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BIOGRAPHY Born in research Physicist whose work in theoretical Quantum Mechanics is reported to have "rattled" Albert Einstein , and Sandra Willoughby, the daughter of the eccentric Scottish -born Texas Mathematician Edward McKay Willoughby. Sandra Willoughby fell in love with Masado Banzai when she was sixteen and married him twelve years later, after becoming an expert in her own right in the field of Negative Mass propulsion. The couple fled Japan at the outbreak of World War II and eventually settled in Texas. Their son grew up in Colorado and Arizona and was named " Buckaroo " because of his father's love for the American West . In ) as the four-year-old child looked on. Hikita raised young Buckaroo, using the entire world as his classroom, and the boy grew up to be, among other things, an extraordinarily skilled neurosurgeon. Dissatisfied with a life devoted exclusively to medicine, Buckaroo Banzai perfected a wide range of skills. He designed and drove high-powered Automobile s. He studied Bujutsu and Particle Physics . His skill with a Sixgun was reputed to eclipse that of Wyatt Earp . He spoke a dozen languages and wrote songs in all of them. His band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, was one of the most popular, hard-rocking Bar Band s in east New Jersey , though its members (bearing names like Rawhide, Reno, the Swede, Perfect Tommy, Big Norse, and Pecos Bill) were not professional musicians at all, but rather Cartographer s and Botanist s, Linguist s and propellant engineers, an Entomologist and an Epidemiologist . All of them experts in their fields of endeavor, they were drawn to Buckaroo. FURTHER ADVENTURES After a hiatus of twenty-plus years, Earl Mac Rauch and W.D. Richter have begun a new adventure for Buckaroo Banzai, in the form of a comic book produced by Moonstone Books . The new story, ''Return of the Screw'', picks up where the film left off. OTHER MEDIA Buckaroo Banzai and several other members of Team Banzai are prominently featured in the Battletech universe, a science fiction world taking place in the 31st century. It is not clearly explained how they find themselves in the future other than some sort of time warp, either intentional or inadvertent, but he occupies himself in that era as a professor at the New Avalon Institute of Science on the world of New Avalon within the Federated Suns successor state and is also a Battlemech designer, having designed the Hatchetman and Axeman mechs according to the sourcebooks ''Battletech Technical Readout 3025'' and ''Battletech Technical Readout 3050''. He is also featured as a character in some of the Battletech novels written by Michael Stackpole. |
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