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* TheBigGuy: Of his unit, which is lampshaded.
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* MadeOfIron: The guy suffers close to half a dozen stabs and change, some of which are directly at his ''chest'', and still has enough strength to subdue and nearly kill Hadir until Farah intervenes by blasting him at point-blank range with his own AK.
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[[folder: Omar Sulaman]]
!!Omar 'the Wolf' Sulaman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Joel Swetow
The leader of the Al-Qatala terrorist group.
[[folder: Omar Sulaman]]
!!Omar 'the Wolf' Sulaman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Joel Swetow
The leader of the Al-Qatala terrorist group.
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* AxCrazy: As the terrorist attack in London has shown he’s none too shy about murdering civilians, and despite making it clear he wants to throw the Russians out of his country, he’s all too willing to turn his psychotic brand of indiscriminate violence upon his own people should he have an excuse.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: The best way to dispose of him; if Alex (you) don't take the shot, Farah notices he has a detonation remote and abruptly pops him one bullet to the face herself.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Sulaman and Barkov are against each other, but both are the leading causes of the story’s conflict.
* DirtyCoward: Sulaman is more of a man spreading the ideals of his group than a fighter himself. [[spoiler: When he's finally taken care of, it's after fighting through a mile's worth of tunnels filled with his men throwing themselves at the player for his sake, and he even tries to use a suicide vest himself; both when he's apprehended and when he's killed, he doesn't really put up a fight at all.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Much of the first half of the campaign is spent hunting Sulaman down after he spurs a terrorist attack in London.
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Head of AQ in Urzikistan.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries this tack while under detention at the embassy, stating to those gathered that "[they] are all killers, here".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sulaman’s efforts in trying to liberate Urzikistan from foreign occupation has some tinges of well meaning to it, such as forming the Al Qatala movement to remove Barkov and his tyranny from the region. However, as we see him go on to turn his violence upon his own country and stage unrelated, indiscriminate massacres of civilians in others, it becomes abundantly clear that Sulaman is a [[AxCrazy psychopathic zealot]] using his cause as an excuse to satiate his lust for murder.
* StupidEvil: Sulaman has somewhat good intentions regarding kicking the Russians out of Urzikistan, but instead of cooperating with other powers and like-minded individuals to accomplish this, instead not only sinks down to the same level of insane barbarism as Barkov and his forces, but also goes out of his way to antagonise other parties that either aren’t part of the conflict and/or would make life very hard for him if they did. His attack on Piccadilly Circus is the catalyst [[spoiler: for his downfall]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He attempts to kill himself along with Alex and Farah with a suicide vest, but either Farah or Alex fatally shoots Sulaman before they manage to defuse the bomb.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: The best way to dispose of him; if Alex (you) don't take the shot, Farah notices he has a detonation remote and abruptly pops him one bullet to the face herself.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Sulaman and Barkov are against each other, but both are the leading causes of the story’s conflict.
* DirtyCoward: Sulaman is more of a man spreading the ideals of his group than a fighter himself. [[spoiler: When he's finally taken care of, it's after fighting through a mile's worth of tunnels filled with his men throwing themselves at the player for his sake, and he even tries to use a suicide vest himself; both when he's apprehended and when he's killed, he doesn't really put up a fight at all.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Much of the first half of the campaign is spent hunting Sulaman down after he spurs a terrorist attack in London.
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Head of AQ in Urzikistan.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries this tack while under detention at the embassy, stating to those gathered that "[they] are all killers, here".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sulaman’s efforts in trying to liberate Urzikistan from foreign occupation has some tinges of well meaning to it, such as forming the Al Qatala movement to remove Barkov and his tyranny from the region. However, as we see him go on to turn his violence upon his own country and stage unrelated, indiscriminate massacres of civilians in others, it becomes abundantly clear that Sulaman is a [[AxCrazy psychopathic zealot]] using his cause as an excuse to satiate his lust for murder.
* StupidEvil: Sulaman has somewhat good intentions regarding kicking the Russians out of Urzikistan, but instead of cooperating with other powers and like-minded individuals to accomplish this, instead not only sinks down to the same level of insane barbarism as Barkov and his forces, but also goes out of his way to antagonise other parties that either aren’t part of the conflict and/or would make life very hard for him if they did. His attack on Piccadilly Circus is the catalyst [[spoiler: for his downfall]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He attempts to kill himself along with Alex and Farah with a suicide vest, but either Farah or Alex fatally shoots Sulaman before they manage to defuse the bomb.]]
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* AxCrazy: As TheBigGuy: Of his unit, which is lampshaded.
* GasMaskMook: Justified since he storms into theterrorist attack in London has shown he’s none too shy about murdering civilians, and despite making it clear he wants Karim household from a cloud of weaponized chlorine gas.
* HateSink: You are ''NOT'' supposed tothrow the Russians out of like him.
* NoNameGiven: He's just referred to by hiscountry, he’s all too willing to turn his psychotic brand of indiscriminate violence upon his own people should he have an excuse.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: The best way to dispose of him; if Alex (you) don't take the shot, Farah notices he has a detonation remote and abruptly pops him one bullet to the face herself.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Sulaman and Barkov are against each other, but both are the leading causes of the story’s conflict.
* DirtyCoward: Sulaman is more of a man spreading the ideals of his group than a fighter himself. [[spoiler: When he's finally taken care of, it's after fighting through a mile's worth of tunnels filled with his men throwing themselves at the player for his sake, and hecallsign, even tries to use a suicide vest himself; both when he's apprehended and when he's killed, he doesn't really put up a fight at all.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Much of the first half of the campaign is spent hunting Sulaman down after he spurs a terrorist attackin London.
subtitles.
*MiddleEasternTerrorists: Head of AQ in Urzikistan.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries this tack while under detention at the embassy, stating to those gathered that "[they] are all killers, here".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sulaman’s efforts in trying to liberate Urzikistan from foreign occupation has some tinges of well meaning to it, such as forming the Al Qatala movement to remove Barkov and his tyranny from the region. However, as we see him go on to turn his violence upon his own country and stage unrelated, indiscriminate massacres of civilians in others, it becomes abundantly clear that Sulaman is a [[AxCrazy psychopathic zealot]] using his cause as an excuse to satiate his lust for murder.
* StupidEvil: Sulaman has somewhat good intentions regarding kicking the Russians out of Urzikistan, but instead of cooperating with other powers and like-minded individuals to accomplish this, instead not only sinks down to the same level of insane barbarism as Barkov and his forces, but also goes out of his way to antagonise other parties that either aren’t part of the conflict and/or would make life very hard for him if they did. His attack on Piccadilly Circus is the catalyst [[spoiler: for his downfall]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He attempts toWouldHurtAChild: He'd kill himself along with Alex and Farah with a suicide vest, but either Farah or Alex fatally shoots Sulaman before they manage to defuse the bomb.]]
them, actually.
* GasMaskMook: Justified since he storms into the
* HateSink: You are ''NOT'' supposed to
* NoNameGiven: He's just referred to by his
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: The best way to dispose of him; if Alex (you) don't take the shot, Farah notices he has a detonation remote and abruptly pops him one bullet to the face herself.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Sulaman and Barkov are against each other, but both are the leading causes of the story’s conflict.
* DirtyCoward: Sulaman is more of a man spreading the ideals of his group than a fighter himself. [[spoiler: When he's finally taken care of, it's after fighting through a mile's worth of tunnels filled with his men throwing themselves at the player for his sake, and he
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Much of the first half of the campaign is spent hunting Sulaman down after he spurs a terrorist attack
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* NotSoDifferent: Tries this tack while under detention at the embassy, stating to those gathered that "[they] are all killers, here".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sulaman’s efforts in trying to liberate Urzikistan from foreign occupation has some tinges of well meaning to it, such as forming the Al Qatala movement to remove Barkov and his tyranny from the region. However, as we see him go on to turn his violence upon his own country and stage unrelated, indiscriminate massacres of civilians in others, it becomes abundantly clear that Sulaman is a [[AxCrazy psychopathic zealot]] using his cause as an excuse to satiate his lust for murder.
* StupidEvil: Sulaman has somewhat good intentions regarding kicking the Russians out of Urzikistan, but instead of cooperating with other powers and like-minded individuals to accomplish this, instead not only sinks down to the same level of insane barbarism as Barkov and his forces, but also goes out of his way to antagonise other parties that either aren’t part of the conflict and/or would make life very hard for him if they did. His attack on Piccadilly Circus is the catalyst [[spoiler: for his downfall]].
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Omar Sulaman's right-hand man.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nick Tarabay
Omar Sulaman's right-hand man.
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!Al-Qatala
[[folder:Jamal Rahar]]
!!JamalOmar Sulaman]]
!!Omar 'theButcher' Rahar
Wolf' Sulaman
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Omar Sulaman's right-hand man.
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The leader of the Al-Qatala terrorist group.
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!!Omar 'the
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: The best way to dispose of him; if Alex (you) don't take the shot, Farah notices he has a detonation remote and abruptly pops him one bullet to the face herself.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Sulaman and Barkov are against each other, but both are the leading causes of the story’s conflict.
* DirtyCoward: Sulaman is more of a man spreading the ideals of his group than a fighter himself. [[spoiler: When he's finally taken care of, it's after fighting through a mile's worth of tunnels filled with his men throwing themselves at the player for his sake, and he even tries to use a suicide vest himself; both when he's apprehended and when he's killed, he doesn't really put up a fight at all.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Much of the first half of the campaign is spent hunting Sulaman down after he spurs a terrorist attack in London.
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Head of AQ in Urzikistan.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries this tack while under detention at the embassy, stating to those gathered that "[they] are all killers, here".
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sulaman’s efforts in trying to liberate Urzikistan from foreign occupation has some tinges of well meaning to it, such as forming the Al Qatala movement to remove Barkov and his tyranny from the region. However, as we see him go on to turn his violence upon his own country and stage unrelated, indiscriminate massacres of civilians in others, it becomes abundantly clear that Sulaman is a [[AxCrazy psychopathic zealot]] using his cause as an excuse to satiate his lust for murder.
* StupidEvil: Sulaman has somewhat good intentions regarding kicking the Russians out of Urzikistan, but instead of cooperating with other powers and like-minded individuals to accomplish this, instead not only sinks down to the same level of insane barbarism as Barkov and his forces, but also goes out of his way to antagonise other parties that either aren’t part of the conflict and/or would make life very hard for him if they did. His attack on Piccadilly Circus is the catalyst [[spoiler: for his downfall]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He attempts to kill himself along with Alex and Farah with a suicide vest, but either Farah or Alex fatally shoots Sulaman before they manage to defuse the bomb.]]
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[[folder: Jamal Rahar]]
!!Jamal 'the Butcher' Rahar
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nick Tarabay
Omar Sulaman's right-hand man.
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* CallForward: His use of a Desert Eagle handgun acts as foreshadowing, since [[spoiler: the Ultranationalists are backing Al Qatala, and their signature handgun for leaders in the old continuity was the Desert Eagle.]]
