Barnabas Collins

Barnabas Collins
Aliases:	The Collinsport Strangler
Continuity:	Dark Shadows
Notability:	Main character
Type:	Businessman
Occupation:	Independently wealthy
Gender:	Male
Race:	Human Formerly a vampire
Location:	Old House at Collinwood, Collinsport, Maine
Associations:	Collins family
Status:	Alive
Born:	1770
First:	Dark Shadows: 210
Final:	Dark Shadows: 1198
Actor:	Jonathan Frid Tim Gordon Ben Cross Johnny Depp Justin Tracy Thomas McDonell

Barnabas Collins is a 175-year-old vampire from the town of Collinsport, Maine. Having bridged the centuries, he has been both an adversary and an ally to his extended family members over the course of several generations. He was first brought to "unlife" in 1967 with a cliffhanger teaser appearance at the end of episode 209. Only his hand was shown and was performed by actor Tim Gordon. With the following episode, Jonathan Frid stepped into the role of Barnabas Collins and from that moment forward, television history was made.

Biography

The "Death" of Elizabeth Stoddard

With Roger away in London, Barnabas was the only adult male at Collinwood to help with the sudden passing of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. He became the executor of Elizabeth's will, which called for special arrangements. When a funeral director named Jarret came to the estate to finalize Elizabeth's service, Barnabas told him that there would be no such service in accordance with her will. To assist with keeping the children away from such a somber household, he decided that they should go to a boarding school in Boston. (Dark Shadows: 656)

Former powers

• Vampirism: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters.
  • Enhanced senses: Vampires have improved several times higher than those of any human being of course these skills can vary depending on each person they will have some other stronger senses of his companions always given the dedication and training that each set to improve ways. Among the main ways that vampires have improved we find the following:
    • Enhanced vision
    • Enhanced hearing
    • Enhanced smell
  • Immortality: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
  • Invulnerability: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
  • Regeneration: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
  • Superhuman strength: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
  • Superhuman stamina: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
  • Psychokinesis: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
  • Hypnosis: Vampires possess the ability to hypnotize or mesmerize human targets. This may become difficult against opponents with an extremely high will power. It often doesn't work against other supernatural creatures. In some cases, vampire mesmerism may be referred to as "glamouring".
  • Transformation: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly.
  • Metamorphosis: Only vampires with a more advanced powers Control demonstrate the ability of altering either its appearance to imitate other people or in such cases selective transformation for creating claws to increase the lethal capability of its attacks in extreme cases and only vampires with a capacity of very advanced monitoring capabilities such change would show how elements, elasticity and other capabilities which vary depending on their ability, imagination and control, because as you know some vampires are stronger than others.
    • Claws: Vampires can often turn their fingernails into sharpened claws, which are extremely durable and sharp. They are ideal for rending and tearing through flesh, though they are not as effective as the claws possessed by a werewolf.
    • Fangs: A vampire's most often-used weapon are her fangs. They are enlarged sharpened canine teeth, which are often retractable so as to allow a vampire the ability to pose as a normal human. The primary purpose of fangs is for feeding, which they use to puncture the jugular vein of a victim in order to get to their blood.

Equipment

• Barnabas' ring
• Barnabas' toy soldier
• Barnabas' wolf's head cane
• Coffin
• Collins family jewels
• Josette's music box
• Portrait of Barnabas Collins II

Notes & Trivia

• The character of Barnabas Collins was created by executive producer Dan Curtis, story developers Art Wallace & Sam Hall, director Lela Swift, and writer Malcolm Marmorstein.
• In the continuity of the original Dark Shadows television series, the witch Angelique Collins was responsible for turning Barnabas Collins into a vampire. In the movie House of Dark Shadows, the origin of his vampire curse is never provided. In one scene, Barnabas says, "When they put this curse upon me,", suggesting that more than one person was responsible for Barnabas' condition. It is possible that Barnabas is referring to the Leviathans as the originators of his curse in this timeline, as these creatures had recently been used on the television series to restore the vampire curse to Barnabas.
• Before casting Jonathan Frid, actor Burt Convy was considered for the role of Barnabas Collins.
• Barnabas Collins was born the same year as Victor Frankenstein.
• A photo still of Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins was used for the cover to Dark Shadows #1 in March, 1969.

Body Count

• TBA

Appearances

Original Series

Incomplete

Dark Shadows: 365 Dark Shadows: 656 Dark Shadows: 657

Revival Series

Incomplete

Comics

Dark Shadows 1 Dark Shadows 10

Films

House of Dark Shadows Dark Shadows: The Movie

Comics

Incomplete

Dark Shadows 10

Related categories

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See also

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