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| “ | You can't kill me! | „ |
| ~ Frank Woods to the V.C. Bookie, his most famous catchphrase. |
| “ | When the things they built to keep us safe are turned against us, that's when they figured it out: They'll always need men like us, those who are willing to do... what others cannot. | „ |
| ~ Woods in the Black Ops 2 reveal trailer. |
Master Sergeant Frank Woods is one of the main characters of the Call of Duty franchise's Black Ops sub-series.
He was a U.S. Marine and Korean War veteran recruited for the CIA's Special Activities Division, and participated in the MACV-SOG's recon operations on Soviet activities in Vietnam. He was presumed K.I.A. in Laos, but was imprisoned at the Hanoi Hilton and Da Nang prison camps before being rescued in the 1970s. During the 1980s, Woods continued his service to the CIA by fighting the Perseus Spy Network and the Menendez Cartel. After gaining the infamy of the cartel's kingpin Raul Menendez, Woods was crippled but continued to work with Langley by investigating Pantheon with his protege Troy Marshall. He also became the legal guardian of Alex Mason's son David, doing so out of guilt over his close friend's death.
In 2025, he gives David information on his past encounters with Menendez, and connects the dots to help the naval commander stop the terrorist. In the 2040s, Woods was revived by Savannah Mason-Meyer as part of her Archetypes program, and instructs the Specialists on how to use their equipment and weapons.
He was voiced and motion-captured by James C. Burns from Black Ops to Black Ops 4, and by Damon Victor Allen onward.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Frank Woods was born on March 20th, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to unnamed parents, but ran away from home at an unknown. While living on the streets, Woods learned how to be fully independent and relied on his intelligence, instincts and street smarts.
Military Career[]
In the 1950s, Woods joined the United States Marine Corps and reached the rank of Master Sergeant by the height of the Cold War. He participated in the Korean War, gaining him combat experience and a reputation that led him to be recruited into the CIA's Special Activities Division. He also became his close friends with fellow marine Alex Mason and naval officer Joseph Bowman, whom were also recruited into the CIA's SAD.
Bay of Pigs Invasion[]
| “ | Movement inside. Get in position. This is it... Ready to make history? | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason in "Operation 40". |
During the height of the Cold War, the CIA sent Woods, Mason and Bowman to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Working as part of the CIA's sponsored group, Operation 40 with Cuban rebel Carlos, the team fought against the police to reach Castro's compound. While the rebels fought Castro's men at the airfield, Woods and Mason assassinate Castro and kill his mistress when she attempts to protect him. The two then regroup with Bowman and Carlos to escape Cuba, but Mason ensures their escape before being captured by the real Castro, Soviet General Nikita Dragovich and his right-hand Lev Kravchenko. Unbeknownst to Woods, Mason was sent to Vorkuta and programmed by Friedrich Steiner as one of Dragovich's sleeper agents.
Operation Flashpoint[]
| “ | No, no, no, something's wrong. There's way too much activity. | „ |
| ~ Woods noticing that their team's cover may have been blown. |
After Mason escaped from Vorkuta, Woods leads his team to disrupt the Soviet Space Program in Baikonur, U.S.S.R. and deal with the Ascension Group. Woods and Mason notice too much activity on the ground and learn that Grigori Weaver was captured by Kravchenko, and decide to rescue him. After fighting through Soviet Forces, Woods and Mason zip-line through a window, execute a few Soviet Soldiers, and manages to save Weaver.
The team then went to shut down a missile launch, but the first attempt failed as the missile's computers were fried. Woods then ordered Mason to destroy the missile with Valkyrie Rockets and succeeded. They then fight through the underground tunnels and as the mission ends, Kravchenko escapes with no sign of Dragovich, with the team assuming that he was killed in an explosion from his Limousine. It's later revealed that Dragovich wasn't inside the limo, and escaped presumably before the team made it to Baikonur.
Vietnam and Supposed Death[]
| “ | F********K! | „ |
| ~ Woods forced to play Russian roulette. |
Woods returns as team leader of the MAC-V SOG in Khe Sanh, Vietnam where he, Mason, and Agent Jason Hudson fights through NVA to locate Dragovich which fighting through into Hue City eventually led them to Laos. Once in Laos, the team was captured. Once they were at the presence of the Viet Cong, they were forced to play Russian Roulette. Woods and Mason used this as a chance to escape from the Viet Cong after Bowman was executed. Once escaped, Woods and Mason fought through the NVA. After destroying numerous NVA infantry and vehicles via an enemy hind, they encountered Kravchenko.
