History Characters / Battlefield3

* DarkAndTroubledPast: During his time in Paris, he fell in love in a French woman whose upper class family won't approve of because he came from the USSR. Dima was not able to raise him since he lived apart from him, most likely thanks to the woman's family after she was found dead.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kiril can't hear very well [[spoiler: as he was captured and tortured by pro-independence rebels in Chechnya during his tour of duty in the 1990s before he was rescued.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Nowhere to be seen in the sequel.

!! Zirak

The man in charge of gathering intelligence for the PLR. Gets killed during a GRU-backed op.

Like Dima, he's a former Spetsnaz operator who's serving time for drug trafficking. He's known among fellow Spetsnaz for infiltrating the Iranian military's general staff on a black op mission.

Like Dima, he's a former Spetsnaz operator of some renown.

* BoxedCrook: He was sprung from his incarceration in [[TheAlcatraz Butyrka prison]] (for drug trafficking) for the express purpose of serving on Dima's team. He thinks it was a prank gone wrong

* NamesTheSame: Jennifer Hawkins is the name of an Australian model who won Miss World 2004.
** A pilot with the name (or in this case, callsign) [[Franchise/StarWars Wedge]]?

Codename for a couple of Marines involved in high-value operations such as assisting fellow Marines in defending American military camps and rescuing hostages and capturing PLR leaders.

A Spetsnaz-trained Special Forces career soldier and special agent in the employ of the Russian intelligence agency GRU, who may be beginning to question where his loyalties lie.

!United States Characters

! Russian Special Forces

!People's Liberation and Resistance

* DirtyCoward: Not only does he flee when Dima and his men come after him, but he also tries to offer him the contents of his Swiss bank account before immediately selling out Solomon and his whole plan in the hopes of being let go.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Disappears off the face of the Earth in ''Battlefield4''

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Unceremoniously killed off in a cable car crash in ''Battlefield4'' that leaves the other three characters unharmed.]]

* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion: At the end of his mission, his tank is disabled and he is captured by the enemy. He is then shown being executed on camera by Solomon and Faruk Al-Bashir. His execution drives the Marines to strike back at Al-Bashir with extreme prejudice, thus kick-starting the climax of the game.]]

* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim: She's killed off rather unceremoniously in the Battlefield 4 trailer]].

* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim: In the final mission in the game, he is the one who helps Blackburn pursue and stop Solomon, but is killed in the aftermath of the car crash.]]

* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim: Is killed by an SU-25 Frogfoot strafing run.]]

* [[spoiler:UnfriendlyFire: Black kills him to help cover Dima's escape, so that the two of them can work to stop Solomon's terror plot without intervention.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Unceremoniously killed off in a cable car crash in ''Battlefield4'' that leaves the other three characters unharmed.]]
* [[spoiler:ForegoneConclusion: The aforementioned scene fades to black before we find out what Dima does, but it was known prior to the game's release that the tie-in novel was about what he did ''after'' the game, so we pretty much know he didn't actually blow his brains out.]]
* MilitaryMaverick: His [=GRU=] superiors, in the novel, had sent him to Iran to train Iranian Revolutionary Guards after [[spoiler: Dima personally assassinated a [=GRU=] station chief in Paris after learning of his plans to defect to MI:6 and shot a Russian soldier for killing French nurses in Afghanistan while he was on drugs.]]

* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: To elaborate, an RPG blast sends bits of shrapnel flying at high speeds towards Dima, Kiril and Vladimir. The result is a piece of rebar or piece of a fence slamming through his chest.]]
* [[spoiler:SacrificialLamb: He's killed by an RPG blast in Paris while hunting down the stolen nuclear device, leaving Dima severely shaken..]]

* NietzscheWannabe: Likes to lecture his victims about the inevitability of death and how meaningless their efforts are.

* ActionGirl: The first female player character in the ''Battlefield'' series.

A career soldier and special agent in the employ of the Russian intelligence agency GRU, who may be beginning to question where his loyalties lie.
* {{Badass}}: Is a Spetsnaz-trained Special Forces soldier.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Appears to be about to kill himself at the end of the game before a knock on his door stops him.]]

* {{Badass}}: Like Dima, he's a former Spetsnaz operator of some renown.

* HeyItsThatGuy: A bit of an odd case, as he's specifically modeled after but ''not'' played by actor/mixed martial artist Oleg Taktarov, known for playing Nikolai in ''Film/{{Predators}}''.

* WeaponOfChoice: Always carries the A-91 compact assault rifle.

* AnonymousRinger: He looks nothing like him, but he seems to be a pretty transparent substitute for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The way the war in Iran plays out, along with his aspirations of acquiring [=WMDs=], could make him a probable expy of SaddamHussein as well.

* HeyItsThatGuy: A bit of an odd case, as he's specifically modeled after but ''not'' played by actor/mixed martial artist Oleg Taktarov, known for playing Nikolai in ''{{Predators}}''.

* TheBadGuyWins: ''{{Battlefield 4}}'' shows that Solomon's plan to start a global war between the U.S. and Russia was a success, despite all of Dima and Blackburn's efforts.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: At the end of his mission, his tank is disabled and he is captured by the enemy. He is then shown being executed on camera by Solomon and Faruk Al-Bashir.]]

* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion: He's killed by an RPG blast in Paris while hunting down the stolen nuclear device, leaving Dima severely shaken.]]

* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]

* BadassNormal: He isn't a Special Ops soldier, or wearing a super suit. But he is incredibly {{Badass}}.
** Specifically, he's a member of the USMC 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. That's not the same as Force Recon--the 1st Recon is a completely regular Marine unit.

* SilentProtagonist: Averted. We get his side of the story constantly.

!!Henry "Black" Blackburn

!!Jonathan "Jono" Miller

!!Jennifer Colby Hawkins
Yet another playable character, in the jet fighter mission "Going Hunting". Callsign is ''Wedge''.

!!David Montes

!!Christian Matkovic

!!Captain Cole

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous

* WeaponOfChoice: The [=AS=] [=Val=].

* DirtyCoward: Not only does he flee when Dima and his men come after him, but he also tries to offer him the contents of his Swiss bank account before immediately selling out Solomon and his whole plan in the hopes of being let go.

The hero of ''{{Battlefield 3}}'', Henry Blackburn is a US 1st Recon Marine who propels the narrative of the story through his flashbacks. He is the player character for the majority of the game's singleplayer missions.