Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 achievements

There are 50 achievements in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 worth a total of 1000 on the Xbox 360 and 51 trophies on the PlayStation 3.

Name	Description	Points/Trophy	Image
Is That All You Got?	Earn all other trophies	Platinum
Back in the Saddle	Help train the local militia. (Complete S.S.D.D. on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Danger Close	Get hand picked for Shepherd's elite squad. (Complete Team Player on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Cold Shoulder	Infiltrate the snowy mountain side base. (Complete Cliffhanger on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Tag 'em and bag 'em	Find Rojas in the Favelas. (Complete Takedown on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Royale with Cheese	Defend Burger Town. (Complete Wolverines! on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Soap on a Rope	Storm the gulag. (Complete The Gulag on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Desperate Times	Execute the plan to help the Americans. (Complete Contingency on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Whiskey Hotel	Take back Whiskey Hotel. (Complete Whiskey Hotel on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
The Pawn	Assault Makarov's safehouse. (Complete Loose Ends on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
Out of the Frying Pan...	Complete the mission in the airplane graveyard. (Complete The Enemy of My Enemy on any difficulty)	15 Bronze
For the Record	Complete the Single Player campaign on any difficulty.	35 Silver
The Price of War	Complete the single player campaign on Hardened or Veteran Difficulty.	90 Gold
First Day of School	Complete "S.S.D.D." and "Team Player" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Black Diamond	Complete "Cliffhanger" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Turistas	Complete "Takedown" and "The Hornet's Nest" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Red Dawn	Complete "Wolverines!" and "Exodus" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Prisoner 627	Complete "The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday" and "The Gulag" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Ends Justify the Means	Complete "Contingency" on Veteran Difficulty	25 Silver
Homecoming	Complete "Of Their Own Accord", "Second Sun", and "Whiskey Hotel" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Queen takes Rook	Complete "Loose Ends" and "The Enemy of My Enemy" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Off the Grid	Complete "Just Like Old Times" and "Endgame" on Veteran Difficulty.	25 Silver
Pit Boss	Run The Pit in "S.S.D.D." and finish with a final time under 30 seconds.	10 Bronze
Ghost	Plant the C4 in "Cliffhanger" without alerting or injuring anyone in the blizzard.	10 Bronze
Colonel Sanderson	Kill 7 chickens in under 10 seconds in "The Hornet's Nest".	10 Bronze
Gold Star	Earn 1 star in Spec Ops	20 Bronze
Hotel Bravo	Earn 4 stars in Special Ops.	20 Bronze
Charlie On Our Six	Earn 8 stars in Special Ops.	20 Bronze
It Goes to Eleven	Earn at least 1 star in 11 different Special Ops missions.	20 Bronze
Operational Asset	Earn all 3 stars in at least 5 different Special Ops missions.	20 Bronze
Blackjack	Earn 21 stars in Special Ops.	20 Bronze
Honor Roll	Earn at least 1 star in each Special Ops mission.	20 Bronze
Operative	Earn all 3 stars in at least 10 different Special Ops missions.	30 Silver
Specialist	Earn 30 stars in Special Ops.	30 Silver
Professional	Earn all 3 stars in at least 15 different Special Op missions.	30 Silver
Star 69	Earn 69 stars in Special Ops.	90 Gold
Downed but Not Out	Kill 4 enemies in a row while downed in Spec Ops.	10 Bronze
I'm the Juggernaut…	Kill a Juggernaut in Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Ten plus foot-mobiles	Kill at least 10 enemies with one Predator Missile in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Unnecessary Roughness	Use a Riot shield to beat down an enemy in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Knock-knock	Kill 4 enemies with 4 shots during a slow-mo breach in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Some Like it Hot	Kill 6 enemies in a row using a thermal weapon in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Two Birds with One Stone	Kill 2 enemies with a single bullet in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
The Road Less Traveled	Collect 22 enemy intel items.	10 Bronze
Leave No Stone Unturned	Collect 45 enemy intel items.	10 Bronze
Drive By	Kill 20 enemies in a row while driving a vehicle in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
The Harder They Fall	Kill 2 rappelling enemies in a row before they land on their feet in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Desperado	Kill 5 enemies in a row using 5 different weapons or attachments in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Look Ma Two Hands	Kill 10 enemies in a row using akimbo weapons in Single Player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
No Rest For the Wary	Knife an enemy without him ever knowing you were there in Single-player or Special Ops.	10 Bronze
Three-some	Kill at least 3 enemies with a single shot from a grenade launcher.	10 Bronze

