Mike Harper

Master Chief Petty Officer Mike Harper is the deuteragonist in the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and a featured character in the 2014 mobile game Call of Duty: Heroes. 
He is a member of SEAL Team Six and JSOC, and David Mason's close friend and second-in-command. During Raul Menendez's rise of power in 2012, Harper worked with Mason to stop the cyber terrorist while also learning of Menendez's past encounters with the retired Marine and CIA agent Frank Woods.
He is voiced and motion-captured by Michael Rooker, who also played Merle Dixon in and Yondu Udonta in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 
==History==
===Overview===
Mike Harper is a Navy SEAL and is the right-hand of Commander David Mason, and works with him during Raul Menendez's plans to destroy the west. He has a few similarities to Master Sergeant Frank Woods. One is because he has a lot of Tattoos and are the players partner through the campaign. Him and Woods use curse words in most of the game, and fight against the main antagonist's right hand (Lev Kravchenko and DeFalco). In addition, both suffer from physical injuries in Black Ops II, with Woods being shot in both of his knee caps, and Harper (player-determinate) burning his face, and getting a rebar in his leg. The similarities between the two are somewhat ironic, as Woods often mocks Harper by calling him "dips***" on two occasions.
==Biography==
===Early Career===
Nothing is known of Mike Harper's past, but he was born around the 1970s to unnamed parents in the United States. HE later joined the United States Navy in his youth, rose to the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer and befriended fellow Navy Seal David Mason. Before the events of Black Ops II, Mason and Harper became members of Seal Team Six and Joint Special Operations Command (J.S.O.C.), and also befriended Javier Salazar.
==Black Ops II==
===The Vault===
Mason and Harper go to the vault to speak with Frank Woods, who has a personal connection to Cordis Die's leader Raul Menendez. Harper believes that they were wasting their time, and said that Woods was a "vegetable" due to his age until Mason tells him to back off. Woods then told Mason about his, David's father Alex and Jason Hudson's past interactions with Menendez during their CIA operations in the 1980s. During the mission "Old Wounds", Harper comments to David that his father was a tough soldier, and Woods continued telling how they fought the Russians in Afghanistan and attempted to capture Menendez in Nicaragua.
===Celerium===
Harper works with Mason, Salazar and Crosby in Myanmar to gather information on Cordis Die's base and find a scientist named Erik Breighner. Breighner gives the group a quantum entanglement device, a chip that would make the United States' infrastructure useless due to its capabilities. In addition, Breighner also tells Mason of a superweapon named "Karma", but is killed before Harper and team reunite with Admiral Briggs.
===Fallen Angel===
JSOC has Harper and the team go to Pakistan and investigate Menendez to see what he is planning, mainly to see what Menendez is planning with "Karma". Harper, Mason, Salazar and Crosby are first seen trapped in a grocery store, being pinned down by the ISI as they are attempting to reboot the CLAW. Harper kicks the CLAW, fixing it and having it help counterattack the ISI until the group splits up to find Menendez.
Later on, Harper and Mason stealth their way on the rooftops, and record Menendez speaking with DeFalco and the ISI's leader. Eventually, Menendez reveals that he engineered the team's infiltration, causing Harper and Mason to survive an ambush and escape with Salazar and Crosby. The team are assisted with a CLAW and a SOC-Ts to exit the area, and depending on the player's choice, Harper can have his face burned by a flaming pipe. Afterward, Mason and Harper are approached by Tian Zhao, who decides to allow them to live after revealing their only in Pakistan for Menendez.
===Karma===
Harper and the team realize that "Karma" is located at Colossus after reviewing the recording, and decide to travel there with the technical assistance from Farid. Harper splits from David and Salazar, unknowingly walking into "Karma" who is actually a woman named Chloe Lynch, who mocks his attempt to flirt with her. Mason and Salazar learn that she is a woman themselves after going into the server room, and David orders Harper to go Club Solar to collect her.
Once Mason and Salazar enter the club, DeFalco enters and begins to kill civilians and hold people hostage until Chloe revealed herself. After Chloe gives herself up to rescue people, DeFalco orders his soldiers to open fire, causing Harper and Section to have to fight their way out.
Harper and the team chase after DeFalco, and depending on the player's choices, succeed in rescuing Karma and killing DeFalco, or fail and have a strike team rescue her in "Second Chance". If the player rescues her from DeFalco, Harper and Salazar are seen sliding DeFalco's corpse into their plane, as Mason and Chole speak to each other.