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* IShallTauntYou: The Butcher ''really'' likes to get under Garrick's skin. Almost every second he's on screen, the Butcher is talking smack about him and Price, even as [[spoiler:he's being brutally interrogated]]. He drops this charade for a few minutes after [[spoiler:his wife and son are brought onto the scene, but eventually resumes his goading of Kyle to pull the trigger on him if the player aims the gun at his family but doesn't shoot. One could always comply with his wishes.]]
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* SpitefulSpit: When interrogated by Barkov in ''Captive'', the player as Farah could spit on his face instead of answering his questions when prompted. Doing this for the first time nets an achievement.
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* SpitefulSpit: When interrogated by Barkov in ''Captive'', the player as Farah could can spit on his face instead of answering his questions when prompted. Doing this for the first time nets an achievement.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Farah's second-in-command attacked American troops, stole nerve gas, and has allied with Al-Qatala. No wonder they've been designated terrorists.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Backs down under Price's threats.
* TheNeidermeyer: Plans to arrest [[spoiler: Farah]] right in front of the people she just saved the lives of.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Backs down under Price's threats.
* TheNeidermeyer: Plans to arrest [[spoiler: Farah]] right in front of the people she just saved the lives of.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Designating Farah's organization as terrorists just creates more enemies for the US to fight.
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* SpitefulSpit: When interrogated by Barkov in ''Captive'', the player as Farah could spit on his face instead of answering his questions when prompted. Doing this for the first time nets an achievement.
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* BadgesAndDogTags: Goes from serving in the SAS as a Tier-One operative to a police officer in the [=SCO19=], and then back to the SAS at the request of Price and himself.
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* BadgesAndDogTags: Goes from serving in the SAS as a Tier-One operative sergeant to a police officer in the [=SCO19=], and then back to the SAS at the request of Price and himself.
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* EvilVsEvil: Opposed by the other half of the BigBadEnsemble of Al Qatala, being the overwhelming force of conventional warfare to their terroristic guerilla warfare. The end of the game reveals that’s not all: [[spoiler: it’s eventually revealed that A
Qatala is being backed by the Ultranationalists, with Zahkaev wanting “Barkhov’s throne.”]]
Qatala is being backed by the Ultranationalists, with Zahkaev wanting “Barkhov’s throne.”]]
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* EvilVsEvil: Opposed by the other half of the BigBadEnsemble of Al Qatala, being the overwhelming force of conventional warfare to their terroristic guerilla warfare. The end of the game reveals that’s not all: [[spoiler: it’s eventually revealed that A
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-Qatala is being backed by the Ultranationalists, with Zahkaev wanting “Barkhov’s throne.”]]
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* EvilVsEvil: Opposed by the other half of the BigBadEnsemble of Al-Qatala, Al Qatala, being the overwhelming force of conventional warfare to their terroristic guerilla warfare. The end of the game reveals that’s not all: [[spoiler: it’s eventually revealed that A
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-Qatala is being backed by the Ultranationalists, with Zahkaev wanting “Barkhov’s throne.”]]
-Qatala is being backed by the Ultranationalists, with Zahkaev wanting “Barkhov’s throne.”]]
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* BigGood: Organizes most of the operations from the heroes' side of thing.
* {{Expy}}: Has a strong resemblance to Karen Bowman from ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands.''
The commanding officer of the Marines assigned to conduct operations in Urzikstan.
* AFatherToHisMen: Has this as one of his chief concerns in the opening mission.
* DirtyCoward: A DownplayedTrope example when he backs down from Price making it clear he would use force against him.
* DirtyCoward: A DownplayedTrope example when he backs down from Price making it clear he would use force against him.
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* SmugSnake: Acts with a great deal of righteous indignation to Farah after she went after her own brother to try to bring him in.
* BigGood: [[spoiler: Subverted as her chief decision just makes things worse.]]
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Designating Farah's organization as terrorists just creates more enemies for the US to fight.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Designating Farah's organization as terrorists just creates more enemies for the US to fight.
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* MythologyGag: Just like his [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare original counterpart]], this version of the character once again owes Price a favor for [[NoodleIncident Beirut]]. Unlike in the original, this Kamarov delivers on the deal by giving Price information about the new leader of Al-Qatala: [[spoiler: Khaled Al-Asad]].
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* MythologyGag: Just like his [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare original counterpart]], this version of the character once again owes Price a favor for [[NoodleIncident Beirut]]. Unlike in the original, this Kamarov delivers on the deal in two ways: by giving Price a pack of cigars and by giving him information about the new leader of Al-Qatala: [[spoiler: Khaled Al-Asad]].
* CigarChomper: Is seen smoking a cigar when he delivers the "Truth Serum" to Price and Kyle during "Old Comrades".
* EveryoneHasStandards: While he's capable of performing some morally questionable acts, he's still disgusted by Barkov's war crimes and outright calls the General a blight upon Russia which is why [[spoiler:he helps Farah out in killing Barkov.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: A lighthearted example but he has some of it with Kamarov. Despite this, they are willing to work together in order to bring down Al-Qatala once and for all.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: While [[spoiler:kidnapping an innocent family is a pretty horrific crime, the fact that the family happens to be the Butcher's family comes across as this. Nikolai's rather cheeky attitude about how they can help out in the interrogation of the Butcher only further highlights how much things are going to suck for the Butcher.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: While he's capable of performing some morally questionable acts, he's still disgusted by Barkov's war crimes and outright calls the General a blight upon Russia which is why [[spoiler:he helps Farah out in killing Barkov.]]
* InterserviceRivalry: A lighthearted example but he has some of it with Kamarov. Despite this, they are willing to work together in order to bring down Al-Qatala once and for all.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: While [[spoiler:kidnapping an innocent family is a pretty horrific crime, the fact that the family happens to be the Butcher's family comes across as this. Nikolai's rather cheeky attitude about how they can help out in the interrogation of the Butcher only further highlights how much things are going to suck for the Butcher.]]
* OhCrap: He has two: the first time when he finds out that the prison where he's been rounding up Urzikstanis is under attack by the [=SAS=] and the second time when [[spoiler:Farah catches up to him at the end and begins stabbing him to death, even begging her to spare him when he realizes how screwed he is.]]
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* WouldHitAGirl: He tortures Farah and the female prisoners intensely because of their support for "Karim". The 'hit' part comes into play especially because he beats Farah around himself out of intense hatred for the woman's resisting.
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Former leader of the Russian Ultranationalists and father of Victor Zakhaev. Like in the original timeline, Imran was supposedly assassinated by Price and MacMillan at Pripyat some time in the past and was presumed dead. However, he had actually survived, and now operates as a gun runner who supplies and advises Al-Asad's operation in Verdansk.
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Former leader of the Russian Ultranationalists and father of Victor Zakhaev. Like in the original timeline, Imran was supposedly assassinated by Price and MacMillan [=MacMillan=] at Pripyat some time in the past and was presumed dead. However, he had actually survived, and now operates as a gun runner who supplies and advises Al-Asad's operation in Verdansk.
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!!Imran Zakhaev
Former leader of the Russian Ultranationalists and father of Victor Zakhaev. Like in the original timeline, Imran was supposedly assassinated by Price and MacMillan at Pripyat some time in the past and was presumed dead. However, he had actually survived, and now operates as a gun runner who supplies and advises Al-Asad's operation in Verdansk.
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* AdaptationDeviation: Imran does survive like the first time he did, but he no longer runs the show this time around. Instead it is his son Victor who's in charge of the Ultranationalists in his stead.
* AnArmAndALeg: Like in the original ''Modern Warfare'', Imran had his left arm blown off in this timeline as well.
* BaldOfEvil: The shiniest dome this side of the Caucasus, and evilest, as well.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Unlike in the original timeline, Price was sure he had kicked the bucket at Pripyat. He didn't.
[[folder: Mr. Z (SPOILERS)]]
!!Imran Zakhaev
Former leader of the Russian Ultranationalists and father of Victor Zakhaev. Like in the original timeline, Imran was supposedly assassinated by Price and MacMillan at Pripyat some time in the past and was presumed dead. However, he had actually survived, and now operates as a gun runner who supplies and advises Al-Asad's operation in Verdansk.
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* AdaptationDeviation: Imran does survive like the first time he did, but he no longer runs the show this time around. Instead it is his son Victor who's in charge of the Ultranationalists in his stead.
* AnArmAndALeg: Like in the original ''Modern Warfare'', Imran had his left arm blown off in this timeline as well.
* BaldOfEvil: The shiniest dome this side of the Caucasus, and evilest, as well.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Unlike in the original timeline, Price was sure he had kicked the bucket at Pripyat. He didn't.
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* RenegadeRussian: According to conversations between his men, all of his war atrocities against the Urzikstani people are conducted without authorization from the Russian central government. And true to that, [[spoiler:they eventually have enough with his antics and disown him posthumously after Farah kills him]].
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* RenegadeRussian: According to conversations between his men, all of his war atrocities against the Urzikstani people are conducted without authorization from the Russian central government. And true to that, [[spoiler:they [[spoiler:[[EveryoneHasStandards they eventually have enough with his antics antics]] and disown him posthumously after Farah kills him]].
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* NeverBareheaded: Unlike in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', he subverts this as seen from his pic above. He's also briefly lost his Boonie hat during the Embassy siege after jumping out from the falling helicopter, though he's immediately finds and puts it back on his head.
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* NeverBareheaded: Unlike in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', he subverts averts this as seen from his pic above. He's also briefly lost dropped his Boonie hat during the Embassy siege after jumping out from the falling helicopter, though he's he immediately finds and puts it back on his head.
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* UndyingLoyaly: Eventually develops this towards [[spoiler: Farrah, even disobeying orders to stick with her after her faction is labeled terrorists, and even pulls off a HeroicSacrifice for which he explicitly asks her to trust him with.]]
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* UndyingLoyaly: UndyingLoyalty: Eventually develops this towards [[spoiler: Farrah, even disobeying orders to stick with her after her faction is labeled terrorists, and even pulls off a HeroicSacrifice for which he explicitly asks her to trust him with.]]
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* AFatherToHisMen: Well, “cousin” at least. She refers to most of her faction in familial terms, and is referred to in kind. Even “Alex” joins in, calling her “cuz” [[spoiler: after joining her group even after she’s been designated anterorist by the US.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: She definitely comes close to breaking during Al-Qatala's initial attack on the Embassy, considering she had to watch several of her colleagues die in front of her. She manages to keep her wits with her thanks to Kyle's assistance.
* IOweYouMyLife: She's extremely grateful to Kyle for saving her life and is willing to do anything to help him out.
* KillTheCutie: This can be her potential fate if Kyle's not fast enough in saving her at the end of "The Embassy".
* IOweYouMyLife: She's extremely grateful to Kyle for saving her life and is willing to do anything to help him out.
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* TheDragon: To Sulaman.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A ruthless enforcer he maybe, but the Butcher has one weakness; [[spoiler: his family. When Price and his crew get a hold on his wife and young son, he quickly caves in and tells them everything he knows]].
