List of Call of Duty characters

There are many Call of Duty characters spanning across the Call of Duty video game franchise.

Captain Price

Main article: Captain Price

Captain Price first appeared as a British soldier featured in Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2 as a member of the British Army and British SAS during World War II. He appeared again as John Price in the Modern Warfare series, where he is playable in two flashback missions in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and in the final mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. He is one of the three characters that appeared in all three Modern Warfare games. The others were John "Soap" MacTavish and Nikolai. In every game developed by Infinity Ward there has been a Captain Price.

It is speculated that the Captain Price who appears in the series' WW2-era games is the grandfather of the character from the Modern Warfare games by Infinity Ward, which are set roughly 70 years apart.^{[citation needed]} Price was well received by critics and fans alike, being ranked #17 in Top 50 Video Game Characters of Guinness World Records 2011 Gamers' Edition.

Call of Duty

Playable Characters

• Private Martin - The playable character in the American campaign. He is a member of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

• Sergeant Evans - The playable character in the British campaign. He was a soldier of the British 6th Airborne Division and an SAS operative.

• Private Alexei Ivanovich Voronin - The playable character in the Russian campaign. He was conscripted into the 13th Guards Rifle Division and fought many battles across the Eastern Front.

NPCs (Non-Player Characters)

• Captain Foley - He's in command of Baker Company during D-Day operations. He is voiced by Steve Blum.

• Sergeant Moody - Moody is the squad leader in the Baker Company.

•  † Private Elder - He is the member 82nd Airborne Division and served alongside Private Martin in the early part of the American campaign. He is voiced by Giovanni Ribisi.

•  † Captain Price - Evans's commanding officer and is a very skilled and fierce fighter. He, along with Evans, infiltrate the German battleship Tirpitz and was killed covering Evans as he planted the bombs on the ship.

• Sergeant Waters - An operative for the Special Air Service. He is voiced by Jason Statham.

• Major Gerald Tiberius Ingram - A British SAS commander who was held captive in a prisoner camp called Dulag III-A, where he is rescued by Private Martin and his unit. Ingram also appeared in Call of Duty 3.

Call of Duty 2

Player characters

• Private Vasili Ivanovich Koslov (Russian: Василий Иванович Козлов) - The playable character in the Russian campaign. A member of the 13th Guards Rifle Division in the Red Army, He fights in the Battle of Stalingrad and also sees action in Moscow.

• Sergeant John Davis - The main playable character in the British campaign. He is a soldier in the 7th Armored Division under the command of Captain Price in North Africa and France. As the Germans are fighting fierce battles against the British in the North African deserts, he fights in the Battle of El Alamein and fights his way to Tunisia. After fighting in North Africa, he is sent to France to help Liberate Caen.

• Tank Commander David Welsh - The secondary playable character in the British campaign. Also of the 7th Armored Division, he leads Crusader tanks in battle with German Panzers across the desert. His call sign is Fox Three.

• Corporal Bill Taylor - The playable character in the American campaign. He is a soldier in Dog Company as part of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. He fights in France, taking Point du Hoc and Hill 400. After the battle for France, he takes part in the battle for the Rhine.

Supporting NPCs

• Lieutenant Dimitri Volsky (Russian: "Дмитрий Вольский") - Koslov's main commanding officer in the battle of Stalingrad. He leads his men in retaking much of the city from German hands and fighting off German assaults.

• Captain Price - Davis' commanding officer and is a very skilled and fierce fighter. He fights in battles in North Africa, fighting in the battle of El Alamein and in Tunisia. After leading his men in North Africa, he is sent to France to lead his men in the liberation of Caen. A character designer stated that Price is the grandfather of Captain John Price from the Modern Warfare series, who he shares with appearance, skill and personality.

• Pvt. McGregor McGregor is supporting John Davis during all the British campaign, he is a redhead men who is the key for the victory that helps Davis out of any kind of trouble.

• Sergeant Randall - Taylor's commanding officer. He leads his men in taking Point du Hoc, Hill 400 and other parts of France and he also leads his men in taking the Rhine river. In the end, he is congratulated for his efforts and given a promotion.

• Lieutenant Leonov (Russian: "Леонов") - A secondary commander in the Russian campaign who leads his men in repelling a German attack and assaulting a German headquarters.

•  † Private Pavel Semenov (Russian: "Павел Семенов") - A young soldier in the Red Army who fights in Stalingrad. He gives distraction to a German sniper so Koslov can eliminate him. He then helps Koslov and Volsky repel a German counterattack.

• Commissar Letlev - A Patriotic officer who commands Soviet soldiers in Moscow. He trains Koslov and other soldiers and then he leads them in the defense of Moscow.

• Private McCloskey - A US soldier who serves with Taylor and Randall in the American campaign. He assist them during the battle for France and, after crossing the Rhine, he moves into Germany with them.

• Colonel Blake - A US officer in command of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. He appears at the end of the last mission, congratulating Randall and his men, where he gives Randall a promotion and considers Taylor for a promotion as well.

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One

Playable Characters

• Sergeant Roland Roger - The primary playable character and the silent protagonist of the game. A member of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He eventually becomes the senior soldier of his squad.

• "Stretch" Roger - Brother of Roland Roger, but never identified by first name. A B-24 Liberator bombardier, he is playable for one level in the game.

Supporting NPCs

•  † Corporal Alvin "Brooklyn" Bloomfield - A wise cracking, cocky soldier who, despite his nickname, grew up in a Jewish family in the Bronx. He has a knack for embellishing personal stories to the point of tall tales. He is killed by artillery fire near the Siegfried Line.

• Captain Norman Delaney - Commanding officer of Fox Company. A native of Chicago, a West Point graduate, and son of a WWI officer.

•  † Private Victor "Vic" Denley - Son of a mechanic from Jean, Texas (near Olney, Texas). A notoriously poor shot, he took on the roll of a support gunner. He dies to a surprise MP-40 nest in Troina, Italy during the Battle of Troina.

• Sergeant Glenn "Hawk" Hawkins - The original commander of the squad. A native of Duluth, Minnesota and known for his dry wit and stoic demeanor, coming from a broken home. He is hit by a machine gun nest in Mons, Belgium. Though never confirmed as dead, his final status is ultimately unknown.

• Sergeant Stephen "Professor" Kelly - A bespectacled only child of a rich and very respected surgeon from Hartford, Connecticut. He was studying English and French Literature at Yale University before being drafted. Though weak willed and often scared, he is the only main squad member at the beginning of the game, besides the player, to stay in the squad throughout the entire game.

• Corporal John Jackson "Schmitty" Smith - A replacement for Vic to the squad for the D-Day Invasions, he had be in the army before the war as a mechanic in an artillery unit. As such, he is described as "doughy" from having a non-combat post.

•  † Private Andy Allen - A young replacement who joins the squad in the prologue mission in Maubeuge, France. Excitable and anxious to see action, he dies on his first mission.

•  † Private Miles "Manny" Castillo - A replacement who joins the squad prior Mons, Belgium as a jeep driver. He dies during an ambush on their convoy in Belgium.

• Petty Officer Mangin - A liaison for the Navy from the USS Boise (CL-47). Assists the squad in Sicily, allowing for naval fire support.

• Private McCord - The squad's field radio operator.

Call of Duty 3

Playable Characters

• Private Nichols - The playable character in the American campaign. He was initially a member of the 29th Infantry Division, but he, along with other members of his unit, is folded to 90th Infantry Division.

• Sergeant James Doyle - The playable character in the British campaign and the member of the British Special Air Service.

• Private Cole - The playable character in the Canadian campaign. He was the member of the 4th Canadian (Armored) Division.

• Coporal "Bohater" Woychek - The playable character in the Polish campaign and a member of a tank crew in the Polish 1st Armored Division.

NPCs (Non-Player Characters)

• Sergeant Frank McCullin - The leader of the 29th Infantry Division, but moved to the 90th Infantry Division. He is killed in the fourth mission while defusing explosives on a bridge.

• Coporal/Sergeant Mike Dixon - McCullin's second-in-command, who becomes Nichols' commander after McCullin's death. He fights alongside Nichols throughout the American campaign until his death in the last mission, where he is shot by a German soldier while trying to save Guzzo.

• Private First Class Salvatore Guzzo - The squad's feisty radio operator who becomes a member of McCullin's squad.

• Private Leroy Huxley - A US engineer and a part of McCullin's squad who serves alongside them in Normandy.

• Major Gerald Tiberius Ingram - A British SAS commander returning from Call of Duty. He leads British soldiers and French resistance in Normandy. He was captured and believed to be dead, but later rescued.

• Corporal Duncan Keith - A reckless SAS commando from Scotland. He fights in Normandy with Doyle, where he shows disdain for the French resistance, believing them to be cowards. At the end, however, he comforts Marcel, showing that he does have some respect for them.

• Pierre LaRoche - A member of the French resistance who fights in Normandy with Doyle and Kieth. He has a troubled relationship with Kieth, due to the commando's disrespect for the French and tensions often flare between the two of them.

• Isabelle DuFontaine - A Resistance member who assists the Keith, LaRoche, Marcel and Doyle in the British campaign. She is killed while planting a charge on an armored car.

• Marcel - A mysterious resistance member who assists the player in the British campaign, helping to rescue Ingram. He is a good companion of DuFontaine, as he is in distress at her death.

• Lieutenant Jean-Guy Robiechaud - Cole's commander who fights alongside Cole in Normandy. He is a veteran of World War I who often ridicules Baron. In the end, he promotes Cole and puts Callard in for a Victoria Cross and then goes to assist the Polish defense at Hill 262.

• Sergeant Jonathan Callard - The second-in-command of Robiechauld's squad. He is a soldier of the 4th Canadian Armored Division who fights alongside Cole in Normandy. He dies trying to set off an explosive, saving the rest of the squad.

• Private Leslie Baron - The radio operator of the 4th Canadian Armored Division. Baron and Lieutenant Robiechaud argue over Baron's job is to protect the radio and Robiechaud often accuses him of cowardice due him avoiding getting the radio hit by a bullet. He is killed on Mont Ormel.

• Private Kyle Petersen - A Canadian soldier who is part of the 4th Canadian Armored Division who assists the player in Normandy.

• Major Stan "Papa Jack" Jackowicz - The Polish commander who leads the player in killing Richter and defending Mont Ormel. A veteran of World War I, he is the oldest character of all of Call of Duty that a player can fight alongside in any Call of Duty game.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Playable characters

• Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish /məkˈtævɪʃ/ - The main playable character. Soap, from Scotland, is a new recruit in the Special Air Service. Soap is only on his first day when he is sent on his first mission: infiltrate a cargo ship and secure a nuclear weapon. He and his team are caught up in the Russian Civil War and hunt for the terrorists Khaled Al-Asad and Imran Zakhaev. At the end of the campaign, Soap shoots Zakhaev but has to be rushed to a hospital. He later returns in the game's two sequels, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Modern Warfare 3.

• Captain John Price - A playable character in two flashback missions, and an NPC in the other SAS missions, Price is the leader of BRAVO Team (Callsign "Bravo Six") and Soap's mentor. Price is skeptical at first about Soap's abilities, but soon grows to respect him. He is shown to prefer shooting to get out of something in the flashback mission "All Ghillied Up", and also executes Al Asad when the SAS captures him. His mentor was Captain MacMillan. He and MacMillan once attempted to assassinate Imran Zakhaev, sneaking into Pripyat, Ukraine and sniping him during a meeting, but they are unsuccessful and Zakhaev only loses his arm. At the end of the game, he is critically wounded and is last seen with a Russian soldier attempting to revive him. He later returns in the game's two sequels.

•  † Sergeant Paul Jackson - a playable character in Act One, Jackson is a US Marine of the First Force Reconnaissance Company who sees fighting in the Middle East during the hunt for Khaled Al Asad. His unit is originally assigned to find Al Asad, but they later have to rescue a trapped M1 Abrams Tank from a bog. After securing the tank, his unit is sent to the capital city to find Al Asad, but even when they are ordered to pull out, his unit stays behind to rescue a downed pilot. His unit is killed seconds later when a nuclear bomb is set off, destroying the city, but Jackson survives long enough to stumble out of the crashed helicopter. He soon dies from the combined effects of his wounds and the nuclear fallout.

Russian Federation loyalists

• "Nikolai" (Russian: "Николай") - Price's informant who goes undercover with the ultranationalists. His cover is blown and he is rescued by the SAS. He appears with a larger role in the game's two sequels.

• Sergeant Kamarov (Russian: Сержант Камаров) - The leader of a Loyalist squad in the Russian Military. As the Russians have a Civil War, Kamarov asks the SAS to assist his men using sniper rifles to eliminate targets. During the mission "Safehouse", Kamarov gives the SAS an Mi-28 (Callsign "Mosin 2-5") assault helicopter as Air Support during the search for Khaled Al-Asad. He is last seen at the end of the game, where his army arrives at the destroyed bridge, rescuing Soap & Price as his men inspect the nearby bodies. He later returns briefly in the game's second sequel, Modern Warfare 3.

First Force Recon

•  † Lieutenant Vasquez - Jackson's platoon leader. Vasquez is assigned to capture Al Asad and, along with Sgt Jackson and Staff Sergeant Griggs, rescues the Abrams tank from the bog. He is killed with the rest of his platoon when Al Asad's forces detonate a nuclear bomb.

