Mace and Nightshade

Mace and Nightshade (Sgt. Mace, Real name: Sargent Colt Howards, Voiced by Len Carlson. Nightshade, Real name: Rafaella Diamond, Voiced by Jane Scholettle) are cartoon characters in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series brought on by Hasbro.

Character Profiles
Sargent Mace is a member of the Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team who is able to single handedly take down Crooks in the most dangerous situations whether it is during hostage takeovers or police stand-offs. He has a vast array of weapons he fully masters in using, including his lazer bazooka he uses from time to time in battles against Big Boss and his thugs. Because of his excellent performance, Bulletproof had to take him in and make him a part of C.O.P.S. Mace is often seen with Barricade, a calm, cool, and collective cop, who is known to maintain his coolness in the most heated situations; quite the opposite of Mace's hot-headed behavior.

Mace's Hot Headedness
Mace is indeed a hot-head who is known to lose his cool whenever things get heat up. In one episode, The Case of the Lawless Lady, Mace got so mad at Highway (Supposedly his best friend.) for saying something insulting, that he got into a fistfight with him. As a result, Bulletproof had to suspend the 2 C.O.P.S. officers for 2 weeks. Another episode, The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines, Barricade had to quiet and restrain Mace for he's been ranting and making violent threats as Vargas is about to activate the button that would cause the Vetrocon factory building used to manufacture the Instant Justice Machines to blow up. Another one, The Case of the Invisible Crime, has Mace highly annoyed by Airwave who could make an excellent sportscaster if he haven't chosen to be part of C.O.P.S.

Nightshade is a cat burglar, who slips in quietly into any place of interest, steal a certain item, and quickly slip away undetected. At her job, she is seen in her brown and yellow stunt uniform with her tool belt wrapped around her waist containing all of the tools and traits needed to help her during her latest heist. She also has long, red hair, wears blue, eyelid makeup, and large, gold, trianglar earrings. And, at other times, dressed up in a purplish jacket worn around her with a casual dress underneath. Nightshade is greedy and would sometimes argue with Big Boss over whether or not she is either promoted or going to get a raise. She sometimes also expresses her disgruntlement of working for a selfish crimeboss who demands, in Nightshade's own words, "I want this, I want that. Sometimes I wish I could tell that Big Boss off."

Nightshade's Rich Background
It is known that Nightshade came from a very rich family, who disowned her when she turned herself into a life of crime and started to commit robberies to satisfy her greed. She has a sister named Cathleen, who thinks Nightshade is living in Europe but she is mistaken. Cathleen is never without her close friend, companion, and mentor named Nancy, who is seen with her on all sorts of occasions, including going on shopping trips and checking out special jewelry displays.

In the comics, Nightshade is misidentified as Mirage, while in the cartoon, Mirage is really a different character. Mirage, in the cartoon, is one of the C.O.P.S. Officers, who works as a undercover officer.

The Case of Mace's Romance
Mace has a soft spot (And a loving relationship too.) with a Crook named Nightshade, who is in love with him just as much as he's in love with her even though they are the exact opposites of who they are. Because of this, Mainframe has been known to make jokes about it much to Mace's annoyance. When Mace and Nightshade first met in The Case of Mace's Romance, it wasn't really romantic at first. Mace is doing his job of making an arrest and Nighshade was the one he's after for a crime she didn't commit. Nightshade is accused of kidnapping her own sister, while it was really Buttons McBoom Boom, who disguse himself as Nightshade, kidnaps Cathleen and framed Nightshade for it (at Big Boss's orders just because he wants Nightshade to rob a ballroom of charity money being raised to help the city's homeless, but she demands him to pay her more than he gives her to do the heist. So, Big Boss blackmails her by sending Mc BoomBoom over to kidnap her sister and frame Nightshade for it.). Later on, Nightshade is reunited with her sister in a ballroom, where Big Boss plans to steal money donations given at a party that is supposed to be used to help the city's homeless. There, Nightshade helps Mace rescue her sister, clear her name, and prevent the ballroom heist. Later, just after Mace yells at Mainframe, "GO TO WOOOORRRRRK!!!" after being highly annoyed by her joking around about him and Nightshade while chanting, "Mace got a girlfriend.", Nightshade calls up Mace at the 647 Precient to thank him once again for helping in clearing her name and rescue her sister from the crooks. There, romance begins to bloom and blossom as Nightshade blew a kiss from the precient window just before taking off into the night--and we see Nightshade's kiss on Mace's right cheek a moment later.

The Case of the Lawless Lady
In the Case of The Lawless Lady, Mace and Highway got into a fight with each other over something Highway said that was offensive and had to be suspended for 2 weeks by Bulletproof. Mace, in the meantime, was able to go out on a date with Nightshade at an outdoor restaurant, who asked him if he could marry her. Mace says he will but on the condition that she gives up her criminal ways and go straight. That's difficult thing to do for a crook like Nightshade, who Mace began to ask about the serveral jewelry stores that has benn robbed not to long ago. Did she robbed them? No, she didn't, but Mace didn't believe her and tried to arrest her after she gave him a kiss with her knockout lipstick she put on. But, Nightshade got away and Mace fell to the ground and was fast asleep. He awoke a short while later to get a large bill from the waiter and a purse Nightshade has left behind, which contains the knockout lipstick and a map to an area where all of the jewelry stores have been robbed.

He report this to Bulletproof, who thought he told him he was suspended for 2 weeks. Mace understood and show Bulletproof Nightshade's purse with the lipstick and the map inside. The map contains all of the jewelry stores that has been marked which represent the stores that have been robbed. The center one is the store that Nightshade most likely be planning on robbing. The trouble is, that store is guarded by a mean, vicious dog named Shredder, whom Nightshade encounter when she broke into the store. Bulletproof reinstated Mace and had him go after Nightshade, who is hiding way above on the top shelf from Shredder. Mace arrived and encounterd the store's proprieter, who was actually the one who robbed the jewelry stores so that he can sell the stolen loot at his own store. So, Nightshade was telling the truth all along when she claimed she didn't robbed the stores. The proprieter ordered Shredder after Mace, who got up on the top shelf with Nightshade to escape from him. As the proprieter is making his escape, Mace took Nightshade's lipsitck and used on himself and smooch the dog with it, putting that mean, old dog to sleep. Then Nightshade took down the proprieter and...of all things....placed him under arrest - something a crook could never do.

Nightshade, however, was put in jail for attempted robbery. But Mace tells Nightshade that the Judge plans on sentencing her on prohibition for helping him solve the caper and catch the real crook. He gave her an engagement ring and told her he didn't steal it, he just bought it. With that Nightshade had to say, "Kiss me you dumb Cop." (which sounds a lot like the movie catch phrase, "Kiss me you dumb fool.") and they smooched. But Nightshade gasped, "Mace! Did you wiped out that knockout lipstick you put on?!" "I...for...got." Mace replied as he falls to the floor. "So...did...I." Nightshade said as she too fell to the floor of the prison cell - and the 2 are fast asleep. Highway, looking on, just had to make this remark, "What a way to spend a romance."