Bolt

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I'll never let them get you, Penny.

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Background

Bolt is the titular protagonist of Disney's 2008 animated feature film of the same name. He is a white German shepherd and the star of a live-action superhero series that has conditioned him to believe he is an authentic superpowered canine. When he becomes spirited away from his owner, Penny, Bolt embarks on a journey in the real world to get home.

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Real Life In March 2003, an 8-week-old Bolt is raised at the Silverlake Animal Rescue Center. One day, a girl named Penny enters the locale and spots Bolt almost immediately. Bolt turns to Penny, smiling and wagging happily before being distracted by his own tail and starting chasing it. Penny adopts the puppy, hugs him, and gives him his iconic dog collar. Five years later, Penny has received a call from her "father" alerting his daughter she is in danger from the evil Dr. Calico. To protect Penny, her father genetically manipulated Bolt to have superpowers, like super-strength, the super-speed, heat vision, and his legendary "superbark". His mission is to protect his owner from Dr. Calico and his minions and save Penny's father who is being held, prisoner. Using these powers, Bolt helps Penny foil Calico's plans, playing the role of a stereotypical, nerveless superhero. However, it is soon revealed that the entire premise is part of a popular TV show where Bolt plays the lead role. Bolt, however, believes that his adventures are real and that Penny, his actual owner and whom he directs all of his considerable love and devotion to, is in real danger. The directors nurture this illusion through the use of extensive stenography and live-effects, hence tricking the apprehensive canine, year after year, into believing that Penny is in serious danger and in need of constant protection. Everything is done in order to achieve a more realistic, genuine performance from the poor dog whose only real interest is to be with his owner. Penny, as a child actress who knows the drill, nonetheless returns Bolt's love when she is not being pulled away by other workers or her greedy agent. After each recording session, at the end of each day, Bolt and Penny spend some time alone in a trailer located inside the studio. Aside from the recording, this is seemingly the only time the two get to have together. Penny is forced to leave Bolt every night, alone in the trailer, as the directors are very keen to keep Bolt isolated from reality out of fear it would have on his performance, but she aspires to one day take him home with her and let him enjoy the life as a real dog. After a recording session, the two have some time on their own, but the dog is too worried and triggered to play or even eat. Instead, he persistently guards the door against the potential evils he is convinced might still be outside. Penny seems worried and tries to connect with Bolt by getting him to play or calm him down but soon must give up when her pink cell phone rings, reminding her that it is time to leave Bolt alone. Bolt, obviously knowing from earlier experience what the ringtone means, looks insistently at Penny and tries to block the door with his body, trying to keep her from leaving. Penny sighs saying, "You know I have to go" and hugs Bolt before leaving, who stands by the door after that she left, whining uneasily. During the night, two cats who play Calico's cats on the TV show visit Bolt's trailer to mock him and harshly and inconsiderately play on the fact that he thinks it is all real. Bolt does not realize that the cats are making fun of him and gets extremely frustrated when the cats ignore his threats and attempted intimidation. The cats leave him barking crazily. When the ratings are dropping, the directors decide to make a "cliff-hanger" as a comeback with Bolt not getting to rescue Penny, who knows Bolt's condition will get even worse, at the end of the shooting. Instead, he is restrained and dragged to his trailer where they try to lock him in. Thinking that Penny needs to be rescued, he effortlessly tricks the guard and escapes the trailer. Spotting some props from the TV set outside a window, he throws himself against the hard surface, convinced that he will be able to break through. Instead, he knocks himself unconscious and falls backward into a box stuffed with packing Styrofoam which is then sealed and Bolt is shipped cross-country to New York without anyone knowing where he really is. Alone, lost, and worried in the streets of New York, Bolt tries to find Penny while running down the crowded streets, convinced that she is still in danger. He tries to perform several of the stunts he used to do in his TV series. He first tries to knock out a man wearing a suit, thinking he's Dr. Calico, but he fails. He then tries to jump over a road construction ditch but falls down the hole in a most anticlimactic manner. Upon crawling back up, he spots a truck