Barb

Barb is a rock troll with reddish grey skin, dark purple eyes and light pink sclera. She has black messy eyeshadow surrounding her eyes, as well as long lashes that poke out. She has a missing piece from her left ear. She has a bright red mohawk and shaved sides of her head. She wears a torn apart white tank top, black shorts, black fishnets and studded bracelets. She walks in a casual way, though she can be very animated. She likes doing the rock hand symbol

Queen Barb is shown to be a zealous hard rocker at heart, who loves the members of her Tribe and her music. Even though she mostly shields herself with a rough exterior, Barb actually has a softer side. She has a wild and aggressive personality, though on the inside she cares very deeply for her loved ones. Barb is shown to feel lonely, really yearning for companionship, though she's afraid to voice that. Barb can get very angry very easily, especially over misunderstandings- she cares about things a lot and tends to get very upset if you offend her, or go against her strongly held beliefs. She throws tantrums, often taking it out on whatever thing is in front of her, making sure not to hurt the people around her. Despite her hatred of queen Poppy at first, she really admires her deep inside, and sees them as similar, saying how being a queen can be lonely, with how people around you only tell you what you want to hear. She's very open when it comes to insulting others, often calling them derogatory names, insulting music types and taunting the other trolls, but is afraid to really talk about the things she likes. She has a casual way of speaking, like a true rocker, and is often insulting or taunting, though she's trying to be nicer and show her true colors more

Barb is queen of the rock trolls, and is shown to be on good terms with all of them, greeting them with their own special move, though these relationships feel superficial to Barb which is something that upsets her deep inside. She loves her father very deeply, being patient with him and excitedly speaking to him about her plan, even when he forgets. She has a pet bat named Debbie who she loves a lot, making sure not to harm her during her tantrums. Barb and Riff have a close relationship, with him being her right-hand-man essentially, and her calling him causal names like "dude" and "man", though they're more like brother and sister. Despite her hatred of Queen Poppy at the start due to her being the Queen of the pop trolls, and Barb hates pop the most of all music genres, after her redemption Barb befriends Poppy and even starts a girl group with her and the rock-troll Carol. Barb used to have derogatory nicknames for a lot of trolls, though they're a lot fonder now. She called Poppy "popsqueak" and "pipsqueak" and "popcorn", and called Branch, Poppy's boyfriend, "boytoy"

Barb has a plan to dominate the world under one music genre, her own, which is rock. She plans to go to each troll tribe and steal their music string, leaving destruction in her wake, to put each string in her guitar and unite the trolls under rock music. She thinks that by making all trolls the same, and eradicating differences, trolls will no longer fight and theyll finally be able to live in harmony. Barb partially succeeds in her plan, overtaking all other trolls and stealing their strings, though once queen Poppy destroys the guitar holding the strings and they break apart, Barb's plan backfires. Poppy then sings and teaches all the trolls about how harmony takes many different voices to truly be harmony, and that differences make up who they are as people, and after hesitation Barb joins in and learns alongside Poppy, regaining her colors and working from then on into being a better person, even saying later on "I've done a lot of foolish things that I really didn't mean."

Barb loves singing and dancing, like other trolls, but specifically to rock music. She loves shredding it out on her red guitar, and loves giving performances her all. She's also shown to be a fairly good driver, and is agile as she jumps around during performances a lot. She's very animated in her body language. She's queer

Wait. Is that...Debbie? No! What did they do to you, my hairy little baby?! [Barb comforts Debbie] Come here, come here, come here. [Barb notices Poppy's letter] What is this? Pop Trolls? “Dear Barb, can’t wait to meet you. I have tons of great party ideas. Maybe you and I can even be best friends.” Best friends? Is she making fun of me? No one says that. Friendship takes time and years of mutual care and respect. You don’t just become best friends. Plus, everyone knows I already have a ton of friends. Like Carol. Right, Carol? Okay, you’re busy. That’s fine. Love you, Carol!

Barb: Hey man. There he is, King Trollex of the Techno Trolls, right? Trollex: That's right. Who's asking? Barb: Queen Barb of the Hard Rock Trolls. And I'm here to take your string, Bro. Trollex: No way... if we lose our string, we lose our music. Barb: You mean your bleeps and bloops? Yeah, that's not music. Do you want to hear some real music?

Barb: Sup, Trollzart dude? I'm here for your string. Trollzart: We will not go quietly. [The Classics Trolls plays Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 as a warning and Barb pretends to sleep and wakes up] Barb: Oh I'm sorry, I must have fallen asleep. Because your music is so boring. Where are the words, bro, right? Now gimme your string!