•  † Staff Sergeant Griggs - A member of Jackson's platoon and the machine gunner, Griggs helps rescue the tank from the bog, but is not present when Jackson's platoon is killed, staying behind instead. After the deaths of his squad, Griggs joins up with the SAS in Russia, helping them when they attempt to capture Victor Zakhaev and dropping with them when they go to retake a Russian nuclear base. He is killed by the Ultranationalists while attempting to rescue Soap. Griggs is voiced by and modeled after former Infinity Ward animator Mark Grigsby.

•  † Captain "Deadly" Pelayo - The pilot of an AH-1W Super Cobra of the USMC. She provides air support for Jackson's squad and helps escort Marine transport helicopters. She is shot down by an enemy Stinger when trying to escort the marines out of a nuclear-threatened city. Jackson's squad rescues her from her downed chopper, but as they start to leave, the nuclear bomb goes off killing them all. Pelayo is voiced by and modeled after Infinity Ward developer Velinda Pelayo.

22nd British Special Air Service Regiment

• Captain MacMillan - MacMillan is Price's commanding officer and mentor in the flashback missions. He and Price attempt to assassinate Zakhaev, but they fail, and as they are attempting to escape Pripyat, Ukraine; his leg is injured by a crashing helicopter, forcing Price to carry him the rest of the way. He later returns in the game's second sequel, Modern Warfare 3 as Director of The United Kingdom Special Forces with the call sign "Baseplate" Macmillan unlike the first game is now voiced by BAFTA Winning Actor Tony Curran

•  † Lieutenant "Gaz" - A member of Captain Price's SAS team. Gaz gathers intel and keeps in contact with Overlord for his team. Gaz has a somewhat dark sense of humor, stating that the civil war in Russia was "good news" compared to Soap's arrival in the team. Gaz is shot and killed by Imran Zakhaev in the final level. He is voiced by Craig Fairbrass.

Antagonists

•  † Imran Zakhaev (Russian: "Имран Захаев") - is the leader of the Russian Ultranationalist Party and the main antagonist in the game. Fifteen years prior to the present day, in Prypyat, Ukraine, Price attempted to assassinate him, but he only lost his arm. He started an uprising in Russia to try and rebuild the Soviet Union and enlists the help of Khaled Al-Asad. When his son Victor commits suicide, he fires nuclear missiles at the United States and United Kingdom, but the missiles are aborted by the SAS, and he is killed by Soap in the final mission.

•  † Khaled Al-Asad (Arabic: خالد الأسد) - A Saudi Arabian general who serves as the secondary antagonist in the game. He is the voice announcer for the multiplayer faction known as OpFor. Prior to the events in the game, the Saudi Arabian monarchy was overthrown and replaced with a democracy, led by President Yasir Al-Fulani. However, Al-Asad, with the help of Imran Zakhaev, attempts to take over the Middle East and kills President Al-Fulani on national television. When the United States attempts to depose of him, Al-Asad flees to Azerbaijan and detonates a nuclear bomb in the capital city of his country, killing over fifty thousand people, including Sergeant Jackson and his squad. Al-Asad is captured shortly thereafter by the British SAS, and is summarily executed by Captain Price.

•  † Victor Zakhaev (Russian: "Виктор Захаев") - Imran Zakhaev's son and leader of the Ultranationalists' military forces. The SAS and USMC attempt to capture him to find out Zakhaev's whereabouts, but he shoots himself when Soap moves to restrain him. His death leads Zakhaev to unsuccessfully launch nuclear missiles at the United States.

Call of Duty: World at War

Protagonists

• Private Dimitri Petrenko (Russian: "Дмитрий Петренко") - The main protagonist and playable character in the Russian Campaign. He is a young soldier in the Red Army who is sent to fight in the Battle of Stalingrad. There, he meets Sgt. Viktor Reznov, who helps him to assassinate General Heinrich Amsel. After the battle, he continues fighting in the Eastern Front alongside Reznov and ultimately reaches the German capital of Berlin. At the end of the campaign, he fights his way to the Reichstag to place the Soviet flag at the top. Despite being shot by a German soldier, Dimitri manages to place the Soviet flag with Viktor's help, signaling the end of the war.

• Sergeant Viktor Reznov (Russian: "Виктор Резнов") - The secondary protagonist of the Russian campaign and a non-playable character. He is a ferocious and skilled fighter and a wise strategist, but can be rather ruthless at times. He fights in the Battle of Stalingrad, where he befriends Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko. He helps Petrenko to assassinate Heinrich Amsel, whom Reznov had been hunting for days. Reznov continues fighting in battles against the Nazis with help from Dimitri and their new recruit, Pvt. Chernov. Making his way into Germany, he fights in the Battle of Berlin, ultimately reaching the Reichstag, the city's capital building. He helps Dimitri to reach the top of the Reichstag. When a German soldier shoots Dimitri, Reznov kills the German and then cuts down the Nazi flag, allowing Dimitri to place the Soviet flag and signal victory. He is voiced by Gary Oldman.

• Private C. Miller - The main protagonist and main playable character in the American campaign. He is a fierce and experienced fighter in the US Marine Corps that was part of a recon unit on Makin Island that was captured by Japanese soldiers. He is rescued by marines under command Sergeant Tom Sullivan and Corporal Roebuck and he helps them fight the Japanese forces on the island. Miller continues fighting in fierce battles against the Japanese in the Pacific. He fights fiercely in the Battle of Peleliu alongside Sullivan, Roebuck and the new recruit Pvt. Polonsky. During the Battle of Okinawa, Miller helps assault Shuri Castle, achieving victory on the island.

• Corporal/Sergeant Roebuck - Miller's friend and a non-playable character. He rescues Miller from Japanese forces and proceeds to storm the island in the mission "Semper Fi." After raiding Makin, Roebuck helps storm the Peleliu beach. After Sullivan's death, Roebuck proceeds to lead Miller and Polonsky for the rest of the war. He helps storm Shuri castle to clear out the last Japanese defense, where he comes under ambush by Japanese soldiers feigning surrender. Depending on the player's actions, Roebuck is either killed or saved by the Miller. He is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland.

•  † Private Chernov (Russian: "Чернов") - A Soviet soldier under Reznov's command. He first appears in "Their Land, Their Blood", where he helps Reznov rescue Dimitri from his German captors. Unlike Reznov, he greatly disapproves of the vengeful brutality that Russian soldiers inflict on Germans. He helps Reznov and Dimitri assault Berlin, where he is berated by Reznov for writing in his diary instead of fighting. He is given the Soviet flag and he attempts to rush into the Reichstag with it, but is burned and killed or Injured by a German soldier with a flamethrower. Reznov then picks up Chernov's diary, claiming that it will be read after the fighting. He is voiced by Craig Houston.

• Private Polonsky - A US Marine in Miller's squad. He is a very aggressive fighter and is incredibly hot-tempered. He helps assault Peleliu island with Miller. After Sullivan's death, he continues fighting in the fierce battle for Peleliu Island until the Americans achieve victory. After the battle, Polonsky assaults Okinawa and, after breaking through Japanese defenses, storms Shuri Castle. He then encounters an ambush by Japanese soldiers feigning surrender and depending on the player's actions, he will either live or die. If the player does nothing, then Roebuck will die and Polonsky will start beating the Japanese soldier he was facing and will then help Miller fight off the Japanese counterattack. He is voiced by Aaron Stanford.

•  † Sergeant Tom Sullivan - A US Marine who was the original commander of Miller's squad as well as one of his close friends. He is a skilled leader and a fierce fighter who fights against the Japanese army on Makin. He rescues Miller, kills Miller's captor, and helps Miller assault Makin Island. After the Makin Island raid. He leads the squad in the opening of the assault on Peleliu. After breaking through the defenses on the beach, Sullivan fights his way to a Japanese bunker. After securing the bunker, he rushes to see what is outside and is stabbed by a Japanese officer with a Katana, leading to his death. He is voiced by Chris Fries.

Antagonists

•  † General Heinrich Amsel - The main antagonist of the mission "Vendetta." He is a Nazi officer leading German forces in the battle for Stalingrad. He is an efficient commander who nearly takes the whole city and he closely inspects his garrisons every day. He is also a very brutal and ruthless officer, as he has deliberately caused the deaths of millions of Russians. Viktor Reznov followed him for days, attempting to kill him. When Soviet forces assaulted his main headquarters, Amsel attempted to escape, but was shot and killed by Dimitri Petrenko.

•  † Japanese Officer - A secondary antagonist who appears in the mission "Semper Fi." He is a ruthless officer who captured Miller and his men on Makin Island and interrogated him. When Miller and his fellow marine, K. Pyle, refused to answer, the officer ordered them to be executed. However, he was ambushed by US Marines who rescued Miller and the officer was killed by the squad's leader, Tom Sullivan.

Red Army Soldiers

• Commissar Markhov - The commanding officer in the Russian campaign. He leads Russian forces in the Battle of Berlin, starting by breaking the German defenses in the outskirts of the city. Like Reznov, he is also merciless and has no sympathy for the Germans. He is later seen in "Heart of the Reich," instructing Reznov to attack the Reichstag and is later seen in the building encouraging Soviet soldiers to fight. He is voiced by Dimitri Diatchenko.

•  † Sergeant Daletski (Russian: "Далетский") - A Soviet soldier fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad. He rescues Dimitri and Reznov from German soldiers and then informs him of his plans to assault the German headquarters. He fights his way to the headquarters while Dimitri and Reznov cover him. However, during the assault, he is killed by a German machine gunner.

•  † Corporal Arseni (Russian: "Арсений") - A Soviet soldier fighting in the Battle of Berlin. As the assault on the Reichstag comes to a close, he moves to place the Soviet flag, but is shot by a German soldier.

US Marines

• Major Gordan - The commanding officer in the American campaign. He is heard in "Black Cats" where he instructs Captain Booth to attack a Japanese merchant fleet. During the battle of Okinawa, after Miller defeats a Japanese defensive line, Gordon instructs them about their next target, Shuri Castle, telling Polonsky that the castle is deserted.

•  † Private K. Pyle - A US Marine under Miller's recon unit. He was captured by the Japanese and remains incredibly defiant. Frustrated, his Japanese captor orders his subordinate to kill him and Pyle has his throat slit by a Katana.

•  † Private Koopman - A US Marine assaulting Peleliu Island with Miller's squad. When their LTV gets stuck, he looks over to see that it's stuck in the coral. When he informs his squad about this, he is shot in the head by a Japanese machine gun.

• Private Ryan - A US Marine fighting in the assault on Makin Island. During the battle, he comes under ambush by a Japanese soldier engulfed in flames. Depending on the player's actions, Miller can either kill the soldier and save him, or Ryan will die.

•  † Corporal Rivera - A US Marine fighting in the battle for Makin. He is first seen fighting a Japanese soldier. If Miller shoots his opponent, Rivera will continue fighting the battle.

• Corporal Lozano - An aggressive US Marine fighting on Makin. He is first seen continuously shooting a Japanese officer until the officer falls off a balcony. He continues fighting alongside Miller on Makin and later on Peleliu and Okinawa as a sergeant.

• Private Glover - A US Marine fighting on Peleliu Island. He is armed with a flamethrower that he uses for storming several Japanese positions. He helps Miller by setting a Japanese MG nest ablaze, allowing Miller to move on.

US Navy

• Petty Officer Locke - Another playable character in the American campaign, though only in the mission "Black Cats." He is a PBY Catalina gunner who assaults a Japanese fleet. However, while fighting Japanese fighter planes, the PBY becomes damaged and has to rested for a bit. After fending off another Japanese wave to protect an American fleet, reinforcements arrive and Locke and his crew fly to safety.

• Captain Booth - The commander of the PBY Catalina called Mantaray. He pilots the air-boat into the assault on a Japanese fleet and in defense of the American fleet off Okinawa.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Roach nationality has been revealed to be british

Task Force 141

Cpt. John "Soap" MacTavish, as seen in "The Hornet's Nest" mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

• Captain John "Soap" MacTavish /məkˈtævɪʃ/ - MacTavish is the Scottish main protagonist and a playable character in the last three missions. He returns from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, now as the field commander of Task Force 141. He first appears on the mission "Cliffhanger", assisting the player's character, "Roach Sanderson". In the second mission, he and his team captured the right-hand man of an arms dealer and interrogated him, which then led them to hunt for Alesandro Rojas A.K.A Alex the Red, who they captured in time. In the last two missions, he and Price hunted for General Shepherd, who killed Ghost and Roach, and has portrayed them as wanted war criminals. Soap tries to kill Shepherd, but Shepherd manages to stab him. After watching Price and Shepard engage in hand-to-hand combat Soap pulls the knife out of his chest, which the player throws in an unmissable attack, killing Shepherd whilst he was overpowering Price. He is voiced by Kevin McKidd. Soap appears to be modeled after the character "Lake" in the 2003 movie Tears of the Sun.

• Captain John Price - The British main protagonist and a non-playable character. Price returns from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He is discovered by the team as they free him from the gulag prison in Russia. After his rescue, he helps Task Force 141 to hunt down the Ultra-nationalist terrorist, Vladimir Makarov. In the third mission, he, along with Soap and Australian member Rook, are betrayed by General Shepherd, and attacked by Shepherd's men. He asks Makarov for intel in order to find Shepherd. Makarov gives up the information to Price, knowing the location of Shepherd. Price and Soap hunt down Shepherd on a suicide mission. Shepard escapes into a waiting helicopter, which Price manages to shoot down. However Shepherd survives. In the aftermath of the crash, Price and Shepherd engage in hand-to-hand combat after he stabs Soap in the chest. Shepherd overpowers him. Soap manages to pull the knife out of his chest and uses it against Shepard, killing him. He is voiced by Billy Murray.

