Michael Shaw

Sergeant Michael Shaw is a CIA-backed operative and main playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS). He is one of the two soldiers the player must extract in the mission "The Recovery Job".

Overview
At some point during his career, CIA Black Ops operative Sgt. Michael Shaw was dispatched to Cuba and assigned to Operation 40, where he likely participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion during Op-40's attempted assassination of Fidel Castro. Along with Alex Mason, Shaw was captured by the Cuban Military. Unlike Mason, he managed to escape his captors before presumably being taken to Vorkuta. After using a radio to make contact with the CIA and the Extraction Team, he made his way along the coast to the beach where he was extracted via stolen Hind by the Black Ops team sent in to rescue him and Mason.

He was then attached to the SOG and deployed to Vietnam where he met up with a Defector named Yuri Raslov and Captain Patterson, the latter of whom had helped rescue him years earlier. After coming up empty on the search for Nova-6, the trio managed to catch the last chopper out of Vietnam.

After this, he was again sent in with Raslov and Patterson to retrieve intel from a Soviet Intelligence Base, and later to destroy a Russian Lab producing a chemical weapon. Shaw was then deployed to a secret Russian Submarine Base, with only a Mk. 22 Mod. 0. He managed to plant charges on the Submarine stationed there and then escaped before the charges detonated, single-handedly destroying the sub and the base.

Zombies
He is player one on all maps. When he gets downed, he will yell, "I'm Down!".

Trivia

 * Shaw's favorite weapon appears to be the Mk 22 MOD 0 "Hush Puppy," followed by the M16A1.
 * Shaw holds the Knife in a slightly different position to all other playable characters. His right hand is forward more and his left back whereas all other characters hold the Knife with both arms level.
 * He is the first DS Call of Duty Protagonist that can be heard speaking.