Grigori Weaver

Special Agent Grigori Gedeonovich Weaver (Russian: Григорий Гедеонович Уивер; born November 10, 1936) is a major character in Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's Zombies Mode.
He is a Central Intelligence Agency special agent who worked with Jason Hudson and Alex Mason in stopping Nikita Dragovich from destroying the west. In zombies, he became the special operations officer of the Requiem strike team to stop Omega Group and the monsters of the Dark Aether. 
He was voiced by Gene Farber, who also voiced Lucas Kellan in the 2013 first person shooter, Killzone: Shadow Fall and Kamarov in 2019s Modern Warfare, the reboot of the original sub-series.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Grigori Weaver was born on November 10th, 1936 in the USSR to Gedeon Weaver and an unnamed mother, and had a sister named Olga Weaver. Gedeon was a political figure who was killed during Joseph Stalin's purge in the mid to late 1930s. As a result, Grigori's mother defected to the United States during World War II. In 1954, Weaver enlisted in the United States Army, where he performed outstandingly in Ranger school. Due to knowing his native language, Grigori was quickly recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division (SAD), and was employed on undercover missions.
===Black Ops===
Weaver joined the CIA and became a member of Operation 40, and was assigned to infiltrate the Baikonur Cosmodrome to stop the rocket launch. He was compromised and captured by Nikita Dragovich's second-in-command, Lev Kravchenko, and tied to a chair for interrogation. When Kravchenko used a radio to communicate with Weaver's allies, Frank Woods and Alex Mason, and ordered them to surrender. When they didn't respond, Kravchenko stabbed Weaver in the eye, and moves him to a nearby building.
Weaver was rescued by Mason and the team, and the group succeeded in destroying the rocket, and thought they assassinated Dragovich. Afterward, Weaver thanked Mason for saving him, becoming fond of him and Woods. However, he became worried of Mason's mental state, as he believed that his time in Vorkuta had changed him, and believed that Alex was "burnt". Weaver told Hudson to deal with Mason before anything could happen, and believed he wasn't fit to do any operations. Despite this, Weaver believed that Viktor Reznov was working with Mason in Vietnam, but was actually mislead by Mason due to his brainwashing.
In addition, Weaver didn't know that he had a sister until recently around this point, and later learned that he had a niece. However, his niece was a GRU agent and a double agent for the CIA, and Weaver asked Ryan Jackson on getting information on his family. However, Jackson's superior told him to feed him what he could so that he could get off their backs.
After the Studies and Observations Group recovered files that had intel on Daniel Clarke, a scientist who helped Dragovich co-create Nova 6. Weaver and Hudson were sent by the CIA to Kowloon to capture Clarke, and interrogate him for information. Clarke revealed that worked wit ha Nazi scientist named Friedrich Steiner, and stated that Dragovich wans him killed to tie up loose ends. Dragovich's forces attacked immediately afterward, and Weaver, Hudson and Clarke had to fight their way out of the city. Before reaching to the their team, Clarke was killed by a Spetsnaz sniper, and Weaver and Hudson escape and head to retrieve Steiner from his location.
Weaver and Hudson were part of Kilo One, and were sent to Mount Yamantau to capture Steiner through the snow. After dealing with troops and having to jump off a cliff to the Yamantau complex, the group realize that Steiner isn't at the location. The doctor contacts them and tells them he is at Rebirth Island, and that he can translate the number codes. Weaver also takes picture of a map with targets across the west, and the team escape from another avalanche.
Weaver, Hudson and Alpha Squad reached to Rebirth Island, and were attacked by Soviet forces. The group are held back when they release Nova gas, and fight through troops all the way to the base. After clearing the front of the base, Weaver and Hudson see a monitor of Mason, who was believed to have been killed in Vietnam alongside Woods, was planning to kill Mason. Despite Hudson attempting to communicate with Mason, Weaver and Hudson are too late to stop him from killing Steiner.
Weaver and Hudson destroy the glass, but Mason shoots Weaver before being knocked out by Hudson. Afterward, Weaver tells Hudson that they should find Viktor Reznov, but Jason replies that they wont, because he was never there with Mason. The two realize that since Steiner is dead, Mason is the only link to the finding the broadcast station and can translate the codes. Weaver and Hudson interrogate Mason on the number codes, playing the code broadcast to him for hours, and recalling missions that led him into the chair.
Weaver becomes irritated during the interrogation, believing that they bumped a lot of drugs in Alex for him to get them what they want. Mason continues to talk about Dragovich, and how Reznov was with him after learning he was "the defector". By DEFCON 2, Weaver gives up and goes to the bunker, and tells Hudson that if he wants to die with him, it's his choice. Hudson stays, and unties Mason from the chair, who then walks around the facility before being knocked out by Hudson. After Hudson explained everything to him, Mason is able to recall where the broadcast station is, stating that it's at The Rusulka in Cuba.
Afterward, Weaver leads Yankee Team to assault The Rusulka, as they defeat the Russian troops and enter the ship. The group finds that the numbers station isn't there, and realize that it's underneath in an underwater facility. Hudson agrees with Mason on stopping Dragovich, and tells weaver to take the squad out and wait for them. After Mason kills Dragovich and The Rusulka is destroyed, Weaver declares victory to Mason.
