Baldwin P. "Bulletproof" Vess

BulletProof (Real name: Special Agent, Baldwin P. Vess, voiced by Ken Ryan) is a cartoon character in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series from Hasbro.

Character Profile
The most beloved, revered, and highly esteemed of all C.O.P.S., Bulletproof is a selfless, strong, caring, dedicated leader, an inspiration to the C.O.P.S. team, who's extremely loyal to his men, his city with all of its inhabitants, and his job, and never lets them down, not even once.

Bulletproof is, hands down, the best Federal Agent there is as well as the founder and leader of C.O.P.S. An African American, who is the first African American leader and the only C.O.P.S. officer to appear in each and every episode in the series. He is easily distinguished by dark sunglasses he wears all the time except on one occasion when he's at the hospital bed bandaged up like a mummy after being seriously seriously injured in an accident set up by Big Boss' crooks in Part 1 of The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1. Afterwards, the only time when he's seen with his sunglasses off is when he's working at the desk in his office. Two examples of this is found in The Case of The Big Bad Boxoids and The Case of The Missing Memory.

He's also distinguished easily by his Trench coat covering his stainless steel cybernetic armor suit that has a special computer jack that allows him to control machines just by plugging himself into them (An example of this is found in Part 2 of The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1), short black hair, yellow shirt, narrow black tie, carries a gun holster with a gun inside of it on his left shoulder (in the cartoon), and carries a handcuff suitcase (in the toy series), reddish pants, and black and white shoes (brown and white shoes in the toys series and the comics). Sometimes he wears an orange hat on his head just like what is shown in The Case of Big Boss' Bye Bye when he puts it on his head and walked away from the precinct to do some private eye work.

Origin
Special Agent Baldwin P. Vess is sent to Empire City by the U.S. Government to take down one of Empire City's most notorious criminals lead by the criminal mastermind, Big Boss. Unfortunetely Vess got injured badly (Two versions was made on how he got injured by the Crooks involved being sandwiched in between a delivery fish van and a brick wall as told in the first part of The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1 and being blown away when Turbo Tu-Tone fires a bazooka at the 647 Precinct on the floor where Vess was at in the comics.) and had to be taken to a near by hospital where the doctors gave him a special armor plated cybernetic torso that allows him to resist bullets. While at the hospital he encounted Berserko, Big Boss' dim-witted nephew, who tried to take him down by firing his rifles at him, but Vess' torso resisted the bullets allowing Bulletproof (as he was called later on) to get the best of him. While staying at the hospital, Bulletproof sends out Police Officer, P.J. O'Malley (Codename: LongArm) and Rookie Officer, Donny Brooks (Codename: HardTop) to round up the best law enforcers around found all over the Country. With these men and women, including LongArm, Hardtop, and Tina Cassidy (Codename: Mainframe), Special Agent Baldwin Vess (Codename: Bulletproof) became the founder and commander of C.O.P.S.

The Case of The Bulletproof Waldo
Bulletproof, one time, came face to face with a clone version of himself in The Case of the BulletProof Waldo where Dr. BadVibes created a robotic clone version of Bulletproof that's controlled and operated by a small robot named Waldo and tried to used him to replace the real Bulletproof and give C.O.P.S. a hard time. Turbo Tu-Tone snuck into Bulletproof's green car and seize control over it leading Bulletproof trapped inside it all the way to his garage where Turbo used a large power magnet to pinned Bulletproof way up in the air. Later on, Turbo sends out a little robot spider to do Bulletproof in, while he goes out to rob a bank.

Meanwhile, Waldo comes to the precinct and assumes the role of the real Bulletproof with Big Boss and BadVibes keeping a close watch on him through the monitor. When the coffee is brought out for the C.O.P.S. to drink, Waldo, out of curiosity, splashes hot coffee in his ear for an unpleasant experience to see what coffee is like. He didn't like that at all.

He then tried to pet Blitz, Bowser's robot dog companion. Blitz, however, who knows the real Bulletproof, is the only COP member who can easily identifed Waldo as a faker. He growls and barks at him when Waldo tries to reach out and pet him. Noticing that something could be wrong with him, Bowser went to check on Blitz's circuitry when he hears a distress signal coming from Blitz that is given out by the real Bulletproof, who is in trouble in Turbo's garage. Bowser and Blitz races to where the signal is coming from and arrived there right in the nick of time just before the robotic spider did Bulletproof in. Blitz destroys the spider and Bowser frees Bulletproof from a huge magnet. The 3 C.O.P.S. speeds back to the precinct just as Waldo was yelling at them, threatening them, and ordering the C.O.P.S. not to respond to a report of a bank robbery taking place at this time claiming that the report is a fake - and the C.O.P.S. were beginning to expect that this is not the Bulletproof they know and love. The real Bulletproof would never yell at them, restrain them from doing their jobs, nor give out harsh, cruel orders to them. Just then, The real Bulletproof, Bowser, and Blitz has arrived.

"There the imposter! Arrest him!" Waldo demanded. "No way!" Mainframe calls out defiantly. "I'll show you who's the real imposter!" the real Bulletproof yelled back and a fight between the 2 Bulletproofs ensues until Bulletproof tricked Waldo into flying out the window and falling about 5 stories down to the concrete pavement. With that, Bulletproof sends the faker to the scrap heap.

"Bulletproof?" one of the C.O.P.S. asks as they point to him and saw Blitz running up to greet Bulletproof and recieve a warm stroke from him.

Bulletproof: "There is a bank robbery in progress at the Empire National Bank. Proceed there at once. IT'S CRIME FIGHTING TIME!"

The C.O.P.S. cheered! The real Bulletproof has returned! With that, the C.O.P.S. gleefully head off and arrive at the bank just in time to bag Turbo and send him all the way to the slammer.

Mainframe: "Welcome back, sir."