- For other characters, see Frank.
- "Formerly a member of the US Marine Corp, Woods' extensive combat experience led to him being recruited by the CIA for their Special Activities Division. His fearless leadership inspires all those who serve alongside him."
- — Modern Warfare in-game biography
Master Sergeant Frank Woods is a major character in the Call of Duty Black Ops series. He first appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops as a supporting character, who often accompanied his squad mates Alex Mason and Joseph Bowman as part of the Studies and Observation Group (SOG). Woods later returned as the deuteragonist of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, retaining his supporting role throughout the story and also being playable during one mission, Suffer With Me. Woods additionally was a main playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified. Woods appeared as a supporting character in the Specialist HQ mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and appeared again as a supporting character in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
In Multiplayer modes, Woods was first a playable character in the Blackout mode of Black Ops 4. He later became available in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone on August 26th, 2020 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC as an Operator for the Demon Dogs faction for players who pre-ordered Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Woods is also an unlockable NATO Operator in Black Ops Cold War and is usable in Multiplayer, Zombies and Warzone. Woods appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III as a playable Operator for the SpecGru faction, available with the preorder of any Black Ops 6 edition. This version of Woods also carries overt to Black Ops 6 as an Operator for the Rogue Black Ops faction.
Biography[]
Early life and military career[]
Frank Woods was born on March 20, 1930, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He ran away from his home as a young child, forced to rely on street smarts and follow his instincts. Woods quickly learned to be fully independent.
He served in the United States Marine Corps, during which he had much combat experience fighting in the Korean War. This gained him a reputation that led the CIA to recruit him for their Special Activities Division.
Bay of Pigs Invasion[]
- "This is it... Ready to make history?"
- — Woods to Mason as they prepare to breach the bedroom
Woods is first seen in a Cuban bar with Mason and Bowman talking to Carlos in "Operation 40" where they make plans for Carlos' militia to assist in the takedown of Fidel Castro. Woods talks to Carlos about the location of Castro. Suddenly, the police arrive, and when a Tropas Officer questions Mason, Woods stabs his hand to the table, smashes a bottle across his face, and then executes him. The squad flees to the streets, where the police are waiting for them. The squad fights their way through a police-infested street and in an alleyway, Carlos provided a car where they flee for Castro's compound. We next see Woods overlooking Fidel Castro's compound as he, Bowman, and Mason zipline into it. While Carlos and the rebels attempt to distract Castro's bodyguards in the airfield, Woods leads the raid into the compound. At some point, Bowman splits from the group and continues the search for Castro along the rooftops. Woods and Mason fight their way to Castro's bedroom, where Mason executes Castro with an ASP and either Woods or Mason kill his mistress. Regrouping with Bowman, Woods leads an escape to Carlos's C-130 where Mason jumps off and sacrifices himself for the escape of his squad. Later leading to his capture by Nikita Dragovich and Lev Kravchenko, it is revealed here that the Castro they assassinated was a double, and the real Fidel Castro then turns Mason over to the Soviets, leading to Mason's two year imprisonment and then their prolonged escape from Vorkuta.
Operation Flashpoint[]
- "No, no, no, somethin's wrong. There's way too much activity."
- — Woods
Woods later leads his team to Baikonur, U.S.S.R., on a mission to disrupt the Soviet Space Program at the Missile Launch Facility, and also to retrieve the captured Grigori Weaver, of whom they witnessed his left eye being stabbed by Kravchenko. Woods and Mason kill two Soviets idling and disguise themselves as the enemy. Woods is somewhat fluent in Russian, as 2 more Soviet guards talk to him in their language and he answers back. After being exposed and fighting back, Mason and Woods zip-line and smash through a window. They kill a few Soviets and finally save Weaver. They go on to the Auxiliary Control bunker, with hopes to abort the launch. They fight their way to the missile and Mason detonates the room with the scientists in it, killing them, but failing to stop the missile. However, Mason uses a guided missile to destroy it. As they can't stay in the open, they move to the tunnels, with plans of still killing the Ascension group. As the mission comes to an end, Kravchenko escapes and there is no sign of Dragovich. It is assumed that he perished while inside his limousine.
Vietnam War, Capture, Escape, and Presumed Death[]
- "FUUUUUUUCK!"
