Damien Barrett (Raider: Last Blood)

== Damien Barrett ==
Damien Jordi Barrett (known as Thomas Bella or Barrett) is a main character and a major antagonist in the Raider: Last Blood series.
Serving as the main deuteragonist and the hidden quaternary antagonist in the 6th chapter of the "Raider: Last Blood" series, Barrett is an eccentric mercenary who works for whoever pays him the most and mostly Jay Roberts, and assists him with various tasks, despite betraying him out of personal greed.
== Background ==
Born on August 22, 2001, in Washington DC, Damien lived in the United States illegally since his family immigrated to the country during the Korean War, living under the surname Bella for years.
While nothing is known about Damien's life, he changed his surname to Barrett, and through forged paperwork, Damien joined the United States Army at the age of 18 and served with Jay Roberts while volunteering in the 5th Special Forces Group, earning him a position to become an operator in Delta Force and later in TF 181. During his service, he fought with Jay for years, having killed various Taliban fighters, saving the US from being bombed, and notably saving Jay's life during a failed attack on a Russian arms depot, earning his respect.
After 8 years, Damien was discharged from the Army and needing more money to live, Damien joined the Underworld as a fixer and quickly became one of the most dangerous fixers due to his military experience and strong composure, giving him a strong reputation.
== Biography ==
In the 1st chapter, Damien makes his appearance as he had been hired by Jay to find any leads to the murder of his son and has successfully found the gunman responsible: Maurice Martinez. For Jay to escape the stadium and allow himself to take Maurice to a safe holding place, he deliberately kills several members of the White Viceroys and Maurice's Cartel allies to stage it as a gang shootout and not a kidnapping. He also calls the police to cover up their real reason for being there and that any potential evidence will be assumed to belong to the 'shootout'.
Damien later contacts Jay to deliver a thief to his client for him as a form of payment for all he has done for Jay but does not tell him that the client was the head of the Atlanta North Club Declan "Clover" Barrington and that Barrington would probably kill the hired thief afterward, this leads Damien to tell Jay that he needs to relax and to focus on the money and not the morals. Damien also contacts Jay that a Cartel thug from the stadium killings is being avenged into hunting down Jay for killing the gang members, forcing Jay to intimidate the person organizing the hunt. In addition, he gives sniper support to Jay in fighting the White Viceroys. Even though a few Viceroys try to fight him, he ends up killing them all and manages to escape. 
When Jay takes on Charles in the showdown, they are interrupted by Damien, who attempts to kill both of them, claiming that he has received a new contract (it's revealed he might be hired by the Underworld but this is confirmed). Damien instructs Jay to kick his gun over. As Jay attempts to hack the lighthouse lamp, Damien demands him to hand the phone over but is ignored. Damien shoots Jay and Charles, completing his mission, but it's later revealed that Damien and Jay set everything up as evident when he contacted Jay before the meeting at the lighthouse, allowing Jay to meet Maurice and decide his fate while he prepares to leave Atlanta in the 2nd chapter. Damien moved to the San Francisco area in California to lay low for a while.
In "Hell's Scars", Markus finds out that the Mikhail Bratva was the one to send the ransomware, and follows one of their members, unaware that he is being watched by none other than Damien Barrett, with his famous line, 'You're not the pizza guy'. Markus finds the Bratva member dead already and accesses his phone before being confronted by Damien. Damien demands the location of the Bratva hideout, but Markus gives him a false location while he heads back to his club. After returning, he finds that Damien has followed him, and goes upstairs to confront him.
Damien obtains the real location by threatening innocents, but Markus convinces Damien to take him along. He then forces Markus into an SUV, and they drive to a construction site where the Bratva are hiding out. Markus accesses the Bratva‘s hacker data while Damien provides sniper cover, but Damien leaves Markus for the cops to escape. The two run into each other again while infiltrating the Bratva leader’s yacht, agreeing to leave each other to their business. Markus figures out how to shut down the Bratva ransomware, while Damien fights his way through the yacht, eventually finding and killing the Bratva leader. As the two escape, Damien mentions that he’s pinned his murders on Markus, with Markus remarking to his crew that he hopes never to cross paths with Damien again.
