History Characters / CallOfDuty

!!Corporal / Sergeant Roebuck

* BloodKnight

* MyNameIsInigoMontoya/ PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[spoiler: MY NAME IS VIKTOR! REZNOV! AND I! WILL! HAVE! MY! REVENGE!]]

* [[spoiler:BackForTheDead: In CallOfDutyBlackOps.]]

Characters from the various games of the FirstPersonShooter franchise ''Call of Duty''. See the ''Characters/ModernWarfare'' page for that series.

[[folder: World at War / Black Ops]]

!! Captain Alex Mason
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: at least a little subverted by Reznov by making him do something else entirely]]
* {{Determinator}}
* InkSuitActor: He bears a striking resemblance to his actor Sam Worthington.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: killing Steiner]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Did this to Dragovich in the final mission.
* OneManArmy: In Rebirth [[spoiler: since 'Reznov' there was actually a hallucination, he effectively thrashed the whole facility himself]]
* PlayerCharacter: most of the time in ''Black Ops''.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: especially in Payback
* UnreliableNarrator

!! Sergeant Frank Woods
* AtomicFBomb: in the beginning of Payback [[spoiler: when forced to play RussianRoulette]].
* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody]]: [[spoiler: Furthermore, a secret file in the game outright says that he's still alive and is being held in the infamous Viet Cong prison Hanoi Hilton. He is shown as an old man in a recent Black Ops 2 trailer, so this information is true, regardless of the MindScrew of most of the first Black Ops.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: in Payback.
* [[spoiler: TakingYouWithMe: to Kravchenko. [[{{Badass}} Woods lives.]]]]
* SergeantRock

!! Chief Petty Officer Joseph Bowman
* BadassBeard
* [[spoiler: BlackDudeDiesFirst]]: [[spoiler: He's far from the first character to die in the game, but he ''is'' the first SOG member to die.]]
* BreakTheBadass / HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: had a bad one when captured by the NVA, before getting clubbed to death by the Russian operative]]
* InkSuitActor: It's IceCube.


!! Special Agent Jason Hudson
* BadassBookworm: Has a double major in Psychology and Political Science, a genius level IQ, and is a brilliant tactician. He also [[spoiler:deduces that Reznov's not real just by ''reading Mason's combat reports''. He also frees Mason and lets himself get knocked out so he can follow him around and see what he does in the hope that it will trigger something. It does.]]
* [[spoiler: BackForTheDead]]
* BigDamnHeroes: He saves Mason from [[spoiler:being executed by Dragovich by shooting the latter in the shoulder.]]
* CoolShades
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[spoiler:Did this to Mason prior to the final mission, knocking him out with a punch to the face.]]
* GlassesPull: Before "Payback".
* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler:When Mason doesn't give him and Weaver satisfactory replies in the opening cutscene, Hudson shocks him. About three times.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]
* JerkAss: He starts off as this, but turns into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in the second to last level.
* PlayerCharacter: for some missions.
* * [[spoiler: TheOtherDarrin]]
* [[spoiler:UnseenAudience: He is one of the two guys interrogating Mason for most the game.]]

!! Special Agent Grigori Weaver
* EyepatchOfPower
* EyeScream: done by Kravchenko, which results in him wearing an eyepatch for the rest of the game.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Closely averted, at least he survived after getting captured by Kravchenko
* TokenMinority
* [[spoiler:UnseenAudience: He is one of the two interrogators for Mason in most of the game.]]
* [[spoiler:WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: He is absent from the sequel.]]

!! Dr Daniel Clarke
* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot: His death.]]
* CrazyPrepared: His safe house is ''filled'' with guns, along with other safeguards in case he needs to escape.
* [[spoiler:HisNameIs]]
-->'''Dr. Clarke''': [[spoiler:The numbers! [[BoomHeadshot They're the key to--!]]]]
* MadScientist: Somewhat, though willing to cooperate with the military.
* TooKinkyToTorture
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:One reason why Dragovich wanted him dead.]]

