Listed here are the characters from Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy.
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Autobots
Trainees
Hot Shot
Voiced by: Pierce Cravens
The Rescue Bots' newest trainee. He was called by none other than Optimus Prime to arrive on Earth to stay with the Rescue Bots.- Character Development: Most of the show involves Hot Shot learning a valuable lesson. Either involving him letting go of his ego, or about being more serious and dedicated to rescue work.
- Fragile Speedster: Being a natural athlete, Hot Shot is fast on his feet. Virtually all of his alt-modes emphasis speed. Though limited armor and a smaller size also make him vulnerable.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Wedge.
- It's All About Me: He can be self-centered at times.
Whirl
Voiced by: Courtney Shaw
A Rescue Bot who is aspiring to become a police officer.- Adaptational Attractiveness: G1 Whirl was a Cyber Cyclops without much in the way of facial features, this version has a far cuter visage with the addition of a humanoid face and nice Fembot body.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Most incarnations of Whirl are Ax-Crazy Blood Knights. This Whirl, meanwhile, is a Genki Girl.
- Badass Adorable: She's positively adorable between her energy and enthusiasm for police work. Of course, don't let that stop you from having faith in her as a Rescue Bot.
- Decomposite Character: If this
◊ blink-and-you-miss-it cameo is any indication, this Whirl is separate from the main Aligned-verse incarnation of Whirl. - Gender Flip: A female take on the traditionally-male Whirl. Subverted since she’s a separate character.
- Genki Girl: She is most definitely a cheerful and upbeat girl.
- Nice Girl: Out of all the recruits, she is the nicest one.
- The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female trainee in the academy and therefore the only female in the show's main cast.
- Token Flyer: Of the Rescue Bot trainees, Whirl is the only one lacking a ground-based vehicle mode. Averted after they get the multicog.
Medix
Voiced by: Adam Andrianopoulous
A Rescue Bot in training.- The Comically Serious: Much like Chase before him, he tends to be stoic and unemotional and prone to saying bizarre things without realizing the absurdity of his statements.
- The Medic: He specializes in mending the others' injuries.
- Playful Hacker: He demonstrates he can be a hacker in "Glitch".
- Related in the Adaptation: He's Ratchet's nephew in this series, when his incarnation in the original Rescue Bots toyline gave no indication that he was related to any other Transformer.
Hoist
Voiced by: Alan Trinca
One of the trainees at the Rescue Bot Training Center.- Animal Mecha: His fellow recruits all chose a secondary vehicle mode when they received multi-cogs. As for Hoist? Since his mentor was Grimlock, he decided he wanted a beast mode instead. And not just any beast. He decided on a T-Rex just like the big guy.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He invents some tools for his teammates in "If At First...".
Wedge
Voiced by: Mason Hensley
A Rescue Bot who trains at the Rescue Bot Training Center.- Dark and Troubled Past: He was originally a Decepticon before Optimus Prime saw his potential and inspired him to become an Autobot.
- Hero-Worshipper: He's very fond of Bumblebee.
- It's All About Me: Thinks he's the best one around.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be flippant at times, but is still a team player in the group's missions.
Rescue Bots
Heatwave
Voiced by: Paul Guyet
The Rescue Bot in charge of the Rescue Bot Training Center.- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's in charge of the Training Center and proves to be understanding and impartial whenever the younger Rescue Bots get into a conflict.
Chase
Voiced by: Frank Cwiklik
One of the supervisors of the Rescue Bot Training Center.Boulder
Voiced by: Keyon Williams
One of the supervisors of the Rescue Bot Training Center.Blades
Voiced by: Michael Hansen
One of the supervisors of the Rescue Bot Training Center.- Out of Focus: He is one of the original Rescue Bots who gets the least screen time.
- Hermit Guru: In episode 46, Blades pretended to be the 'The Wise One'(a rescue bot guru) and stationed himself in Persistence Peak (a remote mountain) to encourage Whirl to complete a rescue stunt.
Other Autobots
Optimus Prime
Voiced by: Hiro Diaz ("Recruits", Part I and II), Jake Tillman ("Rescue Promo" onward)
Leader of the Autobots. He encourages Hot Shot to arrive on Earth to become a Rescue Bot along Whirl, Medix, Hoist and Wedge.- Big Good: As usual, he's the top Autobot.
- You Don't Look Like You: He resembles more his Cyberverse counterpart than his Aligned one.
Bumblebee
Voiced by: Jeremy Levy
The Autobot scout.- You Don't Look Like You: Like Optimus Prime, he looks more like his Cyberverse counterpart than his Aligned self.
Brushfire
Voiced by: Bimini Wright
A Rescue Bot stationed alone in the Australian Outback.- Gender Flip: Her original Rescue Bots toy bio described her as male years before her in-series debut in Academy.
Humans
Cody Burns
Voiced by: Andy Zou
- Token Human: As the only prominent returning human character from the previous show, he's the only human member of the main cast.
Wes
Voiced by: Xander Crowell
A teen pioneer from Griffin Rock who is a fan of the Rescue Bots.- Ascended Fanboy: He wins an emergency response competition, and as a reward, he spends a day with the recruits.
- Hero-Worshipper: To the Rescue Bots, especially Wedge.
Other characters
Tough Luck Chuck
Voiced by: Todd Perlmutter
The Rescue Bots' Cybertrobian test dummy. He always plays the victim for the Rescue Bots' simulated rescues, and can also give helpful advices and report the status of the mission. He gets abused a lot, especially in Hot Shot's hands.- Character Title: The fourth episode is titled after him.
- The Chew Toy: Being a robotic crash test dummy, he mainly exists to be subjected to abuse that would be crippling if he were a living being.
Laserbeak
An ex-Decepticon Mini-Con with no intention on returning to the crime and warfare that it entailed. He stays at the Academy partly out of gratitude for being helped, and partly because he doesn't quite know where else to go.- Heel–Face Return: He was last seen under Soundwave's employ, having fought by his side until they were apprehended by Team Bee and Optimus. By the time of Academy, he was either found innocent of any wrongdoing or has served enough of his sentence to be considered free of any criminal record.
- Intellectual Animal: Laserbeak is perfectly sentient like any other Mini-Con, but otherwise resembles and sounds like a typical (robotic) condor.
- Old Shame: The primary reason he doesn't formally sign up with the Academy, and presumably the reason for his constant urge to break things, is a feeling that he'll never be much more than a Decepticon.
