Barnes
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| Barnes | |
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| Biographical Infomation | |
| Birth: | Late 1980's or early 90's |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Hair color: | Black |
| Eye Color: | Brown |
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| Timelines: | New Timeline |
| Affiliation: | Resistance |
Lieutenant Barnes was a Resistance soldier and one of John Connor's closest friends in The War Against The Machines.
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Personality
Barnes was a loose cannon who acted without thinking at times.
Barnes was very close to John Connor and served in Connor's chain of command.
Early Life
He was an an ex-football player [1] who was deeply religious and believed that Judgment Day was the beginning of the final war on Earth with Skynet as the Antichrist. He grew up in a low income area of Los Angeles and was a constant target of gangs. It is these childhood experiences that explain Barnes' contempt for local gangs of human survivors who choose to raid and attack other humans, rather than join the Resistance in the war against Skynet.
Terminator: Salvation
Following an attack on the Skynet VLA, Barnes learned that his brother was killed following the accidental tripping of a Skynet booby trap. He frequently worked alongside John Connor in mission planning and even disregarded a direct order from General Ashdown to remove Connor from command after Connor deemed the attack on Skynet Central to be too risky.
Barnes had also accompanied John in testing the deactivation signal in the field. Under the cover of darkness, the two managed to lure and successfully deactivate an HK-Aerial before destroying it.
Barnes was present with Kate Connor when it was discovered that Marcus Wright was a terminator and quickly disabled him. Barnes would serve as the first watchman of Wright and discussed with the machine his views on God and how Wright and Skynet were the devil (novelization). During this he used the machine as target practice until being tricked by Blair Williams to leave her alone with the machine. Upon finding the truth Barnes returned to the silo and fired on both Wright and Blair claiming that she had made her choice.
Barnes was also a person who enjoyed music and one of his proudest possessions was a tape player that had survived Judgment Day. He would use this alongside Connor to capture and reprogram a mototerminator. After the destruction of Resistance Headquarters by the machines, Barnes went with Kate Connor on her mission to rescue John from Skynet Central. He helped Connor to carry Marcus to the helicopter for evac.
Behind the Scenes
- Barnes is portrayed by the rapper Common.
- Early reports suggested that Common would be playing Danny Dyson, but were soon corrected to be false.
- An action figure of Barnes will be released as part of the Playmates toy line for Terminator Salvation.
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