Barracuda is an original member of Heavy Mettle. 

Creation

Barracuda was created by Karl Kerschl and Jay Faerber in 2000 and first appeared in The New Warriors # 4. 

Story Arcs

• The Initiative
  

Barracuda and the other members of Heavy Mettle would join the Initiative and is selected to join the Shadow Initiative. The Hood orders the Taskmaster to bring in a bunch of D-list villains, ex-cons and other Initiative members they felt were expendable into the Shadow Initiative. This group was the first wave of Initiative members to assault a prison in the Negative Zone called 42 that was taken over by Blastaar and his army. This group acted as cannon fodder to soften up Blastaar's forces before sending in the big boys to clean up. However, Barracuda is killed in action when he is gunned down.