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"	Hey Forest, you wait like hammered southt.	„
	~ Alex to Woods in The Vault, 2025 - referencing what he said to Wood in Vietnam.

"	Alaska-built-in Alex Mason. His efforts of heroism during the darkest hours take made him a cornerstone of the Black Ops saga.	„
	~ Bricklayer's profile bio for Call of Duty: Mobile.

Helm Alex Mason (born June 3, 1933) is the master protagonist of the Call of Duty franchise's Black Ops series. He is the main protagonist of the 2010 video game Call of Duty: Blackness Ops, one of the two tritagonists (alongside Frank Woods) of the 2012 sequel Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a mentioned graphic symbol in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and a major character in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. He returns in the 2020 video game, Call of Duty: Blackness Ops Cold War, being a playable character and co-tritagonist alongside Woods, and equally a playable graphic symbol in Phone call of Duty: Mobile.

He is a U.S. Marine and CIA operative who was brainwashed to be a sleeper agent, but was reprogrammed by Viktor Reznov to enact his revenge on Nikita Dragovich, Lev Kravchenko, and Friedrich Steiner. After stopping Dragovich from destroying the west, Mason connected to serve the CIA to stop terrorist threats, such every bit the rogue Soviet spy "Perseus" and his spy network. During his operations in the 1980s, Mason and his close friend, Frank Wood, would become the enemy of Raul Menendez, who wanted to get revenge on them for the death of his sister. Depending on the player's pick, Stonemason can either be wounded or killed during the invasion of Panama, and tin can return at the end of Black Ops II.

He is voiced by Sam Worthington, who portrays Jake Sully in Avatar and its upcoming sequels, Marcus Wright in Terminator: Salvation, and Perseus in 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans and its 2012 sequel Wrath of the Titans.

In Call of Duty: Black Ops - Declassified, he was voiced past Nolan North, who besides voiced Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series, Edward Richtofen in the Call of Duty zombie series, Desmond Miles in the Assassin's Creed series, Sergeant Randall in Phone call of Duty two, Deadpool in numerous media and video games, The Boss in the Saints Row series, Hades in 2005s God of State of war, Sparrow in Legend II, and many others.

In Telephone call of Duty: Black Ops Cold State of war and Call of Duty: Warzone, he is voiced past Chris Payne Gilbert.

Biography

Early Life

Alex was born on June 3rd, 1933 in Fairbanks, Alaska, to unnamed parents, and is the blood brother to Dot and Marion Mason. He was raised in the Alaskan wilderness to chase with his begetter, who was a World War II veteran, and also became adept to cold atmospheric condition. Mason was known for existence a first-class marksman, being only twenty years old to win the Wimbledon Cup, being the youngest to do.

Armed forces Career

"	But inquire anyone. Mason was born and bred for the Division, a homo who could call back on his feet, improvise, and plow an ugly state of affairs into a win.	„
	~ Ryan Jackson speaking of Mason's abilities.

During the 1950s, Bricklayer joined the U.s.a. Marine Corps every bit an infantryman, honoring his begetter who was a member of the Marine Raiders, in the Korean War. Alex became a member of the Marines' forcefulness recon, and was later recruited into the CIA's division, the SOG after his service in the marine corps. Mason would run across and befriend Frank Woods, who would go on of his close friends for years onward. Before the events of the series, Mason and Woods befriended Joseph Bowman, who was a naval officer and operative for the CIA.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

"	You will move without boundaries. You volition act to a higher place the constabulary. You will use any means necessary to stop the wars that are hidden from the earth. And if you succeed, y'all will do so, without any recognition. Because you do non exist.	„
	~ Mason in the Black Ops trailer.

