History Characters / CallOfDutyVanguard

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Nobody's likely to feel sorry for him when Lucas punches him. Even the British soldiers who arrest him don't look particularly concerned for Hamms, arresting Riggs more out of duty than in anger.

* BrooklynRage: He is a New Yorker fighting in the war.

* ThrillSeeker: He started chasing thrills from the age of 16 onwards. [[BloodKnight He joined the war for this purpose too.]]

-->'''Voiced by:''' Kamar de los Reyes

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the SS equivalent of a four-star general and skilled with a sniper rifle and a shotgun, putting up a decent fight even after being stabbed multiple times. He's also skilled enough in hand-to-hand that you can't just run up to him and stab him and must sneak attack him, and is hardy enough to throw you off multiple times after being stabbed.

* ManOnFire: [[spoiler:How you finally finish him off.]]

* DeskJockey

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Ultimately plans to usurp Hitler and start a new Reich, with himself as the Führer. Though Hitler took his life before this could happen.]]

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: "Wade" comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wade_McClusky Clarence Wade McClusky, Jr.]], the Air Group commander for USS ''Enterprise'' during the Battle of Midway. It was him who led the carrier's dive bomber ([=VB-6=]) and scout bomber ([=VS-6=]) squadrons on a surprise attack against the Imperial Japanese Navy's four fleet carriers that resulted in what the Japanese would later dub the ''Five Minutes of Death'', wherein three of those carriers sustained fatal damage within that span of time.

!![[VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts Gabriel T. Rorke] ]

-->'''Played By:''' Russell Richardson

Introduced in Season 2, "Armored War Machines".

-->'''Played By:''' [[AsHimself Himself]]

Introduced in Season 3, "Classified Arms".

Introduced in Season 4, "Mercenaries of Fortune".

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Introduced in Season 5, "Last Stand".

!!Raul Menendez
-->'''Played By:''' Kamar de los Reyes

* ArchEnemy: Frank Woods, for (accidentally) murdering his beloved sister, Josefina. Promotional images for ''The Last Stand'' even has them staring each other down.

* BigBadEnsemble: He leads Task Force Tyrants, alongside [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Khaled Al-Asad]], [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts Gabriel T. Rorke]], and [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII Seraph]].
* {{Expy}}: His eyepatch, which he never wore in ''Black Ops II'', makes him look a lot like [[VideoGame/MetalGear Big Boss]], especially in the promotional image for ''The Last Stand''. Just like Big Boss, he is a tyrannical, yet charismatic leader of whom countless people are unwaveringly loyal to.

!!Khaled Al-Asad

!!He "Seraph" Zhen-Zhen

!!Gabriel T. Rorke

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How he's ultimately dispatched courtesy of Richter in order to demoralise the other members of Vanguard. He barely has a moment to process the gun aimed at his face before it happens.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: See BoomHeadshot]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Gets some development and a major part in Kingsley’s story, but ultimately is unceremoniously executed by Richter.]]

* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler: [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl With a chair no less.]]]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: He's bludgeoned to death by Freisinger, who uses a chair to brutally break his head open. The player is force to watch this happen from his perspective.]]

* FlatCharacter: The only pieces of personal information we learn about him in the game [[spoiler: before he is killed]] are his name and that he can pick locks.

* RedShirt: [[spoiler: Serves as a third-person introduction to the main characters, then dies to establish the villain.]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Dies at the end of the prologue.]]

* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: [[spoiler: Beats Novak to death with a chair.]]

* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: How you finally finish him off.]]

** As an interesting inversion, [[spoiler: Erwin Rommel is explicitly listed as one of his co-conspirators.]]

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Ultimately plans to usurp Hitler and start a new Reich, with himself as the Führer. Though Hitler took his life before this could happen]].

* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Even when finally captured by Vanguard, he's supremely overconfident they won't kill him [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou because of the covert intel he has]], even bragging that he'll likely be a [[GildedCage well-treated prisoner in America]] in exchange for his cooperation with the Allies. It gets him clubbed over the head by Polina with her rifle butt, doused in gasoline and set ablaze by Kingsley]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When he realises Vanguard Squad are going to forgo the value of the information he has for the satisfaction of killing him]].
-->'''Freisinger''': Do you even know who I am?! The value I can provide?!
-->'''[[spoiler:Kingsley]]''': [[PreMortemOneLiner You're not worth it]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Freisinger disposes of officers that are no longer useful to him as he makes his escape. If Richter’s theory is correct, he may have done this to Hitler himself.]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Kingsley's monologue marks Richter as the perfect patsy as soon as he sees him-- but Richter is still dangerous enough to [[spoiler: blow Webb's brains out]] without warning.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: When he realises Freisinger has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness hung him out to dry]], Richter declares he'll use Polina as a bargaining chip with the Soviets to ensure his safety. He doesn't get the chance to act on it when Lucas breaks out of custody and overpowers Richter]].
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler: Pleads for his life when he's at the mercy of Vanguard Squad. It doesn't do him any good]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: Downplayed: [[spoiler: Polina flings him off the roof of a building in Stalingrad, but Steiner was [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge already dead from the multiple times she'd stabbed him]] before he hit the ground]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Mocks the SS firing squad about to kill him, insisting the Nazis will fail in their attempt to conquer Russia]].
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Taught Polina to shoot, [[spoiler: and was murdered by the SS.]]