•  † Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley - A non-playable British character in Modern Warfare 2, he wears a pair of sunglasses, a skull-patterned balaclava and headphones with a mic. He also appears in Modern Warfare 2: Ghost. He appears in the mission "Takedown". Ghost and Soap interrogate Rojas' right-hand man. He further appears in the missions "Hornet's Nest" and "The Only Easy Day...Was Yesterday". On the "Gulag" mission, he stays in the control room to unlock the gates of the prison by hacking the enemy's security system. In his final appearance, Roach, Ghost, Ozone, and Scarecrow lead the other Task Force 141 squad to capture Makarov in one of two of Makarov's possible locations near Georgia's border. The team fails to locate Makarov, but realized that the safehouse is a "gold mine" and uses a DSM to transfer the files. While they defend the safehouse, two snipers (Archer and Toad) cover them from a great distance to help to protect them from the ultra-nationalist terrorists. Despite their efforts at the end of the mission, Roach and Ghost are betrayed and killed by Shepherd, both having gasoline poured on them, then set on fire by Shepherd's cigar right when Price warned them not to trust Shepherd. He is voiced by the English actor Craig Fairbrass.

•  † Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson - The main playable British character throughout most of the game. In the MW2 launch trailer, he is seen running on the rooftops in the favela with Ghost and Soap in the level The Hornet's Nest. In his final appearance, Roach, along with Ghost, Ozone, and Scarecrow lead the other Task Force 141 squad to capture Makarov in one of two of Makarov's possible locations near Georgia's border. The team fails to locate Makarov, and eventually Roach and Ghost are betrayed and killed by Shepherd, both having gasoline poured on them, then set on fire by Shepherd's cigar.

Russian Loyalists

• Codename: "Nikolai" (Russian: Кодовое имя - "Николай") - He returns from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, now appearing to be a mercenary pilot with a number of fixed wing and rotary aircraft at his disposal. He comes to Task Force 141's aid in "Hornet's Nest" and "The Enemy of My Enemy", and provides logistical support to Price and MacTavish in "Just Like Old Times" and "Endgame".

Antagonists

Vladimir Makarov in the level "No Russian"

•  † Lieutenant General "Gold Eagle" Shepherd - He is revealed as the main antagonist in Modern Warfare 2. He is both the commander of Task Force 141 and also the U.S. Army Rangers. In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, he lost 30,000 men when Khaled Al-Asad set off a nuclear bomb. Angry and disillusioned by this and the world's refusal to listen to his warnings that Russia is becoming an ultra-nationalist state, Shepherd begins to operate on his own. He heads Task Force 141 and hunts Russian terrorist Vladimir Makarov, eventually ordering his elite soldiers, Shadow Company, to eliminate them both. He is revealed to be responsible for the Russian-American war, his goal being to make America once again undisputed as the sole world superpower- and himself as the hero who made it so. Shepherd is killed at the end of the final mission by Soap, who throws a knife into Shepherd's eye. He is voiced by Lance Henriksen.

• Vladimir R. Makarov (Russian: Владимир Р. Макаров) - The secondary, but first revealed, antagonist throughout the game. He is a psychopathic terrorist and also an Ultra-nationalist leader, claiming the role after the death of Imran Zakhaev. In the optional "No Russian" mission, he and his team, including undercover CIA agent Joseph Allen, attack Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow, killing a large number of civilians and Russian police. In the end of the mission, Makarov, aware of Allen's true identity, kills the agent and leaves him behind to be discovered by Russian police, leading the Russians to believe that it was a U.S. led attack. This in turn causes a war between Russia and the United States. At the end of the game, he supplies Price and MacTavish with intel leading them to Shepherd's location, albeit reluctantly, and goes into hiding. He is voiced by the voice actor Roman Varshavsky. Makarov would become the primary antagonist of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

•  † Alejandro 'Alex the Red' Rojas - An arms dealer based in Rio de Janeiro. A former armorer, he began selling weapons on the side. He supplied Makarov and his unit with their equipment during their massacre at the Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow. In an attempt to find Makarov, Task Force 141 traces the shell casings and is able to trace them back to Rojas. The group hunts Rojas down in his residential favela, and he is eventually captured by Captain MacTavish. He is soon after tortured by Ghost, and reveals that their best shot at reaching Makarov is a man that Makarov has a personal grudge against, locked up in a Russian Gulag, who is later revealed to be Captain Price.

U.S. Army Rangers

• Private James Ramirez - A playable character who replaces PFC. Joseph Allen in the squadron. He is part of the 75th Ranger Regiment based on the east coast of the United States during the start of the Russian Invasion. His first appearance is in "Wolverines!" where his team is sent to extract a VIP codenamed "Raptor" from invading Russian forces. Second, Ramirez and the rest of the team go to a now war ravaged Washington, D.C. during the Russian Invasion to help the United States Army to evacuate the civilians. His final appearance is "Whiskey Hotel" where after struggling through the Washington D.C. war-zone, Ramirez and the team attempt to retake the White House from Russian forces. Upon reaching the roof, Ramirez uses the flares to stop the Hammerdown deployment.

•  † Private First Class Joseph Allen (also known as Alexei Borodin) - Allen is a playable character and the protagonist for most of Act I. He is introduced in "S.S.D.D", completing the assault course. He then goes undercover as part of Vladimir Makarov's crew in the optional "No Russian" level. However at the end of the mission, it is revealed that Makarov knew of Allen's true identity as a CIA agent, and shoots him, mortally wounding him and leaving his body behind as a catalyst for a Russian invasion of the US. He is voiced by Troy Baker.

• Sergeant Foley - Sgt. Foley is a Ranger member. He is also the acting leader of Hunter Two-One. He is seen in "S.S.D.D." training Allen. In the second mission, he leads his squad and clears the school that is overwhelmed by OpFor milita. During the Russian Invasion, Foley leads Ramirez and the rest of the squad to hold off the remaining Russians. In the White House, they are able to take control and get to the roof, using flares to stop the bombing (known as the "Hammerdown Protocol"). He is voiced by Keith David.

• Corporal Dunn - Dunn is a U.S. Army Ranger, a member of Hunter Two-One. He appears in "S.S.D.D." and lets Joseph Allen into the Pit training. He also appears in "Team Player" to escort Allen and Foley. In Virginia, they fight their way through the frontlines and into Washington, D.C. In the end of the mission, he and his team say that they might launch a counter-attack against Russia. He is voiced by Barry Pepper.

Inner Circle

•  † Viktor (Russian: Виктор) - Viktor is one of the Ultra-nationalist terrorists who took part in Makarov's operation at Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow. He is armed with an M4A1 carbine. He is the only terrorist to survive the operation aside from Makarov, Anatoly and the driver; escaping the police in an ambulance as FSB close in. Later in the mission 'Exodus', Ramirez and his squad search the house of an HVI desired by Shepherd in Washington D.C. The HVI is found killed in his panic room, a dead Russian in a paratrooper uniform found dead outside the room. The soldier is identical to Viktor both in face and neck tattoos, which Dunn comments on as he takes photos.

•  † Alejandro's assistant - The assistant of Rojas in Rio de Janeiro. He is briefly seen at the beginning of the fifth mission 'Takedown', killing three Militia soldiers and the driver of Soap and Roach's car. He flees the Task Force, only for Roach to shoot him in the leg and incapacitate him. Soap and Ghost proceed to take him into a garage for interrogation.

• Major Petrov (Russian: Майор Петров) - A Russian officer in charge of the Ultra-nationalist airfield in the Kazakhstan mountains that secured the crashed United States satellite containing the ACS module Roach and Captain MacTavish are sent to recover in the game's third mission. Regardless of how quiet the player is on infiltration, Petrov becomes aware of the infiltrator's presence, and has his men ambush MacTavish as he secures parts of the satellite. While MacTavish is held at gunpoint, Roach detonates a pack of C4 placed on the airfield's fueling station as a distraction to slaughter all the present Russian forces. Petrov is heard only in voice as he demands MacTavish to surrender over a megaphone or broadcast system, no present Ultra-nationalist appearing to be an officer or utilizing any kind of megaphone.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Protagonists

• Agent Alex Mason is the first and primary playable character. He first appears at the very beginning of the game, being interrogated by members of an unknown organization who are trying to get information out of him. In the first level of the game, Mason and his teammates Joseph Bowman and Frank Woods infiltrated Cuba in order to assassinate Fidel Castro during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Though Mason appears to succeed in killing Castro, he strands himself on Cuba while ensuring that Woods and Bowman escaped by plane; it was revealed shortly thereafter that he had actually killed Castro's body double, and the real one was still alive. Castro then gave Mason to the Soviet General Nikita Dragovich, who imprisoned him at the Vorkuta Gulag. During his two year imprisonment, he befriended Viktor Reznov, a former Russian soldier. He and Reznov sparked a major prison uprising to escape from Vorkuta, but only Mason managed to escape. Afterwards, Mason was brought to The Pentagon with Jason Hudson and Robert McNamara, where he meets President John F. Kennedy, who authorizes the assassination of Dragovich. Mason and his team were dispatched to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in order to disrupt the Soviet space program and kill Dragovich, though the mission went wrong when one of their teammates, Weaver, was captured. Though they managed to save him and destroyed a Russian rocket as it tried to take off, Dragovich escaped. Five years later, Mason was dispatched to Vietnam, where he was reunited with his old teammates and repelled an attack by the North Vietnamese Army at the Battle of Khe Sanh. In Hue City, they were sent to look for a man who was trying to defect to the West; the defector appears to be Viktor Reznov, who has since escaped from Vorkuta. They are, however, captured once again, and, after the presumed death of Frank Woods and murder of Bowman, only Mason is left. He and Reznov then infiltrated Rebirth Island, a Soviet research station where the deadly chemical Nova 6 was manufactured and weaponized, in order to kill Friedrich Steiner, a German scientist who defected to the Soviet Union near the end of World War II. During the interrogation, Mason recalls that Reznov was the one who killed Steiner, but it was actually Mason himself who did so; it is revealed that Mason was brainwashed at Vorkuta to eventually assassinate President Kennedy, though it is unclear what his actual involvement in the assassination is. Viktor Reznov managed to tamper with the brainwashing process and turned Mason against his former brainwashers, Mason suffered from a personality disorder as a result, and he thought that Reznov was real but he himself was Viktor Reznov, thus altering his memory of past events where he thought Reznov was involved. Mason is voiced by Sam Worthington.

• Special Agent Jason Hudson is a secondary player character, who was Mason's handler and turns out to be the man interrogating him throughout the game. His first formal appearance is when he is escorting Mason into The Pentagon, and he worked together with Mason and Woods in Vietnam. Hudson becomes playable for the first time in the fourth level of the game, set in Hong Kong as he is interrogating Daniel Clarke, a British defector who weaponized Nova 6. Later in the game, Hudson and a team of other agents were sent to apprehend Steiner on Rebirth Island, at the same time that Mason and Reznov were there to kill him, acting against orders. In order to stop Nova 6 from being used on civilians, Hudson interrogates Mason to try to find out what the numbers that Clarke had mentioned meant. Hudson is voiced by Ed Harris.

•  † Captain Viktor Reznov (Russian: Виктор Резнов) is another playable character, returning from Call of Duty: World at War, though is only playable in one level. He first appeared in the second level as a prisoner in Vorkuta, where he and Mason became friends. Reznov instigated a large-scale uprising by the prisoners, but was recaptured while Mason escaped. He and Mason appeared to reunite in Vietnam, where he claimed to be defecting to the West, and saved Mason after the helicopter he was on crashed. Following Kravchenko's death, he and Mason tracked down Steiner on Rebirth Island. Mason actually suffers from dissociative identity disorder; he himself became Viktor Reznov. At the end of the game, it is revealed that after Mason escaped from Vorkuta, Reznov was actually an illusion in Mason's mind, and Jason Hudson tells Mason that Reznov reversed his brain-washing so that Mason could kill Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner out of revenge for Reznov's comrades (who were killed in 1945 by Dragovich and Kravchenko by exposure to Nova 6) and that the real Reznov was killed after the prison break by Russian soldiers. Reznov is voiced by Gary Oldman.

• Special Agent Grigori Weaver (Russian: Спецагент Григорий Уивер) is a soldier who defected to the United States after the government-sponsored murder of his father. He is also an engineer who was sent to sabotage a rocket, but was captured and has his left eye cut out by Kravchenko. He also assists Jason Hudson during the interrogation of Daniel Clarke and during the missions on Mt. Yamantau and Rebirth. Towards the end of the game, Weaver becomes more and more distrustful of Mason because of his erratic behavior. It is revealed that he along with Hudson has been interrogating Mason throughout the game. Weaver learns from an anonymous note that his niece is alive in Russia. However, he is never informed that she is a high-ranking government agent. Weaver is voiced by Gene Farber.

