John Price (Original)

:NOTE: This article is about Price from the 2007 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sub-series. The reboot version can be found here: John Price.
 
 
Captain John Price is the main protagonist of the franchise's original Modern Warfare sub-series. 
He is a British SAS captain/sniper of Bravo Team, field commander of Task Force 141, and the mentor of John "Soap" MacTavish. Originally the protege of Captain MacMillan, he later became captain of the SAS Bravo Team and participated in numerous operations. He played a pivotal role in stopping the Russian Ultranationalists and the Four Horsemen: Imran Zakhaev, Victor Zakhaev, Khaled Al-Asad, and his arch-nemesis Vladimir Makarov, from destroying the west during the Second Russian Civil War and World War III. 
He was voiced by in the series, who also portrayed Johnny Allen in EastEnders. In Find Makarov and Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish, he was portrayed by David Kinsman. In Call of Duty: Mobile, he is voiced by , who voices the reboot iteration of the character.
==Biography==
===Background===
Not much is known about Price's past, but he was born in Britain and joined the Special Air Services' 22nd Regiment. He would become the protégé of his senior officer MacMillan and became the regiment's designated sharpshooter.
===SAS===
====Lieutenant====
 In 1996, as a Lieutenant, he and MacMillan were assigned to Alpha Team with orders to assassinate Russian Ultranationalist leader Imran Zakhaev, traveling across Pripyat to reach the abandoned Polissya Hotel where they could oversee the meet where Zakhaev was making a deal with former Red Army soldiers who wanted to join his Ultranationalists in hopes of reviving the Soviet Union after its dissolution 5 years earlier. 
Despite the area around Pripyat and in the town itself still heavily contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl Disaster 10 years prior in 1986, when Ukraine was still the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Price and MacMillan slipped past the patrols and into town to set up their sniper nest. Although Price shot Zakhaev and thought to have killed him, he only shot and removed his left arm and Zakhaev got away. Price was forced to carry and protect MacMillan after the latter's legs were injured from a crashing Mil Mi-28 Havoc attack helicopter, and the two managed to hold out until rescue arrived. Price would think that he killed Zakhaev and continued his services with the 22nd SAS.
====Captain====
Sometime before the events of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Price was promoted to Captain. He recruited and trained Sergeant "Soap" MacTavish along with Gaz, before they were deployed to a ship containing a nuclear warhead at the Bering Strait. At the end of the mission, Price saves Soap from falling into the ocean and to his death when the ship is sunk by MiGs and they barely make it aboard their Sea Knight before the ship capsized. Then his team is deployed to Russia to save their Loyalist informant going by the codename of "Nikolai" and are assisted by the Loyalist leader Sergeant Kamarov and his men, considering that the Russian Civil War between the Western-backed Loyalists and the Ultranationalists is of grave concern because of the prize on the line for the winner: Russia's arsenal of 15,000 active nuclear weapons, in service or stockpiled in reserve.
A few missions later, shortly after learning of the events in the Middle East when Khaled Al-Asad had his forces commit suicide with detonating a nuke in their capital city to kill the U.S. forces invading it, Price and his team go to the safehouse of Al-Asad in Azerbaijan to capture him after being informed of its location by Nikolai from his own safehouse in Hamburg, Germany. Price interrogates Al-Asad on who gave him the bomb that killed all those U.S. troops, but is given his phone by Gaz. After learning that Imran Zakhaev is still alive from the phone call and is Al-Asad's supplier of the nuke, Al-Asad is executed by a furious Price. The captain then goes on to explain his past encounter with Zakhaev back in Pripyat 15 years earlier, and how he is connected to recent events. After being forced to fight their way past the Ultranationalists to reach an escape helicopter loaded with U.S. Force Reconnaissance Marines led by Staff Sergeant Griggs, who was not part of the force slaughtered by the nuke back in Al-Asad's country, Price's team is then deployed to capture Zakhaev's son, Victor Zakhaev. 
But the mission fails when he commits suicide to avoid selling out his father, and Imran then launches Russian nuclear missiles as revenge after his Ultranationalists capture a Russian nuclear missile silo launch facility and launch two of the RT-2UTTH Topol-M ICBMs there against the United States Eastern Seaboard, with the other four being launched soon after for other Western targets. Price and the team then work on stopping the missiles and succeed in deactivating them before they could detonate on Western soil, uploading the abort codes provided by the Loyalists and the Russian Ministry of Defense to self-destruct the missiles in flight before the warheads could reach their intended targets.
