History Characters / CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII

* UltimateLifeForm: Played With. He is said to be heavily augmented [[labelnote]] Increased physical strength, massive mental data storage, increased cognitive ability and secure mental data storage facilities. [[/labelnote]]. But he stops short of augmentations that would make him a true {{Cyborg}}, as he's sticking to "tasteful" augmentations only.

!!Gurmit

-> '''Played By:''' Creator/BenBrowder (male), Abby Brammell (female) (English); Maxim Onishchenko (male), Irina Kireev (female) (Russian)

* {{Deuteragonist}}: He's your best friend and primary companion throughout the campaign. [[spoiler:Or, at least, most of it. After spending most of the game as TheLancer for the player character, he then pulls a FaceHeelTurn after succumbing to Corvus, taking over from Taylor as TheDragon for the BigBad Corvus and the penultimate level features Rachel Kane replacing him until her death as TheLancer with Hendricks as TheHeavy FinalBoss before facing Corvus itself.]]

* TokenEthnicMinority: Diaz is a Latino member of Taylor's team.

* TokenEthnicMinority: Maretti is an African-American member of Taylor's team.

!!Lieutenant Zeyad Khalil
-> '''Played By:''' Noshir Dalal (English), Igor Popov (Russian)

!!Sebastian Diaz
-> '''Played By:''' Reynoldo Gallegos (English), Alexey Chernyshev (Russian)

!!Peter Maretti
-> '''Played By:''' Ary Katz (English), Alexey Lazarev (Russian)

* AmbiguousEnding: The campaign's GainaxEnding leaves the Player's ultimate fate up to some ''serious'' debate. [[spoiler:After killing Hendricks, they eat their gun and pull the trigger to stop Corvus, since they're the last host. The Player then finds themselves in the first AmbiguousSituation: the Frozen Forest, which can be interpreted as either their DyingDream, a virtual reality simulation, or a virtual afterlife they have been transported to by Corvus. After defeating Corvus in the Frozen Forest, they return to what seems to be the real world, where they destroy their DNI and walk outside the Coalescence facility, where they are approached by a ZRF soldier who asks them what their name is. They reply "Taylor". Does this mean the Player has been possessed by some vestigial consciousness of John Taylor, that they've simply gone insane and adopted the name Taylor, that they actually ''are'' named Taylor (which is a unisex first name, or a surname) and coincidentally share it with John Taylor, or are they actually dead and seeing this as some sort of afterlife/virtual reality/virtual afterlife]]? Good luck trying to figure it all out!
** If you [[FreezeFrameBonus pause the scrolling text]] that appears before each mission, you get what seems to be a definitive answer to the game's GainaxEnding. [[spoiler:The Player is a DecoyProtagonist reliving the events of John Taylor's last mission (which takes place just prior to the first mission of the game) as they die on the operating table during their cybernetic surgery. After the first mission, a DyingDream occurs before the last mission, where the Player controls Taylor's body in real life and uses it to purge their DNI and defeat Corvus before handing it back to Taylor. Because of the chaos of a dying mind, the events are somewhat different than what happened in real life. The player takes Taylor's role, while Taylor and his new squad members (which the player met in the first mission) take the role of Dylan Stone and Taylor's other 3 traitorous teammates. The Corvus A.I. was created in the Player's DNI after they were maimed by robots]].
* AmbiguouslyGay: The female Player, courtesy of the implied romance brewing between the Player and Kane in later levels. An alternative explanation is that [[spoiler:the romance between Kane and the Player was actually the memories of Taylor's romance with Kane overlapping with the Player's own DyingDream]].

* BaldWoman[=/=]BoyishShortHair: The female Player's hair runs the gamut from being basically bald with a little fuzz, to a [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Furiosa-style]] buzz-cut, to short hair tied up with a [[BadassesWearBandanas bandana]].
** The female protagonist of the Nightmares campaign is bald by default.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Quite possibly, given the FreezeFrameBonus on Mission 1, that reveals that the player character seemingly died due to complications from their cybernetic surgery. Thus, the entire campaign after Mission 1 would be an elaborate DyingDream, likely enhanced by the DNI and Taylor's memories, since he interfaced with the player character while they were in a medically-induced coma.]]