- — Woods playing Russian roulette
Woods returns as SOG's team leader in Khe Sanh, Vietnam, and along with Jason Hudson and Mason, joined the fight against a major assault on the base by the NVA.
In the mission "The Defector", Woods led the team to Hue City to recover a Soviet defector along with a dossier that would unravel Dragovich's master plan. While they managed to recover the dossier, extraction became a fight for their lives amid a massive assault by the NVA on Hue City.
Following on the intel disclosed by the dossier, Woods led the SOG team to Laos to uncover Soviet presence there, specifically those concerning Project Nova headed by Kravchenko, under orders from Dragovich. But it was at Laos, during the mission "Crash Site", Woods and the team found the shot-down Soviet cargo plane that carried Nova 6, but were subsequently captured by Dragovich and Kravchenko's men after a firefight.
During "Payback", Woods and Mason used the chance when they were forced to play Russian Roulette by the Viet Cong to stage their escape. They then proceed to take a Mi-24 Hind from Soviet forces, and destroy several supply stops for North Vietnamese forces along the way to Kravchenko's compound. In the final part of the mission when Woods and Mason are attempting to kill Kravchenko in his office, Mason was brutally beaten when Woods, sneaking up behind Kravchenko, stabs Kravchenko in the back. At his last breath, Kravchenko pulls a string attached to the pins of the grenade belt strapped to his body. Thinking quickly, Woods tackles Kravchenko out of the window, apparently sacrificing himself to save Mason as the grenades explode. Woods is presumed dead by everyone, including Mason and later by Hudson and Weaver during their interrogation of him.
Aftermath[]
- "Kravchenko. When I sliced that bastard open, it saved everyone's ass. But he comes to first, BOOM! Welcome to the Hanoi Hilton. Six months later, they shipped me over to Da Nang. And this fucking place made the Hilton look good. We lost 17 in my group. By '72, it was just me. I was not gonna die in a FUCKING SWAMP!!"
- — Woods to David Mason on his survival.
In reality, both Frank Woods and Lev Kravchenko survived their confrontation; Woods managed to get Kravchenko's grenade belt loose and used the loading bay next to the window to get the grenade belt over it, using it as a "Sump" so the wall can absorb the grenade and create little damage to Woods.[1]
Despite his knife wound, Kravchenko was able to recover more quickly than Woods, capturing him and sending him to the Hanoi Hilton. In a message from a mysterious informant codenamed "X" to Mason, Woods was reported as being the only American prisoner at the Hanoi Hilton.
Six months later, he was moved to another POW camp in Da Nang. By 1972, he was the last of 17 prisoners. Determined not to die in captivity, Woods eventually engineered an escape and got back home safely.
Back in the CIA[]
- "Thanks to your old man. He put it all on the line for me... for honor... and friendship."
- — Woods to David about his rescue.
Woods was back to operating in the CIA by 1975. During the same year, he participated in several operations in Vietnam, where he recovered and destroyed several of the CIA's Parable cipher machines, preventing them from falling into the hands of the NVA. He also rescued a group of CIA analysts held captive at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Saigon. Two years later, Woods was sent by Hudson to Mount Yamantau to apprehend Dr. Steiner's protege, Adolf Schlussel, who was suspected of trying to revive Project Nova. Later that year, he also infiltrated a Soviet base and destroyed their ICBMs. One of his subordinates, however, was captured by the Soviets, and was tortured to death, prompting Woods to destroy their entire base.
Hunting Perseus[]
On 12 January 1981, Woods sent by the CIA to Amsterdam and meets up with Alex Mason and Russell Adler in a mission to take down an Iranian terrorist leader Arash Kadivar, only learn that Perseus has remerged with a plan to destabilize the West, much to Woods and the team's confusion and shock.
Following a debrief with President Ronald Reagan, Hudson authorizes an operation to hunt down Perseus and stop the potential threat. Woods is included as part of the team alongside Adler, Mason, Helen Park, Lawrence Sims, Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay, and a mysterious agent codenamed Bell. After returning from a mission in Kiev with Mason, Woods accompanies Bell in an infiltration into a secret Spetsnaz training facility, where the two discover intelligence regarding Operation Greenlight, a secret contingency plan by the United States Government to detonate neutron bombs all across major European cities in order to deny the Soviet Union from claiming them.