Despite the success of the operation, the CIA kept their eye on Mason because he never fully recovered from being brainwashed. Believing him to be a threat to national security, Weaver and Hudson also became targeted, and they alongside Mason escaped to South Africa. In the late 1970s, Operation Charybdis was created to kill Mason, Hudson and Weaver. Hudson and Mason survived, and it's assumed the operation was dissolved or a failure, but Weaver is not mentioned. It's assumed that he was either killed during the operation, let go and retired from the CIA, or was working with the CIA at another branch.
===Black Ops II===
In Black Ops II, Weaver doesn't physically appear in the campaign. Woods possibly references Weaver when stabbing Kravchenko in "Old Wounds", and telling him did he believe an eye for an eye. During the interrogation, he was either killed by Mason, or by Woods after he gave information.
===Call of Duty: Warzone===
Weaver appears in the season one trailer for Black Ops Cold War, appearing in a photo with Russell Adler. He is also mentioned by Adler when he stabs Vikhor "Stich" Kuzmin's eye in act of retribution against Kravchenko. Kuzmin would be left and punished by Kravchenko, who stripped him of his rank and placed him in the gulag. 
==Zombies Timeline==
Weaver returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and appears to be a character in zombies, being the special operations officer of Requiem.
===Background===
In the Dark Aether storyline, Weaver is a CIA agent who developed a close bond with BND agent Samantha Maxis during the Iranian Revolution. During the operation, he accidently caused the death of a young boy when he burnt down a house to cover his tracks, causing him great guilt.
===Black Ops Cold War===
Weaver was contacted by Maxis, who gives him footage of the Nazi program Projekt Endstation. The footage showed soldiers being infected by the Aether and becoming zombies, and another unit clearing up the site in Poland, and Weaver decides to send Requiem to shut down the facility to prevent the infection spreading. Weaver was assisted by Doctor Oskar Strauss, Mackenzie Carver, and Elizabeth Grey to help Requiem close the Rift with the aid of Lieutenant Orlov. 
Weaver then led Requiem to rescue Maxis from Outpost 25, but learn that she was trapped into the Aether by Omega Group Dr. William Peck. Despite the setback by Peck, Weaver is assisted by Sergei Ravenov and his allies, and they manage to help Maxis escape from the Aether. After the mission in Outpost 25, Weaver led Operation Threshold to gain technological activities over Omega Group, and sent the Requiem strike team to do so. 
Weaver was later contacted by Revenov to rescue the Omega scientists who defected, but it was revealed that it was a trap made by Omega scientist Hugo Jager. The Requiem strike and the Raptor-1 pilot were captured by Kravchenko, who forced the strike team to stop Dr. Aleksandra Valentina's plans in East Berlin. Weaver and Maxis managed to rescue the strike team and the Raptor-1 pilot from Kravchenko by having Maxis open a portal, thus preventing Kravchenko from killing them. Requiem were later given information that freeing the Soviet soldier Kazimir Zykov from the dark aether would help them stop the Forsaken, but Omega Group were preparing to free the Forsaken for their own use.
With the strike team arriving at the test site, they learn that Zykov deceived both Requiem and Omega as he is the Forsaken. Samantha then arrived to hold him back as the strike team worked with her to stop Zykov, resulting in Maxis to fly into him back into the dark aether. Afterward, Weaver and the others are arrested as Requiem is disbanded by Richtofen in his plans for Project Janus.
===Black Ops 6===
===Modern Warfare III===
In the late 1990s, Weaver and his team traveled to Urzikstan to test an aetherium device, which resulted in their deaths. His decaying corpse was later found by Victor Zakhaev, the benefactor to the private military company Terminus Outcomes, twenty years later.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
Weaver-loses-his-eye.jpg|Weaver losing his eye by Kravchenko.
Weaver-takes-pictures.jpg|Weaver taking pictures of Dragovich's plans.
Mason-kills-Steiner.png|Weaver (on the left) attempting to stop Mason from killing Steiner, to no avail.
Weaver-Steiner.jpg|Weaver after he and Hudson fail to save Steiner.
Weaver-victory.jpg|Weaver declares victory to Mason after Dragovich's defeat.
Weaver-BO4.jpg|Weaver in the Blackout mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
Weaver-in-Blackout.jpg
Weaver_BOCW.jpg|Weaver in the zombies teaser in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Weaver-BOCW.jpeg
Weaver-Operator-BOCW.png|Weaver as a playable operative in Black Ops Cold War.
Weaver-BO6.jpg|Weaver in Black Ops 6's zombies mode.
Grigori Weaver Corpse Zombies Cinematic MWIII.jpg|Weaver's decaying body in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III's zombies mode.
==Trivia==
*His blood type is A+.
*He and Joseph Bowman were born on the same month and day.
*In trailers, Weaver didn't have an eye-patch, implying that he didn't lose his eye in early production, or it was hidden to not reveal it in the trailers.
*Many of his nicknames are related to his eye, such as "Cyclops" and "Pirate".
*Depending on the choices made in Black Ops 2, Weaver is the only major character from the first Black Ops game to still be alive.
==References==
== Navigation ==
Category:Male
Category:Video Game Heroes
Category:Call of Duty Heroes
Category:Military
Category:Fighters
Category:Siblings
Category:Victims
Category:Protectors
Category:Damsels
Category:Rescuers
Category:Defectors
Category:Loyal
Category:Dreaded
Category:Determinators
Category:Lethal
Category:Supporters
Category:Leaders
Category:Honorable
Category:Sophisticated
Category:Successful
Category:Lawful Good
Category:Falsely Accused
Category:Secret Agents
Category:Counter-Terrorists
Category:One-Man Army
Category:Protectors of Innocence
Category:Stalkers