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1
series
8
episodes on record
Biography
Jean-Paul Barthez coaches the European team that carries his name and treats his bladers as disposable parts of a scheme to win by any means: sabotaged blades, rigged stadium tricks, orders to take an injury or to hurt an opponent. Behind a public face as a fatherly coach he abuses Aaron, Claude, Mathilda and above all the rebellious Miguel, and he is taking his own orders from Boris Balkov. It makes the Battalion the villains of the round robin until the four of them fire him and start again on their own terms. He is a small-scale antagonist whose downfall clears the way for the season's real threat. The manga has him only briefly and never names him; the fuller, nastier version is the anime's.
On file
The record
- English voice
- Edward Glen
- Team
- Barthez Battalion
- Japanese name
- ジャンポール・バルテズ
- Romaji
- Jan Pōru Barutezu
- Occupation
- Agent for Boris Balkov / Former Coach of the Barthez Battalion
- Gender
- Male
- First anime appearance
- Take Your Best Shot!
- First manga appearance
- Opening of the G.B.C. World Tournament!!
- Voice (Japanese)
- Hitoshi Bifu
- Voice (English)
- Edward Glen
Story by season
Where the seasons take them
Beyblade G-Revolution (2003)
Barthez Battalion (coach)
Egypt is where Barthez's methods finally catch up with him. He wires Aaron's Beyblade with a hidden net launcher rather than trust him to win straight, and when the plan backfires he still shows no shame about it — winning by any means is the only method he's ever taught this team. Tala later exposes that Barthez has been taking his own orders from Boris Balkov the whole time, chasing the same shadow ambitions with a smaller, uglier budget. His bladers stop tolerating him once they realize they've been played as pieces rather than coached as people: Miguel fires him outright, and the team throws out his tactics along with him, choosing to lose on their own terms rather than win on his.
Briefing
What to know
- Coach and namesake of the villainous Barthez Battalion in G-Revolution.
- Publicly poses as a caring mentor while privately abusing his bladers, especially Miguel.
- Physically strikes both Mathilda and Miguel in their team locker room.
- Secretly takes orders from Boris Balkov as part of a shared plan to seize world control.
- Ultimately fired by his own team once they tire of his controlling, cheating tactics.
- Appears in the manga only briefly and without being named.
Key episodes
Watch these first
- S3E11 The Blame Game
- S3E12 When in Rome... Let It Rip!
- S3E17 Same Old Dirty Tricks...
- S3E18 Beyblade Like an Egyptian
Also on record
Where they first appear
Resolved against our own episode records, so the pointer the entry carries as text is a link you can follow.
- Beyblade: G-Revolution episode 7: Take Your Best Shot! First anime appearance · 2003-02-17
Sightings
Episodes they appear in
Taken from the episode records rather than this entry’s own. A blader who appears once can have a full episode list here while their own entry runs to three lines.
Rivals & bonds
Known associates
- MiguelClaudeAaronMathilda his team
- Tyson Granger Tyson and the G Revolutions never fight him directly, but Barthez's scheming is part of the round robin's early static — a smaller nuisance clearing out of the way before Boris, his actual boss, becomes the real threat.
- Robert Jürgens who witnesses his tactics