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"Who is Kingfish!?"
Soap: "It was a trap..."'
Shepherd: "I know... Tell me about Price."

Find Makarov is a series of short web video Fan Films based on the Modern Warfare series. They detail Captain Price and "Soap" MacTavish's quest to eliminate the decoy Big Bad of the second game (and actual of the third).

The films are:

  • Find Makarov is largely a live-action retelling of the MW2 ending, followed by a teaser of Price and Soap paradropping in Moscow.
  • Operation Kingfish is an Interquel between two first games, made with Activision's blessing, that tells of the eponymous assassination attempt on Makarov gone bad. The events of this video are constantly referenced throughout the third Modern Warfare game, meaning the operation still happened in the game proper.


Tropes found in these short films include:

  • Call-Forward:
    • Soap putting the knife into Makarov's eye at the end of Kingfish. It's where he hits Shepherd with a similar knife late in Modern Warfare 2.
    • The situations of Price and Sandman during the exfiltration. In Modern Warfare 3, it's Sandman who covers the retreating Price, while here, it's Price doing the covering for Sandman's group.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Sandman and Frost, two of the main characters in the Delta Force campaign of 3, appear as supporting characters in Operation Kingfish.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Both videos are about Task Force 141 attempting to find and kill the titular Ultranationalist leader.
  • The Faceless: Frost's face is mostly obscured by the Ghillie suit he wears, as well as being obscured by his helmet and goggles.
  • Foregone Conclusion: If you've played Modern Warfare 2 and 3, you already know how Find Makarov and especially Op. Kingfish will end.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Price elects to stay behind to cover the evacuation of the rest of Task Force 141 and Delta Force. Unfortunately, he's wounded and captured by the Ultranationalists.
  • Interquel: Operation Kingfish, which is referenced throughout Modern Warfare 3. It shows how Price ended up in the gulag.
  • Stab the Picture: At the end of Operation Kingfish, Shepherd reveals to a distraught Soap MacTavish the true identity of Kingfish: Vladimir Makarov. Immediately, Soap pulls out his knife and stabs the picture of Makarov that Shepherd gave him, intent on finding and killing the man.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Frankly, the AC-130 in Operation Kingfish deserved to be shot down for flying that low near enemies armed with MANPADs and RPG-7s. Idiots.
  • The Voiceless: Much like in Modern Warfare 3, Frost does not utter a single word.

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