Buttons McBoomBoom

Buttons McBoomBoom (Real name: Unknown, Voiced by Nick Nichols.) is a cartoon character in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series from Hasbro which ran from 1988-1989.

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 matter by looking at his word balloon that dripped with ice of some sort. Buttons McBoomBoom hides, underneath his red suit, a cyborgnetic 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 it in a hostile way when he tries to take on the Bugman's army of bugs in The Case of the Baffling Bugman and The Case of the Stashed Cash where he tries to blasts away at a "crummy fly" that's annoying him at a poolside, be surrounded by a bunch of moths when he crashed into a stack of old clothing at the abandoned West Side Laundry, and in the opening intro when he takes on a butterfly which it's really 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 let 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.

The Case of The Bad Luck Burglar
In The Case of the Bad Luck Burglar, McBoomBoom got upset when he lost his lucky penny. The very first penny he ever stole. He searches frantically for it. In the sewers and 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, estatic over this, want to kiss him, but Big Boss didn't want that kind of reward. McBoomBoom begs Big Boss to give him the coin. He will on the condition that he go and rob the lottery machine at the mall.

McBoomBoom agrees so he took Turbo Tu-tone with him and went to rob the mall. Unaware, until he realized later on, while holding onto some helium balloons that floated him up in the air to escape the C.O.P.S., that he have 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!"