Samantha Maxis

"But I want my body back, and I will destroy that evil Richtofen for taking daddy away!"

- Samantha when she switches bodies with Richtofen after Earth is heavily damaged by the missiles.

Samantha Maxis is a character in the Zombies game mode. She is one of two females in Call of Duty: World at War, the other being Sophia.

Biography
Samantha was born to Ludvig Maxis and his unknown wife. After his wife died, Maxis made sure she was always close to him. Due to his research, however, he neglected her and failed to notice Richtofen's experiments on her. As the experiments went on, Richtofen grew to hate her, perhaps due to Maxis' attachment to her or due to what she had become. When Richtofen trapped Sam in the room with Fluffy and activated the teleporter, she was teleported to Griffin Base. Schuster and Groph then used her in the M.P.D. to control the zombies. Samantha, however, was unwilling to deal with them, so they found and brought Maxis to her. Maxis told her to kill them all and subsequently died, sending Samantha over the edge and on a rampage to destroy all of Group 935, which had betrayed Maxis. After Richtofen trades bodies with her to control the zombies, she and the super soldier test subjects activate Maxis's backup plan and incinerate the earth, leaving Richtofen trapped in her body and only able to control the Zombies on the Moon and the remaining Zombies on Earth.

Trivia

 * She has a very good relationship with Takeo.
 * In Samantha's demonic room in Kino der Toten, her room features a Teddy Bear and a Monkey Bomb. It also has a crude replica of Der Riese complete with miniatures of the original characters.
 * Samantha dislikes Nikolai and Richtofen.
 * She was the Demonic Announcer.
 * In a radio found on Moon, it is revealed that her mother is dead.
 * Like Sarah Michelle Gellar, she recycles male grunting sounds when landing or diving to prone.
 * According to her quotes, her favorite weapon is the SPAS-12.
 * She is the first child to have a role in the Call of Duty series.
 * She is the first playable child in the Call of Duty series.
 * Samatha (in Richtofen's Body), Tanya Pavelovna, and Sarah Michelle Gellar are the only playable female characters.