Characters / Battlefield V

My Country Calling

The Narrator

Under No Flag

Billy Bridger

Private William Sydney "Billy" Bridger

Portrayed by: Fionn Walton

An inexperienced private of the Special Boat Section. Bridger was a former convicted criminal and son of the notorious criminal Arthur Bridger, who was given a second chance by George Mason to be recruited into his Special Boat Service commando squad. He also has a familiarity with explosives and resilience on the battlefield, despite his cockiness and ineptitude.

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• Alliterative Name: Billy Bridger. Downplayed that his full name is William Sidney Bridger.
• Demolitions Expert: Billy was assigned this position for the SBS, being capable of destroying enemy stronghold and Stuka planes with planted bombs,
• Determinator: No matter the failures Billy has done whether it's from failed robberies or botched objectives, he still tries and tries to succeed. Hence why Mason calls Billy a "tryer".
  Mason: Even though you fucked up, you've kept trying.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Wears a pair of desert goggles on his head but never actually puts them over his eyes.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Wears a brown leather jacket.
• It's All My Fault: Blames himself for his incompetence and screwing up his actions. Mason lightens him up that his tragedies were lessons to becoming a better soldier.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While at its worst of a heated arrogant demeanor, Billy still has some redeemable qualities on the battlefield.
• London Gangster: Sports a cockney accent and a history of failed bank robberies. His father was also one of these.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Billy infrequently finds a nearby German radio and thought to call for evacuation. He does so, but also gave away his and Mason's coordinates to the Germans!
• One-Man Army: Billy can singlehandedly tear down the German reinforcements surrounding him, using a wide array of weapons at his disposal.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After being a Butt-Monkey over the course of the story, Billy, after fending off lots of Germans forces surrounding him, finally gets his happy ending when he has a newfound respect with his superior, Mason.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: Billy was taken to custody for convicted crimes, but was later released and recruited by the Royal Navy as a second chance.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: When Billy reached the shorelines of North Africa, Billy was seen throwing up due of seasickness.

George Mason

George Mason

Portrayed by: Craig Fairbrass

One of the unit leaders of the Royal Navy's Special Boat Service and Billy's superior and authority figure.

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• Brake Angrily: Though Billy driving the jeep, Mason yanks the handbrake upon hearing that Billy just unintentionally called the German radio for extraction.
  Mason: You did what?!
• Deadpan Snarker: Is this to Billy when he asks if he's been to the airfield they are going to sabotage before.
• Elites Are More Glamorous: He is a member of the Special Boat Section, a commando unit dedicated to striking enemy bases along the coast using specially built kayaks.
• Parental Substitute: Begins to have this dynamic with Billy near the end of Under No Flag, with the standout example being when Billy tells him that his father abandoned him after the failed bank job, telling him he was useless, to which Mason firmly reassured him that he is not. He even fondly calls him "son" in the end.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Peppers quite a few of his sentences with cusses.

Nordlys

Solveig Bjørnstad

Solveig Fia Bjørnstad

Portrayed by: Susanne Boucher

The Norwegian Resistance affiliated fighter. She sets off in her mission at a German-occupied power plant to stop the German's production of heavy water used to make atomic weapons and rescue her mother, Astrid.

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• Action Girl: And she's not just any other soldier either, she's a straight up guerrilla commando.
• Bolivian Army Ending: Her fate is left unexplored, but it's very likely and implied she was either executed or died in the blast of the exploding U-Boot.
• The Dreaded: The Germans consider her a "monster".
• Icon of Rebellion: Both Solveig and Astrid wear a paperclip on their clothes, a subtle symbol of the Norwegian Resistance.
• I'm Cold... So Cold...: The second part of the campaign when Solveig has to go through the snowstorm. If she stays too long into the cold without finding a nearby bonfire, she'll die of hypothermia.
• La Résistance: She's aligned to the Norwegian Resistance.
• Made of Iron: When her mother Astrid dropped her own daughter off the bridge in order to be safe from German confinement, Solveig manage to survive a tumble down the snowy mountain.
• One-Woman Army: Solveig can singlehandedly bring the entire Wehrmacht to their knees.
• The Smurfette Principle: Of the five playable characters, she's the only female in the roster.

