Vladimir Makarov

## Villain Description

### Goals

Conquer the world for Russia and avenge the death of his former superior Zakhaev

### Hobbies

Killing innocent people
Torturing his foes

### Skills

Manipulation
Tactics
Strategy
Weapon Use

### Type of Villain

Brutal Terrorist

**Vladimir Makarov** is the main antagonist of the *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare* sub-series. He is a former Russian military officer who later joined Imran's forces and he eventually became a mass murdering terrorist warlord called The Kingfish. He is also Yuri's best friend turned arch-nemesis and one of the biggest enemies who fight against John Price and John "Soap" MacTavish. As a warlord, Vladimir is bent on conquering the entire world for his deceased superior Imran and he later even becomes the leader of The Ultranationalists as he goes on a journey with intent of avenging his mentor and completing his legacy.

He is a supporting antagonist of the game *Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare*, the secondary antagonist of *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2* and the main antagonist of *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3*. He is also the unseen ultimate antagonist of the film *Find* *Makarov: Operation Kingfish*.

He is voiced Roman Varshavsky.

## History

### Past

Vladimir R. Makarov was born in April during the year 1970. During his life as a young militant, he eventually became the commanding officer of a unit of Paratroopers working for the Russian military force directly. He eventually traveled to Chechyna during a massive Chechen War, as he gained more power over the enemies. He strongly believed in the Russian principals and agendas, thus believing that Russia should be taking over the entire world. Because of this and also due to his cruel nature, he ordered a company which works for him to commit a brutal cleansing operation where lots of innocent people would be killed.

The United Nations have eventually sued him for his war crimes and other terrible crimes which he has committed. Because of this, he started hating the entire world and it's order. Therefore, this incident has made his belief that Russia should rule the world even stronger. Eventually, he had no choice but to listen to the United Nations and leave the Russian military and abandon his own armed forces.

As an act of vengeance towards the military, Makarov started building a criminal empire, and he committed many unspeakable crimes such as rape, human trafficking of women, terrorism, genocidal attacks on innocents, warmongering, tyranny, kidnapping and abusing his victims, mass murder, massive bomb attack and many more crimes against the innocents.

Vladimir's crimes have impressed the tyrannical terrorist leader Imran Zakhaev. Therefore, Zakhaev gave him a high rank and position among his terrorist faction called The Russian Ultrasocialists. During his journey as a member of The Ultrasocialists, he befriended another high-ranking member of the faction called Yuri.

### *Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare*

In the original game, he did not appear in the present days of the story. However, in the remaster, he appeared during the mission of *One Shot, One Kill*. Despite his lack of appearance during the original game, he did have a massive influence as he was active behind the scenes. He went with Yuri to oversee the faction's battle in Iraq during the mission *Shock and Aw*. He then secretly ordered an unknown associate on the phone to plant a nuclear bomb and then to detonate it, thus indirectly killing 30 thousand people. At first, Imran was blamed for this war crime, but it's later revealed that Vladimir and Al-Assad were behind the massive nuke explosion.

After the massive battle between the Ultranationalists and Zakheav's forces, Zakheav was ultimately hunted down and kileld, and the faction was splintered into two different sections, loyal to two different leaders, Vladimir Makarov and Boris Vorshevsky. Boris eventually managed to conquer Russia for the faction, and as he climbed above Makarov's rank, and he became the new president of Russia, he excommunicated Vladimir Makarov from the political party since he was too ambitious to take part in that new government. Vladimir in return has contacted many goons and criminals working for The Ultrasocialists, and thus he formed a sub-faction called The Inner Circle, which it's goal was to overthrow Boris so that Makarov could finally rule the world and not just Russia.

During the next five years, The Ultrasocialists became popular and dominant within the country, and therefore, Makarov orchestrated many terrorist attacks in various locations both within and outside Russia. He did so for two reasons; Zakhaev's death and his envious attitude towards Boris.

### *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2*

In 2016, Makarov finally starts his war against the entire world and the U.S are tasked to save everyone. However, General Hershel Shepherd uses him as an indirect pawn so he could eliminate all enemies and become the world's greatest "hero". Shepherd also sends one of his spies called Joseph Alan to gather information from Makarov. Allen is disguised as a terrorist foot solider called Alexi Borodin, and Makarov accepts Allen to join The Inner Circle's terrorist forces.

