Blaze the Monster Machine

Blaze is the titular main protagonist of the Nickelodeon show mh:besttvshows:Blaze and the Monster Machines. He is voiced by Nolan North. He is an orange-red monster truck. His design seems to be loosely inspired by multiple trophy trucks and pre-runners, specifically the first-generation 2010-2014 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor (coincidentally, both have an orange-red type of color).

Why He Is Blazin' Speed

 * 1) Similar to other Nick Jr.-based protagonists, he talks to the audience in a charming way that isn't pandering at best.
 * 2) His pair with AJ is adorable, mostly how AJ drives with him by going the adventures, including racing.
 * 3) He has great and awesome designs, even if they look kind of uncanny (especially in his Seasons 1, 2, and early-mid-3 appearance), such as monster trucks, robots, and race car. In late-season 3 onwards, his design was the improvement from the realistic metal and expression emotions.
 * 4) He is well-voiced by the iconic voice actor Nolan North, who does a spot-on impression of other characters, such as Lightning McQueen, a very similar character from another most popular anthropomorphic vehicle-related media, Cars.
 * 5) Even if he rarely does ever get annoyed, usually due to Crusher's cheating, the only time when he shows true anger to date was in "Stuntmania!" when Crusher uses a Bouncy Boot Machine to literally kick Darington out of the Monster Dome, he was actually scolding Crusher and gave him a death glare.
 * 6) During the episodes, it was shown that he was a fantastic work for doing jobs, other than the racer.
 * 7) *In the episode Truck Rangers, it was revealed that Blaze is an excellent guitar player and singer, though that was the only episode he was shown doing such.
 * 8) **Coincidentally, his voice actor, Nolan North, is really good at singing.
 * 9) *In the episode Sneezing Cold, he was good for doing ice skating.
 * 10) *In Fired Up!, he helps them to put out the fire. He even becomes a member of the Axle City firefighters.
 * 11) *In The Great Animal Crown, he becomes the ruler of Animal Island.
 * 12) *In Ninja Blaze, he and AJ become ninjas when doing the training montage.
 * 13) *In Officer Blaze, he and AJ become police officers.
 * 14) His blazing speed ability is awesome, especially that he also shared the main characters for blazing speed, making the ability even more awesome than that!
 * 15) Apart from AJ, he has very good chemistry for other main characters, notably Crusher and Pickle in some episodes.
 * 16) His transformations, such as falcons and tow truck, is exciting and creative.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Much like Dora and the latter three of the Team Umizoomi protagonists, his fourth wall breaking would probably find anyone above the target audience for the show annoying, since he often stays silent for couple seconds in order to leave time for the kid viewer to reply. However, it was slightly toned down so that Blaze always hears the viewer and quickly responds to their correct answer.
 * 2) Whenever the episode involves a race, he always wins almost every race he is in, usually because he uses his blazing speed to win, which makes it really unfair to the viewers for almost each episode, though this does makes sense since he is the main protagonist of the series, and Crusher is usually the villain who loses at the end.

Trivia

 * Blaze is the first character introduced on the show, along with AJ, though he's the first to talk to the viewer.
 * He's the only main monster machine with an eye color.
 * He and AJ are the only characters to appear in all episodes of the series.
 * The only episode Blaze, alongside AJ, does not appear in is Pickle's Pirate Professionals.
 * Nolan North, the voice of Blaze, is more known for being Nathan Drake, Desmond Miles as well being the voice of Deadpool and Hal Jordan in various media.