Astrid Bjørnstad

Portrayed by: Synnøve Macody Lund

A Norwegian resistant fighter and Solveig's mother.

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• Action Mom: She fights alongside her daughter against swarms of Nazis.
• Damsel in Distress: She was bound and handcuffed by Leutnant Weber after being captured, prompting her daughter Solveig to rescue her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She's reduced to suicide-bombing the Germans' heavy water supply so they can't manufacture nukes.
• Icon of Rebellion: Both Solveig and Astrid wear a paperclip on their clothes, a subtle symbol of the Norwegian Resistance.
• Taking You with Me: Her last moment ever was using a grenade with to destroy the U-boat she is on and killing herself with Weber onboard in the process.

Leutnant Weber

Portrayed by: Anders Heinrichsen

A German Army officer deployed in Norway to supervise the production of heavy water, also serving as the story's antagonist.

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• Affably Evil: Weber is genuinely trying to avoid any unpleasantness, though he's also willfully ignorant of the ultimate purpose of the heavy water the facility is protecting.
• Big Bad: Of Nordlys

Tirailleur

Deme Cisse

Deme Cisse

^{Click here to see Deme in the present day.} 

Portrayed by: Daniel Bilong

A member of the Senegalese colonial department of the Free French Army. Despite his inexperience and discrimination from the French Army, Deme is a determined soldier who longs to push himself and his fellow tirailleur comrades for a chance of glory and recognition.

His war experience was told recounted by Deme himself as an old man in the present day, who seeks to film his story as proof of his involvement.

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• Affectionate Nickname: He's called "little brother" by his fellow tirailleur, Idrissa.
• An Aesop: As a way of setting the record straight by filming his involvement in the end; no matter what happens, history will never erase what he and his comrades have done for the country.
• Glory Seeker: He is very eager to go into battle and fight the Germans, in order to win glory for himself and his fellow tirailleurs.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: In-Universe, when a present-day Deme tells the story of the tirailleurs' involvement in the Free French Army, something world doesn't know yet.
  Deme: (narrating) You won't find the story I'm going to tell you in the history books. That makes you disbelieve my words. But remember: not everything that's written down is true, and not everything true is written down.
• Quickly-Demoted Leader: Averted. Deme at the beginning was demoted from the frontlines to just a menial worker, much to his disgust from the French Army's discrimination. Deme and the tiralleurs was later back to the frontlines when the French Army was struggling with the German Forces.
• The Leader: In the later stages of the story, Deme's Rousing Speech later appoints him as the de facto leader of his tirailleur squad.
• Skilled, but Naive: Deme is a very capable soldier but fails to understand that his rash decisions cost his unit more and more lives as they push into the forest.
• Unperson: Unfortunately, Deme (along with his fellow tirailleurs) was doctored out from the image, leaving to only white French soldiers.

Idrissa

Portrayed by: Youssef Diawara

A member of the Senegalese colonial department of the Free French Army who fights alongside Deme.

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• Heroic Sacrifice: Shoves a grenade down into a Tiger tank about to kill him and Deme and then holds down the hatch so none of the crew can escape, resulting in him being blown up along with the tank.
• I Have a Family: Mentions having a wife and children when first meeting up for the first time with Deme and becomes terrified at the thought of not seeing them when their unit gets surrounded in the forest.

The French Captain

The Captain of the Free French Army, who also commandeers the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

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• Anonymous Ringer: He's Charles de Gaulle, but he's never called that.
• Historical Domain Character: He's Charles de Gaulle.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite showing little to no respect to the tirailleurs, the Captain allows them to volunteer to take part on a suicidal assault against German lines. Later, he is last seen greeting and expressing his admiration to the surviving Tirailleurs and gathering them for a historical group photograph, but not until the tirailleurs were unpersoned from the image.