Returning from the mission, an enraged Woods punches Hudson while demanding answers about Greenlight's nature. While his distrust for Hudson grows further, he continues to work with the team regardless on finding Perseus. Woods and Mason are later deployed to Dragovich's Yamantau base in order to search for a mainframe containing the location of all remaining sleeper agents. Though they succeed in recovering the mainframe, Perseus has managed to wipe out the data, forcing Adler and Bell to go undercover in the Lubyanka Building in order to find the intel. In the midst of this operation, Woods and Mason are also deployed on two separate missions to eliminate two of Perseus's top ranking officers, Robert Aldrich and Vadim Rudnik.
Following an unsuccessful operation in Cuba, an injured Bell is taken back to the CIA safehouse in Berlin, where they are interrogated by Adler, leading to their real identity as Perseus's agent revealed. Bell can either tell the truth to Adler about Perseus's plan, or lie and trick them into chasing a false lead. In both options, Woods participates in the final mission.
Despite knowing of their past and what Adler had just done to them, "Bell" states that Perseus is operating on the Solovetsky Islands.
As Washington is informed, Reagan entrusts the CIA with stopping Perseus and maintaining world peace. With many ideal conditions, a naval task force is assembled to bring the team onto the island. Facing fierce resistance, the task force destroys the facility's AA guns, allowing bombers to raze the radar facility to the ground before Perseus can activate the nukes, but "Bell" is caught in the blast as they are setting up charges.Bell didn't radio Soviet troops to ambush Adler's group. On March 15, at Duga, Bell revealed to Adler they lied and remained loyal to Perseus. Angry, Adler executed Bell leaving their body for Perseus to find as the team left the facility with disappointment. With no one stopping him, Perseus detonated the Greenlight arsenal. With Europe in chaos, President Reagan learned that documents related to Operation Greenlight were leaked anonymously, but seemingly by Perseus, showing the nukes were made by the United States and destroying their reputation around the world. Reagan ordered that anything related to the operation should be erased forever as the Berlin safehouse was burned down by Hudson and the CIA.
During planning, Bell radios the Soviet Base to plan for an ambush. On March 15, at Duga, the team berated Bell for lying to them. Adler was disappointed in Bell due to how much faith he had in them. Bell then signaled the ambush, in which they were briefly knocked out by an RPG but later regained consciousness and is helped up by a Soviet officer wearing a gas mask. Bell then proceeded to execute Mason, Woods and possibly either Park or Lazar.
After most of the team was killed, Bell followed the officer into a building while the other Soviets wipe out the remaining American troops. The Soviet told Bell that Adler fled into the building. They managed to find Adler who was fatally wounded. Adler asked Bell to hand him his lighter so he can light a cigarette one last time. Whether Bell chose to or not, Adler was killed by them and the officer revealed his identity as Perseus. Bell, now reunited with Perseus, was allowed to personally order the Greenlight nuclear arsenal's detonation. The two discussed their plans for the future of a Greater Russia and left Duga together.
Saving Adler[]
Three years after stopping Perseus's plan, one of his agents, Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin, organizes a raid on CIA Safehouse E9 in Berlin, in an attempt to lure Adler out. On January 20, 1984, Adler assembles a squad comprising of Woods, Zeyna Ossou and Wyatt "Bulldozer" Jones to infiltrate the Pines Mall in New Jersey. Upon discovering a cache of Nova-6, the squad is ambushed by Stitch and his men, who successfully capture Adler, while the rest manage to escape.
Three months later, on April 19, 1984, Woods leads a squad with Sims and Terrell Wolf to Laos where Adler was last sighted. After assisting Karla Rivas in fighting off Perseus's troops, lead by Kapano "Naga" Vang, the squad heads into the nearby village, where they find fake Nova-6 caches and torture devices, indicating what Adler might have gone through. The team interrogates the remaining survivors of Naga's men, going as far as killing them, and learns that Adler has been transported to Verdansk. On June 10, 1984, Woods finally located Adler in Verdansk and rescued him, killing several of Perseus' men in the process.
Adler Compromised[]
Ten days later, Woods accompanied Adler, Park, Bulldozer and newcomer Jabari Salah to investigate a satellite crash site in Algeria, after they were de-orbited from space. Unbeknownst to Woods and the others, Adler secretly secured a data recorder from the crashed satellite.