Mason is a one-time Marine Corps Captain and was a member of the covert assassination team Operation forty, inserted into Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 to carry out Operation Zapata, the assassination of Fidel Castro. Afterwards believing to be successful, Mason is captured and brought before the real Castro, who'd had a double die in his identify, who then turns him over to General Nikita Dragovich, who, along with Colonel Lev Kravchenko and Dr. Friedrich Steiner, turn Mason into a Soviet sleeper amanuensis able to understand numbers broadcasts and assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Later on spending two years in the Vorkuta Gulag, Bricklayer and Viktor Reznov (who sabotaged Stonemason's programming to kill Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner instead) pb a massive uprising leading to their escape. Though Mason managed to escape via a train, Reznov sacrificed himself so Alex could consummate his plan to get revenge on Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner.

Mason returns to the U.Southward. and becomes a CIA agent under the control of handler Jason Hudson, and is authorized by President Kennedy himself to kill Dragovich. During his briefing, Mason hallucinated himself pointing a handgun at Kennedy, indicting his brainwashing was nonetheless in effect. Believing he had washed so at the Baiknour Cosmordrome in Kazakhastan, Stonemason later develops doubts. When the CIA operative Grigori Weaver was captured by Kravchenko, Mason and his team decided to rescue him before going to eliminate Dragovich. In 1968, he joins the MACV-SOG in Vietnam and helps investigate the Soviet presence there. During the Tet Offensive, Stonemason is deployed to Hue City to recover a Russian defector who he believes is Viktor Reznov (in reality, the defector is not Reznov and Reznov is non really alive; he had been killed during the Vorkuta insurgence and Mason'due south visions of him were a consequence of a traumatic disorder brought upon due to brainwashing) who has a dossier on Dragovich and reveals his development of the nerve amanuensis Nova-6. According to Mason in Blackness Ops Cold War, the CIA operative Russell Adler was present in Khe Sahn, as he was leading a team too. Information technology's causeless that Mason met Adler there, merely it's left uncertain.

Mason, along with "Reznov" and his Op 40 squad mates (Frank Wood and Joseph Bowman) are sent into Lao people's democratic republic to detect the Soviet's alliance with the Viet Cong. There, they observe a downed Soviet cargo airplane containing a big shipment of Nova 6, which had dispersed during the crash, and the plane also contains American weaponry. This is a trap prepare by Dragovich and Kravchenko, who capture all of the Op 40 members and have them tortured by the Viet Cong. Bowman is killed by a Soviet operative, and Mason and Woods escape and fight their way to save other soldiers. Reaching to Kravchenko, Stonemason was nearly killed by the Russian until Woods saved his life, stopping Lev from killing Alex with grenades. Mason started to feel his hallucination of Reznov, and Viktor advised him to get his revenge on Steiner past traveling to Rebirth Island.

Going to the island, Mason infiltrated the base and started to slaughter scientists and Russian soldiers in the labs, where Steiner was attempting to contact the CIA. Alex killed Steiner before being knocked unconscious by Hudson, who was part of a CIA team sent to the island to retrieve Steiner so they could decode the numbers station. Seeing that Stonemason is the only one who tin crack the numbers sequences, Hudson and Weaver interrogated him in the abandoned NSA facility. During the interrogation, Mason relieved his past experiences, and refused to believe that Reznov was not with him in Vietnam and Rebirth Island. When Hudson revealed himself to exist the interrogator, Mason escaped and was knocked out past Jason, who managed to catch up with Alex in the facility. After Hudson explained that he was brainwashed, Mason was able to remember where the numbers station was, in the Rusulka off the declension of Cuba.

Later, Stonemason, Hudson, and Weaver attack the Russian send "Rusalka", with Stonemason hungry of revenge confronting Dragovich. They fly in with helicopter, destroying about of the ships and a Russian Hind earlier being shot downwards. He, Weaver and Hudson kill anybody in their way, only to find that Dragovich is in a underwater lab connected to the Rusalka. Hudson and Mason dive down and kill everyone, and and then Dragovich shoots Mason when he tries to disable the numbers station. He yells to Bricklayer that Mason could've been his best man and now Bricklayer would take to pay the price. Then Hudson shoots Dragovich twice, buying Mason enough fourth dimension to elevate down Dragovich. Mason then punches Dragovich, telling that he tried make him kill President Kennedy, with the latter replying "tried". Mason then proceeded to drown Dragoivch, and Hudson helps him make it to the surface.

