Jimmy Barnes was a record producer and Delilah's ex-fiancé.
History[]
Jimmy was introduced to Delilah by Lucifer, who granted Delilah a favor, and arranged to jump start her career in return for "a devilish IOU." After he produced her first album, a romantic relationship began between Jimmy and Delilah, and they were engaged. The relationship ended with Delilah leaving Jimmy at the altar.
In "Pilot", Jimmy hired a drug dealer kill Delilah, anticipating a spike in album sales upon her death, generating royalty checks for him. While investigating Delilah's murder, Lucifer interrupted Jimmy's wedding to a model. Jimmy denied involvement in Delilah's death, and directed Lucifer to Delilah's ex, 2 Vile. Jimmy's wedding ended in embarrassment, when Lucifer caused the bride to admit she neither loved Jimmy nor wished to sleep with him.
Upon realizing Jimmy paid the killer with a watch Delilah had given him, Chloe and Lucifer track him down in his studio; Chloe shot him when he attempted to take a hostage at gunpoint, and he shot her in retaliation when she was distracted by Lucifer. A furious Lucifer then proceeded to terrorize Jimmy with his Devil Face, punishing him for his actions.
In "Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil.", Chloe visited Jimmy in his cell at a psychiatric facility. Upon hearing Lucifer's name, Jimmy went into a frenzy, banging his head against the partition, doing himself injury, and screaming that Lucifer was the Devil.
In "Yabba Dabba Do Me" Lucifer decides that to be God, he has to be able to help someone like Barnes, whom he hates. Discovering that Jimmy had died in the mental hospital a year previously, Lucifer decided to go see him in Hell. He is confronted by Chloe before he leaves, who convinces him to take her along, and after they arrive in hell and enter Jimmy's hell loop, they are surprised to see it is a cartoon. Chloe speculates that his hell loop takes the form of a cartoon because he was insane.
The two manage to find Jimmy when a monstrously exaggerated version of Lucifer interrupting his wedding appeared. After discovering they cannot leave, Chloe defeats the hell loop version of Lucifer, and Lucifer confronts Jimmy, mocking him in order to go deeper into his psyche. The hell loop then changes to a more normal situation set in the 1980s.
They find a younger version of Jimmy trying to pump up his new hit group, Wednesday’s Child after their 1st single went platinum. The band then fires him as their manager, and tells him that he is holding them back. There seems then to be a glitch when the spokesman's image briefly was replaced by a woman with a guitar. The hell loop then changes to Jimmy blacklisting Wednesday’s Child, claiming that they were frauds and that it was his choice to separate from them. He is then confronted by his girlfriend, who attempts to get him to be honest about the band. In response, Jimmy dumps her, but before she leaves, the ex-girlfriend's image is briefly replaced with the same woman with a guitar.
Lucifer then confronts Jimmy, telling him he pushed her away before she could do the same to him. Jimmy counters that people only want what he can give them. Chloe points out that was all he offered them. Lucifer then convinces him to go after the girl, and he leaves.
Despite the doorway out, offering escape, Lucifer decided to find the heart of Jimmy's torment. The hell loop then changes to a young Jimmy watching a cartoon in a motel room. They discover that the woman with the guitar was his mother who left, telling him to keep watching cartoons and that she would be back soon. She never returned, and he spent days sitting in front of the television waiting for her. Eventually, child protective services came and took him despite his protest that his mom wouldn't be able to find him if he left.
Lucifer stops the loop, allowing Jimmy to return to watching cartoons. Lucifer tells him that he has to get himself out of hell and still questions if he deserves to leave, but then admits that he now understand what led him to make the decisions he did. Chloe figures out that the cartoons are comfort, and his original hell loop was based on cartoons to deal with his fear. Lucifer then reverses the hell loop allowing Jimmy to sit with his mother again.
Lucifer later admits that despite hating him earlier, he now cared about the man after having seen his past.
Personality[]
Jimmy is introduced as a selfish and arrogant man with little concern for others and a great concern for image. He apparently considers himself solely responsible for the success of his clients and believes them to be indebted to him, that any success they achieved was due to his efforts, not theirs.
More layers to his personality are revealed later. His selfish personality stems from trust issues. He believes others only value him if he has something to offer them, and because of this, pushes people away before they can reject him. These issues stem at root, from his mother abandoning him as a child. When she abandoned him in a motel room as a child, he dealt with the loss by submerging himself in cartoons. They are his source of comfort and how he deals with stress and fear, when his mother left him, he watched cartoons as a way to avoid facing reality.
Appearances[]
| Season One | ||
|---|---|---|
| #1 | "Pilot" | Appears |
| #2 | "Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil." | Appears |
| Season Three | ||
|---|---|---|
| #7 | "Off the Record" | Mentioned |
| Season Four | ||
|---|---|---|
| #2 | "Somebody's Been Reading Dante's Inferno" | Pictured |
| Season Six | ||
|---|---|---|
| #3 | "Yabba Dabba Do Me" | Appears |
| #8 | "Save the Devil, Save the World" | Flashback |
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Trivia[]
- Jimmy's guilt keeping him in hell was obviously his inability to trust, which lead him to harm others; once he accepts this, Jimmy would be able to ascend to Heaven.