Samantha Maxis

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Samantha Maxis is a character featured in Treyarch's Zombies mode. First introduced in the Aether Story with Der Riese in Call of Duty: World at War as a little girl and daughter of Group 935's leader, Ludvig Maxis, Samantha serves as the main antagonist and Demonic Announcer in World at War and Call of Duty: Black Ops until the map Moon, where she becomes a playable character during Richtofen's Grand Scheme.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Samantha is mentioned multiple times throughout the maps before making a return in Origins. Throughout Call of Duty: Black Ops III, she is mentioned multiple times while her voice is used as Demonic Announcer, as well as making a physical appearance later on. In Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Samantha is featured as an antagonist in Classified, and later as an ally of the characters in their quest to save and restore the universe during Alpha Omega and Tag der Toten.
Samantha returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War as part of the Dark Aether Saga. Now a full-grown adult going formally by her last name, she plays a pivotal role in helping Requiem stop Omega Group from harnessing the power of the Dark Aether. A category of intel within the game is dedicated to her under her last name "Maxis". Maxis makes several brief photographic appearances in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III during Act 4 of Operation Deadbolt.
Maxis was also released as a playable Operator of the NATO faction in Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Warzone on March 4th, 2021 with Season Two as part of the "Reactive Maxis Operator Bundle".
==Biography==
===Aether Story===
====Early Life and Corruption====
Samantha Maxis was, reportedly, born to Ludvig Maxis and his unnamed wife on November 5th, 1934. After his wife died during child birth, Maxis made sure Samantha was always close to him. Due to his research, however, he neglected her and failed to notice Richtofen's experiments on her. As the experiments went on, Richtofen discovered more about Samantha Maxis and grew to hate her and Dr. Maxis, perhaps due to Maxis' attachment to his daughter or due to what she and Maxis had become. When Richtofen trapped Samantha in the room with Fluffy, her dog, and activated the teleporter, she was teleported to Griffin Station. There in a panic, she accidentally came in contact with the Moon Pyramid Device and took control of the zombies. In an effort to stop her and free her so that Richtofen could operate it, Groph and Schuster found and brought Dr. Maxis to her. However, Maxis told her to kill them all and her father killed himself shortly after, sending Samantha over the edge and on a rampage to destroy all of Group 935, which had betrayed and essentially killed her father. After Richtofen forcefully trades bodies with her to control the zombies, she and Richtofen's test subjects activate Maxis' backup plan and incinerate the Earth, leaving Richtofen trapped in her body and able to control the zombies on the Moon and the remaining zombies on Earth.
====Trapped in Agartha====
After the events on the Moon, Samantha is left in Richtofen's body until her father's plan can come to fruition ten years later. After the final polarization device is activated in Maxis' favor in Buried, he is able to extract Samantha's soul from Richtofen's body. Maxis brings her soul into Agartha, however Maxis and Samantha see the corruption of each other. When a rift opens, Samantha reaches out to an alternate version of her father in a Group 935 excavation site in Northern France in Dimension 63. She begs for him to free her, carrying a message of warning from the ancients. Samantha speaks to Maxis constantly, to the point where he gets completely consumed by her voice, believing Samantha is "the key to everything". After the zombie outbreak at the site, she tries to convince the Primis selves of "Tank" Dempsey, Takeo Masaki, Nikolai Belinski, and Edward Richtofen to free her from Agartha. Samantha constantly talks to the characters, whispering threats and promises. Richtofen attempts to resist her, saying he knows what she truly is, but eventually falls to her demands as Primis opens the gateway and thus Samantha is freed.
====The House====
After being freed from Agartha, she sends Primis to their next destination. Following this, she is brought to the "House" by Doctor Monty, where she reunites with the Dimension 63 version of her father. Realizing she was still corrupted by the Dark Aether, Monty takes her away for an unknown period of time, eventually bringing her back with her "innocence restored". Eventually, she meets Eddie, an innocent version of Richtofen's soul that Primis Richtofen brought to the House from Dimension 2210. They both play together in the House with toys that Monty brings them. After some time staying in the House with Eddie, the souls of Dempsey, Takeo, and Nikolai arrive at the House as children. This idyllic life is soon interrupted however; the Shadowman, still within the Summoning Key, exploits Maxis' lack of a soul to take control of his body. Using the Key's ability to bridge between dimensions, he unleashes the Apothicons from the Dark Aether, allowing them back into Agartha. To prevent their erasure from existence after their purpose is fulfilled, Richtofen has Primis drink blood from a dimension outside of Monty's control, unaware however that this is exactly what Monty wants, forcing Primis to have to be sent back to The Great War and the Cycle to continue.
