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| “ | You! Stop right there! Do you have any idea what you've done?! Why did you summon me to this place? What are you planning!? | „ |
| ~ Barnaby accusing Frank West of bringing him to the mall. |
| “ | That research... was absolutely necessaryyyyyyy! I... haven't... done... anything... wrong... | „ |
| ~ Barnaby on his research and his last words. |
Dr. Russell Barnaby is the overarching antagonist of the Dead Rising franchise.
He was an elderly scientist and head of a U.S. research group who stood crucial to the Department of Homeland Security. The doctor was also revealed to be responsible for an outbreak that occurred in Santa Cabeza, thus making him roundaboutly responsible for the Willamette disaster, and by extent the events of the entire series.
In the original game, he was voiced by Philip Proctor. In the Deluxe Remaster, he is voiced by Frank Todaro, who also voiced Starscream in the Transformers franchise.
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Dr. Barnaby was the head of a U.S. research team in the Central American town of Santa Cabeza. His think tank was funded and supported by the U.S government which tasked him and his to mass produce local livestock to reverse American meat supply depletion. Barnaby and his fellow scientists discovered a new insect species called, Ampulex Compressa Giganteus, seeking to utilize the arthropod's processes to breed excess cattle. However, the project failed disastrously when one of the mature wasps, known as a queen, escaped the research facility and went into the local town, spreading around a parasite that causes necrolytic reanimation.
The American constabulary identified Barnaby's failed project as a critical blow to the public image of the country and perverted any rumor about the incident. Having the U.S. Special Forces largely exterminate any/all civilian and non-essential residents in Santa Cabeza as a necessity to keep the horrific atrocities committed there from the public. Barnaby and his team were spared from the execution because of their high ranking positions and knowledge, despite their failures.
Dead Rising[]
After chief photographer Frank West enters the mall, he sees Barnaby and takes pictures of him near the Entrance Plaza. Barnaby spots West and accuses him of being the one who brought him to Willamette, who tries to explain that he had no idea what the man is talking about. Shortly after the conversation, zombies brake into the mall as Barnaby escapes unharmed. Frank meets up with Brad Garrison and Jessica McCarney, assisting them to look for Barnaby.
Frank and Brad eventually find Barnaby hiding in a pulp store called Everyone Luvs Books. Brad tries to convince Dr. Russel to follow him and Frank to the security room, but he refuses, claiming that to be safer where he is now. Brad decides to head back to the security room for the time being, getting back up for later.
On the next day, Barnaby is captured by Carlito Keyes, as seen on the monitors, being dragging away and strung up from a rope above a hoard of zombies, Brad and Frank heads out to save him. The two fighting and having defeated Carlito before saving the unconscious Barnaby. While the photojournalist and Jessica converse about Santa Cabeza, Barnaby overhears them, initially believing that it was over with. Jessica then interrogates Barnaby about his information on the remote location. Frank tries to listen in on them and while taking pictures in the background, Russel notices him and now refuses to speak. Jessica shuts the door on Frank, prompting him to find information elsewhere.
After Frank saved Isabella and brought her back to the security room, Barnaby attacks Jessie. Isabella tells Frank he's turning as Frank kicks him off of the DHS Agent. As the doctor's slowly dying, Barnaby maintains his innocence in his connection to the downfall of Santa Cabeza, but confesses about discovering the wasps that now carry the zombie plague before, moments later, he reanimates and is immediately killed by Brad.
Dead Rising 4[]
| “ | Undeath, they call it. Ha. The world has known no greater irony. Take away the decay, the bestial wrath, the failure of the mind. Ask yourself: what remains? A zombie is just a man who never tires. Never sickens. Never ages. Indeed, zombies are the key to human immortality. | „ |
| ~ Dr Barnaby on the true goal of his experiments on zombies. |
Many years after Dr. Barnaby's death, a vaccine for the parasite hade been found by Isabella Keys. However, an older strain of the parasite appears in Willamette, one that is immune to both the vaccine and Zombrex, starting yet another outbreak. Dr. Diane Blackburne, Barnaby's old colleague, believes the late scientist's research is the key to Willamette's current disparity.
While looking around the late Barnaby's lab, Frank finds a machine that was thought to been a cure for the zombie infection, which is later proven true. Frank then finds a video of Calder and his men raiding Barnaby's lab, accessed a log that he made before going to the Willamette mall during the first outbreak in 2006. In the log Barnaby claims he has no idea how the outbreak started and goes on about the true goal of his experiments; that zombies are the key to making humankind immortal. Barnaby also goes on his disappointment about the livestock's failure and the government wants the infection as a biological weapon, also that he has all the evidence stored in a safe place.
Revealing the reason for going to Willamette is to see his work in action, but if ever succumbing to infection; that he'd need to get back to his lab and the machine to cure himself.
Before ending the log, Russell says he fought to his last breath to protect human life but only brought death to it instead.
Fontana later reveals that their group was not responsible for the outbreak, but was hired by an unknown client to obtain Barnaby's data from Calder's device, seeking to use the Dr's research on intelligent zombies regarding the U.S. governments scheme to make cheap labor for factories and plantations in developing countries.
Frank manages to transfer the information from Calder's hard drive into his camera and Vicky manages to save the SD card with the information in time before Calder destroyed Frank's camera. Frank West and his ex-partner Vicky Chu, who survives the second outbreak in Willamette, uses the evidence Barnaby gathered to prove the truth about the governments involvement in all proceeding outbreaks and Obscuris. With this, true justice is finally served for the massacre of Santa Cabeza.
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