-> '''Played By:''' Creator/BenBrowder (male), Abby Brammell (female)

-> '''Played By:''' Sean Douglas

-> '''Played By:''' Creator/RachelKimsey

-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChristopherMeloni

-> '''Played By:''' Creator/KateeSackhoff

-> '''Played By:''' Lynn Chen (Goh Xiulan), Lanny Joon (Goh Min)

-> '''Played By:''' Tony Amendola

-> '''Played By:''' Creator/RobertPicardo

-> '''Played By:''' Noshir Dalal

-> '''Played By:''' Reynoldo Gallegos

-> '''Played By:''' Ary Katz

-> '''Played By:''' Rachel Kimsey

* ScarfOfAsskicking: Never seen without her Winslow Accord scarf around her neck. It's also a pretty good indicator [[spoiler:that something is off with the continuity throughout the game, since in the first level, we can see John Taylor wearing the scarf around his left arm as a memento of his time with Rachel, before suddenly showing up in her possession, which is explained by the fact that most the game is the Player experiencing Taylor's memories in his/her DyingDream]].

* {{Determinator}}: Absolutely ''nothing'' stops them from doing what they think is right, whether it'd be tearing through a burning safehouse besieged by the [[TheTriadsandtheTongs 54 Immortals]] to save Kane in Singapore or [[spoiler:powering through legions of Corvus-controlled MechaMooks in Cairo and Zurich...and even after [[AteHisGun eating their gun]] they keep ''right'' on going. He/she gets bonus points for [[BadassBoast outwardly declaring]] they will bring down Corvus and avenge their friends and comrades.]]

The PlayerCharacter and protagonist of the game, [[NoNameGiven the Player]] starts the game out as an unaugmented black ops soldier serving under Jacob Hendricks' command. During a botched mission in Ethiopia, the Player is left behind during extraction and brutalized by a robotic grunt, leaving them short of some limbs and with other life-threatening injuries. Following this, the Player is rebuilt using artificial limbs and a Direct Neural Interface system, turning them into a cybernetic SuperSoldier who continues to serve with Hendricks as a wet-works specialist for the Winslow Accord.

* NoNameGiven: They are simply referred to as "Player" in subtitles. The main villain even mentions at the end of the game that he doesn't even know your name. [[spoiler:In the ending, they refer to themselves as Taylor, which can be interpreted in ''many'' different ways]].

** The game acknowledges this; the only identity the character is given is the nickname "New Blood," and the Winslow Accord records refer to them as "Soldier #25954."

-> '''Played By:''' Ben Browder (male), Abby Brammell (female)

* WeCanRebuildHim: After losing three limbs during the first mission, the Player undergoes an EmergencyTransformation to acquire ArtificialLimbs and a Direct Neural Interface system, transforming them into a cyborg. ([[spoiler:It doesn't work and they die on the operating table.]])

* DemonicPossession: In a way, like her brother (and [[spoiler:Corvus]]) did to [[spoiler:Taylor and Hendricks]], Dolos uses [[spoiler:Krane]] as a vessel to help fight Deimos, before [[spoiler:Krane's death]].

* WeCanRebuildHim: After losing three limbs during the first mission, the Player undergoes an EmergencyTransformation to acquire ArtificialLimbs and a Direct Neural Interface system, transforming them into a cyborg.

[[folder: Campaign]]

** If you [[FreezeFrameBonus pause the scrolling text]] that appears before each mission, you get what seems to be a definitive answer to the game's GainaxEnding. [[spoiler: The Player is a DecoyProtagonist reliving the events of John Taylor's last mission (which takes place just prior to the first mission of the game) as they die on the operating table during their cybernetic surgery. After the first mission, a DyingDream occurs before the last mission, where the Player controls Taylor's body in real life and uses it to purge their DNI and defeat Corvus before handing it back to Taylor. Because of the chaos of a dying mind, the events are somewhat different than what happened in real life. The player takes Taylor's role, while Taylor and his new squad members (which the player met in the first mission) take the role of Dylan Stone and Taylor's other 3 traitorous teammates. The Corvus A.I. was created in the Player's DNI after they were maimed by robots]].

