Big Boss (C.O.P.S.)

Big Boss and Scratch are cartoon characters in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series from Hasbro which ran from 1988-1989.

Brandon "Big Boss" Babel
Big Boss is Empire City's worst nightmare. He's Empire City's most nefarious of all criminals and the mastermind behind the Crooks organization that's made up entirely of professional burglars, muggers, and thieves. He rules the criminal world with a literal iron fist, using his cybernetic left hand to smash things when enraged, especially his desk. He talks like Edward G. Robinson, nearly always uttering a soft spoken 'mahh' as he speaks to himself, his thugs, foes, or anyone else.

In the toy series as well as once in the episode The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1, he is seen carrying a strange cane he uses as a rifle weapon. Surprisingly fast and agile despite being a grossly obese 350 pound man, Big Boss makes sure that no criminal caper goes on without him knowing about it and giving his approval. He's also never without his personal yes-man named Squeeky Kleen, who serves Big Boss hand and foot. He is seen with three moles on the upper left hand corner of his forehead and a white suit with about four police badges on them that he uses as trophies after he brought down four police officers, who foolishly dared to challenge him to battle and lost.

In the comics, Big Boss has a personal grudge against Bulletproof, due to the fact that Bulletproof had sent his twin brother the Crime Boss of New York City to jail, where he died.

Big Boss shares similarities with such other criminal villains as Lex Luthor, the Kingpin and Rupert Thorne, with one exception - he is never shown to be involved in any legitimate business practices. It is assumed all his wealth comes from crime.

Scratch
Big Boss is never without Scratch who keeps him company everywhere he goes at all times. Scratch is Big Boss' pet weasel, who has large eyes, metal paws, and a cybernetic body armor on him that at one time formed into a jet pack in The Case of the Prison Break-in.

The Case of The Spotless Kingpin
Big Boss hates to get his suit dirty and in this episode, Big Boss orders a new stain resistant suit made to completely resist dirt. But, when Bowser, Blitz, and Highway came to take down Berserko, Rock Krusher, and Squeeky Kleen, Berserko witlessly threw the suit at the COPS causing the chemicals inside the suit stolen from a laboratory to get screwed up, causing the suit to act as a big magnet, attracting all the dirt directly at Big Boss.

Big Boss, very enraged, ordered his crooks to fix up a formula that could reverse the effects of the ill-fated suit and get the dirt away from him. Squeeky had to have Dr. BadVibes make out the formula hoping that would cure him of this dirty predicament. Later, Squeeky was able to escape from the C.O.P.S. and raced back to Big Boss at his penthouse with the formula and, at his order, splashed the formula on him. The viewer then saw the dirt get dissolved away - and the suit too, revealing Big Boss' pig trousers, a white sweatshirt, and an angry Big Boss chasing after Squeeky Kleen.

The Case of The Visiting Mother
Big Boss has a mother known as Big Momma who paid him a visit in Empire City in this episode to accompany him to an auction brought on by Commissioner Highwaters to raise money for charity. Big Boss had to struggle to be good in front of his momma even though it was pretty difficult thing to do for a kingpin such as Big Boss. He even had to hide his true colors from her by pretending to run an orphanage with his crooks posing as orphans.

The Case of The Crime Convention
Big Boss is a very greedy, selfish man who took all the glory for himself in this episode when he awarded the Crook of the Year Trophy to himelf after Buttons McBoomBoom and Berserko duked it out with each other to see who should be voted Crook of the Year.

The Case of The Super Shakedown
Big Boss wishes to make all of Empire City his own and will do whatever it takes to do it, whether that is taking the President of the United States hostage in The Case of Big Boss' Master Plan or, in this episode, using a super earthquake machine to level the city to the ground, destroying it, unless all of his demands are met. But thanks to the C.O.P.S., the machine is destroyed, Empire City is on solid ground once again, and Big Boss' penthouse is flooded with Big Boss and Squeeky Kleen inside trying to make a getaway before the now non-existent earthquake, hits the city.

The Case of Big Boss' Bye Bye
Sometimes Big Boss likes to take advantage of the city's problems and uses it to his own advantage. In this episode, Empire City has lots of financial troubles and Mayor Davis has declared that all unnecessary employment in Empire City must be eliminated. Bulletproof had to assure the C.O.P.S team that the C.O.P.S. organization is not one of those unnecessary employment areas. However, Big Boss made C.O.P.S. to be one of them by faking retirement and took off to a tropical island hideaway, anticipating the C.O.P.S. to be given the pink slip. Afterwards, Big Boss returns to pull a heist on the Empire Cental Railroad train that's coming to Empire City to deliver relief funds to the city, which was successfully thwarted by Bulletproof, Mainframe, and Mace, who all got their jobs back afterwards.