Speed Buster

Speed Buster
kana	スピードバスター
romaji	Supiido Basutaa
Age	76 years old
Occupation	Third rank in the United Assassins Association
Weapon	Buster Launcher
First appearance	No More Heroes (2007)
Voiced by	Mitzi McCall

Speed Buster (スピードバスター, Supiido Basutaa) is a character in the video game No More Heroes. She is a 76-year-old assassin who lives in the abandoned Speed City, and is the oldest ranked member of the United Assassins Association; her real name and nationality are unknown. She is ranked third in the UAA. Speed Buster is voiced by Mitzi McCall. Her battle theme is Mach 13 Elephant Explosion.

Personality And Appearance

Speed buster is an elderly women who carries around a shopping cart. Speed Buster is a misandrist woman who claims men to be unbelievably stubborn and foolish. She has also recently become very hard of hearing, or at least pretends to. Despite her views about men she thinks that Thunder Ryu is a good man, and that Travis Touchdown will become one.

Story

Speed Buster is first encountered in Speed City, where she is fighting Travis's mentor Thunder Ryu, Although he blocks one of her attacks, he is distracted by Jeane (who followed Travis to his Ranking Battle) and is killed. After his death, Travis asks if she is the third ranked assassin, she claims to be hard of hearing and has Travis yell his question of her rank many times. During this conversation, her shopping cart transforms into the Buster Launcher, once complete she tells Travis that like all men he is a fool, showing that she was pretending to be hard of hearing to give herself time to construct her weapon. Travis then proceeds the long stretch of land between them, diving into empty houses or alleys to avoid her cannons blasts. he eventually reached a line of telephone poles which he cuts down, which land on the buster Launcher and disable it, allowing Travis to reach her. Travis cuts the barrel of the Buster Launcher in half upon doing so. Before Travis kills her, she tells him that she thought of Thunder Ryu as a good man and believes Touchdown will develop into one as well, paradox of her initial attitude. She kisses Travis for good luck, and he decapitates her.

Powers and Abilities

Speed Buster's weapon is the Buster Launcher, a energy cannon with an extremely long barrel. It is possible for Travis to block it, however it will sap battery power and life.

Trading cards

Speed Buster appears on three trading cards in the Design Materials set of No More Heroes. These are No. 75, No. 76 and No. 143. Speed Buster also appears in silhouette form on No. 79, manning the Buster Launcher.