Cormack

Major Cormack is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Ilona) of the 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. 
He is an ally and friend of Jack Mitchell and his best friend, Will Irons, being their commander in the United States Marine Corps. During a mission in Seoul, Cormack would loss Irons, but managed to rescue Mitchell despite the latter losing his arm. After joining the Sentinel Task Force, Cormack works with Mitchell and his new allies, Gideon and Ilona in stopping Jonathan Irons and the Atlas Corporation after their rise to power. Though killed by Irons, Cormack (along with Knox and the other fallen Sentinels) is avenged by Mitchell and Gideon when they killed Irons and thwarted his plans from going into fruition.
He was portrayed by Russell Richardson, who also voiced Marcus Howard in Call of Duty: WWII, Jefferson Davis in Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man series and Lewis Howard in Call of Duty: Vanguard.
==History==
===Background===
Cormack was born in 2024 in the United States to unnamed parents, but not much is known about his youth or family. Cormack, along with Jack Mitchell and Will Irons, are soldiers of the United States Marine Corps. Cormack was a great soldier and capable leader, reaching the rank of Sergeant in the corps, and would lead a marine team titled Badger.
==Advanced Warfare==
===Second Korean War===
By July 10, 2054, Cormack, Will and Mitchell go to Seoul, South Korea to repel North Korean army out of the country. Despite destroying the gunship, Will sacrifices himself as he gets his arm stuck. Cormack sees the destruction, and helps Mitchell, who had loss his arm. Two weeks later in Arlington, Virginia, Mitchell and Cormack attend the funeral of Will with others. Cormack gave a speech about how Will was one of the best, and helped others carry his casket to his grave. While they walk, Cormack is interrupted by Jonathan Irons, the father of Will, who encourages Mitchell to join the Atlas Corporation. Despite Mitchell joining Atlas, Irons scorned Cormack when trying to dissuade Mitchell from not joining; only referring to him as "sergeant".
===Joining Sentinel===
Cormack would join Sentinel Task Force under the leadership of "Kingpin" McDonell, a group created to stop KVA threats, but later focused on stopping Atlas' rise to power. Cormack would reunite with Mitchell after rescuing him out of New Baghdad alongside Ilona after Irons' actions were revealed. Cormack aided Mitchell and Ilona from escaping, going under the alias "X" and leading to him and his group via hacking their exo-suits. Though Gideon and Joker found them, the former decided to let them go as he wasn't persuaded that Irons did any wrong doing.
Cormack, Mitchell, Ilona, and Knox would infiltrate Irons' estate in a operation called Lone Wolf, and learned that Dr. Danois is working on Manticore, and that crates of it were headed to Antarctica. Cormack and Mitchell succeeded in escaping, placing a tracker on one of the planes before diving into the ocean below. They managed to get at least one content of Manticore, and works on to destroy a lumber factory somewhere on Bulgaria. Despite Cormack not trusting Gideon at first, the two earned each other's trust after completing the mission.
===Capture and Death===
Cormack later provide communication support and later himself during the Battle on the Golden Gate Bridge with an Armada of ships. During their major assault on New Baghdad, he managed to get out of blast radius of Manticore saving him from death. But they met again with Mitchell, Gideon and Illona at the camp, and then after that Cormack got shot by Jonathan Irons. the 4 managed to escape. and as they get out of there. His last words are "Don't Stop...." and died due to blood loss.
Cormack was avenged by Mitchell, Gideon, and Ilona, who decided to launch a final attack on him. They succeeded in destroying the Manticore rockets, and Mitchell killed Irons for good. Mitchell states that the war against Atlas is far from over, implying that the corporation is still in control, and will fight back.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*He stands at 6'0 ½ inch.
*His primary weapon is the HBRa3.
*Cormack is the multiplayer announcer for Sentinel Task Force.
*Cormack's voice actor, Russell Richardson would voice other characters in other Call of Duty installments, Marcus Howard in the 2017 installment Call of Duty: WWII, and Lewis Howard in the 2021 installment Call of Duty: Vanguard.
*He is similar to John "Soap" MacTavish from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series.
**Both are called "hard bastards" by an ally (Gideon and John Price).
**Both die from blood loss in front of their allies (Soap died when the church was rigged with explosive by Makarov which reopens his knife wound from Shepherd, Cormack was shot by Irons at the hip).
**Both of their deaths are avenged, as their allies succeeded in killing the main antagonist at the end of the game (Jonathan Irons and Vladimir Makarov).
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