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[[folder:Others]]
!! Stacy Davidson
The assistant to Ambassador Harris at the US Embassy in Urzikstan
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as her hiding from Al-Qatala insurgents after Ambassador Harris gets murdered in order to get the keycard Garrick and co need to enter the Ambassador's Resident.
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!! Stacy Davidson
The assistant to Ambassador Harris at the US Embassy in Urzikstan
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: You play as her hiding from Al-Qatala insurgents after Ambassador Harris gets murdered in order to get the keycard Garrick and co need to enter the Ambassador's Resident.
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* AntiHero: He's willing to do very questionable actions as means hunting down terrorists and keeping the world safe, [[spoiler: such as kidnapping a terrorist's family]]. This is lampshaded by himself:
-->'''Price:''' We get dirty, and the world stays clean.
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-->'''Price:''' We get dirty, and the world stays clean.
*DareToBeBadass: Offers this to Farah and Alex [[spoiler: in the very last level of the game, when he reveals he has Intel on where Barkov and his gas factory is located and invites them to attack it.]]
-->'''Farah:''' This is crazy...
-->'''Price:''' Yeah, well we're all a little crazy, aren't we?
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: After [[spoiler: successfully interrogating The Butcher for the whereabouts of the gas, Kyle is left alone for a while with the Butcher and a loaded revolver. He can shoot him outright or just even empty his gun at the wall behind him. Either way, if The Butcher is spared there's an alternate cutscene of Russian Police finding him after Price and Kyle leave.]] No matter what happens, it still bothers Kyle immensely afterwards.
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* YoungerAndHipper: This incarnation of Price is still a SAS captain but is younger (34/35, compared to the original Price being in his 40s/50s) and is noted to be "a new take" on the character in terms of personality.
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[[folder: Cpt. John Price]]
!!Captain John Price
!!!'''Callsign:''' Bravo 0-6
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Barry Sloane
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''[[caption-width-right:350:"We get dirty, and the world stays clean. That's the mission."]]''
Commander of the SAS 'Bravo' Team in Modern Warfare, as well as the commanding officer of Kyle Garrick.
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* AdvertisedExtra: "Extra" is a bit of a stretch considering Price is still an important supporting character, but much of the game's promotional materials and trailers put a ''lot'' of focus on him while making very scant, if any, mentions of the other protagonists. As the cherry on top, he is the poster character of the game and is prominently featured on the boxart, meanwhile Kyle Garrick is arguably the real protagonist but isn't advertised as much as Price does.
* AntiHero: He's willing to do very questionable actions as means hunting down terrorists and keeping the world safe, [[spoiler: such as kidnapping a terrorist's family]]. This is lampshaded by himself:
-->'''Price:''' We get dirty, and the world stays clean.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a Captain [[note]]which is the minimum rank required in order to be a squad leader in the Special Air Service[[/note]] in the [=SAS=] and he shows the badassery necessary in order to lead his own team. He later takes it a step further in the epilogue when [[spoiler: he forms Task Force 141]].
* BadassMustache: As per usual with his incarnations. Like theirs, his is a wee bit too long to be within the SAS' "neatly groomed" regulations.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: A Captain serving in the British Army's Special Air Service, often considered the most elite special operations unit in the world.
* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Pulls this off against Al-Qatala's enforcer "The Butcher" by employing Nikolai's "[[IHaveYourWife truth serum]]."
* GoodIsNotNice: He's definitely on the side of keeping the world safe. That doesn't mean he has to be a goody-two-shoes about it. He outright tells Kyle to ignore the workers in the Embassy being attacked by Al-Qatala because they're not there for them, they're there for the Wolf.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Goes hand in hand with not being nice. He has no qualms about killing every enemy in his way if it means completing the mission.
* GrinOfAudacity: Has a habit of giving off a cheeky grin that practically makes his whole face light up, even when it's to cap off a threat or intimidation.
* GutturalGrowler: Price's voice in this incarnation sounds a lot gruffer than his old version from the original ''Modern Warfare'' games.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: See his caption quote. He has no problems getting his hands dirty in order to finish the mission and keep the world at large safe.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: While [[spoiler: kidnapping the Butcher's family is pretty horrific, it also serves to show that the latter is a massive {{Hypocrite}} who doesn't want his family to get hurt yet has no qualms about killing other families.]]
* NeverBareheaded: Unlike in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', he subverts this as seen from his pic above. He's also briefly lost his Boonie hat during the Embassy siege after jumping out from the falling helicopter, though he's immediately finds and puts it back on his head.
* NiceHat: It's not Captain Price if he didn't have his trademark Boonie hat and before that, a nice beanie. He also wears standard headgear like helmets depending on the mission.
* NotSoStoic: In contrast to the original [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Modern Warfare's Price]], this version is a lot more open with his emotions, letting his frustrations show on the surface more often when a situation is going south, like during the defense of the Embassy in Urzikstan. He also swears a lot more, leading a PrecisionFStrike or three, and openly discusses Kyle's moral concerns with him.
* PapaWolf: To Farah. When he finds out that [[spoiler: Farah and her forces have been labeled as hostile forces by the U.S. Military, he goes ballistic and threatens to kill the American colonel in charge]].
-->'''Price:''' You keep your moppets on a short string, Colonel.
-->'''Col. Norris:''' Or what?
-->'''Price:''' Or I'll [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] hang you from it.
* PragmaticHero: Make no mistake, he will do what's necessary to complete the mission, even if that something is either illegal or, in the eyes of others, unethical, such as [[spoiler: kidnapping the family of one of the terrorists that he's been tasked with hunting down and interrogating]]. He realizes that his methods don't always come easy to his allies, and even offers them to bow out from participating with him on occasion.
* TranquilFury: After Norris [[spoiler: designates Farah’s forces as a terrorist organisation]], Price [[PapaWolf gets in the guy’s face and threatens to kill him if he doesn’t lay off of her]] with nothing but a low snarl in his voice.
* YoungerAndHipper: This incarnation of Price is still a SAS captain but is younger (34/35, compared to the original Price being in his 40s/50s) and is noted to be "a new take" on the character in terms of personality.
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[[folder: Sgt. Kyle Garrick]]
!!Sergeant Kyle "[[spoiler:Gaz]]" Garrick
!!!'''Callsign:''' Sabre 2-6
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Elliot Knight
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''[[caption-width-right:350:"Why have we got our hands tied? Let's just take the bloody gloves off and fight."]]''
One of the main player characters. A SAS operator working in the [=SCO19=] (Specialist Firearms Command of the Metropolitan Police Service), he is recruited to the 'Bravo' Team led by Captain Price.
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* BadgesAndDogTags: Goes from serving in the SAS as a Tier-One operative to a police officer in the [=SCO19=], and then back to the SAS at the request of Price and himself.
* BerserkButton: ''Everything'' about the Butcher becomes this for Garrick due to witnessing the latter's brutality during the attack on the Embassy. [[spoiler:Garrick later gets his chance to avenge the people killed in the Embassy should he choose to participate in the interrogation of the Butcher.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: He's the reboot's version of Gaz.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Is on this with the rest of his fellow officers, and occasionally Price, who in turn occasionally calls him "boss".
* GoodIsNotSoft: The beginning of the story has him being frustrated at how much he's being held back by the rules of engagement while working with the police. This is the reason why Price recruited him to his team in the first place: Kyle is willing to do whatever it takes in order to stop terrorist attacks like what happened in Piccadilly Circus from happening again. Later in the story he does briefly question what he signed up for, though, when he begins to process some of what he was exposed to by working with Price.
* IronicEcho: When Kyle first meets Price, he talks about how he'd like to "just take the bloody gloves off and fight" against Al-Qatala. Price remembers this and throws it back at him [[spoiler: after Kyle is horrified that he kidnapped The Butcher's family to break him.]]
-->'''Price:''' When you take the gloves off, you get blood on your hands, Kyle. That's how it works.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Choosing the option to participate in the [[spoiler:interrogation of the Butcher by threatening his family is this in spades, especially since Kyle is extremely pissed off about the Butcher killing a diplomat and his young son in the Embassy in Urzikstan. His cold response to the Butcher is the icing on the cake:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''The Butcher:''']] [''In absolute terror''] Stop! ''Stop!'' '''Stop!''' [[spoiler:They have ''nothing'' to do with this!]]\\
'''Kyle:''' [[TranquilFury You tell that to the boy in the Embassy.]]
* PlayerCharacter: Shares this role for about half the campaign. He's also occasionally playable in the presence of Alex, the other main playable character.
* PromotedToPlayable: In a way. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare The original Gaz]] was an {{NPC}} during the events of ''Call of Duty 4''. In this reboot, he's the main playable character in the [=SAS=] missions and manages to survive through the end.]]
* RaceLift: [[spoiler:The original Gaz was more obviously Caucasian.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Despite being the reboot's version of Gaz, he manages to survive the events of the finale and is recruited into Task Force 141.]]
* StrangeCopInAStrangeLand: A police officer from the elite [=SCO19=] unit who finds himself conscripted into a war against a global terrorist threat alongside the ''SAS.'' Not exactly what most cops, even those in [=SCO19=], sign up for. It's subverted when it's revealed that he's already a SAS operative who'd been assigned to their domestic counter-terror program after his last tour in the Middle East was cut short.
* SWATTeam: He's part of the [=SCO19=], which is essentially a highly-trained SWAT/counter-terror unit.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: He hits a crisis of conscience when given a chance to reflect on the methods that he and Price are having to employ in order to get results. Price reassures Kyle that the commitments he’s comfortable making are entirely his own and that Price won't hold Kyle to the same standards of what he's willing to do for the mission, only reminding him what the mission ultimately is. Kyle manages to stand tall and push on with the cause.
-->'''Kyle:''' Where do we draw the line on this, sir?
-->'''Price:''' You draw the line...wherever you need it, Sergeant.
* WalkingSpoiler: A popular style of nicknames for males in the UK with long names containing the letter "R" in the middle would be a diminutive form of their own name, ending by substituting the "R" for a "Z". Kyle also possesses a nickname in this style, a diminutive of his last name: [[spoiler:[[CallBack Gaz]]]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: After [[spoiler: successfully interrogating The Butcher for the whereabouts of the gas, Kyle is left alone for a while with the Butcher and a loaded revolver. He can shoot him outright or just even empty his gun at the wall behind him. Either way, if The Butcher is spared there's an alternate cutscene of Russian Police finding him after Price and Kyle leave.]] No matter what happens, it still bothers Kyle immensely afterwards.
* WouldHurtAChild: Ultimately [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. During the [[EnhanceInterrogationTechniques interrogation]] of the Butcher, he responds affirmatively to Price's statement that he has no qualms about hurting children when [[IHaveYourWife they kidnap the Butcher's family]]. Later on, during the trip to Barkov's estate, he expresses horror at the lengths Price went to in order to get the Butcher to crack, showing that while Garrick is willing to do a lot of things in order to stop more terrorist attacks from happening, he draws a line at murdering a mother and her child.]]
