Joe Barista

> «Yeah, you’s right! We should fly to Europe to kick their asses!» -Joe encouraging Vinnie to enter the spider's web
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**Joseph "Joe" Barista** is a major character and later antagonist in *Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2*. He is a freelance private pilot and bar proprietor, as well as a close friend of Vinnie Cannoli.

## Joe Barista

"I hope you got armor, Vinnie, 'cause I got TONS of it!"

### Affiliation

Syndicate City Airstrip Pilot Bar
Vinnie Cannoli (formerly)
Commander Wienerschnitzel
Dark Don
Wehrmacht
Dark Don Mafia
Dark Don Wehrmacht

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

Joe Barista was, going by his fluent, but slightly accented speech, as well as his name being the diminutive of the English name "Joseph" (The Italian variant, Giuseppe, would be shortened to Pino, Beppe or Peppino), like Vinnie, born to Italian, possibly Sicilian, immigrants in the United States, apparently growing up with strong Italian influences, shown by the Romantic flair of his bar.

Joe Barista, being a resident of heavily crime-ridden mob owned Syndicate City, is not only employed by the town's aerodrome, but also the local crime rings, presumably for transport and smuggling operations and is thusly well informed on the inner workings and latest news of the world of organized crime. At some point in his life, he met Vinnie Cannoli, also a local of Syndicate City, and became a trusted friend and companion of his. He also runs a small alehouse for fellow aviators near his place of employment, Joe's Pilot Bar.

Sometime between 1939-1944, prior to the events of *Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2*, Joe, like the rest of Syndicate City's underground, were put under new management by a brand new criminal outfit, known as the Dark Don Gang, headed by the eponymous Dark Don. Joe was of particular interest to him, due to his connections to Vinnie Cannoli, offering Joe a hefty reward to lure him into the arms of the Don's Nazi friends. Not one to turn down a good stack of greens, he agrees.

## Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2

Joe is working at the airstrip, when he gets a call from Vinnie, who was in the middle of escaping from a local gangster hideout, informing him of his attempted capture and asks Joe to help him out. Joe asks for his location with Vinnie presuming that he's somewhere in the lower eastern side of town. He worriedly tells Vinnie, that a currently conducted police raid in the neighborhood might complicate things and that he can't send a car over, but that he should meet him at the Pilot Bar, before hanging up.

Vinnie beats the odds, fighting his way through the district to the edge of town and arrives at the city outskirts, where Joe has been waiting. He tells him that all gangsters in Syndicate City, including his kidnappers, were now working for an influential new mob boss known only as "The Dark Don", who has set his sights on Vinnie. Vinnie is immediately bent on hunting this boss down, but Joe reveals that according to a police contact of his, the Dark Don has apparently been running his empire out of long abandoned Thugtown. In spite of this revelation, Vinnie, undeterred and set on getting even, still seeks to find the man who put a bounty on him and ventures into the quarantined zone.

Vinnie returns the next evening, telling Joe of his findings; the Dark Don was doing business with a troop of Nazis in the sewers of Thugtown, supplying them with the remaining barrels of Zombie Booze. Vinnie tried to take them out, but they narrowly escaped with their submarine. This prompts Joe to offer Vinnie a flight to Europe, to help him take revenge on them. Despite his initial concern over the ongoing war, Joe manages to convince Vinnie and takes him overseas in an unused B-17.

As they fly over Normandy in the early morning hours, however, the plane is hit by enemy fire. Joe tells Vinnie to parachute off and as he does, Joe crashes, landing by a barn further inland. Vinnie is determined to find him and battles through lines of German defenses, before arriving at the barn. In it, he instead finds Commander Wienerschnitzel and his battalion, who reveals to Vinnie that Joe has been cooperating with the Nazis the whole time and that he is in Bavaria right now, enjoying his villa and early retirement as a reward for luring Vinnie to them. Realizing that all of Joe's suggestions from investigating the Thugtown lead to going to Europe were all just ploys to lead him to the Nazis in order to be captured. Vinnie massacres the Commander and his men as they attempt to kill him, and takes a detour in search of Joe.

Vinnie tracks Joe down in the Bavarian mountains, at his hidden large manor property. He wrecks his villa estate, including his custom made stone statues, and kills several of his hired mob guards, before he finally finds Joe in the innermost sanctum of his manor.

## Boss Fight (The Tank)

Vinnie arrives at a balcony and shoots his last two guards, in the neck and the abdomen respectively, in front of Joe's eyes and while the latter is surprised that Vinnie survived, he is unapologetic and shrugs off his treacherous act, sneering that the payment was worth the betrayal. As Vinnie declares that he will make him pay for his traitorous nature, Joe simply tells him to try, as he has "tons of [armor]" and runs off into his gated mansion, returning shortly after, bursting through said gate in a huge German Tiger Tank.

Vinnie first attempts to damage the tank with his personal arsenal as Joe fires at him with the tank cannon and tries to run him over, but finds it to have little effect on piercing the armor. Airdrops, by the US Army, seemingly aware of Vinnie's endeavors, periodically parachute supply crates down with weapons and ammunition, namely flak shells. Joe ends up accidentally crashing into and destroying the wall of the building behind Vinnie, revealing one of many anti-tank field gun on his property on the first floor. With it, Vinnie finds initial success in actually penetrating the tank's defenses, but is temporarily forced to abandon his position due to some firebombs, but after a long tedious battle, Vinnie manages to destroy the tank with the flak cannon, causing it to explode.

Mortally wounded, Joe uses his dying breath to warn him from The Dark Don, saying that he and his men took control of a nearby secret base and was crazy, wanting Vinnie's blood to make an antidote to the Zombie poison, as he was the only known person with an immunity, according to a military report released after the Thugtown Incident. Joe chuckles that Vinnie's immunity was the result of him "stuffing [his] face with that Cannoli all the time", but goes silent as Vinnie aims the anti-tank gun at him, telling him that he was going to "stuff [his] face with an .88 shell". Joe lets out one last panicked shriek before he is obliterated by the blast. Vinnie, quoting his former ally's own words, contemptuously promises to "put all his pieces in the same coffin", before taking one of his cars to The Forest nearby.

## Quotes

* "*I'm gonna turn you into spaghetti sauce, Vinnie!*"
* "*Even you can't beat a tank, Vinnie!*"
* "*I'll make sure to put all your pieces in the same coffin, Vinnie!*"
* "*Had enough already?*"
* "*Just give it up, Vinnie!*"
* "*Roadkill!*"

## Gallery

Joe at the Pilot's BarJoe flying the B-17Joe faces his demiseJoe in a Tiger tank
## Trivia

* His surname, Barista, typically refers to a coffee shop server. In Italian, however, it actually means "bartender", fittingly referring to his part time profession as a bar owner.
* After Vinnie returns from the Submarine Boss Battle, there was a hint that Joe was working for the Nazis. A German Officer Cap can be see on one of the tables. It would most likely to not be the case since from other fans’ thoughts, it’s most likely that Vinnie got the cap from the dead officer back in the Thugtown underground facility, possibly revealing that the Nazis had gotten involved with the Dark Don and his goons as he found out and showed it to Joe.
* Joe, Sonny and Vinnie are the only people who have their full names revealed.
* The tank Joe uses is a Tiger tank. When Joe is defeated, however, the cutscenes show the destroyed remains of a Panther.