Barry B. Benson (DMU)


 * This article is about the PAADABB member. Not to be confused with BBB. For other characters named Barry, see Barry (disambiguation).

In the Dark Mirror Universe, Barry B. Benson was a member of the Pennis And Also Dicke And Balls Bureau, Lord Zrintch's original strike team. At Zrintch's command, Barry and the other members of the PAADABB tried to eliminate the Dong Squad to be crowned the superior team, but Barry was defeated through the combined efforts of Ainsley Harriott and No Image Guy. Like most of the other PAADABBers, it is ambiguous as to whether or not he survived.

Appearance
Barry B. Benson somewhat resembles a honeybee, but cartoonified and given human features. He has a human-like head, complete with hair, eyes, a nose, a mouth, and teeth. He also has hands complete with four fingers, and wears a jumper and shoes that are striped black and yellow to further emphasise the bee motif. He still has a bee-like lower abdomen, antennae, wings, and a large stinger.

Barry was once the size of a normal honeybee, no more than a few centimetres in length, but was grown to the size of a human when he was recruited into the Pennis And Also Dicke And Balls Bureau.

Personality
From what we've seen of him, DM Barry seems quite different in personality to his Bee Movie counterpart, even if much of their history is the same. He had no qualms about being ordered to kill the Dong Squad, good people he fought alongside earlier that day; in fact, he even clapped his hands in celebration upon receiving the order. He later tried to fool Jesse Ventura by lying to him when he asked if there was a conspiracy against the Dong Squad.

Early Life
Barry B. Benson was once an ordinary honeybee from Earth (albeit one that talks and wears clothes, but such is the case in DreamWorks movies). After graduating from bee-university, he learned that he and his peers were expected to live the rest of their lives laboriously making honey for their hive. Wanting to find a different destiny, Barry tagged along with a different breed of bees that ventured out of the hive to collect pollen and escaped into the human world. On his travels, he met a human woman and discovered that the human race were illicitly enslaving bees and stealing their honey. Together with said woman, they decided to sue the entire human race to force them to return the honey they had stolen. This case made Barry famous not only on Earth, but also across the universe (bees are aliens, after all).

Some time after this, Barry was recruited by representatives of Lord Zrintch and drafted into his first strike team, the Pennis And Also Dicke And Balls Bureau. To increase his usefulness to the team, Barry was enlarged somehow to become the size of an average human being. A "stinger ray" was also fitted over his natural stinger, which he could use to fire blasts of destructive energy.

Chapter 13: Never Say Don't Ever Again
Barry remained with the PAADABB for some time. During this period, Kermit became the entity known as Kek.

In 150,084 CMT, the Dong Squad entered the Dark Mirror Universe, crash-landed on the PAADABB's planet, and got into a fight with Kek. Barry and the other members of the PAADABB intervened, causing Kek to run away. Barry introduced himself to the Dongers and told them who Kek was and what happened to him that caused him to become such a menace. The PAADABBers then invited the Dongers back to their base, Panus and Asenis, to relax, compare notes, and prepare for the next fight. Ross Mandell struck up a conversation with Barry, asking him for advice that could help solve the legal troubles he faced back in his own universe.

Together, the two teams decided to team up to kill Kek to put an end to his reign of terror. In the ensuing battle, Barry fired his stinger ray at Kek, which helped weaken him with the others' attacks.

After the defeat of Kek, Barry and most of the other PAADABBers went into a secret room in their base to contact Lord Zrintch and tell him what had happened. Zrintch revealed to the team that he created Kek to test them and use him in an attempt to end the Dong Squad. Their next task was to finish the job by killing the Dongers. Barry and most of the others accepted this idea quite eagerly, but Alex Jones did not. Jones betrayed the PAADABB by telling Jesse Ventura that they planned to kill them; thus, a fight broke out between the two teams. Saitama tried to punch Barry, but Barry dodged his attack and stung him. The massive injection of bee venom caused him to go into anaphylactic shock and fall unconscious. No Image Guy and Ross Mandell attempted to fight against Barry, but Punished Shrek intervened, knocking them both down with his fists.

Next, Barry targeted Ainsley Harriott, buzzing around him menacingly. Before he could sting him, however, the Ayy-Lmaliums fired spaghetti and meatballs at Barry, which got onto his wings and slowed him down. Taking advantage of Barry's distraction, Ainsley slammed a skillet into his face, and Nigel threw a table onto him, pinning him to the floor.

Like most of the other PAADABBers, it is ambiguous as to whether or not Barry survived. In his case, he could have been crushed by the table that Nigel threw onto him, or just trapped underneath it.

Abilities & Powers

 * Flight - According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
 * Stinger - Being a bee, Barry can deliver painful bee stings that contain many times as much venom as stings from normal-sized bees. His strength and vitality was also increased upon his growth, meaning that, by his own admission, he can now deliver as many stings as he wants without dying. Saitama immediately went into anaphylactic shock upon receiving a sting from Barry.
 * Stinger Ray - Attached to Barry's stinger is a device called a "stinger ray", which allows him to fire blasts of destructive energy.