* GeneralFailure: His poor command abilities get dozens of Australian infantryman and British tankers killed, [[spoiler: including Des.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: He leads Task Force Tyrants, alongside [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Khaled Al-Asad]], [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts Gabriel Rorke]], and [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII Seraph]].

* OhCrap: [[spoiler: His reaction when he walks into his interrogation room and sees the pile of officers Freisinger has had killed.]]

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How he meets his very sudden demise.]]

* BashBrothers: With Lucas. [[spoiler: Until he dies at El Alamein.]]

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[[folder: Halima]]

[[folder: Constanze]]

[[folder: Padmavati]]

[[folder: Roland]]

[[folder: Beatrice]]

[[folder: Solange]]
!!Solange Hardewijk
-->'''Facial Capture:''' Dara Emery
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ione Butler

Dutch-Aruban physics student and athlete, Solange was evacuated from Amsterdam to London along with the Dutch Jewish population.
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* MartialPacifist: She fights only to bring peace, so she can [[RetiredBadass retire and focus on her scholarly pursuits.]]
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[[folder: Shigenori]]

[[folder: Francis]]

* WildSamoan: His Season 1 "Awoken" skin plays it to the hilt, consisting of a loincloth, a feathery cape and a [[CoolMask skull mask.]]

[[folder: Isabella]]
!!Isabella Rosario Dulnuan Reyes
-->'''Facial Capture:''' Melissa Christine
-->'''Voiced by:''' Jenn Wong

Filipina freedom fighter and the team's CQB specialist.

* DualWielding: Carries two barong machetes on her back.

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!!Lewis Howard
-->'''Played By:''' Russell Richardson

The team's sniper.

* {{BFG}}: His favored weapon is the PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle.
* {{Expy}}: Of Mace from ''Modern Warfare 2019'', particularly his "Tombstone" skin.
* InTheHood: Wears a hooded cloak as part of his camouflage.

-->'''Played By:''' [[AsHimself Snoop Dogg]]

%%* AsHimself

* FantasticRacism: Makes a fair few racist digs towards Kingsley.

* ColdSniper: A very vengeful and deadly ActionGirl who uses a Sniper as her weapon. With fellow Russians, she's much more of a FriendlySniper.

* TragicKeepsake: Her Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, that also doubles as a memento from her deceased father.

* AlmightyJanitor: He has a surprisingly low rank at Private. He never rose further than that despite meritorious service because his [[TheNeidermeyer incompetent and abusive]] commanding officer, Major Hamms, bore prejudice against the enlisted Australians under his command... and because he slugged Hamms in the face after the Battle of El Alamein. It's not until joining the Vanguard he gets promoted to 2nd Lieutenant.

* BerserkButton: Anyone who dares disrespect his fallen comrades will get a right hook from him. It doesn't matter if you're the Commanding Officer. Major Hamms finds out the hard way his rank will protect him no longer from the one most victimized by his racism.

* TragicBigot: The tie-in comics reveal that he harbors prejudice against Brits because his British commanding officer, Major Henry Hamms was a corrupt, abusive racist who treated him like crap. As such, he believes all Brits are as bad as him, and as far as Riggs was concerned, there was no difference between Brits and Germans. When Lucas got thrown in prison for assaulting Hamms, he refused to ever work for or with a British soldier ever again when Carver Butcher came to recruit him. Those events revitalized his resolve to serve the Allies again. Even in the game itself, he’s somewhat at odds with Kingsley (a British Soldier) because of how he does things, but his prejudice has more or less faded.

%%* AdventurerOutfit: Gets a very stereotypical Airman outfit in the Season 1 Battle Pass, complete with a wool-lined leather jacket, scarf and a leather flight helmet.

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: "Wade" comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wade_McClusky Clarence Wade McClusky, Jr.]], the Air Group commander for USS ''Enterprise'' during the Battle of Midway. It was him who led the carrier's dive bomber ([=VB-6=]) and scout bomber ([=VS-6=]) squadrons on a surprise attack against the Imperial Japanese Navy's four fleet carriers that resulted in what the Japanese would later dub the ''Five Minutes of Death'', wherein three of those carriers were effectively doomed after that first attack within that span of time.