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[[folder: Alex]]
!!"Alex"
!!!'''Callsign:''' Echo 3-1
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Chad Michael Collins
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One of the main player characters. An ex-Delta Force operator turned CIA agent embedded in the Middle East under the command of Farah.
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* BadassMustache: Has a short handlebar mustache over his stubble. Combined with his undercut hair this gives him a rather {{hipster}} appearance perhaps fitting now that the reboot's jump to the present would put him in the right generation for the look.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: An operative in the CIA's elite Special Activities Division. He is also ex-Delta Force; considering that most Special Activities Division personnel hail from special operations units, this might not be surprising.
* FriendlySniper: Alex is often given a precision rifle at the start of a mission to provide long-ranged support. In total, he's had his hands on three separate sniper rifles throughout the game: a [=Kar98K=], Hadir's AceCustom HDR, and an AX-50, though the last one only appears in a cutscene and isn't usable in the campaign.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Pulls one at the end of the campaign, in order to ensure that Barkov's gas factory is completely demolished.]]
* IChooseToStay: After bonding with Farah through their fights against Al-Qatala and Barkov's forces, Alex decides to stay in Urzikstan and help Farah's forces out [[spoiler: after she and her forces are designated as hostiles by the U.S. Military]].
* NiceGuy: For a [=CIA=] agent, he's a pretty affable guy, especially with how he bonds with Farah and Hadir through the game.
* OnlyOneName: "Alex", written explicitly in quotations.
* PlayerCharacter: Shares this role with Farah for the rebel side of the campaign.
* SecretIdentity: Since he's a CIA agent, "Alex" is probably more this than a traditional military codename.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He disobeys Laswell's orders in order to continue helping out Farah's forces [[spoiler: even after her forces are designated as hostile by the U.S. Military]].
* SoleSurvivor: Alex is the only one that makes it out alive, albeit wounded, after the attempt of stealing the gas in Fog of War.
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[[folder: Kate Laswell]]
!!Station Chief Kate Laswell
!!!'''Callsign:''' Watcher
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Rya Kihlstedt
A supervisor for the CIA's secretive Special Activities Division.
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* ClassifiedInformation: She gives the theft of a shipment of poisonous chemicals by terrorists that the CIA had just tried to steal themselves this treatment.
* ProxyWar: She seems perfectly fine with supplying the ULF with the resources it needs to wage war against the Russians in Urzikstan, so long as the U.S. doesn't get directly involved.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She seems like she's an obstructive person at first, but ultimately greenlights some of the riskier jobs for the heroes to undertake even once things get real dicey on the political side.
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!Uzrikstani Liberation Force
[[folder: Farah Karim]]
!!Farah Karim
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Claudia Doumit
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''[[caption-width-right:350:"I make no distinction between Al-Qatala and the Russian army. They're both terrorists."]]''
Alex's "commanding officer" in the Middle East. She leads a large group of rebels in Urzikstan against hostile Russian intruders.
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* ActionGirl: Farah's a major leader in the ULF and she has no qualms on fighting if she has to.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: She is playable in a flashback, as a young girl evading Russian invaders. Another pits her in a prison break, where she first met Price. [[spoiler: She's also the very last character you control in the campaign, delivering the killing blows to Barkov as he tries to escape.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Upon finding that [[spoiler:it was Hadir who stole the chemical weapons instead of the AQ insurgents (although Hadir finally conspired with them to use the weapons against foreign occupiers), she no longer considers Hadir her brother out of disappointment.]]
* CassandraTruth: If she tells Barkov that [[spoiler: she is “Commander Karim”, who has been sneaking requests for help out of the prison]], Barkov doesn’t believe her, thinking that she can only be a messenger. Subverted later when Barkov reveals he knew all along that Farah is [[spoiler: Karim]].
* ChildrenForcedToKill: During the part where you first take control of her as a young child, she and her brother Hadir are forced to kill several Russian soldiers in self-defense despite both of them being no older than 8 to 10 years old.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mother and father were killed on the same day during a Russian siege of her town, forcing her to escape with her brother in order to survive. However it doesn't go as planned and she ends up a Russian prisoner for the next ten years of her life.
* DemolitionsExpert: Proves to be this by quickly defusing a bomb with only twenty seconds on the timer without even flinching.
-->'''Alex:''' How'd you learn that?
-->'''Farah:''' Years of experience.
-->'''Alex:''' Too many...
* {{Determinator}}: Farah seems to run on sheer might of will if nothing else.
** As a young child, Farah chose to fight and kill the Russian intruder who murdered her father instead of cowering and submitting herself to fate. Even bullet wounds and being bashed in the face numerous times by a large rifle didn't deter her from trying to finish him off.
** Even after being captured and tortured by Barkov, Farah still refuses to give in, despite being left without food or water for ''10 days''. Starvation and dehydration take an average of three to four days to become debilitating, if not fatal, especially considering Urzikstan's dry and hot climate. And yet, she still musters enough strength to withstand her captor's brutal methods. Whether or not she breaks on day 11 is entirely up to the player's discretion, but even then she still has enough in her to mount and lead an uprising that sends Barkov running with his tail between his legs.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Can choose to go this route [[spoiler: when she kills Barkov at the end of the game,]] although it is a little more tricky than simply using her pistol.
* TheFettered: Despite being a resistance leader, she shows a great distinction in differentiating between allies and enemies and will never resort to unscrupulous means in the war in order to liberate her country from Barkov's occupation. Which makes her reaction when [[spoiler:she finds out that Hadir was behind the stolen chemical weapons]] significantly sadder.
* HeroWorshipper: Despite being quite a hardass, she clearly holds Price in high regard which comes as no surprise considering he saved her life during a prison break some time prior to the game's current events.
* InnocenceLost: She gets to experience firsthand that WarIsHell when the Russians invaded her country. This eventually leads her to grow up into the battle-hardened rebel that Alex meets in the present day.
* TraumaCongaLine: Her origin story. In the span of less than a day, she is buried under rubble as a result of Barkov's occupation (which results in the death of her mother), witnesses civilians (including a fellow child she was friends with) get gunned down by his forces, and [[HopeSpot makes it back to her home with her father to find her brother]]. However, a soldier enters the home and gets into a physical altercation with their father, giving him fatal wounds in the process. Both children manage to kill the soldier by [[ChildrenForcedToKill stabbing him multiple times with a knife]] and shooting him with his own weapon before they are forced to flee through the wartorn city and piles of bodies. Just when they think they'll escape, they're captured by Barkov and his forces and locked up for a decade, only being freed by the direct intervention of the SAS (led by Price).
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[[folder: Hadir Karim]]
!!Hadir Karim
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Aiden Bristow
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Farah's brother and most trusted lieutenant.
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* FriendlySniper: Farah calls him her best sniper and is pretty friendly with anyone willing to help him kill the Russians. He's proud of the custom HDR sniper rifle he modified and is pleased to see that Alex can use it well.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Although he is never being as heinous and violent as the Wolf, the Butcher or Barkov after his Main/FaceHeelTurn, Farah still means everything to him. Which is why when he is apprehended by Price and Kyle, he gives the information he got about Barkov's chemical weapons factory without a second thought.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subtle one at that, his weapon of choice is an AUG and the only one that is seen carrying one in the ULF. Players with a keen eye will notice that [[spoiler: the terrorist leader who stole the gas in the first mission was also carrying the same gun.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Built the rebel forces' improvised drone fleet, as well as his own custom sniper rifle.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: When being successfully apprehended by Price and Kyle, he is completely fine with him being handed to Russia in a prisoner exchange since he already found the location of Barkov's chemical weapons factory and him believing that Farah will use the information to finish off Barkov's operations.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After 20 years of fighting against the Russian Occupation of his home country he has begun to embrace more extreme methods of fighting his enemy [[spoiler: including turning their own poison gas against them.]]
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: Had Hadir not resorted to using the nerve gas against the Russians and waited a few minutes for Price to arrive, he wouldn't have revealed himself to be a traitor. That, or he wouldn't have greatly endangered Farah's life and irreparably ruined their relationship. What truly cements this is the fact that his gas truck was parked just a stone's throw from the outlook he, Farah and Alex were sniping from, suggesting that he had intended to use it then and there.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His justification for stealing the nerve gas from and then using it on the Russians.
* RememberedTooLate: Alex only remembers [[spoiler: that Karim was the one who stole the gas from him at the beginning of the game (probably because he'd just been pulled out of a car wreck)]] after Karim has already [[spoiler: defected to Al-Qatala.]]
* TheUnfettered: Compared to her sister, Hadir supports any form of violence to deter and push back the Russian occupiers out of his homeland. When [[spoiler: Farah finds out that he was the one who stole the chemical weapons, she doesn't take it well.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His willingness to finish off Barkov's occupation in Urzikstan eventually drives him to [[spoiler: steal the chemical weapons in the game's prologue and join Al-Qatala to push back the Russians once and for all.]]
[[/folder]]
!United States Marine Corps
[[folder: Colonel Norris]]
!! Colonel Norris
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nick Boraine
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Norris doesn't have much dialogue or importance over the course of the game story, but he's the one that forces Lazwell to break the news that [[spoiler: Farah's Urzikstan Liberation Force are now branded as a foreign terrorist organization due to Hadir's betrayal.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: General Lyons]]
!! Lt. General Lyons
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Debra Wilson
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lyons shows up even less than Norris does in the overall story of the game, but she is the one [[spoiler: that designates Farah's forces as terrorists.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: First by sending in Alex to align with the Urzikstan Liberation Force in order to find the Russian chemical gas, no one realizing Hadir had stolen it the entire time under their noses. This nearly gets him killed by accident when Hadir finally unleashes it. And second, reclassifying ''Farah's entire force'' as a terrorist organization because of Hadir's betrayal, which forces Alex to act on his conscience and continue to help Farah - and this ''does'' get him killed in a HeroicSacrifice ultimately.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sgt. Griggs]]
!! Sergeant Griggs
!!!'''Callsign:''' Demon 1-2
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Lamonica Garrett
A sergeant in the [=USMC=]. He works alongside Alex in order to find and apprehend "the Wolf" in Urzikstan.
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* DemotedToExtra: The [[Characters/ModernWarfareUnitedStatesMilitary original Griggs]] was a major player throughout the game, helping out in the joint USMC/SAS operation in that game. This Griggs is present for only one mission before disappearing. However...
* NomDeGuerre: "Devil Dogs" is a nickname for the US Marines dating back to WWI; Grigg's company has mixed it with their callsign and call themselves Demon Dogs.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: This incarnation of Griggs is alive and well by the end of the mission he's featured in.
[[/folder]]
!Spoiler Faction
[[folder:In General]]
!Task Force 141
A special Task Force formed by Price in order to combat terrorism throughout the globe, starting with one Victor Zakhaev.
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* WalkingSpoiler: You really can't mention the team at all without giving away TheReveal at the end that this is actually a UltimateUniverse version of ''Modern Warfare''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Demolitionist]]
!!John [=MacTavish=]
!!!'''Callsign:''' Soap
A sniper and demolitions expert in the [=SAS=]. He's recruited by Price for Task Force 141.