After brutally beating Mason, Kravchenko was stabbed in the back by Woods, but Kravchenko cooked his entire grenade belt strapped to his body at his last breath. At great reflexes and timing, Woods tackled Kravchenko out a window and everyone, even Mason and Hudson, presumed he was killed by the grenade explosions. After stopping Dragovich and destroying his numbers station, Mason receives a note from X stating that Woods is still alive. This was unknown at that point.
Imprisonment and Escape[]
| “ | He had no idea what was real... How the f-ck could he? 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 F**KING SWAMP!! | „ |
| ~ Woods telling how he survived to David in 2025. |
Both Woods and Kravchenko survived their confrontation, with the former managing to get Lev's grenade belt loose and used the loading bay next to the window to get it over (using it as "Sump" so it could absorb the grenade and cause little damage). Though Kravchenko was injured by Woods's knife wound, he managed to recover quickly and captured Frank. He was sent to the Hanoi Hilton, and was then moved to a POW camp in Da Nag months later. By 1972, Woods was the last of the seventeen prisoners, and engineered an escape and got back home safely. Woods then continued to serve the CIA during the 1970s, such as rescuing a group of CIA analyst and killing Steiner's protege Adolf Schlussel.
While he continued his service, Woods became the uncle to Alex's son David after he was born in 1979.
Perseus Manhunt[]
| “ | A self-reliant loner resulting from a youth spent on the streets, Woods trained as a Marine before entering the CIA's Special Activities Division. Years spent as a POW in Vietnam prove his sheer resilience. | „ |
| ~ Woods' bio in Black Ops Cold War. |
In 1981, Woods, Mason and clandestine agent Russell Adler are tasked with eliminating Iranian terrorist leaders Arash Kadivar and Qasim Javadi by President Ronald Reagan, as they were involved in the Iranian hostage crisis. Kadivar revealed to the group of the resurgence of "Perseus", a Soviet spy who Adler was tasked with stopping for decades, and believed was dead. After the operation, Woods was briefed by Hudson about "Perseus", and President Reagan gave Adler the order to form a team to stop the Soviet spy and his network. Woods and Mason become members of Adler's team alongside CIA agents Lawrence Sims and Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay, MI6 agent Helen Park, and a new operative code named "Bell". Woods and Mason were sent to Kiev to deal with a situation while Adler and his team went to Germany to find Russian mafia boss Anton Volkov, and either capture or eliminate him.
After their mission in Kiev, Woods was tasked with infiltrating a Spetsnaz training facility in Ukraine with "Bell", and learn of the CIA nuclear program called Operation: Greenlight. The program was a CIA operation where they placed nukes across Europe, and that it was headed by Hudson. Woods and the team confronted Hudson about "Greenlight", and the latter revealed that it was scorched earth policy if the Soviet Union invaded the United States. The team realized that "Perseus" had access to one of the nukes from Berlin, but also gained intel that "Perseus" was looking for sleeper agents that Dragovich programmed back in the 1960s. Woods and Mason were then sent to Yamantau to collect the intel from the mainframe, aided by KGB double agent Dimitri Belikov. Despite the success of the mission, Hudson's superior Emerson Black reveals that "Perseus" had erased the list, forcing Adler and his team to infiltrate the KGB headquarters to collect the list. The player has the option to collect evidence and have Woods and Mason eliminate Robert Aldrich and Vadim Rudnik, which can cripple Perseus' network and prevent their spies from infiltrating the American and European governments.
Woods would later participate in finding Theodore Hastings in Havana to what they believed was the nuke's location, and the team learned that "Perseus" had reprogrammed Hastings to give him access to launch all of the American nukes in Europe. Woods and the team managed to escape from Havana, but Park/Lazar are left behind and killed by Tropas. Depending on the player's choices, "Bell" will either reveal the truth of "Perseus's" location in Solvovetsky, or lie to Adler that "Perseus" is in Duga-2 and ambush their former allies.
If "Bell" decides to aid the CIA in stopping "Perseus" and tells them his location, Woods participates in the operation in destroying the AA-guns to prevent the signal of the nukes. During the operation, Woods and Mason separated from Adler and "Bell" who were destroying the last AA-gun so Hudson could send in a bombing run to destroy the facility. Woods, Mason, Adler and "Bell" succeed in destroying the AA-guns, and Woods and Mason hear Adler's speech on how wars are won before leaving the island. Unbeknownst to Woods or Mason, Bell was later killed by Adler to tie all lose ends to their operations.
If "Bell" decides to betray the CIA, they will take Adler, Woods, Mason and Park/Lazar (if present) to Duga-2. If "Bell" didn't contact their Soviet allies, Adler will kill them and leave their body to be find by the Soviets.
If "Bell" managed to contact their Soviet allies, Woods and the team are ambushed and killed in the process, leaving Adler to be killed by "Bell". "Perseus" will reveal himself after Adler's death, and allows "Bell" to signal the detonation of the nukes.