====The Way Through====
After the Cycle is broken, Samantha and Eddie are teleported away from the House by her father, Maxis, to Camp Edward to prevent Monty from killing the both of them. Within the teleporter, she watched her father be devoured by the ancient Keeper, and unleashed her powers when arriving at Camp Edward in a fit of rage. She accompanies Primis and Ultimis into a forest, where the adults of the group celebrate and pass out drunk, save for Ultimis Richtofen and Primis Nikolai. She and Eddie are pulled away from the rest of the crew by Nikolai, who proceeds to ask her to kill the "one who perpetrated all of this", with Eddie cowering behind her. When Victis gathered the Agarthan Device for Primis Nikolai, Samantha stood by as she saw the rest of Primis and Ultimis lying dead on the floor, poisoned by the alcohol they had previously consumed. After giving Ultimis Richtofen his final death, Nikolai hands Samantha a revolver, knowing he too must die in order for the Aether to be destroyed. Before shooting Nikolai, Samantha asks Eddie to look away. After killing Nikolai, Samantha and Eddie find The Way Through, walking towards the light of a new universe, free from the Dark Aether's corruption, as all else is banished to the Dark Aether.
===Dark Aether Saga===
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====Arrival in a New World====
After she arrived in the new universe with no memory of what occurred in the universe before, Samantha Maxis grew up in West Germany in an orphanage. In 1973, she graduated from the with a bachelor's degree in and a minor in . Becoming fluent in English, French, and Russian, Maxis was recruited by the Western Federal Intelligence Service the very next year.
====Iranian Revolution====
As an agent of the BND, she was in Iran during the of 1979 when the was overthrown. As the CIA and Western intelligence agencies worked together to ensure the Shah's safe extraction to the United States, many diplomats and Western citizens were being left behind. Maxis was saved by the intervention of CIA officer Grigori Weaver who was willing to go off the books to extract her out of the country. This marked the beginning of a strong friendship between the two spies. At one point, Weaver and Samantha were actively attempting to save a "boy". Samantha was waiting for a phone call from Weaver from 10 to 12 o'clock, until she heard about an explosion on TV, distressing her to the point of sleeplessness. At 3AM, Weaver arrived at Samantha's apartment, bloodied and wounded. While crying, Weaver mumbled about covering his tracks after a hit, and how sorry he was. He told Samantha that the boy was supposed to be staying with his mother, but in reality was inside the house as it burned to the ground.Outbreak intel, Maxis, Quarantine Diary 9
====Endstation Tapes====
In 1983, Maxis noticed something was wrong within the BND with one of her colleagues, Dieter, warning her that the agency was pulling a list of all foreign nationals and defectors who worked for the BND in the five years prior. Soon after, she received a message from her contact within the KGB, Tatyana, talking about something from World War II they dug up from their archives called "Endstation" with a ground operation taking place in Poland. She warned Weaver about the matter but feared their conversations were spied on. She soon received a VHS tape with war footage of Endstation from Tatyana with the help of other contacts who were killed by the KGB shortly after. Maxis tasked Dieter to send the tape to Weaver and the CIA.
====Die Maschine====
By early November 1983, several Outbreak Zones started to appear around the world. Maxis contacted Weaver and urged him to watch the tape while explaining to him that Endstation was the cause of the outbreaks and that Omega Group was behind all of it. This led to the creation of Requiem with Weaver being one of its leaders. While Weaver offered his help to protect Maxis, she refused; arguing she must stay in the field. Believing the BND was compromised by Omega Group, she was now operating without authorization or oversight. Weaver sent men to retrieve Maxis, but she managed to fend them off and left Germany to meet a new contact within Omega Group, Sergei Ravenov, who she believed could be turned. After a stop in Romania, she traveled to Vietnam where an Omega base, Outpost 25, was located under the leadership of William Peck.
