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| Prince Barin | |
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 Prince Barin from The New Adventures of Flash Gordon |
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| Publisher | King Features Syndicate, DC Comics Marvel Comics and many others |
| Created by | Alex Raymond |
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| Supporting character of | Flash Gordon |
Prince Barin is a character in the Flash Gordon stories. He is king of a region of Mongo called Arboria. Barin becomes one of Flash's best friends, and is deeply in love with Princess Aura.
Barin appears regularly in the Flash Gordon comic strip, becoming the ruler of Mongo after Ming's overthrow.
In Other Media
Prince Barin was first portrayed by Richard Alexander in the 1936 film serial titled simply Flash Gordon. He reprised the same role in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars.
In the 1940 sequel Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Barin was played by Roland Drew.
Alan Oppenheimer provided the voice of Barin in the 1979 Filmation series. Barin was depicted as a master archer, armed with arrows encasing any item they strike in ice. His fortress city in Arboria is highly advanced, and almost equal in technology to Mingo City. The city is protected by a defensive energy shield and by squadrons of formidable airships called Leaf Fighters. Barin also makes use of a gigantic tank-like drilling machine called the Mecha-Mole.
In the 1980 film Flash Gordon produced by Dino De Laurentiis, Timothy Dalton portrays Barin. The prince becomes the heir to the throne of Mongo, but evil Ming the Merciless steals the throne. Barin is banished to the forest planet of Arboria with his lover and Ming's daughter, Princess Aura. The prince eventually joins forces with Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, Dr. Hans Zarkov and Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen in order to overthrow Ming.
Steve Bacic played Barin in the now canceled 2007 Flash Gordon TV series. Although Ming plans a union between Barin and Aura at one point, the two despise each other and the wedding is called off following an assassination attempt by Barin on Ming. Barin is then saved from execution when Flash organizes a fake prophecy to imply that killing Barin would jeopardize Ming's rule.
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