Interestingly, women with a higher number of romantic partners were significantly more attracted to narcissistic males compared to those with a lower number. This means their increased attraction can't be chalked up to rookie mistakes or the excitement of first love. The research indicates that women with greater "mating experience" find jerks more desirable and continue to find them more desirable, even after the relationship goes sour.
A surprising conundrum also emerged from the findings. Then there is a flash forward to Barney's wedding day, and when Ted walks into the bride's room, who is finally revealed to be Robin. Barney and Quinn spend the summer of happily engaged, but trouble is on the horizon when Arthur Hobbs gives Barney the idea of a Pre-nup. Due to this the couple realized they didn't trust each other, which caused them to break up, kicking off the Autumn of Breakups.
Afterwards, Barney was coping with being single again, which led to brover and bro-bibs. After getting engaged, Barney quickly adapted and let go of the single life for what seemed to be forever. In , Barney stops smoking after his divorce to Robin. In , Barney gets a girl pregnant, and in the spring of , Barney holds his daughter Ellie for the first time and realizes he has to settle down now.
Before the start of the series and before he met the rest of the gang, Barney was somewhat of a hippie. He wanted to join the Peace Corps, was disgusted when men treated women like objects, and wished to wait to lose his virginity to his college girlfriend, Shannon , until after the two married. His personality radically changed when he caught Shannon cheating on him with a man named Greg. His current mannerisms and dress sense are based on the man who took Shannon away from him.
When trying to persuade Lily to paint a nude portrait of him , Barney says "We knew we could torture Marshall because he has shame. I do not. In my body, where the shame gland should be, there's a second awesome gland.
True story. He is an extreme womanizer, not content unless he is pursuing his latest conquest - not only that, but Barney extends his womanizing nature to everyone else he knows, considering Marshall to be unimpressive when they first met because he'd only slept with one woman in his life, and declared that he would make all of Marshall's decisions for him. Barney has no problem lying or using extremely ridiculous methods to charm women. Along with being proud and very open about the sex he has and his collection of pornography, he doesn't see anything wrong about secretly video taping and taking pictures of the women he sleeps with.
He did mention to Robin that he watches the videos to study himself more, like how athletes study game tapes. He also seems to dislike the idea of owning a "little, black book" and instead has a scrapbook filled with the pictures of women he has slept with. Barney does not care at all what happens to his one-night stands as long as he doesn't have to see or talk to them again.
Barney is very driven to achieve what he wants and will go to great lengths to make it happen. He takes comments such as "No one can do this" as a challenge, announcing " Challenge Accepted! He will even take an entire year to fulfill a challenge even if the person who "challenged" him doesn't even remember, as seen when Barney took a year to get Ted to grow a mustache in Ten Sessions.
Barney even has a gambling problem that he cultivated after Marshall made a bet with him one Super Bowl Sunday revealed in Monday Night Football. He frequently makes bets and tries to make them for exorbitant sums of money until the others remind him that it's ridiculous. His stubbornness and will to succeed even includes things he does not like doing, such as being named Volunteer of the Year while doing court-required community service in Belly Full of Turkey , or suddenly singing backup to Marshall's song You Just Got Slapped , making his friends laugh, despite still feeling the pain from Marshall's slap.
Barney tells fake history lessons , complicated lies, and deceptions with total confidence, and stubbornly sticks by even if they are completely nonsensical and over-exaggerated. He expects his friends to believe everything he says, as most of the women he picks up are extremely gullible.
When his friends do point Barney is lying, or obviously don't believe it he adds "True story". He also has a pathological and compulsive tendency to always know the truth, even if he has no care of the subject which he has to know about. For example, he pestered Ted and Robin at Lily and Marshall's wedding to tell him they were actually broken up and later the sex of their baby. Barney is also shown to be very persuasive at times.
This is also shown by his history of seducing women with fake, even ridiculous, aliases including Barack Obama Jr. However, he does not always succeed, as he fails in getting out of a speeding ticket despite numerous deliberate attempts whereas the other members of the gang have done so. Regardless of this change, Barney has shown to have a somewhat childish personality as well.