The Hunt for Adler[]
Three years after stopping Perseus's plans, one of his agents, Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin decided to enact his revenge on Adler for taking his eye and causing him to be imprisoned in the Gulag. Stitch and his men infiltrated the CIA safehouse in Berlin, and tricked Adler and his squad to infiltrate the Pines Mall in New Jersey. The Perseus agent then ambushed Alder and captured him, and Woods was tasked by the CIA to lead a rescue team to find him. Three months after his capture, the CIA received information that Adler was last sighted in Laos. Woods was given a team that consisted of Terrell Wolf and Karla Rivas, and was tasked to rescue Adler before he was killed or gave information away.
Woods and his team arrived to help Rivas fight against Perseus troop that were led by former warlord turned Perseus agent, Kapona "Naga" Vang. After dealing with the troops, Woods and the team found empty Nova 6 caches in a nearby village, realizing that Naga tricked them into thinking "Perseus" cared about the gas. Finding torture devices, the team comes to the conclusion that Adler was tortured and taken away by Naga while they battled his troops. The group then interrogated the remaining Perseus soldiers, and learned from them that Adler was taken to Verdansk. Returning to Hudson, he orders Woods and his team to travel to Verdansk and rescue Adler from Stitch. On June 10th, Woods and his team managed to rescue Adler, but unbeknownst to them, Stitch had succeeded in completing his programming on the agent.
Fighting Perseus' Spy Network[]
Woods continued his service with the CIA in fighting against the Perseus Spy Network, as Perseus' agents were completing their task of destroying satellites to stop them from interfering with the numbers broadcast. While investigating the destroyed satellite that landed in orbit in Algeria, Adler would secretly secure a data recorder presumably due to his programming from Stitch. Woods was then assigned to stop Perseus agent Kaori "Kitsune" Tanaka who had infiltrated the Echelon NATO station in West Berlin, but Kitsune would upload the broadcast, causing some of Woods' men to turn on each other. Woods was forced to battle his own men and escaped from the station with the operative Stryker as Kitsune escaped.
After the Echelon incident, Woods met with Hudson, who revealed that forensics showed that the data from the crashed satellite would have survived. Woods then laments that Adler was the first to the satellite and that the Perseus soldiers were clean, and Hudson concludes that Adler has been compromised by the Perseus network. He realizes that Hudson is correct since his soldiers were brainwashed at the Echelon Station, and is told by Jason to find Mason to bring Adler in. Woods would contact Mason, who would find Adler and bring him to a interrogation room similar to the one Alex was in back in the 1960s. Mason and Hudson succeeded in breaking Adler's brainwashing, and Woods participated in going to Verdansk with Mason, Hudson and Adler to stop Stitch and the spy network. Woods would fly their helicopter to confront Stitch, and Adler executed the Soviet after learning that Perseus had passed away a year prior from cancer.
After dealing with Stitch, Woods and the team returned to Verdansk and discovered an abandoned Nazi bunker, encountering SOE captain Carver Butcher. The captain explained that after winning the Second World War, he founded numerous task force's to find any remnants of the Nazis across the world.
Encountering Menendez[]
| “ | Thanks to your old man. He put it all on the line for me... for honor... and friendship. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David. |
In 1986, Woods was operating in Angola to help Jonas Savimbi and the UNITA before being captured by Raul Menendez. He and his men were tortured by the drug kingpin, but Woods was left barely alive and placed in a cargo box with his unit's corpses. The agent was later found tortured and barely alive by Mason and Hudson in the cargo box on a barge, and the group were forced to evade enemy forces. While Mason was trying to call Angola Military Leader, Jonas Savimbi, for extraction. The attempt failed after Menendez destroyed the radio he was using to contact Kravchenko (who must've worked for Menendez after the death of his previous superior) and the village that Mason, Hudson, and Woods were in was put on full alert.
After an intense battle against a huge group of MPLA and Tropas, Savimbi arrived in a hijacked Hind (at first, Hudson thought it was the Soviets coming to kill them) and started to extract the three. Just as soon it was mission accomplished, Hudson was shot in the shoulder by a Cuban Soldier, but the shooter was immediately killed by Woods. Following the operation, Woods developed a hatred for Menendez due to his unit's death.
Mason, Woods, and Hudson was then deployed to Afghanistan alongside Chinese SDC Chairman Tian Zhao to help the Mujahideen and their leader Mullah Rahmaan to defend their home from Soviet Russia. After serious fight, Woods first spots a heavily armed attack beginning, Mason leads a countercharge and eventually jumps onto the the enemy leader's tank. After Mason fights him, Woods finds out that it was Kravchenko who was invading Afghanistan.