====Outpost 25 and Time in the Dark Aether====
With the information provided by Ravenov, Maxis realized the full extent of Omega Group's plans: controlling the bridges between their world and the Dark Aether to harness and weaponize Aetherium to win the Cold War. On June 13th 1984Black Ops Cold War Intel - Season 2 Maxis Document "Maxis Status Report": "While we estimate she spent roughly 48 hours there". Firebase Z is dated June 15th, therefore she was captured on the 13th., Maxis was captured while infiltrating Outpost 25. Interrogated by Peck, she was to be kept alive per orders from Kravchenko. Peck disobeyed these orders, however, as he was secretly working as a mole for the Director of Requiem. In line with his hidden agenda outside the knowledge of both Requiem and Omega, he requested Peck get "rid of" Maxis by throwing her into the Dark Aether. According to Peck, however, the Director did not ancitipate that Requiem would be able to recover MaxisBlack Ops Cold War Intel - Season 6 Omega Audio Log - "The Agreement". Two days later, she was rescued by Requiem which, with the help of Ravenov, infiltrated the overrun facility and opened a portal for her to escape. After battling an Orda, she followed Requiem as they were leaving the area while Ravenov rejoined Omega Group as a large operation was taking place in the Ural Mountains.
====Quarantine====
Upon returning to Requiem HQ, Maxis was placed in a quarantine before being tested. While Requiem estimated she spent roughly 48 hours in the Dark Aether, physiological and metabolic data from the tests indicated she spent several months in the other dimension. During the following months, Maxis was kept in a sterile room as she was questioned by Mackenzie Carver, Oskar Strauss, and Elizabeth Grey as well as Weaver, who visited her often. Alone, she started a diary, looking back at dreams and past experiences. She also used her radio to talk to the strike teams involved in Operation Threshold in the Ural Mountains. However, Requiem Senior staff decided to take away her radio as she was deemed too unstable following outbursts against medical staff. To help with the loneliness, Weaver offered Maxis a rottweiler, which she later named Notso Fluffy, and was now permitted to walk around the grounds twice daily.
====Ravenov Implications====
Nevertheless, by October 1984, Maxis went behind Weaver's back and, with the help of Ravenov (and an uncertain Elizabeth Grey's personal frequency), established a covert communication line with the Requiem strike teams in the Ural Mountains. She encouraged them to seek Ravenov and help him stopping Omega Group's Operatsiya Inversiya which involved Reality Inversion warheads built by Peck using Tempests and designed to create massive dimensional breaches and Outbreak Zones. Inside a missile battery, Ravenov, with the help of a Requiem strike team, managed to change the designated target from the US East coast to the Pacific Ocean. After battling Legion and destroying the massive Aetherium crystals that blocked the missile silos, the three warheads launched towards the Pacific. Maxis then contacted Raptor One to exfil the strike team while Ravenov stayed in the Ural Mountains.
Despite her good intentions, however, the hijacking of a Requiem strike team caused major fallout for Requiem's higher echelon. The strike team barely avoided court martial, only saved on behalf of the Director, and Weaver decided to take the heat for Grey handing Samantha her comm line. Enraged and upset at Samantha commandeering his troops without telling him, Weaver stormed into Samantha's room and berated her for her actions. While Samantha tried to defend herself, claiming it was the right thing to do, Weaver retorted that she was told to simply care for Notso. Samantha was then banned from her walks and once again confined to her quarters, Weaver claiming someone else would walk Notso.
====BLOCK 8====
Unbeknownst to her, however, Samantha was being more directly scrutinized by the Director. During further observation from Grey, it was discovered that Samantha was reacting differently to Aetherium contamination than any other test subject. To that end, the Director green-lit further tests for Samantha. On December 1st, Samantha was dragged screaming from her quarters for testing, while a despondent Weaver claimed he would take care of the rottweiler.
Two days later, Samantha was brought to the BLOCK 8 Testing Facility where she immediately attempted to escape, before being detained and put in isolation. On December 5th, she met with the Director of Requiem, who personally oversaw the tests regarding her telekinetic abilities. This first meeting, while officially reported as an "orientation" to "establish boundaries" that went well for both parties, the Director actually interrogated and electrocuted Samantha, asking her various questions about her life which he seemed to already know. The next day, Samantha attempted to escape from her cell block using an improvised lockpick made from a plastic fork. December 7th, Samantha underwent another session with the Director, where he asked Samantha to use her powers - to no avail. Fifteen days after her arrival, the Director had yet another session with Maxis. This time, however, he purposefully played with her emotions in an attempt to provoke her into using her powers - specifically by threatening to make Weaver "disappeared" for his viewed failures, as well as calling Samantha a "pathetic, sad, little lost girl", which caused Samantha to shatter the glass protecting the Director with her powers in anger.
