Comander Russell

### Goals

Bring Peace into War-Torn Merringdam by any means possible. (succeeded indirectly)
Avenge his Familly, by killing Han. (succeeded)
Hunt down and Kill Zach (failed)

### Crimes

Mass Murder
Terrosim
Treason
Drug Trafficking
Smuggling
Abuse
Torture
Money Laundering
Conspiracy
Slavery
Fraud
Incarnation

### Type of Villain

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**Comander Russell** is a major antagonist in the series: *The Great War*. He serves as one of the two secondary antagonists (Alongside Jango Sharan) of The Great War: Season 1, and a major antagonist in The Great War: Season 2. He is Zach's arch-rival for the first two seasons. He then serves as the secondary antagonist of *Zach's Bounty*.

He is the former Comamander of The Lubyanaka Terrorist Group and it's former second in command, and mainly the man who led them into battle. He was Zach's arch rival for the majority of the time until their final fight near the end of Season 2 where Zach ended his life on a battle for some Prototype weapons.

## Biography

### Past

His past is largely expanded on in the book, and in 1988 his village was attacked by a small band of soldiers which was ordered by General Han, Han felt the country had terrorists hiding in it, so he ordered a firing squad to murder everyone in sight, and capture the children. Russell witnessed all his familly members die, and he was then captured by Han. Two years later, an assault on the prison complex led by The Gladiator saw Russell being rescued, after nearly dying. Gladiator gave him a chance to be the second in command of his army, and manipulated him into joining it and he trained him brutally day and night, turning him into a killing machine.

### Season 1

He is first seen assisting Jango Sharan with the interrogation of CIA operatives Zach, Keegan and Merrick, in order to find out where General Han is currently located. Zach, the youngest operative and the rookie reveals that Han is currently at a FOB so he, Merrick and Keegan can survive another day, much to the latter's dismay.

Afterwards, he leads an assault on the FOB, easily powering through guards with the help of his right-hand man, Omar. Eventually, they reach a bulletproof glass door and Russell briefly takes a father and his child hostage, threatening the two remaining soldier's on the outside to let him in. They decide not to and Russell cold-bloodedly murder's the father and his son inront of them. Immedietely after, Omar finds another entrance to Han's panic room which Russell utilizes to find him. Han and him engage in a brief gunfight and Russell wins and complete's his task, killing Han.

Later on, he and The Gladiator met up with crime lord Xiloun Exedous in order to discuss plans about possibly an alliance between the two groups, Exedous agrees and he briefly mention's the americans invading the country, and Russell gets a flashback and he steps outside to cool down. By fate, Omar arrvives and Russell orders him to begin the hostage operation in the northern part of the city, in which Omar agrees, saying he will only need a small squad for it. Once Omar leaves, Gladiator arrives and tells him that the alliance is in full go, and when they are being escorted out, they are ambushed by the Special Forces, led by Merrick. Their bodyguards die but they escape, narrowly.

After finding out about Omar's death and failure to complete the hostage operation, Russell finds out Zach was his killer, and goes completely mad. He goes through the city to search for him, and even kills some of his friends who were inside the city, all to find where he could be. Once finding Zach in the city, he and Zach engage in their first fight, which ends in a stalemate, both injured. Zach flees the area and Russell is scolded by Gladiator for his failure to eliminate the soldier.

Later on, Russell assists The Gladiator and another Lubyanka soldier, Arash Armadillo in raiding a village, named Suldal which americans had under control. They succeed and are met by a man called General Thrawn who says he's proud of their work, and offers them great power and advantages to win the war. The Gladiator agrees, and Thrawn takes this opurtunity to turn Lubyanka into The Order, an enhanced organization with Ex-Military, Guns For Hire, and Terrorists.

In the Season Finale, Russell is seen when Thrawn is giving a speech in the capital of Merrigndam, telling all American Forces to leave the country immedietely, or they will face dire consequences.

### Season 2

He is first seen leading troops into battle to eliminate a band of soldiers holed up in a hospital, who are ultimitaly revealed to be Zach, Keegan, Merrick, Mikey and Derek. Eventually, they escape the area and Russell's forces secure the hospital.

Later on, Thrawn sends him on a mission to capture the President, and when doing so, he is met by Zach and they engage in a fist fight ontop of a moving train. Russell wins and sends Zach flying off the train, and he somehow survives. Russell eventually locates the President, kills his guards and captures him. He later brings him to Thrawn and Thrawn has a "chat" with him, which mainly just involved him torturin him, before Thrawn then orders Xiloun Exedous to murder him, which he decapitates him on live television.

Seeing Russell as his best soldier after the recent events, Thrawn sends him and a small squadron to retrieve some prototype weapons from a cave dug into a mountain. However, they are ambushed by a squad led by Merrick. While the two parties fight, Russell and his two best henchmen, Vladimir and Alexi attempt to flee with the prototypes, but Zach follows him. Zach is able to eliminate both bodyguards and Russell and Zach engage in their final fight. Russell gives a monologue on how he was forged into a killing machine, and how the american's are the evil ones. He continues fighting him and Zach find's his weak point, stabbing him in the gut and Russell falls down, he stabs him again and again until Russell fall's unconcious, deeming him dead and he secures the prototypes.

## Personality

At first glance, Russell may seem like a terrible person, such as when he murdered a dad and his child. However, he has many reasons for this and despite seeming like a minion for The Gladiator and Thrawn, he has reasons to trust Gladiator as that was the man who showed him any sort of respect after two years.