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* DemolitionsExpert: Price says that this, along with being a sniper, is his specialties.
* TheGhost: He doesn't appear at all in the game but the mere mention of him along with Simon "Ghost" Riley is enough to set up a SequelHook.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Specialist]]
!!Simon Riley
!!!'''Callsign:''' Ghost
A specialist working for the [=SAS=]. Not much is known about him and no pictures of him have ever been taken. Price recruits him for Task Force 141, along with John "Soap" [=MacTavish=] and Kyle "Gaz" Garrick.
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* TheFaceless: Per his first incarnation, Riley doesn't have an ID photo attached to his dossier. Almost nobody knows what he really looks like this time around as well if Price is to be believed.
* TheGhost: [[{{Pun}} No pun intended]]. Much like Soap above, he doesn't appear in the game at all but being mentioned alongside Soap and Gaz sets up quite a SequelHook.
[[/folder]]
!Federal Security Service
[[folder: Sgt. Kamarov]]
!!Sergeant Kamarov
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A Russian official who is friendly with Price and works with him and Laswell after the campaign and in the Spec Ops missions.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Judging from his brief interaction with Nikolai, they seem to have a bit of tension between them, but nonetheless work together.
-->'''Kamarov:''' Nikolai. You've been a bad boy.
-->'''Nikolai:''' From you, that's a compliment.
-->'''Kamarov:''' Please. We're all friends here.
* MythologyGag: Just like his [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare original counterpart]], this version of the character once again owes Price a favor for [[NoodleIncident Beirut]]. Unlike in the original, this Kamarov delivers on the deal by giving Price information about the new leader of Al-Qatala: [[spoiler: Khaled Al-Asad]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In contrast to Barkov (as well as [[TheLoad his prior incarnation]]). He's quite receptive to cooperating with the Western powers in the face of a resurgent Al-Qatala.
[[/folder]]
!Independent
[[folder:Nikolai]]
Price's "old comrade" in Russia. While he's technically working for the FSB like Kamarov, he prefers to aid Price and Kyle more directly, aiding them with weapons and transport while they're in Russia.
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* CarFu: Disables the Butcher by hitting him with his car.
* TheMafiya: Implied to be working with one of these.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yegor]]
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One of Nikolai's acquaintances whom he brought in for the interrogation of the Butcher.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: He makes this if the player chose to play through the single-player campaign first. Yegor is among the nine (technically ten) operators aligned with the Allegiance in multiplayer. It is also flipped on its head at the same time, as he is unlocked via progression in the single-player campaign, with the mission that unlocks him falling in the first quarter of the campaign, way before he's seen onscreen.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite him being a somewhat unscrupulous gangster and TortureTechnician, Yegor couldn't find it in him to harm [[spoiler: the Butcher's wife and son during the interrogation]] and walks out of the room, provided you chose to participate ("I'm in").
-->'''Yegor:''' Captain, I can't do this.\\
'''Price:''' You're excused.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He resembles a younger version of UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin.
* TortureTechnician: Nikolai called him in to extract information from the Butcher. Unlike most examples though, he actually draws the line in harming [[spoiler: his wife and son]].
[[/folder]]
!Russian Armed Forces
[[folder: Gen. Roman Barkov]]
!!General Roman Barkov
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Konstantin Lavysh
The leader of the Russian forces in occupied Urzikstan. A ruthless general who demonizes his own men almost as much as he does Farah and Hadir Karim, who vow revenge on him.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Despite all of his bluster immediately beforehand, he ultimately resorts to begging for his life as [[spoiler: Farah repeatedly stabs him to death before throwing him off a helicopter]].
* AllForNothing: Despite his utterly misguided actions to protect Russia by violently occupying Urzikstan, nothing good came out of it and [[spoiler: upon his death, he is disowned posthumously by the Russian government and the AQ and the Ultranationalists are now increasing their incursion into Russia, worsening the entire situation.]]
* AxCrazy: Towards any and every Urzikstan denizen he gets his hands on. Even for women and children that get incarcerated, he still sends them to his prisons where they're tortured and killed, on top of his gassing and wiping out towns out of spite of trying to purge all potential terrorists. It reaches the point that he [[spoiler: outright tries to strangle Farah to death once she's resisted him one time too many, while screaming about her nation being nothing but terrorists and that he'll protect Russia. Only Price's timely intervention saves her life, and even then Barkov attempts to kill all the prisoners out of spite even before they fight back.]]
* BadBoss: If the soldiers in ''Hometown'' are to be believed, Barkov punishes his men very harshly for the least bit of insubordination or incompetence, like failing to execute everyone in a given area. According to them, he had once had somebody executed for less than that.
* BigBad: He is in charge of the Russian forces occupying Urzikstan and was the person directly responsible for [[spoiler: Farah's and Hadir's hardships during their incarceration]], plus he's also [[spoiler: behind the manufacturing of the chemical weapons that were stolen by Hadir's forces during the Marine raid]]. To sum it up, most of the game's plot is a direct result of his actions.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Omar Sulaman.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Did this to Farah for ''ten years'', alongside her brother and anyone else he captured.
* DirtyCoward: Prefers to flee at the moment something is amiss, like when [[spoiler: Price attacks the prison after answering Farah’s messages]] or when [[spoiler: Price and the Urzikstan Liberation Force attack his chemical weapons factory at the end of the game.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Farah kills him like this after fighting him on a helicopter.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Having a handful of his men killed by who the ''thinks'' are Urzikstani terrorists apparently gave him carte blanche to launch a ''twenty-year'' invasion of the country, enslave its population, and commit war crimes on its people. According to himself, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist he genuinely believes he's doing the right thing by protecting Russia from terrorists]], so if anything he feels everything he has done were entirely justified.
* FreudianExcuse: Blames random cities in Urzikstan for the deaths of his soldiers as an excuse to place them under martial law and work for him. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse It rings hollow due to all the atrocities he and his soldiers commit.]]
* GeneralRipper: As expected from a character that was based on [[Film/ApocalypseNow Colonel Kurtz]] himself.
* {{Irony}}: Barkov's entire motivation is to suppress Urzikstan and quell the terrorists rising up there so that Russia is in less danger and less of his men die. Over the course of a twenty-year occupation, the casualties are immense on both sides and his actions just create more and more brutal terrorists, likely pissing off his superiors and constituents alike given that he's been conducting the equivalent of genocide without authorization, [[spoiler: and he is not only completely unsuccessful as AQ launches a full scale invasion on Russian city of Verdansk, but he also dies at the hands of one of his own victims he personally tormented and explained his motivations to before being posthumously disowned by the very nation he sought to protect.]]
* MoralMyopia: Losing his men causes him to blame any and every person in Urzikstan that dares stand against him, aiming to pre-emptively silence anyone that resists. It's apparently fine by Barkov's methods to gas entire towns, bomb civilian convoys, and gun down every single person that gets in his path while incarcerating women and children, but even if someone's not actually a terrorist yet opts to fight back against this violence, they're nothing more than a devil that ought to be punished or killed in his eyes.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He genuinely believes he's doing the right thing, protecting Russia through his actions, even though they make him arguably just as bad, if not worse, as the 'terrorists' he fights. It gets to the point that when he's [[spoiler: killed by Farah at the end, Russia disowns him posthumously due to all the atrocities he committed]].
* RenegadeRussian: According to conversations between his men, all of his war atrocities against the Urzikstani people are conducted without authorization from the Russian central government. And true to that, [[spoiler:they eventually have enough with his antics and disown him posthumously after Farah kills him]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Imprisons Farah and Hadir for ten long years, torturing them every step of the way, and also gasses towns regardless of the casualties. Rounding women and children up is more of an afterthought of any survivors.
* WouldHitAGirl: He tortures Farah and the female prisoners intensely because of their support for "Karim". The 'hit' part comes into play especially because he beats Farah around himself out of intense hatred for the woman's resisting.
[[/folder]]
!Al-Qatala
[[folder: Omar Sulaman]]
!!Omar 'the Wolf' Sulaman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Joel Swetow
The leader of the Al-Qatala terrorist group.
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* AxCrazy: As the terrorist attack in London has shown he’s none too shy about murdering civilians, and despite making it clear he wants to throw the Russians out of his country, he’s all too willing to turn his psychotic brand of indiscriminate violence upon his own people should he have an excuse.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: The best way to dispose of him; if Alex (you) don't take the shot, Farah notices he has a detonation remote and abruptly pops him one bullet to the face herself.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Sulaman and Barkov are against each other, but both are the leading causes of the story’s conflict.
* DirtyCoward: Sulaman is more of a man spreading the ideals of his group than a fighter himself. [[spoiler: When he's finally taken care of, it's after fighting through a mile's worth of tunnels filled with his men throwing themselves at the player for his sake, and he even tries to use a suicide vest himself; both when he's apprehended and when he's killed, he doesn't really put up a fight at all.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Much of the first half of the campaign is spent hunting Sulaman down after he spurs a terrorist attack in London.
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Head of AQ in Urzikistan.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sulaman’s efforts in trying to liberate Urzikistan from foreign occupation has some tinges of well meaning to it, such as forming the Al Qatala movement to remove Barkov and his tyranny from the region. However, as we see him go on to turn his violence upon his own country and stage unrelated, indiscriminate massacres of civilians in others, it becomes abundantly clear that Sulaman is a [[AxCrazy psychopathic zealot]] using his cause as an excuse to satiate his lust for murder.
* StupidEvil: Sulaman has somewhat good intentions regarding kicking the Russians out of Urzikistan, but instead of cooperating with other powers and like-minded individuals to accomplish this, instead not only sinks down to the same level of insane barbarism as Barkov and his forces, but also goes out of his way to antagonise other parties that either aren’t part of the conflict and/or would make life very hard for him if they did. His attack on Piccadilly Circus is the catalyst [[spoiler: for his downfall]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He attempts to kill himself along with Alex and Farah with a suicide vest, but either Farah or Alex fatally shoots Sulaman before they manage to defuse the bomb.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jamal Rahar]]
!!Jamal 'the Butcher' Rahar
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nick Tarabay
Omar Sulaman's right-hand man.
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* TheDragon: To Sulaman.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A ruthless enforcer he maybe, but the Butcher has one weakness; [[spoiler: his family. When Price and his crew get a hold on his wife and young son, he quickly caves in and tells them everything he knows]].
* HandCannon: His WeaponOfChoice is a .50 GS, otherwise known as a Desert Eagle.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He says mercy is weak after he kills an innocent father and son, [[spoiler: he later begs for it after Price gets his hands on his own family.]]
* KarmicDeath:[[spoiler: After interrogating him, he can be shot to death in full view of his ''own'' family, the same way he murdered the aforementioned father and son.]] For extra karma, he fearfully begs Price and Kyle [[spoiler: not to harm his family when Price orders Kyle to take a revolver and shoot his wife and son]].
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: From the region and a top member of AQ.