After an interrogation of what affiliates Kravchenko has on Menendez (which can end as soon as it begins with Mason killing Kravchenko due to Reznov's influence on him or Woods killing him after the interrogation, both are based on player choice) the Mujahideen betrays the CIA and SDC revealing that they were actually working for Menendez and dumps them in the middle of nowhere, tied up and restrained. After a few hours, a group of strangers came by to free the team and Zhao and provided them with water. Mason thought it was Reznov, but Woods denied saying that if it was, he would stick around do some explanations.
After Afghanistan, the team did a joint operation in Nicaragua with the Panamanian Defense Forces and Manuel Noriega in order to capture Menendez. The mission unfortunately went completely array when, on sight of Menendez, Woods throws a grenade into Menendez's sister's (Josefina Menendez, who was severely crippled in a Warehouse fire) room, ultimately killing her accidentally, putting Menendez's remaining life on a much more sinister path that would uncover in years 1989, 2014, and 2025.
Panama Incident[]
| “ | I was pretty sure we got him in Nicaragua. About a year later, he shows up in Panama with that piece of shit Noriega. That's the last straw for the CIA. The orders come down from George H. W. for a snatch-and-grab. So your dad and I, we go in... What a s**t show. | „ |
| ~ Woods telling David of the operation in Panama. |
Woods, along with Mason and fellow CIA asset Mark McKnight, take part in "Operation Just Cause" to capture Noriega by orders from (then) President George H. W. Bush. Suddenly, Hudson gets on the comlink (which had been bugging off constantly) to tell Woods and Mason that Noriega was actually a prisoner exchange/handoff with actionable intelligence on a high priority "Nexus Target". If the player allowed Kravchenko's interrogation go through and found the CIA document at Menendez's compound in Nicaragua, Woods and Mason will become suspicious.
The two agents escort Noriega throughout the slums, but Woods becomes more and more puzzled about the situation. Once Woods takes Noriega to a rooftop, Hudson informs Frank that "Nexus Target" is Menendez and orders him to kill him. However, Woods can become more suspicious and remember Kravchenko's words if the player allowed the interrogation go through. Once either killing or wounding "Nexus Target", Woods quickly discovers that he's killed/wounded Mason. Before he can kill Noriega, Woods is crippled by Menendez and knocked unconscious. Awaking in his hideout, Woods witnesses Hudson sacrifice himself and attempts to comfort David before losing consciousness from his sounds.
Aftermath[]
After the operation, Woods was given a desk job at Langley and became David's legal guardian, but struggled with becoming a proper father for him. At some point he was told that it was Adler behind the failed operation in Panama, but didn't believe it. By 1991, Woods was mentoring fellow agent Troy Marshall and worked with operations specialist and handler Jane Harrow.
Pantheon Investigation[]
In 1991, Marshall, Harrow and William "Case" Calderon are sent to the Iraq-Kuwait border to extract Minister of Defence Saeed Alawi. However, Adler arrived in the team's vehicle, executed Saeed and left a message for Woods - "Bishop takes Rook". Woods and the team were reprimanded by Deputy Director Daniel Livingstone for disobeying orders, and refused to believe Alawi was being hunted by a group known as Pantheon. Lying that he had no clue what Adler's message meant, Woods, Marshall and Case are suspended from duty but decide to go rogue as Harrow covers for them. Woods brought them to the Rook, a former KGB safehouse he and Adler discovered years prior, and they continued Adler's investigation into Pantheon.
Learning that he hired freelance assassin Sevati Dumas, Woods sends Case to recruit her while Marshall spoke with Felix Neumann (whom Woods encountered previously) in Munich. Once the two were recruited, the teamed rescued Adler from a CIA black site by infiltrating Bill Clinton's political event. However, Woods and the agents were declared fugitives by Livingstone since Pantheon infiltrated the black site and attacked Clinton's gala. Once rescued, Adler explained that Pantheon are a ruthless paramilitary organization embedded in the CIA, and are receiving facilities from Saddam Hussein in exchange for a sample of their bioweapon Cradle. With intel from Alawi on the location of the Cradle, Adler and the team work with Park to gain access to Hussein's palace to retrieve the Cradle.
The team return with the Cradle sample, an encrypted disc given to Felix and files revealing that the bioweapon was created in the United States. With the files also revealing the location it was created, the Advanced Technologies and Appliances' biotechnology department in eastern Kentucky, the team investigate and learn that Pantheon obtained samples last year. At the safehouse, Woods and team watch the encrypted disc and see that Harrow is a member of he paramilitary group. While the disc was damaged by Marshall, they are able to gather encrypted audio from Matvey Gusev that the Luttazzi crime family are associated with Pantheon. Performing a heist in Avalon, Woods provides mission control to help the team break into a safe and retrieve a dossier.
