Joe Barbaro

Mafia III

Mafia: Definitive Edition

Joe's Girl (girlfriend)

Gina (Girlfriend)

Jimenez Barbaro (Great-Grandson)

Johnny Barbaro (Grandson)

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**Joe Barbaro** is the secondary protagonist of Mafia II, the protagonist of Joe's Adventures, and Vito Scaletta's best friend. While Vito was fighting in World War II, Joe began working for the Clemente Crime Family. When Vito returned, Joe invites him to join in on his life of crime.

"*Wiseguys. You work for them, you're set. You fuck with 'em, you die.*"
— **Joe Barbaro**

## Biography

### Mafia II

In 1943, Joe and Vito commit a robbery at a jewelry store. Joe manages to get away with the merchandise, although Vito is arrested and later enlisted into the army to help the war effort. Shortly after this Joe gets involved with the Clemente crime family, and manages to save up enough money to buy himself an apartment.

After Vito is sent home in 1945 after being shot, Joe picks him up from the train station. He allows Vito to crash at his place, and later teaches him the ropes and introduces Vito to some of the contacts he has made over the years. Joe also uses his connections to get Vito discharged from the army and prevent him going back to help finish the war.

Joe introduces Vito to Clemente family made man Henry Tomasino, who provides both Joe and Vito with work. They later meet caporegime Luca Gurino who sends Joe, Vito and Henry to kill a gangster known as the "Fatman". They succeed on the job although Henry is wounded, but Vito manages to get him to a mafia doctor on time for treatment.

Shortly after the hit Vito is again arrested for being in possession of stolen gas stamps and is sent to ten years in prison. Joe defects from the Clemente crime family when Luca puts a hit out on him, and leaves Empire Bay. He returns five years later and becomes involved with the Falcone crime family, and earns their respect and loyalty.

In 1951, Vito manages to get an early release thanks to Vinci crime family member Leo Galante. Joe updates Vito on the recent goings on and introduces him to Falcone underboss Eddie Scarpa. On Vito's first day as a free man, Joe and Eddie take him to a gentleman's club but then are forced to bury the corpse of Frankie Potts.

Joe and Vito later become made man. They later assassinate Clemente family don Alberto Clemente, and manage to vouch for Henry to be spared and join the Falcone crime family, which Eddie accepts. But Henry gets them involved in a heroin deal, which leads to the Triads to butcher Henry to death. Joe and Vito massacre a lot of the triad members and their high ranking member reveals Henry was actually an informant for the authorities and that he had been passing them information on the deal. Joe refuses to believe it and executes him on the spot.

The following day Joe and Vito begin to work hard to earn money to pay back a loan shark whose money they borrowed to help with the deal. They assassinate former mob member and snitch Tommy Angelo and later got their separate ways to make enough money to pay back Bruno the loan shark. But Joe gets kidnapped by Frank Vinci, who then kidnaps Vito and interrogates them at his building site, due to the Triads believing that either Frank or Carlo are involved in killing their members. Joe and Vito escape and kill many Vinci mobsters, and Vito drops a badly injured Joe off to the doctor. Vito uses the money they made to pay off the debt.

Carlo plans to have Vito killed and enlists Joe to help him, with the help of promoting him to capo. Vito is lured to Carlo's observatory, although Vito fights his way through Carlo's men, with the intent to kill Carlo as part of a deal to be spared by the mafia commission. Vito confronts Carlo but is held at gunpoint by Joe. Although Carlo tries to talk Joe into pulling the trigger, Joe changes his mind and fights alongside Vito to kill Carlo, which they succeed in.

Joe and Vito are met by Leo Galante and Vinci's men outside, where Leo congratulates them on the job and says they will celebrate at the cathouse. Leo beckons Vito into a car with him, forcing Joe to ride in another. The other car drives off with Joe inside, and Leo informs Vito that Joe wasn't part of the deal, implying to him that he will be killed.

### *Mafia III*

In 1968, seventeen years following Falcone's assassination, Vito is now residing in New Bordeaux and working for the Marcano crime family, having been exiled from Empire Bay by the commission. Vito defects to working for Lincoln Clay after being betrayed and nearly killed by Marcano's men. Vito enlists Lincoln in helping kill men responsible for killing a "friend" of his. Once Lincoln completes the job, Vito informs Lincoln about Joe, and that he had escaped assassination back in 1951 and fled to Chicago and turned to contacts for protection. But the contacts betrayed Joe and murdered him, smashing his face into until he was no longer recognisable, and cut off his hands. Lincoln asks Vito if he believed it was actually Joe, with Vito stating that Joe would have found him by now if he was still alive.

Unknown to Vito, Joe has been secretly working as Leo Galante's personal driver since 1951. After Lincoln successfully takes out Sal Marcano and his crime family, Leo visits New Bordeaux, where he informs Lincoln that the commission won't retaliate as long as they still get their cut of the deal. Leo then leaves town, with an older Joe Barbaro giving Lincoln a glance before driving off and returning to Empire Bay.

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