* WouldHurtAChild: Would ''kill'' a child, even. During his establishing scene, he callously guns down a father just in front of his young son, who runs away before getting shot himself. [[spoiler: What makes it especially heinous is that he's a father himself and he'd rather cave into interrogation than risk the lives of his own wife and son.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Ascendant (SPOILERS)]]
!!Khaled Al-Asad
An ascendant enforcer of Al-Qatala's armed forces in Urzikstan, who takes control of the organization after Sulaman's death.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In contrast to his [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare original]] [[DirtyCoward counterpart]], this Al-Asad is seen leading his forces in the front lines ''personally''.
* HandCannon: Much like his original counterpart, this version of Al-Asad still uses a Desert Eagle as his primary weapon. Fairly ironic, given that it's a famous Israeli pistol...
* WalkingSpoiler: His presence reveals that the game is an UltimateUniverse of ''Modern Warfare''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Cpt. John Price]]
!!Captain John Price
!!!'''Callsign:''' Bravo 0-6
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Barry Sloane
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''[[caption-width-right:350:"We get dirty, and the world stays clean. That's the mission."]]''
Commander of the SAS 'Bravo' Team in Modern Warfare, as well as the commanding officer of Kyle Garrick.
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* AdvertisedExtra: "Extra" is a bit of a stretch considering Price is still an important supporting character, but much of the game's promotional materials and trailers put a ''lot'' of focus on him while making very scant, if any, mentions of the other protagonists. As the cherry on top, he is the poster character of the game and is prominently featured on the boxart, meanwhile Kyle Garrick is arguably the real protagonist but isn't advertised as much as Price does.
* AntiHero: He's willing to do very questionable actions as means hunting down terrorists and keeping the world safe, [[spoiler: such as kidnapping a terrorist's family]]. This is lampshaded by himself:
-->'''Price:''' We get dirty, and the world stays clean.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's a Captain [[note]]which is the minimum rank required in order to be a squad leader in the Special Air Service[[/note]] in the [=SAS=] and he shows the badassery necessary in order to lead his own team. He later takes it a step further in the epilogue when [[spoiler: he forms Task Force 141]].
* BadassMustache: As per usual with his incarnations. Like theirs, his is a wee bit too long to be within the SAS' "neatly groomed" regulations.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: A Captain serving in the British Army's Special Air Service, often considered the most elite special operations unit in the world.
* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Pulls this off against Al-Qatala's enforcer "The Butcher" by employing Nikolai's "[[IHaveYourWife truth serum]]."
* GoodIsNotNice: He's definitely on the side of keeping the world safe. That doesn't mean he has to be a goody-two-shoes about it. He outright tells Kyle to ignore the workers in the Embassy being attacked by Al-Qatala because they're not there for them, they're there for the Wolf.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Goes hand in hand with not being nice. He has no qualms about killing every enemy in his way if it means completing the mission.
* GrinOfAudacity: Has a habit of giving off a cheeky grin that practically makes his whole face light up, even when it's to cap off a threat or intimidation.
* GutturalGrowler: Price's voice in this incarnation sounds a lot gruffer than his old version from the original ''Modern Warfare'' games.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: See his caption quote. He has no problems getting his hands dirty in order to finish the mission and keep the world at large safe.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: While [[spoiler: kidnapping the Butcher's family is pretty horrific, it also serves to show that the latter is a massive {{Hypocrite}} who doesn't want his family to get hurt yet has no qualms about killing other families.]]
* NeverBareheaded: Unlike in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', he subverts this as seen from his pic above. He's also briefly lost his Boonie hat during the Embassy siege after jumping out from the falling helicopter, though he's immediately finds and puts it back on his head.
* NiceHat: It's not Captain Price if he didn't have his trademark Boonie hat and before that, a nice beanie. He also wears standard headgear like helmets depending on the mission.
* NotSoStoic: In contrast to the original [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Modern Warfare's Price]], this version is a lot more open with his emotions, letting his frustrations show on the surface more often when a situation is going south, like during the defense of the Embassy in Urzikstan. He also swears a lot more, leading a PrecisionFStrike or three, and openly discusses Kyle's moral concerns with him.
* PapaWolf: To Farah. When he finds out that [[spoiler: Farah and her forces have been labeled as hostile forces by the U.S. Military, he goes ballistic and threatens to kill the American colonel in charge]].
-->'''Price:''' You keep your moppets on a short string, Colonel.
-->'''Col. Norris:''' Or what?
-->'''Price:''' Or I'll [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] hang you from it.
* PragmaticHero: Make no mistake, he will do what's necessary to complete the mission, even if that something is either illegal or, in the eyes of others, unethical, such as [[spoiler: kidnapping the family of one of the terrorists that he's been tasked with hunting down and interrogating]]. He realizes that his methods don't always come easy to his allies, and even offers them to bow out from participating with him on occasion.
* TranquilFury: After Norris [[spoiler: designates Farah’s forces as a terrorist organisation]], Price [[PapaWolf gets in the guy’s face and threatens to kill him if he doesn’t lay off of her]] with nothing but a low snarl in his voice.
* YoungerAndHipper: This incarnation of Price is still a SAS captain but is younger (34/35, compared to the original Price being in his 40s/50s) and is noted to be "a new take" on the character in terms of personality.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sgt. Kyle Garrick]]
!!Sergeant Kyle "[[spoiler:Gaz]]" Garrick
!!!'''Callsign:''' Sabre 2-6
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Elliot Knight
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''[[caption-width-right:350:"Why have we got our hands tied? Let's just take the bloody gloves off and fight."]]''
One of the main player characters. A SAS operator working in the [=SCO19=] (Specialist Firearms Command of the Metropolitan Police Service), he is recruited to the 'Bravo' Team led by Captain Price.
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* BadgesAndDogTags: Goes from serving in the SAS as a Tier-One operative to a police officer in the [=SCO19=], and then back to the SAS at the request of Price and himself.
* BerserkButton: ''Everything'' about the Butcher becomes this for Garrick due to witnessing the latter's brutality during the attack on the Embassy. [[spoiler:Garrick later gets his chance to avenge the people killed in the Embassy should he choose to participate in the interrogation of the Butcher.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler: He's the reboot's version of Gaz.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Is on this with the rest of his fellow officers, and occasionally Price, who in turn occasionally calls him "boss".
* GoodIsNotSoft: The beginning of the story has him being frustrated at how much he's being held back by the rules of engagement while working with the police. This is the reason why Price recruited him to his team in the first place: Kyle is willing to do whatever it takes in order to stop terrorist attacks like what happened in Piccadilly Circus from happening again. Later in the story he does briefly question what he signed up for, though, when he begins to process some of what he was exposed to by working with Price.
* IronicEcho: When Kyle first meets Price, he talks about how he'd like to "just take the bloody gloves off and fight" against Al-Qatala. Price remembers this and throws it back at him [[spoiler: after Kyle is horrified that he kidnapped The Butcher's family to break him.]]
-->'''Price:''' When you take the gloves off, you get blood on your hands, Kyle. That's how it works.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Choosing the option to participate in the [[spoiler:interrogation of the Butcher by threatening his family is this in spades, especially since Kyle is extremely pissed off about the Butcher killing a diplomat and his young son in the Embassy in Urzikstan. His cold response to the Butcher is the icing on the cake:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''The Butcher:''']] [''In absolute terror''] Stop! ''Stop!'' '''Stop!''' [[spoiler:They have ''nothing'' to do with this!]]\\
'''Kyle:''' [[TranquilFury You tell that to the boy in the Embassy.]]
* PlayerCharacter: Shares this role for about half the campaign. He's also occasionally playable in the presence of Alex, the other main playable character.
* PromotedToPlayable: In a way. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare The original Gaz]] was an {{NPC}} during the events of ''Call of Duty 4''. In this reboot, he's the main playable character in the [=SAS=] missions and manages to survive through the end.]]
* RaceLift: [[spoiler:The original Gaz was more obviously Caucasian.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Despite being the reboot's version of Gaz, he manages to survive the events of the finale and is recruited into Task Force 141.]]
* StrangeCopInAStrangeLand: A police officer from the elite [=SCO19=] unit who finds himself conscripted into a war against a global terrorist threat alongside the ''SAS.'' Not exactly what most cops, even those in [=SCO19=], sign up for. It's subverted when it's revealed that he's already a SAS operative who'd been assigned to their domestic counter-terror program after his last tour in the Middle East was cut short.
* SWATTeam: He's part of the [=SCO19=], which is essentially a highly-trained SWAT/counter-terror unit.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: He hits a crisis of conscience when given a chance to reflect on the methods that he and Price are having to employ in order to get results. Price reassures Kyle that the commitments he’s comfortable making are entirely his own and that Price won't hold Kyle to the same standards of what he's willing to do for the mission, only reminding him what the mission ultimately is. Kyle manages to stand tall and push on with the cause.
-->'''Kyle:''' Where do we draw the line on this, sir?
-->'''Price:''' You draw the line...wherever you need it, Sergeant.
* WalkingSpoiler: A popular style of nicknames for males in the UK with long names containing the letter "R" in the middle would be a diminutive form of their own name, ending by substituting the "R" for a "Z". Kyle also possesses a nickname in this style, a diminutive of his last name: [[spoiler:[[CallBack Gaz]]]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: After [[spoiler: successfully interrogating The Butcher for the whereabouts of the gas, Kyle is left alone for a while with the Butcher and a loaded revolver. He can shoot him outright or just even empty his gun at the wall behind him. Either way, if The Butcher is spared there's an alternate cutscene of Russian Police finding him after Price and Kyle leave.]] No matter what happens, it still bothers Kyle immensely afterwards.
* WouldHurtAChild: Ultimately [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. During the [[EnhanceInterrogationTechniques interrogation]] of the Butcher, he responds affirmatively to Price's statement that he has no qualms about hurting children when [[IHaveYourWife they kidnap the Butcher's family]]. Later on, during the trip to Barkov's estate, he expresses horror at the lengths Price went to in order to get the Butcher to crack, showing that while Garrick is willing to do a lot of things in order to stop more terrorist attacks from happening, he draws a line at murdering a mother and her child.]]
[[/folder]]
!Central Intelligence Agency
[[folder: Alex]]
!!"Alex"
!!!'''Callsign:''' Echo 3-1
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Chad Michael Collins
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One of the main player characters. An ex-Delta Force operator turned CIA agent embedded in the Middle East under the command of Farah.
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* BadassMustache: Has a short handlebar mustache over his stubble. Combined with his undercut hair this gives him a rather {{hipster}} appearance perhaps fitting now that the reboot's jump to the present would put him in the right generation for the look.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: An operative in the CIA's elite Special Activities Division. He is also ex-Delta Force; considering that most Special Activities Division personnel hail from special operations units, this might not be surprising.
* FriendlySniper: Alex is often given a precision rifle at the start of a mission to provide long-ranged support. In total, he's had his hands on three separate sniper rifles throughout the game: a [=Kar98K=], Hadir's AceCustom HDR, and an AX-50, though the last one only appears in a cutscene and isn't usable in the campaign.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Pulls one at the end of the campaign, in order to ensure that Barkov's gas factory is completely demolished.]]
