Charlie Burns

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Charlie Burns is a human from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Of all the Charlie Burnses in the world, you're the Charlie Burnsiest.

Along with Heatwave, Chief Charles "Charlie" Burns, leads the Rescue Bots, a secret team of Autobots and humans that protect Earth, and especially Griffin Rock island, from fires, floods, disaster and crime. His tool of choice is the Rescue Cutter, which can tear down barriers between heroes and the danger they must extinguish. He partners with Chase and Optimus Prime. He is the father of Kade, Graham, Dani, and Cody.

Fiction

Rescue Bots pack-in storybooks

Here comes ol' Charlie Burns! Good ol' Charlie Burns...yes, sir! Good ol' Charlie Burns...how I hate him!

Early one morning at Fire Station Prime, Chief Charlie directed Heatwave to participate in a fire training exercise on the other side of town. After Heatwave left, Chief Charlie's son Cody arrived, eager to be given his own mission. However, Chief Charlie only trusted Cody with washing Sparkplug, the firehouse dog. Though dejected, Cody and Sparkplug were able to alert Chief Charlie to the presence of an electrical fire within Fire Station Prime itself! Trapped on the roof of the burning station, the Burnses struggled to activate the Prime Signal to call for help, until ultimately Cody was able to activate it manually. Heatwave quickly returned, and Chief Charlie's son was surprised to learn that their fire truck was actually a fire-fighting sentient robot! After the fire was extinguished and the group spoke with Optimus Prime via teleconference, Chief Charlie nodded with approval as his son was welcomed as a full member of the team. Prime Alert

Rescue Bots cartoon

Voice actor: Maurice LaMarche (English)

When he was young, Charlie Burns built himself a go-kart. Cody on Patrol He, Doc Greene and Mayor Luskey chased Doctor Morocco out of town when his inventions were deemed unsafe. The Reign of Morocco

One of the show's upcoming educational puzzles is determining what hair color genetics Charlie and his unseen mate possess which would have facilitated this range of hair color in their offspring.

As the head of a family of rescue heroes, Burns was entrusted by Optimus Prime with the secret that the new Rescue Bots were actually Autobots. He presented the quartet to the people of Griffin Rock as new hi-tech robots. When they attended a fire at the museum and Heatwave saved Burns and Graham from a falling dinosaur head, Burns covered for the Autobot. That night, the Rescue Bots contacted him, and he discovered that Cody had discovered the secret. After the whole team united to stop a rogue robotic Tyrannosaurus rex, he let Kade, Dani and Graham in on the truth as well. Family of Heroes

Chief Burns and Chase stopped an out-of-control robo-landscaper while the rest of the team were busy failing to cooperate. He later alerted the rest of the team to the fact that lava was overflowing out of manholes across the town, and together with Chase, made sure the residents were cleared from the area. When the problem was traced to Mount Magma and the rest of the team went to deal with the problem, Chief Burns and Chase patrolled the area around the mountain and cleared out campers. Under Pressure

Chief Burns accompanied Chase as they chased down Doc Greene's out-of-control solar car and stopped it plunging into a ravine. He was with the team again as they responded to a rock fall. Hotshots He was helping Doc Greene inflate balloons with helium prior to the Lobster and Technology Festival when he and the Rescue Bots had to rescue the Doc from a runaway parade balloon. The next day the team was taking part in the parade when it came under attack from flobsters. They quickly swung into action once more, protecting the townsfolk from the flying threat until Doc Greene could mix up a permanent solution. Flobsters on Parade

Good grief.

Burns found himself covering for the Rescue Bots again after a rescue, but told them that saving lives had priority over maintaining cover. He and the family subsequently had to stop Huxley Prescott from inadvertently destroying the island with his SETI dish. The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock After retrieving a cat from a tree, Burns decided to celebrate Earth Day by having everyone clean up the fire station. The next day, he and the team were faced with several escapees from the zoo, including a lion and some trained lemurs. Walk on the Wild Side

Burns took part in the rescue of Mr Harrison and was impressed when Cody rebuilt his old go-kart into Rolling Thunder, though he turned down Cody's request to get a bigger engine for it. After Cody tried souping it up with nanites, Burns made him help Boulder replant the trees that had been knocked down in the ensuing chaos. Cody on Patrol Chase and the Chief were blocking traffic from trying to cross a damaged bridge when a man on a motorcycle zoomed past them. On another occasion, Burns supervised the operation to save the bank after a sinkhole opened under it. Four Bots and a Baby

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During a heatwave, Burns discovered that Chase didn't have air conditioning. After Cody had the idea to use a weather machine to create snow, Burns joined in with a snow fight, but ended up having to go rescue people when the machine went out of control. Christmas in July Burns, Cody and the Rescue Bots went on the family annual fishing trip on the Darby Eva, something Burns regarded as a way to bond. When they encountered a robotic shark, Burns left his son on the pier while he and the bots tried to find the finned menace. Though Burns had a plan to lead the sub into a cove, it started attacking the ferry instead, and Burns and Blades had to go to the assistance of the people on board. While they did so, the other Rescue Bots disabled the shark, but when Burns opened the sub, he triggered a self destruct, and Blade had to carry the vessel away before it exploded. Deep Trouble

