Benrey

> "*Can I see Your passport?*"
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> ―Benrey after meeting Gordon Freeman.
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Benrey

### Aliases

Sir, Burpie, Barney/Barnay, Bernett, Berttie, Bernard, Bentley/Buntley, Burpie, Bunther, and Benny (all by various members of the science team)

## Personal Information

### Relatives

johnwicklover1994 (Brother)Emmet Calhoun (Brother)

## Stream Information

### Played by

Socpens

**Benrey** (alternatively spelled **Benry**) is one of the main characters, later turned antagonist in Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware. First appearing in ACT 1, he works as a security guard at Black Mesa, often tagging along with The Science Team.

Benrey is played by Scorpy.

## Appearance

Benrey appears using the security guard model from Half-Life. He is shown wearing a blue button-up shirt and black tie with a bulletproof vest over top. On top of his head, he wears a helmet. He has pale skin and no visible hair. Though appearing human, Benrey has said that he is not human.

## Abilities

While Benrey's model is the standard Half-Life security guard model, his personality differs greatly from that of a professional security guard. He is shown to possess many inhuman abilities, including partial immortality (similar to that of most of the crew), levitation, and being able to freakishly mess with his body. Along with all of that, he is best known for using the Black Mesa Sweet Voice to express himself, influence others' emotions, heal others, and encase corpses within cocoons. Tommy has claimed that Benrey has a "Song of Death" that killed The Black Mesa Golem Ape. Benrey is also able to ignore G-Man's time freezing. Benrey may be capable of resurrection, or simply living on, as a skeleton for periods, seen stalking the crew during earlier acts before it was later implied that the skeletons were, in fact, also his subordinates.

During the final act, Benrey is seen looming over his realm at a gargantuan size, floating through islands and clipping through walls to stalk the crew. Benrey's visual form later shifts to a gradually incomprehensible mess of stretched 3D limbs and body parts assumed to be his "final form," or what Wayne later describes as a "contortionist's nightmare," within the boss fight. Once defeated by Gordon, he never returns to this form again and is seen as having returned completely normal in the post-Act 4 bonus scenes.

## Personality

Benrey often seems completely disassociated from reality, and is generally delusional about his surroundings, frequently making ridiculous claims with no basis in reality and accusing Gordon of crimes he could not have committed, while simultaneously mostly ignoring the crimes the other members of the science team had committed. According to Wayne, Benrey seems to be conscious only when he is spoken to. He is also very impatient, supported by how quick he is to kill random scientists, and his leap from the elevator shaft, when en route to the Test Chamber. Holly, Dr. Coomer's actor, describes Benrey as "constantly going between super lovey-dovey and trying to make you have the worst day."

Benrey is somewhat childlike, frequently behaving as though he were a preschooler, such as cheerfully yelling “Road trip!” while Bubby attempts to drive everyone out of Black Mesa, and believing that Lightning McQueen is real. He tends to babble mockingly at other people akin to that of a toddler, and in one instance when Gordon attempts to do the same right back, Benrey simply raised his voice to silence him.

During Act 4, Benrey becomes gradually more antagonizing towards Gordon in various means, all of which eventually leads to his reveal as the main villain and final boss of the plot. His true motives for becoming the villain are barely understood, as his monologue before the fight is deeply nonsensical and often spouts unrelated statements to the scenario, such as his desire to gain a free month of PlayStation+ to helping Gordon out with a "dick slip." Though still childish, as is seen through him floating around and stalking the crew in his "realm" with various snarky comments and teases, Benrey additionally becomes far more violent towards the crew in the final boss sequence, attacking them until his eventual defeat.

## Relationships

### Gordon Freeman

Benrey and Gordon are bitter enemies throughout the series, as Gordon did not bring his passport to work, resulting in Benrey believing Gordon was a criminal. Benrey is very biased in antagonizing Gordon, acting as though Black Mesa's rules only apply to him, as well as saying that there are at least 5 people in Black Mesa that are scared of him. Benrey claims that Gordon is his friend, but both characters' actions disregard this. Benrey repeatedly teases and eggs on Gordon, while also harboring an unrequited crush on him, and at several points in the series, he both subtly and blatantly flirts with him, even trying to kiss Gordon during multiple instances. Benrey has repeatedly bugged Gordon by saying he has photos of his feet, constantly asking what he's doing and where he's going, attempting to kiss him, asking for his passport/ID, and making suggestive remarks towards him, such as "Gordon knows how to suck and he does it well" and "I'm liking the view from back here" (while behind Gordon in a tunnel). Wayne has described Benrey as "lusting after Gordon the entire series" (then decides lusting is not the right word).