* IChooseToStay: After bonding with Farah through their fights against Al-Qatala and Barkov's forces, Alex decides to stay in Urzikstan and help Farah's forces out [[spoiler: after she and her forces are designated as hostiles by the U.S. Military]].
* NiceGuy: For a [=CIA=] agent, he's a pretty affable guy, especially with how he bonds with Farah and Hadir through the game.
* OnlyOneName: "Alex", written explicitly in quotations.
* PlayerCharacter: Shares this role with Farah for the rebel side of the campaign.
* SecretIdentity: Since he's a CIA agent, "Alex" is probably more this than a traditional military codename.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He disobeys Laswell's orders in order to continue helping out Farah's forces [[spoiler: even after her forces are designated as hostile by the U.S. Military]].
* SoleSurvivor: Alex is the only one that makes it out alive, albeit wounded, after the attempt of stealing the gas in Fog of War.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Kate Laswell]]
!!Station Chief Kate Laswell
!!!'''Callsign:''' Watcher
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Rya Kihlstedt
A supervisor for the CIA's secretive Special Activities Division.
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* ClassifiedInformation: She gives the theft of a shipment of poisonous chemicals by terrorists that the CIA had just tried to steal themselves this treatment.
* ProxyWar: She seems perfectly fine with supplying the ULF with the resources it needs to wage war against the Russians in Urzikstan, so long as the U.S. doesn't get directly involved.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She seems like she's an obstructive person at first, but ultimately greenlights some of the riskier jobs for the heroes to undertake even once things get real dicey on the political side.
[[/folder]]
!Uzrikstani Liberation Force
[[folder: Farah Karim]]
!!Farah Karim
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Claudia Doumit
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''[[caption-width-right:350:"I make no distinction between Al-Qatala and the Russian army. They're both terrorists."]]''
Alex's "commanding officer" in the Middle East. She leads a large group of rebels in Urzikstan against hostile Russian intruders.
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* ActionGirl: Farah's a major leader in the ULF and she has no qualms on fighting if she has to.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: She is playable in a flashback, as a young girl evading Russian invaders. Another pits her in a prison break, where she first met Price. [[spoiler: She's also the very last character you control in the campaign, delivering the killing blows to Barkov as he tries to escape.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Upon finding that [[spoiler:it was Hadir who stole the chemical weapons instead of the AQ insurgents (although Hadir finally conspired with them to use the weapons against foreign occupiers), she no longer considers Hadir her brother out of disappointment.]]
* CassandraTruth: If she tells Barkov that [[spoiler: she is “Commander Karim”, who has been sneaking requests for help out of the prison]], Barkov doesn’t believe her, thinking that she can only be a messenger. Subverted later when Barkov reveals he knew all along that Farah is [[spoiler: Karim]].
* ChildrenForcedToKill: During the part where you first take control of her as a young child, she and her brother Hadir are forced to kill several Russian soldiers in self-defense despite both of them being no older than 8 to 10 years old.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her mother and father were killed on the same day during a Russian siege of her town, forcing her to escape with her brother in order to survive. However it doesn't go as planned and she ends up a Russian prisoner for the next ten years of her life.
* DemolitionsExpert: Proves to be this by quickly defusing a bomb with only twenty seconds on the timer without even flinching.
-->'''Alex:''' How'd you learn that?
-->'''Farah:''' Years of experience.
-->'''Alex:''' Too many...
* {{Determinator}}: Farah seems to run on sheer might of will if nothing else.
** As a young child, Farah chose to fight and kill the Russian intruder who murdered her father instead of cowering and submitting herself to fate. Even bullet wounds and being bashed in the face numerous times by a large rifle didn't deter her from trying to finish him off.
** Even after being captured and tortured by Barkov, Farah still refuses to give in, despite being left without food or water for ''10 days''. Starvation and dehydration take an average of three to four days to become debilitating, if not fatal, especially considering Urzikstan's dry and hot climate. And yet, she still musters enough strength to withstand her captor's brutal methods. Whether or not she breaks on day 11 is entirely up to the player's discretion, but even then she still has enough in her to mount and lead an uprising that sends Barkov running with his tail between his legs.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Can choose to go this route [[spoiler: when she kills Barkov at the end of the game,]] although it is a little more tricky than simply using her pistol.
* TheFettered: Despite being a resistance leader, she shows a great distinction in differentiating between allies and enemies and will never resort to unscrupulous means in the war in order to liberate her country from Barkov's occupation. Which makes her reaction when [[spoiler:she finds out that Hadir was behind the stolen chemical weapons]] significantly sadder.
* HeroWorshipper: Despite being quite a hardass, she clearly holds Price in high regard which comes as no surprise considering he saved her life during a prison break some time prior to the game's current events.
* InnocenceLost: She gets to experience firsthand that WarIsHell when the Russians invaded her country. This eventually leads her to grow up into the battle-hardened rebel that Alex meets in the present day.
* TraumaCongaLine: Her origin story. In the span of less than a day, she is buried under rubble as a result of Barkov's occupation (which results in the death of her mother), witnesses civilians (including a fellow child she was friends with) get gunned down by his forces, and [[HopeSpot makes it back to her home with her father to find her brother]]. However, a soldier enters the home and gets into a physical altercation with their father, giving him fatal wounds in the process. Both children manage to kill the soldier by [[ChildrenForcedToKill stabbing him multiple times with a knife]] and shooting him with his own weapon before they are forced to flee through the wartorn city and piles of bodies. Just when they think they'll escape, they're captured by Barkov and his forces and locked up for a decade, only being freed by the direct intervention of the SAS (led by Price).
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Hadir Karim]]
!!Hadir Karim
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Aiden Bristow
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Farah's brother and most trusted lieutenant.
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* FriendlySniper: Farah calls him her best sniper and is pretty friendly with anyone willing to help him kill the Russians. He's proud of the custom HDR sniper rifle he modified and is pleased to see that Alex can use it well.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Although he is never being as heinous and violent as the Wolf, the Butcher or Barkov after his Main/FaceHeelTurn, Farah still means everything to him. Which is why when he is apprehended by Price and Kyle, he gives the information he got about Barkov's chemical weapons factory without a second thought.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subtle one at that, his weapon of choice is an AUG and the only one that is seen carrying one in the ULF. Players with a keen eye will notice that [[spoiler: the terrorist leader who stole the gas in the first mission was also carrying the same gun.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Built the rebel forces' improvised drone fleet, as well as his own custom sniper rifle.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: When being successfully apprehended by Price and Kyle, he is completely fine with him being handed to Russia in a prisoner exchange since he already found the location of Barkov's chemical weapons factory and him believing that Farah will use the information to finish off Barkov's operations.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After 20 years of fighting against the Russian Occupation of his home country he has begun to embrace more extreme methods of fighting his enemy [[spoiler: including turning their own poison gas against them.]]
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: Had Hadir not resorted to using the nerve gas against the Russians and waited a few minutes for Price to arrive, he wouldn't have revealed himself to be a traitor. That, or he wouldn't have greatly endangered Farah's life and irreparably ruined their relationship. What truly cements this is the fact that his gas truck was parked just a stone's throw from the outlook he, Farah and Alex were sniping from, suggesting that he had intended to use it then and there.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His justification for stealing the nerve gas from and then using it on the Russians.
* RememberedTooLate: Alex only remembers [[spoiler: that Karim was the one who stole the gas from him at the beginning of the game (probably because he'd just been pulled out of a car wreck)]] after Karim has already [[spoiler: defected to Al-Qatala.]]
* TheUnfettered: Compared to her sister, Hadir supports any form of violence to deter and push back the Russian occupiers out of his homeland. When [[spoiler: Farah finds out that he was the one who stole the chemical weapons, she doesn't take it well.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His willingness to finish off Barkov's occupation in Urzikstan eventually drives him to [[spoiler: steal the chemical weapons in the game's prologue and join Al-Qatala to push back the Russians once and for all.]]
[[/folder]]
!United States Marine Corps
[[folder: Colonel Norris]]
!! Colonel Norris
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nick Boraine
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Norris doesn't have much dialogue or importance over the course of the game story, but he's the one that forces Lazwell to break the news that [[spoiler: Farah's Urzikstan Liberation Force are now branded as a foreign terrorist organization due to Hadir's betrayal.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: General Lyons]]
!! Lt. General Lyons
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Debra Wilson
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Lyons shows up even less than Norris does in the overall story of the game, but she is the one [[spoiler: that designates Farah's forces as terrorists.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: First by sending in Alex to align with the Urzikstan Liberation Force in order to find the Russian chemical gas, no one realizing Hadir had stolen it the entire time under their noses. This nearly gets him killed by accident when Hadir finally unleashes it. And second, reclassifying ''Farah's entire force'' as a terrorist organization because of Hadir's betrayal, which forces Alex to act on his conscience and continue to help Farah - and this ''does'' get him killed in a HeroicSacrifice ultimately.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sgt. Griggs]]
!! Sergeant Griggs
!!!'''Callsign:''' Demon 1-2
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Lamonica Garrett
A sergeant in the [=USMC=]. He works alongside Alex in order to find and apprehend "the Wolf" in Urzikstan.
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* DemotedToExtra: The [[Characters/ModernWarfareUnitedStatesMilitary original Griggs]] was a major player throughout the game, helping out in the joint USMC/SAS operation in that game. This Griggs is present for only one mission before disappearing. However...
* NomDeGuerre: "Devil Dogs" is a nickname for the US Marines dating back to WWI; Grigg's company has mixed it with their callsign and call themselves Demon Dogs.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: This incarnation of Griggs is alive and well by the end of the mission he's featured in.
[[/folder]]
!Spoiler Faction
[[folder:In General]]
!Task Force 141
A special Task Force formed by Price in order to combat terrorism throughout the globe, starting with one Victor Zakhaev.
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* WalkingSpoiler: You really can't mention the team at all without giving away TheReveal at the end that this is actually a UltimateUniverse version of ''Modern Warfare''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Demolitionist]]
!!John [=MacTavish=]
!!!'''Callsign:''' Soap
A sniper and demolitions expert in the [=SAS=]. He's recruited by Price for Task Force 141.
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* DemolitionsExpert: Price says that this, along with being a sniper, is his specialties.
* TheGhost: He doesn't appear at all in the game but the mere mention of him along with Simon "Ghost" Riley is enough to set up a SequelHook.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Specialist]]
!!Simon Riley
!!!'''Callsign:''' Ghost
A specialist working for the [=SAS=]. Not much is known about him and no pictures of him have ever been taken. Price recruits him for Task Force 141, along with John "Soap" [=MacTavish=] and Kyle "Gaz" Garrick.
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* TheFaceless: Per his first incarnation, Riley doesn't have an ID photo attached to his dossier. Almost nobody knows what he really looks like this time around as well if Price is to be believed.
* TheGhost: [[{{Pun}} No pun intended]]. Much like Soap above, he doesn't appear in the game at all but being mentioned alongside Soap and Gaz sets up quite a SequelHook.