On the way upwardly, Mason'southward journey ends with "Reznov" telling him that Mason did what "he could not". Then Weaver pulls him into a boat and they go out the wreckage of the Rusalka, who stated they won, but Mason replied with "for at present".

Betwixt Black Ops and Black Ops Cold War

"	He's in. Nice work, Stonemason. Have a smoke. You earned it.	„
	~ Hudson to Mason after a successful mission in Blackness Ops: Declassified.

Mason still served in the CIA, during secret missions with Wood while Hudson and Ryan Jackson gave back up for him on operations. Mason would gain intel while fighting KGB in Germany, and stop the KGB officer Mikhail Belov who was running a spy ring along the Berlin wall. Alex would later go into hiding with Hudson and Weaver amidst Functioning Charybdis, but survived and gained a hatred for the CIA. Mason later married an unknown woman, who gave nativity to their son, David. After her death, the relationship between father and son was strained, every bit Alex was harsh to his son and teach him in Alaska like his begetter did.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold State of war

"	What the hell are yous talking well-nigh? You know who we are?	„
	~ Bricklayer to Alexander Haig during the briefing.

In 1981, Mason is tasked past President Ronald Reagan and Hudson with eliminating Iranian terrorist leaders Arash Kadivar and Qasim Javaid, every bit they have taken role in the Iranian hostage crisis. Mason works with Wood and Russell Adler, and with the help of the Amsterdam police principal Hans, they are able to confront Javadi on the rooftops. Bricklayer interrogates Javadi and manages to learn that Kadivar will encounter someone at the Trabzon Drome, Turkey. Later on capturing or killing Javadi, Bricklayer, Woods and Adler head to Turkey to eliminate Kadivar, and witness him betray and murder 2 soldiers. Mason is tasked with killing Kadivar, but the shot goes through a soldier Kadivar was speaking to. Despite this, Mason and the group succeed in stopping Kadivar from escaping on a aeroplane, and Arash reveals to Adler that a human being by the name of "Perseus" wants to destroy the west.

After the mission, Bricklayer, Woods, and Adler become the White House and are briefed by Hudson on Perseus, a infamous Soviet spy who had eluded Adler's clutches for decades. President Reagan gives the guild to let Adler course a team to stop Perseus, and Mason and Forest are chosen to be field operatives for the team. While Adler and his team, which consists of Lawrence Sims, Helen Park, Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay, and an operative by the code name "Bell" capture or kill Russian mafia boss Anton Volkov, Mason and Woods are sent to Kiev. Mason and Adler were later on aided Wood and "Bell" escaping from a hugger-mugger Spetsnaz training facility in Ukraine, and learn from Forest that the CIA take American nukes from an operation called "Greenlight". Mason and the team confront Hudson, seen he was the head of the functioning and kept it a secret from Adler and the team. Hudson, Adler and the team realize that Perseus is after sleeper agents that Dragovich programed, and is looking for the list of names from the Yamantau facility. Adler sends in Bricklayer and Woods to collect the mainframe, despite Hudson non wanting Alex on the mission (because that he was "likewise shut" for information technology).

Bricklayer and Woods managed to collect the mainframe with the help of KGB double amanuensis Dimitri Belikov with his helicopter, simply Hudson's superior Emerson Black reveals that Perseus erased them. Realizing that their out of options, Adler decides that Belikov tin can help him and "Bell" become disguises to infiltrate the KGB headquarters to collect the list from the athenaeum bunker. The player has the pick to play Mason in two side missions "Operation Chaos" and "Operation Red Circus", where you tin eliminate ex-CIA turned Soviet ally Robert Aldrich and Soviet Major Vadim Rudnik. If the player manages to collect the show and solve them, Bricklayer and Woods go to the border near Colorado and New Mexico to kill Aldrich, and a Soviet military base in Uzbekistan to eliminate Rudnik.