====Assisting in Berlin====
Samantha remained in Block 8, but on February 2nd, 1985, with Weaver by her side, she was able to rescue a captured Strike Team, along with Raptor One, from their death by Lev Kravchenko piloting an Omega helicopter, by opening a Dark Aether portal within Berlin, allowing them to escape to the same cell that Maxis and Weaver are in. As she used her powers, her entire eyes were glowing purple. As the Director reviewed the footage, he noted that, as her powers were growing, Maxis presented a problem that needed to be dealt with.
====Operation First Domino & Sacrifice====
On May 28th, the Director met with Grey and Weaver and made the decision to approve Samantha for "Operation First Domino", with the intent of using her powers to assist Requiem. He noted, though, that she would not be approved to be able to directly re-join Requiem. Before saying what would be her goodbyes to Weaver and Grey (the latter who she would reveal she viewed as "more than just a friend"), Samantha manifested in Test Site Anna during the Forsaken's escape from the Dark Aether. She would hold him back with her powers as the Requiem strike-team crafted an Aetherium Neutralizer, using it to travel to Main Street where Samantha and the Forsaken battled. There, she assisted the strike-team in taking down the Forsaken for good by charging up two energy cannons nearby. When the Forsaken began his full invasion of Earth, Samantha sacrificed herself by flying into the Dark Aether portal in the Forsaken, closing the rift and allowing the Forsaken to be captured by Peck's machine. The ultimate fate of Samantha is unknown after this point.
====Liberty Falls====
On February 18th, 1991, Peck's machine where the Forsaken and Samantha was captured in was secured by Former Requiem Director, Edward "Eddie" Richtofen, who is now the Director of Project Janus. However, Samantha somehow was able to have full control of the machine which in result caused another Dimensional Breach all over Liberty Falls. Eddie would make his way to the lab with she is in but Disappeared by the Dark Aether mist from the machine. 
====Legacy====
Following her sacrifice, Requiem attempted at some point to rescue Samantha from the Dark Aether once more, but this resulted in another failure. At another unknown point in time, Requiem managed to acquire DNA samples of Samantha, which was used in combination with Ravenov's, to conceive a child via surrogacy, using Grey as the surrogate mother. The child, named Ava, was born in 1993, and was raised by Grey and presumably other Requiem leads for 3 years. At the time, they recognized that Ava had a strong bond to the Dark Aether, thanks to her mother's genes; as such, she had unknown potentials. However, as the Requiem leads were slowly dying, they decided to hand off Ava to the Jansen's, a couple of National Intelligence agents, so she can be raised in a normal environment, while Ravenov would keep watch over her from afar. Unbeknownst to them, Ava's birth also spawned a dark reflection of herself in the Dark Aether, later dubbed the Entity. The Entity would reach out to Ava throughout her childhood, which she assumed to be an imaginary friend. Ava also grew up not knowing the truth about her biological parents, and only learned from her adoptive parents about Grey.
Samantha's status remained listed in Project Janus's records as "Classified" as of 2021. In the same year, Ava and Ravenov would be unexpectedly reunited when they both ended up being involved in a zombie outbreak in Zaravan, Urzikstan. Ravenov was recruited to join the classified task force Operation Deadbolt as its Specialist, due to his extensive knowledge of the Cold War incursions, while Ava, who had pursued the study of Aetherium, was hired by Victor Zakhaev to lend her expertise. Eventually, Ava defected and requested Deadbolt to rescue her, leading to her also joining the task force, though she remained unaware of her connection to Ravenov.
After Deadbolt successfully thwarted Zakhaev's plans, Ava was exposed to a Dark Aether rift, which allowed the Entity to establish contact briefly with her. Afterwards, Ava began to look into Project Janus' records, learning more about Requiem leads, Samantha, and Ravenov's roles in it. She eventually confronted Ravenov about Janus, but only received a vague answer from him. The Entity's influence over Ava grew stronger over time, eventually causing her to be lured into the Dark Aether. After Ravenov and the Deadbolt strike team rescued Ava, the former decided to finally tell her the truth, by showing her a recording of Grey from 1996, in which Grey detailed the nature of Ava's birth, her biological parents, and her wish for Ava to remember her.