!! Major General Nikita Dragovich
* [[spoiler:AnticlimaxBoss]]
* ANaziByAnyOtherName
* BigBad
* GeneralRipper
* ManipulativeBastard
* NotQuiteDead: Mason thought he blew up his limousine.

!! Colonel Lev Kravchenko
* [[spoiler: BackfortheDead]]
* [[spoiler:BoomHeadshot: His death in the sequel.]]
* ColonelKilgore
* CutsceneBoss
* TheBrute
* TheDragon
* HeroKiller: At least he tries.
* HuskyRusskie
* TakingYouWithMe: Tried this to Mason [[spoiler: but subverted by Woods]].

!! Dr Friedrich Steiner
* DirtyCoward
* MadScientist
* ThoseWackyNazis
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:The reason Dragovich's men are in the facility is because he thinks that HeKnowsTooMuch.]]

!!Lieutenant Dimitri Volsky

[[folder: Call of Duty Classic]]

!!Sergent Jack Evans

!!Sergent Alexei Ivanovich Voronin

* HeroicMime: Averted

!!Captain Price

[[folder: Call of Duty 2]]

[[folder: Call of Duty 3]]
!!Private Nichols

!!Sergeant James Doyle

!!Corporal Duncan Keith
* ViolentGlaswegian
!!Isabelle [=DuFontaine=]
* ActionGirl
* HeroicSacrifice: Dies planting explosives on an armored car, but atypical in that she was killed only by early detonation.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: World at War / Black Ops]]
!!Private Miller
An American soldier fighting in the Pacific theater of the war. The player character in the American campaign of the game.
* TheEveryman: possibly.
* HeroicMime: Like most Call of Duty protagonists.

* TheCameo: Mentioned in a FBI file in Black Ops

!!Corporal / Sergeant Roebuck
The American sergeant in the war, leader of Private Miller's group.

* TheCaptain: After Sullivan's death.
* SacrificialLion: He could be, depending on your action.

!!Sergeant Sullivan
The former leader of the group that rescued Private Miller, he was killed early in the game.
* TheCaptain: Prior to his death.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: His death at the hands of a Japanese soldier with a bayonet comes of as surprising as the soldier seems to come out of nowhere.
* SacrificialLamb

!!Private Dimitri Petrenko
A Soviet solder fighting in the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany. The player character of the Soviet campaign in the game.

* [[spoiler:BackForTheDead: In CallOfDutyBlackOps.]]
* [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath: Killed along with Reznov's new squad in ''Black Ops'' when [[BigBad Dragovich]] unleashes [[DeadlyGas Nova 6]] on them, causing their bodies to pretty much fall apart... as a test of the gas.]]
* HeroicMime: [[spoiler:Until Black Ops.]]
* MadeOfIron: He cheats death, like, ''five'' times over the course of one game. This is actually acknowledged by Sergeant Reznov.

!!Sergeant Viktor Reznov
A sergeant of the Red Army, seems to be the leader of Petrenko's group.
* AntiHero: Type IV, brushing with a Type V judging by his penchant for killing surrendering Germans and, in Black Ops [[spoiler: reverse-engineering his friend to put him on a slow-acting vicarious RoaringRampageOfRevenge]]
* AxeCrazy

* FantasticRacism: Cannot stand the French, at least at first.

* [[spoiler: BackfortheDead]]

* [[spoiler:UnseenAudience: He is one of the two interrogators for Mason in most of the game.]]

* PlayerCharacter: for some missions.

!! Colonel Lev Kravchenko

* MyNameIsInigoMontoya/PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[spoiler: MY NAME IS VIKTOR! REZNOV! AND I! WILL! HAVE! MY! REVENGE!]]

* MyNameIsInigoMontoya/ ThisIsSparta: [[spoiler: MY NAME IS VIKTOR! REZNOV! AND I! WILL! HAVE! MY! REVENGE!]]

