here's what it taught me about B2B SaaS sales.
1. poopy pants stinky
2. peoplw no like stinky man
3. no like stinky man = stinky man cant sell SaaS
solution: dont **** pantz
Oct 27, 2024
Oct 27, 2024 at 12:02 AM UTC
ᑭMᓂy sᓂoᐅ n toᒧok tᔨ he icᓱ e
لبيتزا جيدة جدا
lubię jeᑌ ردن آلت تنا
ਟਿਊਬ ਵੀਡੀਓਜ਼ ਲ țumes nam
kösz
ඩියෝ
Oct 2, 2023
Oct 2, 2023 at 6:09 PM UTC
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89,144,233,377,610,987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657, 46368, 75025, 121393, 196418, 317811, 514229, ...
The numbers keep getting bigger, time keeps passing, and I get closer to death. I need a faster way to find the nth fibonacci number, or I will starve to death. I will use dynamic programming to find the nth fibonacci number in O(n) time.
public class fibonacci {
static int fib(int n)
{
int f[] = new int[n + 2];
int i;
f[0] = 0;
f[1] = 1;
for (i = 2; i <= n; i++) {
f[i] = f[i - 1] + f[i - 2];
}
return f[n];
}
I have now found the nth fibonacci number in O(n) time. This represents the fact that if we put our minds to it, we can overcome any obstacle in our way. However, this dynamic programming uses O(n) space, and could be improved to O(1) space. This represents the fact that there is no such thing as perfection, and honing our skills is a lifelong process. However, since I found a polynomial time solution to this problem, I won't starve to death before finding the 10000th fibonacci sequence. This is good, because it represents the fact that African children won't go hungry anymore.
Oct 2, 2023
Oct 2, 2023 at 5:58 PM UTC
Your ***** is this small (sad)
8====D
MY ***** IS THIS BIG (WOW!)
8============================================================================================D
Oct 1, 2023
Oct 1, 2023 at 2:39 PM UTC
"I'M NOT CRAZY",
THE OLD MAN SAID.
NO ONE BELIEVED HIM.
A KIDNEY WAS HARVESTED FROM HIM 2 DAYS LATER.
7 DAYS LATER THE KIDNEY MONSTER APPEARED IN NEW YORK CITY.
"I'M CRAZY",
SAID THE KIDNEY MONSTER.
THE OLD MAN SAID AGAIN
"I'M NOT CRAZY",
BECAUSE HE STILL HAD 1 MORE KIDNEY.
THEN THEY TOOK THAT KIDNEY FROM HIM,
AND HE DIED 5 DAYS LATER.
THEN BUDDHA APPEARED.
OPPENHEIMER SHOULD NEVER HAVE INVENTED PHYSICS.
Sep 30, 2023
Sep 30, 2023 at 3:59 PM UTC
I WANT TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE AND EAT YOUR DOG FOOD
I WANT TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE AND HEAT UP MY INSTANT NOODLES
I WANT TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE AND *** IN YOUR TOILET
I WANT TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE AND DO THE DISHES
I WANT TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE AND HOLD A GARAGE SALE
I WANT TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE
I AM IN YOUR HOUSE
WHERE IS YOUR DOG FOOD
Sep 30, 2023
Sep 30, 2023 at 3:50 PM UTC
As he was flushing the toilet, he felt a tap on his shoulder, "you shouldnt have eaten my brother" said the chicken behind him as he was beheaded.
Sep 25, 2023
Sep 25, 2023 at 12:56 AM UTC
Number 10: Mangle
Number 9: Springtrap
Number 8: VR Toy Freddy
Number 7: Withered Bonny
Number 6: Golden Freddy
Number 5: fredy fazbore
Number 4: Nightmare foxy
Number 3: Circus Baby
Number 2: Rockstar Freddu
Honorable mention: Vanny
Number 1; purple guy
Sep 25, 2023
Sep 25, 2023 at 12:35 AM UTC
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
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Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
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Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
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Hamed
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William Cullen
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Vladimir Makarov
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Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
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Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
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Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Task Force 141
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Army Rangers
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Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
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Shepherd
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Vladimir Makarov
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Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
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William Cullen
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Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Simon Riley · Hawkins
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Manuel Roba · Gilberto
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Halloway
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Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
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Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
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Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
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Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
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Hamed
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William Cullen
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Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Afghan National Army
Hamed
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William Cullen
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Vladimir Makarov
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
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Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
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Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Russian Federation
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
Call of Duty: Mobile Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
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Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
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Hamed
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William Cullen
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Vladimir Makarov
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Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
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Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
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Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
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Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
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Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Russian Federation
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
Call of Duty: Mobile Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
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Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
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Hamed
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William Cullen
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Vladimir Makarov
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Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
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Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
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Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
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Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
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Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Russian Federation
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
Call of Duty: Mobile Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
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Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
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Hamed
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William Cullen
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Vladimir Makarov
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Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
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Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
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Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
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Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
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Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
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Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
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Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
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Russian Federation
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
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Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Shadow Company Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Army Ranger Characters
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Task Force 141 Characters
Call of Duty: Mobile Characters
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
Characters of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
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Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
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Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
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Hamed
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William Cullen
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Vladimir Makarov
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Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
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Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
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Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
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Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
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Shepherd
For the Private in Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, see Jonathan Shepherd.
