Barry Burton

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Barry Burton
Biographical information
Race/Nationality:	Caucasian/American
Occupation:	US Air Force Pilot (formerly) S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team Weapon Specialist (formerly) Anti-Umbrella activist BSAA Advisor/Combat Specialist
Status:	Alive
Biological information
Blood type:	A
Height:	186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Mass:	89.3 kg (197 lb)
Other Information
First appearance:	Resident Evil
Voice:	Barry Gjerde (Resident Evil) Ed Smaron (REmake) Jamieson K. Price (RE5, RE The Mercenaries 3D) Michael McConnohie (Rev2) Yūsaku Yura (Rev2 Japanese)
Portrayer:	Gregory (RE1 live-action)

"Jill, here's a lockpick. It might come in handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you. "

Barry Burton was a member of the Special Tactics And Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) and the backup man for the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team. He was in charge of maintaining and supplying weapons for his fellow S.T.A.R.S members.

Background

Before 1998, Barry was an airman in the U.S. Air Force, serving in the same unit as Chris Redfield, whom he became good friends with. Barry later left the Air Force and joined the recently formed S.T.A.R.S., where he employed his vast knowledge of weaponry. Chris was eventually discharged from the force and began drifting. Barry met up with Chris and managed to talk him into joining S.T.A.R.S. He has a loving wife, Kathy, and two daughters named Moira and Polly.

Barry is also a known gun enthusiast and NRA member. When he came to Raccoon City to join S.T.A.R.S., he became friends with Gun Shop owner Robert Kendo. The two were close friends and often went fishing together in Stoneville. Due to their friendship, Barry commissioned Robert's brother, Joe, to modify most of S.T.A.R.S.' arsenal, including their side arm, the Samurai Edge. Barry had his specially modified to fire .40S&W caliber rounds.

The Mansion Incident

"That was a close one! A second late, you would've fit nicely into a sandwich."

After a confrontation with cerberuses, Barry managed to escape into the Spencer Mansion along with fellow Alpha team members Chris Redfield, Albert Wesker and Jill Valentine. Afterward, he helped Jill overcome several of the mansion's traps and creatures. However, Albert Wesker, who was actually a spy working for the Umbrella Corporation, blackmailed Barry to do his bidding by using his family as leverage. Barry began to eliminate any evidence that implicated Wesker and began luring Jill into traps against monsters. It was because of Barry that Wesker was able to track down Enrico and murder him. While in the lab, Wesker reveals his control over Barry and has him once pull his gun on Jill. After revealing that his threat against Barry's family was a bluff, Barry knocks Wesker out with his gun. Jill, Chris, Barry, Wesker and Rebecca Chambers subsequently escaped the mansion.

Raccoon City

"Time to end this damned nightmare!"

After the Mansion incident, Barry immediately moved his family to Canada, out of Umbrella's reach in order to ensure their safety. He then left them to rejoin Chris and Jill in their Anti-Umbrella efforts. During the t-Virus outbreak, when Raccoon City was facing annihilation, he took a civilian helicopter in order to locate Jill and extract her from the city.

Barry came in contact with an Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service mercenary Carlos Oliveira (who was assisting Jill amidst the chaos) and was able to locate Jill in time to rescue both her and Carlos before the missile destroyed Raccoon City. Afterward, Jill and Barry participated in undisclosed anti-Umbrella operations until Umbrella's shut down by the U.S. Government.

At some point after this, Barry discovered that Moira had accidentally shot Polly while playing in the house, which led to them growing distant as a result.

Sushestvovanie Incident

"Moira... No... I don't believe it. There's no way she's..."

Around late 2009, after the Kijuju Autonomous Zone Incident Chris and Barry finally had the time to catch up with each other, it was around this time that Chris requested Barry to join the BSAA. Eventually, Barry became an advisor for the organization as a combat consultant, training a young generation of soldiers alongside Chris to become the future of the BSAA. He also became friends with Chris' younger sister, Claire Redfield when they met each other is due to her friendship with his older daughter, Moira and later becomes a mentor to the Redfield siblings.

Sometime in 2011, Barry manages to rescue Claire after revealing that she and his daughter Moira kidnapped to an Island where he rushed her to the hospital trying to wake her up. Claire later open her eyes as she was ask by him what happened to Moira. Claire sadly apologizes about what happened to Moira only to be stopped by the doctors as she was immediately taken inside the intensive care unit. Barry becomes upset after hearing about what happened to his daughter.

Barry interacts with Natalia Korda

Six months later, Barry intercepted an S.O.S sent by Moira, believing it to be a recent transmission, thanks to that he was able to determine the island's coordinates. Arriving at the island, he met a young girl named Natalia Korda. Barry initially asked Natalia to stay behind on the boat, but she refused and insisted to go. He had no choice but to take her with him. Barry soon found out that Natalia has a special ability to detect enemies' presence and items to aid him in his investigation. By the time they arrived at the radio tower, he heard Moira and Claire's voice in the radio which stated they are heading to the Wossek, made approximately six months ago. However, much to Barry's shock. Natalia claims that Moira was deceased while suffering from a severe headache.

