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* [[Ace Pilot]]: Dani, naturally. Her being partnered with Blades, who is both afraid of heights and until coming to Earth had ''wheels'', causes about as much frustration as you might expect.
* [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]]: Blades develops a bit of it after getting his absurdly useful scoop claw.
* [[Acrophobic Bird]]: Blades isn't a fan of heights. So of course he gets the helicopter alt mode.
* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]]: Boulder falls in love with Earth and its culture from the moment he sets foot on it.
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* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The Rescue Bots are all colored in a lighter shade before scanning their eventual alternate modes, presumably so kids can tell them apart.
* [[Convection Shmonvection]]: "Under Pressure" is rife with this, what with being an episode dealing with molten lava everywhere. The most [[egregious]] case being when Heatwave and Kade are trapped in a tunnel filling with the stuff, but suffer neither heat injury nor are they scalded when a full trough of water cools the lava and subsequently creates a bunch of steam.
* [[Cool Airship]]: Dr. Morocco travels around in one.
* [[Cool Shades]]: Heatwave, Blades, and Chase can all flip down a visor, presumably in order to protect their optics while doing rescue work.
* [[Crossover]]: Some of the later episodes will be this to ''Prime'', even featuring the 'Bots and 'Cons from that show.
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** Heatwave shares an alternate mode with Hot Spot, the Protectobots' leader. He's also cut from the same cloth as Optimus Prime himself, with similar design elements. Prime ''also'' turned into a fire truck in several Transformers series, for the record.
*** He's also similar to "Rescue Roy", a character from an earlier Transformers toy-line that was also targeted towards preschool children.
** Chase is evocative of Prowl, and shares his ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (anime)|Robots in Disguise]]'' incarnation's fondness for adhering to and enforcing the rules.
** Blades shares a name and alternate mode with ''Generation 1'' Blades, but his fear of heights while also being a flier is more similar to that of Silverbolt, leader of the Aerialbots.
** Finally, Boulder is clearly based on [[Transformers Animated|Bulk]][[Transformers Prime|head]], right down to his colors, similar design, and being a [[Gentle Giant]] who loves Earth and is all around smarter than he looks.
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*** [[The Chick]]: Dani
*** [[Kid Appeal Character]]: Cody
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Doctor Greene, who is generally absent-minded and does things like trying to speed up computation time by hanging upside down... in the middle of a ''city-wide disaster''.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Boulder, as shown by his immediate preference for saving the "natural beauty" around a burning building during the events of the first episode.
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: In the people of Griffin Rock's defense, who knew that putting a fake-but-functioning volcano in the middle of a populated island would lead to a natural disaster? [[Sarcasm Mode|No one could have predicted it. No one at all.]]
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*** They also have an [[Elaborate Underground Base]] left over from the Cold War, just like the Autobots do in ''Prime.''
** The Rescue Bots are first shown in "blank", featureless forms prior to scanning alternate modes, similar to the "Protoforms" from the movie series.
** Prime has offhandedly mentioned that he's found human children to be valuable allies, referencing the trend of 'Obligatory Child Friends' in the franchise. In fact, given Jeff Kline's confirmation that this show takes place in the same continuity as ''Prime'', he may actually be directly referring to Jack, Miko, and Raf.
* [[It Is Dehumanizing]]: Kade initially refuses to to call Heatwave "he", treating him as just a simple machine.
* [[Kaleidoscope Eyes]]: Boulder's eyes turn from orange to blue when he's doing rescue work or pretending to be a man-made machine (the same sorts of situations the other bots use their [[Cool Shades]] for).
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* [[Missing Mom]]: The Burns' family's mother does not appear to be around, and the first episode shows Charlie doing the cooking for the family.
* [[No Antagonist]]: Because this is a younger series with its focus on emergency rescues, the Decepticons won't be showing up in this series, at least for now. Justified, since the four Rescue Bots are all too young to fight the 'Cons.
** However, the recent introduction of [[Evil Genius|Doctor Morocco]] may change things.
* [[Not So Different]]: Heatwave and Kade, though you'd never get either of them to admit this fact.
* [[Robo Speak]]: Cody tries to help the Rescue Bots adjust to their role of pretending to be "ordinary" robots by instructing them in how to do this (along with robot "walking"), using an old 1950's sci-flick.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Griffin Rock is rather similar to [[Eureka|Eureka, Oregon]] don't you think?
** And Doc's car in episode 3 looks a lot like [[Back to The Future|a certain modified Delorean]].
** In "The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock," one of the panicking citizens phone calls causes a character to retort that her husband Edgar is not a giant cockroach from Mars. Edgar was the name of the villain in the first ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' film, who was a giant cockroach alien.
*** In the same episode, a character runs down a street claiming "They're everywhere, they're everywhere" from ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''.
*** Blades references ''ET''.
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