History Characters / ModernWarfareTaskForce141

* DecompositeCharacter: Like Fairbrass' two other characters in the trilogy, he's a GoodCounterpart {{Foil}} to his voice actor's TheBrute role Delmar from ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'', as both characters carried a Beretta 92 as a sidearm and a variant of the [=MP5=] as a primary submachine gun, while both characters [[spoiler:died instantly from a gunshot wound to the chest, ironically Ghost's death was held after being devastated by Shepherd shooting his close colleague Roach, while Delmar's death was held after he himself caused a {{Deuteragonist}}'s devastation by killing off his close friend]]. Additionally, Ghost's diving outfit from "The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday" and "The Gulag" resembles Delmar's black jumpsuit, while Ghost wears a balaclava much like Delmar's during the plane heist scene of ''Cliffhanger''. Also, both characters are quite the {{Torture Technician}}s, even though Ghost is a rare heroic example, but their torture tactics and motives tends to differ. While Delmar's brutal KickTheDog NoHoldsBarredBeatdown soccer torture was ForTheEvulz out of his own meaningless sadistic gratification, Ghost's less brutal and more subtle KickTheSonOfABitch ColdBloodedTorture on the other hand was meaningfully for extracting important information to take down the enemy.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: [[spoiler:At the end of Loose Ends, he briefly enjoys a smoke...just before using it to light Ghost and Roach on fire.]]

* DefiantToTheEnd: Spends his last moments attempting to gun down [[spoiler:Shepard]].

* InstantDeathBullet: Dies instantly after [[spoiler:Shepard]] shoots him.

* NotSoStoic: Absolutely ''loses his shit'' when [[spoiler:Price launches the nukes. He also screams in despair after Shepard shoots Roach]].

* EtTuBrute: Implied in the remastered version. [[spoiler:When Shepherd shoots him and Ghost, Roach grabs Shepherds arm as if to ask why he did this. Shepherd curtly brushes him off.]]

A bit of TruthInTelevision as Task Force 141 is likely inspired by real multinational Special Forces units such as Task Force 121, Knight, 145.etc. Although these were indeed multinational Special Forces units working together with specific objectives. It was not common for them to be on the same mission at the same time. Often working with their own respective countries' forces while other nationals of the Task Force had their own assignments but were all working towards a common objective.

* HeroicMime: Averted, though he only speaks in cutscenes.

* PlayerCharacter: You control him for the first, second, and fourth missions.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LanceHenriksen (English/''Modern Warfare 2''), Don Berns (''Operation Kingfish'')[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Creator/TetsuInada (Japanese), Yuri Menshagin (Russian)[[/note]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TroyBaker (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Andrey Barkhudarov (Russian)[[/note]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** To say he leads from the front is an understatement. He can be seen fighting alongside the Rangers in ''Team Player''. While carrying a [[RevolversAreJustBetter .44 Magnum Revolver.]]
** [[spoiler:The whole Shadow Company, though far more competent than other in-game enemies, failed to stop Price and Soap. Shepherd nearly takes them down in one-on-two combat, ''after surviving a helicopter crash.'']]

* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:What he turns out to be.]]

* BigGood: At the start of the game, he seems to have this role, being a high-ranking and respected US Army general in charge of Task Force 141. [[spoiler:Subverted in "Loose Ends".]]

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!! Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley
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->''"Looks like we're all out of friends."''

->'''Voiced by:''' Craig Fairbrass (English/''Modern Warfare 2''), Andrew Randall (''Operation Kingfish'')[[note]]'''Other Languages''': Creator/TakuyaSato (Japanese), Alexander Barinov (Russian)[[/note]]
->'''Live Actor:''' Keagan Wilson (''Operation Kingfish'')

British soldier in Task Force 141, who prefers to wear a skull-faced ski mask. His face is never shown, and name is never stated in-game, though the tie-in comic centered on him revealed that it's Lt. Simon "Ghost" Riley. Has a suspiciously similar voice to Gaz.