For the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) character, see Shepherd (2019)
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there would be no shortage of volunteers and no shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— General Shepherd's last words.
Lieutenant General Shepherd was an officer in the United States Army in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 who commanded the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141 and his own elite army that was known as Shadow Company. He started out as a supporting character for the player in Modern Warfare 2 only to reveal himself as the main antagonist of the game and the grand architect of World War 3. He wielded a .44 Magnum as his signature weapon, though the player could only acquire it in the level, "Museum".
Contents
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
The Inter-War Period
Operation Kingfish
Pre-War
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Gulag
Betrayal
Death
Legacy
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Mobile
Quotes
Gallery
Call of Duty: Mobile
Videos
Trivia
References
Alias(es)
Gold Eagle[1]
Appears in
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (mentioned/flashback only)
Soap's Journal
Call of Duty Online
Call of Duty: Ghosts (reference only)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (image only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
Call of Duty: Mobile (comics)
Rank
Lieutenant General[2]
Status
K.I.A. (Modern Warfare 2)
Alive (Call of Duty: Mobile, non-canon)
Killed By
John "Soap" MacTavish with a knife to the left eye (Modern Warfare 2)
Death
August 16th, 2016
Site Hotel Bravo,
Afghanistan (Modern Warfare 2)
***
Male
Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)
Build
Medium
Hair
Brown (Greying)
Eyes
Blue
Race
Caucasian
Weapons
.44 Magnum, M4A1[3]
Equipment
Knife, M67 Grenade
Voice Actor
Lance Henriksen (Modern Warfare 2)
Don Berns (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Actor
David Brandon George (Find Makarov, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)
Biography
The Second Russian Civil War
General Shepherd served as the supreme commander of the U.S. military forces during the course of the Second Russian Civil War including the Marine Corps' Force Reconnaissance units. When Al-Asad executed Al-Fulani, it triggered an invasion of the Middle East by the U.S. in search of Al-Asad. As the Marines fought in the capital city of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a nuclear device went off which practically wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force. 30,000 Marines were killed in action by the explosion, this includes Captain "Deadly" Pelayo, Lt. Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, as well as an unconfirmed amount of OpFor soldiers.
The Inter-War Period
Losing 30,000 troops under his command affected the General greatly, causing Shepherd to develop a negative view of the world and international politics. In the time following his invasion of the Persian Gulf, he sought new ways of restoring the United States' reputation as a global power as well as its military might. Unknown to the others, he also secretly attempted to restore his own reputation as a military commander.
Sometime between 2011 and 2013, Shepherd with the help of John "Soap" MacTavish created Task Force 141. They evaluated the recruits from the special forces units of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Shepherd also traveled to Mexico to recruit a former S.A.S. member named Simon "Ghost" Riley.
Operation Kingfish
In 2013, Shepherd commanded the 141 in a mission code-named "Operation Kingfish" which he sent the TF-141 operatives, Captain John Price, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson and the Delta Force operatives, Sandman and Derek "Frost" Westbrook to an Ultranationalist compound in Ukraine on a mission to apprehend or **** an individual code-named, "Kingfish" who was revealed to be Vladimir Makarov. The mission ended in a failure as a large force of Ultranationalist troops attacked the Task Force. Most of them survived with the apparent exception of Price who stayed behind to allow the others to escape.
Also during this time, Shepherd created Shadow Company which was an elite military force that was fiercely loyal to Shepherd which he used to his own ends.
Pre-War
"Makarov is no prize. He’s a ***** A mad-dog killer for the highest bidder."
— Shepherd to PFC Joseph Allen about Makarov.
In 2016, General Shepherd served as the commander of the Army Rangers in Afghanistan and focused his efforts on the OpFor's occupation of the country and seemingly the manhunt for international terrorist Vladimir Makarov. Shepherd felt that no justice was sought for the men and women that he lost five years prior and the U.S. military's power waned over the years. These feelings would eventually drive him to carry his goal of igniting a war between Ultranationalist Russia and the United States of America. To increase the power and standing of the military, Shepherd needed an enemy and something to rally the entire nation behind him. After hearing about Makarov's increased terrorist attacks throughout Europe in three years since Operation Kingfish, Shepherd believed that Makarov's presence as a mark could indirectly help bring his desired changes about.