On a particularly foggy day, Burns and his team had to deal with the island's technology run amok thanks to a virus in the central mainframe, and also the rogue Trex, which was infected with the same virus. Return of the Dinobot He continued to educate Chase on compassionate policing. When Doctor Morocco returned to the island with a MorBot, aiming to replace Burns's team, Burns argued against letting Morocco have the chance. He and his team were forced to compete against the MorBot, and eventually lost through the machinations of Morocco. The team was stood done. The Other Doctor Though Burns argued with the mayor and brought evidence that was disregarded, he refused to give up. When there was a fire at the lab, the team was finally called out to attend to it, and Cody and Frankie Greene managed to obtain evidence against Morocco that saw Burns's team reinstated. The Reign of Morocco

The silent alarm at the Hall of Inspiration had Chief Burns and his team attend it, but while Burns and Chase apprehended Evan and Myles, the other three Rescue Bots went missing. Burns interrogated the pair at length as to the nature of the gun they'd used on the Bots without success. After Cody worked out it was the Minimizer, Burns drove him to Griffin Rock dam where the three miniaturized Rescue Bots had ended up. Small Blessings Burns took part in the rescue of Captain Wild. When Cody turned up information about Professor Anna Baranova, Chief Burns decided they'd go and check out the Griffin Rock Triangle, where they found the professor still living in the crashed Midgard. The team helped her to complete her mission, destroying the lab to seal the methane vent that had caused all the ship sinkings. The Griffin Rock Triangle

Wanting to spend some time with his kid, Chief Burns invited Cody along to do a security check on Griffin Crest and left the bots with strict orders not to follow them. After a brief run-in with a bear, the pair continued with their security check, unaware that the bots had been alarmed by Cody's garbled phone call. Later, having been chased up a cliff by the bear, Chief Burns and his son were unable to render any assistance when the bots were immobilized by the EM field, but after the crisis was over, they continued with their camping. Rules and Regulations When a storm hit Griffin Rock, Chief Burns called the whole team out to help secure the town, but Cody and the Rescue Bots were swept out to sea, forcing the family to go out searching for them on the Darby Eva. The Lost Bell

He and the team went to Wayward Island to investigate a meteorite crash, and encountered Bumblebee. After three of the Rescue Bots were stricken with an alien virus, the Burns family returned to the island to get a sample of the meteorite and destroy the rest. Though they ran into problems with the rough seas, they succeeded. Bumblebee to the Rescue Chief Burns took part in a call-out to deal with a rampaging blob of Squilsh. He was nearly eaten by it when he got his foot caught in a ladder, but it instead got Chase. Burns spent the remainder of the mission trying to contact Chase and coordinating with Cody and Doc Greene as they tried to find a way to stop the Squilsh. You've Been Squilshed

While Charlie Burns and Chase were dealing with some strange events involving disappearing people, Burns picked up a mechanical bug and was teleported to a cavern under Griffin Rock. He set about organizing the townspeople to try and break out of the cave, though in the end they were rescued by the Rescue Bots. Countdown After the team had a series of call outs during which they encountered ghosts, Cody pointed Chief Burns to the fact that the ghosts were holograms, and he visited the jail to discover that Myles and Evan had escaped. With Doc Greene's help, the Chief set a holographic trap and his team caught the pair in the act of robbing a jewelry story. The Haunting of Griffin Rock

On his birthday, as it appeared that the rest of the team had forgotten, the Chief lied about where he was going so he could pick up a cake from the bakery. When he and Chase later became trapped in the lead mine, the rest of the team didn't know where to look, and the pair were forced to try and make their way out themselves. During a cave-in, Chief was separated from Chase and injured by a falling rock, but luckily the rest of the team turned up in time to save him. Little White Lies When Frankie caused problems for the team by filming them, Chief reminded them they had to pretend to be regular robots, and did his best to keep her out of their way. When she followed them into the cave system when they were looking for the source of some earthquakes, the Chief and the Rescue Bots had to save her from a cave-in. Shake Up

Chief was disapproving of Cody risking his life in an unstable building. When Cody got hold of a repulsor badge and started acting as a superhero, the Chief eventually had to take the badge off him. Cody used the badge again, leading to it overloading and the Chief and the rest of the team had to extract him from an energy bubble. Rescue Boy

Chief Burns attended the first testing of a time machine that Doc Greene had got working. When Cody, Frankie and the kids were transported back in time to 1939, Burns called in Optimus Prime as backup and filled in Greene on the existence of giant alien robots. It's a Bot Time

In an alternate reality caused by an alteration to history, Burns worked as the janitor in the Hall of Inspiration while Griffin Rock was ruled by Morocco. When he encountered the time traveling Rescue Bots, Cody and Frankie, he was initially suspicious of them, but took them home. Filled in on the altered reality, he helped the group return to the time machine so they could set history right. Bot to the Future

Toys

Rescue Bots

He looks so much younger without the mustache!

• Chief Charlie Burns & Rescue Cutter (2011)

Chief Charlie Burns comes with a Rescue Cutter Rescue Gear that can transform into a handheld Robot Tool for Rescue Bots Optimus Prime. When the buttons on each side are pressed, the blades scissor together.

• Fire Station Prime (Walmart bonus pack, 2011)

A Walmart-exclusive version of Fire Station Prime came packaged with a bonus Charlie and Cody Burns plus their single-pack accessories.