During the beginning of Act 3, Benrey, along with Bubby, betrays Gordon by conspiring with the soldiers from Act 2 to attack him and leave him behind, as they were both supposedly convinced he was the reason they weren't escaping the facility. During this attack, the soldiers repeatedly punched Gordon, and then cut his arm off. Benrey says "I hope- oh my god do your job right and he gonna be DEAD soon!" before Gordon's hand is cut off, to which he then acts surprised and says "OH they separated his arm! what the hell..." but does nothing to stop the continuing attack, only complaining that there's no use in Gordon's chopped off limb.

When Benrey is with Gordon again, he frequently comments on Gordon's missing hand in an aloof manner, as if he had no clue what happened to it. He's more antagonistic towards Gordon and makes fun of him often. Gordon becomes more aggressive towards Benrey as a result, repeatedly talking about how he wishes Benrey was dead, along with shooting him with tons of bullets, which usually do no damage. Gordon, defeated by the fact he cannot get rid of Benrey, allows him to stick with the science team.

During Benrey's boss battle, Gordon, along with the other members of the science team, defeat Benrey and believed him to be gone for good. Gordon is met with great frustration when he notices a skeleton at Tommy's birthday party, and later Benrey in the movie theatres.

Socpens has commissioned artwork of Gordon and Benrey getting married.

### Dr. Coomer

Dr. Coomer and Benrey appear to be on good terms. Dr. Coomer frequently just accepts the nonsense Benrey says and does. Dr. Coomer is one of the only other characters who can use the Black Mesa Sweet Voice, like Benrey.

### Bubby

Benrey and Bubby met each other in Act 1, when Benrey was following Gordon and Bubby mentioned that Benrey shouldn't enter without an HEV suit. As the series progresses, they begin whispering to each other in secret, leading up to the two of them betraying Gordon. After the betrayal, Bubby resents Benrey and happily "kills him" (though he actually killed a regular security guard NPC). Bubby joins the rest of the science team in fighting Benrey during the final battle.

### Tommy Coolatta

Tommy and Benrey are assumed to have already known each other before the beginning of the series. When in the test chamber, Benrey yells at Tommy, saying the latter's name. According to Benrey, Tommy likes mean people, though it's unclear if Benrey is referring to himself, to Gordon, or is just lying.

Tommy is also the only character able to read and understand the Black Mesa Sweet Voice that Benrey uses. Tommy also refers to Benrey with "sir" multiple times and seems to respect him. It's unclear if Tommy holds any grudge against Benrey after he betrays Gordon, however, he was not in on the scheme and was disturbed by it greatly.

### Forzen

Forzen and Benrey used to be friends, according to Forzen, which supports the suspicion that Benrey was on good terms with the U.S. Military. Later, Benrey claims that he has killed Forzen. Not much is known about their old friendship or the event of Forzen's death.

Both of them were played by Socpens.

### Darnold

Benrey and Darnold met during Act 4. Benrey spends time snooping around on Darnold's computer, sharing that he found a torrent of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the scientists' computer and more. Darnold is friendly with Benrey, the two appear to get on good terms during their short time together.

### G-Man

G-Man is, at first, only aware of Benrey through watching the science team's journey. Eventually in Act 4, however, Benrey completely ignores and is unaffected by G-Man's time-freezing ability, which makes G-Man confused and frightened. Benrey simply asks for G-Man's credentials, if he has Playstation+ Voucher, then asks where they are.

### Josh

Josh is, supposedly, one of Benrey's best friends who is a cashier at Gamestop, and/or a dead security guard that Benrey accused Gordon of killing. Benrey claims that since he was unable to get Heavenly Sword from Josh is one of the reasons for his villainous actions.