On July 23, 1984, Woods deployed with Colton "Stryker" Greenfield and several other CIA operatives to an Echelon Listening Station in Teufelsburg, in an attempt to apprehend Perseus member Kaori "Kitsune" Tanaka. Kitsune, however, activated the Numbers broadcast, turning the operatives hostiles against Woods and Stryker, who managed to escape. Woods later met with Hudson to discuss an inconsistency in Adler's report on the Algeria crash site. Realizing that Adler may have been compromised, they agreed to call Mason in to deal with the situation.
Adler was eventually captured and successfully deprogrammed by Mason. Prior to his capture, however, Adler had placed several explosive charges across Verdansk's underground systems, which detonated while he was in custody. Adler, accompanied by Mason, Woods, and Hudson, deployed to Verdansk to assess the damage, and to confront Stitch for the final time. Adler faced Stitch alone, and learned that the former leader of Perseus had died due to cancer years ago, and that Stitch had carried on the mantle. Having completed his mission, Stitch willingly surrendered to Adler, who killed him in return.
Meeting Carver Butcher[]
Five days after Stitch's death, the CIA operatives continued their investigation of Verdansk's underground system, which revealed several World War II-era bunkers. Woods and the others encountered retired SOE Captain Carver Butcher, who began to tell them a story about his post-war effort to hunt down remnants of the Nazi in the Pacific.
Encounter with Raul Menendez[]
In July 1986, Frank Woods was operating in Angola, aiding Jonas Savimbi and the UNITA on behalf of the CIA, eventually being captured by Raul Menendez. Menendez tortured Woods, killing his men in front of him, in order to learn what the CIA knew about Menendez. Woods was eventually locked in a container with his dead comrades, and left to die of dehydration and starvation. Eventually, Jason Hudson and Alex Mason rescue him and found him in critical condition. From that point on, Woods would be consumed by an overwhelming thirst for revenge against Raul Menendez.
In September 1986, Woods and Mason meet up with Tian Zhao, a future Chinese General, to stop a Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. They managed to stop the threat and found out that Lev Kravchenko was leading the invasion and interrogate him. Kravchenko refused to cooperate and was killed. Woods, Hudson, Mason, and Zhao then get turned on by the Mujahideen and get left and stranded somewhere in the desert but were saved by strangers.
Mason, Woods and Hudson eventually led an invasion on Raul Menendez' home in Wasa King, Nicaragua. Halfway in the mission, Woods grew angry and only focused on killing Menendez. They intruded the place and Woods attempted to kill Menendez once he saw him but Mason restrained him. Woods managed to throw a grenade but it was knocked off it's course by Mason and bounced into Menendez' room where Menendez' sister, Josefina was. After the explosion, Woods found out about the girl and deeply regretted the murder.
Failed Capture[]
Woods, at the age of 59, went to Panama with Mason to capture Manuel Noriega, a high value target that was codenamed False Profit, who was highly involved with Menendez' arms dealings. They managed to capture him and escort him to safety where they told him to set up a meeting with Menendez where Menendez would be blinded and shot by Woods. Woods climbed up a building and saw their target's head bagged and restrained by Noriega's men. Woods shot the man, and exited the building and walks towards the corpse. During their walk, Noriega smiled, which made Woods increasingly suspicious. Woods broke out into a run and removed the bag from the corpse/body's head and found it to be none other than Alex Mason. Woods brought out a handgun on Noriega but was shot in his right knee by the actual Menendez, who continued to shoot Woods' other leg, disabling him for life. Woods continued to struggle but is knocked unconscious.
Suffering[]
Woods woke up to find a young David Mason in a trance, alongside Alex Mason's corpse/body and Hudson tied to a chair, with Menendez wielding a shotgun. Menendez said that one more person had to die out of those three, and if there wasn't a decision then all of them would be killed. Hudson sacrificed himself, and after killing him, Menendez showed David the pendant he was wearing. Menendez then told David that he should go to Menendez the next time he sees it. David snapped out of his trance, saw his dead father, and started crying. Woods crawled towards the boy to comfort him.
