Like Archer, he is a highly adept field agent, though while Odin is portrayed as the competent and professional agency, Barry, himself, is constantly the hapless victim of Archer's chicanery. Archer twice allows Barry to fall from considerable heights, the first time causing Barry to have pins inserted into his leg, the second time resulting in Barry being turned into a Terminator-like cyborg by the KGB. Barry has a peculiar habit of carrying on conversations with himself, referring to himself in the third person as both "Barry" and "Other Barry".