Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish is a Scottish special forces operator, and a prominent member of Task Force 141, known for his mohawk. Soap appears in Call of Duty: Mobile and was added as part of the Season 4 Disavowed Battle Pass[1]. Soap also has a prominent role in the Comics.
Biography[]
Soap later appears in the Season 10 The Hunt Comics. He arrives late to Makarov's jungle base just as Mara had fended off Mace, who escaped into an underground bunker. They enter the bunker but are too late to stop the launch of an EMP missile that was housed in it.
Disappointed with the recent mission failure, Ghost contemplates how they gathered next to no intel about their enemies. Mace in disguise attacks a building with his team of mercenaries then goes to Alcatraz to meet with an underground criminal magnate named Hidora Kai. Mace and Hidora start to plan out their next moves, disabling all electronic devices in the world, including military radio towers, communication centers, Mara and Soap's convoy, and even the plane Ghost and Tank were flying in, using the EMP launched earlier. Ghost and Tank manage to survive and meet the other operators at The Club.
When Ghost admits that the group has no way to fight the Five Knights, along with no way to locate them, Russell Adler appears and says that they do have ways to combat the new threat. After Ghost asks who he is, Price introduces Adler and officially states the group is now a part of the United Anti-Terrorism Coalition, ending the introduction with "Ladies and gentlemen, we're going dark."
Adler and the rest of the team start to plan out their assault on Five Knights locations. When asked how they would coordinate or even reach those locations, Adler presents the team with Swiss mechanical watches, which are unaffected by EMPs. Price also notes that Adler is not the only Cold War relic in operational state in the bunker, indicating an old helicopter. During all of this, a character named Templar is preparing himself, and he appears to have a personal grudge against the operators of the Coalition. Meanwhile, the Coalition begins striking 3 key sites of the Five Knights simultaneously; Price and Soap lead an assault team on the Communication Centre, Mara and her team storm in at the Command Center in Alcatraz, while Ghost and Tank strike a production facility in Hackney Yard.
When Price and Soap attempt to exfil, Templar appears and grabs Soap by the neck, noting he is "glad" to see Price again. 2 Navy Seals attempt to intervene, Templar fends them off. Soap and Price devise a plan to take him down, but it fails and Soap is gravely wounded by Templar's knife. He then enters a brief standoff with Price. Noting that Soap doesn't have long, Price is forced to save him rather than pursue Templar, who escapes in a Chopper.
Later, Price, Ghost, and Adler discuss the aftermath of their joint operation; Mace is in a Black Site facing interrogation, Templar and Hidora are in the wind, and Soap is injured but will be battle-ready within a few weeks. It is further revealed that Mara made it out alive, but was wounded badly and is in a coma. Ghost admits that they won the battle and takes an oath that he will "Win the War."
Soap is later seen again eating at the table. When Price comes asking him for Ghost's whereabouts, as he cannot find him while he's planning the next op, Soap says he hasn't seen him. Adler comes to them saying that he knows where Ghost is, and he is "doing something stupid". When Price asks what Adler has done, he replies that he told Ghost about the operation in Siberia.
Sometime later, Price and Soap are shown arriving at the Soviet base Ghost infiltrated, remarking on Ghost's rashness, and start searching the area. They soon find a folded paper on the bloodied ground, and as Price opens it, he finds Ghost's dog tag.
Soap is later shown to have traveled to somewhere in Mexico, and he recruits Rosa, a soldier affiliated with the DEA, the CIA and who's apparently the "angel of damn death for the cartels", into the UAC.
He appears again during a briefing on recent developments by General Shepherd and Price; Mara had gone rogue to uncover what might've happened to Ghost, while Hidora Kai had returned to Tokyo to rebuild the Five Knights and Templar had been dispatched to Texas. Soap is tasked together with Alex Keller to go to Tokyo and apprehend Hidora. Soap and Alex both have their misgivings, but they embark on the mission nonetheless.
As they arrive in Tokyo, they waste no time in raiding the hideout that Hidora is apparently in, gunning down a number of henchmen in the process. Hidora orders his remaining henchmen to kill them while he continues his work. However, Alex and Soap manage to intercept him before he can escape and knock him unconscious. Soap laments that it could've gone better, but Alex derides him. They then carry away the unconscious Hidora in a car and attempt to exfil, all the while being pursued and fired at by Hidora's henchmen.
Unfortunately, Soap and Alex are intercepted by an individual resembling Spectre, who impales their driver with his sword when they attempt to run him over. They are forced to fight off Hidora's relentlessly pursuing henchmen yet again. However, Soap and Alex manage to snag a pair of motorcycles and prevent Hidora from escaping. Soap tells Hidora that he's coming with them if he has to bring him in a bucket. Alex orders him to get to the exfiltration site. Soap and Alex then race to the docks, where there is a boat waiting for them. They barely manage to make it onto the boat, with Hidora's henchmen falling behind. With no more enemies pursuing them and with the Five Knight member apprehended, the boat leaves Tokyo.
On the voyage, as Hidora is being interrogated by General Shepherd, he doesn't divulge anything and implies that someone is following them. Soap, along with Alex and Shepherd, dismiss the idea--until the alarm goes off, indicating that they have come under attack. It turns out that Vagr Modir and her team of mercenaries had been spying on their ship, and she's apparently also in command of a fleet of ships accompanying them. Soap and Alex scramble to gear up for defending the ship, but find themselves outmanned and outgunned.
In an act of desperation, Soap orders Vagr Modir to call her men off the ship, but she refuses and instead, Soap gets attacked and knocked off board by her pet wolf. Alex also fails to thwart her as she knocks him over to enter the cabin Hidora is held in but finds Shepherd is holding the man at gunpoint.
Soap manages to make it back to the ship via a rope left behind by Alex. As he does, he spots the Ghosts' ship firing at the Five Knights’ fleet. Picking up his rifle, he then busts back into the cabin where he rendezvouses with Alex and attempts to stop Modir & Hidora from escaping. However, they are too late as they find Shepherd tied up in the cabin and the pair has already made their escape. Soap and Alex try to shoot down the speedboat Hidora and Modir are in, but they are too fast for them to reach. Later, Soap reunites with Price & his team.
Sometime later, Soap is revealed to have brought in Gary "Roach" Sanderson as a new member of the UAC. His conversation with Price about Roach is very similar to the time when Price first met Soap.
Soap later accompanies Price with the rest of the UAC operators to Blackout to hunt down the remnants of the Five Knights. As they begin the infiltration, Soap, and Price immediately take notice of Roach’s deadly efficiency as he guns down more mercenaries than them. Price admits that he’s impressed, and Soap remarks that Roach has been unhappy about his last couple of days.
As they venture further in, Soap looks over the carnage that Roach has brought, commenting that it “makes him feel bloody useless”, while Alex considers it to be a “rampage”. They then pry open a cracked wall and barely manage to avoid gunfire.
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Trivia[]
- In the Untold Story of Soap, it is said an unknown organization revived him after the events of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.[2]
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