The Last Tiger

Peter Müller

Peter Mathias Müller

Portrayed by: Urs Remond

A loyal Wehrmacht officer and a veteran commander of the Tiger 237 tank. Despite being A Father to His Men, Müller is a character of conflict where he faces against all odds in a last-breath defense of Berlin and his actions may impact the alliance of his subordinates.

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• Ambiguous Situation: We last see him about to be shot by Schröder. However, as the camera cuts to black, it's left ambiguous whether or not it killed him, since he's retelling the story in the past tense.
• A Father to His Men: He genuinely showed empathy and understanding to his subordinates, even if they consisted of Principles Zealot like Schröder and Nervous Wreck like Hartman. Sadly, his attempts to keep it all together go terribly wrong, when Schröder takes his words and messages in the wrong way and executes others for leaving the tank.
• Bystander Syndrome: Peter narrates the opening of the campaign, mentioning a moment in his childhood when he witnessed a couple of boys stealing from a shop in his hometown and didn't do anything to try and stop them. His father was angry at Peter.
  Peter: But I didn't take anything.
  Peter's Father: Maybe not, but you were there.
  • This story is meant to be symbolic of Peter’s role in the war, which in a way is another case of this. He may not have committed any war crimes or participated in the genocide (at least as far as we know), but nonetheless he enabled those who did by choosing to fight for Germany rather than refuse or surrender earlier.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: He was last seen about to be shot by Schröder for surrendering.
• Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: In his Darkest Hour, when the defense of the city lies in ruins, his command has stranded them in enemy territory and Schröder has shot Kertz, he rips off his iron cross in disgust and drops it on the ground.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: With the US Army closing in around them,the bridge destroyed by their own side and stranding him and his crew, and finally Schröder go off the deep end by simply refusing to surrender, Müller finally lays down his arms. It's left ambiguous whether or not he succeeds, though, since Schröder aims his gun at him just before it cuts to black.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Though he began to show doubt on his country as Wehrmacht's situation turn bleak that resulted in his surrender to the Allies before Schröder raised his gun at him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Was visibly taken aback at the sight of Hartmann's corpse, having been executed after following his orders. Later on, after getting called out by Kertz and being abandoned by the German high command, he realizes that his loyalty to Nazi Germany has only brought him pain and suffering.
• Older Than They Look: When killed, Müller's year of birth is listed as 1912, making him 33 years old. He looks like a man at least in his mid-40s; the war has almost certainly aged him prematurely.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He was genuinely a decent person, albeit serving Germany as an army officer. Of course, even the opening narration calls out how little "decency" counts for when you're still part of what enables your country to drown half the world in conflict.

Kertz

• Badass Driver: He was capable of maneuvering the Tiger Tank since his service with Müller in 1941, being the only crew member to have stuck around since then.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: He is executed by Schröder just he was about to surrender.
• Only Sane Man: He holds a cynical view on the war by 1945, with the Wehrmacht in full retreat. In fact, he bailed out and gave The Reason You Suck at Müller until he was shot by Schröder.
• Old Soldier: He was the only one left among the crews who had served with Müller since the beginning of his service.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Though he did start to doubt on his loyalty to the country by 1945.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Snaps and attempts to surrender to the American forces after their Tiger is disabled, believing that the German high command had abandoned them. Schröder had other ideas.

