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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 Marche]], 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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* [[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.
* [[Five
** The Rescue Bots themselves fit into these roles, though there's only four of them:
*** [[The Hero]]: Heatwave
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* [[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
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: Graham initially believes that Boulder wouldn't want have anything to do with his "primitive" culture and knowledge, but was very, very wrong.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Optimus Prime. See [[Big Good]] above.
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* [[Tsundere]]: In the second episode, neither Kade or Heatwave are willing to admit they're friends now, even after standing together when their lives were on the line; "It's not like we're friends" is even said verbatim.
* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]: The first episode features a malfunctioning, robotic T-Rex.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Blades is deathly afraid of heights. Considering he turns into a helicopter, this poses problems for him and his human partner, Dani.
* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: Optimus Prime has his own play-set in the toy-line, while he isn't (currently) a main character in the show. What's even worse is ''Bumblebee'', who has multiple toys, his own play-set themed after him, a healthy role in the marketing, all before making ''any'' kind of appearance in the series.
* [[The World Is Not Ready]]: The reason why the Rescue Bots have to be "robots in disguise." However, the usual Transformers trappings are played with in that they get to pose as advanced machinery and not hide their robot modes. This is all part of an gradual plan to get humanity used to their presence.
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