Returning to the Rook, the dossier details the Luttazzi's are wiring money to Gusev's lab in southern Iraq. Despite the scientist fleeing to the Kuwaiti International Airport, Adler and Case capture Gusev and learn that a sample of the Cradle is located at Vorkuta. The team then assault the former labor camp and capture Harrow for interrogation, as she sent the bioweapon to an unknown location. While interrogating Harrow, they discover that she is chipped and turn to drastic measures - injecting her with a truth serum that causes it victim to suffer from pseudo-schizophrenia. Though Marshall initially starts the interrogation, Woods takes over while the others fight against Pantheon forces.
From the interrogation, Woods learns that Harrow sent the Cradle at the Capitol Building to perform a false flag operation and ruin the CIA's reputation. Despite informing the team, Pantheon infiltrates the safehouse and overpower Woods, whom is then wounded by Harrow with his own knife. He is able to crawl far enough to be found by Adler, Marshall and Case, and is helped by Russell while the others chase Harrow down. Two weeks after Harrow and Case's supposed deaths, Woods and the team meet with Livingstone, whom asks them to continue as clandestine agents to stop Pantheon.
Retirement[]
At some point, Woods retired from the CIA and continued to raise David until he joined the U.S. Navy. During the early years of the 21st century, Woods warned JSOC about the threat Menendez posed, but they were too busy with the drone race. Woods was later taken to the Vault by the CIA, since he knew too much and participated in their classified operations during and after the Cold War.
The Cordis Die Incident[]
| “ | The dead don't suffer. That's why you and I are still here. | „ |
| ~ A 95 year old Woods to David Mason. |
Woods at the age 95, in the Vault.
On April 19, 2025, a 95 year-old Woods is was visited by Menendez and given the heart-shaped pendant, telling him "Now it begins" and also Mi hermana (translating into My sister in Spanish). Afterward, he is greeted by David, Mike Harper and J.S.O.C. to give them intelligence on Menendez. Showing them the pendant, he agrees to provide them with information on his past encounters with Menendez during operations. He also details Menendez's rise to power from gaining followers during the twenty-first century, but remains vague on how Alex was killed. While explaining how he killed Menendez's sister Josefina in Nicaragua, David questions why Raul hasn't killed Woods yet. Done talking, the war veteran told David to find "that maniac".
Suffering from flashes of Menendez when he was a child, David returned to the Vault and asked Woods what happened in Panama. After telling David of the operation that left him crippled and Alex's death, he encourages David to find and kill Menendez.
Endings[]
At the end of the campaign, Woods' fate depends on player decisions:
After the events of Judgement Day, Woods receives an unwanted visitor, which is revealed to be a 92-year-old Alex Mason, alive and well. Thinking it was a hallucination, Woods tapped Mason in the torso, and to his surprise, it was really Mason and not a mind trick. Later, David was then reunited with his long-lost father.
After the events of Judgement Day, in either scene, whether Mason is alive or not, Woods will be killed by Menendez, claiming his revenge for his sister. His body was placed on his bed with Menendez's pendant.
After the events of Judgement Day, Woods and David visit Mason's grave site, with David telling Woods that he is stepping down as Lieutenant Commander of the US Navy for retirement. Woods replies "He's glad to hear that".
MKUltra Research[]
Before the events of Black Ops III, Coalescence Corporation CEO Sebastian Krueger requested information involved in Project Nova back during the Cold War. Krueger intended to revive the CIA's MK project, and looked up information on Woods, Mason, and Hudson. Krueger would later have Nova 6 re-created, which would cause the Singapore disaster in 2060 and the deaths of 300,000 people.
Project Blackout[]
| “ | Don't blackout, man, I'm on it. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason. |
Between 2043 and 2045, Woods was revived alongside Mason, Menendez and Viktor Reznov by Project Blackout. Referred to as the Archetypes, Woods was assigned by Alex's granddaughter, Savannah Mason-Meyer, to assist specialists in combat. During his time, Woods and Savannah begin a relationship, but he discovers that Alex has been brainwashed by an unknown attacker. Woods takes Mason to the Asylum in an attempt to reverse the effects, and reveals Reznov to Alex in hopes of getting his memory back.
Modern Warfare (2019)[]
| “ | Formerly a member of the US Marine Corps, 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. | „ |
| ~ Woods' biography in Modern Warfare. |
Woods appears in the 2019 reboot Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and 2020 battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone as a playable operative, and became available on August 26, 2020, for players who pre-ordered Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. In the game, he is an operative for Demon Dogs, a branch unit for the Coalition, a multi-alliance group that battles the Al-Qatala and the Ultranationalists.
Modern Warfare II/III[]
Woods returns as a playable operative in Modern Warfare II and its sequel Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, being a member of the SpecGru. He also makes a brief appearance in the infiltration sequence of Warzone 2.0, wheelchair-bound and tasking operatives to find the mole they've been searching for.