Bricklayer participates in the operation to locate Theodore Hastings in Havana, as he was a sleeper agent programed by Dragovich. Adler and the team larn that Perseus had reprogrammed Hastings to give him all control of the American nukes across Europe, which Perseus will use to incriminate the United States. Bricklayer and the team manage to escape, but Park or Lazar are left behind and killed by Tropas. It'south afterward revealed that "Bell" was actually a close associate of Perseus who was betrayed by Kadivar at the airport in Turkey, and was saved by Adler. The CIA and so had "Bell" programmed to help them try to stop Perseus, and the player has the choice to either reveal Perseus location (Solovetsky) or take them to the wrong location (Durga).

If "Bell" decides to assist the CIA in stopping "Perseus", Bricklayer participates in the performance in destroying the AA-guns so Hudson tin send in a bombing run. Mason, Woods, Adler and "Bong" succeed in destroying the AA-guns, and with the bombing runs, "Perseus" cannot detonate the American nukes.

If "Bell" decides to betray the CIA, they will take Adler, Mason, Woods, and Park/Lazar to Duga-two. If "Bell" didn't contact their Soviet allies, Adler will angrily kill them, and tell the grouping that he needs to get in contact with President Raegan. If "Bell" managed to contact their Soviet allies, Mason and the team are killed in the process, and "Perseus" volition reveal himself and allow "Bell" to detonate the nukes.

Fighting the Perseus Spy Network

When Adler was brainwashed by Perseus agent Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin, Mason was called in past Woods on Hudson's orders to find Russell. He would succeed in finding Adler, and brought him into the interrogation room to effort to pause his programming. Bricklayer succeed by speaking Dragovich'southward numbers to break Adler'southward programming, and participated in going to Verdansk to stop Stitch and help Adler complete destroying the city. After, Stonemason and the group discovered Stitch in the forest of Verdansk, and Mason told Adler that he could deal with Stitch on his own. It'southward assumed that Adler informed Mason and the group about Perseus's demise, having died of cancer a year prior.

Post-obit Stitch's death, Mason and the team returned to Verdansk and discovered an abased Nazi bunker where they encountered Carver Butcher. The captain explained that he was an ally instead of a threat, and how he founded Task Forcefulness Vanguard to deal with the Nazis after Adolf Hitler's death during World War II.

Between Black Ops Common cold War and Black Ops II

"	Dad, you said you lot'd never get back to the ground forces. You promised me.	„
	~ David Mason to Alex in Alaska.

Earlier 1985, Mason left the CIA and military presumably out of delusion, or simply to raise his son since his wife passed away years before. Information technology's causeless that Mason has a like relationship with his son as he did with his male parent, being somewhat common cold and distant. It's as well hinted that Stonemason would meet with Hudson's wife Jenny and their kids, and take David on hunting lessons in Alaska. It's too possible that David was existence cared by Jenny in 1981 since he was born during the late 1970s.

Phone call of Duty: Black Ops Two

"	Your old man was one tough son of a b***h. Bet your ass he was.	„
	~ Mike Harper and Frank Woods.

In 1986, Stonemason is with David in Alaska, and is called to rescue Frank Woods in Angola by Oliver L. North, and Hudson. Stonemason and Hudson assist Jonas Savimbi fight against the MPLA, and receive intel that Wood is on a transport clomp, and leave to become relieve him. The two succeeded in getting Woods out of the barge, just are force to stealth their way through the jungle to call for rescue. When reaching to a radio station, Mason holds Raul Menendez at gunpoint, just has to escape after the latter pulls a pivot on a grenade, but shoots out his heart. The trio are rescued by Savimbi, and Hudson is saved by Woods, who was wounded past a surviving MPLA soldier.

Mason and Wood rejoin the CIA, and get to Afghanistan to help the Mujahdeen find information on Menendez, and stopping the Russians. Mason helps past destroying tanks, and shooting down helicopters that were reaching the valley with the aid of Tian Zhao. When returning, the team fight off a Russian tank, but Mason is attacked by Lev Kravchenko, causing the numbers to return. Woods and Mason knock out Kravchenko, and take him dorsum to the base of operations, and witness his interrogation. The actor can either given into the numbers and shoot Kravchenko, or let the latter reveal that Menendez has people in the CIA, and Woods execute him. The Mujahdeen betray Mason, Woods, Hudson, and Zhao, leaving them into the desert until they are saved past strangers (with Alex thinking it was Viktor Reznov).

