Charlie Burns

The name or term "Burns" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Burns (disambiguation).

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 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

Police Chief, Fire Chief...I'm the man with the badge.

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

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

Probably not the first or last time he'll have this reaction.

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

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.