[[/folder]]
!Federal Security Service
[[folder: Sgt. Kamarov]]
!!Sergeant Kamarov
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A Russian official who is friendly with Price and works with him and Laswell after the campaign and in the Spec Ops missions.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Judging from his brief interaction with Nikolai, they seem to have a bit of tension between them, but nonetheless work together.
-->'''Kamarov:''' Nikolai. You've been a bad boy.
-->'''Nikolai:''' From you, that's a compliment.
-->'''Kamarov:''' Please. We're all friends here.
* MythologyGag: Just like his [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare original counterpart]], this version of the character once again owes Price a favor for [[NoodleIncident Beirut]]. Unlike in the original, this Kamarov delivers on the deal by giving Price information about the new leader of Al-Qatala: [[spoiler: Khaled Al-Asad]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In contrast to Barkov (as well as [[TheLoad his prior incarnation]]). He's quite receptive to cooperating with the Western powers in the face of a resurgent Al-Qatala.
[[/folder]]
!Independent
[[folder:Nikolai]]
Price's "old comrade" in Russia. While he's technically working for the FSB like Kamarov, he prefers to aid Price and Kyle more directly, aiding them with weapons and transport while they're in Russia.
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* CarFu: Disables the Butcher by hitting him with his car.
* TheMafiya: Implied to be working with one of these.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yegor]]
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One of Nikolai's acquaintances whom he brought in for the interrogation of the Butcher.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: He makes this if the player chose to play through the single-player campaign first. Yegor is among the nine (technically ten) operators aligned with the Allegiance in multiplayer. It is also flipped on its head at the same time, as he is unlocked via progression in the single-player campaign, with the mission that unlocks him falling in the first quarter of the campaign, way before he's seen onscreen.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite him being a somewhat unscrupulous gangster and TortureTechnician, Yegor couldn't find it in him to harm [[spoiler: the Butcher's wife and son during the interrogation]] and walks out of the room, provided you chose to participate ("I'm in").
-->'''Yegor:''' Captain, I can't do this.\\
'''Price:''' You're excused.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He resembles a younger version of UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin.
* TortureTechnician: Nikolai called him in to extract information from the Butcher. Unlike most examples though, he actually draws the line in harming [[spoiler: his wife and son]].
[[/folder]]
!Russian Armed Forces
[[folder: Gen. Roman Barkov]]
!!General Roman Barkov
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Konstantin Lavysh
The leader of the Russian forces in occupied Urzikstan. A ruthless general who demonizes his own men almost as much as he does Farah and Hadir Karim, who vow revenge on him.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Despite all of his bluster immediately beforehand, he ultimately resorts to begging for his life as [[spoiler: Farah repeatedly stabs him to death before throwing him off a helicopter]].
* AllForNothing: Despite his utterly misguided actions to protect Russia by violently occupying Urzikstan, nothing good came out of it and [[spoiler: upon his death, he is disowned posthumously by the Russian government and the AQ and the Ultranationalists are now increasing their incursion into Russia, worsening the entire situation.]]
* AxCrazy: Towards any and every Urzikstan denizen he gets his hands on. Even for women and children that get incarcerated, he still sends them to his prisons where they're tortured and killed, on top of his gassing and wiping out towns out of spite of trying to purge all potential terrorists. It reaches the point that he [[spoiler: outright tries to strangle Farah to death once she's resisted him one time too many, while screaming about her nation being nothing but terrorists and that he'll protect Russia. Only Price's timely intervention saves her life, and even then Barkov attempts to kill all the prisoners out of spite even before they fight back.]]
* BadBoss: If the soldiers in ''Hometown'' are to be believed, Barkov punishes his men very harshly for the least bit of insubordination or incompetence, like failing to execute everyone in a given area. According to them, he had once had somebody executed for less than that.
* BigBad: He is in charge of the Russian forces occupying Urzikstan and was the person directly responsible for [[spoiler: Farah's and Hadir's hardships during their incarceration]], plus he's also [[spoiler: behind the manufacturing of the chemical weapons that were stolen by Hadir's forces during the Marine raid]]. To sum it up, most of the game's plot is a direct result of his actions.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Omar Sulaman.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Did this to Farah for ''ten years'', alongside her brother and anyone else he captured.
* DirtyCoward: Prefers to flee at the moment something is amiss, like when [[spoiler: Price attacks the prison after answering Farah’s messages]] or when [[spoiler: Price and the Urzikstan Liberation Force attack his chemical weapons factory at the end of the game.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Farah kills him like this after fighting him on a helicopter.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Having a handful of his men killed by who the ''thinks'' are Urzikstani terrorists apparently gave him carte blanche to launch a ''twenty-year'' invasion of the country, enslave its population, and commit war crimes on its people. According to himself, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist he genuinely believes he's doing the right thing by protecting Russia from terrorists]], so if anything he feels everything he has done were entirely justified.
* FreudianExcuse: Blames random cities in Urzikstan for the deaths of his soldiers as an excuse to place them under martial law and work for him. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse It rings hollow due to all the atrocities he and his soldiers commit.]]
* GeneralRipper: As expected from a character that was based on [[Film/ApocalypseNow Colonel Kurtz]] himself.
* {{Irony}}: Barkov's entire motivation is to suppress Urzikstan and quell the terrorists rising up there so that Russia is in less danger and less of his men die. Over the course of a twenty-year occupation, the casualties are immense on both sides and his actions just create more and more brutal terrorists, likely pissing off his superiors and constituents alike given that he's been conducting the equivalent of genocide without authorization, [[spoiler: and he is not only completely unsuccessful as AQ launches a full scale invasion on Russian city of Verdansk, but he also dies at the hands of one of his own victims he personally tormented and explained his motivations to before being posthumously disowned by the very nation he sought to protect.]]
* MoralMyopia: Losing his men causes him to blame any and every person in Urzikstan that dares stand against him, aiming to pre-emptively silence anyone that resists. It's apparently fine by Barkov's methods to gas entire towns, bomb civilian convoys, and gun down every single person that gets in his path while incarcerating women and children, but even if someone's not actually a terrorist yet opts to fight back against this violence, they're nothing more than a devil that ought to be punished or killed in his eyes.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He genuinely believes he's doing the right thing, protecting Russia through his actions, even though they make him arguably just as bad, if not worse, as the 'terrorists' he fights. It gets to the point that when he's [[spoiler: killed by Farah at the end, Russia disowns him posthumously due to all the atrocities he committed]].
* RenegadeRussian: According to conversations between his men, all of his war atrocities against the Urzikstani people are conducted without authorization from the Russian central government. And true to that, [[spoiler:they eventually have enough with his antics and disown him posthumously after Farah kills him]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Imprisons Farah and Hadir for ten long years, torturing them every step of the way, and also gasses towns regardless of the casualties. Rounding women and children up is more of an afterthought of any survivors.
* WouldHitAGirl: He tortures Farah and the female prisoners intensely because of their support for "Karim". The 'hit' part comes into play especially because he beats Farah around himself out of intense hatred for the woman's resisting.
[[/folder]]
!Al-Qatala
[[folder: Omar Sulaman]]
!!Omar 'the Wolf' Sulaman
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Joel Swetow
The leader of the Al-Qatala terrorist group.
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* AxCrazy: As the terrorist attack in London has shown he’s none too shy about murdering civilians, and despite making it clear he wants to throw the Russians out of his country, he’s all too willing to turn his psychotic brand of indiscriminate violence upon his own people should he have an excuse.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: The best way to dispose of him; if Alex (you) don't take the shot, Farah notices he has a detonation remote and abruptly pops him one bullet to the face herself.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Sulaman and Barkov are against each other, but both are the leading causes of the story’s conflict.
* DirtyCoward: Sulaman is more of a man spreading the ideals of his group than a fighter himself. [[spoiler: When he's finally taken care of, it's after fighting through a mile's worth of tunnels filled with his men throwing themselves at the player for his sake, and he even tries to use a suicide vest himself; both when he's apprehended and when he's killed, he doesn't really put up a fight at all.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Much of the first half of the campaign is spent hunting Sulaman down after he spurs a terrorist attack in London.
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Head of AQ in Urzikistan.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sulaman’s efforts in trying to liberate Urzikistan from foreign occupation has some tinges of well meaning to it, such as forming the Al Qatala movement to remove Barkov and his tyranny from the region. However, as we see him go on to turn his violence upon his own country and stage unrelated, indiscriminate massacres of civilians in others, it becomes abundantly clear that Sulaman is a [[AxCrazy psychopathic zealot]] using his cause as an excuse to satiate his lust for murder.
* StupidEvil: Sulaman has somewhat good intentions regarding kicking the Russians out of Urzikistan, but instead of cooperating with other powers and like-minded individuals to accomplish this, instead not only sinks down to the same level of insane barbarism as Barkov and his forces, but also goes out of his way to antagonise other parties that either aren’t part of the conflict and/or would make life very hard for him if they did. His attack on Piccadilly Circus is the catalyst [[spoiler: for his downfall]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He attempts to kill himself along with Alex and Farah with a suicide vest, but either Farah or Alex fatally shoots Sulaman before they manage to defuse the bomb.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jamal Rahar]]
!!Jamal 'the Butcher' Rahar
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nick Tarabay
Omar Sulaman's right-hand man.
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* TheDragon: To Sulaman.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: A ruthless enforcer he maybe, but the Butcher has one weakness; [[spoiler: his family. When Price and his crew get a hold on his wife and young son, he quickly caves in and tells them everything he knows]].
* HandCannon: His WeaponOfChoice is a .50 GS, otherwise known as a Desert Eagle.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He says mercy is weak after he kills an innocent father and son, [[spoiler: he later begs for it after Price gets his hands on his own family.]]
* KarmicDeath:[[spoiler: After interrogating him, he can be shot to death in full view of his ''own'' family, the same way he murdered the aforementioned father and son.]] For extra karma, he fearfully begs Price and Kyle [[spoiler: not to harm his family when Price orders Kyle to take a revolver and shoot his wife and son]].
* MiddleEasternTerrorists: From the region and a top member of AQ.
* WouldHurtAChild: Would ''kill'' a child, even. During his establishing scene, he callously guns down a father just in front of his young son, who runs away before getting shot himself. [[spoiler: What makes it especially heinous is that he's a father himself and he'd rather cave into interrogation than risk the lives of his own wife and son.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Ascendant (SPOILERS)]]
!!Khaled Al-Asad
An ascendant enforcer of Al-Qatala's armed forces in Urzikstan, who takes control of the organization after Sulaman's death.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In contrast to his [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare original]] [[DirtyCoward counterpart]], this Al-Asad is seen leading his forces in the front lines ''personally''.
* HandCannon: Much like his original counterpart, this version of Al-Asad still uses a Desert Eagle as his primary weapon. Fairly ironic, given that it's a famous Israeli pistol...
* WalkingSpoiler: His presence reveals that the game is an UltimateUniverse of ''Modern Warfare''.
[[/folder]]
