce Cravens) - 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 modes include a red and yellow ATV, a red jet plane and a yellow-and-red hovercraft boat. In Season 2, he gains a fourth vehicle mode by scanning Heatwave's fire truck mode.
* **Whirl** (voiced by Courtney Shaw) - An enthusiastic police trainee who has studied the roles of being a Rescue Bot, and who serves as the team's optimist and sister figure. She transforms into a blue and light gray helicopter, later adopting Chase's blue squad police car form during Season 2.
* **Hoist** (voiced by Alan Trinca) - 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 conquering his fear in Season 2.
* **Medix** (voiced by Adam Andrianopoulous) - 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 zag lines and red-light bar mounted on the roof. In Season 2, he gains a second form of a helicopter at Blade's rescue helicopter mode in white and orange.
* **Wedge** (voiced by Mason Hensley) - 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 with Bumblebee. His past as a Decepticon is revealed in Season 2.

#### Rescue Force Sigma-17 & Faculty

* **Heatwave** (voiced by Paul Guyet) - 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 series. He becomes Hot Shot's mentor in Season 2.
* **Chase** (voiced by Frank Cwiklik) - A second-in-command at Rescue Bots Academy, a by-the-book police officer and one of Whirl's favorite 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. He becomes Whirl's mentor in the second season.
* **Boulder** (voiced by Keyon Williams) - A gentle giant who serves as the bulk and science officer of Rescue Squad Sigma-17. He serves as the trainees' teacher on Earth studies and transforms into a green bulldozer in addition to his robotic Triceratops form of the original TV series.
* **Blades** (voiced by Michael Hansen) - A perky Rescue bot who turns into a rotund orange and white rescue helicopter and one of Whirl's favorite teachers. In the original TV series, he transforms into a white and orange pterodactyl. He becomes Medix's mentor in the second season.
* **Grimlock** (voiced by Terrence Flint) - An old friend of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee who serves as the bots' gym and field operation coach. He transforms into a mechanical T. rex and still has his cat phobia from *Transformers: Robots in Disguise*. In Season 2, he becomes a mentor to Hoist and helps him overcome his fear of dinosaurs.
* **Bumblebee** (voiced by Jeremy Levy) - 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. He becomes Wedge's mentor in the second season.
* **Ratchet** (voiced by Todd Perimutter) - 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** (voiced by Jeremy Levy) - 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 the other Transformers.

#### Other

* **Optimus Prime** (voiced by Jake Foushee, Hiro Diaz in "Recruits") - The benevolent leader of the Autobots who turns into a semi-trailer truck cab.
* **Sludge** (voiced by Billy Bob Thompson) - A Dinobot science officer who transforms into a metallic Apatosaurus with red and silver body armor.
* **Snarl** (voiced by Mark Ashton) - The Dinobots' tactical and one of Grimlock's old war friends who tends to be grouchy. He transforms into a mechanical Stegosaurus with red signal plates.
* **Slash** (voiced by Alex Hairston) - A female Dinobot who transforms into a Velociraptor. She is an expert tracker and an old friend of Grimlock's who prefers to be alone, though Whirl teaches her it pays to have a partner watching out for her.
* **Brushfire** (voiced by Bimini Wright) - A lone Cybertronian on Earth in Australia who transforms into an orange half-track ATV. She previously appeared exclusively in the toy line, and makes her onscreen debut in Season 2, where she meets and befriends Whirl.

### Humans

* **Cody Burns** (voiced by Andy Zou) - 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** (voiced by Xander Crowell) - A member of Cody's Teen Pioneer troupe who is a fan of the Rescue Bots and idolizes Wedge.
* **Francine Greene** (voiced by Kaitlin Becker) - 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.

## Episodes

Main article: *List of Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy episodes*

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