He eventually does find out that Allen is a spy, but he pretends to ignore it so he could manipulate Allen and use him for his true purposes. Makarov then shot Yuri dead after Yuri has betrayed him by warning the U.S about Vladimir Makarov's plans. Vladimir then tries to fight his way through the FSB forces, and he becomes one of the three survivors from the faction after that incident, along with Allen and Viktor. The three survivors manage to escape successfully. Allen then attempted to steal an ambulence so he could abandon Makarov and escape from The Inner Circle's war business as he shall then give the informaton to the U.S government. Makarov however shoots him and reveals him before he dies that he knew all along that he was a spy.

Eventually, Task Force 141 go on a journey with their general Hershel Shepherd to find Makarov's whereabouts and defeat The Inner Circle so Shepherd would return home as a hero. However, unknowingly to the soldiers of that task force, Shepherd was also planning to betray them before they could find out the truth about the operation's ambitious and ruthless purpose.

Makarov is eventually attacked by Shepherd's soldiers, including Soap and Price (the two protagonists of the game). After Shepherd betrays his force and kills all of his soldiers besides Soap and Price who are still alive, Makarov realizes that the only way to survive and become powerful again is to side with Soap and Price until they defeat Shepherd, who is the real warlord behind the scenes. Makarov tracks Shepherd down and gives his location to Soap and Price, out of fear for loss.

Price and Soap thanks to him did manage to kill Shepherd.

### *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3*

Afraid to loose the battle, Makarov sends assassins to kill Soap, Price and their ally from India called Nikolai so he could finish them off before he goes to conquer the U.S and the entire world.

However, prior to Shepherd's death, the U.S defeated Russia's militants as they have attempted to cause a massive invasion and attack. The war between Russia and America was held for 2 weeks, due to Russia's weakness. Furthermore, Boris Vorshevsky planned to make peace with the U.S and end the war for eternity. Makarov couldn't accept that as for him it was a humiliating defeat. Therefore, he planned with his ally Volk to launch Russia's nukes so he could finally conquer the world and avenge Zakhaev. He also orders his enforcers to hijack a plane with Boris and his daughter Alena on it.

He demanded Boris to give him the launch codes of the nukes, but as Boris refused, Vladimir gave his men the order to kill Alena. Alena escaped from the area and while Vladimir's men went to hunt her down, Vladimir orders his forces to attack Europe anyway, regardless of how many soldiers he would loose in the process.

He and Volk then planned to deliver cargos with bombs inside to the European countries, with the help of an African warlord, Waraabe.

As he oversaw the shipment which should reach London, however, Price, Soap and Yuri manage to track both Makarov and Volk, thus forcing the two of them to escape from the protagonists. They have learnt that Makarov is going to a meeting in Prague. Eventually, his men have found Alena, and Makarov threatened to kill her painfully if Boris doesn't give him the launch codes.

Yuri, Soap and Price however managed to rescue both Alena and Boris from torture, and Makarov couldn't think of another plan to reach the codes, as the World War III has finally finished. However, Soap dies during the final moments of the war, and as an act of vengeance, Price phones Vladimir and promises to end his life for good.

In January 2017, Price and Yuri finally tracked Makarov again, and they surrounded a hotel in which Makarov was inside with his armed soldiers. Eventually, Price and Yuri have defeated his men and they've started chasing after Makarov through the kitchen.

Makarov then ran through the kitchen, as he went up the stairs, thus intending to escape with his helicopter. Makarov managed to fly the helicopter, but Price lunged onto the vehicle and destroyed it. After a crahsland, both of them survived, and Vladimir pointed a gun on the injured Price.

Yuri came to save Price and shot Makarov, as Makarov shot Yuri back 3 times and killed him. Angered by Yuri's death, Price starts beating Vladimir up and he ties his head to a steel cord which was held by the helicopter. Vladimir struggled to escape, and Price slammed him through a glass roof. Vladimir is eventually choked by the steel cord and he finally dies, after all the damage he has caused.