Call of Duty: Mobile[]
Woods was added into Mobile in 2020 during season twelve, and became a major character in the comics. In the comics, Woods is the founder of the Phantom Corps, recruiting new operatives and explaining the threat of the Atlas Corporation, the Iron Will and The Tontine.
Quotes[]
Black Ops[]
| “ | The police are gonna be here soon... Let's make this quick. | „ |
| ~ Woods in "Operation 40", his first words in Black Ops. |
| “ | We got company. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason on the Militia coming into the Cuban bar. |
| “ | Crazy b***h... he uses a human shield and she still protects him?!! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason on Castro's mistress trying to kill them after killing the double. |
| “ | Damn you, Mason! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason on the latter staying behind. |
| “ | No response from Weaver. We gotta move. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason in "Executive Order". |
| “ | F**kin - A! | „ |
| ~ Woods after Mason destroys the missile in "Executive Order". |
| “ | Looks don't count for s**t in the jungle. This is 'Nam baby! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason in Vietnam. |
| “ | Back in '64, the CIA gave up control of covert operations in South-East Asia... handed it over to the US military. From that, MAC-V-SOG was born. Now aside from being a base for the Marine Corps, Khe Sanh is our launching point for all cross-border activities. Mostly Laos and Cambodia. Missions are S&D, sabotage, black propaganda, strategic reconnaissance, POW rescue; You know, the usual s**t. | „ |
| ~ Woods explaining the SOG to Mason. |
| “ | Motherf---ers. We're gonna make 'em pay. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason after seeing Bowman's corpse. |
| “ | This time, this time do it! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason during Russian roulette. |
| “ | You got him. For Bowman! | „ |
| ~ Woods upon avenging Bowman's death. |
| “ | You see that hind? We're going to take it. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason. |
| “ | Ok, what's our loadout? UV-32 rockets...12mm nose cannon...These bastards are ready for World War 3. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason, inspecting the hind. |
| “ | Got you now, you son of a b***h! | „ |
| ~ Woods stabbing Kravchenko. |
Black Ops Cold War[]
| “ | You should have freed the hostages when you had the chance! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Arash Kadivar. |
| “ | Who the f**k is Perseus? | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason when leaving the airfield. |
| “ | Every mission we go on is illegal. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Alexander Haig. |
| “ | Not a fucking word, Bell. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Bell in "Redlight, Greenlight". |
| “ | You knew the nuke was from Greenlight and didn't tell us! What else are you hiding? Maybe I can knock the truth out of you. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Hudson about Operation Greenlight. |
| “ | I'm a goddamn onion, Mason. You should know that. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason at Mount Yamantau. |
| “ | Fuck me, That Chopper got away! | „ |
| ~ Woods after Perseus exfiled via Helicopter. |
| “ | Coming up on your right. Belikov really came through on this Soviet Armor! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Adler in "The Final Countdown" level. |
| “ | Copy that, F-ckin' hang on. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Wolf in the season two cinematic. |
| “ | Goddamn Laos... It's go time. Get on the gun, don't get killed! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Wolf in the season two cinematic. |
| “ | He's one tough son of a bitch, but everyone's got a breaking point. Time's wasting, kids. | „ |
| ~ Woods to the team in the season two cinematic. |
| “ | God dammit! LZ'll be hot. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Stryker and his team in the season five cinematic intro. |
| “ | Take 3, circle left. On me. | „ |
| ~ Woods to the team in the season five cinematic intro. |
| “ | On your knees! F-cking now! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Kaori "Kitsune" Tanaka. |
| “ | What the f-ck...? | „ |
| ~ Woods seeing the operatives brainwashed by the numbers. |
| “ | So what? I've read the report. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Hudson in the season five cinematic outro. |
| “ | Adler made damn sure he was first there. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Hudson in the season five cinematic outro. |
| “ | Negative, bodies are clean. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Hudson about the corpses of Perseus Operatives in Algeria. |
| “ | Fu-k. | „ |
| ~ Woods' response to Hudson on Adler being brainwashed in the season five cinematic outro. |
Black Ops II[]
| “ | Aside from the fact that I'm still alive, none of this surprises me. Technology got stronger, but we got weaker. We built computers, robots, whole unmanned armies, but no one ever asks: "What happens when the enemy steals the keys?" When the things they built to keep us safe are turned against us, that's when they figured it out: They'll always need men like us. those who are willing to do..... what others cannot | „ |
| ~ Woods in the Black Ops II Reveal Trailer. |
| “ | This is the Mujahideen, baby. They'll bury you up to your neck, peel back your eyelids, and leave you to fry in the desert! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Kravchenko during his interrogation. |