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: See the MindScrew addendum to AmbiguousEnding above.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Absolutely ''nothing'' stops them from doing what they think is right, whether it'd be tearing through a burning safehouse besieged by the [[TheTriadsandtheTongs 54 Immortals]] to save Kane in Singapore or [[spoiler: powering through legions of Corvus-controlled MechaMooks in Cairo and Zurich...and even after [[AteHisGun eating their gun]] they keep ''right'' on going. He/she gets bonus points for [[BadassBoast outwardly declaring]] they will bring down Corvus and avenge their friends and comrades.]]

** In one of the later levels, when Raul Menendez's name is brought up in passing, Hendricks becomes extremely angry and states his patriotic hatred of Menendez's DarkMessiah methods. [[spoiler: At the beginning of the final level, Hendricks has become a DarkMessiah himself and justifies his plan to change the world using a rationale not unlike Menendez's. Granted, Hendricks had been driven insane by Corvus at that point.]]

** [[spoiler: In the final battle in the Frozen Forest, instead of helping or fighting against you, the mental image of Hendricks instead opts to simply leave and says as much as he goes.]]

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: On a number of occasions he deviates from his orders to do the right thing, such as rescuing P.O.W.s instead of leaving them behind. However, at times this makes him seem as much a hothead as it does make him seem morally conscientious (such as when he attacks the 54 Immortals slaughtering civilians even though the civilians were already executed). He acts like this even before [[spoiler: being infected by Corvus]], but [[spoiler: Corvus seems to bring out the worst aspects of this trait, ultimately convincing him to go full DarkMessiah.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out the player on their ruthless actions several times throughout the game. [[spoiler: Though it does ring a bit hollow later on as he's increasingly being influenced by Corvus.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Kane admits that the C.I.A. was going to "silence" Taylor and his team after their discovery of the C.I.A.'s illegal human experimentation and complicity in the Singapore disaster. However, she insists that Taylor's team were given a chance to walk away and forget it ever happened, and were only targeted for termination after already leaking the dirty laundry. Hall has an entirely different version of events in which the team leaked the data only after the C.I.A. ordered them killed, but given that she's confirmed to be Brainwashed And Crazy her testimony is somewhat less credible.]]

** The text that scrolls by before each mission on the loading screen are actually mission reports from Taylor detailing the events of his last mission with Hendricks prior to the events of the game. [[spoiler: The events of the mission reports mirror the missions experienced by the player to an astonishing degree, with many hints that the player is in a DyingDream actually re-living Taylor's last mission (due to Taylor briefly touching minds with the player via DNI while they were in a coma), with certain details (such as the identity of the villain) scrambled around due to the chaotic state of a dying brain.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler: When you finally confront him face-to-face near the end of the game, he eventually regains enough control over himself to take himself out rather than continue to be Corvus' puppet. Ironically it seems he was able to do this ''because'' of how far gone he was, because at the point he was nearly completely merged with Corvus he was also finally aware of how dangerous Corvus and his plans were.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Salim was the one who implemented [[spoiler: the Frozen Forest meme as a means of calming the SP/CORVUS Project's human test subjects. Corvus would later attach an almost religious significance to the Frozen Forest and this obsession would pass down to its hosts]].

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: He briefly appears in the hospital scene giving orders to Taylor regarding the player character's integration into Taylor's C.I.A. unit. His face isn't shown and the subtitles refer to him only as "Unknown".]]

* BerserkButton: [[spoiler: It ''really'' doesn't like being called a "mistake".]]

[[folder: Nightmares campaign]]

One of two HumanoidAbomination siblings released by the SP/CORVUS project run by the CIA out of the Coalescence Corporation. In this AlternateUniverse, Deimos functions as the main antagonist, more or less replacing [[spoiler: Corvus]]. Setting loose a zombie apocalypse and, [[spoiler:like Corvus, possessing Taylor's team and later Hendricks]], Deimos goal is to takeover his home realm of Malum and kill his sister Dolos

* BigBad: Is the main antagonist of the Nightmare mode, replacing [[spoiler: Corvus]] from the main campaign.