* AbusiveParents: His father was a complete bastard who put his son through Hell. Scaring him with live snakes, making him laugh at a dying woman, and just being a horrid, toxic influence in his life.
* TheAce: Ghost is one of the best 141 has to offer.
* BashBrothers: With Soap/Roach.
* BigBrotherBully: Inverted. His ''little'' brother liked to scare him in the middle of the night wearing skull masks, which most likely inspired his Balaclava.
* BigNo: Throws one between when [[spoiler:Shepherd shoots Roach and he himself gets shot.]]
* BreakoutCharacter: If you were to ask someone who their favorite ''Call of Duty'' character is, they'd probably answer with Ghost. He's become so popular that he's gotten his own comic dedicated to his backstory, and plenty of cameos in future games, such as being a playable character in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts''' multiplayer on top of inspiring [[FountainOfExpies the game's main faction]] and title. He's also featured heavily in marketing for ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyMobile'' and has many of his outfits as skins.
* BrokenAce: See DarkAndTroubledPast below.
* BuriedAlive: Suffered this at the hands of Manuel Roba, though he was thankfully able to escape using the jaw of the dead man he was buried with.
* CatchPhrase: "Let's do this!"
* ColdBloodedTorture: Was a victim of this in his backstory, and proves quite adapt at dishing it out on enemies of the free world.
* CoolMask: A balaclava with a skull painted in white, giving him an intimidating appearance.
* CoolShades: His eyes not covered by his balaclava are covered up by a pair of shades, which never come off.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As shown in the prequel [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Warfare_2:_Ghost comics]], good boy is this man's past ever tragic and messed up. Growing up under an AbusiveDad (who once scares him in his sleep with a ''live snake''), getting sent to a failed mission that gets him tortured and brainwashed for months and ''BuriedAlive'', ending with him barely escaping with only half of his life left, only to see his now-functional family massacred by brainwashed men who were once his comrades, who ruin his life ''even more'' by framing all the murders on his head, turning him into a fugitive.
* DecompositeCharacter: Like Fairbrass' two other characters in the trilogy, he's a GoodCounterpart {{Foil}} to his voice actor's TheBrute role Delmar from ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'', as both characters carried a Beretta 92 as a sidearm and a variant of the [=MP5=] as a primary submachine gun, while both characters [[spoiler:died instantly from a gunshot wound to the chest, ironically Ghost's death was held after being devastated by Shepherd shooting his close colleague Roach, while Delmar's death was held after he himself caused a {{Deuteragonist}}'s devastation by killing off his close friend]]. Additionally, Ghost's diving outfit from "The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday" and "The Gulag" resembles Delmar's black jumpsuit, while Ghost wears a balaclava much like Delmar's during the plane heist scene of ''Cliffhanger''. Also, both characters are quite the {{Torture Technician}}s, even though Ghost is a rare heroic example, but their torture tactics and motives tends to differ. While Delmar's brutal KickTheDog NoHoldsBarredBeatdown soccer torture was ForTheEvulz out of his own meaningless sadistic gratification, Ghost's less brutal and more subtle KickTheSonOfABitch ColdBloodedTorture on the other hand was meaningfully for extracting important information to take down the enemy.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Spends his last moments attempting to gun down [[spoiler:Shepard]].
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:He had this reaction when Shepherd shoots Roach, moments before he was killed by the General.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Is willing to torture enemies and do other unsavory things for the greater good, but he loses his shit at Price for [[spoiler:launching nukes at the Eastern Seaboard just to knockout Russian equipment.]]
* TheFaceless: Never seen without his trademark skull mask and sunglasses. ''Ever''. Except in the comic book.
* FreakOut: [[spoiler:When the nuclear submarine's missile doors open and the missile launches. Justified, as he didn't know what Price was up to]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Saves a group of students he was being held captive alongside in his prequel comic.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Given his experiences, he will use any means necessary to take down the enemy and protect the peace of the world, even [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torturing the bad guys]] for important info. [[spoiler:He stops at betraying his own band of brothers to start a world war, unlike Shepherd.]]
* InstantDeathBullet: Dies instantly after [[spoiler:Shepard]] shoots him.
* TheLancer: [[spoiler:Until Price shows up, then Soap becomes the Lancer]].
* NotSoStoic: Absolutely ''loses his shit'' when [[spoiler:Price launches the nukes. He also screams in despair after Shepard shoots Roach]].
* SerialKiller: Cartel leader Manuel Roba has two of his brainwashed stooges slaughter Simon’s family and colleges and pinned the murders on him, effectively framing him as one.
* TheStoic: Remains calm even in the most tense situations. It’s telling that one of the few things that makes him drop this are [[spoiler:''nukes being launched at the Eastern Seaboard'']].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of Gaz.
* ThatManIsDead: Acts as if Simon Riley is an old, deceased friend in his prequel comic.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After he and Roach get the DSM for General Shepherd, he murders the two of them in cold blood.]]
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!! Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson
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->'''Live Actor''': Dennis Allcock (''Operation Kingfish'')