carrying a portable toilet that looks like the container in which Penny was captured. He runs up in front of the truck and readies to smash his head into it, but the driver, fortunately, spots him and stops just before hitting him, saving his life. Bolt doesn't find Penny in the portable toilet but he meets a few dogs down the street, which he refers to as "brothers" suggesting that his career at the TV series has left him with a view of all dogs as allies. However, he quickly becomes frustrated as the dogs seem entirely clueless rather than answering any of his questions, and he runs away when a concerned dog walker tries to put a leash on him. In the next scene, Bolt accidentally gets his head stuck in a fence. He tries to bend the bars and rock himself free, but to no avail. Whilst stuck, three pigeons arrive and advise him to turn his head in order to break free. Bolt is too frustrated to listen, growling that he needs to find his person. He eventually calms down and listens to the pigeons, and actually manages to break free when following their instructions. Desperate to find Penny, he is led to a sassy alley cat named Mittens who bullies pigeons out of their food. Believing Mittens to be an agent of Calico, Bolt attempts to interrogate Mittens by holding her off a bridge over heavy traffic to find Penny's whereabouts. Deciding to play along after seeing Bolt's tags, Mittens directs him to Hollywood, but Bolt brings her along against her will. Along the way, Bolt notices his "powers" aren't working, but he brushes it off as a side-effect of the Styrofoam from the box he was shipped. He thinks that it's his kryptonite (weakness). After jumping from the moving van he was using to get back to Hollywood, he also experiences pain and hunger for the first time. To sate his hunger and lower any more risks from his delusion, Mittens trains him to use "the dog face" to beg for food when they end up at an RV park. While persuading people out of their food, they meet a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino who is a huge fan of Bolt's show and (like Bolt) believes that it's all real. He convinces Bolt to let him tag along and leads them to a bridge over a railroad after Bolt states they'll "need a fast set of wheels." When Rhino mentions a "magic box", Mittens finally realizes Bolt is a TV star but is unable to explain to him before they end up almost killed on the train. Fearing her life, Mittens climbs a tree to escape him and tries to convince him he's an actor. His repeated attempts to use his superbark draw attention and they're eventually captured by animal control. Bolt breaks free but it turns out Rhino let him out of the truck's cage. The lightning bolt on his fur smudges (having splashed in a puddle during his escape), which finally knocks the truth into Bolt, much to his depression. His spirits are lifted just High enough after a brief pep talk from Rhino (who still has yet to realize the truth himself) to give Bolt the will to save Mittens from the pound. The dog, cat, and hamster escape the shelter in the distraction from an explosion. They hitch a ride on a truck to continue, but Bolt is still hopelessly depressed and confused about his existence. She cheers him up at by letting him in on a "little-known cat secret" that cats hate dogs because they want to be dogs and she explains that being a dog is having the "greatest gig in the world". Mittens teach Bolt the meaning of being a real dog and how to act like one; like playing fetch, sticking his head out a car window, etc.. Acquiring a map, the trio resumes their journey across the USA with better accuracy. As the days go by, Bolt is brought into true reality with an entirely new outlook on life, something he never had in the studio. Soon, his superhero persona (and lightning mark) fades as he develops ordinary canine behavior and a friendship with his companions. Towards the end of the trip, the trio finds themselves in Las Vegas, where they enjoy ample leftovers from buffets and beautiful fireworks. But Mittens refuses to continue on and tries to convince Bolt that Penny is just an actress and only pretends to love him. Bolt refuses to believe this and, in a rant, Mittens reveals that she had owners who abandoned her, declawed when they moved. Bolt tries to convince Mittens that Penny is different but she pushes him away and apologizes for showing pity to him. Bolt says goodbye to Mittens and wishes her the best, and continues on alone. With the help of pigeons, he's guided back to his old studio. Hearing Penny, Bolt heads towards her to play like regular dogs do with their owners. His joy turns to shock when he sees Penny hugging a replacement of himself and leaves with a broken heart, believing Mittens had been right. But what he didn't know was that that was a scene Penny was acting. Outside the studio, he runs into Mittens, having been convinced to follow by Rhino. She explains to him that she was wrong when she observed how heartbroken Penny was and tells Bolt that Penny truly loves him as her own dog