User blog comment:Bovell/Opinion: We don't want Black Ops 2/@comment-867628-20120220211334/@comment-867628-20120220222654

Well, technically, Makarov isn't a "new" antagonist so much as he's the classic "man in the shadows" antagonist. It's revealed in MW3 after all that he was in Pripyat, in the beginning, and that he's the First Horseman who detonated the nuke. He's not just Zakhaev's successor; he's the main villain even if we didn't know it til MW3.