History Characters / CallOfDuty

** [[Characters/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019Multiplayer Multiplayer operatives]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[spoiler:He is promoted to squad leader after he displays great bravery during the battle of Chambois.]]

* ''Characters/CallOfDuty2BigRedOne''

[[folder: Call of Duty 2: Big Red One]]
!! Private/Corporal/Sergeant Roland Roger
->'''Voiced by:''' Stephen Saux

* AlliterativeName: '''Ro'''land '''Ro'''ger.
* AllThereInTheManual: You can see his name on the back of the CD case. He was only addressed by rank in-game.
* ChekhovsSkill: Riding a tank during "Tankers", it comes up again in "The Last Train" after your squadron captured a Panzer.
* HeroicMime: Averted. He speaks in a few levels, such as "Tankers".
* NewMeat: Was this during the Africa Campaign.
* PlayerCharacter: The player character for most of the game, except for "Liberators" where you play as his brother "Stretch".
* SergeantRock: Gets promoted to Sergeant after the Normandy landings.
* TargetSpotter: In "Piano Lupo" and "The Great Crusade", he uses a pair of binoculars to call in artillery strikes at enemy armor and defenses.

!! Airman "Stretch" Roger
->'''Voiced by:'''

* HeroicMime: Again, averted. He speaks at least two lines in the game.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Only referred to as Stretch.
* PlayerCharacter: In "Liberators".

!! Lieutenant/Captain Norman Delaney
->'''Voiced by:''' J. Matthew Morton

* TheCaptain: Promoted into one later in the game.
* LamarckWasRight: His backstory tells us his father was a decorated soldier in World War One, and he became an officer just like him.
%%* OfficerAndAGentleman
* SixthRanger: His first appearance was brief during Operation Husky, but he fights alongside your squad in the last two missions.

!! Sergeant Glenn "Hawk" Hawkins
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelCudlitz

* AFatherToHisMen: His squadron holds a lot of respect for the man.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Gets wounded for the third time (after getting gunned down in Africa and Sicily prior), and medevaced in "An Easy Detail"]].
* PromotedToParent: [[{{AllThereInTheManual}} In his backstory]], he had to care for his mother and sisters after [[DisappearedDad their father left for work]] [[ParentalAbandonment and never came back.]]
* SergeantRock: Your squad leader, and willing to use his Thompson against the Germans.
* WeaponSpecialization: Wields the Thompson submachine gun whenever he's around, but he was armed with a Garand in "The Great Crusade".

!! Private Victor "Vic" Denley
->'''Voiced by:''' David Rees Snell

* TheBigGuy: Armed with a B.A.R.
* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: [[spoiler: The first of your squadron to go.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Gets killed by a German machinegunner in "Farewell to Friends"]].
%%* NewMeat
* SouthernFriedPrivate: Subverted. While he is from Texas and the most scrappy of your squadron, he's a very easy-going guy. Unless Brooklyn insults him.

!! Private/Corporal Alvin "Brooklyn" Bloomfield
->'''Voiced by:''' Frank John Hughes

* BrooklynRage: Really [[InsistentTerminology from the Bronx.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:His squadmates were celebrating over the destruction of the V2 rockets rather than grieving for Brooklyn. Odd since both Vic and Hawkins had some moment of remorse.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He was struck down by a mortar round in the last mission.]]
* InformedJudaism: His backstory stated he is the youngest of a Jewish family.
* PluckyComicRelief: Usually at the expense of his teammates.
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:Killed by mortar fire before the bloodbath at the Siegfried Line.]]

!! Private/Corporal/Sergeant Stephen Kelly
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RichardSpeightJr.

* BadassBookworm: Studied English and French literature at Yale before being drafted.
* CowardlyLion: Easily the most timid member of your group, but he can still fend for himself in a fight.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: He is the only member of your original squadron not killed or replaced by the end of the game.]]

!! Private/Corporal John Jackson "Schmitty" Smith

* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite his pudgy exterior, he can catch up with everyone. Possibly that he was stationed as a mechanic he gained a few pounds before being sent to the front lines.
* NewMeat: Joined your group before Normandy.
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Joined your team after Vic is killed.]]
* TheEngineer: One point repaired a Flak 88 during the D-Day mission.

!! Private Andy Allen
->'''Voiced by:'''

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:A victim of a mortar round at the very end of the tutorial.]]
* NewMeat
* ReplacementGoldfish: Unlike Schmitty, Brooklyn seem to show some disdain towards him.
-->'''Brooklyn''' ''(to Allen)'': Look here replacement, just because you have that patch on your shoulder doesn't mean you're one of us.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Was killed up in the tutorial, the same mission he debuted in.]]