However, Damien found out that Markus had a million-dollar bounty from the Underworld and killed both Markus and Melanie before leaving San Francisco for good after completing two of his missions. He moved to Louisiana and with Jay's request, Damien joined the Ghosts and quickly proved his worth, having fought with them to destroy the remnants of the RSC forces. Unknown to Jay and the rest of the Ghosts, Damien and Wolf were engaging in illegal arms dealing to finance their group. When Wolf is planning to destroy the White House and the Capitol with salted bombs (by using the missiles), Damien gets conflicted due to his code and the idea of killing thousands of civilians. Still, Wolf pays him 50 million dollars (more than his usual fee) to try to appease him, which works out well since Damien ends up being Wolf's second-in-command and having killed Connors and a few deserters to tie up loose ends and capturing Garnett and his team, who found out about Wolf's plans and tried to recover the missiles.
Damien coldly shoots Garnett when he finds Jay questioning him and orders Jay and the rest of the Ghosts to come to the "lobby". As they question Damien, Wolf reveals to the Ghosts that he plans to destroy the government with Amberwood and kill anyone that threatens to stop him and Damien reveals his involvement to Jay and claims that he's only doing the mission for a huge payout. As Elena and a few Ghosts point their guns and she orders them to subdue Wolf and Damien, a massive number of Ghosts (under direct orders of Wolf) betray Elena and her loyalists, revealing that they're all out for the payout. Angered, Jay attacks Wolf, causing an intense gunfight. During the chaos, Damien tries to kill Jay, but Elena bravely takes the bullet, dying in Jay's arms. As Jay tries to chase Wolf, Damien ambushes him and after a short struggle, he shoots Jay twice and leaves him to die while the building is set up to blow up. 
As Jay attacks the compound, killing a large number of Wolf's loyalists, Damien tries to convince Jay to walk away from this to Jay, who has already decided their fates. After a brief standoff, the two fought each other brutally and as Damien gets the upper hand and prepares to kill Jay, Jay violently injures Damien and kills him. To make sure that he is down, Jay grabs his gun and puts in a few rounds in Damien's corpse, killing his former ally he knew for years.
== Personality ==
Damien is shown to be an eccentric man with a flippant sense of humor and a playful way of explaining things, which directly contrasts with Jay's pragmatic and stoic attitude. Charismatic and intelligent, Damien reached his reputation within the Underworld not through intimidation or fear, but through planning and prowess. A gun for hire who cleanups wealthy clients' mistakes for cold hard cash, Damien seems to have an acquired taste for classic art and finesse. His high level of composure and funny personality, however, bellies that of an immoral sociopath who is fully willing to murder and harm others all for the sake of profit. According to Jay, Damien's principles change with the price, which is a good description of his opportunistic and deplorable personality. In the Last Blood series, he was perfectly willing to dispose of Maurice Martinez (the hitman who tried to kill Jay) and be done with him if Jay hadn't paid him to keep him alive. On top of this, Damien has a belief that Jay owes him a lot for the services that he provides, something that Jay disagrees with.
Despite his immorality, Damien does demonstrate some sentiment towards Jay by warning the vigilante that he has made an enemy of everyone and advising him to leave Georgia before everyone sets their sights on killing him. While knowing that Jay would more than likely ignore this warning, he did admit that he thought he'd at least try, showing empathy and concern towards Jay.
At the end of the 1st chapter however, Damien is still willing to betray Jay after a supposed change of contract (which is assumed to be the Underworld wanting Jay and Charles dead), showing that Damien was still willing to murder Jay despite their previous interactions together and his past in Delta, and that he allies with whoever pays him right. However, Damien still contacted Jay and allowed him to decide Maurice's fate and even tries to convince Jay again to leave Georgia, proving that he did have enough respect for Jay to handle it his way, although it could have just been to avoid attracting more attention to himself through killing Maurice and to regain his trust after betraying the contact by saving Jay and killing Charles.
In Hell's Scars and the 6th chapter, Damien shows to be far more violent and unhinged, which might be a result of him having to go into hiding and join the Ghosts while being loyal to Wolf. On the other hand, this might be more of his true personality showing while he isn’t interacting with a client. While he is still rather humorous, his dangerous attitude flashes through much more frequently, and his knack for violence has skyrocketed. This is shown when he threatens to kill Markus and threatens Jay's life when Jay tries to prevent him from shooting Elena, which breaks the trust between the two. His violent nature tends to cloud his judgment as he tries to threaten Jay into walking away to prevent him from killing Wolf, showing his loyalty and selfish attitude to prioritize money over his morality.
While he still respects Jay, Damien chooses to kill him just out of greed, and during the fight, he reveals a more prideful and violent attitude, taunting Jay's failure to save Elena and choosing morals over the payout. Because of his greed and willingness to turn against his clients, Damien leads himself to his downfall and dies as a violent, charismatic mercenary at the hands of his former ally.
