Woodrow Burns
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- Woodrow Burns is a human from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Woodrow "Woody" Burns is the free-spirited younger brother of Charlie Burns. Both an inventor and an adventurer, Woodrow has a keen interest in the mysterious and paranormal, spending his time hunting for evidence of aliens and various other cryptids. His relaxed, risk-taking personality often sees him at odds with his more straight-laced brother, leading to many an argument, but at heart they're brothers.
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[edit]- Voice actor: Mark Hamill (English){{#if: Adam Krylik (Polish), Antti Jaakola (Finnish, season 2), Juhani Rajalin (Finnish, season 3), Olivier Cuvellier (French), Marcelo Pissardini (Portuguese, seasons 2 and 3), Henrique Reis (Portuguese, season 4)|, Adam Krylik (Polish), Antti Jaakola (Finnish, season 2), Juhani Rajalin (Finnish, season 3), Olivier Cuvellier (French), Marcelo Pissardini (Portuguese, seasons 2 and 3), Henrique Reis (Portuguese, season 4)}}
Leaving the family home on Griffin Rock, Woodrow began traveling the world in search of evidence of aliens, visiting such far-off places as Dwarma and Ecuador. What Lies Below During a trip to Tatooie, the tree people made him honorary tribal leader. While exploring the Marshall Islands, he communicated with dolphins. Chief Woodrow
He developed Deep Earth Scouts, designed to hunt underground, and eventually one of them turned up something interesting under Griffin Rock. He paid his old home a visit, though the DES unit he'd retrieved malfunctioned on arrival, causing a minor uproar by damaging property until he shut it down. After reuniting with his brother's family, he revealed what he was after, but Charles forbade him from using the town's driller. Woodrow attempted to use it anyway, and was joined by Cody Burns as the out-of control machine took them underground. Trapped in a cavern, the pair were menaced by giant spiders, until Chief Burns arrived with the rest of the team to rescue them. Woodrow was despondent at the discovery that the clues he'd been following were ordinary things and not evidence of aliens, until Chief Burns revealed that the rescue robots his team had been working with were, in fact, Rescue Bots from Cybertron. What Lies Below
After a cave-in separated Woodrow, the Chief, Cody and Chase from the others, Woodrow and the Chief began arguing and almost missed the oncoming lava. Woodrow was impressed by Chase's driving in getting them away from danger, and grilled the Rescue Bot on Cybertronian biology as they explored another tunnel. When the Chief wanted to go on alone to check the path, Woodrow decided to go with him, leading to another argument. They were soon reunited with the rest of the team, however the only way out was up through Mount Magma. Woodrow hit on the idea of causing an explosion using an energon deposit and riding the shockwave up and out of the crater, and the plan actually worked. Back at the fire station, Woodrow packed up and left, reinvigorated in his search to explore Earth. What Rises Above
Woodrow returned to the island on Chief Burns's request, as the Chief was leaving for a police conference. After regaling the family with some rainforest cooking, Woodrow helped with a rescue of the mayor's boat, resulting in the mayor awarding him a medal and appointing him acting chief, though the rest of the family didn't think Woodrow was quite up to it. Woodrow was subsequently instrumental in rescuing dolphins from the wetlands, however, and treated the family to homemade pizza when Chief Burns returned. Chief Woodrow
Investigating the Burns ancestry resulted in Woodrow uncovering the fact that Horace Burns's wife was the notorious pirate Bertha and finding a map to the treasure she took. After a trip into the Griffin Rock caves uncovered an empty chest, Woodrow and the team followed another clue to an island where they uncovered the lost treasure. Pirates Ahoy
On his way to Griffin Rock in the S.S. Close Encounter, Woodrow hit a storm and sank. He was fortunately rescued by Salvage and Blurr who were also heading for the island with High Tide, and he quickly realized they were Cybertronians. After Griffin Rock disappeared in front of them, Woodrow coordinated the rescue of the townsfolk who'd been left behind. Now and Then He later got a call from his brother, who got him and the Bots to clear the crater so the island could be replaced there after being flown back from the Arctic. Once the island was back, he was reunited with the Burns family. Today and Forever
At some point Woodrow ended up in a gorilla preserve in Rwanda, attempting to get on friendly terms with a family of gorillas led by Stanley. During a video call to his brother, Woodrow was attacked by baboons and his camp trashed, though he was happy when a short time later Charlie, Dani, Heatwave and Blades arrived to check up on him. following another encounter with the baboons, Stanley promoted Chief to leader, to Woodrow's dismay. After the local volcano erupted and Chief and Woodrow were forced to rescue Stanley's family from the lava, Chief passed the leadership on to Woodrow, who continued his work with the gorillas. King Burns