and misses him dearly. But this is cut short when Bolt then suddenly hears something and senses something's wrong and realizes that Penny is in actual danger. He, Mittens, and Rhino rush back to the studio, which is on fire due to his lookalike panicking and knocking over some torches. With Rhino's help, Bolt just barely makes it inside. He locates Penny and they share a heartwarming reunion which is cut short because they need to get out as soon as possible. Bolt leads Penny to an air-vent but she begins to succumb to smoke asphyxiation. Penny tells Bolt to save himself but he refuses to leave her side. Bolt realizes the sound echoes out through the vent and (recalling how Rhino did an echo) releases a loud bark through to alert the firefighters of their location before passing out. They're rescued just in time and sent to the hospital. When their agent believes they can exploit the incident for publicity, Penny's disgusted mother informs him that she, Penny and Bolt quit after angrily kicking him out of the ambulance. Three days later, Bolt's show jumps the shark with an alien abduction plotline with his lookalike, and a new Penny starring in the show (the show explaining the new Penny's different appearance as a result of facial-reconstruction surgery) while the recovered Bolt and Penny have moved to a rural home, possibly Kansas, and neighborhood with Mittens and Rhino, who Penny has adopted. With this new lifestyle, the four and Penny's mother have a happier life. Game Penny's father has been captured by Calico and his organization in an attempt to construct a powerful weapon of untold power. Penny and Bolt travel to Italy in an effort to find out more, but they get nowhere other than learning of Calico's location in Belize. Calico finally manages to capture Penny once she and Bolt find his temple base in the Ukatan jungle. To prove Penny is alive and in custody to her father, Calico gives Penny a cell phone with her father on the other line. Calico then attempts to flee the crumbling temple with his new captive but decides to leave her there with Bolt to die, saying, "As long as the professor believes she's alive, he will do what is asked and finish the weapon. Too bad we can't all have nine lives." However, Penny and Bolt survive and discover Calico's new arctic base with a large rocket in the center. But upon entering, Penny notices micro-focusing mirrors and realizes that it is her father's satellite instead of a warhead. All too late as Calico seals the entrance and, to Bolt's horror, launches it with Penny inside screaming for help. Bolt then jumps onto the rocket and dismantles it in mid-flight, crashing it into the snow. The two then ventured to Calico's harbor in China, (they find it out through a computer system) where they discover a ship full of warheads. Just then, Calico arrives at the harbor, enraged to find Penny still alive, and even more so as he watches his prized freight ship sink to the bottom, thanks to Bolt, who then pursues Calico, escaping in his car to a nearby train station. He arrives at the station and boards his train, closely followed by Penny and her dog. Just as the duo finally corners the doctor, he slips into a hidden room and escaped on his private jet. Not before Penny secures a homing beacon onto the hull, leading them right back to Calico's base. Penny and Bolt trace his jet back to his main base, where Penny's father is being held. However, upon arriving, Calico tests his new weapon on Bolt, draining him of his powers and strength and capturing Penny, due to her emotions getting in the way of the mission. Once Penny is inside, he explains his plan to use Penny's father's micro focusing mirror-equipped satellites to bounce a beam around the Earth and neutralize all atomic weaponry except for his own, meaning he can nuke anyone, when he wants, how he wants. And as he leaves, he violently kicks Bolt's cage proving Penny of her limited knowledge. However, during this, Penny maneuvers her way out of her hand bindings. Once free, she attempts to find her father to save Bolt. Unfortunately, she is only captured by Calico once again, just as Bolt regains his powers and Penny sabotages the control panel, raising the bridge so Bolt could reach her. Once he does, Penny escapes from her guard captors yet again and launched a pre-prepared, rocket-powered cart at the main power generator (which Bolt exposed). Then, using what power remains in the generator, Calico duels with Bolt, using powerful lightning bursts. But after the lengthy and hard-fought battle, Bolt finally defeats him. Beaten and weakened, he attempts to escape on his private helicopter, launching numerous missiles as a decoy, just as Penny finally finds her father (aboard the helicopter). But while Bolt tries to apprehend Calico by grabbing his foot, Penny's father pleads to her and Bolt to allow Calico to escape with himself to stop the missiles, reminding her that she had the power to find him again. Regretfully, Penny orders Bolt to stop the missiles as Calico escaped with her father.

