History Characters / CommandAndConquerRedAlert2

* SkewedPriorities: When you finally find him after he crash-lands in Morocco and move in to rescue him from Yuri's forces, you find he's enjoying himself in a cafe with a SultryBellyDancer next to him.

* ButNotTooForeign: She is of Polish and Belarusian descent, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS which explains the spelling of her name.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:She sabotages the time machine that Yuri uses to try to escape to the past so that it sends him to the cretaceous period, causing him to spend his last moments alive in terror as he's attacked by a T-rex. Needless to say, Yuri fully deserves it, due to how horrible he is.]]

%%* BaldOfEvil

** He simply wants to take over the world instead of any of Kane's more nuanced goals or standards.

* ActionPolitician: Survives when his plane gets shot down and afterwards is able to hide from Yuri's troops in Morocco until you come picking him up. He just so happens to be carrying blueprints for the [[DeflectorShield Iron Curtain]] with him as well...

* PuppetKing: Romanov was originally propped up as an Allied-aligned puppet before cutting his proverbial strings, only to then become one to Yuri. Averted in the Soviet campaign of ''Yuri's Revenge'', however.

* RankUp: He starts as the Head of the Psychic Corps, then forces Romanov to appoint him Supreme Commander of Soviet Armes Forces, and finally becomes the new Premier of the USSR by default after having Romanov murdered.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Downplayed. He was convinced that Premier Romanov was still a friendly ally of the United States until just shortly before the invasion started. On the other hand, it's implied that he was already beginning to have some doubts given that the game's installation briefing mentions the CIA keeping a closer eye on Romanov, though that turned out to be too little too late.

** Most notably, he's the only one of the Soviet Premiers that never turns against the player, not even once. In constrast, Stalin [[YouHaveFailedMe initially orders the player's execution upon presumably allowing the Chronosphere to self-destruct]], Yuri deems you a threat and tries to get you removed, and Cherdenko simply applies a case of YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In ''Yuri's Revenge'', Romanov's revealed to be much more level-headed, with his past self repudiating Yuri ''immediately'' upon being given evidence from the Soviet Commander.

* NobleDemon: Sure he might be a bad guy, but his motivation of enacting vengeance for how the Allies treated the Soviet Union makes him infinitely more sympathetic than Stalin, who was simply a power-hungry dictator and madman bent on conquering the world who would murder people at the drop of a hat. Not to mention the fact that Romanov treats the Soviet Commander quite well and is willing to let the Allies peacefully surrender in the Soviet Campaign for ''Yuri's Revenge'', and it's telling that said campaign's ending is treated as genuinely optimistic and hopeful in its tone, rather than being a straight-up bad ending.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Downplayed. He was convinced that Premier Romanov was still a friendly ally of the United States until just shortly before the invasion started. On the other hand, it's implied that he was already beginning to have some doubts given that he had the CIA keep a closer eye on him, though that turned out to be too little too late.

** He's never seen in person in the Soviet Campaign, not even through still images, as is only alluded to once during the defense of the Battle Lab in the Ural Mountains.

* WhatTheHellHero: Him using [[spoiler:civilian [[HumanShield human shields]]]] in the Soviet mission Chrono Defence. [[spoiler:Then again, the human shields in question are ''Soviet'' citizens, who he would not care less about]].

* ButtMonkey: In the Soviet campaign of ''Yuri's Revenge'', Dugan doesn't even get a dignified surrender, instead being given a mocking photo-op for [[PropagandaMachine the USSR's state-run media]].

** He's noticeably anxious when giving a speech from an "undisclosed location", clearly worried about the Soviets figuring out he's in Canada. He's also more somber and pissed when talking to the commander [[spoiler:after Carville's death]]. expresses grave dread just as the Psychic Dominators come online, highlighting just [[NearVillainVictory close to global domination Yuri is]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: He's this towards the gameplay of the Soviets' playstyle itself, given that he's an idiot who borders on being a drooling moron that has no strategic abilities whatsoever and simply prefers relying on brute force swarms of units and nukes, which ironically is how the Soviets function best.

* ShadowArchetype: Of the Soviet Commander. As FakeUltimateHero and GeneralFailure can testify, he is pretty one for the Soviet Commander. For what little work he does, he also gets tons of praise, while the Soviet Commander who actually does the heavy lifting [[DudeWheresMyRespect barely gets any.]]

* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Despite seeming like an emotionless, calculating, sociopath for a great majority of both campaigns, he freaks out in both the Allied and Soviet campaigns, as he screams and yells at the two personnel escorting him to the TailorMadePrison designed to nullify his psychic powers in absolute fury and rage in the Allied ending, while the Soviet ending has him scream at the top of his lungs in fear when a T-rex attacks him after he was sent to the Cretaceous period by a sabotaged time machine.]]

