History Characters / Battlefield3

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Blackburn started out as a US Marine sergeant serving his country, before an incident in 2014 found him in the middle of a plot to start a war between the US and Russia. Despite preventing nuclear devastation in New York, Blackburn was forced out of the Marines for [[spoiler: killing his commanding officer,]] and subsequently disappeared for many years. He would later form the Arkangel Corporation, the largest corporate entity in existence capable of manipulating the government and conducting illegal operations across the world.

* *TheLancer: He's Captain Cole's second-in-command and takes over as squad leader when he's not around (despite Blackburn being a higher rank than him.) Unlike Cole however, Campo is shown to be a rather competent leader.

[[folder:Private First Class David Montes]]
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--> ''"There's no we. There's just us, and then there's [[TheNeidermeyer you.]]"''

--> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/RonanSummers
A non-player character who appears alongside Blackburn in several of the infantry missions.

* DeadpanSnarker: He immediately endears himself to players with his banter.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: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.]]
* TheLancer: David works alongside Black in several missions in the game, even to the point of being interrogated with him by the CIA in a New York safehouse.

* BigDamnHeroes: They do this like taking out hostile armored vehicles and providing [=CAS=] strikes for the Marines.

* PetTheDog: While he spends most of his screentime in ''Battlefield 3'' being an antagonistic prick, [[spoiler: he does briefly sympathise with Blackburn's anger over the deaths of his friends due to Cole's uncaring attitude, relating to an similar incident in his past where he lost four friends in a rocket attack because the soldier on watch was sleeping.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: He's wounded early on and presumably sent home, inadvertently making him the only ally in the player's squad to survive the events of the game.]]

* BadBoss: Cole is shown to not really care much for the lives of the men under his command, instead only seeing them as tools to further his goals for promotion. To this end, he continues to send them into increasingly dangerous life-threatening situations [[spoiler: until Campo and Matkovic are killed.]] [[Blackburn, probably already pissed off from the aforementioned incident, doesn't even hesitate to shoot him when Dima tells him to.]]

* AssholeVictim: While not to the extent of the actual villains like [[spoiler: Al-Bashir or Solomon,]] Cole is still a promotion-seeking glory hound who forces his squad into increasingly dangerous engagements [[spoiler: until two of them are ultimately killed trying to follow his orders.]] It's therefore almost cathartic when [[spoiler: Blackburn puts a burst of rifle fire into his chest, killing him to protect Dima.]]

* AssholeVictim: Not to the extent of the actual villains like [[spoiler: Al-Bashir or Solomon,]] but Cole is a promotion-seeking glory hound who forces his squad into increasingly dangerous engagements [[spoiler: until two of them are ultimately killed trying to follow his orders.]] It's therefore almost cathartic when [[spoiler: Blackburn puts a burst of rifle fire into his chest, killing him to protect Dima.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: He's wounded early on and presumably sent home, making him the only ally in the player's squad to survive the events of the game.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: He's the only surviving ally in the player's squad, but only because he's wounded and sent home.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: He's the only surviving ally in the player's squad, but only because he's wounded in action and sent home.]]

[[caption-width-right:255:''"Quit being a fucking hippie Montes."'']]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of ''Battlefield 3,'' working to prevent nuclear destruction when terrorists plot to ignite a war between the United States and Russia. ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' reveals that by the 2040s, after being court-martialed and kicked out of the marines, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operation might be exposed.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of ''Battlefield 3,'' working to prevent nuclear destruction when terrorists plot to ignite a war between the United States and Russia. ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' reveals that by the 2040s, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operation might be exposed.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Blackburn started out as a US Marine sergeant serving his country, before an incident in 2014 found him in the middle of a plot to start a war between the US and Russia. Despite preventing nuclear devastation in New York, Blackburn was forced out of the Marines for killing his commanding officer, and subsequently disappeared for many years. He would later form the Arkangel Corporation, the largest corporate entity in existence capable of manipulating the government and conducting illegal operations across the world.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of ''Battlefield 3,'' working to prevent nuclear destruction when terrorists plot to ignite a war between the United States and Russia. [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' reveals that by the 2040s, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operation might be exposed.]]

** Season 6 of ''Battlefield 2042'' "Dark Creations" reveals that, despite his heroic actions, he was still dishonourably discharged from the Marines for [[spoiler: his murder of Cole,]] dropping off the grid for several years before re-emerging in the 2020s as the leader of a large and elite PMC. [[spoiler: He would later form the incredibly powerful Arkangel Corporation and begin kidnapping and experimenting on people in order to create augmented super-soldiers at a secret facility in Scotland.]]

** Season 6 of ''Battlefield 2042'' "Dark Creations" reveals that, despite his heroic actions, he was still dishonourably discharged from the Marines for his murder of Cole, dropping off the grid for several years before re-emerging in the 2020s as the leader of a large and elite PMC. [[spoiler: He would later form the incredibly powerful Arkangel Corporation and begin kidnapping and experimenting on people in order to create augmented super-soldiers at a secret facility in Scotland.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of ''Battlefield 3,'' working to prevent nuclear destruction and a possible war between the United States and Russia. [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' reveals that by the 2040s, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operation might be exposed.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of Battlefield 3, working to prevent nuclear destruction and a possible war between the United States and Russia. [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' reveals that by the 2040s, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operation might be exposed.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of Battlefield 3, working to prevent nuclear destruction and a possible war between the United States and Russia. [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' reveals that by the 2040s, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operations might be exposed.]]

** Season 6 of ''Battlefield2042'' "Dark Creations" reveals that, despite his heroic actions, he was still dishonourably discharged from the Marines for his murder of Cole, dropping off the grid for several years before re-emerging in the 2020s as the leader of a large and elite PMC. [[spoiler: He would later form the incredibly powerful Arkangel Corporation and begin kidnapping and experimenting on people in order to create augmented super-soldiers at a secret facility in Scotland.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of Battlefield 3, working to prevent nuclear destruction and a possible war between the United States and Russia. [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'' reveals By the 2040s, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operations might be exposed.]]

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He's the heroic protagonist of Battlefield 3, working to prevent nuclear destruction and a possible war between the United States and Russia. [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/Battlefield 2042'' reveals By the 2040s, the embittered Blackburn eventually became no better than the terrorists he once fought against, with his company Arkangel conducting inhumane experiments on kidnapped soldiers and implicating Russia to be responsible when it looks like his operations might be exposed.]]