Powers and Stats

'Tier: 9-C | 9-B, 9-A with Super Bark, 'Higher when Supercharged | 9-B, Varies from At least 9-A to 8-B with the Super Bark

Name: Bolt

Origin: Bolt

Sex: Male

Age: Roughly five years old

Classification: Dog, White German Shepherd, Actor | Superhero

Attack Potency: 'Peak Human level (Being a German shepherd, he should have a bite force of 238 PSI) | Wall level (Bolt can make a hole trought a wall along with being able to do this by tearing off a door), Room level with Super Bark (The Super Bark can cause this amount of damage), 'Higher when Supercharged (Supercharged version of his move cause more damage) | Wall level (Stronger than before, can send a speeding car flying by headbutting it and busted a wall), Varies from At least Room level (A normal Supercharged Super Bark can cause this kind of damage) to City Block level with the Super Bark (At assumingly full power he did this amount of damage)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Managed to catch up to a car) | Subsonic, 'Higher with Super Speed | Subsonic (Can outrun motocycles), 'Higher with Super Speed (Can go so fast that he appears as a blur)

Combat Speed: Superhuman (Blitzed Mittens who can keep up with him) | Subsonic (Can dodge missiles) | Subsonic (Comparable to Helicopter Blades)

Reaction Speed: Superhuman | Subsonic | Subsonic

Lifting Strength: 'Below Average'''' (Mittens could not move him) | Class K (Moved an entire crane) | At least Class K (Became much stronger than before)

Striking Strength: 'Peak Human level | Wall level 'Higher when Supercharged | Wall level

'Durability: 'Peak Human level (Survived this with only a minor paw injury, which was staded by mittens that they were going eighty miles per hour,) | Wall level (no selled a long fall) | Wall level

Stamina: At least Above Average (Is an actor dog meaning he must do considerable training. While traveling by car, it's also shown that bolt must have walked quite a lot to return home) | At least Peak Human (Went to five completely different countries where he is constently fighting with likely not much rest)

'Range: Below Standard Melee Range' | Below Standard Melee Range' physically, Tens of meters with laser eyes and Super Bark | Below Standard Melee Range' physically, Tens of meters with laser eyes, varies from Tens of meters to Hundreds of meters with Super Bark

Powers and Abilities:

Real LifePre-SuperchargePost-Supercharged

Peak Human strength and durability, Superhuman Speed, Enhanced Senses (Most dogs can hear sounds up to 67 Hz and their nose can detect smell much easier than humans due to having more glands. Tapetum Lucidum grants enhanced eyesight at night time and other low-light conditions), Skilled in Stealth (A guard walked past him and he went unnoticed), Small Size (Type 1, Is 50 cm tall), Natural Weaponry (Via his fangs), Social Influencing (Begged for food and received lots of it from lots of people)

All previous abilities alongside: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Self-Sustenance (Type 1, Can survive in space) Acrobatics and Limited Physics Manipulation (Includes flips and such in his combat along with the ability to double jump), Energy Projection (Has a laser vision), Adept in Melee Combat, Vibration Manipulation (Via the Super Bark, can do this), Invulnerability (Type 1, Bolt can become invulnerable), Limited Attack Reflection (The Super Bark can deflect missiles), Statistics Amplification (Via Supercharged), Status Effect Inducement (Can stun enemies with the Super Bark), Power Nullification (Bolt can remove Force fields) Aura (Bolt can create a green aura around himself), Limited Resistance to Electricity Manipulation (Only knocked out for a very brief moment), Resistance to Cold Temperature (seemingly unaffacted from the cold of northern Russia)

All previous abilities enhanced

Standard Equipment: None | None

'Intelligence: 'Average' | 'High Animalistic (Bolt acts extremely dog like, and does not fully comprehend everything around him such as when Penny mentioned destroying four generators, Bolt attacked the computer screen, however he knows to use his powers effectively)

Standard Tactics:

Real LifePre/Post Supercharge

Bolt does not fight much while away from Penny, his only real "fight" was overpowering Mittens however it's most likely because she was much smaller then him. so it's unknown what he would do against someone larger.

Bolt opens up with what he believes will be the best option in the given scenario. This either being a full on physical rush or him staying away and using his powers such as Laser Vision and the Super Bark

Weaknesses: Inexperienced fighter and isn't all too familiar with the world around him, which is resolved after quiting as an actor | Styrofoam depowers him and he can not permanently stay in Supercharge | Styrofoam depowers him

Key: Real Life | Pre-Supercharged | Post-Supercharged

Note: Bolt's powers purely come from the tv show (feats both taken from the movie itself and the video games) and thus these can not be attributed to his real life self

Battle Records

Notable Victories:

Kion (The Lion Guard) - Kion's profile (Post-supercharged bolt was used)

Notable Losses:

Inconclusive Matches:

Discussions (Link For Mobile Users):

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