• Sergeant Frank Woods is a non-playable character, but is an ally of Mason in most of the game's levels. He first appeared in the first level, along with Mason and Bowman, during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Woods and Mason are captured by the Vietcong and almost killed during a forced game of Russian roulette. After escaping the rat tunnels, Woods and Mason eventually commandeered a helicopter and fought their way to where Kravchenko was hiding. Woods sacrificed his own life by tackling Kravchenko and knocking both of them out a window as the latter pulled a grenade. He later appeared alive seconds later, only to be revealed an illusion in the eyes of Mason. He is presumed dead, but an anonymous note sent to Mason (viewable in the interrogation room computer) states that Woods is still alive and imprisoned in Hanoi; the Reveal Trailer for Black Ops II shows he survived until at least 95. He is voiced by James C. Burns.

•  † Chief Petty Officer Joseph Bowman is a non-playable character who appears in several missions as an ally of Mason. He first appeared in the first level, along with Mason and Woods, during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Bowman was brutally killed by a Spetsnaz operative when he insulted him, and refused to play a game of Russian roulette. He is voiced by Ice Cube.

• President of the United States John F. Kennedy is the first player character in one version of the Zombie mode. He made only one formal appearance in the campaign, during his meeting with Alex Mason to authorize Nikita Dragovich's assassination, though his voice plays over some parts of the game. He was assassinated in 1963, allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald, though Mason appears to have had some form of involvement in the assassination. Kennedy is voiced by Jim Merkimen and Chriss Anglin.

• Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara is the second player character in one version of the Zombie mode. Like Kennedy, he only formally appears once in the campaign with his voice dubbed in other sections as well. He brings Alex Mason to Kennedy and helps to conspire to assassinate Nikita Dragovich. He is voiced by Robert Picardo.

Antagonists

•  † Major General Nikita Dragovich (Russian: Никита Драгович) is the main antagonist of the story, the instigator of the Nova 6 plot and the attempted invasion of the United States. He first appears at the end of the first level, receiving Mason as a prisoner from Fidel Castro. Dragovich was largely responsible for Mason's brainwashing. His earlier involvement in the Nova 6 plot was in 1945 in the Arctic Circle, when he helped Friedrich Steiner move his chemical weapons out of a ship which had been frozen in place by the weather. Dragovich was killed by Mason at the end of the game. His final words suggest that Mason followed his original programming to assassinate President Kennedy despite Reznov's interference, but even this remains unclear. Dragovich was voiced by Eamon Hunt.

• Colonel Lev Kravchenko (Ukrainian: Лев Кравченко) is a secondary antagonist, first appearing when Mason was captured in Cuba. He was also personally responsible for the loss of Weaver's left eye, and though Mason and his team searched feverishly for him, he managed to escape. He was eventually killed by Woods, who knocked them both through a window and simultaneously pulling the pins from the grenades that Kravchenko had strapped to him, ensuring both their deaths. As evidenced by intel found in-game, he was quite sadistic, going so far as to torture his own sister to death to prove his loyalty to Dragovich. He was voiced by Andrew Divoff.

•  † Doctor Friedrich Steiner is a German scientist responsible for the creation of Nova 6, a nerve toxin which can kill a human being in a matter of seconds. He formally worked for the Third Reich designing other chemical weapons, but withheld the use of Nova 6 by the Germans and instead handed it over to Dragovich in 1945. He defected to the Soviet Union and continued to develop the toxin. Near the end of the game, Steiner began to have second thoughts and begged Hudson and Weaver to extract him from Rebirth Island before he would be killed by Dragovich's men (who were killing those who were not important anymore), but was shot and killed by Mason despite his attempt to jog Mason's memory. Steiner is voiced by Mark Bramhall.

• Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro is a minor antagonist in the campaign, though serves as a protagonist in one version of the Zombie mode. He was Mason's target during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, though Mason only killed Castro's body double. His soldiers then captured Mason and handed him over to Dragovich. He later appears in the Pentagon fighting zombies alongside John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara and Richard Nixon. He is voiced by Marlon Correa and Gustavo Rex.

•  † Doctor Daniel Clarke is a cynical British communist and defector who left for the Soviet Union in 1964. His experience in Biology and chemistry, gained at Oxford University, made him a useful tool to Dragovich in stabilizing the volatile compounds which made up Nova 6. Knowing that Dragovich would kill him as soon as Nova 6 was weaponized, he escaped to Kowloon City in Hong Kong, though was captured by Hudson and Weaver, who tortured him to try to weed out information. During their attempted escape, just before he could tell Hudson what the numbers from Dragovich's broadcast station meant, he was shot in the head and fell from the rooftops. Clarke is voiced by Gary Oldman.

• "Numbers" is an unnamed female character who broadcasts the number sequences to the Soviet sleeper agents in America from an unknown location. She is first seen when the game starts for the first time and in the ending of the game, and she can also be heard in Mason's head throughout the campaign. She is voiced (and played by in live action shots) by Emmanuelle Chriqui.

Zombies

• Tank Dempsey is a fearless, stereotypical American war hero, a US Marine who is obsessed with war and bloodshed. He hates Richtofen, and likes Takeo and Nikolai . His favorite weapon is the M16. Tank Dempsey was also awarded for his bravery on the island of Peliliu during World War Two. Not one of the original super soldier test subjects, Dempsey was captured and tortured by Richtofen while trying to extract a spy from Group 935. He replaced a Mexican killed by Richtofen, and like the others, had his memory wiped, which he slowly starts to regain. Dempsey can be heard yelling insults and jokes at the zombies if the player accumulates a large amount of kills. Dempsey bears resemblance to Pvt. Polonsky, a non-playable U.S. Marine in Call of Duty: World at War. He is voiced by Steven Blum.

• Nikolai Belinski (Russian: Николай Белинский) is a stereotypical Russian. A drunken, ignorant ex-soldier from the Red Army. He has had 6 wives, all of them killed by him, and he is obsessed with vodka. He respects Dempsey, but hates Takeo and he likes Richtofen until the map "Moon". His favorite weapons seem to be the M14, and the FN-FAL. He was one of the original super soldiers captured and tortured by Richtofen, the result of which was him being reduced to being nearly functionless without vodka. Nikolai can also be heard yelling non-sense about various things, mostly about his vodka he thinks the zombies are trying to steal. Belinski seems to look like Pvt. Chernov, a non-playable Red Army Soldier in Call of Duty: World at War. He is voiced by Fred Tatasciore.

• Takeo Masaki is former soldier in the Imperial Army from a long line of distinguished warriors. As such, he is concerned with his and his allies honor in battle. He likes Dempsey, respects Richtofen however holds a grudge towards him and hates Nikolai. His favourite weapon is AK-74u. He is the first to begin regaining his memories after Richtofen erased them following the latter's experimentation on the former. Out of the three super soldiers, he is the only one who does not hate Richtofen. Masaki looks like the Japanese Officer in the starting sequence of Call of Duty: World at War. He is voiced by Tom Kane.

• Edward Richtofen A German ex-scientist who worked for Dr. Ludvig Maxis and his daughter Samantha, and is revealed to be the true main antagonist of the Zombies campaign. He was driven insane, possibly schizophrenic, by his encounter with an alien device called the "M.P.D." Maxis created the Hellhounds, Richtofen used them to kill Maxis and group 935, although the daughter, Samantha, survived, and was sent to the Group 935 facility on the Moon. He has created the Wunderwaffe DG-2 and the Quantum Entanglement Device, or the QED. He hates Dempsey yet he seems to like Nikolai and Takeo. His favorite weapons are the Wunderwaffe DG-2,Raygun and the MP40. In Call of the Dead, he retrieves the Golden Rod from the celebrities, and in Shangri-La he obtains the Focusing Stone, which both play a part in his plan on the Moon. He uses both items to switch places with Samantha - who had been held prisoner inside the M.P.D. - and has been using Takeo, Nikolai, and Dempsey to achieve this, to become the master of all zombies to conquer the world. However, his plan is thwarted when the others follow Maxis' contingency plan to destroy the Earth and all zombies on it, leaving Richtofen in control of only the surviving zombies on the Moon, which are already being killed by the other three. He is voiced by Nolan North.

• Samantha Maxis is the 8 year old daughter of Dr. Ludvig Maxis. With her father, she was trapped in a teleporter room with a hellhound. Instead of dying, she was sent to Griffin Station on the Moon. From there, she entered the "M.P.D.", gaining control of the zombies. Her efforts to destroy Dempsey, Nikolai, Takeo, and Richtofen are her completing her father's dying wish: to destroy everyone who betrayed them, including anyone helping said people. She has attacked the four with hellhounds, zombies, and space monkeys. She lured Yuri Kravcheski, a scientist, into trapping Dr. Gersch in the Kassimir Mechanism, leading to the map Ascension's greatest easter egg. When you shoot the generator with various Pack a Punched (Upgraded) weapons, you will free Dr. Gersch from Samantha and they will reward you and your team with Death Machine mini-guns which last for 90 seconds. In Moon, it is revealed that all the previous easter eggs in the other maps were part of Richtofen's plan to switch souls with her, so he could control the zombies. After accomplishing the plan, she ends up in Richtofen's physical body, while he ends up in her place, a spirit who controls the zombies.

• Dr. Ludvig Maxis Samantha's father. He was the head of Group 935, and Richtofen's superior before Richtofen betrayed him by locking him and Sam in a room with the teleporter and a newly created Hellhound, which was Samantha's pregnant dog Fluffy. He survived, and was taken to the Moon by Richtofen's allies. His final request to Samantha was to destroy those who betrayed them, before being shot in the head. He later appeared as some sort of computer file denying access to Richtofen at Moon. However, Maxis is deleted by Richtofen just before he can stop him from receiving the Vril Generator from the computer. Later, just as the original characters and Samantha, now in Richtofen's body, he appears in a radio message and tells them to launch 3 rockets in order to kill all the zombies, stopping Richtofen's plan for an army of zombies to conquer Earth.

• President of the United States John F. Kennedy is the first player character in one version of the Zombie mode. He made only one formal appearance in the campaign, during his meeting with Alex Mason to authorize Nikita Dragovich's assassination, though his voice plays over some parts of the game. He was assassinated in 1963, allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald, though Mason appears to have had some form of involvement in the assassination, but it turned out that it was actually the zombies who killed Kennedy (at the end of the game) while the other three characters somehow escaped.

• Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara is the second player character in one version of the Zombie mode. Like Kennedy, he only formally appears once in the campaign with his voice dubbed in other sections as well. He brings Alex Mason to Kennedy and helps to conspire to assassinate Nikita Dragovich. He is voiced by Robert Picardo.

• Richard Nixon is the third character in the same version of Zombies as Kennedy and MacNamara. While he makes no formal appearance in the campaign, he is revealed to be in this mode because Kennedy believes that he could bring helpful ideas to ease the tensions between the U.S. and Cuba. He also appears to be a source of comic relief similar to that of Takeo Masaki in the majority of other zombies maps.

• Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro is the fourth character in the Zombies mode featuring the three characters mentioned prior. He appears in the campaign during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and appears in Zombies while trying to negotiate peace talks with the U.S. after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Sarah Michelle Gellar is the first playable character in the "Call of the Dead" mode of Zombies. She is one of the only women in the entire Call of Duty Series (and one of the even fewer playable ones.) She is one of the four survivors on the set of a movie that was attacked by zombies and had helped Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski, Edward Richtofen, and Takeo Masaki transfer themselves from a closet on the set into Shangri-La. Like the other characters in "Call of the Dead", she has no relevance to the actual campaign.

• Robert Englund is the second playable character in "Call of the Dead". During the opening, he is made out to be the butt of a joke involving how to hit a zombie with a shotgun. He, like Gellar, is one of the four survivors of the zombie invasion on the movie set. During the opening, he is shown killing zombies with a pitchfork; however, it somehow vanishes when the game begins (Englund brings this up if a player buys the "Sickle" to replace your knife).

• Danny Trejo is the third playable character in "Call of the Dead" and one of the four survivors on the film set. Like Englund, he has weapons in the opening that disappear when the game begins. In his case, they are dual wielded machete's though he never brings it up.

• Michael Rooker is the fourth playable character in "Call of the Dead" and the fourth survivor on the film set. He, like Trejo and Englund, wields an unusable weapon in the opening (in his case they are dual double-barreled shotguns that fire three rounds before needing to be reloaded).

• George A. Romero is the main antagonist of "Call of the Dead". While directing a movie, he is abducted by zombies and injected with Element 115. He chases the playable characters around with a spotlight and becomes increasingly difficult the closer one gets to defeating him. If you hit him he goes into a berserk sprint and will not stop until he reaches water. It is assumed that he is either cured or the Element eventually wore off as he gives a speech at the end of the level.

Other Characters

• Terrance Brooks first makes his appearance in the level 'Executive Order' as part of the team that infiltrated the Baikonour launch facility to destroy a Soyuz rocket. He makes a later reappearance in the level 'WMD' as part of the team infiltrating a Soviet outpost in the Ural Mountains. He is voiced by Troy Baker.

•  † Bruce Harris is a soldier who appears only in the level 'WMD'. He is killed by a Russian RPG. Despite Hudson's attempt to save him, Harris falls from the catwalk and plunges to his death off the side of the cliff.

•  † Dimitri Petrenko (Russian: Дмитрий Петренко) was a soldier, who, like Reznov, returns from World at War, but this time as an NPC. He only appeared in the mission 'Project Nova'. Petrenko, along with Vikharev and Belov, were thrown into a gas chamber were they were killed with Nova 6 when Dragovich discovered it and wished to see the effects of the poison firsthand. He is voiced by Boris Kievsky.