| “ | Let's not f**k around here, boys. Let's smoke this bastard. | „ |
| ~ Woods in the opening of "Time and Fate". |
| “ | You've got no idea what happened in Angola. None! | „ |
| ~ Woods to Hudson. |
| “ | MASON!!! | „ |
| ~ Woods upon seeing Mason's corpse or unconscious body (player-choice). |
| “ | I gotcha kid. You're okay. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David, becoming his legal guardian. |
| “ | Aside from the fact that I'm still alive... none of this surprises me. | „ |
| ~ Woods at the beginning of the reveal trailer of Call of Duty: Black Ops II. |
| “ | Safety's on, dipshit! | „ |
| ~ Woods demeaning Harper for barging into his room. |
| “ | I was MIA in 'Nam... but your old man thought I was dead. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David on his status after "Payback". |
| “ | Menendez was in Nicaragua, got that from Kravchenko. He was being offered up on a silver platter by old pineapple face himself, Manuel Noriega. One of the perks of being the president of Panama is that you get to use the army as your private police force. So CIA, in their infinite wisdom, they sign off on the deal, and the White House cuts Noriega a check for a million bucks and everybody takes their victory lap. And off we go to the jungle. What we did in Nicaragua... that was an accident. We don't target civilians. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David and Harper. |
| “ | Menendez, he... he wanted to know what the CIA had on him. So he tortured my men in front of me... thought I'd break. One by one. I watched my team die. Then he... dumped us in a tin can and locked the door... left me there for weeks. So yeah, the next time I saw Menendez, I LOST MY SHIT! WHAT THE F**K WOULD YOU DO?!! | „ |
| ~ Woods to David in 2025 on the events of "Time and Fate". |
| “ | Remember that pendant? Pfft.. disappeared. What do you think, it just sprouted legs and walked away? This guy, he knows every angle, every move you're gonna make. He's gonna take 20 to 30 million people. As if that's gonna bring her back. It's about his sister. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David in "Suffer with Me". |
| “ | The mission was good, planning good. The only piece that didn't fit was Hudson, on the comm link running the show. It just felt off, even on the way in... I felt it... You know it was gnawing at me, I just didn't look at it... | „ |
| ~ Woods to David. |
| “ | I should have smoke'd him in 'Nam. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David on Hudson. |
| “ | It didn't go down like that, kid. Noriega was a puppet. We're all just puppets. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David. |
| “ | I may have questioned orders, but I never questioned motives. You take care of your unit, you get your guys home safe {...} That's not how it is. Chain of command's fucked. I'm a soldier. I take orders and I get s**t done. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David. |
| “ | Your old man and I, we were the best, and we still couldn't stop him. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David. |
| “ | What did you learn from that? | „ |
| ~ Woods last words before his death by Menendez (determinate). |
| “ | This is the price we pay for what we do. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David at Alex's grave (determinate). |
Black Ops 4[]
| “ | Mason! This better be god-damned good. You woke me up. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Savannah Mason-Meyer. |
| “ | It's all in your mind, Mason. In the real world, I'm pretty. Get the hell out of here, I got this. We'll talk later. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Savannah. |
| “ | Alright, like the lady said. My name is Woods, friend of the family. If you don't know who I am, tough s-it... heh heh heh. You will... soon enough. Arlight, here's your deal. You come equipped with special issue weapons and gear. I'll train you up. Get you squared away. Now, maybe your feeling frosty, want to get right into the s-it, fine by me. Select combat immersion. Go off and mix it up with the bots. Come on, pick something. Either way, I got your back. | „ |
| ~ Woods to the Specialists. |
| “ | He's the first. The first... Archetype. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Mason on Reznov in Black Ops 4. |
Black Ops 6[]
| “ | Daniel Livingstone: Russell Adler. The mole who betrayed us in Panama. The man responsible for your current... condition, Mr. Woods. So why was he trying to tell you something in Kuwait? "Bishop takes Rook". Any idea what that means? Frank Woods: No clue. |
„ |
| ~ Daniel Livingstone and Frank Woods. |
| “ | People like me and Adler are the reason we ain't speaking Russian right now. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Livingstone about Adler and The Cold War. |
| “ | Me and the kids just need some time away. You know, take a little trip. Reflect a little. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Harrow. |
| “ | We were following an old KGB trail, and a single recording led us here. Seemed abandoned. When we asked our mole inside the KGB about it, he knew nothing. Belikov thought maybe it was some kind of splinter group, not sanctioned by the Central Committee. Whatever it was, It doesn't look like a Red's stepped foot in here since 1968. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Case. |
| “ | Woods: Hey, Something you should see. Sev: No popcorn? Woods: I'm serious. |