Schröder

• Ax-Crazy: His fanaticism drives him to be so trigger-happy to a point of being unhinged and borderline psychotic.
• Big Bad: From a certain perspective, he is this of the level "The Last Tiger," due to playing straight the Those Wacky Nazis trope and how his fanatical beliefs come in conflict with the rest of his tank crew-mates and even places them in danger with his actions as the tank's gunner. When he turns the gun on Müller and Kertz for surrendering, it is confirmed.
• Blood Knight: He is very eager to engage the enemy to defend Nazism.
• Defiant to the End: Rather than to Know When to Fold Them, Schröder chooses to keep fighting the enemy even when he is cornered.
• Gone Horribly Right: Kertz suggests Müller has given Schröder the "party line". Schröder takes various platitudes of Müller like "Together, we are strong" and uses them to justify his own horrible actions, directly or indirectly causing the death of every single crew member.
• Hate Sink: He is the most unsympathetic and detrimental member of the Tiger crew, for being a fanatical Nazi whose beliefs places his crew in danger.
• Honor Before Reason: His fanatical commitment to the all-but-lost cause of Nazi Germany led him to drag the rest of the crew into two completely avoidable confrontations with the surrounding American forces.
• Jerkass: He is absolutely an unpleasant individual, despising Hartmann for his cowardice and even cursing him upon seeing him dead for desertion.
• The Millstone: His fanatical beliefs comes in conflict with the tank crew on the battleground. His sheer refusal to surrender cost the crew a way out even against overwhelming odds, twice.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: He is vehemently a fanatic, which he show disdain towards "deserters and traitors" to the point that he willingly opened fire at an American unit who had given them a chance to surrender and all too willingly shoot Müller for surrendering. Or did he?.
• The Neidermeyer: Even though he is a fanatic, he lacks the rationality that Old Soldiers Müller and Kertz, who is annoyed by his foolish Those Wacky Nazis demeanor, carried. He also despises Hartmann for being a Nervous Wreck and shown Last Disrespects upon finding him executed. Finally he turns his gun on Müller and Kertz for surrendering.
• Never My Fault: He kills Kertz for surrendering to Müller's despair, but Schröder justifies it by following the ideals given by Müller to him.
• New Meat: Unlike Hartmann, his extreme Patriotism tends to make him more confident but less rational than rest of the crew.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: He is a fanatical and detrimental New Meat in contrast to the wiser and sympathetic Old Soldiers Müller and Kertz.
• Patriotic Fervor: He is overly patriotic and fanatical to the Nazi cause, but it makes him borderline psychotic.
• Principles Zealot
• Redemption Rejection: When the Americans gave him and the other tank crew members a chance to surrender peacefully or avoid a confrontation with them, Schröder instead attacks the Americans and even turning his gun on Kertz and Müller for surrendering.
• Sociopathic Soldier: His Nazi fanaticism drives him to be a trigger-happy and reckless Wild Card amongst the Tiger crew with a Lack of Empathy towards those who are either cowards or traitors.
• Those Wacky Nazis: He is a foolishly fanatical Nazi.
• Too Dumb to Live: Opens fire on a surrounding enemy force, even though they are heavily outnumbered. Despite his own side stranding him behind enemy lines soon after, he still continues to fight and uphold the ideals of Nazism, throwing away his one chance at survival in the process, even though it should be obvious from his surroundings that Germany have all but lost the war.
• Token Evil Teammate: The most fanatical and unpleasant member of the Tiger tank crew, taking the Nazi ideology to heart.
• We Have Reserves: Unlike Müller, Schröder have the will to send anyone "expendable" to do dangerous work. One example is his treatment of trembling Hartmann to scout out an exit despite his panicking disposition due to his nature as "inessential" loader.
• Villainous Breakdown: He absolutely loses it during the Last Stand, killing Kertz for attempting to surrender, desperately tries to justify his murder of Kertz, refusing to surrender and subsequently engages the surrounding American forces in a completely pointless Last Stand, and finally turning the gun on Müller just after giving out an anguished Big "NO!" at seeing him surrendering too.
• Villainous Valor: He keeps fighting to the very end for the Nazi cause unlike the other tank crew members.

Hartmann

• Ambiguous Situation: It was not known whether he was hanged for desertion, or mistakenly assumed to be one as he was left behind by the tank crews during an attack and attempted to find them.
• Nervous Wreck: He tend to become anxious quickly at the heat of battle, much to the dismay of Schröder.
• New Meat: He was a new crew like Schröder, but his lack of experience and minimal training made him easy to panic.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Unlike Schröder, he was merely fulfilling his duties as a soldier even with his panicking disposition.