• Nevski (Russian: Невский) is a member of Reznov's squad. He is the only person, besides Reznov, that escapes the ship containing the Nova 6 shipment before it explodes. His fate is left anonymous after the end of the level were he and Reznov are fleeing. He is voiced by Daniel Gamburg.

•  † Vikharev (Russian: Вихарев) was a member of Reznov's squad. He was gassed to death by Nova 6 after Dragovich betrayed them.

•  † Belov (Russian: Белов) was a member of Reznov's squad. He was gassed to death by Nova 6 after Dragovich betrayed them.

•  † Tvelin (Russian: Твелин) was a soldier who was thrown into the same gas chamber as Reznov and Nevski. He managed to escape being killed by the Nova 6 gas but was killed sometime during the rush to escape the ship they were on. Even if he manages to make it to the escape point, he does not appear with Nevski and Reznov, thus assuming he was killed before he could follow them.

• Cpt. Mosely an astronaut who you are put briefly in control of (although you can only look around) in the level "WMD". He pilots a SR-71 Blackbird to provide overwatch for Huson's team during the first half of the level. His codename is BigEye 6.

• Maj. Neitsch an astronaut who is controllable only when the player guides Hudson's team to the Soviet base in "WMD".

• Kaylor is the driver of an unmarked van who arrives to save Hudson and Weaver in Kowloon just as they are being attacked by Spetsnaz soldiers. He is part of Team 3 who was stationed to extract Hudson, Weaver and Clarke.

• Shabs is a member of Team 3. He assisted Hudson and Weaver in eliminating the Spetsnaz soldiers who were attacking them.

• Maestas is a member of Team 3. He, like Kaylor and Shabs, have no role in the level 'Numbers' until the end of the level. The only lines he speaks are to question Hudson what their next destination is.

•  † Sgt. Crosby is a panicked U.S. Marine who appears in the level 'The Defector' while trying to radio in an airstrike. His fate in battle is being killed by the large number of enemy soldiers swarming streets of Hue City at one time or another. Even if he survives the soldiers he will most likely be brought down by a Russian T-55 tank roaming the streets. The name "Crosby" appeared again in Call of Duty: Black Ops II as part of SEAL Team Six.

•  † Pvt. Fulsang a soldier who appeared in the level 'Rebirth'. After suffering from shellshock, he was unable to put on his gas mask before an Mi-8 dropped canisters of Nova 6 chemicals near him and Hudson, and he inhaled the toxins and died.

•  † Pvt. Johnson a soldier who appears in the level 'Victor Charlie'. After he moves forwards to destroy a VC anti-air emplacement with a Grim Reaper rocket launcher, he is shot and killed.

•  † Swift is a soldier who appears in the level 'Victor Charlie' when he and Mason enter an underground tunnel network. He is confused when Mason thinks Reznov appears, as Swift sees only Mason talking to himself. Seconds later a hidden enemy appears and stabs him in the throat.

•  † Base Loudspeaker an unnamed Vietnamese, or possibly an NVA Soldier, who speaks during the level 'The Defector' through unseen speakers into the streets of Hue City. Such messages are him telling Hue's civilian members that the NVA have orders to execute them, to have the U.S. Marines discontinue their war efforts, or that, in hopes of destabilising their morale, that the U.S. Forces will not leave alive (in that order). He also says all three of these sentences in Vietnamese.

•  † VC Bookie an unnamed Viet Cong who appears in the level 'Payback' with a snub-nosed Python loaded with a single bullet that is used to play Russian Roulette. After Bowman was killed Mason and Woods staged a surprise attack on their captors, where Mason's first move was to lunge up from his chair and shoot the Bookie in the chest with the single round that was in the Colt Python

• Carlos is one of the first appearing characters in the campaign. He is Mason, Woods and Bowman's contact in Santa Maria for information on infiltrating Fidel Castro's compound while he and the rebels stage a diversionary attack. He also helped them escape from the city after the police surrounded his bar and he also managed to escape on the plane with Woods and Bowman. He is voiced by Gustavo Rex.

•  † Militia Captain the commander of a small unit of Tropas who enter Carlos's bar early in the level "Operation 40". After he commands Mason to take out his identification papers, and he does not, he walks towards him and grabs Mason by the arm. Before he can do anything else, Woods uses his knife to pin the Captain's hand to the bar, then he smashes an empty bottle into his face.

•  † Spetsnaz Operative (Russian: Оперативник Спецназа) a bearded, beefy man who appears in the level 'Payback' working alongside the local Viet Cong forces in charge of holding Mason, Woods and Bowman hostage as P.O.W.s. After Bowman insults him and refuses to play Russian Roulette, the Operative brutally murders him with a section of lead pipe. After this, Mason and Woods staged a surprise attack on their captors, and the Operative ran through the underground tunnels of the VC Base in fear of his life, pursued by the two infuriated men, until they finally caught up with him as he was attempting to open a door to escape the compound and warn Kravchenko, but Mason shoots him before he can do so.

•  † Sergei Kozin (Russian: Сергей Козин) is a huge prisoner, who appears in the Vorkuta escape mission of the game. It is assumed he was a former circus attraction and was referred to as the 'Monster of Magadan'. He helps Reznov and Mason with the escape until he is killed later in the level as he tries to keep a steel shutter open to allow others through a remarkable act of bravery, but is shot by Soviet prison guards and is crushed by the shutter.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Protagonists

Player Characters

•  † Captain John "Soap" MacTavish (/məkˈtævɪʃ/; Voiced by: Kevin McKidd) - The main protagonist of the game. He is not a playable character, but the game's view is switched to his perspective during the opening of the game, similar that of to President Al-Fulani from Call of Duty 4. He was badly wounded after killing Lt. General Shepherd by launching a throwing knife into his eye in Modern Warfare 2. However, he joins the player on most missions involving Yuri and is deemed as a very important role in running the game's storyline smoothly.^{[citation needed]} He is killed when his attempt with Price,Yuri and Kamarov to assassinate Makarov fails, and an explosion resulted in him falling from a great height, which reopens his knife wound. Despite Price and Yuri's attempt to save him, he eventually dies from blood loss, with his dying words being "Makarov...knows...Yuri," leading to Captain Price's anguish. Captain Price then punched Yuri down the staircase and demanded to know of his association with Makarov.

Captain John Price (Voiced by: Billy Murray) - A supporting character of the game until Soap's death when he becomes the main protagonist, is responsible for keeping the stability of his team, though he is not playable until the game's final mission, "Dust to Dust". He is emotionally attached to Soap as his "blood brother", due to his heavy respect towards him, and he experienced great irascibility towards Yuri after Soap's death. Price manages to track down Makarov to a hotel in the Middle East, and he and Yuri assault the hideout. Price eventually manages to wrap a cable around Makarov's neck and smash a glass window, sending him plunging to his death. Price then calmy smokes a cigar at the scene.

•  † Yuri (Russian: Юрий) (Voiced by: Brian Bloom) - The main playable character. He is an ex-Spetsnaz soldier fighting alongside the Russian Loyalists and Task Force 141. It is revealed that Makorov and Yuri were once friends and fellow Ultranationalists. Yuri and Makarov were present when Zakhaev was shot by Price in Pripyat, where the two evacuated their leader from the arms deal. Yuri was also with Makarov in the Middle East, when the latter detonated the nuclear bomb that killed 30,000 American soldiers. This made Yuri uneasy about Makarov's intentions. When Makarov and the other terrorists planned to do a masscare in Zakhaev International Airport, Yuri attempted to contact the F.S.B. to warn them, but was found out and shot by Makarov for treason. Yuri then tried to stop the massacre, but he passed out from blood loss. However, Yuri was rescued by members of the Russian Police, and vowed for revenge on Makarov. He was killed by Makarov in the mission "Dust to Dust", but his death bought Price time to kill the notorious terrorist. He was the first Russian playable character in the Modern Warfare series, and he seems to respect Price and Soap.

• Sergeant Derek "Frost" Westbrook - A Delta Force commando and a member of Team Metal. He is the player character for all Delta Force missions in the campaign, with the exception of "Down the Rabbit Hole", when the (disavowed) Task Force 141 and Team Metal launch a joint rescue operation to rescue President Vorshevsky and his daughter Alena. He is not heard from after this mission and his fate is left unknown. Like all player characters in the Modern Warfare series (excluding Price and Yuri who you hear speaking in the final mission "Dust to Dust"), he never speaks, although at the beginning of the level "Black Tuesday" a soldier is heard screaming "R.P.G.!!!" before Team Metal's Humvee is hit and flips over; It is not Sandman's, Grinch's or Truck's voices that are heard, so there is a possibility it is Frost speaking. He is also playable in special ops mission "The Pit","Charges set",also in"Toxic Paradise" proved by Overlord telling the play by callsign "Metal Zero-Four" Frost call sign

• Sergeant Marcus Burns - An S.A.S. operative stationed in the UK along with Sgt. Wallcroft and Cpl. Griffin.

Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire Burns whilst in the regular army was a Corporal in the Royal Marines, later on he is chosen for Special Air Service selection and joins the 22nd SAS Regiment (Now as a Sergeant) specialising in the Hostage Situations and Sniping,

Playable during the mission "Mind the Gap". He and his SAS team investigated the suspicious cargo delivered in London and discovered the bio-chemical weapon delivered by Makarov, and that there were several trucks that could all contain the chemicals. They made an attempt to stop the gas attack, but targeted the wrong truck. The truck with the real chemicals went off near Big Ben. There is an optional choice that the truck instead explodes in front of Burns Killing him.

•  † F.S.O. Agent Andrei Harkov (Russian: Агент ФСО Андрей Харков) - An F.S.O. agent guarding Russian President Boris Vorshevsky during the mission "Turbulence". When the plane that was carrying the Russian President was hijacked by the Makarov's Follower,Inner Circle, Harkov and the other agents fought to secure the President in the safe room of the plane, but it was brought down and crashed. Mistaking a hostile chopper for evacuation transport, he was killed by Makarov upon opening the helicopter door.

• AC-130 Spectre Gunner An unidentified member of an AC-130 Gunship (callsign "Warhammer") who the player is put in control of during two parts of the mission "Iron Lady" assisting Team Metal. Although it is not confirmed, it is very likely this is the very same character the player controls in the original Modern Warfare. In the AC-130 the player is helped playing through his objectives by a TV Operator and a female FCO.

NPCs (Non-Player Characters)

•  † Master Sgt. "Sandman" (Voiced by: William Fichtner) - A Delta Force operator and leader of Team Metal. He shares intel with Price regarding Makarov in spite of Price's fugitive status. He served alongside Ghost, Soap and Price during "Operation: Kingfish", explaining his friendship with Price. He is hit in the shoulder while giving cover to an escaping helicopter that contained Yuri, Price and the Russian President, and is presumed KIA in "Down the Rabbit Hole" along with the rest of Team Metal (minus Sgt. Derek "Frost" Westbrook) when the diamond mine where President Vorshevsky was being held collapses.

•  † Sergeant first class "Truck" (Voiced by: Idris Elba) - A Delta Force member, part of Sandman's Team Metal. Presumed KIA in "Down the Rabbit Hole" when the mine collapses on them. He is the only African-American ally in Modern Warfare 3.

•  † Sergeant first class "Grinch" (Voiced by: Timothy Olyphant) - A Delta Force member, and part of Sandman's Team Metal. Presumed KIA in "Down the Rabbit Hole" when the mine collapses on them. He uses an MK14 exclusively. In every mission he uses it as his only weapon except during his last stand in the diamond mine with Sandman and Truck when he throws it aside and pulls out a Desert Eagle pistol.

• Sgt. Wallcroft (Voiced by: Craig Fairbrass) - An SAS operative from a minor role in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He appears in the mission "Mind the Gap", leading an SAS team including Sgt. Burns and Cpl. Griffin in an effort to stop a chemical attack in London. After pursuing a hijacked subway train in trucks the rogue driver is killed but the train derails, and nearly kills him and Burns. After stumbling out of the wreckage, the two make their way back aboveground and regroup with other SAS forces. His callsign is Bravo 6.

•  † Cpl. Griffin (Voiced by: Craig Fairbrass) - An SAS operative who is stationed in the UK alongside Sgt. Wallcroft and Sgt. Burns. He appears in the mission "Mind the Gap", but is killed halfway through the mission when a runaway subway train derails and slides directly into the path of their vehicle, causing it to flip over and cause Griffin to take the full brunt of the impact.

Codename "Nikolai" (Voiced by: Sven Holmberg) - (Russian: Кодовое имя "Николай") He returns from both Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to assist the now-disavowed Task Force 141 with his piloting skills and logistical support. Since he is allied with a group of Russians who reject the Ultranationalist movement, called Loyalists, he provides troop support to Soap, Price and Yuri in some missions. He and Price are the remaining surviving members of the 141.

•  † Sgt. Kamarov (Russian: Сержант Камаров) - The Russian loyalist who helped Price and Soap in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare returns. He helps the local Czech Resistance when the Russians invaded the Czech Republic and plays role as the team "eye and ear" in the hotel where Vladimir Makarov and his general meeting took place. He was killed when Price broke into Makarov's hotel, only to find that his sworn enemy had outsmarted him and had strapped Kamarov to a chair with a massive amount of C4, and taunts Price before detonating it.

"Sabre" (Voiced by: Jean-Michel Richaud) - He is a leader of the GIGN unit. He appears in the mission "Bag and Drag", assisting Team Metal in order to capture "Volk". His fate is left unknown when he and his teammate Faucon stay behind to cover Team Metal's pursuit of "Volk".