===Achilles' Veil===
In the mission "Achilles' Veil", Harper gives Farid communication support when they attempt to capture Menendez, but Raul reveals that he knows that they're is a traitor in his ranks. While amongst his followers, Harper attempts to ambush the terrorist leader but is stopped by a Cordis Die soldier or DeFalco with a rocket launcher. Harper then assists Farid via communication to fight against the Yemeni Militia to reach Menendez. At the citadel, Menendez destroys Harper's VTOL with a rocket launcher. Farid has the choice to either shoot Harper (thus showing his loyalty) or shoot Menendez (thus revealing that he is the mole).
====Fate====
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Shoot Harper = If the player shoots Harper, the VTOL that David Mason and Javier Salazar are in will appear, and then explode. They will both survive by rappelling down. Farid will stand by Mike's corpse and David will say to him that he had no choice. David will then walk up to his dead body and close his eyes in respect of the fallen. Farid will then be taken back to U.S.S. Barack Obama.
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Shoot Menendez = If the player decides to shoot Menendez, he will shoot the player before they can shoot him. Menendez will then discover that Farid is the traitor. He will walk up to Farid and ask why he betrayed him. He will then say to him "to those you serve, your life means nothing" before killing him. Section and Salazar find an injured Harper, who tells them that Menendez is escaping.
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===Stopping Menendez===
If the latter was chosen, Harper will then remain alive and be taken back to the U.S.S. Barack Obama to recover from his injuries. He will appear in "Odysseus" and will learn of Salazar's betrayal, ending with Harper killing him upon his capture. Section and Harper then go on to protect President Marion Bosworth in Los Angeles, and kill/capture Raul Menendez in Haiti. During the mission, Harper will fall on a metal rod, making Section rescue him by killing either DeFalco or a random soldier, and either kill or capture Menendez. If Harper was killed by Farid, Section may avenge his death by killing Menendez, thus omitting any chance of the best ending. Canonically, Section kills Menendez no matter if Harper is dead or alive.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
Section-boxing.png|Harper knocked on the ground by Mason.
Boxing BOII.png|Harper with Mason and Salazar, with David revealing that he is suffering from flashes.
Mason-Harper-Salazar Fallen-Angel.jpg|Harper with Mason and Salazar in "Fallen Angel".
HarperMeetsKarma.png|Harper unknowingly bumping into Chloe "Karma" Lynch.
Chloe-saved.png|Harper and Salazar dragging DeFalco's corpse (player-determined).
FaridChoice.png|Harper awaiting Farid's choice.
Harper's_Death_BOII.png|Harper's death by Farid (player-determined).
Harper's-corpse-BOII.png|Harper's corpse (player-determined).
Harper_Injured.png|An injured Harper alive if Farid is killed (player-determined).
Harper-LA.jpg|Harper in Los Angeles (player-determined).
Come On Harper BOII.png|An injured Harper after Mason kills Menendez (player-determined).
Harper-Avenged-Sevenfold.jpg|Harper dancing to Avenged Sevenfold.
Call-of-Duty-Heroes-Harper.png|Harper in Call of Duty: Heroes.
==Trivia==
*He has a full-sleeve tattoo on his right arm.
*Harper's preferred weapon appears to be the SCAR-H until the later half of the game, where he switches to the M8A1.
**During the pre-release of the game, Harper's SCAR-H was the Modern Warfare 2 model.
*In the mission "Cordis Die", Harper (if alive) has the Studies and Observations Group emblem on his vest.
*He can be seen doing air guitar at the end of the Avenged Sevenfold sequence.
*If Harper is saved in "Achilles' Veil" instead of Farid, then Salazar and Chloe will both die, regardless of other choices made.
**With Harper dead, he cannot kill Salazar; Salazar is instead arrested.
**With Harper dead, then Farid will save Chloe if she is present in "Odysseus".
*He is similar to Frank Woods:
**Both have multiple tattoos.
**Both have signature weapons.
**Both are close friends to their leader/teammate (Alex Mason for Woods, and David "Section" Mason for Harper).
*Michael Rooker also previously voiced himself in Call of Duty: Black Ops Nazi Zombies in the map Call of the Dead.
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