Following this operation, Woods was given a chance to continue working a desk job in the CIA. He befriended two operatives, Troy Marshall and Jane Harrow, the former whom became Woods' protégé while all three of them continued to work together on different missions. With Mason gone, Woods also became David's guardian, as the boy had no other family to go to. Eventually, Woods was told that Adler was the mole responsible for the failure of the Panama operation, though he did not believe it.
Suspension from Duty[]
On January 13, 1991, Marshall, Harrow, and operative William "Case" Calderon were deployed to the Iraq-Kuwait border to extract Iraqi Minister of Defense Saeed Alawi. However, Alawi was killed by Adler, who re-emerged after an extended period of hiding from the CIA. As he was being captured, Adler told Marshall to relay a message to Woods: "Bishop takes rook". Upon returning to CIA headquarters at Langley, Marshall, Harrow, and Woods were reprimanded by Deputy Director Daniel Livingstone for botching Alawi's extraction, and refused to believe their story about the Pantheon, a rogue paramilitary force that was hunting down Alawi. Woods also told Livingstone that he had no idea what Adler's message meant. As a result, Woods, Marshall, and Case were suspended from duty.
Later, Woods confided to Marshall and Harrow that Adler was referring to the Rook, a former KGB safehouse in Bulgaria that Woods and Adler discovered several years ago. Woods decided to take Marshall and Case there to investigate, while Harrow covered for their absence.
Hunting Pantheon[]
Woods, Case and Marshall set up shop in the Rook, with Woods using some of Adler's leftover cash to help furnish it with equipment. Due to his previous injuries, he stayed behind at the safehouse during missions, acting as mission control and leadership for the group as new members Felix Neumann and Sev were recruited. During the heist on an Avalon casino to retrieve a Pantheon file from the archive room, Woods provided overwatch through the security cameras cone they were spliced into by Case.
After the capture of Harrow at Vorkuta, and finding no other methods of interrogation working, Woods approved Adler's use of an MK-Ultra-era drug on her to get her to reveal the plan for the Cradle. While the others were fighting Pantheon forces outside, Woods tried to guide Harrow thorough the experience, before she revealed the truth about using the Cradle on the Capitol, and was horrified at the potential devastation. However, soon Pantheon forces broke in and freed Harrow. Woods managed to kill several of them with a shotgun before being knocked out of his chair and stabbed in the stomach by Harrow. Woods managed to crawl far enough to warn the other team members of her escape.
An Offer[]
Two weeks after Harrow's death at the hands of Case, Woods, Adler, Felix and Marshall met with Livingstone in a remote wooded area, with Sev providing sniper overwatch in case of a trap. Livingstone offered them support to continue what they were doing as a team, even as Woods questioned this at first by pointing out Livingstone's earlier statements o the Cold War being over, but soon won over by Livingstone pointing out that the world was more dangerous than ever.
Retirement[]
By 2025, aged 95, Woods had moved to a CIA retirement home called "The Vault". On April 19, he was visited by Raul Menendez and was given a heart-shaped pendant that had the faces of two lovers on it. He was then whispered the words: "Now it begins". Later that day, Woods received a visit from David, now a Joint Special Operations Command operative codenamed "Section", and his squadmate Mike Harper. As David questioned Woods on Menendez's visit, Woods began to recount his story of how he encountered Raul Menendez, up to his supposed death.
David returned to the Vault by himself on another day, having remembered that he was at Panama the day his father died. This time, David pressured Woods to reveal the entire story of Mason's death. Woods hesitantly confirmed that he was the one who made the killing shot, to David's shock. He then encouraged David to kill Menendez, should he get the opportunity.
Aftermath[]
Depending on the player's actions, Woods will be seen in different endings. Primarily, there are three major cutscenes. The first two are dependent upon Woods' (the player's) actions during "Suffer With Me".
After Menendez' plan was averted, Woods and Section visited Mason's grave. Section decided to retire from his duty, which prompted Woods to say that his father would approve of the decision.
Mason visits Woods at The Vault. Soon David comes to visit Woods and is re-introduced to Alex, who tells him that the day that David fell from the tree was the one that made Alex proud as he got back up.
Menendez breaks out of prison, and later visits Woods at the Vault. He then slices Woods' neck with the heart-shaped pendant, then puts his corpse on the bed along with the pendant.
