Call of Duty: Black Ops/Characters

A list of characters from Black Ops and Black Ops 2.

Captain Alex Mason

 * Badass
 * Determinator
 * Informed Ability: Mason's dossier mentions that he is an expert marksman. But at no point in the game do we get to see his skills as a sniper.
 * Well there are a couple of missions where you start off with a sniper rifle, but this is rare. Also there is the possibility that  so that requires at least some competency with a rifle.
 * One Man Army:
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Payback.
 * One Man Army:
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Payback.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Payback.

Special Agent Jason Hudson

 * The Archer: Hudson's weapon of choice for silently killing enemies is a crossbow.
 * Badass Bookworm: Has a genius level IQ according to his bio.
 * He also graduated from Georgetown University with a double major in psychology and political science, in addition to serving with distinction in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
 * Bald of Awesome
 * Big Damn Heroes: He saves Mason from
 * Cool Shades: Wears them all the time, and does an awesome Glasses Pull in one of the later stages.
 * Get a Hold of Yourself Man:
 * Glasses Pull
 * Good Is Not Nice:
 * Guns Akimbo
 * The Handler
 * Jerkass: He starts off as this, but turns into a Jerk With a Heart of Gold in the second to last level.
 * Not So Stoic:
 * The Stoic: He is, as Mason describes him, an "ice cube".
 * The Stoic: He is, as Mason describes him, an "ice cube".
 * The Stoic: He is, as Mason describes him, an "ice cube".

Sergeant Frank Woods

 * Atomic F Bomb: In the beginning of Payback.
 * Badass
 * Blood Knight: Actually volunteers to fight in Vietnam, which Hudson says would be "like a day at the beach" for him.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Payback mission.
 * Sergeant Rock
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Payback mission.
 * Sergeant Rock
 * Sergeant Rock

Chief Petty Officer Joseph Bowman

 * Badass Beard
 * Heroic BSOD
 * Ink Suit Actor: It's Ice Cube.
 * Token Minority: The only non-white American of the protagonists.
 * Ink Suit Actor: It's Ice Cube.
 * Token Minority: The only non-white American of the protagonists.

Special Agent Grigori Weaver

 * Badass
 * Eyepatch of Power: After his first appearance.
 * Eye Scream: He is first seen in-game taking a radio antenna to the eye. He survives, though.
 * I Owe You My Life: To Mason after he helped rescue him in Russia. He tries to partially pay Mason back by setting him up on a date with a hot CIA secretary. It did not go well.
 * The Mole: Served as the CIA's mole in Dragovich's organization, but was discovered.
 * Russian Guy Suffers Most: Closely averted, at least he survived after getting captured by Kravchenko.
 * Token Enemy Minority
 * Russian Guy Suffers Most: Closely averted, at least he survived after getting captured by Kravchenko.
 * Token Enemy Minority

Viktor Reznov

 * Badass
 * : In later appearances.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Gary Oldman: His voice actor, once again.
 * Large Ham
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Revenge
 * Survival Mantra: "Dragovich...Kravchenko...Steiner... All must die."

General Nikita Dragovich

 * Anticlimax Boss
 * A Nazi By Any Other Name
 * Big Bad
 * Complete Monster: If you listen to his research logs you will learn that he tested Nova 6 on children and infants.
 * General Ripper
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Not Quite Dead: Mason thought he blew up his limousine.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Did this to some of his employees, mainly because He Knows Too Much.

Lev Kravchenko

 * Ax Crazy
 * The Brute
 * Cutscene Boss
 * Colonel Kilgore
 * Complete Monster: Reznov's stage shows him slowly executing unarmed German soldiers that had surrendered during the fight with headshots, cutting open the last one's throat when he unexpectedly runs out of bullets.
 * His intel file reveals that he mutilated and killed his own sister after she spurned Dragovich's advances.
 * The Dragon: To Dragovich, with is ironic considering that "Dragovich" is Russian for "son of the dragon".
 * Husky Russkie
 * The Sociopath: His intel file notes he is utterly without feeling unless he is inflicting suffering on someone.

Doctor Friedrich Steiner

 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
 * Commie Nazis
 * Dirty Coward:.
 * Mad Scientist
 * Smug Snake: A coward who.
 * Those Wacky Nazis: According to Reznov anyway.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
 * Those Wacky Nazis: According to Reznov anyway.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:

Doctor Daniel Clarke

 * Crazy Prepared: He has stashes of weapons all over Kowloon and enough explosives in his lab to take both it out and a nearby helicopter trying to steal his research.
 * Mad Scientist
 * One Scene Wonder: He only appears in one level, but his crazy-preparedness, his endurance against torture, and his large-ham lines make him a particularly memorable character.
 * Properly Paranoid
 * Too Kinky to Torture: "I am already a dead man!"
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He knows it as well, and already prepared a lot of things for it.
 * Too Kinky to Torture: "I am already a dead man!"
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He knows it as well, and already prepared a lot of things for it.

David Mason

 * Generation Xerox: Like his father, he finds himself fighting a new Cold War with China.

Harper

 * Badass Beard

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