Big Boss and Scratch
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| Big Boss with Scratch | |
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| Real name | Brandon Babel |
| Background | Crime lord of Empire City |
| CROOKS Position | The ringleader behind all of the crooks infesting Empire City. |
| Trademark Features | Incredibly fat man with an iron left hand he uses to smash things when enraged and to make a certain point across. Never without Scratch, his pet weasel. |
| Extra Specialty | He rules the criminal world with an iron fist. Selfish, greedy, with a strong lust for power, dominion, and wealth. |
| Significant Episode Appearances | The Case of Big Boss' Master Plan, The Case of Big Boss' Bye Bye, The Case of Big Boss' Big Switch, The Case of The Spotless Kingpin, The Case of The Crime Convention, and many others. |
| Voiced by | Len Carlson |
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.
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[edit] Character Profiles
[edit] 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. Big Boss, however, will not tolorate illegal drugs and used his influence to keep them out of Empire City (unknown to the authorities, though). 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 comic series, Big Boss has a personal grudge against Bulletproof for sending his twin brother, the Crime Boss of New York City, to prison. Big Boss's brother later died in confinement - thus nephew Berserko (his brother's son in the comics) ended up under his care, much to Big Boss's constant annoyance.
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Major Highlights
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 himself after Buttons McBoomBoom and Berserko duked it out with each other to see who should be voted Crook of the Year.
[edit] 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 The Ground Shaker 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.
[edit] 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 Central 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.
[edit] The Case of the Lowest Crime
For all of his faults, however, Big Boss has one good virtuous point: his dislike of illegal drugs. He refuses to deal in them and has used his influences to keep them out of Empire City (Although, the legal authorities are unaware of this.). When the Crystal Twist epidemic, brought on by Addictem, severely hits Empire City, it hit Big Boss personally head on when his bumbling nephew, Berserko accidentally fell into a large cache of the drug product, temporary putting Berserko into a coma and had to be rushed to the hospital immediately. Big Boss is deeply worried about Berserko. Even though Berserko is very stupid and screws up a lot, Big Boss really cares about him. After all, Berserko is family. So, Big Boss decides to personally get involved.
The C.O.P.S. have been so busy with the resulting crimewave as a result of the appearance of Crystal Twist (even Longarm was affected by the drug product), they haven't had time to trace the source of the drug. Big Boss enters the precinct to offer his help. He brings along Buttons McBoomBoom, Nightshade, and Buzzbomb to assist the C.O.P.S. in their efforts to stop the drug plague.
Bulletproof reluctantly agrees to a truce and accepts Big Boss' help. The C.O.P.S/Crooks alliance wastes no time chasing Addictem, the one responsible for the epidemic, all over Empire City until he arrives at the Empire City Hospital, where he ends up being caught by Berserko, who has awakened from his coma. There, Addictem is arrested by the C.O.P.S. and hauled off to jail. Bulletproof admits he is surprised that Big Boss has done something good for Empire City. Then, he receives an alert that Big Boss' crew has returned to their thieving ways and it looks like things are back to normal for both the C.O.P.S., the Crooks, and the city.