After seeing a number of people running the Pit, Shepherd hand-picked Private First Class Joseph Allen who was a fellow Ranger to go undercover within Makarov's terrorist group during their attack on Zakhaev International Airport. However, Makarov was aware of Allen's true identity (which Shepherd probably deliberately leaked to Makarov in order to start the war). Makarov murdered the American and left his body behind in order to place the blame solely on the United States.
World War III
The Russian Invasion
The Russian authorities discovered Allen's body at the scene and confirmed his real identity just as Shepherd planned. This incident prompted an infuriated response from the Russian people by demanding their government to take drastic measures against the United States. Despite Makarov and his assault team being responsible for the massacre, it was still believed that the United States sponsored and supported his assault as Makarov and his men appeared to be Americans due to their use of standard issue NATO weaponry and U.S. military technology, and the fact the attackers spoke with an American accent and no Russian. After receiving tremendous pressure from the Russian populace, Russian President Boris Vorshevsky ordered a full-scale invasion of the United States. The U.S. was caught off-guard due to the suddenness of the attack (as the Russians used a duplicate of an ACS module to disable NORAD's early warning systems) and as a result, the United States government appointed Shepherd to lead the defense against the invading Russian forces. He was also provided with vast amount of resources to continue his hunt for Makarov. With 3.5 million soldiers at his fingertips, his plan to restore the United States as the mightiest force on the planet was in motion by setting the stage for his revenge against the Ultranationalists.
He sent Task Force 141 to Brazil to look for Alejandro Rojas after he learned that he supplied Makarov during the airport massacre. While this was happening, Shepherd was commanding his forces in the U.S. during the Russian invasion. During the Russian attack on Arcadia, he commandeered Hunter Two-One and with the help of a Stryker named Honey Badger sent them to take the Russian anti-air weapons out. After they are taken out, Shepherd sent them to retrieve a High Value Individual (Code named “Icepick”) from a house on 4677 Brookmere Road. When Hunter Two-One arrived, they found him dead alongside a high ranking soldier with another soldier alive downstairs. They concluded their findings by saying, “Shepherd's not gonna like this.”
The Gulag
While Task Force 141 was still out of the country hunting for Makarov, they learned from Alejandro Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy was an individual that was known as Prisoner #627 who was currently incarcerated in a Russian gulag. However, the Russians are using the nearby oil rigs as SAM sites and the workers as hostages so they could not just blow them up. Shepherd sent Captain MacTavish, Ghost, Roach and the other members of the 141 along with a team of Navy SEALs on a mission to rescue the hostages. They succeeded in rescuing the hostages and the SAM sites are disabled so they moved to attack the gulag.
As they are entering the gulag, the United States Navy started bombing dangerously close to them. Captain MacTavish told Shepherd to stop them from firing which Shepherd responded, "One man in a gulag doesn't mean much to the Navy at this point." Shepherd halted them temporarily from firing. The team moved to get the prisoner. The mysterious prisoner was revealed to be Captain Price. Upon his rescue, Shepherd reinstated Price as a field commander for Task Force 141.
Upon Price’s reinstatement, Price revealed his plan to halt the war which Shepherd disagreed with, telling him to focus on Makarov instead. Against Shepherd's orders, Price infiltrated a submarine and sent an EMP over Washington, D.C. which caused most of the East Coast to lose power.
Betrayal
Shepherd: "Do you have the DSM?"
Ghost: "We got it, sir!"
Shepherd: "Good. That's one less loose end."
— Shepherd just prior to betraying Ghost and Roach.
When the fighting in America was halted (temporarily at least), the Department of Defense gave Shepherd a "blank check" to use any resources that are available to the U.S. military to hunt Makarov down. Shepherd pinpointed Makarov's possible location to the two places: An aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan and a safe house on the Georgian-Russian border. He sent Price and Soap to the boneyard while Roach and Ghost are sent to the safehouse. Upon arriving at the safehouse, Roach and Ghost located Makarov's entire operations playbook and downloaded it onto the DSM.
