Alex Mason/Trivia

Trivia

 * His name is similar to the Red Faction series protagonist Alec Mason, only a letter different.
 * According to his dossier, Mason is 27 at the time of Operation 40 and 34 by the end of the game, he is 5'11", 190 lbs, has green eyes, and has brown hair.
 * At the beginning of the campaign he is mentioned to have been born in Fairbanks, Alaska. However upon reading the intel from "Operation 40" it lists his place of birth as Anchorage.
 * Mason is voiced by Sam Worthington and bears some resemblance to him. In addition to this, Mason's voicework will occasionally be heard with a noticeable Australian accent; most likely because of Worthington's background. As of 2010, Worthington is also 34 years old.
 * Mason is the fifth character in the series who speaks as a playable character - previously, the first ever was Alexei Ivanovich Voronin, then Captains Price and "Soap" MacTavish, PFC Joseph Allen. All were silent when controlled by players but had lines as NPCs. Viktor Reznov (vice-versa the cases of previous characters) and Dimitri Petrenko follow after Mason in "Project Nova".
 * Mason is the third playable Captain in the Call of Duty series, the first being Captain MacTavish during the events on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare although he was only a Sergeant in this game, being promoted to Captain shortly before the events of Modern Warfare 2, the second being Captain Price but being a Lieutenant at the time of the mission, the fourth being Reznov in Project Nova, and the last Mosely in WMD.
 * It is possible that we have seen Mason's father in Call of Duty: World at War, due to the fact he was a World War II veteran who received the Purple Heart for his actions on Makin Atoll.
 * It is strongly implied that Mason assassinated President John F. Kennedy. During his interrogation, Hudson informs Mason that there were long periods of time after his escape from Vorkuta that he went rogue and could not be accounted for. Also, while Mason is stumbling around after his interrogation, he mentions "Kennedy...John...Fitzgerald! " and "Proceed...to...target! Oswald...compromised!" suggesting that he worked with Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's suspected killer, and possibly that Oswald himself was also a sleeper agent like Mason; when Mason confronts Dragovich at the numbers station, Dragovich's response to Mason's accusation that he tried to make Mason kill Kennedy also implies Mason was responsible. At the end of the mission, footage of Kennedy's arrival in Dallas, Texas prior to the assassination shows Mason was in the crowd of onlookers who watched Kennedy disembark from Air Force One. Although it might still be possible that Mason had hesitated (due to his high resistance) and Oswald had beaten him to the target, or possibly Mason knew what was going to happen and was there attempting to guard Kennedy.
 * Accessing the CIA terminal database accounts of several supervisor-level personnel, you'd discover that Alex Mason's regaining operational status was done, despite reservations from assessments and test as well as a widespread beliefs among the CIA staff, by the decision of President Kennedy, who handpicked Mason for Operation Flashpoint. That's why Mason got the "special treatment" - summoned to the Pentagon to meet the President.
 * In the report filed by Ryan Jackson, Mason was recommended to have his field operative status to be immediately and permanently revoked, due to his year-long imprisonment in Vorkuta, and worse, his account of befriending Reznov draws suspicion of KGB setup,
 * The exact reason why Dragovich failed but Reznov was successful in implanting orders into Mason was unknown, but if goes by what the story revealed, Mason was atypically resistive towards what Dragovich and Steiner threw at him, and that failed, but Mason's mind still in the "input ready" state; his friendship with Reznov left him open to suggestion, and that's why Reznov's "instructions" were successful. After Hudson catches up to him, Mason desperately yells that he "trusted him [Reznov]", and Hudson states that his trust was the reason why Reznov's brainwashing worked.
 * During the entire game when playing as Mason the final picture of the cutscene will be Mason's face with a black background and Numbers flying across the screen from right to left, Reznov's mission "Project Nova" also has this but with Reznov's face, but in the final level Mason's CIA picture will come up similar to Hudson. Probably to show Mason's no longer a sleeper agent for Dragovich or Reznov just a bit mentally unstable.
 * As the target of Operation Charybdis, Mason was set to be tracked down and be terminated. From the dossier file in Ryan Jackson's account, it is shown that a female CIA double agent named Kristina would be recruited to help. Informant X once sent Grigori Weaver a message saying that his sister survived the purges of Stalin but died in childbirth. The child survived and is named Kristina. Kristina is a high ranking, but disgruntled, GRU agent who's current GRU assignment was to locate, seduce and detain Mason for the Soviets. In short, it means that Weaver's niece is going to seduce his best friend so Mason can be contained and terminated. This possibly implies that Weaver's position might be able to tip the odds to the trio's favor.
 * His login for the terminal is "AMASON" and his password is "PASSWORD."
 * He appears to be the only prisoner that escaped from Vorkuta alive.
 * Like many characters with a designated weapon in Call of Duty series, Mason's favorite weapon seems to be a shotgun and the Python as he was more than once loaded up with a shotgun-based weapon.
 * In U.S.D.D., he seems like he wears white shirt and watch like Jason Hudson wears. But on the scene where it shows his face when he passes the metal detector, he's wearing a black suit.
 * Also in U.S.D.D. you will notice that Mason doesn't have any sleeves covering his arms when shaking hands with Robert McNamara, but when he passes the metal detectors, he has long sleeves covering his arms.
 * He has been kicked and stomped in the face nine times by Kravchenko. One time in ending of "Operation 40" and "Crash Site" (becomes two), and seven times at end of "Payback."
 * He and C. Miller are the only playable characters who combat as POW (only one mission).
 * Mason can be compared with Dimitri Petrenko as they have both been captured at least once, physically injured many times and both cheated death. He can also be compared to John "Soap" MacTavish for these same reasons.
 * Humorously, he risks his lives to save his interrogators (Weaver and Hudson) when at the same time the Interrogators asked why he saved them.
 * Mason humorously nicknames Jason Hudson 'Ice Cube' several times in the campaign, referring to his calm and methodical method of working.
 * When playing as Mason on Rebirth Island, you see his shadow when confronting Steiner, but it's headless.
 * It appears that Mason was suicidal after his escape from Vorkuta, as one of his emails from Alicia says that if he ever threatens suicide again, he will not regain his operational field agent status. However, she also says that Mason cannot blackmail her for medicine, so it is possible that he was trying to blackmail Alicia into giving him more medicine, and that he is not really suicidal.
 * Also, the above hints that he may have become addicted to medicinal drugs after his escape from Vorkuta, although this is never proven
 * Oddly, Hudson claims at the beginning that Mason was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, but Mason's dossier states that he was born in Anchorage, Alaska.
 * For those with a trained ear, Mason can sometimes be heard with a bit of an Australian accent. This is most likely because the actor who plays Mason, Sam Worthington, is Australian himself.  An example of this accent would be when Mason says to Woods, "Today's the day we succeed," in the mission Operation 40, in reference to the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.
 * Operation Charybdis could be just decoy to protect Alex, Hudson and Weaver from Spetsnaz, that would explain why Mason birth date was fake in his dossier.
 * Mason could be ambidextrous, as he holds rifles and pistols in his right hand, but when he executes Steiner with the Makarov, he holds it in his left hand. However, because he believes he is Reznov at the time (Reznov is missing his right trigger finger), Reznov might have been more likely to hold it left-handed.