Project Blackout[]
Sometime in between 2043 and 2045, Project Blackout successfully revives Woods - by unknown means - alongside Alex Mason, Viktor Reznov, and Raul Menendez; referred to as The Archetypes. After his revival, he engages a relationship with Savannah Meyer; the founder of the project and assists her by instructing the Specialists for combat. Later on, he discovers Alex has been brainwashed through number sequences by an unknown attacker (possibly an affiliate of Project Blackout) after an incident between Savannah and a revived Jessica Mason, leaving him in a vegetable state with his memories jumbled. Woods takes him to the Asylum in an attempt to reverse the effects himself and manages to stabilize Alex's mind, however he still struggles to remember things correctly, with Woods saying he's "still in the box." As a last resort, Woods reveals Viktor Reznov to Mason in hopes of getting his memory back, claiming that he escaped Vorkuta and became "The First Archetype." Woods' status after this is left unknown.
MK Project Research[]
While researching on the CIA's MK project in an attempt to revive it, Coalescence Corporation CEO Sebastian Krueger requested on information regarding the individuals involved in Project Nova, as well as the CIA agents who stopped the project, including Woods and his teammates.
Personalization[]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare[]
Skins[]
Name | Rarity | Image | How to obtain |
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Frank Woods | Legendary | Pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War |
Quips[]
Name | Rarity | How to obtain |
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Down You Go | Epic | Pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War |
Finishing Moves[]
Name | Rarity | How to obtain |
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Payback | Epic | Pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War |
Universal Finishing Moves |
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]
Skins[]
Name | Rarity | Image | How to obtain |
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Broken Arrow | Base | In Multiplayer, get 5 kills without dying 15 times | |
Clay Fire | Rare | Part of "Stinger" Skin Operator Mission | |
Field Day | Rare | Battle Pass Season Six Tier 40 | |
Flagrant | Rare | Part of "Field Day" Skin Operator Mission: In Zombies, get 25 kills in Forsaken using the suspended Hind trap. | |
Jester | Rare | Part of "Field Day" Skin Operator Mission | |
Metro | Rare | Part of "Wind Jammer" Skin Operator Mission | |
Payback | Rare | Battle Pass Season Five Tier 10 | |
Ravage | Rare | Part of "Field Day" Skin Operator Mission: Get 7 hipfire while using a SMG with an equipped Laser Sight body attachement. | |
Resilience | Rare | Part of "Payback" Skin Operator Mission: Get 25 Eliminations using Assault Rifles. | |
Rock Slide | Rare | Part of "Stinger" Skin Operator Mission | |
Ruinous | Rare | Part of "Field Day" Skin Operator Mission | |
Stinger | Rare | Battle Pass Season Three Tier 0 | |
Undergrowth | Rare | Part of "Wind Jammer" Skin Operator Mission | |
Vigilance | Rare | Part of "Payback" Skin Operator Mission | |
Wind Jammer | Rare | Battle Pass Season One Tier 70 | |
Biker | Epic | Demon Dog Bundle | |
Fisherman | Epic | Puddle Pirate Bundle | |
Homerun | Epic | Heavy Hitter Bundle | |
POWoods | Epic | Rescue Mission Bundle | |
Swamp | Epic | Bogged Down Bundle | |
Sweater Weather | Epic | Mistletoe Meetup Bundle | |
Trucker | Epic | Long Road Ahead Bundle | |
Cannabush | Legendary | Tracer Pack: Stoner's Delight II Bundle | |
Eliminator | Legendary | Hot Shot Bundle | |
Gilded Agent | Legendary | Tracer Pack: Gilded Agent Bundle | |
Gladiator | Legendary | Conqueror Bundle | |
Rogue | Legendary | Shadow Commando Bundle | |
Sand Snake | Legendary | Survivalist Bundle |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III[]
Skins[]
Note: Skins also available in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Quotes[]
- Main article: Frank Woods/Quotes
Call of Duty: Warzone[]
Warzone (2020)[]
The Modern Warfare version of Woods made an appearance in Warzone during the Know Your History limited-time event, in which he interacted with the players after they completed the contracts.
Warzone (2022)[]
During Modern Warfare III Season Four, Woods can appear randomly during the Urzikstan infil sequence in Warzone, in which he instructed players to find intel regarding "the mole".
Call of Duty: Mobile[]
Woods appears in Call of Duty: Mobile and was added on November 15th, 2020, during Season 12: Going Dark as part of the Frank Woods Bundle. Woods also appears in the Comics.