Player character for most of the Task Force 141 segments of ''Modern Warfare 2''.
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* AlternateSelf: His ''Mobile'' counterpart, coming off as a hypothetical ''Modern Warfare (2019)'' version of him, as he works alongside that game's version of Price and Ghost.
* AtrociousAlias: Whoever gave him the nickname "Roach" was either very cruel or knew how durable he was...
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: [[spoiler:In ''Remastered'', when Shepherd shoots him and kills Ghost, he grabs Shepherd’s hand as he takes the DSM off of him, as if asking him why he did such a thing, or perhaps being DefiantToTheEnd. Shepherd coldly brushes him off.]]
* BashBrothers: With Ghost in "Loose Ends". Then he got wounded by a mortar and Ghost dragged him to the evac chopper. [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon Then Shepherd shoots them and lights them on fire, burning Roach alive.]]]]
* BookEnds: His story begins and [[TearJerker ends]] with the throw of a lit cigar.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Poor guy got burned alive with Ghost after being shot by Shepherd.]]
* EtTuBrute: Implied in the remastered version. [[spoiler:When Shepherd shoots him and Ghost, Roach grabs Shepherds arm as if to ask why he did this. Shepherd curtly brushes him off.]]
* {{Expy}}: His rank, role as a PlayerCharacter, and [[HeroicMime muteness]] makes him a JuniorCounterpart for his superior, Captain, fomerly Sergeant "Soap" [=MacTavish=]. Soap even lampshades this in his journal, where, after acknowledging the similarities, notes that he spotted Roach writing in his own journal.
* TheFaceless: Because we play as him, we don't ever get to see his face. Even when we do see his character model, as shown here from one of the game's official images (and when briefly seeing him in ''Operation Kingfish''), we don't get to see it due to him wearing a balaclava, helmet, and goggles. His ''Mobile'' counterpart dresses similar, at least confirming that is his canon apperance.
* {{Foil}}: As noted in {{Expy}} above, Roach is indistinguishable from a younger Soap. [[spoiler:Sadly, unlike Soap, Roach is killed before he can really reach his true potential.]]
* HeroicMime: As per tradition, he speaks nothing from the start of the game to the end. The only lines we get from him are in Soap's Journal, where Soap catches him musing about more exercises in his own journal.
** Subverted in ''Remastered'', he's still doesn't have a voice actor, but they added more voice sounds (grunts and screams) for Roach to make him have more personality.
** Averted for his ''Mobile'' counterpart; as of Season 4 2022, he speaks full sentences.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler:Dies from a combination of his gunshot wound from Shepherd and getting burned alive with gasoline.]]
* MeaningfulName: Roach [[MadeOfIron survives a lot of crap]], even for a ''[[WorldOfBadass Call of Duty]]'' PlayerCharacter. [[spoiler:It takes him being clipped by a mortar, shot at point blank range with a revolver, and then ''set on fire'' while bleeding out to finally kill him.]]
* PlayerCharacter: He is the main playable character in ''Modern Warfare 2''. [[spoiler:Until he dies.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: He shows up in the ''Mobile'' timeline comics alive and well, [[spoiler:unlike his main counterpart]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After he and Ghost get the DSM for General Shepherd, he murders the two of them in cold blood.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: Soap in his journal, says Roach reminds him of himself, even down to writing in his own journal after their first mission.
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!! Lieutenant-General Shepherd
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->''"The more things change, the more they stay the same. Boundaries shift, new players step in, but power always finds a place to rest its head."''

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LanceHenriksen (English/''Modern Warfare 2''), Don Berns (''Operation Kingfish'')[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Creator/TetsuInada (Japanese), Yuri Menshagin (Russian)[[/note]]
->'''Live Actor''': David Brandon George (''Operation Kingfish'')

Commander of the US military task force invading Khaled Al-Asad's nation in ''Modern Warfare''. Afterwards, becomes commander of Task Force 141.
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!! Private First Class Joseph Allen
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[[caption-width-right:113:Picture of Joseph Allen as "Alexei Borodin", found in a loading screen for ''Modern Warfare 3''. Note that he reuses Viktor's model from "No Russian".]]
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[[caption-width-right:113:"Alexei Borodin" in a flashback from ''Modern Warfare 3'', as part of Makarov's fire team in Zakhaev International Airport. Note that he uses Lev's model this time around.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TroyBaker (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Andrey Barkhudarov (Russian)[[/note]]

Player character for a few missions in ''Modern Warfare 2'', Army Ranger and later [=TF141=] member, sent by Shepherd for a CIA undercover mission.

* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Certainly becomes one [[MoralEventHorizon if the player chooses to shoot at civilians during No Russian]]. More debatable if not, as he still allows the massacre to occur, and kills airport security later on.]]

%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Despite the above, Simon would save his brother

** Averted for his ''Mobile'' counterpart; as of Season 4 2022, he speaks full sentances.

* MeaningfulName: Roach [[MadeOfIron survives a lot of crap]], even for a ''[[WorldOfBadass Call Of Duty]]'' PlayerCharacter. [[spoiler:It takes him being clipped by a mortar, shot at point blank range with a revolver, and then SET ON FIRE while bleeding out to finally kill him.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Talks greatly about loyalty, honor, and sacrifice [[spoiler:but shows no hesitation to use his men as fodder for the meatgrinder. He also mourns the 30,000 soldiers that were nuked but gets far more killed by inciting WW3]].