Having now obtained what he needed to cement his status as a war hero, the ruthless officer betrayed Task Force 141 in an attempt to destroy any links to his treacherous actions including his connection to Allen's death so he could bring Makarov down himself. His endgame was to take all of the glory and become a national hero. Shepherd arrived with Shadow Company at Makarov's safehouse just as Roach and Ghost arrived. Once ascertaining that they had the DSM, Shepherd stated that was "one less loose end" and shot Roach point-blank in the chest with his .44 Magnum before turning it on Ghost and shooting him in the chest, killing him instantly. He recovered the DSM from Roach, who weakly grabbed his arm, much to the General's annoyance before ripping his arm out of Roach's grasp. After having two Shadow Company soldiers bring Roach and Ghost's bodies to a ditch to douse them with gasoline, Shepherd took one last smoke of his cigar before tossing it on the two gas-soaked bodies, lighting them ablaze before turning to rally his troops to leave.
Simultaneously, Shepherd sent Shadow Company to eliminate Price and Soap as well as Makarov's Ultranationalists. Contrary to his expectations, the two learned of the traitorous General's plans and they escaped the boneyard via Nikolai's C-130 Hercules, whilst going against Shadow Company and the Ultranationalists in the process.
With almost all of Task Force 141 eliminated, Price and Soap decided there was nothing left to do but **** Shepherd. The two infiltrated Shepherd's secret base in the Afghan cave system called Site Hotel Bravo, thanks to intel provided by Makarov whilst escaping the boneyard.
Death
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just ******* watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."
— Shepherd's motivations after betraying Task Force 141, as well as his last words to Soap prior to his death.
Shepherd eventually learned about Price and Soap's presence in the base and ordered all of the Shadow Company personnel to evacuate. In an attempt to **** them, Shepherd self-destructed the base with C4 explosives and ordered a danger close artillery strike on it, but both failed to **** the two surviving Task Force members. The blast instead killed or wounded many of Shepherd's men. Shepherd commandeered a Zodiac speedboat and attempted to escape via the river with Soap and Price in hot pursuit.
After a lengthy chase up the river, a Pave Low (Warhorse 5-1) arrived to pick Shepherd up, but Price disabled it by shooting it's rotors, causing it to crash land killing almost everyone aboard. After shooting the helicopter, Soap and Price's Zodiac plunged into the waterfall below. Some time later, Soap woke up separated from Price and went to look for Shepherd, whilst killing the fatally injured pilot and co-pilot at the same time. Soap saw Shepherd flee the scene of the crash with some injuries, as Soap tried to follow and **** him with his only remaining weapon which was a combat knife. Shepherd incapacitated him by slamming his head into a rusted car and proceeded to stab him in the chest, which caused Soap to blackout briefly.
Shepherd then proceeded to explain his motivations for betraying Task Force 141, stating that he "lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye", and his anger about how the world "just ******* watched". Just as Shepherd was about to execute Soap with his .44 Magnum, Price came in the nick of time and tackled Shepherd, causing him to miss his shot. Price proceeded to kick his revolver away. Soap tried to grab it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on Soap's face. When Soap woke up, the two are engaged in brutal close-quarters combat. Both men fought while enduring the impact of their fall and Shepherd eventually gained the upper hand by fully mounting Price to brutally beat (or choke) him to death. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Soap managed to wake up and use his last bit of strength to pull the knife out of his chest and throw it at Shepherd just as the treacherous General looked up. The knife went right into Shepherd's left eye, killing him instantly. Soap and Price proceeded to flee the scene with Nikolai, who says "they'll be looking for us" (the word "they" could be referring to the U.S. Government, OpFor, CIA, Makarov's Inner Circle, among other various groups). Shepherd's body is then left behind in the desert.
Legacy
Shepherd was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery and was declared a war hero. John "Soap" MacTavish and John Price were declared war criminals after his death and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, they would clear their names by rescuing the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter, Alena and helped to bring peace between the United States, Russia and NATO, thus ending World War III.
Call of Duty Online
General Shepherd appeared as an NPC that must be rescued in the Cyborg Evacuation game mode.
Call of Duty: Mobile
Shepherd appears in Call of Duty: Mobile, introduced in the Season 2: Day of Reckoning Comics.
Shepherd is a member of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition. He commanded Alex, Mara and Mace in apprehending Cordis Die leader and The Five Knights member Raul Menendez. He and Captain John Price would later interrogate Menendez in prison.
