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Character Name: Barnaby Brooks Junior (aka Bunny)
Character Series: Tiger & Bunny
Background: Here!
Point in Canon: During the one-year timeskip in Episode 25.
Personality:
Most tsundere bunny to have ever existed. The end.
...okay, I'm lying, that's not the end. Barnaby's heckuva lot more complicated than just that.
First of all, at first glance, he doesn't seem tsundere at all. Indeed, he seems calm, cool, polite even in the face of danger. He's good at what he does, and is always willing to sign autographs and take pictures with the fans. When you first meet him in person, he's most likely to act like that. Unfortunately, that's all it is: an act to hide another side of him.
You see, Barnaby isn't actually very nice. He's cold, emotionally distant from others, has trust issues, and an arrogant prick who happens to have no respect for his elders (though the last part usually applies to Kotetsu, who doesn't really act very elderly) and views his job as hero as just that: a job. When you really get to know him, he seems like he just cares about the points and the fame, not the people, as he once said in the earlier episodes, "A real hero never leaves a point behind." Not only that, but he doesn't really connect with others all that well. Despite being a popular person, he doesn't have any meaningful relationship with anyone save for his caregivers and Kotetsu, and keeps everyone else at arm's length.
It doesn't mean he's completely cold-hearted, though. He really does care about those who he does have meaningful relationships with, and over the course of the series, his cold demeanor thaws out the more time he spends around Kotetsu (see episode 14, where he admits to Karina that he's grown to like him). Heck, even before the first timeskip, he showed that he wasn't completely heartless, like the time when he saved Kaede, Kotetsu's daughter (though he didn't know about that part at the time) from being crushed by debris before her father could get to her, even if there weren't any cameras around.
He's also very logical. Yes, occasionally he'll follow his gut, but most of the time he prefers to go in with a strategy, arm himself with theories and research and all that jazz. This puts him at odds with his partner a lot, as you can imagine, but then again they're always at odds with each other in the early episodes.
Anyway, part of why he hasn't formed many important connections with others yet is that for the better part of his life, he was focused on revenge. You see, when he was a little kid, he saw his parents murdered in front of his eyes. The only thing he remembered about the murderer was that he had a tattoo on his right hand, but it was enough to drive him to dedicate a good part of his life to figuring out just who murdered them, and taking the murderer down. The downside: he didn't make any new connections to any other human being for, oh, the next two decades or so.
And then Kotetsu came along. At first, he viewed him as rather annoying, having had to rescue him in their first meeting, but as time went on, he grew to trust him more, enough to tell him about what had happened when he was a child (though they still argue a lot). In episode 25, after an emotional rollercoaster, he even retires alongside him, because he has no other reason to be a hero other than to be Kotetsu's partner (in the future, when Kotetsu gets back into the hero business, he comes back as well). Of course now he doesn't remember him, so.
He is, however, a gigantic tsundere. One of the most blatant moments of this has to be during his birthday, after Kotetsu gave him a criminal so that he'd earn points for the arrest. Said criminal pointed out that he was smiling, and he quickly denied it. Not to mention, in another episode, he comes to his partner's rescue and says that he "didn't come here for your sake". Granted, he does become nicer in the later episodes, but he still has his moments of not being very nice.
So, there. Barnaby, in a nutshell, is someone who's recovering from a lifetime of revenge, and actually starting to do pretty well at it.
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