Buttons McBoomBoom
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| Real name | Constantine Saunders |
| Background | Machine Gun Expert |
| CROOKS Position | Big Boss' Bodyguard. |
| Trademark Features | A cybernetic body with double machine guns he fires at any target at will when he unbuttons his suit to reveal them. Carries an extra machine gun in his violin case. |
| Extra Specialty | Cold-hearted Crook. Hates bugs. Has a penny he keeps in his pocket for good luck. |
| Significant Episode Appearances | The Case of The Baffling Bugman, The Case of Bad Luck Burglar, The Case of The Iceberg Pirates, The Case of The Stash Cash, The Case of The Crime Convention. |
| Voiced by | Nick Nichols |
Buttons McBoomBoom is a cartoon character in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series from Hasbro which ran from 1988-1989.
[edit] Character Profile
A character straight out of the Prohibition Era, Buttons McBoomBoom is a cold faced, serious looking hitman who serves Big Boss as his personal bodyguard. He is seen wearing a red suit and fedora and carries around a violin case that hides his favorite playtoy, a deadly machine gun that he uses to blast away at any target at will. He talks coldly. Even in the comics, you can see he talks in a very cold manner by looking at his stylized word balloons that appear to be dripping with melting ice. Buttons McBoomBoom hides, underneath his suit, a cybernetic torso that bears twin machine guns with which he blasts away after he unbuttons his shirt to reveal them in the heat of battle against either the C.O.P.S. or a bug.
Buttons McBoomBoom hates bugs and expresses this in a hostile way when he tries to take on the Bugman's army of bugs in The Case of the Baffling Bugman, where he obviously developed a sheer hatred of bugs from, and The Case of the Stashed Cash where he tries to blasts away at a "crummy fly" that's annoying him at a poolside, when he was surrounded by a bunch of moths when he crashed into a stack of old clothing at the abandoned West Side Laundry, and lastly in the opening intro when he takes on a butterfly shown to actually be its shadow he's firing at as Nightshade tries to rob a wardrobe filled with jewels.
In the comics, McBoomBoom has a twisted philosophy that involves not killing anyone. Instead, he just lets his target live after he breaks them down. He displays this philosophy when he went after LongArm's family in The Long Cuff of the Law and Bulletproof in Buttons on a Vess later on.
[edit] Character Highlights
[edit] The Case of The Bad Luck Burglar
In this episode, McBoomBoom got upset when he lost his lucky penny: the very first penny he ever stole. He searched frantically for it in the sewers and also in his old rundown apartment house. Big Boss wanted him to rob the lottery machine filled with money at a huge mall but Buttons can't find his lucky penny and he's been getting a lot of bad luck as a result of this. Big Boss, to get Buttons to do the heist, decides to "substitute" the coin with a fake one and says to Buttons that he found the real lucky penny he's been looking for. McBoomBoom, ecstatic over this, wanted to kiss him, but Big Boss didn't want that kind of reward. McBoomBoom begs Big Boss to give him the coin. Big Boss agreed, on the condition that he go and rob the lottery machine at the mall.
McBoomBoom agreed and he took Turbo Tu-Tone with him and went to rob the mall. He was unaware until later, that while holding onto some helium balloons that floated him up in the air to escape the C.O.P.S., that he had been double-crossed by his own boss.... and he was going to kiss him! All because Big Boss gave him only a worthless counterfeit coin instead of the real lucky penny that is now at the hands of Brian O'Malley, Longarm's son, who found the coin and exclaims, "Gee, it must be my lucky day!"
