Big Band

Real name: Benjamin Birdland

Birthday: December 15

Blood type: B♭ (experimental oil mixture) Height: 7' 7"

Weight: 5000 lbs. (95 lbs. organic)

Likes: A good beat, shoe polish, brass polish, 4-part harmony, autumn leaves, the flat 5th, the spirit of the law, gin, neat

Dislikes: Punks, corruption, unresolved dissonance, carelessness, electric shavers, smoothies, narrow spaces

Ben Birdland, aka "Big Band", is a senior member of Lab 8, enhanced by experimental procedures performed on him he is committed to using his abilities to stop Skullgirls and the Medici. While he maintains himself to be calm and collected and prefers to talk things out, he will not hesitate to fight back if he has to. He is also a father figure and mentor to the younger members of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs and has shown to be empathetic to others, such as Painwheel.

Ben Birdland has seen a lot in his time, including the worst of the Grand War. But nothing was worse than what he saw as a beat cop in New Meridian. When he ran afoul of his crooked unit he was given a violent early retirement, and his broken body was left to spend the rest of its days in an iron lung. That would have been the end of Ben’s story if it hadn’t drawn the ears of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs. With little left to lose, he agreed to be rebuilt with their experimental procedures.

Appearance: Prior to his cybernetics, Ben was a tall man with dark brown skin and dark hair. After his beatdown and subsequent transformation into Big Band, he is inside a large iron lung-like mechanism, covered in a detective coat and fedora. His eyes are pure white, which would imply that he is blind, but he seems to be able to see just fine.

Big Band has a variety of musical instruments hidden under his coat, although he has a large arm with brass knuckles, he usually uses sets of small arms with cushioned tipped claws to hold small items.

He's been confirmed to wear striped boxers with musical notes on them.