Bolt (character)

Bolt is an American White German Shepherd voiced by John Travolta

Bolt is a Swiss White German Shepherd with a black lightning bolt on his left side. His owner is Penny (whom he refers to as his "person"). He was acquired by Penny (when she was 7 years old) at roughly 8 weeks of age, based on his size and behavior, and immediately began to groom him for a life as a TV star.

Before being in New York
Bolt is then shown 5 years later, apparently having acquired superpowers. He is with Penny (who is now a pre-teen) when they are trying to find out where Dr. Calico has Penny's dad. Bolt helps Penny escape Calico's minions and it is eventually revealed that the entire beginning of the movie was not really related to the story line.

Bolt has his own trailer, which is where he lives. After the bogus opening, Bolt is stuck inside the trailer and tormented by the two cats that hang around Calico.

Bolt is next shown infiltrating Dr. Calico's base in Bolivia, entering the base by hiding under a truck. They somehow get into a ventilation system and disable three of Calico's guards.

Penny is then captured by Dr. Calico, but the whole thing is fake. Bolt is stuffed into a cat carrier by one of the animal handlers with the suit. He is taken back to the trailer and released. The two cats decide to make an appearance now, which facilitates Bolt's escape from the trailer so that he can look for Penny. He runs all over the studio until he discovers a container similar to that in which Penny was imprisoned. He tries to bust through a window, but knocks himself out in the process. Bolt falls into a cardboard box that is taped shut and sent to New York City, leaving people looking for him.

Meeting Mittens
Bolt awakes to find himself in the box and escapes. He jumps out a window and ends up in an alleyway in New York City, even though he is unaware of this. He spots someone who he believes is the Green-Eyed Man (Dr. Calico) and tries to use the karate chop scene earlier. However, it doesn't work and Bolt is very confused. He runs all over a good part of the city and eventually gets his head stuck in a fence after running away from someone named Christie. To his unpleasant surprise, he discovers that he can't bend the bars and escape. He is struggling with the bars when three pigeons approach him. They tell him how to escape. One of the pigeons believes he saw him before but doesn't know where but Bolt is to determined to find Penny and take revenge her capturers and he hates cats, since he mention it the trio then lead him to a Tuxedo cat named Mittens when Bolt says that he needs a cat to lead him to Penny. Believing her to be one of Dr. Calico's cats, Bolt captures Mittens, Bolt demand for answer but Mittens is confused what Bolt wanted, since Mittens didn't answer his questions he dangles her over a bridge. She gets afraid but Bolt still depends for answers then she eventually tells him "where" Penny is and she'll help him find her, Bolt ties her to the leash that had been attached to his collar to make sure she doesn't escape. Mittens finds a map of the U.S.A. in a dumpster and shows Bolt where they are and where Penny is. After Mittens answers where she is, she politely ask Bolt to set her free but Bolt refuses and still takes her with him and he sets off which he discovers a U-Haul truck with the word "Hollywood" on the side, leading him to think that it's going to Hollywood. Bolt tries to use his heat vision on the lock, but fails and is forced to run away when the movers reappear. Mittens is dragged along and ends up getting knocked out when she hits a mailbox.

The pair eventually wind up somewhere in Ohio, still in the back of the U-Haul truck. Bolt is sitting stoically on a couch while Mittens is looking through the objects in the truck, apparently trying to find something to hit Bolt with. Mittens tries to distract Bolt with a conversation about his powers, but Bolt repeatedly says that the information is classified. When Mittens is about to hit Bolt over the head with a baseball bat, she falls backwards, dislodging a box full of styrofoam packing peanuts. The box falls on Bolt, causing him to jump out of the U-Haul truck, still attached to Mittens. He gets shocked when he bleeds. Mittens expresses her frustration over Bolt's ignorance of the real world. He then spots a piece of styrofoam and panics. Mittens then holds it in his face but after a distraction, she is pinned down and promises no more trouble. Bolt is interrupted by his stomach growling and mistakes it for poison, but Mittens informs him tat he's actually hungry and demands her for the antidote which she agree to help. However when they found food Mittens ask him to do the dog faces but Bolt gets confused and he doesn't understand but once Mittens teaches him how to do it, he uses it and the people grant him food. After a while, Bolt now recommends to keep going but Mittens is against since it's more benefiting to stay there and they meet Rhino.

In Super Rhino
In the bonus short, Super Rhino, Bolt is tied up along with Penny and they are about to be dipped in boiling lava by Dr. Calico. At least until Rhino steps in to save him. In the short, Bolt doesn't speak; he merely whimpers and barks happily when Rhino saves him and Penny. As a result, there was no reason for John Travolta to come back and provide his voice.

Superpowers

 * Superbark: Able to knock helicopters out of the sky and level buildings. Command is "Bolt, speak."
 * Heat vision: Able to burn through most material. Command is "Bolt, stare."
 * Super jump: Allows him to perform extraordinary leaps. No command.
 * Super speed: Causes him to run much faster than usual. Command is "Bolt, zoom zoom."

Penny
Since Penny was his owner, Bolt heavily depended his entire life on her since he known her for the rest of his life. He deeply cares about her and when she was captured Bolt will try everything he can to find her. However despite that, Bolt spend his entire life in the trailer.

Penny's Mom
Not much is known about them since Bolt hardly acknowledges her.

Penny's (tv) dad
Not much is known but since he sees Penny "care" about him, he also cares about him just as much as her.

Green-Eye Man
Since Penny is actively after this person, Bolt will tag along and help her defeat him and also rescue her father.

Mittens
Since he hates cats, Bolt believed that Mittens was working for the Green-Eye Man since the pigeons told him about her, Bolt was very determined to force Mittens to answer where is Penny. Unknown to Bolt, Mittens played along with that idea but Bolt still believes that she is still working for him so he forces her to help him find Penny.

Trivia

 * In the movie, Bolt is 5 years old, but his size indicates that he is no older than 5 to 6 months old.
 * Bolt has brown eyes, like most of the other characters.
 * Bolt also knows martial arts, In the movie, he used them to take out a few guards during the "Cliffhanger" episode and tried to use it when he spotted someone he believed to be the Green-Eyed Man.
 * In the first film, he seemed to really hate cats until he met Mittens.
 * That is because Dr. Calico has cats serving him.
 * The number on Bolt's tag is the address to Disney's feature animation building.
 * In Super Rhino, Bolt doesn't speak and instead barks and whimpers (like a normal dog).
 * At one point in the movie, Mittens called Bolt "Cujo." This is a reference to the Stephen King novel and film.
 * Bolt's original name was "The Omega Dog."
 * Bolt makes a cameo in Wreck it Ralph on a long lost dog flyer in Pac-Man.