Michael Barrick
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- "Being a Gear is a helluva lot more interesting"
- — Michael Barrick on joining via Operation Lifeboat
Corporal Michael Barrick is a former Stranded who enlisted with the COG using Operation Lifeboat. He is featured heavily in the Gears of War: Hollow story arc of the Gears of War Comic series.
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[edit] Life as a Stranded
Michael Barrick lived with the Stranded until joining up with Operation Lifeboat, despite having no family. His reason, given to Sgt.Fenix, was that "Being a Gear is a helluva lot more interesting".
[edit] Echo-Nine
Michael Barrick was part of Echo-Nine which was led by Jonathan Harper, they were stationed in the Timgad region at the time of the lightmass bombing. This lead to all members of the squad to develop Rustlung as Barrick named it. It is unknown why Barrick left Echo Nine as he was later found in Pirnah Badlands by Delta-One having been reassigned to Echo-Six.[1]
[edit] Echo-Six
Michael Barrick was transfered for unknown reasons to squad Echo-Six. His squad was tasked with patrolling the Pirnah Badlands area of land southwest of Jacinto. During his squads assignment, they were wiped out by Locust forces. Barrick then assisted Delta-One defend themselves from a Locust ambush. Gil Gonzalez is killed during the firefight. Delta-One and Barrick then return to Jacinto.
[edit] Delta Squad
Before Delta-One is deployed to Montevado they learn that Michael Barrick is now in their squad. When their King Raven is struck, Barrick tells Jace to not kill them all; however once the Raven has crashed and killed the Locust on the ground, Barrick congratulates Jace on a "Good Shot". Barrick and Delta then move out on foot to Montevado, they quickly come across the Stranded and their settlement of "Fucked". When there, they helped defend the settlement from a group of Locust Raiders. Barrick and Delta then set out for Montevado in the Stranded Junker, they are soon ambushed by Drones and a Brumak. Delta-One with the Assitance of Sigma-One defeat the Brumak and the carry on towards Montevado.
Once Delta-One reached Montevado, they split up with Barrick and Marcus pairing up. they soon came under ambush by Wretches which they easily dispatched. Montevado then began to sink into the ground for reasons unknown to the Gears. Barrick and Marcus regrouped with the rest of Delta-One and fought of a group of HeartLeeches. Delta-One soon came under attack from Locust emerging from an emergence hole. Barrick took it upon himself to create a distraction so that Marcus could escape engaging the Locust and Bloodmounts in hand to hand combat.[2] Barrick died a heroes death to save the lives of Delta-One.
[edit] Trivia
- It appears that Barrick wears the same model of armour as Marcus Fenix and Jace Stratton[3]
- Barrick goes trough two different sets of armor, his first suit was when he was Echo-6 and after his rescue he received a new armor.[4]
- Even though he dies in Issue 6 of the Comic, he is present on the cover of Issue 7[5]
[edit] References
- ↑ Gears of War: Harpers Story
- ↑ Gears of War: Hollow Issue 6
- ↑ Gears of War: Hollow Issue 1
- ↑ Awesome! FYI - I based Barrik's armor on the Cole Train's (though it's more like Fenix's when we first meet him. He changes at Jacinto.) Jace wears armor like Fenix because he's emulating his hero. I believe he's on the cover to issue 7 because he features in flashbacks... Great wiki page! Best, L. http://liamsharp.deviantart.com/art/My-fav-GoW-page-colored-118405923
- ↑ Gears of War Comic: Issue 7
