Franco Barbie

Franco Barbi tends to act as a stereotypical gangster, using blunt threats and aggressive displays of violence to prove a point. Franco is also extremely sexually depraved in nature and takes pleasure in murdering out of arousal, killing one of the female Giants for example and engaging in necrophilia with her corpse. In particular, he has a fetish for being infantilized; in his origin comic, he goes so far as to sleep inside the torso of a prostitute's corpse in order to simulate a womb. He frequently expresses his fetish with a twisted sense of humor, sardonically and sadistically threatening Reagents while referring to himself as a "little baby" and using childish expressions such as "caught with your hand in the cookie jar". His compulsively infantile behavior causes him to bawl like a baby[7] when he is frustrated, although he is embarrassed by his habit of crying and defensively claims "that's just water from [his] eyes". This defensive action is likely to protect his fragile ego that is shown to be very vulnerable.

His aggressive and explosive emotions reflect a deep-seated insecurity, stemming from his abusive childhood and his feelings of sexual inadequacy. As a result, he views Reagents as interlopers who threaten both his territory and his ego, and he is determined to hunt, punish and kill them using blunt force and homemade buckshot from his shotgun. Franco does appear to possess a level of intelligence and craftsmanship, being able to produce his own ammunition within the trial environments as well as having instincts not dissimilar to a hunter. According to his own quotes and Dr. Easterman, Franco's ammunition is produced by using human teeth which is likely ripped from Reagents or anyone else foolish enough to approach him