Benry

"'Can I see your passport?'""―Benry after meeting Gordon Freeman."Benrey (alternatively spelled Benry) is a Black Mesa Security guard, and a main character turned main antagonist of the Half-Life VR But The AI Is Self-Aware saga. He is voiced by Scorpy.

Description
Benrey's model is the standard Half-Life security guard model, though his personality differs greatly from that of a professional security guard. He is shown to possess many inhuman abilities including partial immortality, similar to that of most of the crew, and is best known for using the Black Mesa Sweet Voice to express himself, influence other's emotions, and encase corpses within cocoons. Its possible that Benrey is capable of resurrection, or simply living on, as a skeleton for stretches of time, seen stalking the crew during earlier acts before it was later implied that the skeletons were, in fact, also his subordinates.

During the final act, Benrey is seen looming over his realm at a gargantuan size, floating through islands and clipping through walls to stalk the crew. Benrey's visual form later shifts to a gradually incomprehensible mess of stretched 3D limbs and body parts, assumed to be his "final form" or what Wayne later describes as a "contortionist's nightmare," within the boss fight. Once defeated by Gordon, he never returns to this form again, and is seen as having returned completely normal in the post-Act 4 bonus scenes.

Personality
Benrey often seems completely disassociated from reality, and is generally delusional about his surroundings, frequently making ridiculous claims with no basis in reality and accusing Gordon of crimes he could not have committed, while simultaneously ignoring the crimes the other crew had committed, with only one exception. He is also very impatient, supported by how quick he is to kill random scientists, and his leap from the elevator shaft, when en route to the Test Chamber. Benrey and Gordon are bitter enemies throughout the series, as Gordon did not bring his passport to work, resulting in Benrey believing Gordon was a criminal. Benrey repeatedly teases and eggs on Gordon, while also harboring an unrequited crush on him, and at several points in the series he both subtly and blatantly flirts with him, even trying to kiss Gordon during multiple instances.

Benry is somewhat childlike in nature, frequently behaving as though he were a preschooler, such as cheerfully yelling “Road trip!” while Bubby attempts to drive everyone out of Black Mesa, and believing that Lightning McQueen is real. He has a tendency to babble mockingly at other people akin to that of a toddler, and in one instance when Gordon attempts to do the same right back, Benrey only simply raised his voice to silence him.

During Act 4, Benrey becomes gradually more antagonizing towards Gordon in various means, all of which eventually leads to his reveal as the main villain and final boss of the plot. His true motives for becoming the villain are barely understood, as his monologue before the fight is deeply nonsensical and often spouts unrelated statements to the scenario, such as his desire to gain a free month of PlayStation+ to helping Gordon out with a "dick slip." Though still childish in nature, as is seen through him floating around and stalking the crew in his "realm" with various snarky comments and teases, Benrey additionally becomes far more violent towards the crew in the final boss sequence, attacking them until his eventual defeat.

Quotes

 * "I can see wherever you go friend!"
 * "He so many!"
 * "Can I see your passport?"
 * "You're not my friend anymore, we used to be best friends, I don't know what happened!"
 * "Looks like you're gonna be a dirty little boy in the movie theater."
 * "You know what size shoe I am? Doesn't matter."
 * "I was supposed to be nice but you forced me to be baaad, so now I'm gonna be baaad."
 * "YO YOU WANNA DIE?!"
 * "GORDON FEEtman"
 * BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

Trivia

 * His so-called "Realm" is a heavily modified version of Xen from the original Half-Life, and he replaces the Nihilanth as the final boss.
 * Originally Scorpy wanted to play as if he was a different security guard each time he disappeared, which is why he appears as Stong Boper and Bipple later in Act 1, but this never went anywhere after that.
 * Like all the other AI-Enhanced NPCs, it's easy to tell them apart because of their animations, taken from the Garry's Mod player models.
 * In a commentary stream with the voice actors, it is implied that the G-Man is scared of Benrey. This can be seen prominently in Act 4 thanks to Benry's ability to ignore the G-Man's time-freezing abilities causing him to stutter and leave Gordon before giving his speech.
 * In the HLVRAI ACAB stream, it is stated that Benrey has no parents, and subsequently picked his own name.
 * Though his name is canonically spelled as Benry by the cast as well as his actor, Wayne has stated that Benrey is the "way a human would spell it," and both versions are correct.
 * Benrey's name is a play off of the canon reoccurring Half-Life character, Barney Calhoun, who also happens to be a security guard.
 * In the AI Crushes All Banks charity stream, Benrey hacks into the stream under the alias of "johnwicklover1994," whom he also claims to be his brother, though him and Benrey both share seemingly identical personalities.
 * Benry's so-called "final form" during the final battle takes on many different iterations; however, it was revealed during a commentary stream that Scorpy had to severely water down one of his forms for the sake of viewers, stating it to initially be too loud, bright, and nauseating for both Wayne and other viewers to look at.
 * Benrey claims to have killed Forzen.
 * Benrey can die anytime but always comes back to life. It is also believed that in the final battle of the "Half Life VR:AI"-Series, he survived his defeat.
 * Benry has achieved marketable plush form and could be bought for a limited time.*beny*


 * Benry's voice actor, Scorpy, had never played Half Life 1 before the AI series, meaning that his constant questioning of what Wayne/Gordon is doing in the test chamber and elsewhere is genuine.


 * Benry's constant nagging about wanting Wayne's passport was a result of Scorpy trying to find a reason to stop Wayne and talk to him, a passport was the first thing that came to mind setting in motion the plot for the entire series.


 * Benry has a foot fetish and is remarked by Wayne during a stream as "lustfully chasing after Gordon"


 * Benry wasn't the only idea for a final boss, Coomer, Bubby, and even Tommy were considered before the group settled on Benry.


 * In Act 1, Episode 1, when told that the radiation in the chamber will kill him, Benry remarks that it's okay because he's "not human", foreshadowing him being the final boss


 * Benry considers Gordon a friend throughout the series and shows this by trying to stop Gordon from going through the portal so he doesn't have to fight him. These feelings are not reciprocated however.