### Jefferem

Jefferem is one of Benrey's best friends and the character Benrey is seen at the very beginning of the series. Benrey appears to know Jefferem well, telling Gordon about how he has anger issues and is never happy. Benrey planned to play the new Heavenly Sword on the PS3 with Jefferem after their shifts were over, but were unable to.

## Quotes

* "i can see wherever you go friend!" (to Gordon)
* "he so many!"
* "you're not my friend anymore, we used to be best friends, i don't know what happened!" (To Gordon)
* "looks like you're gonna be a dirty little boy in the movie theater." (To Gordon)
* "you know what size shoe i am? doesn't matter."
* "i was supposed to be nice but you forced me to be *baaad,* so now i'm gonna be *baaaad*."
* "YO YOU WANNA DIE?!" (To Gordon)
* "GORDON FEEtman"
* "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB"
* "stop killing people"
* "they're thinkin bout Fruit Loops all day."
* "SONY CEO JACK TRETTON HIRED... a Nintendo CEO Reggie and they built a big... BOMB that was gonna go off... ...but I saved the WORLD!"
* "my friend of Josh"
* "teal & green heal beam."
* "do you like HD-DVD, IDIOT? or do- do you like Blue-ray, friend." (To Gordon)
* "do you- you have credientials?" (To G-Man)
* "yo what the fuck i just wanna play games with people, man..."
* "you- you're a little clumsy boy, aren't you? lost your lil hand there, didja?" (To Gordon)
* "you'll never get MY passport..."

## Trivia

* His so-called "Realm" is a heavily modified version of Xen from the original Half-Life, and he replaces the Nihilanth as the final boss.
* Originally Scorpy wanted to play as if he was a different security guard each time he disappeared, which is why he appears as Stong Boper and Bipple later in Act 1, but this never went anywhere after that.
* Like all the other AI-Enhanced NPCs, it's easy to tell them apart because of their animations, taken from the Garry's Mod player models.
* In a commentary stream with the voice actors, it is implied that the G-Man is scared of Benrey. This can be seen prominently in Act 4 thanks to Benrey's ability to ignore the G-Man's time-freezing abilities causing him to stutter and leave Gordon before giving his speech.
* In the AI Crushes All Banks charity stream, it is stated that Benrey has no parents, and subsequently picked his name.
* Though his name is canonically spelled as 'Benry' by the cast as well as his actor, Wayne has stated that 'Benrey' is the "way a human would spell it," and both versions are correct.
* Benrey's name is a play off of the canon reoccurring Half-Life character, Barney Calhoun, who also happens to be a security guard.
* In the AI Crushes All Banks charity stream, Benrey hacks into the stream under the alias of "johnwicklover1994," whom he also claims to be his brother, though him and Benrey both share seemingly identical personalities.
* Benrey's so-called "final form" during the final battle takes on many different iterations; however, it was revealed during a commentary stream that Scorpy had to severely water down one of his forms for the sake of viewers, stating it to initially be too loud, bright, and nauseating for both Wayne and other viewers to look at.
* Benrey claims to have killed Forzen.
	+ Forzen claims that he and Benrey used to be best friends.
* Benrey can die anytime but always comes back to life, whether as himself or, possibly, a skeleton.
	+ It is also believed that in the final battle of the series, he survived his defeat, as he's seen in bonus scenes during the beginning of commentary streams and the AI Crushes All Banks charity stream.
* Benrey has achieved marketable plush form and could be bought for a limited time.\*beny\*
* Benrey's voice actor, Scorpy, had never played Half-Life 1 before the AI series, meaning that his constant questioning of what Wayne/Gordon is doing in the test chamber and elsewhere is genuine.
* Benrey's constant nagging about wanting Wayne's passport was a result of Scorpy trying to find a reason to stop Wayne and talk to him. A passport was the first thing that came to Scorpy's mind, setting in motion the plot for the entire series.
* Benrey wasn't the only idea for a final boss, Dr. Coomer, Bubby, and even Tommy were considered before the group settled on Benrey.
* According to Dr. Coomer, one of Benrey's "classic pranks" is gluing someone to a carseat.
* Benrey has a PS3.
* Benrey has around 37 on-screen kills in the full series. He has the lowest kill count of any science team member.