He is an avid blogger and laser tag fan. He's extremely aggressive while playing laser tag, to the point where he's been seen pinning a child down to the ground while shooting him, which got him banned from his usual laser tag spot. To add to his childish personality, he sought revenge by TP'ing the place for banning him. He loves to perform magic , a trait he shares with his father, but he usually uses them to pick up women.
Barney seems to have a preference with magic that involves fire, which caused his friends to have an intervention to get him to stop to using magic. Barney is known to be a huge momma's boy. James , Barney's older brother, told the rest of the gang that Barney always believed in every lie their mother told them as children, no matter how ridiculous. Barney's love for his mother goes so far that when he thought she was dying he hired a child actor and actress to pose as his son and wife and continued this lie for years to make her happy.
Barney is often shown to be ignorant of popular culture. In Woooo! Barney often shows himself to be somewhat inept of geography and the calendar.
He has trouble figuring out how many days are there in certain months. Barney's more tender, former personality has not entirely disappeared, however. He is very loyal to his family and friends. This is shown as he acted as Ted's wingman for the entire series and helped Marshall get a job when he had financial troubles. Also, Barney comforts Robin at the end of Sandcastles in the Sand when her former boyfriend, Simon breaks up with her again.
Though, he does sometimes get embarrassed when others see his kindness and will often make a rude comment to throw them off or try to keep his actions secret, as seen when he tried to stop Lily from revealing to Marshall that he went to San Francisco to convince her to return to New York and get back together with Marshall after she left him for an art fellowship.
Everyone else in the gang has noted that Barney has some very unusual and annoying habits. Some of the catchphrases Barney uses are " Suit Up! He frequently uses wordplays relating to sleeping with women, typically followed by wanting to high five someone or bump their fist, though it is often rejected. Ted has told Barney that he's too liberal with the word " legendary ".
Another odd habit that only Ted has pointed out is that whenever making up statistics or, Barney tends to use the number 83 , or some variation thereof 8. Barney also has an interesting way of watching movies. When watching, he decides who the protagonist of the movie is based on the title of the movie, for example he roots for the Terminator in The Terminator and was sad when watching the ending where it was destroyed.
Similarly, he considers William Zabka the "real Karate Kid". One of Barney's stranger quirks is a tendency to care for his clothing and accessories as if they were living people. For example, in Girls Vs. Suits when he accidentally ripped his suit, he treats the situation as if a live one had died, crying over his torn suit and "cremating" it in an urn. The same situation occurred again in Lobster Crawl where after getting a stain on his tie, Cornelius, he attempts to "revive" him even going as far to use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Whenever asked what it is he does for a living, he always shakes off the question by laughing and saying "Please It is assumed that he is a high-ranking member in the company. Perfect Week. When the project was scrapped Old King Clancy and then brought back in , Barney was still in charge of hiring the architect.
His job also entails firing potentially hostile employees. Old King Clancy. It's hinted that his job may include illegal activities, especially considering he's never told any of the gang exactly what his job is.
Marshall, after reading some of Barney's documents, is afraid of what they did to the drinking water in Lisbon , and notes that if the contracts aren't carried out precisely, they will be at war with Portugal. When Barney is afraid he might die, he tells Lily to take the briefcase under his bed and dispose of it in the East river.
Although his salary is unknown, it's assumed that he makes a fairly large amount, given that he owns many expensive suits, a luxurious apartment, flat screen TVs which he breaks to release his frustrations and always has spare money available for all of his schemes such as the professional old man costuming Intervention and complete scuba diving gear. The Playbook. In Unpause , his job is revealed to literally be P. This job was given to him by Greg Fisher, the man who stole Shannon away from him in , and pays an immense amount of money 16 "craploads" according to Future Ted.
Two months after his wedding, Barney enacts his revenge on Greg by selling him out to the feds, having him arrested for fraud and other crimes he had committed in the past, thereby securing his position at GNB.