* WeaponOfChoice: His knife. He doesn't use it often, [[CaptainObvious propably because everyone else is shooting]], but it's pretty memorable when he does.

* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody]]: [[spoiler: Furthermore, a secret file in the game outright says that he's still alive and is being held in the infamous VietCong prison Hanoi Hilton. He is shown as an old man in a recent Black Ops 2 trailer, so this information is true, regardless of the MindScrew of most of the first Black Ops.]]

* BadassBookworm: Has a double major in Psychology and Political Science, a genius level IQ, and is a brilliant tactician. He also [[spoiler: deduces that Reznov's not real just by READING MASON'S COMBAT REPORTS. He also frees Mason and lets himself get knocked out so he can follow him around and see what he does in the hope that it will trigger something. It does.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: He saves Mason from [[spoiler: being executed by Dragovich by shooting the latter in the shoulder.]]

* GlassesPull
* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: When Mason doesn't give him and Weaver satisfactory replies in the opening cutscene, Hudson shocks him. About three times.]]

* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody]]: [[spoiler: Furthermore, a secret file in the game outright says that he's still alive and is being held in the infamous VietCong prison Hanoi Hilton. Considering the MindScrew nature of the story, whether or not this is actually true remains to be seen.]]

* [[spoiler: TakingYouWithMe: to Kravchenko]]

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[spoiler: did this to Mason prior to the final mission]]

* [[spoiler: UnseenAudience: He is one of the two guys interrogating Mason]]

* [[spoiler: UnseenAudience: He is one of the two interrogators]]

* [[spoiler: BoomHeadshot: his death]]
* CrazyPrepared
* MadScientist: somewhat

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: one reason why Dragovich wanted him dead]]

* AnticlimaxBoss

* NotQuiteDead: Mason thought he blew up his limousine

* HeroKiller: at least he tries

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: The reason Dragovich's men are in the facility is because he thinks that HeKnowsTooMuch]]

* HeroicMime

* HeroicSociopath: He really likes killing Germans and encourages the player character to kill helpless, surrendering German soldiers.

* BadassBookworm: Has a double major in Psychology and Political Science, a genius level IQ, and is a brilliant tactician. He also [[spoiler: deduces that Reznov's not real just by READING MASON'S COMBAT REPORTS. He also frees Mason and lets himself get knocked out so he can follow him around and see what he does in the hope that it will trigger something. It does.

* BadassBookworm: Has a double major in Psychology and Political Science, a genius level IQ, and is a brilliant tactician. He also [[spoiler: deduces that Reznov's not real just by READING MASON'S COMBAT REPORTS. He also frees Mason and lets himself get knocked out so he can follow him around and see what he does in the hope that it will trigger something. [[{{Understatement}} It does]].]]

* DeTerminator: [[spoiler:He brainwashes Alex Mason into killing the guys that murdered Dimitri]].

* [[spoiler: IGotBetter: Played with. He reappears in 2, but the missions are chronologically earlier than the CallOfDuty 1 levels, with the possible exception of the credits sequence.]]

* BadassBookworm: Has a double major in Psychology and Political Science, a genius level IQ, and is a brilliant tactician. He also [[spoiler: deduces that Reznov's not real just by READING MASON'S COMBAT REPORTS. He also frees Mason and lets himself get knocked out so he can follow him around and see what he does in the hope that it will trigger something. [[Understatement It does.]]

* [[HeroicSacrifice: Dies planting explosives on an armored car, but atypical in that she was killed only by early detonation.]]

!! Sergeant First Class Joseph Bowman

* MemeticBadass

* MemeticBadass

* PlayerCharacter: most of the time in ''Black Ops''
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: especialy in Payback

* [[spoiler: NeverFoundTheBody]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: in Payback

* [[spoiler: BlackDudeDiesFirst]]

* InkSuitActor: its Ice Cube

* GoodIsNotNice: [[spoiler: When Mason dosen't give him and Weaver satisfactory replies in the opening cutscene, Hudson shocks him. About three times.]]

* PlayerCharacter: for some missions