"Overlord" (Voiced by: Bruce Greenwood) - The callsign of the U.S. Army general who gives information about enemy strength and/or location. He was heard in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Cpt. MacMillan ("Baseplate") (Voiced by: Tony Curran) - Captain Price's former mentor and C.O. returns from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, now retired from the field and providing intelligence under the callsign "Baseplate". He shares key intel to the disavowed Task Force 141. He is still injured from the helicopter in Pripyat, despite it happening 20 years ago. He was born in 1963, and so is 53 years old in this game.

President Boris Vorshevsky (Russian: Борис Воршевский) - The Russian President. Kidnapped in "Turbulence" by Makarov, who wanted the launch codes to the Russian nuclear arsenal. Makarov tried to ransom his daughter Alena for the launch codes, but Vorshevsky, along with Alena, were later rescued in the diamond mine in Siberia by the combined efforts of Task Force 141 and Team Metal in "Down the Rabbit Hole." He helps Yuri onboard their evac helicopter as they fly out of the mine as it collapses, killing Team Metal. A later prologue reveals he is discussing a peace treaty with the U.S., but this leaves off on a menacing note as he had said earlier in the game that "We destroy our enemies when we make friends with them . . ." However this may just mean that enemies no longer exist after being befriended; having been interrupted, it is unclear what his true intention was. He may have just paraphrased Abraham Lincoln, who originally said the line.

Alena Vorshevsky (Russian: Алена Воршевская) - The 22-year-old daughter of Russian President Boris Vorshevsky. Targeted by Makarov to ransom her father for the nuclear launch codes. Kidnapped in Berlin by Ultranationalists assisted by a Hind helicopter, despite the efforts by Team Metal to stop it during the mission "Scorched Earth". She was later rescued at the Siberian mine by Task Force 141 and Team Metal at "Down the Rabbit Hole" After Price, Yuri and Team Metal rush deeper into the mine with two Delta Force agents tending to her, her whereabouts are left unknown, although she presumably survives to reunite with her father. She also received the codename "Athena" by the U.S. military.

Antagonists

•  † Vladimir Makarov (Russian: Владимир Макаров) Voiced by: Roman Varshavsky - He is the terrorist leader of the Inner Circle. Makarov launched a bio-chemical warfare attack against Europe after he and his men hijacked President Boris Vorshevsky and take control of the Russia with the defected hardliners to soften up the Russia invasion in Europe. He planned to get the nuclear launch codes from Russian President Boris Vorshevsky by forcing him to reveal them in exchange for the life of his daughter Alena, but failed, thanks to the efforts of Task Force 141 Disavowed (later been avowed once again) and Team Metal(minus "Frost" who replaced by Sergeant"Mccoy"). He also killed Cpt. John "Soap" MacTavish, F.S.O. Agent Andrei Harkov, and former-friend-turned-enemy Yuri. Makarov was killed by Cpt. Price by hanging him to death in the mission "Dust to Dust".

•  (POW) Viktor "Volk" Khristenko (Russian: Виктор "Волк" Христенко) - Also well known as "The Wolf" and the leader of the Fregata industry, the industry that produced and distribute the nuclear weapon for Makarov. A bomb-maker working for Makarov and the man responsible for the chemical attacks across Europe that killed 35 thousands people. Waraabe's contact and vector for chemical weapons. Captured by Sandman in Paris at "Bag and Drag". It is unknown what happens to "Volk" after his capture by Delta team Metal. A closer look at his passport in the starting cutscene of "Bag and Drag" reveals his true name. Rumored to be Soviet, but his passport in the starting cutscene of "Bag and Drag" reveals his race, Caucasian.

•  † Waraabe - He is a warlord in Bosaso, Somalia. He was responsible for the sale of chemical weapons to "Volk". When Price confronts him, he throws a canister of the same toxins he has been selling and promises Waraabe a gas mask in exchange for naming the person he has been selling the weapons to. After the panicking warlord named "Volk" as his contact and reveal his location in Paris, he was executed by Price with his gun in retalliation for causing the deaths of thousands of people and his comrades in SAS with the chemical weapons he delivered to "Volk" in "Mind the Gap".

Other Characters

President of the United States (Voiced by: Paul Eiding) Heard only in voice during the "Iron Lady" and "Dust to Dust" mission cutscenes.

Vice-President of the United States - Was captured at Hamburg after Russian forces attacked the city. Assigned the codename "Goalpost" in the level "Goalpost". He was rescued by Team Metal. There was another hostage in the room with him, but he was shot 3 times before Team Metal can breach the room.

MI5 Director - Heard only in voice during the "Mind the Gap" mission cutscene while driving to MI5 Headquarters.

Ramstein AFB the controller of an Air Force Base in Germany. He is only heard, speaking in a panic, in the starting cutscene of the level "Goalpost" after the biochemical weapons are deployed and the Russian Army attacks western Europe.

Green Beret an unknown special forces soldier fighting in Manhattan with the callsign ODA Foxtrot. He is only heard in the starting cutscene of "Persona Non Grata" telling Overlord the Russians are retreating from the eastern borders of the United States.

ODA 595 an unknown special forces group heard in the beginning of the level "Bag and Drag", talking in a frenzy to Overlord the all civilians at the Musée du Louvre have been killed by the chemical weapons, and that he requests a medevac (medical evacuation). Overlord denies this request, however. Grinch later states that 595 had a "lot of rooks in that unit".

Presidential Aide an unknown aide heard only in the starting cutscene of "Iron Lady" linking communications from the White House to Overlord.

•  † The Davis Family - A young American family visiting London. Killed when a biochemical WMD goes off behind them after "Mind the Gap". A special mission is given to them where the player controls the father running a video camera, but a warning is given to the player before starting the campaign about disturbing content. If the player chooses to disable the content, the truck explodes in front of Burns, Wallcroft and half a dozen other SAS soldiers instead (although Wallcroft strangely is not affected by it in any manner).

• SEAL Leader - is the unnamed leader of the SEALs that appears in "Hunter Killer". He helps to prepare the exfil for Team Metal and is one of the three soldiers who assist the player in clearing the top deck of the Russian Oscar II submarine. Others members of the Seals vary on call sign, due to randomly generated names.

• Reno - a Navy SEAL seen at the end of the level "Hunter Killer" in a Zodiac with Truck as they prepare to escape New York Harbor. He is also the only SEAL to survive the mission.

•  † Cmdr. Leonid Pudovkin (Russian: Командир Леонид Пудовкин) is the commander of the F.S.O. forces taking the peace delegation on the way to Hamburg in the mission 'Turbulence'. He survives the plane crash but is wounded when Makarov shoots him, and killed when Makarov shoots him again in the head.

•  † Sgt. Anton Federov (Russian: Сержант Антон Федоров) is a member of the F.S.O. forces taking the peace delegation to Hamburg in the mission 'Turbulence'. Although he cannot be killed by enemy gunfire, he falls out of the plane and is dashed against the runway when the plane comes apart in two halves when it tried to attempt an emergency landing.

•  † Vasili Zhukov (Russian: Василий Жуков) is one of the members of the peace delegation who is portrayed as a bossy type. He survives the plane crash but is shot and killed by Makarov, along with Harkov, Pudovkin and another agent who has a random name each time the level is played.

•  † Pavel Morozov (Russian: Павел Морозов) is one of the members of the peace delegation. He is killed in an explosion when Ultranationalists blow their way into the plane's conference room.

•  † Bogdan Sokolov (Russian: Богдан Соколов) is one of the members of the peace delegation. He is killed in an explosion when Ultranationalists blow their way into the plane's conference room.

•  † Anya Kovaleva (Russian: Аня Ковалева) is the only female member of the peace delegation, even though the Russian President addresses the people at the conference table as 'gentlemen'. She works at a computer until gunfire is heard outside the conference room, and she is killed in the explosion like Morozov and Sokolov are.

• Grigoriy Ignatov (Russian: Григорий Игнатов) is a member of the peace delegation, although he does not appear at the conference table early in the level. He is seen briefly, sitting on the ground a short distance away from the site of a battle with an F.S.O. Agent checking him over for injuries.

• Miloslav Berezhniy (Russian: Милослав Бережний) is a member of the peace delegation, although he does not appear at the conference table. He can be seen when the player exits the wrecked plane, bent double with an immobile guard standing in front of him.

• Boris Cherchesov (Russian: Борис Черчесов) is a member of the peace delegation, although he does not appear at the conference table. He is seen propped up against a piece of smoldering wreckage not far from the scene of a battle, clutching a wound in his belly.

• Team Two Leader (Russian: Лидер Команды-2) a minor commander and Russian Loyalist heard in the level "Return to Sender". He is never actually seen in-game. Team Two seems to be designated as 'Echo'.

• Bravo Leader (Russian: Лидер "Браво") a Russian Loyalist heard in the level "Return to Sender", although it is unknown what character he actually is. His callsign is known as Bravo-1.

• Echo One Leader (Russian: Лидер Эхо-1) a Russian Loyalist and leader of the Echo-1 Team in the level "Return to Sender". It is unknown which soldier he is.

•  † Cmdr. Morel is a GIGN commander. He is seen in the introduction to the level "Goalpost" where he contacts the United States Army to inform them of the chemical attack at the GIGN barracks in Satory, France which he commanded over, and during this time, he appears to be pointing at the gas. He died from the chemicals like the other GIGN operators that were with him.

• Faucon is a GIGN squad member who fights alongside Sabre. He is unkillable, like the player's teammates in several levels. His fate is left unknown after Sandman, Grinch and Frost speed off after "Volk", after Sabre volunteers to stay behind to cover them. His codename means "Falcon" in French.

• Tueur is a GIGN squad member who fights alongside Sabre. He can be killed fighting Russian forces outside the Palme d'Or restaurant where the GIGN were pinned down, but if the player kills all the enemies quickly, he may survive. The player, however, cannot prevent his death when Russians on a street below them pin them down. He uses either a G36C or an MK46 (each with a possible attachment). His codename means "Killer" in French.

•  † Security Guard (Russian: Телохранитель) appears in the level "Dust to Dust" wielding an AK-47 assault rifle. He is part (or possibly the head of) a group of men sent to investigate a suspicious Charity truck by Makarov. After shouting at Price and Yuri to step out of the vehicle, he and the others fire at the truck in hopes of killing the occupants. He is killed by Yuri after he bursts out from the inside of the truck.

• Alexi (Russian: Алексей) a soldier who appears to be at the head of command in the "Stronghold" mission. Price and Yuri overhear him discussing with Makarov about Ultranationalist troops moving towards Berlin, and soon afterwards Price kills him and two others with a grenade.

•  † Granite The leader of the Delta Team with the callsign 'Granite', despite the fact that when you aim at him, he has a different randomly selected code name. He and his team are the first to go after Alena but fall into an ambush and all the members are killed.

•  † Carter The former gunner of Rhino 2. He is shot by a sniper forcing Frost to take over his position. When he is killed he falls inside the tank, but when the player climbs in, his body cannot be seen.

• Grizzly The leader of the Delta Team with the callsign 'Anvil'. After making a push across an enemy-fortified square to the New York Stock Exchange that the Russians had outfitted with a jamming tower, his and Sandman's teams split up. It is unknown what progress Grizzly and his other squadmates make after this.

• Thumper a member of Team Anvil. He, like Grizzly and Worm, disappear when the two teams split up.

• Worm a member of Team Anvil. He, like Grizzly and Thumper, disappear when the two teams split up. It is unknown whether he is the same 'Worm' from Modern Warfare 2 or not.

• Gator a soldier who appears - without any reason to as how he managed to link up with Team Metal - as part of the group escorting "Volk" from Paris at the start of the level 'Iron Lady'. He is nearly killed when a Humvee he is in is destroyed, but he can be seen unsteadily crawling out of the wreckage and returns to the fight.

•  † McCoy (Voiced by: Tobey Maguire) a soldier who appears briefly at the start of the level 'Down the Rabbit Hole'. He is killed by an RPG while in an elevator.

• Cpl. Soucy first seen dragging a wounded soldier (who has absolutely no name) to safety after a large chunk of an apartment building landed dangerously close to him in the level "Black Tuesday". He has no combat role whatsoever.

•  † Blackjack a soldier with a randomly-generated rank and name tag who appears at the beginning of the level "Black Tuesday", using his earpiece radio to report their situation, casualty rates, enemy status and such. He is killed later in the level.

• Juliet 2-4 a soldier heard for only a few seconds in the level "Black Tuesday" requesting a bombing run after the player uses thermite to destroy a Russian communications jammer, amongst the flood of voices already trying to get through to Overlord.

• Sierra 1 the callsign of a sniper unit positioned in Canary Wharf to assist the operation carried out by the S.A.S. to seize the WMD shipments. Although they cannot be seen, laser optics from their sniper rifles can be seen travelling back and forth along the docks.

•  † or injured Bravo 9 Leader an S.A.S. soldier that appears in the level "Mind the Gap". He manages to shoot the driver of a runaway subway train, but he is shot seconds later.

• Meyers an S.A.S. soldier who appears in the level "Mind the Gap". Although the name 'Meyers' never appears with one of the characters, the name pops up on the screen when he alerts other members of the SAS that there are incoming enemies.

