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{{quote| ''"Rescue Bots! Roll to the Rescue!"''}}
 
''Transformers Rescue Bots'' is a new series in the ''[[Transformers (Franchise)|Transformers]]'' franchise, targeted towards preschool children[[hottip:*:7 and up, [[Same Content Different Rating|apparently]]. Two episodes first aired as a sneak preview in December of 2011, with the series premiering properly in 2012.
 
The series focuses on [[The Kirk|Heatwave]], [[The Spock|Chase]], Blades, and Boulder, the last surviving group of "Rescue Bots", who come to Earth in response to Optimus Prime's message to Autobots scattered across the universe. However, rather than roll out for battle, Optimus has a different task in mind for them: acting as ambassadors to humanity and working as "Rescue Bots" once again. They are instructed to masquerade as advanced machinery and work with the Burns, a family of first-responders who live and work in the town of Griffin Rock, a technologically advanced town that's on the cutting edge of scientific advancement.
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With Chase partnered with police chief Charlie Burns, Heatwave with fireman Kade, Blades with helicopter pilot Dani, and Boulder with engineer Graham, the humans, save for Charlie, are initially unaware of their new vehicles' true identity as alien robots. That is, until the youngest member of the family, Cody, deduces the truth and befriends the alien machines. Soon enough, the secret becomes known to the whole family, and together, they work to save the people of Griffin Rock from all manner of natural disasters and science gone awry.
 
As it's targeted towards a (slightly) younger demographic, ''Rescue Bots'' is considerably [[Lighter and Softer]] than other ''[[Transformers]]'' media, focusing on telling more lighthearted stories about rescue operations and teamwork rather than focusing on the war with the Decepticons, as most Transformers series do. However, the series does take some [[Broad Strokes]] from current Transformers media, particularly that of its sister series, ''[[Transformers Prime (Animation)|Transformers Prime]].'' ''Rescue Bots'' also uses a animation style similar to that of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', and has a fairly impressive voice cast consisting of [[Steve Blum]], [[Maurice La MarcheLaMarche]], and [[Levar Burton]], among others.
 
This being a ''[[Transformers (Franchise)|Transformers]]'' series, ''Rescue Bots'', has an accompanying toy-line (which predates the show). Just as the animated series is targeted towards (slightly) younger viewers than previous Transformers series, so too are the toys, featuring simplistic transformations and playsets as well as tie in stories packaged in with the toys themselves.
 
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* [[Black Best Friend]]: Cody's friend, Francine Green.
** [[Black and Nerdy]]: Francine shows herself to be this trope when she's more interested in a dinosaur exhibit than the flashier giant robots. Her father, being a scientist, also fits into this trope.
* [[Broad Strokes]]: The series opens with the Rescue Bots' ship picking up a message sent to the stars by Optimus Prime, beckoning them to planet Earth. This is essentially similar to one sent by Optimus at the end of the [[Five Episode Pilot]] of ''[[Transformers Prime (Animation)|Transformers Prime]]'' (itself inspired by yet another instance in the [[Transformers (Filmfilm)|first movie]]). Furthermore, references to a "fallen Cybertron" and Heatwave expecting to "roll out" with other Autobots hint that other aspects of the "[[Transformers Aligned Universe|Aligned continuity]]" are present in this universe as well.
* [[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|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.
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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 (Animeanime)|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 (Animation)|Bulk]][[Transformers Prime (Animation)|head]], right down to his colors, similar design, and being a [[Gentle Giant]] who loves Earth and is all around smarter than he looks.
*** His robot mode design (treads for arms, front for legs) is also similar to [[Transformers Armada (Anime)|Scavenger]]'s.
* [[Famous Ancestor]]: The Burns family is descended from the founder of Griffin Rock.
* [[Figure It Out Yourself]]: This is more or less Optimus Prime's response when the team contacts him about the difficulties they're having bonding with their human partners.
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* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: This show being aimed at preschoolers, the only allusions to the wars typical to ''Transformers'' series are references to Cybertron being "fallen", and the series' heroes being the last group of rescue Autobots left.
* [[Internal Homage]]/[[Mythology Gag]]: This being a ''Transformers'' series, this series is already accumulating quite a few of these.
** Heatwave's alternate mode is very similar to that of Optimus Prime's in ''[[Transformers Cybertron (Anime)|Transformers Cybertron]].''
** The first episode features malfunctioning, rampaging robot dinosaurs, in a story that is similar to the plot of the ''[[Transformers Animated (Animation)|Transformers Animated]]'' episode that introduced the Dinobots.
** And, as noted above, the first episode features the Rescue Bots picking up a message from Optimus Prime calling them to Earth, much like the ones spoken in ''[[Transformers Prime (Animation)|Transformers Prime]]'' and in [[Transformers (Filmfilm)|the first movie.]]
*** 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.
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* [[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.
* [[Secret Keeper]]: Charlie at first, Cody later, and then eventually the entire Burns family by the end of episode one.
* [[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 (Filmfilm)|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 (Film)|Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''.
*** Blades references ''ET''.
*** And on top of that, it also references ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Alien]]'' and ''[[Predator]]''.
*** And if you want to get even more obscure, the whole town packing over a "alleged broadcast" of an alien invasion is a reference to a real incidence in which people panicked over an alleged alien invasion in the 40s. The invasion turned out to be a radio adaptation of ''[[The War of the Worlds]]''.
** The episode title "Four Bots and a Baby" seems like a pretty clear reference to the film ''[[Three Men And A Baby]]''.
** The cross-eyed lion in one episode is a reference to Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: The show is one to the earlier ''[[Transformers Go Bots (Animation)|Transformers Go Bots]]'' series, as well as the Mattel "Rescue Heroes" toy-line. The notable difference in this case, however, is that ''Rescue Bots'' is (more or less) firmly set in the ''[[Transformers]]'' mythos.
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Dani is the only girl in the Burns family, and thus, the only female member of the main heroes.
* [[The So-Called Coward]]: Blades may not be the bravest Autobot, but when Cody is in danger in "Under Pressure", he's ready to fly through a cloud of volcanic ash in order to get the water to save him.
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