Where is Barney Calhoun? | Half-Life Theory

My personal theory is that Barney's train was en route to a different resistance outpost. Dr. Kleiner mentions that there are multiple outposts to evacuate to in his speech to City 17 in Episode 1. Also, if you carefully watch the Episode 1 ending again, the track Barney's train was on ends up going in a completely different direction than Gordon and Alyx's train. This leads me to believe that Barney and co. ended up in a different section of the outlands, and then made their way to a different outpost, where he acted as a leader to the citizens and rebels there. From there, I imagine his plan was to get them to either White Forest or perhaps some other rebel base.

Barney is in all of our hearts.

Barney is at some local pub of course, waiting for Gordon to buy him that beer he owns him, its no brainer 🤣.

I miss him, he's my favorite character in the series. Really hope that Valve does make another game with him as the protagonist. So many cool stories to tell.

We need Half-Life: Barney

Don't worry he's somewhere out there. He was also a protagonist like Gordon.

The voice line in Episode Two makes me think you were originally going to reunite with Barney at White Forest but it got cut during development

I like how Half-Life leaves a lot of things up to speculation, it makes theorizing about the game a lot more fun. They did my man Barney dirty tho.

“There goes my hero, watch him as he goes”

Honestly, I haven't really thought about barney when I played episode 2, I guess the whole battle in the end coupled with the fact that alyx almost died really put Barney on a second note. Really interesting video and I really hope we do get something about Barney, if the next half life happens after the event of Eli and the advisor. Thanks for the upload and I hope you're well!

There's actually a mod in development called Half-Life 2: Biohazard in development, where you play as Barney after Episode 1. I'm a writer for that mod and without saying much it'll be very interesting to see how to community reacts to it. (Also note that I've made some major changes to the story, so what you see on MobDB may not be accurate)

Here is a question, why did Gman take Gordon and Adrian, but not Barney, and Collete? (Gina died as shown in opposing force)

There is a Source mod I've stumbled upon several years ago called "Lost Squad" that aimed to explore what happened to Barney after the events of ep1 Sadly this mod seems to be abandoned as the last posted article on its Mod DB page was back in 2019. Really sad because that mod seemed very promising.

My theory is after the citadel blast in the ending of episode 1. His train also derailed, with the GMan possibly saving his life. I think he's either in stasis or at some other rebel outpost like a fellow commenter mentions.

Here me out on this one, while barney and his group were moving out they got switched onto a different line which led them away from white forest. They then almost end up hitting some wreckage that was left over from the 7 hour war. They then battle their way through zombie infested warzones, and hunter ravaged areas to reach white forest.

ive always liked listening to your theories and from what i recall early on before HL:A's release there was talks of a HL:Barney type game. however the rumors now say that it's probably going to be a straight successor to HL:A but it's all in preproduction while citadel is being worked on.

I miss that man...

When I ended Half Life 2: episode 2, the first question came into my mind was: And where was Barney this whole time?

I'm assuming his train was heading towards a different resistance outpost, where Rosenberg, Walter, and Simmons are located. Maybe even Gina and Keller?

Half-Life Barney and Half-Life Shepard sounds good