• Bravo 2-1 an S.A.S. soldier who appears near to the end of the level "Mind the Gap". As soon as he gets off of an AH-6 Little Bird he reports to Wallcroft about their situation, then they move to form a barricade at a crossection near Big Ben. If the player enables the "Disturbing Content" notice he can be seen being thrown by the truck's implosion.

•  † Private Carter was an SAS soldier who participated in the operation to stop the chemical plants during "Mind the Gap". However, as he was getting out of the car, Carter's truck was shot by a RPG and he died in the blast.

• Private Fleming is a SAS Soldier who helped to stop the chemical attacks in London with Burns and Wallcroft. He was there trying to stop what seemed to be the chemical truck, but turned out to be a decoy.

• Redgrave an SAS soldier who appears at close to the end of the level "Mind the Gap" as one of the men who formed a barricade to stop the truck the SAS thought was carrying the chemicals. Like Meyers, the name 'Redgrave' never appears on one of the characters. If the player enables the "Disturbing Content" notice he can be seen being thrown by the truck's implosion.

•  † Resistance Leader He is the leader of the Czech Resistance which is actively affiliated with Task Force 141 and the Russian Loyalists in their mission to kill Vladimir Makarov. He appears in the mission "Blood Brothers" when Price and Yuri are attempting to help a critically injured Soap to safety while being pursued by Ultranationalist soldiers. The Resistance Leader and his men intercept the Ultranationalists and bring Soap to their safe room for treatment, but fail to prevent his death. His fate is unknown after Price, Yuri and the Resistance retreat from the safehouse after coming under fire by a BTR-80.

•  † German Tank Commander An unnamed German tank commander is part of a German tank unit consisting of three German Leopard 2 main battle tanks on the mission "Scorched Earth." During the Battle of Berlin, they were tasked with aiding Frost and Sandman's team, Metal, in reaching the building where the Russian President's daughter was being held. However, the tank commander was not able to reach that location, possibly being killed when the Russian forces detonated charges that caused the nearby building to collapse on one of the Leopard 2 tanks.

• Sgt. Kelly a wounded US sergeant who is seen in the starting cutscene and later on in the level 'Scorched Earth'. After Team Metal leaves him behind, it is unknown whether he is hit by mortar fire or escapes to safety.

• Pvt. Grant a US soldier who is seen in the starting cutscene and later on in the level 'Scorched Earth' who appears to be suffering from a concussion from the mortar fire all around him. After Team Metal leaves him behind, it is unknown whether he recovers and stumbles to safety or not.

•  † Pvt. Naas a US soldier who is seen in the starting cutscene and later on in the level 'Scorched Earth'. After the player regains control of his character, Naas dies from heavy wounds seconds later.

Yuri's Flashback Characters

Imran Zakhaev (Russian: Имран Захаев) The leader of the Russian Ultranationalist Party and the main antagonist in Call of Duty 4. Twenty years prior to the present day, in Pripyat, Ukraine, Price attempted to assassinate him, but he only lost his arm. Yuri and Makarov witnessed his attack in Yuri's first flashback (Yuri, Winter - 1996) and drove him to safety, while hitting a fellow Ultranationalist. The Flashback is to the level One Shot, One Kill.

Young Makarov (Russian: Молодой Макаров) First appears in Yuri's first flashback, waking Yuri up from the back seat of a UAZ, when he and Yuri are still friends. After Yuri watches Zakhaev and another high-ranking Ultranationalist arguing Zakhaev is shot, and he stumbles into their vehicle, clutching the stump of his arm. Makarov promptly swings the vehicle around and drives away, not bothering to stop or care that he hits two other Ultranationalists. Despite being a version twenty years younger than the Makarov in MW3, his voice tones are unchanged.

Lev (Russian: Лев) Appears twice in Yuri's third flashback (Year - 2016, Zakhaev International Airport) the first being when he restrains him in an underground parking lot beneath the Airport, and again when Yuri stumbles out of an elevator and attempts to shoot the terrorists. Lev is later killed in the same level of the previous game.

Viktor (Russian: Виктор) An Ultranationalist who appears in Yuri's third flashback, assisting the massacre at the airport. Although he survives a conflict with heavily-armed F.S.B. Agents outside the airport, U.S. Rangers later find him dead in northeastern Virginia.

Kiril (Russian: Кирилл) An Ultranationalist who appears in Yuri's third flashback, assisting the massacre at the airport. He is killed later in the level.

Private First Class Joseph Allen A.K.A. Alexei Borodin An undercover CIA agent working with Makarov to get information for Lt. General Shepherd in Yuri's third flashback, assisting the massacre at the airport. Although he survives a conflict with heavily-armed F.S.B. Agents outside the airport, he is killed by Makarov, who has discovered his true identity, at the end of the level.

F.S.B. Agent (Russian: Агент ФСБ ) a bearded agent who appears at the end of Yuri's third flashback, calling more agents over to help him with Yuri, with him being the only survivor amidst hundreds. As he moves an oxygen mask close to Yuri's face, the flashback ends and it morphs into Price pointing his Desert Eagle at Yuri.

Spec Ops

Metal 0-4 Frost is the main playable character in Spec Ops mode, first training in a barracks with Truck as his supervisor, in a setting that greatly resembles the Pit training from the "S.S.D.D." level in Modern Warfare 2. He is also given a suit of Juggernaught armor on some missions, the first being the 5th mission entitled "Toxic Paradise" where Frost is ordered to retrieve six canisters full of chemicals from the streets of France.

Metal 0-1 Sandman is playable during the level "Little Bros", fighting through the map of Berlin from the campaign with the help of Vulture 2-2.

Ozone a Task Force 141 sniper with a scratchy voice who returns from Modern Warfare 2 (despite the fact that he was killed) who appears in the level "Kill Switch" wielding a SCAR-L Suppressed and an RSASS Suppressed with a Thermal Scope, but later this is replaced by a Five Seven. Ozone becomes playable halfway through the mission giving covering fire to Scarecrow, and later using a Reaper UAV to cover him. Just before Scarecrow detonates the EMP, a Hind fires on his position, but he survives to escape.

Delta an unnamed foot soldier wielding an M4A1 in the level "Iron Clad", guiding an M1A2 Abrams tank through Hamburg, helping neutrilize dangerous targets the tank would otherwise be unable to, and laser-designating areas for the tank to use its main cannon to destroy.

Tank Driver the unnamed driver of an M1A2 Abrams tank in the level "Iron Clad".

Pit Boss the name of the M1A2 Abrams tank in the level "Iron Clad".

Col. Munson the pilot of an MH-6 Little Bird in the mission "Little Bros" assisting Sandman.

Sgt. Hammer a sergeant who rides on Vulture 2-2 in the mission "Little Bros". He is one of two AI who assist the player in Spec Ops mode, the other being the GIGN.

Trident-1 an unnamed character who appears in the 3rd level of Spec Ops entitled "Over Reactor". He infiltrates the Olga with the mission of stopping a massive reactor meltdown within the sub, and manages to do so despite absorbing dangerously high amounts of radiation.

Hitman 2 an unnamed character who appears in the 4th level of Spec Ops entitled "Hit and Run". He is tasked with eliminating two Somalian figures of high-priority and rescuing hostages bound and gagged inside of a shipping crate. The way the player is suppoused to take out the first enemies of the level suggests he is a sniper, hence the name "Hitman"

FSO Agent an unnamed agent who talks throughout the level "Hostage Taker" where the player is put in control of an equally unknown character who stealths his way towards Alena Vorshevsky after the plane crash.

GIGN a French soldier who drives the player towards Volk's last known location in the level "Server Crash". His name is randomly generated.

Col. Farhan a Somalian colonel who Hitman 2 is tasked with eliminating in the level "Hit and Run". Although one of the player's objectives is to kill him, he is never directly mentioned, and the player is never congratulated upon killing him.

Cpt. Mahad a Somalian captain who Hitman 2 is tasked with eliminating in the level "Hit and Run". Although one of the player's objectives is to kill him, he is never directly mentioned, and the player is never congratulated upon killing him.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Protagonists

• Alex Mason is the main protagonist in the 1980s part of the campaign. He first appears at the very beginning of the game's predecessor, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and later it is revealed that Mason was brainwashed at Vorkuta, but the brainwashing was tampered by Viktor Reznov, which turned Mason against his former brainwashers. Because of these events, Mason suffers from a personality disorder. 18 years onward, 53 year old Alex Mason is retired and has a son named David and is raising him in Alaska. However Mason is called back into action when his old friend Frank Woods is captured, forcing him to go after him. AFter a run in with Raul Menendez, Mason becomes fully transferred back into service to take him down. Depending the circumstances Mason is either accidentally shot dead or wounded and put into a coma for 30 years by Woods during a set up by Menendez. He is voiced by Sam Worthington.

• David Mason codenamed Section is the main protagonist in the 2025 part of the campaign, the son of Alex Mason and an unidentified woman and the overall main protagonist of the game. David's relationship with his father was strained, following Alex repeatedly breaking his promise not to return to work for the CIA, specifically following the death of David's mother. As a child David is abducted and taken to Panama and used as insurance to force Woods and Hudson into killing Alex Mason. After which, David would be raised by Woods himself. David grows up to become a lieutenant commander in the US Navy Seals and is a part of SEAL Team Six along with his best friend Mike Harper, stationed aboard the USS Obama. Throughout the game, David is haunted by memory flashes of the night of his kidnapping, eventually realizing that Menendez had involvement in his father's death. At the end of the game, David either kills or captures Menendez and can also reunite with his father if he is spared by Woods. He is voiced by and motion captured by Rich McDonald.

• Mike Harper is a primary character and the "side-kick" of David Mason. He is part of SEAL Team Six along with David Mason. He can either be killed by Farid or he can be spared at the cost of Farid's life. He also kills Salazar for betraying them if he wasn't killed by Farid depending on the player's choice. Though keeping Harper alive will either result in the destruction of the US government or simply Woods, keeping Harper alive will make game play for the player easier. He is voiced and motion captured by Michael Rooker.

• Frank Woods is a secondary character, and retired from duty. He is an ally of Alex Mason. He first appears in the first level of Black Ops, along with Mason and Bowman, during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He is presumed dead, but an anonymous note sent to Mason (viewable in the interrogation room computer) states that Woods is still alive and imprisoned in Hanoi. The reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II shows he survived and is still alive at 95 but handicapped after a run-in with the game's antagonist Raul Menendez. This run in also saw Woods best friend Mason killed. After Menendez visits Woods after 37 years, David and Mike Harper visit the vault for any Intel Woods may have on Menendez and spends most of the game recalling his story with Menendez. He is also playable in the mission "Suffer with Me". Depending on the player's choices, he either survives the game or is killed by Menendez. He is voiced and motion-captured by James C. Burns.

•  † Jason Hudson is a secondary character, who was Mason's handler and turns out to be the man interrogating him throughout Black Ops. Hudson is a good friend of Mason and Frank Woods in Black Ops and Black Ops 2. He helped in rescuing Woods in Angola after being kidnapped by Raul Menendez, the capturing of Lev Kravchenko and the invasion of Panama. Menendez captures Hudson and forces him to manipulate Woods into killing Mason (which if he did not, David would have been killed instead), which succeeds or does not, depending on the player's actions. Hudson sacrifices himself by volunteering to die for Woods and David's sake. Hudson is voiced by Michael Keaton, replacing Ed Harris.

•  † Farid (Arabic: فريد) is the tech expert from Joint Special Operations Command and is a member of Seal Team Six, where he serves as a mole in Cordis Die. Depending on the players action, Farid is either killed by Menendez if he fails to prove his loyalty by killing Harper, DeFalco when the USS Obama is breached, or Salazar when he took the bullet to save Chloe Lynch. He is voiced by Omid Abtahi. Harper nicknames him "Egghead".

• Thomas Briggs is a secondary character, who is Mason's commanding officer and Admiral of the USS Obama. He is either wounded or killed by Menendez during the mission Odysseus. He is voiced and motion captured by actor Tony Todd.

• Chloe Lynch is a civilian and former employee of TACITUS and goes by the name of Karma and the only one that knows how to disable the Celerium Worm. The character is only playable in the "Second Chance" Strike Force mission in Yemen if the player fails to save her from being kidnapped by DeFalco. Depending on the players action, if Farid lives and takes the bullet for her then she will decode the Celerium Worm and restore control of the fleet of drones. If Farid dies then she will be killed by either Salazar or DeFalco, allowing the Celerium Worm to infect the US's mainframe system and shutting down its system. She is voiced and motion captured by Erin Cahill.

• Crosby is a soldier who worked with David Mason's unit in "Celerium" and would later appear in "Fallen Angel" and "Odysseus". He is wounded when extracting David Mason from the U.S.S. Obama, and is not seen in any later missions, thus his fate is unknown. The name ′′′Crosby′′′ appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops as a sergeant.

Antagonists

• Raul Menendez is the primary antagonist of the game. He is a Nicaraguan political activist who rose to prominence during the proxy wars of the 1980s. He is responsible for the deaths of both Alex Mason and Jason Hudson, though it turns out that he only murdered them because of their accidental murder on his poor sister Josefina, which of course, intensifed Raul' hatred against America to big level. He reappears in the year 2025 as the leader of "Cordis Die", a populist political party that commandeers the automated armies that form the United States military, and proceeds to turn them against their former masters. At the end of the game, he is either killed or captured alive by David Mason, depending on the player's choice. He is voiced and motion captured by Kamar de los Reyes.