„ |
| ~ Woods to Sev and Marshall about The Disk. |
| “ | Time to play some poker, Marshall. Gotta win that hoity-toity High Roller Bar. Only way we'll get access to the lounge. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall. |
| “ | That'll do it, Case is in. Marshall, your time to shine. Win that table and you'll have access to The High Roller Lounge. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall and the team after Case arrives at the Casino. |
| “ | You got this motherfucker. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall while beating against Badeaux. |
| “ | Payback's a bitch. Now grab some hardware and get to The Archive Room. | „ |
| ~ Woods after Case kills One of The Luttazzi Security Guards. |
| “ | Whatever The Pantheon's hiding, Case, It's in Box B24. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Case about B24. |
| “ | Nice job, everyone. Now to find out what's in that dossier. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall, Case, Sev and Felix. |
| “ | Adler? Bullshit, If it's true, that means your parents were double agents, or worse. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Jane Harrow. |
| “ | You were a kid. Can you really trust your own memories? | „ |
| ~ Woods to Jane Harrow. |
| “ | It's Okay! I got you. Now help me. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Jane Harrow. |
| “ | She's not responding. Doing what I can. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall about Harrow. |
| “ | The Cradle's in D.C., The Capitol Building. They gonna release it after grabbing Harrow. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall about Pantheon's plans. |
| “ | Fuck you! Damn it! Shit! | „ |
| ~ Woods while firing his shotgun at The Pantheon Operatives while in a wheelchair before getting attacked by Harrow and his men. |
| “ | Can't let her get away. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall, Case and Adler. |
| “ | No shit, We've always been in the shadows. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Livingstone. |
| “ | I thought The Cold War was over. No more need for, uh, what was it? Global Gunslingers. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Marshall and Livingstone. |
| “ | New orders, kids. We got intel there might be key information here to finally reveal that mole we've been huntin'. Now get out there and get to work. | „ |
| ~ Woods in the opening match infiltration sequence of Warzone 2.0. |
Mobile Comics[]
| “ | Who's hungry? | „ |
| ~ Woods to Ether and the group. |
| “ | Hmph, I don't know if I'd call myself that. But what I am, is part of a loose affiliation of a former intelligence professionals like myself. Who consequently own every house within ten miles, making these just about the most heavily monitored and guarded acres this side of the pentagon, So you can rest yourself easy here. It's safe. But we have one thing in common, The understanding that Atlas was going to make a move someday, make that final push to take it all. We never wanted it, But we knew it was inevitable. | „ |
| ~ Woods to David Mason, Deadman, Ether, Alias, Rampage, Foxtrot and Shadowfall about Atlas. |
| “ | We are under very dire circumstances, Ms. Michaels. And that sometimes means making some, tough choices. Besides, we need Cipher's skills. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Rampage and Ether's Group about Cipher. |
| “ | Great! Good to work with someone with as much operation experience. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Alias about getting along with Ether. |
| “ | Here's where the rubber meets the road. If the false identities you cooked up are as waterproof as you promised... {...} Well, Now's the time when we find out. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Cipher and Alias about infiltrating Memnos Island. |
| “ | Look, I want David back as much as any of you. But without descent Intel, The odds of us getting back onto Memnos Island are slim to none. I hate to say it, But we have to face facts, Mason may be lost to us. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Rampage and The Phantom Corps about Freeing David Mason from Lazarus and Richtofen. |
| “ | Forgive my bluntness, But what the hell are you doing on my TV? | „ |
| ~ Woods to The Iron Will. |
| “ | You got to be kidding me. | „ |
| ~ Woods about Atlas and The Tontine. |
| “ | It was! Looks like Atlas got tired of waiting. | „ |
| ~ Woods to The Phantom Corps about Atlas and The Tontine. |
| “ | We keep low, Make for the back, through the woods. My nearest neighbor is just a hundred yards east of here. Keep moving, keep your head down and kill anything that gets in your way. | „ |
| ~ Woods to The Phantom Corps. |
| “ | Wyatt, You asked, we came. | „ |
| ~ Woods to Bulldozer. |
Trivia[]
- Woods' blood type is B-negative.
- In the multiplayer map Nuketown and Nuketown 2025, Wood's name is one of the mailboxes.
- Woods is the third character chronologically in Call of Duty to be seen in a reflection. The others are Captain Price in Modern Warfare 3, and Raul Menendez (in "Time and Fate") and Section (in "Cordis Die") in Black Ops II.
- His most preferred weapon seems to be the Commando, a type of carbine rifle.
- Voted "The Best Video Game Character of the Year" at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards.
- According to an early casting call and file names, Woods' surname was "Barnes".
- In Black Ops 6, he is the multiplayer announcer for the Rogue Black Ops team.
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