Barry ''Big Bear'' Thorne



"Whenever you were walking down the street, Barry Thorne, also known as Big Bear, has his claws on you, and maybe those other pedestrians too, just because he was working for the Grove Street Families. That's what he would get after the Belkan Grey Men, the Ballas and the rest of the Global Liberation Union did all the wrong things they're still doing right now."

--Su Ji-Hoon, A Claw on Ji-Hoon

Barry Thorne, more commonly known as Big Bear, is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he was first appeared in during the USRAC War after he and the Grove Street Families have joined the New Central Powers after Belkan Grey Men's frameup