TASK FORCE 141
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Captain John Price:The British main protagonist and a non-playable character. Price returns from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. He is discovered by the team as they free him from the gulag prison in Russia. After his rescue, he helps Task Force 141 to hunt down the Ultra-nationalist terrorist, Vladimir Makarov. In the third mission, he, along with Soap and Australian member Rook, are betrayed by General Shepherd, and attacked by Shepherd's men. He asks Makarov for intel in order to find Shepherd. Makarov gives up the information to Price, knowing the location of Shepherd. Price and Soap hunt down Shepherd on a suicide mission. Shepard escapes into a waiting helicopter, which Price manages to shoot down. In the aftermath of the crash, Price and Shepherd engage in hand-to-hand combat after he stabs Soap in the chest. Shepherd overpowers him. Soap manages to pull the knife out of his chest and uses it against Shepard, killing him. He is voiced by Billy Murray.
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Captain John "Soap" MacTavish - MacTavish is the Scottish main protagonist and a playable character in the last three missions. He returns from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, now as the field commander of Task Force 141. He first appears on the mission "Cliffhanger", assisting the player's character, "Roach Sanderson". In the second mission, he and his team captured the right-hand man of an arms dealer and interrogated him, which then led them to hunt for Alesandro Rojas A.K.A Alex the Red, who they captured in time. In the last two missions, he and Price hunted for General Shepherd, a traitor. Soap tries to kill Shepherd, but Shepherd manages to stab him. After watching Price and Shepard engage in hand-to-hand combat Soap pulls the knife out of his chest and throws it to kill Shepherd. He is voiced by Kevin McKidd. Soap appears to be modeled after the character "Lake" in the 2003 movie Tears of the Sun.
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Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley - A non-playable British character in Modern Warfare 2, he wears a pair of sunglasses, a skull-patterned balaclava and headphones with a mic. He also appears in Modern Warfare 2: Ghost. He appears in the mission "Takedown". Ghost and Soap interrogate Rojas' right-hand man. On the "Gulag" mission, he stays in the control room to unlock the gates of the prison by hacking the enemy's security system. In his final appearance, Roach, Ghost, Ozone, and Scarecrow lead the other Task Force 141 squad to capture Makarov in one of two of Makarov's possible locations near Georgia's border. Despite their efforts at the end of the mission, Roach and Ghost are betrayed and killed by Shepherd. Ghost is voiced by the English actor Craig Fairbrass.
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Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson - The main playable British character throughout most of the game. In the MW2 launch trailer, he is seen running on the rooftops in the favela with Ghost and Soap in the level The Hornet's Nest. In his final appearance, Roach, along with Ghost, Ozone, and Scarecrow lead the other Task Force 141 squad to capture Makarov in one of two of Makarov's possible locations near Georgia's border. The team fails to locate Makarov, and eventually Roach and Ghost are betrayed and killed by Shepherd.
Russian Loyalists
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- Codename: "Nikolai" (Russian: Кодовое имя - "Николай") - He returns from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, now appearing to be a mercenary pilot with a number of fixed wing and rotary aircraft at his disposal. He comes to Task Force 141's aid in "Hornet's Nest" and "The Enemy of My Enemy", and provides logistical support to Price and MacTavish in "Just Like Old Times" and "Endgame".
Villains
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Lieutenant General "Gold Eagle" Shepherd - He is revealed as the main antagonist in Modern Warfare 2. He is the commander of Task Force 141 and also the U.S. Army Rangers. In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, he lost 30,000 men when Khaled Al-Asad set off a nuclear bomb. Angry and disillusioned by this and the world's refusal to listen to his warnings that Russia is becoming an ultra-nationalist state, Shepherd begins to operate on his own. He heads Task Force 141 and hunts Russian terrorist Vladimir Makarov, eventually ordering his elite soldiers, Shadow Company, to eliminate them both. He is revealed to be responsible for the Russian-American war, his goal being to make America once again undisputed as the sole world superpower- and himself as the hero who made it so. Shepherd is killed at the end of the final mission by Soap, who throws a knife into Shepherd's eye. He is voiced by Lance Henriksen
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Vladimir R. Makarov (Russian: Владимир Р. Макаров) - The secondary, but first revealed, antagonist throughout the game. He is a psychopathic terrorist and also an Ultra-nationalist leader, claiming the role after the death of Imran Zakhaev. In the optional "No Russian" mission, he and his team, including undercover CIA agent Joseph Allen, attack Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow, killing a large number of civilians and Russian police. In the end of the mission, Makarov, aware of Allen's true identity, kills the agent and leaves him behind to be discovered by Russian police, leading the Russians to believe that it was a U.S. led attack. This in turn causes a war between Russia and the United States. At the end of the game, he supplies Price and MacTavish with intel leading them to Shepherd's location, and goes into hiding. He is voiced by the voice actor Roman Varshavsky. Makarov would become the primary antagonist of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
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Alejandro 'Alex the Red' Rojas - An arms dealer based in Rio de Janeiro. A former armorer, he began selling weapons on the side. He supplied Makarov and his unit with their equipment during their massacre at the Zakhaev International Airport in Moscow. In an attempt to find Makarov, Task Force 141 traces the shell casings and is able to trace them back to Rojas. The group hunts Rojas down in his residential favela, and he is eventually captured by Captain MacTavish. He is soon after tortured by Ghost, and reveals that their best shot at reaching Makarov is a man that Makarov has a personal grudge against, locked up in a Russian Gulag, who is later revealed to be Captain Price.
U.S. Army Rangers
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Private James Ramirez - A playable character who replaces PFC. Joseph Allen in the squadron. He is part of the 75th Ranger Regiment based on the east coast of the United States during the start of the Russian Invasion. His first appearance is in "Wolverines!" where his team is sent to extract a VIP codenamed "Raptor" from invading Russian forces. Second, Ramirez and the rest of the team go to a now war ravaged Washington, D.C. during the Russian Invasion to help the United States Army to evacuate the civilians. His final appearance is "Whiskey Hotel" where after struggling through the Washington D.C. war-zone, Ramirez and the team attempt to retake the White Housefrom Russian forces. Upon reaching the roof, Ramirez uses the flares to stop the Hammerdown deployment.
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Private First Class Joseph Allen (also known as Alexei Borodin) - Allen is a playable character and the protagonist for most of Act I. He is introduced in "S.S.D.D", completing the assault course. He then goes undercover as part of Vladimir Makarov's crew in the optional "No Russian" level. However at the end of the mission, it is revealed that Makarov knew of Allen's true identity as a CIA agent; Makarov kills him, leaving his body behind as a catalyst for a Russian invasion of the US. He is voiced by Troy Baker.
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Sergeant Foley - Sgt. Foley is a Ranger member. He is also the acting leader of Hunter Two-One. He is seen in "S.S.D.D." training Allen. In the second mission, he leads his squad and clears the school that is overwhelmed by OpFor milita. During the Russian Invasion, Foley leads Ramirez and the rest of the squad to hold off the remaining Russians. In the White House, they are able to take control and get to the roof, using flares to stop the bombing (known as the "Hammerdown Protocol"). He is voiced by Keith David.
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Corporal Dunn - Dunn is a U.S. Army Ranger, a member of Hunter Two-One. He appears in "S.S.D.D." and lets Joseph Allen into the Pit training. He also appears in "Team Player" to escort Allen and Foley. In Virginia, they fight their way through the frontlines and into Washington, D.C. In the end of the mission, he and his team say that they might launch a counter-attack against Russia. He is voiced by Barry Pepper.