!! Private Miles "Manny" "Max" Castillo
->'''Voiced by:'''

* AdvertisedExtra: Has a profile of his own despite appearing in one mission.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed in a jeep crash from an German ambush.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:We met him in "An Easy Detail", died in a car crash in same level.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Call of Duty 3]]
!!Private Nichols
->'''Voiced by:'''

* WeaponOfChoice: Carries the only scoped Mosin Nagant in the entire single-player campaign.

* WeaponOfChoice: He carries the DP-28 Light Machine gun in any mission he's playable.

* WeaponOfChoice: Armed with the M3 Grease Gun, the only one that appears in the game.

* WeaponOfChoice: Wields the Thompson submachine gun whenever he's around, but he was armed with a Garand in "The Great Crusade".

* MajorlyAwesome

* {{BFG}}: After his promotion, he uses a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns BAR]].

* TheBigGuy: Armed with a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns B.A.R.]]

* NiceHat: Wears a tam o'shanter outside of battle.

* {{Megane}}: To show he's a scholar, and a timid person too.

* BaldOfAwesome

* BaldOfAwesome: Has no hair under his tank cap. Though he never wears said hat during the game.

** [[Characters/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019SinglePlayer Characters in the singleplayer campaign]]

!! Lieutenant Tanya Pavelovena

* BadassBeard: A fuzzy red one.

* BadassBeard

->'''Voiced by:'''

* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:With his last breath he tells Guzzo to go to hell.]]

** ''Characters/CallOfDutyVanguard''

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Nichols is a one man army, who is noted by other characters for his aim, his ability to complete objectives and his reliability; he gets passed up for promotions in favor of Guzzo and Huxley instead, and Sergeant McCullen can't even remember his name.

!!Jean-Guy Robiechauld

* FrenchJerk: French-''Canadian'' Jerk to be precise. Often picks on Baron for being a Communication's Officer.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:His death was met with apathy, although he died in the Polish campaign and none of your allies there know about him.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Richard Speight Jr.

[[folder:Call of Duty 2: Big Red One]]

->'''Voiced by:''' r

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BenDiskind

* ''Chracters/CallOfDuty1''

* ''Cahracters/CallOfDuty1''

[[folder: Call of Duty Classic and United Offensive]]
!!Player Characters in General
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Unlike the heroic mimes from most of the other games, we know their thoughts through their journal entries at the beginning of each mission. Oddly enough, this leaves them with more characterization than many future protagonists in the series starting with Modern Warfare.
* HeroicMime

!!Private Joe Martin
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Part of the famous 101st Airborne Division.
* PlayerCharacter: The first in the series!

!!Sergeant Jack Evans
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: After taking part in securing Pegasus Bridge during D-Day, he, Waters and Captain Price are moved into the SAS for covert operations.
* PlayerCharacter: For ''Call of Duty's'' British campaign.
* OneManArmy: He singlehandely infiltrated a German-occupied dam and killed his way in-and-out to destroy its anti-air defenses.

!!Sergeant Waters
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasonStatham
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: He is the axillary soldier involved with Evans and Price's covert operations. He plays a supporting role while Price and/or Evans goes into the enemy's territory.

!!Sergeant James Doyle
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Starts with the RAF (Royal Air Force) and moves on to the SOE (Special Operations Executive) and receives back up from the SAS (Special Air Service).
* PlayerCharacter: For ''United Offensive''.

!!Sergeant Alexei Ivanovich Voronin

* ColdSniper: [[IncrediblyLamePun Literally.]] He is quick to choose sniping as his mode of fighting when forced into combat at gunpoint.
* FieldPromotion: Starts off as a fresh private being forced at gunpoint to go into battle. Ends up promoted during the missions of the first game until he reached Sergeant.
* PlayerCharacter: For ''Call of Duty's'' Russian campaign.
* SuddenlyVoiced: He speaks in the mission Warsaw Factory.

!!Captain Foley
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SteveBlum
* BashBrothers: With Sgt. Moody.
* TheCaptain: He's your CO during the American Campaign.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Part of the 101st Airborne.