* EmbarrassingNickname: He is called "The Bohunk" by Wade Jackson in the Comics.[[labelnote:Info]]"Bohunk" is a racial slur used on people originating from Central or Southern Europe.[[/labelnote]]

* LaResistance: The Comics reveals that he used to be an undercover agent within the Wehrmacht occupation forces in Serbia for the Yugoslav [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans National Liberation Army]].

* AlmightyJanitor: He has a very small rank at Unterstürmbannführer, equivalent to a second lieutenant. This isn't reflected on his role as the Ringleader of Project Phoenix.

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Ultimately plans to usurp Hitler and start a new Reich, with himself as the Führer. Though Hitler took his life before that can happen]].

The antagonist in the sixth mission "Lady Nightingale".

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He's the SS equivalent of a 4-star General and skilled with a sniper rifle and a shotgun, putting up a decent fight even after being stabbed multiple times. He's also skilled enough in hand-to-hand that you can't just run up to him and stab him and must sneak attack him, and is hardy enough to throw you off multiple times after being stabbed.

* BossBattle: You lose your weapons shortly before confronting him one-on-one, so similar to Russian soldier J-12 from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019'' you have to sneak around and avoid him in order to [[RuleOfThree backstab him 3 times]]. He's much more cunning than J-12 was and will use various environmental tricks to distract you and lure you out of hiding.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Is heard in the previous Polina mission at the start of the Battle of Stalingrad.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: As an ''SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer'', he's based on either Sepp Dietrich or Paul Hausser, who were the only two soldiers to hold that rank.[[note]]Two other men, Kurt Daluege and Franz Xaver Schwarz, were also given the rank of ''Oberst-Gruppenführer'', but neither served in the Waffen-SS, with Daluege being the Chief of the Orpo and Schwarz serving the Allgemeine-SS only.[[/note]] As commander of German forces in Stalingrad, he takes the place of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who survived the battle and thus earned the ignominious distinction of being the first field marshal in German history to be taken prisoner.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Her father served Mussolini, she took arms against the Italians.

* LittleMissBadass: Born in 1926, she's the youngest of the operators, making her about 19. Yet she not only defected the Volkssturm, but also prefers to use heavy weapons.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Sten submachine gun.

* ColdSniper: A very vengeful and deadly ActionGirl who uses a Sniper as her WeaponOfChoice. With fellow Russians, she's much more of a FriendlySniper.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, that also doubles as a TragicKeepsake from her deceased father.

* WeaponOfChoice: Owen submachine gun, as befitting of his Australian origin.

* WeaponOfChoice: Despite being American, and possibly due to the theatre he served in, he has a Japanese Nambu Type 100 as his preferred weapon.

* WeaponOfChoice: An M1 Garand rifle.

* WeaponOfChoice: MP 40 submachine gun.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: She has a M1897 combat shotgun as her WeaponOfChoice.

* WeaponOfChoice: [=StG=] 44 assault rifle.

* WeaponOfChoice: Sudayev AS-44 rifle.

* WeaponOfChoice: Charlton rifle, referred to in-game as "[[AKA47 NZ-41]]".

* WeaponOfChoice: Katana and Type 11 light machine gun.

* WeaponOfChoice: Thompson/Hyde Light Rifle, called [[AKA47 "Cooper Carbine"]] ingame.

* WeaponOfChoice: Welgun submachine gun.

* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite weapon is the [[GunsOfFiction/SubmachineGuns PPSh-41.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: The [=EX1=], otherwise known as the [=EM1=].

* AnAxeToGrind: Her finisher has her hack the enemy with a hatchet.

* AsHimself

* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite weapon is the [[CoolGuns/SubmachineGuns PPSh-41.]]

* WeaponOfChoice: Despite being American, and possibly due to the theatre he served in, he has a Japanese [[RareGuns Nambu Type 100]] as his preferred weapon.

* WeaponOfChoice: [[RareGuns Thompson/Hyde Light Rifle]], called [[AKA47 "Cooper Carbine"]] ingame.

* GloryHound
* HateSink

* TheMeanBrit
* TheNeidermeyer

* UngratefulBastard

* BigBadEnsemble: He leads Task Force Tridents, alongside [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Khaled Al-Asad]], [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts Gabriel Rorke]], and [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII Seraph]].

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: As an ''SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer'', he's based on either Sepp Dietrich or Paul Hausser, who were the only two soldiers to hold that rank.[[note]]Two other men, Kurt Daluege and Franz Xaver Schwarz, were also given the rank of ''Oberst-Gruppenführer'', but neither served in the Waffen-SS.[[/note]] As commander of German forces in Stalingrad, he takes the place of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who survived the battle and thus earned the ignominious distinction of being the first field marshal in German history to be taken prisoner.

* KnifeNut: Uses a kitchen knife recovered from her family home in Stalingrad to kill up close.