==Appearances==
Shi No Numa Menu Selection WaW.png|Shi No NumaVoice only, Demonic Announcer
Der Riese Menu Selection WaW.png|Der RieseVoice only, radios and Demonic Announcer
Kino Der Toten Menu Selection BO.png|Kino der TotenVoice only, Demonic Announcer
Five Menu Selection BO.png|"Five"Voice only, Demonic Announcer
NewAscensionStatic.png|AscensionVoice only, Demonic Announcer
Call of the Dead Menu Selection BO.png|Call of the DeadVoice only, Demonic Announcer
Shangri-La Menu Selection BO.png|Shangri-LaVoice only, Demonic Announcer
Moon Menu Selection BO.png|MoonDemonic Announcer, playable character after Richtofen's Grand Scheme
TranZit lobby BOII.png|Green RunMentioned by Richtofen
Nuketown menu selection BO2.png|Nuketown ZombiesVoice only, Demonic Announcer until Round 25
Buried menu BOII.png|BuriedMentioned by Richtofen and Ludvig Maxis
Origins Lobby Icon BO2.png|OriginsOpening cutscene, ending cutscene, Demonic Announcer, heard throughout the game
The Giant Menu Selection BO3.png|The GiantHeard crying in opening cutscene, mentioned by Richtofen and Maxis
Der Eisendrache Menu Selection BO3.png|Der EisendracheMentioned by Richtofen and Groph, appears in drawings
Zetsubou No Shima Menu Selection BO3.png|Zetsubou No ShimaMentioned by Richtofen
Gorod Krovi Menu Selection BO3.png|Gorod KroviMentioned by Monty
Revelations Menu Selection BO3.png|RevelationsIntro
Classified Loading Screen.jpg|ClassifiedIntro, Demonic Announcer, heard in wisps, radios and phone
AlphaOmega LoadingScreen BO4.png|Alpha OmegaIntro and outro
TagDerToten Teaser BO4.jpg|Tag der TotenIntro and outro, appears when using music-box equipment, wisps
DieMaschine New Selection Screen BOCW.png|Die Maschine
FirebaseZ Promo BOCW.jpg|Firebase Z
Outbreak SelectionScreen BOCW.png|Outbreak
MauerDerToten Selection Screen BOCW.png|Mauer der Toten
Forsaken Selection Screen BOCW.png|Forsaken
OperationDeadbolt LoadingScreen MWIII.png|Operation DeadboltAct IV cinematic
Terminus AARSummary Background BO6.png|TerminusMentioned multiple times
LibertyFalls AARSummary Background BO6.png|Liberty FallsIntro cinematic
==Personalization==
===Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War===
====Skins====
Name 	Rarity	Image	How to obtain
Berlin Camouflage	 	 	Tracer Pack: Dead City Bundle
Dark Aether 	 	 	Reactive Maxis Operator Bundle
Death's Bride 	 	 	Death's Veil Maxis Bundle
Heat Seeker 	 	 	Tracer Pack: Firestorm Maxis Mastercraft Bundle
Noir 	 	 	Dark Dispatch Maxis Bundle
Lumens 	 	 	Tracer Pack: Lumens Maxis Ultra Skin Bundle
Mythical Decay 	 	 	Rainbow Rot Mastercraft Ultra Skin Bundle
==Call of Duty: Mobile==
Maxis appears in Call of Duty: Mobile and was added on May 17, 2022, during Season 4: Wild Dogs as part of the Element 115 Draw.
==Gallery==
===Call of Duty: Black Ops===
Samantha Maxis floating Moon BO.png|Samantha floating in the Moon Pyramid Device.
Samantha Maxis close up Moon BO.jpg|Another view of Samantha.
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===Call of Duty: Black Ops II===
Samantha Maxis Origins BOII.png|Samantha in Origins ending cutscene, playing in the House.
Little Lost Girl achievement icon BOII.jpg|Samantha's silhouette as seen in the Little Lost Girl achievement.
===Call of Duty: Black Ops III===
Samantha.png|Samantha smiling at child Nikolai.
Samantha Revelations.jpg|Samantha staring outside of a window within the House.
Samantha holding snowglobe BO3.png|Samantha in the house in a Zombies Chronicles trailer, holding a snowglobe near a gramophone. 
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===Call of Duty: Black Ops 4===
Samantha Classified intro.png|Samantha commanding a horde of Zombies in the Classified intro.