After stopping the missiles, Price and his team race to leave the area, but are stopped when a bridge is destroyed by an Ultranationalist Mil Mi-24 Hind. When SSgt. Griggs and Gaz are killed, Price gives Soap his M1911 to kill Zakhaev and his bodyguards when they are distracted by their Hind being destroyed by a Loyalist Havoc. Price and Soap are extracted to a hospital in Russia after said action when Kamarov and his forces arrive in Mil Mi-8 Hip transport helicopters and find them still alive.
==Task Force 141==
=== Operation: Kingfish===
Following Zakhaev's death, Price and Soap were reassigned to Task Force 141 under the leadership of General Shepherd, where the two met British soldiers Simon "Ghost" Riley and Gary "Roach" Anderson. The task force was assigned to eliminate Vladimir Makarov, a member of the Ultranationalist who established himself as the new leader after Zakhaev's death and was committing acts of terrorism. In 2013, Task Force 141 were assigned to eliminate Makarov in Ukraine, where Price, Soap, and Roach worked with Delta Force operators Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook. During the raid to find Vladimir, the team was ambushed by Ultranationalist forces, and Captain Price covered his allies as they escaped. Price was then captured by the Ultranationalists and sentenced to the Gulag and given the prisoner code "627". 
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2===
Price returns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 having been broken out of a Russian gulag by now Captain "Soap" MacTavish and Task Force 141, as the unit gathered intel that Makarov's greatest enemy was a prisoner in the gulag. After learning that the world has broken into a war by the Russians after a massacre caused by Ultranationalist Vladimir Makarov that he framed the USA for supporting, Price launches an SLBM to generate an EMP at Washington, D.C., which ends up saving Sgt. Foley, Cpl. Dunn, Pvt. Ramirez, and other Rangers and allows them to take back the White House from the Russian army, while other U.S. forces reclaim the rest of Washington, D.C., thus beginning their efforts to push the Russians off U.S. soil. 
Following his mission, Price and Soap travel to Afghanistan to find intel on Makarov, as Ghost and Roach are sent to eliminate Makarov at his safe house on the Russian-Georgian border. After learning that General Shepherd betrayed Task Force 141, Price and Soap engage in one objective, kill Shepherd. To do that, Price contacts Makarov and warns him of the threat Shepherd poses to him now, and reminds him of the saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Reluctantly, Makarov gives in and tells Price that Shepherd is hiding in Site Hotel Bravo in Afghanistan before going into hiding.
In the mission Endgame, Price shoots down Shepherd's MH-53 Pave Low and before Shepherd attempts to execute Soap, he and Price gets into a fist fight and Price is overpowered. After Shepherd is killed, Price and Nikolai extracts Soap while on the run for killing Shepherd and Task Force 141 is then disavowed.
===Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3===
Price and Soap are now disavowed for the murder of General Shepherd, being labeled war criminals and wanted by INTERPOL. Price and Nikolai get the fatally wounded Soap to a safehouse that is under attack by Vladimir Makarov's Inner Circle. 2 months after Soap's recovery from his wounds, Price, Soap, Nikolai, and a new ally called Yuri are still focusing on Task Force 141's main mission, take down Vladimir Makarov. After Soap's death, Yuri reveals that he knew Makarov, but betrayed him because of the massacre at Zakhaev International Airport, making it hard for Price to trust him.
During the Stronghold mission, he and Yuri infiltrated the old castle near Prague that used to be used by Imran Zakhaev to retrieve intel on Makarov. He learns that Makarov is sending his men to Berlin to capture Russian President Boris Vorshevsky's daughter, Alena, to use her as a bargaining chip to get Vorshevsky to cough up the Russian nuclear launch codes. During the mission Down the Rabbit Hole, Price and Delta Force attempt to rescue Vorshevsky and his daughter from Makarov's men and succeeded, but with the loss of Team Metal and the wounding of Yuri.