Shannon was Barney's college sweetheart. They had plans to go into Peace Corps together and lose their virginity to one another. Shannon cheated on Barney, which sparked Barney's transformation into the man he is today. He wouldn't see Shannon again until After she told him that her relationship with Greg, the man she cheated on Barney with, didn't last and that she gave birth to a son, Barney realized how awesome his life was and slept with her recording them on his cellphone.
Barney was the one who introduced Robin to Ted, which would lead to her joining the gang. They have a strong friendship due to their similar personalities. In Season 3 , Robin's begins dating her ex-boyfriend again after he visits her. When he dumped her again , Barney comforted her and they slept together. Barney realized that he had begun falling in love with Robin, but she was hesitant to have a relationship with him. In Season 5 , the two of them began having a sexual relationship, and eventually became a couple.
Barney and Robin did not work out as a couple for several reasons, and eventually broke up, claiming that the two of them in a relationship was 'an overload of awesome'. During Challenge Accepted it is hinted that they loved each other during their relationship and that their connection was more than just a physical one: they discuss Ted and Zoey's relationship, possibly using that relationship to covertly discuss their own.
In The End of the Aisle they are married. It is revealed in first part of the series finale, Last Forever - Part One , that Barney and Robin divorce after three years of marriage. Nora was Barney's first Valentine's Day date.
Unlike other women, she didn't believe in any of Barney's initial lies when he tried to sleep with her. She was, however, fascinated by Barney's love of laser tag. After she joins him in a laser tag tournament, Barney realizes he has feelings for her and agrees to see her again after a first proper date.
Unfortunately, he gets sick and the date is "cancelled" even though Nora takes care of him. She later dumps him when she learns he lied to her about wanting to get married and have kids. She reappears at the end of Challenge Accepted. Barney then apologizes, and vows not to leave the 24 hour diner until he gets a second date.
When Nora returns, Barney is still there, and she is humbled by his persistence. He breaks up with her, hoping to get back together with Robin. Quinn is Barney's new love interest after his breakup with Nora and his heartbreak with Robin. Later, Barney discovers she works as a stripper at the Lusty Leopard named Karma. He tries to ask her out on date, but she continually avoids answering and only wishes to hang out at the strip club, Ted hears about this and realizes she is just playing Barney.
Later, Barney runs into Quinn in a coffee house, she then offers to buy Barney's coffee and asks him to sit with her, indicating she really may be interested. In The Broath , the gang notice that Quinn is controlling towards Barney. But actually, Barney and Quinn were only messing with them. Later, they announce that they are moving in together. In Farhampton , Quinn finds out that Barney and Robin used to date, and is angry Barney he didn't tell her this before.
By the time he finished his story, his kids had realized the truth: Ted was in love with Robin. They encouraged him to go to her, and he arrived at her apartment with the blue french horn. The show ended with them getting back together.
This prompted outcry from fans, who felt it was a cop-out, but Neil Patrick Harris — who plays Barney — has since defended the decision. Ted, on the other hand, seemed to make a lot of things about him and his issues of being alone, when in fact it is his insanely high standards and treatment of women that have caused that.
Despite the way the show is presented a lot of the time, when you really think about it, Barney is far less selfish than Ted. Barney does not seek praise or approval for doing nice things for his friends, and on the flip side does not seek pity and attention for when stuff goes wrong, look at when he goes to San Fransisco for Marshall and Lily.
Ted, though, while he has been a good friend numerous times, makes a lot of stuff about him, and his issues, the pilot should have revolved around Lily and Marshall's engagement, but instead, it was Ted's obsession with Robin. The finale definitely undid a lot of the development the characters had undergone throughout the show, particularly Robin and Barney, but even including that, Barney developed an insane amount from the pilot to finale.
Ted was pretty much the same character. While a lot had happened in his life, and his life had changed a bit, he had not. He had the same flaws, same problems, same everything; he was the same guy for nine seasons straight, not growing or developing at all.
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