Samantha MPD AlphaOmega BO4.png|Samantha within the MPD.
Sam and Eddie AlphaOmega.jpg|Samantha and Eddie in the intro of Alpha Omega.
Samantha shields Eddie from Dr Monty AlphaOmega opening cutscene BO4.png|Samantha and Eddie are confronted by Doctor Monty in Alpha Omega's opening cutscene.
AlphaOmaga SamanthaMaxis.jpg|Samantha unleashing her powers against an Apothicon Elder God.
Samantha Teleport AlphaOmega BO4.png|Samantha is teleported away from the House.
SamanthaRampage AlphaOmega BO4.png|Samantha, enraged by the loss of her father, releases a destructive pulse of energy across Camp Edward.
SamanthaPissed AlphaOmega BO4.jpg|Samantha in the Alpha Omega outro.
Nikolai asks a favor TagDerToten Bo4.png|Nikolai asks a favor of Samantha.
Nikolai w Eddie and Sam TagDerToten Bo4.jpeg|Samantha and Eddie listening to Nikolai.
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Samantha TagDerToten BO4.png|Samantha Maxis in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
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WeShouldNotBeHere TagDerToten BO4.png|Samantha watches as Nikolai pulls a Welling out of his holster.
Samantha Holding Welling TagDerToten Bo4.png|Samantha, moments before killing Nikolai.
ABetterTomorrow TagDerToten Bo4.png|Samantha and Eddie leaving the Dark Aether, and securing a better tomorrow within a new universe.
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===Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War===
Samantha Maxis looking up at the rain in the phonebooth BOCW.png|Maxis calling Grigori Weaver.
Samantha BOCW.png|Samanatha, as she appears in Die Maschine.
SamanthaMaxis Bio BOCW.jpg|Maxis' bio in Black Ops Cold War's cosplay guide.
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Maxis Faction Logo BOCW.png|The "Maxis" faction logo in the Black Ops Cold War intel.
Samantha Maxis passport Die Maschine BOCW.png|Maxis' BND badge.
Samantha Hud Icon BOCW.png|An unused HUD icon for Maxis in Die Maschine.
FirebaseZ Artwork BOCW.jpg|Maxis on the Firebase Z poster.
SamanthaMaxis OmegaReport FirebaseZ Teaser BOCW.png|Omega Group report on Maxis.
Samantha Maxis undercover Firebase Z trailer BOCW.png|Maxis in 1984.
Samantha stabs a guard in the throat Firebase Z trailer BOCW.png|Maxis stabs a guard at Outpost 25.
Samantha escaping the Dark Aether..jpg|Maxis escaping the Dark Aether in Firebase Z.
Samantha you are Requiem FirebaseZ BOCW.png
Samantha telling Requiem to run after escaping the Aether Firebase-Z Easter Egg BOCW.png|Maxis telling Requiem to run.
SamanthaMaxis Face Ending FirebaseZ BOCW.png
Samantha smirking FirebaseZ BOCW.png|Samantha smiling at Ravenov.
Close up of Samantha's Aether corrupted eye BOCW.png|Maxis's Aether-corrupted eye.
MaxisPotential CallingCard BOCW.png|Maxis on the Maxis Potential calling card.
Maxis Select BOCW.png|Maxis' Operator Card.
Maxis Operator Bio BOCW.jpg|Maxis' bio in Black Ops Cold War.
Maxis Operator Bio WZ.jpg|Maxis' bio in Warzone.
Maxis OperatorCard BOCW.gif|Maxis Operator Intro.
Maxis Operator Intro Still BOCW.png|The still used for the Operator Intro Thumbnail.
Samantha Maxis Operator BOCW.png|Maxis in-game.
Maxis Promo Operator S2 BOCW.jpg|Maxis and Notso Fluffy.
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Maxis Operator Default BOCW.png|Maxis' eyes lighting up.
Plaguehound Zombies Lobby BOCW.png|A Plaguehound with Maxis.
Arrival Intel Maxis Outbreak BOCW.png|A film photo of Maxis, alongside a note written by Elizabeth Grey.
MaxisBNDBadge BOCW.png|Maxis' BND badge.
Aftermath Rebirth Promo3 WZ.jpg|Maxis and Karla Rivas during The Destruction of Verdansk.
Aftermath Rebirth Promo2 WZ.jpg|Maxis parachuting into Rebirth Island.