Quotes
Main article: Shepherd/Quotes
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
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S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
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Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
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Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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Task Force 141
John "Soap" MacTavish · John Price · Simon "Ghost" Riley · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Nikolai · Joseph Allen · Royce · Meat · Driver · Rocket · Chemo · Worm · Archer · Toad · Ozone · Scarecrow · Rook · Zach · Robot · Peasant
Army Rangers
Shepherd · James Ramirez · Joseph Allen · Foley · Dunn · Marshall · McCord · Wade · Wells · Vaughan · ******* · Morgan · Keating · Macey · Fahey · Arnett · Sumners · Slayback · McCoy · Walden · Kuhn · Lockwood
Russian Federation
Petrov · Boris Vorshevsky
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov · Viktor · Anatoly · Lev · Kiril · Joseph Allen
Remastered Only: Yuri
Shadow Company
Shepherd · Vinson · Lambert · Oxide · Excalibur
Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas · Rojas' assistant
Afghan National Army
Hamed
U.S. Government
William Cullen
U.S. Army
Overlord · Punisher · Warlord
Miscellaneous
Sat1 · Raptor · High Value Individual · Sierra Delta
v • d • e
Characters of Modern Warfare 2: Ghost
S.A.S
Simon Riley · Hawkins
United States Army
Vernon · Kevin Sparks · Marcus Washington · Sykes · Cumberland · Barber
Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba · Gilberto
Civilians
Halloway
Task Force 141
Shepherd
v • d • e
Characters of Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish
Task Force 141
Simon "Ghost" Riley · John Price · John "Soap" MacTavish · Gary "Roach" Sanderson · Shepherd · Spectre 6-4
Delta Force
Sandman · Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov
v • d • e
Characters in Call of Duty: Mobile
Original Characters
Death Angel Alice (Season 4) · Captain Park (Season 4) · Urban Tracker (Season 4) · Anna "Artery" Buckler (Season 6) · Hazmat Bomber (Season 7) · Vanguard (Season 7) · Naomi "Manta Ray" Mizushima (Season 8) · Emma Victorova (Season 9) · Tengu (Season 9) · American Bulldog (Season 9) · Scylla (Season 10) · Siren (Season 10) · Hidora Kai (Season 11) · Templar (Season 12) · Stansfield (Season 13) · Ether (2021 Season 1) · Alias (2021 Season 2) · Rosa (2021 Season 3) · The Getaway Driver (2021 Season 3)
Modern Warfare Series
Original: Ghost (Season 1) · Price (Season 1) · Gaz (Season 2) · Soap (Season 4) · Vladimir Makarov (Season 7) · Vasquez (Season 8) · Kamarov (Season 9) · Shepherd (2021 Season 2)
Reboot: Nikto (Season 6) · Krueger (Season 7) · Golem (Season 8) · Mace (Season 8) · Mara (Season 10) · Otter (Season 10) · UDT Frogman (Season 10) · Raines (Season 10) · Yegor (Season 10) · Grinch (Season 10) · Price (Season 12) · Ghost (Season 12) · Velikan (Season 12) · Gaz (Season 12) · Roze (Season 12) · Charly (Season 12) · Alex (2021 Season 2) · Lerch (2021 Season 2) · Domino (2021 Season 3)
Black Ops Series
Battery (Season 1) · Outrider (Season 1) · Prophet (Season 1) · Ruin (Season 1) · Terrance Brooks (Season 1) · Alex Mason (Season 2) · Spectre (Season 2) · Tank Dempsey (Season 2) · Nomad (Season 2) · Lev Kravchenko (Season 2) · Firebreak (Season 3) · Seraph (Season 3) · Tian Zhao (Season 3) · Reaper (Season 5) · David Mason (Season 5) · Zero (Season 5) · Recon (Season 6) · Scarlett Rhodes (Season 6) · Javier Salazar (Season 6) · T.E.D.D. (Season 7) · Battle Hardened (Season 8) · Reznov (Season 9) · Richtofen (Season 9) · Nikolai Belinski (Season 9) · Takeo (Season 9) · Adler (Season 11) · Ajax (Season 11) · Cosmic Silverback (Season 11) · Frank Woods (Season 12) · Helen Park (Season 13) · Raul Menendez (Season 13) · Competitor (2021 Season 3) · High Priest of Chaos (2021 Season 3)
Ghosts
Elite PMC (Season 1) · Gabriel T. Rorke (Season 13) · Thomas A. Merrick (2021 Season 1)
Advanced Warfare
Sentinel Recon (Season 4) · Witch Doctor (Season 7) · Gunzo (Season 8) · Bathysphere (Season 9) · Proton (2021 Season 1)
Infinite Warfare
Phantom (Season 3) · FTL (Season 3) · Merc (Season 12) · Ethan (2021 Season 1)
WWII
Carver Butcher (Season 9) · Dark Shepherd (Season 9) · Vivian Harris (Season 9) · Bailout (Season 9) · Wicht Warden (Season 9)
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