Buttons (Animaniacs)

**Buttons** is a loyal and protective German Shepherd dog and a protagonist of the original *Animaniacs* television series, as one of the two leads in the "Buttons and Mindy" segments. He is a very faithful guard dog to the toddler Mindy, though he often gets into terrible trouble while trying to protect her, and sometimes even gets blamed for her mishaps. Due to this, he is often very anxious. While he is one of the few nonverbal protagonists, his noises are provided by Frank Welker.

While the "Buttons and Mindy" segments did not return for the 2020 *Animaniacs* reboot, Buttons does make a cameo appearance in the episode "Good Warner Hunting."

Buttons had his big epic-adventures of his of the journeys to save everyone to become their famous "*True Hero*", he also had a love interest of his girlfriend named Winona when he first saw her that he races in the nick of time and saves Winona's little girl-owner, Anne-Marie's ball during the picnic with her parents; Harold and Kate, in springtime since Winona able to meet him for the first time while Buttons falls for her for once he faces Winona's ex-boyfriend; Sniper, with his henchmen; The Downtown Dogs, were bullying him that they overhear that Buttons was a able to be a Winona's best dog's boyfriend since whenever Sniper scowled that Winona is his, Buttons brings back the medicine for Anne-Marie when she was sick that Buttons and the dogs; Demon, Nana, Diesel, Mack, Scooper, Yodel, Duchess, and Sniff, were teaming up with Buttons who were all been lost with their sleigh in the forest until he helps them and Buttons has finally become a true hero to save the young girl's life when he has return since Sniper has been defeated by Buttons with a help of his new friends; the Snow Dogs, that returned while rescue to save Annie-Marie to get her better as a true dog hero since he save a girl by pulling a sleigh with the snow dogs while bringing her medicine to her to get rid of her sickness during the dogs' mission.

In the second film, Buttons was in his dreamland while he was in a mysterious purple dusk-like landscape with mist. It appears to be entirely made of ice, and under it is the ocean as he is running across the landscape, The Raven in pursuit of him for a minute later as Iago's voice breaks through the dream and wakes him up that Buttons had a dream again with a meeting, but suddenly, Buttons then realized that Winona had puppies and he was a father as he goes for Winona who as puppies in her basket. Later that night, Buttons has a 2nd dream where he is running from The Raven again and finds himself running with a herd of caribou, as he he hears his mother of his guide-spirit's voice Lady's voice breaks into the dream. She tells Buttons the animals that will help guide him, the Fox: The Cunning Trickster, the Wolverine: Your Fears the Bear: Inner Knowing, and the Caribou: Life. that she quoted before a last to appear is the wolf who was the sound of a howling is the last thing that Buttons hears before he wakes up to go search for his daughter; Sandra the Wolf, that she ran away last night to travel around for her own discover of her feeling of own family when he was exploring the forest until Buttons meets up with the same mysterious creatures; like a cunning female red fox who was called The Vixen *("The Cunning Trickster")*, who has her neck tied around the log, an intimidating trio of wolverines who were called The Wolverines *("Your Fears")* that taunt, bully while cornered him at the rock wall, the same guiding raven who is called The Raven from his dreams, and a furious, furious grizzly bear who is called The Grizzly Bear *("Inner Knowing")* that attacked his daughter and him until disappears nearby the cave during the battle. Whenever Buttons and Sandra reunited together, they encounter the wolves with their leaders Akela and his evil brotherhood Maugrim who wanted to make the wolves to become their leader of the pack-clan. But when Maugrim tries to kill Akela to refused to leave his homeland, Maugrim was downed into the deep into the ocean water to meet his death, causing Sandra to become the new leader of the wolves as she fibs a farewell of goodbye to Buttons that she tells him to go tell Winona that she found a new home at the forest with the other wolves that by becoming a new leader of the pack, causing Buttons leave her and the pack.

