Editing Burke

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:''Burke is a [[human]] in the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

'''Burke''' is a member of the [[United States Army|United States Army Rangers]], under the command of [[William Lennox]]. He is one of [[Qatar Ranger Team|the squad]]'s SAW gunners.

==Fiction==
===''Transformers'' (2007) movie===
:''Actor:'' [[Brian Shehan]] (English)

Returning back to [[SOCCENT Forward Operations Base]] in [[Qatar]] after a mission, Captain Lennox's men discussed what they were going to do once they got home to the States. As usual, [[Jorge Figueroa|Fig]] talked about his mom's cooking in Spanish, something that amused all of the squad because he had been told numerous times that none of them spoke spanish. When Lennox told them of his desire to see his baby girl for the first time, Burke and the others joined on on the friendly ribbing over this sappy sentiment.

After getting back to camp, while [[Robert Epps|Epps]] made his way to the basketball court, Burke went to the rudimentary open-air shower and pushed other soldiers aside, to their consternation. Soon after, [[Blackout (Movie)|a mysterious MH-53 Pave Low]] touched down and began disrupting the communication and power supplies of the base. Suddenly, the base was under attack as the helicopter somehow transformed into a giant walking weapons platform. Burke and the others grabbed their gear and ran for their lives as the machine crushed all opposition standing in its way to the communications center. After rescuing local boy [[Mahfouz]] and Epps, the Rangers escaped into the night as the base was leveled.

While the medical teams from the Army sifted through the rubble for survivors and the United States government tried to find answers, the Rangers made their way across the Qatari country side, unaware that they were [[Scorponok (Movie)|being followed, and being watched]]. Stopping at an abandoned tank to rest, Burke kept an eye on the horizon for hostiles while the others discussed the attack and the images Epps managed to capture. Deciding that the [[Pentagon]] must know their intel, they headed to Mahfouz's village, where a telephone could be found.

Arriving on the outskirts, the weary travelers were suddenly attacked by a giant mechanical scorpion. When it managed to kill [[Donnelly]], the Rangers began a ragged retreat, though Burke kept his nerve and provided covering fire from his M249 Para. As Captain Lennox struggled with a bored and unsympathetic telephone operator, Burke held the line steady and ordered fire directed at the attacker. However, it was soon clear to the Pentagon that the solders were clearly outmatched and ordered assets of the [[United States Air Force]] to attack, which Lennox's Rangers guided in by lazing the target. While they managed to drive the attacker away, Fig paid the price when he was hit by one of the creature's rockets. On the plane trip back to the United States, the Rangers and the R&D team were examining the strange tail left behind by the mechanical scorpion when he suddenly jerked up to life, so Burke and the other shad to strap it down to the examination table. Though the battle had been costly, it did provide them with an answer to how to fight back against the mechanical creatures.

Upon arrival at Nellis Air Force Base in [[Nevada]], agents from an unknown government organization hussled the Rangers into SUVs and took them to [[Hoover Dam]], where they reported to [[John Keller|Secretary of Defense Keller]] about the mysterious events of the past few days. Inside the dam, they learned from [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]], [[Tom Banachek]] and, incredibly, some teenage boy named [[Sam Witwicky]] about the reasons for the attacks and the players in it. During a demonstration of the [[All Spark (Movie)|All Spark Cube's]] power, Burke was more curious than frightened by the alien creature created from a cell phone, tapping the glass as it furiously banged into the sides of a armoured box. When the evil [[Decepticon]]s arrived and attacked the dam, the soldiers were led to an arms room where a tense stand off erupted when Simmons refused to let Sam see [[Bumblebee (Movie)|the boy's alien robot car]], which would help the situation. The situation was diffused when Keller ordered Simmons to do as the Rangers demanded. 

After the [[Autobot]] car was freed and the Cube was miraculously shrunken down to a small, hand-held size, Lennox ordered his Rangers and the Sector Seven troopers to form a perimeter protecting the car and its occupants. Burke was the gunner on Lennox and Epp's command buggy as the convoy headed towards [[Mission City]], where they would attempt to find some sort of off-line communication device that wasn't affected by the worldwide communications blackout. When the Decepticons showed up in Mission city Burke and the Rangers helped [[Ratchet (Movie)|the Autobot rescue vehicle]] take down [[Brawl (Movie)|the tank]], but were then forced to retreat when [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] arrived, with the [[Jazz (Movie)|Pontiac Solstice]] sacrificing his life to cover their escape. Burke watched unhappily as the evil tank got back up, and not only that, but the helicopter that leveled SOCCENT Qatar joined to the battle. Lennox ordered his Rangers to hold the line as Sam escaped with the Cube, in the hopes of removing the alien artifact from the battlefield while the Decepticons were busy. However, the soldiers had their hands full with the tank while most of the Autobots were assigned to protect Sam. Salvation came in the form of the yellow car, who helped them destroy the tank once and for all.

While the [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|friendly Autobot leader]] and Megatron fought, Lennox and the soldiers moved in to assist, but were prevented from doing so by that evil helicopter. Lennox and Epps formulated a plan where they would call in the rapidly-arriving F-22 Raptors from the Air Force while the Decepticon was destracted. However, the helicopter noticed the laze painted on hits arm and turned to attack, and with the cover blown, the soldiers provided covering fire for Lennox, who attacked the Decepticon on a motorcycle as the F-22s fired the missiles. With their nemesis dead, the soldiers moved in to take out Megatron. The Decepticon leader single-minded about the All Spark, was overwealmed by the combined efforts of the soldiers and the Air Force, and was finally defeated when Sam rammed the All Spark into Megatron's chest, killing him. In the aftermath, Burke and the soldiers were thanked by their new alien allies for their valuable help in the battle. {{Storylink|Transformers (2007)}}

===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
:''Actor:'' [[Brian Shehan]] (English)

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==Trivia==  
[[Image:Movie Figueroa cutscene.jpg|right|200px|thumb|By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!]]
* A later scene where Lennox and Burke comfort the dying Figueroa was cut from the theatrical release of the film, but briefly seen in the December 2006 trailer. The scene survived in both [[Transformers: The Movie (novel)|the novelization]] and the [[Transformers: The Junior Novel|children's novelization]] where (despite many changes made to tone down descriptions of violence against ''robots'') he still died. Go fig! This scene were rendered non-canonical when director [[Michael Bay]] tried to get [[Amaury Nolasco]] to return for ''Revenge of the Fallen''.
* Burke is played by real-life [[United States Navy|Navy]] SEAL Brian Shehan.

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