!!Sergeant Moody
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GreggBerger
* BadassDriver: Manages to drive a ''Peugeot'' through enemy lines to try to get to HQ
* BashBrothers: With Cpt. Foley.
* DeadpanSnarker
-->Oh yes, sir, you bet! We ride through enemy lines in a French tin can! Want me to paint a bullseye on it, sir?
** Also:
--->'''Pvt. Elder:''' I can't believe I agreed to do this!\\
'''Sgt. Moody:''' ''(matter-of-factly)'' You didn't, remember? You were volunteered.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: When he and the privates needed to deliver a message to HQ while traveling through German lines.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Part of the 101st Airborne.
* IndyPloy: Oh yes. While driving through a German convoy.
-->'''Pvt. Elder:''' What the hell are you doing Sarge?!\\
'''Sgt. Moody:''' ''(quietly)'' I don't know, I sure hope it works.
* TheLancer: To Captain Foley.
* SergeantRock: The first in a long series of them.
* {{Pun}}: Sgt. Moody is moody.

!!Private Elder
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GiovanniRibisi
* DeadpanSnarker: When Moody gets the car stuck in a dead end and destroys the car, Elder is not amused. Moody doesn't want to hear it.
-->'''Elder:''' Oh. hey great, good move! Remind me to thank the captain.\\
'''Sgt. Moody:''' Shut up Elder, and get your ass out! Let's go Martin, move it, move!
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Part of the 101st Airborne.
* KilledOffForReal: Player-determined; he can die during Brecourt Manor like any other generic soldier.
** WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's not mentioned again after Brecourt Manor. It's possible given his attitude and accomplishments that he was promoted and transferred to another squad. It's just as likely he was killed or wounded and taken out of combat. Lastly, it's possible that Pvt. Elder was from a different squad, got separated from them during the drops, and went back to them after things settled down; Captain Foley describes in a slide show that the 101st formed mixed groups because everyone got dropped everywhere with little rhyme or reason, and Elder could have just been pulled along for the ride by Moody.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: Implied by this conversation when Sergeant Moody needs him to hotwire a Nazi vehicle.
-->'''Sgt. Moody:''' Elder, ever steal a car?\\
'''Elder:''' Only when I need one Sarge.

!!Sergeant Yakov Pavlov
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelBell
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He's based and named after the real Pavlov.

!!Captain Price
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Michael Gough|VoiceActor}}
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a Captain and a skilled soldier.
* BadassInDistress: Was captured by the Germans and rescued by the Americans.
* BadassFamily: Has a presumed grandson who's even more awesome.
* DeadpanSnarker:
--> Made quite a racket, didn't you. That's quite alright, I can still walk.
** Also:
---> We're in luck! The Germans haven't responded to our, erm... [[SarcasmMode stellar landing]].
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:In ''Call of Duty'', he's killed rather unceremoniously during the mission on the ''Tirpitz''.]]
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: He gets transferred to the SAS with Evans and Waters.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In ''Call of Duty'', dies during the ''Tirpitz'' mission.]]
* PornStache: Runs in the family.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He dies during the infiltration of the ''Tirpitz''.]]

!!Major Gerald Ingram
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (''Call of Duty'' and ''Call of Duty: United Offensive''); Mark Deklin (''Call of Duty 3'')
* BadassInDistress: Like Price, he was captured and the Americans needed to rescue him.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Major in the SAS.
* MajorlyAwesome: Did work with the resistance movements in France and the Netherlands. When you rescue him in the first game, he was just about to break free having incapacitated a guard there.
-->'''Ingram:''' Yanks? Well there's a spot of luck.
* SacrificialLion: Subverted, he appears to die after raiding a fuel plant in ''Call of Duty 3'', but you end up rescuing him later on.

!!Sergeant Antonov
->'''Voiced by:''' S. Scott Bullock

* PoliticalOfficer: He's a Commissar, though he is more active in combat compared to the usual [[YouHaveFailedMe "shoot the coward"]] or ObstructiveBureaucrat.
* SergeantRock: Technically Commissar Rock by his position, he leads the squad from the front and make quick decisions in thick of battle.

!!Major Sheppard

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous

!!Private Ender
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/QuintonFlynn
* DeadpanSnarker: Again, Sgt. Moody doesn't appreciate it.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: 101st Airborne.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of Private Elder of the original campaign.

!!Private Riley

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: 101st Airborne.
* PlayerCharacter: Of the American campaign in ''United Offensive''.

!!Private Anderson
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CamClarke

* DeadpanSnarker
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: 101st Airborne.

!!Private Yuri Petrenko
* [[invoked]] NamesTheSame: Not related to Dimitri Petrenko from the later ''World at War''.
* PlayerCharacter: For United Offensive's Russian campaign.