After the end of World War III, while Vorshevsky and the U.S. President formally call an end to the conflict and for peace to reign between the forces of NATO and the Ultranationalist-controlled Russian Federation, Price and Yuri go to Hotel Oasis in the Arabian Peninsula to finally kill Makarov, who had gone into hiding after his plans failed and he was now a wanted man by both nuclear superpowers in the USA and Russia, possibly heading for the death sentence. After a Little Bird destroys the upper area of the hotel, badly wounding Yuri, Price continues up to the roof to prevent Makarov getting away again. When he was just about to be killed by Makarov, Yuri shoots Makarov in the shoulder, which gets Yuri killed, but buys Price enough time to restrain Makarov and wrap a cable around his neck and break down through the glass roof, causing Makarov to be hung and cut by shards of glass. After Makarov's death, Price survives the fall and smokes a cigar under Makarov's dead body as the sound of emergency vehicles are heard approaching. 
It's unknown what happened to Price afterward, but it can be assumed that he either got arrested, rescued, or maybe even got promoted once it was discovered that Makarov was finally dead and the world was safe from any further threats from any of the self-proclaimed Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
==Call of Duty: Black Ops 4==
In Black Ops 4, he appears as a playable skin in the Blackout mode if the player pre-ordered Modern Warfare.
==Call of Duty: Modern Warfare==
Main article: John Price (Reboot)
Captain Price appears in reboot Call of Duty: Modern Warfare from 2019 and its sequel Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, as one of the main protagonists and is a playable operator in and Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War from 2020. Captain Price is also playable in Cold War's zombies, where he has his own voice lines.
He is voiced by Barry Sloane, who voices the original character in Call of Duty: Mobile.
==Call of Duty: Mobile==
Captain Price is a playable skin in Call of Duty: Mobile and appears as a featured character in the Mobile comics.
In the comics, Captain Price is the field leader of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition, a task force assigned to stop the terrorist group - the Five Knights and later the Dark Covenant. At some point, the UAC was dissolved and Spectre is hunting down each member. 
==Personality==
John is a wrathful, short-tempered, grumpy, intimidating and cynical yet benevolent and honourable military leader who saved many people during the events of World War 3 and Makarov's empire. He is very aggressive and ruthless towards his enemies.
He is also an extremely intelligent soldier. He can learn all military risk tests and is great at developing new plans in war, such as stopping the Russian's invasion in Washington, D.C. by using a missile to knock out all electrical power in the area.
Despite his grumpy and intimidating behavior, Price is still very compassionate and loyal towards the fellow soldiers of his group, especially Soap, acting like a father figure to him. After Soap's death, Price became bitter and rageful, but remained determined to kill Makarov for his actions. He also became distrustful of Yuri but continued to work with him, as the two had a common goal to stop the Russian Ultranationalist leader. Despite his distrust for Yuri for being Makarov's former subordinate, Price does care for him when he was injured. 
==Quotes==
==Trivia== 
*His favorite brand of cigars are Villa Clara's.
*He is rarely seen not wearing a hat on his head, only exception is "Crew Expendable".
**In Modern Warfare 2 Remastered, the developers added his hat falling off during his fight with Shepherd, revealing his hair and a bald spot on the top of his head.
*In the pre-alpha of the mission "F.N.G.", he was voiced by Michael Gough, who previously voiced Price in Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2. It was later scrapped as Billy Murray was chosen for the role.
*His signature weapon through all three games is the M4A1. 
**Strangely, on his MW3 character card for Mountain Dew, it states that his weapon is the CM901 and MSR, weapons he never uses in the campaign.
*He was born on January 11th, 1953 in Great Britain, U.K.In Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, on a dog tag accessory, it shows Captain Price's name and his birthdate, 01-11-53 
*In Infinite Warfare, some of the Settlement Defense Soldiers can heard saying "What's the status of Prisoner 627" in radio chatter, referencing Price and his alias in Modern Warfare 2.
*His appearance in Blackout makes him the first non-Treyarch character in appear in one of their Call of Duty games.
*In the cut post-credits scene of Modern Warfare, Price would have seemingly succumbed to his wounds while a shadowy figured watched from afar.
*There are fan theories that Captain Price is the grandson of the original Price from Call of Duty. Infinity Ward's character designer Sami Onur stated in an interview that he is the grandson of Price from the first game's entry, but it hasn't been officially confirmed nor considered canon. https://www.eurogamer.net/a-brief-history-of-call-of-dutys-captain-price 
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