As Buttons returns home after Akela runs back home and saying goodbye to his guide-spirit mother, in the 3rd film where Buttons and Winona were both top of the mountains while both watched far away from the miles until they return to the city until they both reunited with the Snow Dogs while meeting up with their son; Gin, who was the part of the Snow Dogs to become their leader pack of them. After that for a moment, Gin goes for Buttons and Winona that reunites to see his parents when he was having a good time for delivering the mails and packages for his great-remarkable adventures with the Snow Dogs for pulling a sleigh with them on their sides with traveling the world, but meanwhile, Gin's friends of his neighbors; Charlie Barkin, Dodger, Mooch, and Rekia, were alerted that Rita has telling them about the bad news about after when Rigby has reads Mordecai's rejection letter with a help of Angel's song in her siren's singing of her forward and backward to turn all of Stitch and his Experiment Cousins back to good who has them all evil in their trances under a spell on them, Mordecai ends his friendship with him causing Rigby's exile when Simba's evil uncle, Scar, told the raccoon to run away and never return that he'll won't come back, causing Rigby runs away to leave the park by being exiled by Scar for banishing the raccoon, letting Gin and his friends know that Rigby was being exiled that the dogs knew that they got to get the raccoon back during their rescue plan of theirs. Meanwhile, Buttons was feeling worried and has his memories in his flashback about his childhood son was playing with his father during the song ("You Don't Have to Be a Hero") that makes him worried about his son. But just as Winona meets up with and was about to tell him what the matter with him, Tip & Dash arrive, worriedly and panicking, and tell Buttons and Winona about Rigby went out in the Timeship when he was alone and went out in space, but it caused to make the sea-witch, Ursula, points at the sky with Rigby at the Timeship while she demands to Were-Skunk, Doug Shablowski, Jeremy, and Chad to go after Rigby to ambush and capture him when he was alone while seeking to capture and ambush Rigby for the attack onto him. However, their worried and panicking words caused Caruso the Penguin went over and he was overhearing and tells them what the fusses was about when he arrives and says in his words; "*What's up, folks?*", but however with a sudden of the shocked, Buttons and Winona were both realizing and in shocked with surprised on their faces that Rigby is in in trouble that he needs help before he gets captured. On the way for the mission for Rigby's rescue during the search for him, Buttons, Tip, Dash, and Caruso with a help of Tail Terrier, Paw Pooch, Tusky Husky, and Mammoth Mutt, were exploring to find the way to rescue Rigby before he gets captured by the four villains as the eight gang traveled through the places while being bold, courageous, and strong with their might as heroes together, but until however, they are being under attacked by Mermaidman & Barnacleboy's arch-nemesis; The Dirty Bubble, who was them corned during the battle while threaten them that they cannot defeat him, but just as Buttons was about and attempts to fight the Dirty Bubble, another arch-enemy of Mermaidman and Barnacleboy of theirs, ManRay, threatens the Dirty Bubble and quickly attempts to attack him during the battle between them, causing Buttons and the others escape to find Rigby, leaving the two villains fight. Later, they found Rigby who was alone in the forest as Buttons quickly warn him to go back to the forest, but suddenly, he spoke too late for him, Rigby has been ambushed while he was being tied up and gagged by Were-Skunk, Doug, Jeremy, and Chad who appear to grab him in the forest for their arrivals. Suddenly, Gin appears with his friends and Mordecai that he knew that Rigby was in trouble. Meanwhile in deeper of the woods, Robyn Goodfellowe (Wolf) was refuging inside the mysterious cave until she hears some of the echoing of the distance singing sounds ("T'Was Brillig") that made her lured in through the cave with magical tiny shining things and misty fogs in the cave when Robyn was investigating to follow the echo-singing until Buttons and the other friends followed the song that they're already in the cave to follow Robyn, until they found Rigby who was tied up and gagged by Were-Skunk, Doug, Jeremy, and Chad in the cave. During the battle, the dogs save Rigby and Mordecai apologies him as the others leave the cave for their rescue mission has their job done in them happily within their prides, leaving Were-Skunk, Doug, Jeremy, and Chad got trapped down in the deep pit where they won't captured Rigby agian. Back home in the final of peaceful, Winona and Gin were both sitting on the mountains while talking that Buttons has become the *"one-of-the-kind true hero"* that he was rescued Rigby in the cave with a help of his song and the others, all thanks to them, as they both watched Buttons was working with Mordecai and Rigby in the park while picking the trash up for their jobs in the park.