!!Private Korolov
->'''Voiced by:''' Jay Gordon

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Call of Duty: Finest Hour]]
'''Playable Characters'''
!! Private Aleksandr Sokolov

* DecoyProtagonist: He was playable in the first two missions. But you play as Tanya in missions three and four, then as Nikolai in the remainder of the Russian campaign while Sokolov gets PutOnABus.
* NewMeat: One of the numerous Russian conscripts brought to fight at Stalingrad.
* PutOnABus: Last seen tending to Tanya at the Russian HQ.
* TargetSpotter: Serves as one for Tanya after she takes him under her wing.

!! Lieutenant Tanya Pavelovena

* ActionGirl: Has the honor of being the first female playable character in the series.
* ColdSniper: Aloof, stoic, deadly.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: She's presumed dead by Nikolai's tank crew when the building she's in is blown up by a Panzer IV with her inside it. At the end of the mission, however, she turns up alive and well.
* PutOnABus: She was injured while Nikolai and his crew repaired the tank. She was last seen at the HQ wishing Nikolai good luck on his mission.
* WeaponOfChoice: Carries the only scoped Mosin Nagant in the entire single-player campaign.
* YouKilledMyFather: Her motivation for fighting the Germans as they invaded her small village, killing her family.

!! Major Nikolai Badanov

* BaldOfAwesome: Has no hair under his tank cap. Though he never wears said hat during the game.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Almost definitely based on Major General Vasily Badanov, who led the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsinskaya_Raid Tatsinskaya airfield raid]] in Operation Little Saturn (which forms the last two missions in which he is playable).
* MajorlyAwesome: Promoted into one before Operation Little Saturn.
* TankGoodness: Commands a Soviet T-34 tank.
* WeaponOfChoice: He carries the DP-28 Light Machine gun in any mission he's playable.

!! Sergeant Edward Carlyle
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RobinAtkinDownes

* BadassBookworm: Used to be a chemistry teacher before joining the war.
* DemolitionsExpert: Thanks to his background as mentioned above.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: A member of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popski%27s_Private_Army Popski's Private Army.]]
* HeroicMime: Granted, this is pretty standard, but Carlyle stands out for being the only PlayerCharacter in ''Finest Hour'' to not get any speaking parts in cutscenes.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Unlike the others, Carlyle enlisted to escape the drab life of being a teacher.
* SergeantRock: Despite Carlyle and Starsky sharing the same rank, Carlyle follows Starsky's orders.

!! Lieutenant Chuck Walker

* AFatherToHisMen
* BeenThereShapedHistory: The last mission has him and his men taking the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludendorff_Bridge Ludendorff Bridge]], with Chuck himself raising the American flag on the other side.
* {{BFG}}: After his promotion, he uses a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns BAR]].
* SergeantRock: Later [[FieldPromotion promoted]] to Lieutenant.

!! Sergeant Sam Rivers

* JumpedAtTheCall: He and his friends enlisted the day after the Attack on Pearl Habour.
* OneSceneWonder: Only playable in "Come out Fighting", while making a small cameo later in the American Campaign.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Zig-zagged. He is part of a segregated unit where all of the men are black. (The real-world [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/761st_Tank_Battalion_(United_States) 761st Tank Battalion]] to be precise.) And had alluded to facing discrimination during camphood. However he was shown accompanying Chuck later in the American Campaign.
* SergeantRock: And a Tank Commander to boot.
* TankGoodness: He commands an M4 Sherman tank.
* TokenMinority: He is Afro-American. The first one playable in the franchise.
* WeaponOfChoice: Armed with the M3 Grease Gun, the only one that appears in the game.

'''Non-Playable Characters worth note'''
!! Sgt. Oleg Puskov
->'''Voiced by:'''

* HeroicSacrifice: After spotting a German sniper, he shoves Alexsandr away to take the bullet.
* JustifiedTutorial: His only purpose in the first mission was to guide you through the level and teach you the basics.
* TakingTheBullet: Pushed Alexsandr out of the way to save him from a sniper.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the second level.

!! Sgt. Bob Starsky
->'''Voiced by:'''

* ActorAllusion: He is portrayed by Brian Johnson of Music/{{ACDC}} fame. One of his lyrics appears in the game.
-->''Starsky'': Alright! Get ready to break, and ready to dash!
* BadassBeard: A fuzzy red one.
* SergeantRock: Gives orders to Carlyle despite sharing the same rank.

!! Sgt. Benny Church
->'''Voiced by:'''

** ''Characters/CallOfDutyWWIIMultiplayer''
** ''Characters/CallOfDutyWWIIZombies''

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the first level.

** [[Characters/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019SinglePlayer Characters in the singleplayer campaign]].