* YouWatchTooMuchX: General Carville's reaction when Yuri unleashes his [[FlyingSaucer flying saucers.]]

* TheGhost: He's never seen in person in the Soviet Campaign, not even through still images, as is only alluded to once during the defense of the Battle Lab in the Ural Mountains.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A more blunt version than most. [[spoiler:When Lieutenant Eva tends to her resignation after being brainwashed by Yuri to reveal the location of the Allied leaders, Carville cuts her off and says he'll hear no such thing about it. Carville then tells Eva that she's a vital part of the team and she's not the only one to have her mind hijacked by that "twisted maniac".]]

%%* LargeHam

* MeaningfulName: Aside from fittingly enough for a generic replacement for Yuri Prime, the name Boris can be short for Borislav, which can mean "Famous Battle", or, in a looser translation "Battle Glory", which is accurate for a highly-trained elite Russian soldier who has the potential to take on an entire army should he be managed properly and with enough patience.

%%* EverythingIsBigInTexas

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When brainwashed by Yuri, he's shown spouting prattle about peace with the Soviets and how they and Americans love the same thing. This is enough for Lt. Eva to cut off the transmission right there and then.

* MoleInCharge: An unwilling one, at any rate. The Soviet (or rather, Yuri's) plan is to brainwash him, and the rest of the government, into having Ame
** At the intro to ''Yuri's Revenge'', herica surrender.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the original Allied campaign, he's mentioned by MissionControl a few times in earlier missions and appears in person once, but then abruptly disappears from the narrative and is never seen or mentioned again. Given the context in which he was last mentioned (leading an attack on you that you ultimately foil), he may have been killed or captured off-screen. If it's the latter, he would certainly be tried for war crimes.

* MoleInCharge: An unwilling one, at any rate. The Soviet (or rather, Yuri's) plan is to brainwash him, and the rest of the government, into having America surrender.

** He's noticeably anxious when giving a speech from an "undisclosed location", clearly worried about the Soviets figuring out he's in Canada. He's also more somber and pissed when talking to the commander [[spoiler:after Carville's death]].
** At the intro to ''Yuri's Revenge'', he expresses grave dread just as the Psychic Dominators come online, highlighting just [[NearVillainVictory close to global domination Yuri is]].

* DeadManWriting: He leaves a video recording explaining how [[spoiler:Yuri has been manipulating him to be found after his death.]]

** AssholeVictim: It's hard to say he doesn't deserve his fate in the Allied ending, given that him and his army are so cruel that he comes across as having a compulsive need to be as unnecessarily cruel and inhumane as possible.

** To a lesser degree, he's one towards CABAL, given that he betrayed the faction he originally belonged to to start his own, in a bid to take over the world, requiring both the GDI and the Brotherhood of Nod to team up just to stop it, much like how Yuri betrayed the Soviets to do the very same thing as CABAL did, forcing the Allies and Soviets to join forces just to stop him.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When brainwashed by Yuri, he's shown spouting prattle about peace with the Soviets and how they and Americans love the same thing. This is enough for Lt. Eva to conclude he's compromised, cutting off the transmission right there and then.

* GovernmentInExile: He and most of his staff retreat up to Canada after Washington is taken.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's noticeably anxious when giving a speech from an "undisclosed location", clearly worried about the Soviets figuring out he's in Canada. He's also more somber and pissed when talking to the commander [[spoiler:after Carville's death]].

* NobleDemon: Sure he might be a bad guy, but his motivation of enacting vengenace for how the Allies treated the Soviet Union makes him infinitely more sympathetic than Stalin, who was simply a power-hungry dictator and madman bent on conquering the world who would murder people at the drop of a hat, not to mention the fact that Romanov treats the Soviet Commander quite well and is willing to let the Allies peacefully surrender in the Soviet Campaign for ''Yuri's Revenge'', and it's telling that said Soviet Campaigns ending is treated as genuinely optimistic and hopeful in its tone, rather than being a straight-up bad ending.

* SanitySlippage: Yuri's mind controlling antics gradually wear Romanov's sanity down over the course of the Soviet campaign [[spoiler:to the point that in Romanov's final recorded message, he's visibly struggling to stay sane as well as fight off Yuri's influence]].

* WriteBackToTheFuture: Reversed in ''Yuri's Revenge''. In the Soviet campaign, it's revealed that Romanov managed to record a special message for the commander and Lt. Zofia to send to his past self, in the hopes of not only stopping Yuri, but also [[SetWrongWhatWasOnceMadeRight changing the outcome of the war]] in the process.

!!!Played by Barry Corbin

* {{Foil}}: Zofia is one to [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert1 Nadia Zelenkov]]. While both are similarly intelligent and talented women, Zofia is firmly loyal to Romanov and ''especially'' the Soviet commander, whereas Zelenkov [[spoiler:is a Brotherhood of Nod agent who views everyone around her as a puppet]].