Burter

**Burter** is a character appearing in Home for Infinite Losers. Due to being nearly rehabilitated along with the rest of the Ginyu Force, he is trusted by the Ogres Mez and Goz, he is an upper-ranked Prisoner of HFIL.

## Appearance

Burter is the tallest member of the Ginyu Force, towering over the other members. He has bluish-purple skin, red irises, pupil-less eyes, and many small spots on his body. He wears a black variant of the usual uniform most of Freeza's army wears but, due to being a member of the Ginyu Force, has a small logo located on one of his Battle Armor chest plates. Like many other members of Freeza's army, he wears a green scouter.

## Biography

Much like the rest of his teammates, along with Freeza, Zarbon, Dodoria, King Cold and later Cell, Burter was condemned to Hell, specifically to the **H**ome **F**or **I**nfinite **L**osers, a place for villains too powerful for regular Hell. He is first introduced along with the rest of the Ginyu Force (sans Ginyu) playing beer pong, though with Shasta (likely due to terms set by the program of disallowing alcohol) where Burter personally remarks preference for Sprite. To welcome Cell as their new neighbor, Burter and the rest of the Ginyu Force perform their favorite, self-made dance, the Twerk-a-Rena. The spectacle horrifies Cell severely.

During the first sharing circle Burter opens up about his death at the hands of Vegeta. When Zarbon fails at his attempts at avoiding making his typical homosexual innuendoes, Burter deliberately proceeds to play off this by making his own innuendo about how Vegeta slammed him deep in the throat, openly admitting about his own orientation (with a high-five from Jeice).

During the dodgeball match between Cell and Freeza, instead of partaking in the match himself, Burter and Jeice serve as commentators to the match much like they did during Recoome's battle with Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan back on Namek.

Later when Cell is forced to returning a frisbee that the Ginyu Force had thrown, accidentally breaking his, Raditz and Super Kami Guru's kitchen window, Burter insistently invites their neighbor into their home, revealing that it was in fact the Ginyu Force who built the cul-de-sac as part of their rehabilitation and further discloses about rewards for good behavior, the site having originally been a mere camp. He further impresses Cell how they had already fixed his window between then and his arrival. Relations between the two groups sours when Cell, following numerous assaults by Ginyu (in truth a frog inhabiting Ginyu's body that everyone's unaware of) where Cell threatens to tell Goz and Mez about the the Ginyu Force being bad neighbors.

Following the confrontation the Ginyu Force begin playing pranks on Cell which initially seem like mishaps and accidents, namely due to having Guldo set them up with his time stopping ability. This results in Cell abducting Frog Ginyu and hiding him to force an apology from the group. When the Ginyu Force refuses to acquiesce it leads to a short fight out in the cul-de-sac, the group being clearly outmatched, even with Burter and Jeice double-teaming the bio-android. This leads to Jeice threatening to blow up Cell's house via bombs Guldo had planted while searching the house for Ginyu. When Cell reasons they would be forced to rebuild his house anyway, Burter points out to a technicality of them being independent contractors, so they could essentially procrastinate all they like. Cell responds by bloating up into his self-destruct form, leading to, in Burter's own words, a mutually assured destruction Mexican standoff scenario.

The event is de-escalated when Goz and Mez intervene, scolding both parties for breaking curfew and revealing the truth that Ginyu had in fact swapped bodies with a frog. At first the Ginyu Force are elated that their captain is alive, but then realize that Frog Ginyu isn't *their* Ginyu and come close to openly dismissing him. This is when Guldo stands up to his teammates and scolds them for so readily dismissing Frog Ginyu, whom he's come to regard as a friend despite everything and how he considers the rest of the Force his friends despite their poor treatment of him. This gets Burter and the rest to come around and accept Frog Ginyu as part of the team as their friend/pet/mascot. Burter apologizes to Cell on behalf of everyone regarding their engineered mishaps, as well as admits that they were bluffing about planting bombs, to which Cell also admit he couldn't self-destruct. Burter also points out they had nothing to do with Cell's trash bin breaking, indicating it was in fact Freeza's fault as Cell initially suspected.

During King Cold's visit to the cul-de-sac, Burter is poorly assigned as Guldo's partner during trust fall exercises in regards to the former being the tallest and the latter the shortest in the group.