== Appearance ==
Damien is a Korean-American man with black, short-length hair. He is 6'0 and he has a clean-shaven look. He wears a formal red button-shirt with the top button undone and the collar is worn above the jacket. This shirt is worn along with a matching grey suit. Damien wears brown smart shoes to complement his suit. He also occasionally wears black leather gloves whilst "at work". His appearance in Hell's Scars is similar, but his suit is now white with a black spotted button-up, and he sports a goatee. He also wears a necklace.
== Skills ==
* High Intelligence: Damien was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to avoid dangerous situations using incredible street smarts. He was capable of using his charm and polite side to gain the trust of enemies to blend in with their organization and to complete his task without them knowing that he was there within their organization.
* Criminology: As a former mercenary, Damien has exceptional insight into how the criminal underworld operates and how illegal activities work, such as mercenary groups and feared crime families. He also displayed extensive knowledge of illegal narcotics, able to tell what kind of drugs the Georgia criminal underworld was moving and selling.
* Intimidation: Due to his reputation and his exceptional combat abilities as a former Delta operative, Damien is widely known and feared within the criminal underworld and was so infamous that even his reputation strikes fear and terror into the hearts and souls of his enemies that incurred his wrath. 
* Master Tactician: As a former Infantryman who joined the Green Berets, Delta Force, and the CIA SAD, Damien is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He's also a highly skilled tracker, having collected information with relative ease to find his targets and their locations while on a mission. He is a very effective leader, having trained, fought, and led a large number of Delta operatives into various battles with strategic facts and thinking, which made him far more dangerous. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using explosives to take out various militia groups and picking out the stragglers with ease, as a lone wolf. As shown in the raid against the Russian arms depot, Damien is a strong and fierce leader to the core, having commanded and led a massive number of skilled operatives to help take out various Russian soldiers.
* Expert Spy: Having worked in Delta Force and the CIA SAD, Damien is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's adept at blending in with his surroundings and easily sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds.
* Stealth Mastery: Damien is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations, using his hacking skills to disable communications and light sources, and using the environment around him to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. He's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where he can easily eliminate them or pass by them to move to the objective.
* Connections: Having worked with a few prison groups, and various mercenary groups, Damien has a vast set that he can use to gain an advantage over his enemies, even with weapons dealers, criminal informants, and government officials. He has connections from an illegal auto dealership to various informants and weapons traders. He even has some connections inside a federal prison.
* Forensics Specialist: Damien is very capable of doing a "clean job" while working with paramilitary groups by using the silent approach to minimize mass destruction. Whenever he kills his targets, he tries to make the deaths look like either a gang attack or a simple accident.
* Expert Driver: During his time on the battlefield, Damien has shown exceptional driving skills to the point where he is even capable of driving manual cars, mechanicalized vehicles (tanks, APCs, boats, and helicopters), and motorcycles with ease.
* Master Marksman: As shown in various fights and having been a Delta operator, Damien is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during his fights). He's also skilled with using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers, and light machine guns as well as using mounted weaponry. Due to his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Damien has shown to be extremely skilled with bows and scavenging, and using whatever firearm the enemy has to achieve his goals. Damien can blend his marksmanship with hand-to-hand skills, being able to grapple, disarm, and even use his enemies' weaponry against them with precision. He is also capable of firing heavier weapons one-handed and dual-wielding pistols and accurately landing shots at enemies with relative ease. As shown in several scenes, he is capable of drawing his sidearm out and accurately gunning down men with relative ease, making him a deadly marksman in close combat.
* Master Martial Artist: Having been trained in the Army and taking classes throughout his life, Damien is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and consists of Boxing, Muay Thai, Judo, Krav Maga, Taekwondo, and Eskrima/Kali. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once. Due to his quick wit, Damien can adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to turn their strengths against them as seen in his fights with the Russian Bratva, Jay Roberts, and other mercenaries. He also sometimes makes use of dirty tactics, such as eye gouges, biting, and striking the groin, and the environment around him to gain an advantage. Despite being older, Damien is still capable of fighting, such as he managed to beat various enemies with minimal ease.
* Knife Mastery: Damien is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, Damien can use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight and has shown deadly expertise with a knife as shown during his fights. Due to his background as a freelance mercenary, he learned Iaido, Kendo, and Ninjutsu and used them effectively.
* Improvised Weapon Mastery: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Damien is very good with using whatever tools he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, as when he used a metal pipe to unsuccessfully knock out Jay. Due to his engineering skills, Damien was very capable of making makeshift IEDs with minimal resources to maim and kill opponents.