•  † DeFalco is the secondary antagonist, Menendez's right-hand man, Second-in-command of Cordis Die and the leader of a mercenary army that works for Menendez and Cordis Die. DeFalco is a ruthless killer who understands mercy, but puts his loyalty to Menendez first. DeFalco is killed by Section either in "Karma" when Section, Harper, and Salazar saves Lynch or in "Judgement Day" while Section saves Harper from Menendez, Defalco, and a henchman or he is killed in "Odessyes" by Farid. He is voiced by Julian Sands

• Tian Zhao (Chinese: 赵天) is the leader of the Chinese-led organization, Strategic Defense Coalition (SDC), and secretly an ally of Menendez. He previously worked with Alex Mason and Frank Woods during the mission in Afghanistan in 1986, assisting the Mujahideen in repelling a Soviet Invasion. In 2025 he led the SDC in building a military coalition in the region to counter the West's own military strength with countries such as Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India as its allies. Depending on the actions involving the Strike Force missions, if the player succeeds in repealing the SDC invasion then the player can assassinate him in the last stage. If the player however fails in preventing the invasion then Tian survives and the named countries join the SDC. He is voiced by Byron Mann.

• Salazar is a Nicaraguan secondary character. He is part of JSOC and a member of David Mason's team during the 2025 Campaign. He grew up in Nicaragua during the rise of Raul Menendez. Towards the end of the campaign it is discovered Salazar was actually working for Menendez all along and helps him escape from the USS Obama after he was captured by David Mason. He will surrender peacefully but will be executed by Harper if Harper is alive. He is voiced by Celestin Cornielle.

• Manuel Noriega is the former Commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces and a supporting antagonist. He was the de facto military governor of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He aids the CIA to capture Raul Menendez by sending the PDF to his plantation. The PDF captures him, but Noriega later betrays his own men by helping Menendez. He is the objective of Operation False Profit. Alex Mason and Frank Woods are sent to look for him in the outskirts of the Panama City. He is captured, but Jason Hudson later informs that he is an HVI and must be taken safely to a US Army checkpoint for a prisoner exchange.

•  † Lev Kravchenko (Russian: Лев Кравченко) is the ex-second-in-command of Nikita Dragovich, revealed to now be working with Raul Menendez. He survived the events of Call of Duty: Black Ops but is killed by either Frank Woods or Alex Mason during the mission in Afghanistan.

NPCs (Non-Player Characters) And Others

•  † Josefina Menendez was the sister of Raul Menendez. In 1973, she and her brother, Raul, were trapped inside a barn that was torched by an American for insurance scam; the fire horrifically burned and disfigured her. Josefina became Raul's purpose of living and being very well taken care of for the rest of her life until September 25, 1986, where an outraged Woods threw a grenade which was knocked off course by Mason so as not to kill Hudson and Raul but instead bounced into the room which Josefina was in. Raul broke free and chased the grenade inside the room. Josefina died in the explosion and Raul was badly injured, but survived and managed to escape with the help of Noriega. Josefina's death fueled Raul's desire to take vengeance on America and, to a more personal level, Woods and Mason.

• Anderson is a female USAF FA38 pilot who appears in the level "Cordis Die". After providing close air support for Section and Bosworth her fighter is hit and she crashes near a presidential convoy, but is rescued as she bleeds out. It is possible for her to die if the ambulance she is in is destroyed. Anderson is voiced by Jennifer Hale

• Mark McKnight is a sniper and friend of Mason and Woods who appears in the level "Suffer with Me" when the two men arrive at his house in Panama on the night of the 1989 invasion, and later provides sniper overwatch during the operation. His fate is unknown.

• Jose Luiz Menendez is the father of Raul and Josefina, who at a time was the head of the Menendez Cartel and known as the "untouchable drug lord of Nicaragua". He was killed in a CIA authorized assassination mission, forcing his son Raul to take over as head of the Cartel.

• ISI Leader is the commander of the Inter-Services Intelligence in 2025. He only appears in the mission "Fallen Angel", talking to Menendez.

• Cmdr. King is the commander of the JSOC forces at FOB Spectre in India. He can be heard talking to Section and Briggs in the opening cutscene of the Strike Force mission "FOB Spectre".

• Samuels is a Secret Service agent in and is seen in the level "Cordis Die". Under normal circumstances, he plays a minor role in the mission, but if Harper was killed in a prior mission, he will gain a much larger role in the level.

• President Marion Bosworth is the president of the United States of America as of 2025, and the first female president of the series. David Mason is assigned to protect and assist in evacuating her when Los Angeles comes under attack by hostile drones hacked by Raul Menendez. She is portrayed by actress Cira Larkin.

• David Petraeus is based on the former CIA director of the same name. In 2025, Petraeus is the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, serving under President Bosworth. He is voiced by Jim Meskimen. The game's script was written before the scandal of him having an extramarital affair with his biographer on November 9, 2012, which led to his resignation from the CIA.

• Jones is a Secret Service agent in Call of Duty: Black Ops II seen in the level "Cordis Die.". He is voiced by Ken Lally.

• Johnson is a U.S. Government agent in Call of Duty: Black Ops II in the level "Cordis Die".

• Oliver L. North is a retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel who assisted in the production of Call of Duty: Black Ops II and makes a minor appearance in the beginning of the campaign.

• Jonas Savimbi was an Angolan political leader and is present during the 1986 during the Angolan Civil War. He appears in the mission Pyrrhic Victory, where he leads his UNITA forces against the enemy MPLA forces. He constantly encourages his men to kill as many MPLA as possible. Once the MLPA forces are dispersed, Hudson arrives with a helicopter on the battlefield. Savimbi gives intel on Woods' location and points Hudson and Mason in the right direction. Savimbi then appears at the end of the level with a MI-24 Hind, fighting back the Cuban forces that attack Mason, Woods and Hudson as they escape. He is voiced by Robert Wisdom.

• Erik Breighner is a Magnetometrist from Tacitus Corporation. He was hired by Menendez in Myanmar, to analyze the Celerium, a new rare Earth element which Erik claims "will render all existing microchip technologies obsolete." He was discovered by Mason and his team and gave him the Celerium before he was killed. Breighner is voiced by Robert Picardo

• Premier Chen is the Premier of China in 2025, were the country was the largest owner of Rare-Earth Mineral in the entire world, until a cyber attack crippled the Chinese Economy, which Chen blamed it on the US after Cordis Die leaked the information to them, which Frank Woods said was not true but people believed in the information instead of the US since no-one believed them. This action led of the approval of the SDC (Strategic Defense Coalition), with Tian-Zhao leading the organization. Depending on the player's action in the Strike Force missions, if the players succeed; China and the United States become allies and Chen will send SDC forces to defend the USS Barack Obama from drone attacks and assist US forces against Menendez's Mercenary forces, securing a US-China alliance, with countries like Russia, India, Afghanistan and Iran also assisting. If the player fails the Strike Force mission, then Chen will end diplomatic ties with the US after a drone attack hit most Chinese cities. He is voiced by James Hong.

• Mullah Rahmaan is the leader of the Mujahideen, and made a deal with Jason Hudson, that if he, Mason and Woods helped the Mujahideen defend their base, he will give intel on Raul Menendez. After the team defends the Mujahideen base and interrogates Lev Kravchenko, Rahmaan will betray Woods, Mason, and Hudson and leave them in the desert to die.

• Viktor Reznov (Russian: Виктор Резнов) is a former soldier of the Red Army and a friend of Alex Mason. He appeared in the mission "Old Wounds", where, after the Mujaheddin fighters finish fighting a Soviet assault on their base in a fierce battle, Kravchenko attacks in a tank and Mason hears Reznov ordering him to kill Kravchenko. After stopping Kravchenko's attack, Mason continues hearing Reznov tell him that Kravchenko must die, causing Mason to attempt to kill Kravchenko. After Mason and Woods are betrayed by Rahmaan and left in the desert to die, Reznov appears, riding up on horseback. He then dismounts and helps Mason by offering him a drink of water. However, this is an illusion to only Mason, due to Mason's brainwashing in the first game. Reznov actually died early in the first game. He is voiced by Gary Oldman.

• Jimmy Kimmel is an American comedian, and television host of the show Jimmy Kimmel Live! and makes a cameo in the ending of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which depending on the action of the player, if Chloe Lynch survives and decoded the Celerium worm then she appears as a guest on his show. But if Chloe is killed, then Jimmy will mention that he invited Menendez to appear in the show but turned down due to an anniversary. He is voiced by himself.

• Jennifer "Jenny" Hudson the wife of Jason Hudson. She is briefly mentioned by him as he preps Mason for the mission to Angola, stating that David can stay with her while Mason is gone. As mentioned, Jason and Jennifer have two kids.

• Col. Kurtz a colonel who appears at the end of the game in the "good" ending, with Chloe Lynch watching Menedez's virus spread over the United States and the world, but when he makes a request for the president, Chloe tells him to "screw off" and simply terminates the virus in an instant.

• Agent Smith an FBI unit leader who is trapped in an overturned vehicle in downtown Los Angeles, in the level 'Cordis Die'. The player can free him and his unit if they have the Access Kit perk.

Zombies

• Abigail "Misty" Briarton was a car mechanic and often thinks of herself as superior to all the other characters leaving suggest she narcissistic, especially Samuel, who she often insults. However, she is very fond of Marlton. She favors automatic weapons and dislikes semi-automatic weapons. Misty also seems to have a fondness for shotguns. She is playable in the Zombie mode, TranZit. She is voiced by Stephanie Lemelin.

• Marlton Johnson is a Caucasian man in his twenties. He wears a white collared shirt, blue jeans, and glasses. His actions and quotes in-game classify him as your typical "nerd" and Marlton has a very high view of himself, as he references the fact that he is an "indisputable genius" which sound like also another narcissistic like Abigail Briarton. His character resembles the character from the horror film, "The Hills have Eyes". He is voiced by Scott Menville.

• Samuel J. Stuhlinger is a somewhat overweight Caucasian man with a mustache and wears a green vest, khaki shorts, and glasses. He is incredibly paranoid and often suggesting that simple occurrences, such as running low on ammunition, are linked to a conspiracy of some sorts. He is also the only character in the map that is able to hear Richtofen. In the map "Die Rise" cutscene, he talks to Richtofen and its revealed he has eaten Zombie flesh, being a former member of a Zombie-eating cult called The Flesh. He escapes with Marlton and Misty, watching Russman sacrifice himself to save him, but he continues to talk to Richtofen which the other two don't realize. A time warp happens bringing the group, with Russman back to the start of the map, like Shangri La. The last coment from was from Stuhlinger saying, "Haven't we been here before?". He suffers Schizophrenia much as Richtofen did before him. He also likes food, especially cheese. He is voiced by David Boat.

• Russman is an elderly African-American man with white hair, wearing a brown trench coat and jeans. He comments on the thunder storm that appears after the power is turned on, often as a bad omen or unnatural.Russman has multiple diseases, one of which is Alzheimer's and arthritis. He appears in "Die Rise" along with the rest of the group. In an easter egg, a cutscene appears if the player is on solo mode where he is killed while protecting Samuel Stuhlinger. Although after being killed, a time travel device happened where the group came back to the start of the map, with Russman included, like the map Shangri La. Before his initial death, he realizes that Stuhlinger was talking to a voice, though is unaware it's Richtofen. He is voiced by Keith Szarabajka.

• Edward Richtofen is a sociopath and a sadistic Nazi scientist who was a playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops and is the main antagonist. Richtofen worked under Ludvig Maxis in Group 935. As his progress slowed due to Maxis' involvement, he decided it was time to act for the betterment of Group 935 and kill Dr. Maxis. During a teleporter test, Edward locked Maxis and his daughter, Samantha, in a room with Fluffy, the first Hellhound, in an attempt to kill them, but they both escaped and were teleported to the Black Ops Zombies map Moon. In Moon, he successfully switched bodies with Samantha, the one controlling the zombies, to take control of the zombies himself. He has not appeared in person on any of the Zombie maps so far released on Black Ops II. He is voiced by Nolan North.

• Dr. Ludvig Maxis was the lead scientist part of the project known as "Der Riese" and was the father of Samantha Maxis. The player can discover information about him after activating hidden radios. He was the leader of Group 935, aiding in the creation of the Hellhounds and Zombies. Maxis was apparently killed when Samantha first came to power over the Zombies, but he became a technological being lying dormant in Griffin Station's computers until the events of Moon. When Richtofen gained control of the Zombies, Maxis enlisted Takeo, Dempsey, and Nikolai to assist him in trying to minimize the damage Richtofen intended to cause. Although his true intentions were unclear, Maxis launched nuclear missiles containing Element 115 which struck Earth and reduced it to a wasteland, causing the zombie apocalypse of Black Ops II. Maxis has resorted to a back-up plan involving global polarization devices to somehow stop Richtofen, and his agenda has collided with Richtofen's head-on in both Green Run and Die Rise, as well as many survivors outside of Misty, Russman, Samuel and Marlton. Maxis never physically appears in game, but can be heard on several radio/films reels and occasionally while in the teleporter. He is voiced by Fred Tatasciore.

• (Unknown) T.E.D.D. (Technically Elaborate Driving Droid) is a robot introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. He is a character in the Zombies mode TranZit, and drives the "Bloodhound" bus which transports the characters across the map. While he cheerfully greets the players when they enter the bus, he will become angry if attacked and will attempt to throw the offenders off the bus.