Barkis Bittern

Lord Barkis Bittern is the main villain in the movie, Corpse Bride. He was voiced by Richard E. Grant.

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Lord Barkis Bittern is a wealthy newcomer of an unnamed European village. He attends and watches the rehearsal wedding between Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot which it fails when the former doesn't perform well. Barkis criticizes it as if he doesn't want Victor to marry her.

When Victor is abducted by Emily, Barkis tries to make it look like that he left with another woman. This gives Victoria's parents to get her to marry him instead.

Later, after the undead shows up, Barkis tries to flee with Victoria along with her money. However, she doesn't have it, and left Barkis.

He shows up in the church attempting to get Victoria back. Emily recognizes Barkis to be the man who left her waiting in a tree so that he can kill her and get her jewels that was her dowry. He attempts to repeat this pattern to Victoria, but Victor stops him. Emily orders Barkis out of the church, but he drinks the poisoned wine, becoming the undead. The undead then overwhelms him as he pays the price for what he did to Emily.