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Rather than infecting Taylor and his team with a virus like Corvus did, Deimos straight up possesses them to carry out his dirty work. Unlike most examples of demonic possession, Deimos controls them via their DNI, much like Corvus does]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: Implied, with the multiverse theory at play, [[spoiler: Deimos points out that there's a neighboring universe, where the main campaign takes place, and Deimos witnesses the events of that story from outside]].

* VillainousBreakdown: Is calm, smug and collected, if a bit agitated at times throughout the game. When [[spoiler: the protagonist and Dolos begin to beat him, he completely loses his shit, panicking and angry as he is finally defeated]].
* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: His reason for [[spoiler: having Taylor kill Signapore's Coalescence Corporation staff is because they played their part in summoning him]].

One of two HumanoidAbomination siblings, and is the sister of Deimos, and both are out to destroy each other. She is the demigoddess of trickery. Unlike her brother, she doesn't wish to destroy humanity, but helps humanity fight her brother, particularly the protagonist and [[spoiler: Krane]].

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: She knew how to defeat her brother all along and knew the means to do it, she's just buying her time, amusing herself with Deimos getting his hopes up]].

* DemonicPossession: In a way, like her brother (and [[spoiler: Corvus]]) did to [[spoiler: Taylor and Hendricks]], Dolos uses [[spoiler: Krane]] as a vessel to help fight Deimos, before [[spoiler: Krane's death]].

[[folder: Multiplayer Specialists]]

An assassination expert across the globe, [[TheGhost nothing is known]] about Spectre, including their [[AmbiguousGender gender]]. Their very existence is something that can only be inferred. Their specialist ability is [[{{Invisibility}} Active Camo]], and their special weapon is the [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Ripper]].

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Several of Spectre's pre-game exchanges refer to Reaper as "another prototype," indicating that Spectre is either familiar with Reaper's product line or that Spectre is also some sort of prototype.

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Quite possibly, given the FreezeFrameBonus on Mission 1, that reveals that the player character seemingly died due to complications from their cybernetic surgery. Thus, the entire campaign after Mission 1 would be an elaborate DyingDream, likely enhanced by the DNI and Taylor's memories, since he interfaced with the player character while they were in a medically-induced coma.]]
** [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead: The last level, however, subtly implies that while their physical body died, they still live on within Taylor's mind and have inadvertently [[GrandTheftMe hijacked his body]] by the time of the attack on Switzerland. [[LeftHanging The jury's still out on which one of them's doing the driving by the time Corvus is finished.]]]]
* [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist]]: See the MindScrew addendum to AmbiguousEnding above.

* [[spoiler: GhostInTheMachine: Given what Corvus has been established to be capable of, it's hinted that by some form of it's meddling that their mind has been digitized and stuck in the recesses of Taylor's DNI. ]]

* [[spoiler:HeroicSuicide: Immediately turns their gun on themselves after killing Hendricks to stop Corvus from turning ''them'' into it's next host. ''Subverted'' when they find themselves in the [[EldritchLocation Frozen Forest]] and the fight against Corvus continues.]]

* [[spoiler: CutsceneBoss: He's the only major Corvus host who isn't confronted in any sort of Boss Battle type scenario.]]

* [[spoiler:[[DecoyProtagonist Decoy]] {{Deuteragonist}}: After spending most of the game as TheLancer for the player character, he then pulls a FaceHeelTurn after succumbing to Corvus, taking over from Taylor as TheDragon for the BigBad Corvus and the penultimate level features Rachel Kane replacing him until her death as TheLancer with Hendricks as TheHeavy FinalBoss before facing Corvus itself.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: After killing Taylor, he succumbs to Corvus' infection and heads to Zurich, triggering a RobotWar. The Player is forced to put him down. When they encounter him again in the Frozen Forest, he makes it clear he's sided with Corvus]].

* [[spoiler:ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Started as as TheLancer for the player character, before becoming TheHeavy for Corvus in the climax.]]

* [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath: She gets killed off when the room she's locked in is flooded by Nova-6. [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Even one century later]] it still looks like an incredibly awful way to go. To her credit, however, she spends her last moments urging the player character to finish the fight and not to trust Corvus, rather than breaking down.]]

* [[spoiler:DyingDream: In Mission 8, after you bring her Manticore down and are forced to interface with her DNI to retrieve her memories, you are transported to a virtual one and encounter Corvus for the first time]].