Characters in Modern Warfare. For characters in the rest of the franchise, see here.
- Special Air Service
- United States Military
- Task Force 141
- Russian Loyalists and Russian Government
- Ultranationalists and OpFor
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Other characters
Yasir Al-Fulani
President Al-Fulani as he appears in the DS version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
President of the unnamed Middle Eastern country in the first Modern Warfare.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: He hyperventilates as Al-Asad gets ready to execute him in the remaster.
- Boom, Headshot!: How he dies, from a Desert Eagle headshot.
- Controllable Helplessness: The player controls him (or at least looks through his eyes) in "The Coup". He got captured, shoved into a car, driven around his capital city that is now in chaos and watching Al-Asad's men murdering his people, tied to a cross and executed by Al-Asad, during which the player is completely helpless and unable to do anything other than look around.
- The Faceless: The majority of the time, the player sits inside his perspective, without any reflective surface to see his face. When the GPS locks on to him, the third-person view of him only shows his silhouette. Even after his execution, the video recording just barely misses his face, only showing Al-Asad. It is however, averted in the DS version, where we get a portrait of him.
- Meaningful Name: Al-Fulani is basically Arabic for "John Doe" (see the Spanish word "fulano", that derivates from the same Arabic root and means something like "dude").
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies in the same chapter he is introduced in, and is the first player-perspective character to die.
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An astronaut briefly controlled in Modern Warfare 2.- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: He makes frantic, panicked breathing sounds as he meets his demise in the remaster.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He was first thrown through space before getting smacked by a solar panel from the International Space Station. And if being hit by the solar panel killed him, it was honestly a mercy compared to the alternative of slowly suffocating.
- Controllable Helplessness: Like Modern Warfare's Al-Fulani, you get to control his view a bit, but he dies quickly.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He appears and dies in the same scene without getting any plot significance afterwards or even a personality.
The Davis family
Mrs. Davis: "You got it? Are you recording? Okay. So, this is day 3, London, and we're off to... Sarah, tell daddy where we're going."
Sarah Davis: "We're going to Big Ben!"
Sarah Davis: "We're going to Big Ben!"
Voiced by: Julia Arem (English/Sarah)note
A family seen vacationing in London during MW3.
- Camera Abuse: The POV camera held by Mr. Davis flies off in the explosion and breaks upon crashing onto the ground.
- Cheerful Child: Sarah, the daughter in the family.
- Death of a Child: None of them survive the gas attack, not even the daughter.
- Eiffel Tower Effect: They were in London and we end up seeing the Elizabeth Tower. Justified as this family came to London as tourists and came to visit this landmark.
- Genki Girl: Sarah, again.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Mrs. Davis
- That’s your daughter, you know she gets it from y-
- No Name Given: Downplayed. While neither of the parents have any given first name, the daughter is named Sarah. The whole family has the surname "Davis" named by the mission itself.
- Heroic Mime: You briefly play as Mr. Davis recording his family. As required by CoD law, he is completely silent.
- P.O.V. Cam: Mr. Davis, the Player Character of this mission. As such, we also don't know what he looks like.
- Together in Death: The whole family dies within a split second of each other in the explosions.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Like other first-person perspective NPCs used to illustrate the victims of conflicts, they are introduced and killed in the same scene.
