Barbara Larkin
- Barbara Larkin is a human from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Barbara Larkin, born in September of 1949, is an influential, ambitious and beloved United States Senator. Responsible for political maneuvering that culminated in the realization of a technological dream, Power Station Alpha, she hopes to usher in a new age of energy independence.
She's cute, she wants you to call her Barbara, and she may take off her shirt, but she should be careful of what friends she makes...
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
One way or another, Barbara Larkin came in contact with Cobra and made a deal with them. She would have a new type of power station designed and built. Though the power station would inherently not be a good idea because of the destructive potential it would have if it would make its way into the wrong hands, the project would get money to Larkin's homestate and generate a good number of jobs. Cobra's task then was to steal and destroy the power station, covering Larkin's tracks. What Cobra would get out of this is unknown, but because the power station had always been intended to be destroyed, the architects, in league with Larkin, had not taken proper fail-safes or substantial precautions in the design, leaving Power Station Alpha with considerable weaknesses. Ashes, Ashes...
Though many opposed the project, Larkin's insistence managed to convince the necessary majority of the project's benefits. Alpha was assembled at Fort Lewis, in the later stages under protection of G.I. Joe. A day before the power station's first test launch, Larkin and three congressmen were escorted to Fort Lewis by Hawk. Larkin and Hawk hit it off well, with Hawk complimenting her on her achievement and taking her side when two of the congressmen expressed their continued skepticism regarding the safety of Alpha. Not long thereafter, the Dreadnoks Ripper, Torch and Buzzer broke into the facility to steal Power Station Alpha on their own, having tired of waiting for Cobra Commander's order for an organized theft. Larkin was personally brought to safety by Hawk, who along with the rest of G.I. Joe then chased off the Dreadnoks.
The next day, Bumblebee had to reveal his robot self when a a young boy almost got crushed by Alpha. As the Joes worried about the damage they might cause to Alpha if they fought the robot, Larkin tried to manipulate G.I. Joe into destroying the power station by insisting that that would be a better option than to let if fall into wrong hands. So, the Joes shot Bumblebee to pieces and then had to deal with Superion when he came looking for his comrade. Blood on the Tracks
Brought to safety with Hawk and the congressmen somewhere in Fort Lewis, Larkin saw off Hawk when he returned to lead the Joes against Superion. She returned to her room inside the military base, where she was later visisted by Hawk. She practically dragged him in for a makeout session, which he certainly didn't object to. Whatever they had in mind for the afternnon, it stayed at first base because Power Station Alpha got stolen. Fortunately for Larkin, Hawk at least stayed at Fort Lewis to coordinate the retrieval mission. The G.I. Joe aircrafts came to a clash with the Cobra fleet that had comes to escort Alpha, coincidentally nearby a cruise ship. The Cobra pilots threatened to destroy the ship if they weren't allowed to leave, giving Larkin again an opportunity to try to get the Joes to destroy Power Station Alpha. She insisted the lives of those civilians were more important, but that they also couldn't let Cobra take Alpha with them. Hawk disagreed with her solution, stating that destroying Alpha meant exposing those same civilians to the radioactive plutonium fallout and that since it was his primary task to ensure the safety of the power station, he wouldn't give up Alpha so easily. Therefore, he agreed to let Cobra take Alpha with them for the time being. Power Struggle