Trivia

• The Back in the Saddle achievement is a reference to the phrase "getting back in the saddle", meaning to resume an activity after a hiatus.
• The Danger Close achievement refers to the line uttered by Cpl. Dunn, "C'mon, since when does Shepherd care about danger close?". "Danger close" is also a military term referring to an attack, often an airstrike, on targets within proximity of allies.
• The Cold Shoulder achievement is a reference to the phrase "cold shoulder", meaning to show unfriendliness.
• The Tag 'em and bag 'em achievement refers to the saying "Tag 'em and bag 'em", meaning to put a toe tag on and zip up a corpse in a body bag.
• The Royale with Cheese achievement refers to the alternate name of the Quarter Pounder in France and Belgium, "Royale with cheese".
• The Soap on a Rope achievement refers to the end of The Gulag, where John "Soap" MacTavish is dangling from the rope dropped by the Pave Low. Soap on a rope also refers to a shower product of a bar of soap with an attached rope to prevent dropping.
• The The Pawn achievement is a reference to the alternate meaning of being a pawn, meaning to be sacrificed for a greater cause.
• The No Rest For the Wary achievement is a combination of the saying "no rest for the weary", meaning even tired people must work, and "wary", meaning cautious.
• The Prisoner 627 achievement is a reference to Captain Price's prisoner number in the gulag, "627".
• The Desperate Times achievement refers to the phrase "Desperate times call for desperate measures", meaning in dangerous situations, dangerous solutions become palatable.
• The Red Dawn achievement is a reference to the movie Red Dawn, where the Soviet Union invades America and a band of youths named the "Wolverines" stage a resistance movement in occupied America.
• The Out of the Frying Pan... achievement is a reference to the idiom "Out of the frying pan into the fire." meaning to leave a bad situation and into a worse one. This line is also invoked by Shepherd and Price, during Contingency.
• The Ends Justify the Means achievement is a reference to the quote "the ends justify the means", meaning that the outcome of an action justifies the action taken, regardless of morality.
• The For the Record achievement is a reference to the line uttered by Price in "Endgame" in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, "This is for the record".
• The Hotel Bravo achievement is named after the category of Special Ops missions the requirements unlock and Shepherd's base in the campaign, being the Bravo missions and Site Hotel Bravo respectively.
• The Off the Grid achievement refers to the act of living off-the-grid, meaning to live independently from public utilities. In the missions related to the achievement, Shepherd effectively lives off the grid, in his isolation in Site Hotel Bravo.
• The Black Diamond achievement is a reference to the
• The Charlie On Our Six achievement is named after the category of Special Ops missions the requirements unlock, being the Charlie missions. "Charlie On Our Six" is also military jargon for "Combatants on our flank".
• The Three-some achievement is a reference to the Threesome, a sexual interaction between three people. The achievement image also shows three people, two women and a man, one combination of a threesome.
• The Black Diamond achievement is a reference to the Black Diamond difficulty of ski slopes, with Black Diamond being one of the more difficult ratings.
• The The Harder They Fall achievement is a reference to the saying "the bigger they are, the harder they fall", meaning that of higher rank's fall will be more spectacular due to the status.
• The Turistas achievement name is Portuguese for "tourists".
• The The Road Less Traveled achievement is a reference to the poem The Road Not Taken.
• The Desperado achievement is a reference to the alternate name of a Wild West Outlaw.
• The Colonel Sanderson achievement is a portmanteau of Colonel Sanders, the creator of KFC, and Roach's last name, Sanderson.
• Upon earning the Ghost achievement, Soap will say to Roach "No kills, no alerts. Impressive, Roach".
• The Some Like it Hot achievement is a reference to the film Some Like It Hot.
• The I'm the Juggernaut... achievement is a reference to a line said by Juggernaut in the movie X-Men: The Last Stand, to which he shouts "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!".
• The Two Birds with One Stone achievement is a reference to the saying "killing two birds with one stone", meaning to solve two problems with one single action.
• The Leave No Stone Unturned achievement is a reference to the saying "leave no stone unturned", meaning to search everywhere and account for everything.
• The Queen takes Rook achievement is a reference to the chess pieces of a Queen putting a Rook out of play. The Queen is a representation of Price's British nationality, and the emblem of Shadow Company, a Rook.
• The Drive By achievement is a reference to the act of a Drive-by shooting, meaning to fire a weapon from a moving vehicle and flee.
• The Ten plus foot mobiles achievement is military terminology for "10 or more infantry soldiers" on the battlefield.
• The Honor Roll achievement is a reference to the Honors student award, given to students that achieve high grades.
• The It Goes to Eleven achievement is a reference to the movie This Is Spinal Tap, where the lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel states that his guitar amplifier "goes up to eleven".
• The Blackjack achievement is a reference to the card game of Blackjack, with the achievement image showing an Ace of Hearts and a Jack of Spades with a picture of Price from Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2. The achievement is earned after 21 stars, one of the values of both cards featured in the image, and a winning hand.
• The Star 69 achievement is a reference to the Last-call return number, colloquially known as "Star 69" or "*69".