Natalia shows Barry a tower where Claire and Moira went to six months ago, As the two travels together, Barry is told by Natalia that she was present during the Terragrigia Panic; it was around that time when she lost her parents and rescued by Neil Fisher, a senior Terra Save member. Barry also discovered a deceased Terra Save member Edward Thompson, and battles a mutated member named Pedro Fernandez, which Claire and Moira fought before. This brings a memory in Barry's mind when he expresses his concern to Moira regarding the dangers of working in the front line against Bioterrorism.

They make it to the now-ruined tower, where a room is filled with candles and photographs. Among the scattered objects is a painting of Albert Wesker and a blonde woman. Natalia becomes afraid by merely looking the painting, and identifies the woman as Alex Wesker. Barry is confused and dismayed to hear her name, but before he can ask Natalia any further, a female laughing is heard an a mysterious cloaked figure approaches them, pointing its finger towards Natalia.

Wesker's Legacy

The feminine creature reveals itself as Alex Wesker, living in a monstrous form. A short conversation follows shortly as Alex claims to have murdered Moira. As she summoned several Revenant to kill Natalia, Barry escorts her out by shooting at the building's frail structure, collapsing on the Revenants

With no more reason to search for Moira, Barry changes his objective to take Natalia out of the island safely. On their way to the sewers, they found Evgeny Rebic's corpse in his house at the sewers where both Moira and Claire encountered six months ago. Around the premises is Moira's cellphone, with a recording made by her six months ago. Barry angrily clenches his fists knowing that Alex did hurt his daughter, and decides to protect Natalia from Alex. Barry resumes his journey across the island, unaware that Alex stalks them along the way. Alex found an opening to launch a surprise attack on him, throwing him into a gorge and captures Natalia. What happened to Alex and why she fled without taking Natalia with her remains a mystery.

Destroying the Bloodline

"You can't have her, She-Wesker!"

Barry regains consciousness and reunites with Natalia. Willing to exact his revenge for Moira's death, Barry and Natalia heads to Alex's secret laboratory, located deep within the Sushestovanie Island mines. As they travel deeper, Alex begins a series of taunting on Natalia, intended to discourage her. Alex went even further by ripping Natalia's doll apart and nailed it for her to see.

Moira, Natalia and Barry at the seaside cliff.

Confronting her in the lab, Barry discovers Alex already injecting a vial of Uroboros Virus to herself. He battles the tentacle-consumed Alex to protect Natalia until Alex collapses. However, Alex is actually playing dead, immediately springs to life to knock him away and seize Natalia. Before he can do anything, Moira appears and uses her handgun to stun the Monster Alex, saving Natalia from being crushed. Barry's reunion with his daughter is short-lived, as Monster Alex uses her tentacles to mutate even further. She chases the three of them to a seaside cliff. At first, it seems that all is lost, until Claire Redfield arrives with a helicopter just in time.

"I'll always need you. But for now... I have this."

Claire shoots Alex right on her vulnerable spot, much to Moira's amusement. However, the Monster Alex is not finished yet. Taking a stand between his daughter and the beast, Barry once again fight Alex with Claire's assistance. After dealing enough damage to Alex, Barry instructs Claire to fire a RPG-7 towards Alex's weak point, to which Claire successfully do so.

As they all leave the island, with the BSAA sending more troops to Sushestovanie Island, the Burtons express their relieve after what had happened. Barry understands that he, as a father, should give Moira a little more space in the world. He then decides to adopt Natalia as his own child.

Post Sushestvovanie

In 2013, two years after the incident, Barry returns to be a good father to his children. At his home in Canada, he is getting prepared before Claire arrives in his home. He asks Polly where his jacket is, with the television he watched earlier broadcasts a news on Global Bioterror Attack perpetrated by Neo Umbrella.

Personality and Relationship

Barry cares a lot for his family, so much that when they become threatened he would even betray his friends to protect them. He nearly always carried a picture of his family with him. However, later in life, his relationship with his daughter, Moira, soured. He later reveals their strained relationship with his daughter, Moira is due to the accident happened between her and Polly when they were young which she accidentally shoots her sister with one of his guns in his cabinet and angrily blames his daughter for the cause. After Polly survives from the gunshot wound, his relationship with Moira becomes drifted apart and being as a bad father to her.

Outside of his family, he was a close friend of both Chris and Jill, although their relationship became strained by his betrayal on behalf of Wesker. After the mansion incident, Barry regained Jill and Chris trust and friendship. Later in Revelations 2, he also gains a friendship towards Chris' younger sister Claire it is due to her friendship with his daughter Moira. Barry, just like Chris, despises Albert Wesker so much that he'd consider anyone bearing the name Wesker as terrorist, seen when Natalia reveals Alex Wesker's identity to him.

Sources

(first appearance)