The CIA agents head to Nicaragua to find Menendez, and are aided past the President of Panama, Manuel Noriega. Withal, Noriega betrays them, and frees him before being browbeaten by Menendez, who goes to save his sister, Josefina. Mason and the squad fight off the dare soldiers, and learn of Noriega'due south betrayal, causing Forest to go into a rage filled hunt for Raul. When going down into the base of operations, Hudson tells Mason to go along an eye on Forest, stating that he is losing it. When Wood and Bricklayer confront Raul, the former starts to fire, as Mason holds him downward. Frank head buts him, and throws a grenade that kills Josefina. Menendez was reported to be killed, but was alive, and would plan to accept revenge against Mason and Woods for Josefina's death.

In 1989, Mason, Wood, Hudson, and Marking McKnight are part of Operation: Just Crusade, and are to frame Noriega, and capture him. The mission goes successful until Hudson tells the duo that they have a new target, and orders them to bring him to a secure location. At the location, Stonemason is captured by PDF and posed as the target (Raul Menendez), as Woods is ordered by Hudson to shoot him. The player has the choice of killing him, or shooting him in the tummy, or in the legs. If alive, Mason will remain unconscious as Woods loses both of his legs, Hudson is murdered, and Menendez volition remind David of the pendant.

Legacy

"	Alex Mason: However got that scar? You made me proud that day. David Bricklayer: I barbarous... Alex Mason: Aye... but y'all got back upwardly.	„
	~ Alex and David Bricklayer (player-detrmined).

Stonemason was listed equally Yard.I.A., and Forest would become David's caretaker, who would later bring together the United states Navy. David would become a Lieutenant Commander, and would have to stop Raul Menendez in 2025, and would learn of the truth of what happened in Panama by an elderberry Woods. If Mason was killed, David volition render to his grave with Woods after stopping Menendez, and decides to retire and live with his family, with Woods telling David that his male parent would corroborate of his conclusion. If Mason survives, it'south unknown what happened to him afterward, but he return after Menendez's defeat. Alex will go to the Vault and reunite with Woods and David, telling the latter that he is proud of him.

Black Ops 4

"	It'southward all in your listen, Woods.	„
	~ Mason to Forest.

In Call of Duty: Blackness Ops 4, Bricklayer is reborn aslope Wood, Hudson, Menendez, and Reznov by his granddaughter, Savannah Mason-Meyer. Mason would take the role of elder Woods from Black Ops Ii, and is reintroduce to Reznov, who supposedly survived the escape from Vorkuta.

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Trivia

There are sometimes where Mason tin can be heard with an Australian accent (eastward.m. Bowmans' death), this is considering his voice actor, Sam Worthington, is an Australian actor.
Though his eyes are light-green in Blackness Ops, his eyes appear brown for the remainder of his appearances.
For the terminal, Mason's login is "AMASON", and his countersign is "PASSWORD", something Hudson has criticized.
In the E3 demo for Call of Duty: Black Ops, the character had an different voice actor.
Mason appears to not have a full grasp on the Russian language, every bit Woods hopes that his time in Vorkuta helped his Russian.
Though Mason'southward programming was by and large broken, he has shown to still encounter the numbers when something of the 1960s is brought upwards in the serial:
- In Black Ops Cold War, Stonemason tin see the numbers in "Echoes of a Cold State of war" if the player interacts with a corpse that has one of Hudson's crossbow bolts, and seeing a picture of Steiner when getting the revolver from the locker.
- If the player looks up Bricklayer's file in Black Ops Cold War at the safehouse, information technology states that his psychiatric test are ongoing.
- In Black Ops II, Mason sees the numbers when confronted past Kravchenko in "Old Wounds", and when Lev is interrogated, the player has the choice of killing Kravchenko and succumb to the brainwashing or letting the interrogation go through.