* Peak Human Condition: As a former soldier of the United States Army, an operative of the 5th Special Forces Group, Delta Force, and a freelance mercenary, Damien has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* Peak Human Strength: Despite his build, Damien is very strong, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a skilled operator with a single strike and breaking their bones and necks with ease. Damien could also break out of handcuffs and other restraints fairly easily due to his specialized training. His strength is somewhat above average, as shown when he tossed a Bratva member through a wood table during their fight and could lift and slam an injured Jay to the ground.
* Peak Human Durability: Damien is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. Damien can survive multiple gunshot wounds, stabbings/slashes, and blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain. The greatest feats of his durability were surviving a brutal torture session by Russian soldiers (broken ribs, a severe beating, etc) and a severe beating from Jay Roberts, as seen as he was capable of withstanding heavier punches from him, who's more skilled in hand-to-hand and utilized brute strength. His durability also made him tougher to kill, as evidenced during his fight against Jay Roberts, as seen as he fought him evenly, despite being injured and the fact that Jay is more stronger and agile than him.
* Peak Human Speed: Despite being middle-aged, Damien is extremely fast, especially for a man his age. Damien can outrun his opponents and can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. Damien's speed made him more dangerous in combat as he used his anatomical knowledge to quickly injure an enemy.
* Peak Human Agility: Damien has extreme amounts of stamina. He can fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. He can flip and spin his way out of incoming gunfire and vault, scale, and traverse through difficult terrains and obstacles with ease. Even with being extremely injured or tired, Damien required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* Peak Human Reflexes: Damien has incredible reflexes. Due to his time on the battlefield, Damien has displayed a fast reaction time, as he can easily evade bullets and melee attacks during combat. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, Damien can correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and act effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit him in the field. His senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear, smell, and sense his enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes, raids, and sniper fire with ease. He is notably quick enough to react and kill several men with ease.
* High Pain Tolerance: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Damien has been frequently injured throughout the series, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds, stabbing, blunt force trauma, and physical blows with ease. As shown in his fights with numerous opponents, Damien has shown that he can outlast and outwit them by using his injuries against them, opening them up for a counter-attack.
== Equipment ==
* SIG SAUER P250 Compact: Damien's sidearm. He notably carries it in the series and uses it to threaten Jay and Markus in several scenes. 
* SVD: Damien's main rifle. He notably uses it to kill numerous people in the series.
== Deaths ==
Murders committed by Damien:
* 48 Taliban Fighters: Shot, beaten, and stabbed
* 26 Russian Spetsnaz Operatives: Shot and blew up
* 88 Unknown Targets: Shot, stabbed, poisoned, strangled, and blew up
* 5 Cartel Hitmen: Shot and stabbed
* 3 White Viceroys: Shot
* 6 Fixers: Shot
* 12 White Viceroys: Shot and stabbed and beaten
* Charles Lane: Shot in the head
* 25 Bratva Members: Shot
* Dimitri Mikhail: Neck snapped
* Ivan Mikhail: Strangled
* Markus Walker: Shot in the gut and twice in the head
* Melanie Walker: Shot in the neck
* Michael Connors: Stabbed 8 times in the gut, bled out
* Logan Garnett: Shot in the head
* 8 Ghosts: Shot
* 6 of Garnett's Soldiers: Shot
* Hans: Strangled and neck snapped
Murders connected to Damien:
* 16 Unnamed Civilians: Shot and blew up
== Death ==
Killed by:
* Jay Roberts (directly caused)
As Jay tries to stop Wolf, Damien tries to threaten him into leaving, but the two engage in a brutal fight, where Damien gets the upper hand. However, Jay got an edge and brutally killed Damien by breaking his leg and his trachea before violently stomping on his head. To add more insult to injury, Jay takes his gun and ammunition and puts a bullet into his heart to make sure he's down.
== Trivia ==
* Damien is the only antagonist to kill both an antagonist (Charles Lane) and a protagonist (Markus Walker).
* As revealed by most of TF 181, Damien (next to Jack) was one of the most merciless and violent mercenaries in the series, as shown as he was capable of killing civilians during WW3.
* It's revealed to Damien himself that Jay pays him five thousand a day to aid him with his mission in the 1st chapter.
* It's unknown if Damien's increasingly violent personality was the result of him hiding to avoid the law or his true personality coming through, but his attitude toward Jay about him being soft and him bragging about his failure to save Elena while brutally beating him heavily revealed the latter option.
* Damien is one of the 12 antagonists that gave him a challenge in the series, but the only difference is that Damien was an experienced criminal and mercenary even before joining the military and was more aggressive and brutal in H2H.