Samantha holding portal open MauerDerToten BOCW.png|Maxis holds open a portal manifested in Berlin to allow Requiem to escape.
Weaver comforts Sam MauerDerToten BOCW.png|Maxis, exhausted, is comforted by Weaver and her pet dog, Notso.
Director watching Sam MauerDerToten BOCW.png|The Director observing Maxis through his monitor.
Forsaken Promo1 BOCW.jpg
All is not lost Forsaken BOCW.png|Maxis arrives at Test Site Anna.
Forsaken and Samantha battle Forsaken BOCW.png|Maxis attacks The Forsaken
Samantha ImSorry Forsaken BOCW.png
Sam flies into the Forsaken Forsaken BOCW.png|Maxis sacrifices herself, flying into the Forsaken.
===Call of Duty: Mobile===
Samantha Maxis Death Veil in-game CODM.jpg|Maxis' "Death Veil" uniform in-game.
===Call of Duty: Black Ops 6===
Ravenov Maxis Photograph BO6.png|Maxis next to Ravenov.
==Video==
Samantha Maxis- A Zombies Retrospective with Julie Nathanson
==Trivia==
*In Samantha's demonic room in Kino der Toten, her room features a Teddy Bear and a Monkey Bomb. It also has a crude replica of Der Riese complete with miniatures of the original characters.
*In the house, Samantha has a pajama featuring a lot of Monkey Bombs. 
**According to Primis Richtofen, the Monkey Bomb started out as a toy for Samantha.
*Ironically, Samantha likes teddy bears, however, her nickname for Richtofen is "Teddy".
*According to a message in the Black Ops Data Servers, Samantha is around 6 to 10 years old at the time of her requesting a dog from her father.
**It was later confirmed that Fluffy was given to Samantha on January 11, 1942, when she was 7 years old.
*Richtofen often references her in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, claiming that she cheated when she was in control of the zombies.
**Likewise, Samantha seems to think Richtofen does a poor job at controlling the zombies and demands he gives them stronger legs.
*In Origins, after collecting Zombie Blood there is a chance at later rounds for the player to hear Samantha talking in a disturbing voice explaining the history of what she knows.
**The same demonic voice was featured in Origins' intro as given by Treyarch.
*In Der Eisendrache, inside Samantha's room the player can find a drawing of a Keeper appearing at the front of her bed. The room contains more paintingshttps://www.callofdutyzombies.com/topic/182008-samanthas-drawings/ of Samantha, including ones of Samantha with her dog Fluffy, and one featuring her dad, Ludvig Maxis.
*The registered number on Maxis's passport in the loading movie of Die Maschine, 481516 S 2342, is a reference to the TV series .
*Maxis's blood type is AB-.
*Within Firebase Z, the combat outfit that Maxis utilizes has multiple items that are visually similar to certain characters from the Aether storyline:
**Her goggles are a similar pair to that of Primis Nikolai Belinski's.
**The katana on her back is styled in a similar fashion to the Path of Sorrows, which is owned by Takeo Masaki.
**The red scarf, while not an exact match, is a possible reference to Doctor Monty, whose appearance is commonly associated with a red scarf.
**The mask worn on her neck is similar to the buildable Gas Mask from Zetsubou no Shima.
*Despite her combat outfit featuring a katana, Maxis's playable skin does not include it, possibly to prevent clipping with other weapons. The gas mask is also tilted to the left instead of the right. This issue is not present with the Warzone version of the skin.
*Originally, Maxis's default skin was erroneously named Aether Cover in Warzone, despite it being titled as Dark Aether in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. This was fixed in a later patch.
*Prior to Season Three, Maxis's eye color in Warzone was brown instead of the correct purple.
*After her time spent in the Dark Aether during Firebase Z, Maxis' eyes have developed a slight sensitivity to light, most notably when she is tired.Outbreak Season 2 Reloaded intel, Maxis: It's All Relative
*The name of Maxis' rottweiler, Notso Fluffy, originated from a Treyarch livestream featuring Craig Houston and Maxis' voice actress, Julie Nathanson, where they briefly discussed the then-unnamed pet being "not-so-fluffy". The nickname itself is a reference to Maxis' old pet dog Fluffy.
==References==
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Category:Call of Duty: World at War Zombies Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops II Zombies Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War NATO Operators
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Zombies Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Warzone Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Mobile Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Zombies Characters
Category:Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies Characters
Category:Antagonists