I have been called many things. Monster hunter. Doomaday prepper. I reject all these labels. What i am, is a survivalist.Burt
Trick or treat, you son of a b**ch.Burt, leaving a can of gasoline where an Ass Blaster is melting a door
Burt Gummer (1956 - 2020) is the overall main protagonist from the Tremors franchise. He is portrayed in each of his appearances by actor Michael Gross.
Burt has appeared in all but one of the seven Tremors films and also appeared in the television series. In the one film Burt did not appear (the 2004 prequel Tremors 4: The Legend Begins), Gross portrays an ancestor of Burt named Hiram Gummer.
Bio
Burt Gummer is a firearms enthusiast, and a paranoid survivalist. He and his (as of Tremors 2) former wife, Heather Gummer(played by Reba McEntire), were the first persons in the film series to directly kill a Graboid thanks to the large supply of weapons kept in their basement. He has an "overkill" approach to trouble and takes himself deadly seriously, much to the annoyance or amusement of others. Even Earl Basset noted that Burt puts "a whole new shine" on the meaning of overkill; Burt retorted: "When you need it and don't have it, you'll be singing a different tune." According to Tyler Reed, he is the "Martha Stewart of whatever it is" that he does.
Personality
Burt is curt, even blunt, bossy, and antisocial. But have no doubt that he does care for his fellow residents of Perfection Valley, and will risk life and limb to keep them alive and safe. Also worth noting that, despite having far-right views and a Cold War-era hatred of the Russians, Burt has absolutely none of the racist or sexist opinions that are sometimes associated with those beliefs.
Abilities
- Weaponize: Burt knows many weapons, from guns to bombs. He has even made his own bombs.
- Teaching Skills: He was able to teach his closest friends to make a bomb with out even showing through by speaking throughly. As he was successfully to do so as he was outside of his emergency bunker.
- Monster Slayer and Giant Worm Mutation Expertise: Burt is proven to be best of the best to kill monsters such as Graboids, Shriekers and Ass Blasters. He even faced new monster that was genetically created named 4-12 that his guns weren't able to fazed through the tough skin but he came up the idea to make a flamethrower to kill it. In Africa fighting new mutations of the evolutionary Graboids and Ass Blasters were more of challenge what he been dealing in his life from back home as he learn new things from these that he couldn't think it was possible.
- Intelligence: Burt has shown to be quite intelligent, proven to be ready for anything as people fine him to be crazy though he already to be prepare such as he had back up for his back up generator. He gives great lectures to give safety tips to everyone but gets annoyed when they don't listen to him but he ended up to be right as always. Burt is always ready for plan as he might not think of idea but when someone tries to help him out to get idea he figures way how to make it happen for what ever situation he in.
Appearances
Movies
- Tremors (1990)
- Tremors 2: Aftershocks (2001)
- Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
- Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
- Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018)
- Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)
TV
- Tremors: The Series (2003)
Games
- Shriek and Destroy
Trivia
- Burt died as he lived; to put it in a humorous way, giving the "worms" "the bird", as his last act was flipping off a Graboid before it ate him and fell off a cliff into an explosion.