Summary

Barney Calhoun is the playable character in Half-Life: Blue Shift and a side-character in Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One. He used to be a security guard that worked at Black Mesa; after the Resonance Cascade, he escaped and managed to regroup with several survivors of both the incident and the Seven Hour War.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 9-B with the crowbar 9-A with firearms, higher with the Pulse Rifle, even higher, likely 8-C with rocket launcher

Name: Barney Calhoun

Origin: Half-Life

Gender: Male

Age: Around 40 in Half-Life 2 (He is a little older than Gordon and unlike him, he wasn't in suspended animation and escaped Black Mesa by himself)

Classification: Human

Powers and Abilities: Human Level attributes, Peak Human stamina, Weapon Mastery (any kind of firearm), sharpshooting, very good at improvising

Attack Potency: Wall level with crowbar (Can destroy wooden boxes and harm Headcrabs capable of breaking concrete walls), Small Building level with firearms (Capable of killing Zombies in just a few shots of his pistol and kill Alien Grunts with his shotgun and revolver), higher with the Pulse Rifle (It can vaporize human beings), Small Building level+, likely Building level+ with explosives (Blew up a M1 Abrams tank with 4 shots. Should be comparable to Gordon's explosives)

Speed: Athletic Human with Subsonic+ reactions (A trained security officer who was stated by Alyx to have raced with Gordon Freeman in airducts)

Lifting Strength: Average Human, likely reaching Athletic Human (Picked up a rocket launcher and wasn't slowed down)

Striking Strength: Wall level with crowbar

Durability: Small Building level normally (Capable of taking hits from Zombies. Survived an elevator crashing with no injuries, said fall which crushed two scientists), Small Building level+, likely Building level+ with armor (His security vest and helmet can reflect bullets and allow him to survive explosives capable of destroying large gates and harming the Gargantua)

Stamina: Peak Human (He was fighting of HECU soldiers and Xen beings for at least several hours before escaping)

Range: Standard Melee Range. Tens of Meters (or higher) with various firearms

Standard Equipment:

• Half-Life: His crowbar, a 9mm Beretta pistol, a .357 magnun revolver, a shotgun, a MP5 machine gun and a rocket launcher.
• Half-Life 2: Overwatch Pulse Rifle.

Intelligence: Average

Weaknesses: Without his armor he is as durable as a normal man

Notable Matchups

Victories:

Thanos Simonattoi (The Real World) Thanos’s Profile (Barney was given a pistol and a crowbar)

Losses:

Inconclusive:

Discussions