He is seen in Michigan, where Alias, who refers to him as "Uncle Frank", has arranged a meeting with him and her team consisting of Denise "Rampage" Michaels, Denise "Foxtrot" McDaniels, Shadowfall, Deadman, David "Section" Mason and Ether. She informs them that Woods has prepared food for them, while introducing Rampage to Shadowfall. Woods asks if anyone is hungry.
As the operators sit at the table, Foxtrot wonders what Woods is doing making food for a bunch of outcasts and wanted criminals, while also saying that had she known Alias was friends with one of the biggest players in the game, she'd have come sooner. Woods doesn't consider himself that, but he is part of a loose affiliation of former intelligence officials like himself; he consequently owns every house within ten miles, making them just about the most heavily monitored and guarded acres that side of the Pentagon, so the operators can rest easy there. He also understands that Atlas is going to make a move someday to make the final push to take it all. It's not something they wanted, but they knew it was inevitable.
Alias also adds that they are not just fighting Atlas, they're fighting the Iron Will as well, but without a better understanding of its capabilities, there's little they can do to counter it, thus they need to find someone who knows more about the AI than them. Ether believes they need to find The Director's former colleague, Dr. Mendelsohn, but notes she's in hiding and has doubts that they're the only ones looking for her. Woods reveals he has hired Cipher to help them, although Rampage is not happy about it, iterating that he's a wanted fugitive and that Woods is making them all an accessory by being there. He reminds her that they're in dire circumstances, which means they have to make tough choices; they need Cipher's tracking skills.
Cipher reveals it was not hard to find Dr. Mendelsohn, and Woods advises the group that she is priority one, and the rest of them need to expand their numbers, to find the remnants of the UAC and bring them back to the fold; but with the eyes of Atlas Corporation everywhere, they need to operate under the utmost secrecy. He then christens the group the 'Phantom Corps', which they then propose a toast to, except for Alias, who has went to check on Deadman outside.
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Trivia[]
- Though Woods is a Master Sergeant, during the mission "Payback" when the player enters the chopper, Woods' name will display as "Pvt. Woods" briefly.
- Players who buy the Hardened or Prestige edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops receive a Woods avatar outfit.
- The outfit can also be purchased on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, on the marketplace and in the Alter Ego store, respectively.
- In the multiplayer maps Nuketown and Nuketown 2025, Woods' name is on one of the mailboxes; the other says "Mason".
- In the flashback in revelations of "Executive Order", Woods is seen wearing his SOG gear instead of the Russian disguise.
- Woods was voted "The Best Video Game Character of the Year" at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards. Two modified scenes were shot for the occasion.[2][3]
- Despite unlockable intel saying Woods' eyes are brown, in the mission "S.O.G.", one can see Woods' eyes are blue. Woods' eyes are also blue in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II reveal trailer.
- According to an early casting call and texture file names, Woods was initially named "Frank Barnes".
- 95-year-old Woods is featured alongside Menendez and the members of Avenged Sevenfold during a music video for the song Carry On, which is played after the credits of Black Ops II. In the video, Woods is shown playing drums.
- In one of the player-determined cutscenes, where Section and Woods visit Mason's grave, Woods' shoulder insignia is for a Master Sergeant.
- In Woods' room at The Vault, there is a plaque with Woods' medals along with a picture of the Navy SEALs faction insignia, despite the fact that Woods served in the United States Marine Corps.
- Woods' blood type is B-.
- The description of Woods' "Eliminator" skin references an ad-libbed line from the film They Live, said by Roddy Piper.[4]
- Woods has a 115 tattoo, located above the werewolf tattoo on his left forearm. It is unknown whether this tattoo is a reference to Element 115 in Zombies.
- The 115 tattoo is not present on Woods' Operator model in Black Ops Cold War, Modern Warfare III, and Black Ops 6, including any of his skins with visible forearms, with the exception of the "Numbers Woods" skin. The tattoo can still be seen in the Black Ops Cold War and Black Ops 6 campaigns.
- In Black Ops 6 Multiplayer, Woods is the announcer for the Rogue Black Ops faction. He is also the guide in the Training Course, where he talks to the player and teaches them the game's mechanics.
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