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Species | Cybertronian | ||||||||||||
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First appearance | 101. "Family of Heroes" | ||||||||||||
Voiced by | Steve Blum |
Heatwave, a.k.a. Fire-Bot, is an Autobot and the leader of the Rescue Bots. He transforms into a fire truck. Heatwave was originally partnered with Cody Burns in the toyline, but is partnered with Kade Burns in the animated series. He dreams of joining The Team Prime, and sometimes has little patience for anything he sees as getting in the way of his mission, including staying in disguise as non-sentient vehicles and working with human partners.
Biography[]
Heatwave was originally a fireman on cybertron as he stated in season 1 episode 1.
Heatwave and the rest of the Rescue Bots were originally Cybertron Rescue Team Sigma 17, a space rescue team. Having been on routine patrol before the war between Autobots and Decepticons erupted, Sigma 17 was responding to a distress call that led them into an encounter with an energon draining organism. Barely escaping, they entered stasis and set the autopilot back to cybertronian space. He and the others awoke to Optimus Prime's voice, alerting them to go to Earth. After Optimus told them that they would need to appear as "robots in disguise", Heatwave immediately expressed resentment. When Optimus told him that the humans were accustomed to technology but wouldn't feel comfortable with sentient robots around them, Heatwave grumbled about the indignity of having to pretend to be an unfeeling machine in order to aid regular humankind.
Pre Rescue Bots[]
Rock Em' Sock Em' Rescue Bot. On Cybertron, Heatwave was a three time Lobbing champion. Before joining the Rescue Bots, he was a firefighter on Cybertron . Heatwave and his team were finishing a routine patrol in space when they received a distress call. Investigating, they found they'd been marked as lunch by an Energon eater, and had to put themselves in stasis and power down their ship to escape it.
Season 1 Rescue Bots[]
Sometime later, the Sigma received a transmission from Optimus Prime and landed on Earth. After dropping the bombshell that Cybertron was no more, and that they are probably the last Rescue Bots in existence. They are unable to lose the team's valuable skill set and most likely lose the organization once thought lost, they were not allowed to roll out or join the fight. Optimus wisely assigned them a mission where they can grow and protect all humans, to learn from Heatwave as their team leader and assigned them to Griffin Rock to work with the Burns family. Heatwave assumed a form of a firetruck, as it was similar to what he used to do on Cybertron, and is partnered with Kade Burns. The two initially have a hard time working together. Although he does pay attention to the things kade says.
Season 2 Rescue Bots[]
Season 3 Rescue Bots[]
Season 4 Rescue Bots[]
In Season 4, Episode 1 ("New Normal"), after they defeated the Velgrox, he revealed to the people on Griffin Rock that they were not just metal rescue robots, but aliens. The people accepted them as aliens, even though Huxley Prescott and Milo were skeptical about it
Rescue bots academy season 1[]
Heatwave grew more experienced and was now the head of a rescue bots training center. His animation was upgraded.
Rescue bots academy season 2[]
He is now hotshot's mentor.
Character[]
Heatwave is brave, responsible, caring (though he tries to hide it) and a good leader.
Abilities[]
Heatwave is a Cybertronian, and has the ability to assume between various forms. He has the most forms out of the usual Rescue Bots, being the first and so far only Rescue Bot to gain a second vehicle form in the series (the others gain secondary vehicle modes in the toy line, but none have appeared in the series to date). He transforms into a red firetruck, a red fireboat, his robot form and an apatosaurus. This technically makes him a quadruple-changer.
In his robot form, he can fire high pressure streams of water from his fists/knuckles. His fire engine hose can also be wielded by Kade to double the area covered, though this will exhaust his reserves faster. He can detach the ladder on his back for rescue purposes as well. In his spare time, he seems to practice sparring with a martial arts training tool, so may have some skill in unarmed combat as well. In his original toy form, he could equip a large ax and/or sprayer to enhance his abilities. This was replaced in both toy line and on the show with the ability to summon a variety of Energon tools by saying "Power Up and Energize", such as an axe and a double barreled nozzle that he uses as a heat welder.
In fire engine mode, he has both a fire hose and a rescue ladder, as well as presumably a hose to use the city's hydrants so as not to draw upon his own reserves. His fire truck mode appears to be much faster than most other vehicles, though that could be he tends to launch first.
In his fire boat form, he is fast and agile with two water cannons for spraying down fires. He has been shown to shift between fire truck and fire boat modes, though this was done in air. It is unclear if he draws upon his own reserves or if he can absorb the water around him to fuel his cannons.
In his dinosaur form, he can shoot out of a stream of water from his mouth that is more concentrated than his other forms, making it far more suitable for combat. It can be presumed that his ability to synthesize or extract water from the air remains in this form to power attack.
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Trivia[]
- Heatwave likes to keep his combat skills in top shape. He often works-out using kickboxing-type apparatus.
- Heatwave wants to join Team prime. but he did do to the fact he has battle experience and knowledge on decepticons along with Chase.
- Optimus chose heatwave as the leader of the rescue bots because he cared about his team and his mission a lot more.