Villains Wiki

Hi. This is Thesecret1070. I am an admin of this site. Edit as much as you wish, but one little thing... If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!!

READ MORE

Villains Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Warning
Scarfaceinthefall
This article's content is marked as Mature
The page contains mature content that may include coarse language, sexual references, and/or graphic violent images which may be disturbing to some. Mature pages are recommended for those who are 18 years of age and older.

If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page.

Please, stop playing me for a fool, Dmitri. I know you're the mole and that it is this you're looking for.
~ Anton Charkov to Dimitri Belikov.
Hell is not in my future. Your daughter's future, on the other hand...
~ Anton Charkov to Piotr Ivanov, threatening Ivanov's daughter.

General Anton Charkov (Russian: Антон Чарков) is a supporting antagonist in the 2020 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

He is a Soviet officer and KGB official who learned that his close friend, Dimtiri Belikov, was a mole for the CIA and was trying to help them infiltrate the KGB headquarters. Charkov's fate is left up to the player, as he can be killed, framed, or avoided in the mission, "Desperate Measures".

He was voiced by Adam Tsekhman, who also played Phears in One Night in Doom House.

Biography[]

Past[]

Anton Vladimirovich Charkov was presumably born during the 1940s in Russia and joined the Soviet Armed Forces during the height of the Cold War. He befriended Dimitri Belikov, and from dialogue that the two can have in his office, the two served in the Vietnam War and the Afghan War and were Mi-24 pilots. Another hint of dialogue from Belikov states that he and Anton survived their platoon during the Vietnam War, and Charkov states that sometimes he wishes he could swap places with his fallen comrades.

Before the events of the game, Charkov married a woman named Anna, and it's implied that Belikov attended the wedding, as he states that Anna was a "beautiful bride" when looking at a photo of her in Anton's office. Charkov managed to reach to the rank of general, and became a official within the KGB and took a desk job alongside Belikov, but Anna wanted Anton to retire to the country. Though loyal to the Soviet Union, he expresses a cynical outlook on his job, telling Dimitri that he does miss missing flying helicopters.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]

By 1981, the KGB began an investigation on finding a mole who was embedded in the KGB headquarters, and Belikov and Colonel Lev Kravchenko were tasked with finding them. Unbeknownst to the KGB, Belikov was the mole and was assisting the CIA into stopping Soviet threats. Charkov learned that Dimitri was the mole but didn't tell his superiors presumably due to his friendship, and possibly wanting to place him into custody. Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and Imran Zakhaev then gave Anton security clearance with the bunker key, and Charkov was also tasked to interrogate Piotr Ivanov, who was accused of working with the enemy. After the meeting with Secretary Gorbachev, Belikov realizes that he needs to handle Charkov and get the bunker key for Russell Adler and his team.

Fate[]

The player has a few options to deal with Charkov and to get the bunker key, as Anton can be eliminated by Belikov or Ivanov, framed as the mole and apprehended by Kravchenko, or left alive if Dimitri reprograms a keycard. If the player decides to kill Charkov, Belikov will set up a meeting in Charkov's office where they can poison his tea or kill him with a knife. If the player decides to persuade Ivanov to kill Charkov, they inform Piotr that he will keep his family safe if he kills Anton for him. If the player decides to frame Charkov, they will pass off Dimitri's communications to the CIA as Anton's and give Kravchenko a false document which results in Anton being incarcerated.

If left alive, it's assumed that Charkov exposed Belikov as the mole to the Central Committee but was too late to stop Dimitri from escaping from the KGB headquarters. If incarcerated, it's assumed that Charkov was able to prove his innocence, or the KGB figured out that Belikov was the mole. No matter the choice on how to deal with Charkov, Belikov will be exposed as the mole within the KGB and is nearly killed by Spetsnaz. However, Adler and "Bell" save him, and they the trio manage to escape from the KGB headquarters with the assistance of Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay.

Quotes[]

At times I feel I would gladly swap places with any of them. Terrible, I know.
~ Charkov to Belikov on their platoon (player-determined).
Excuse me? Do you know who you're speaking to?
~ Charkov to Kravchenko, if framed (player-determined).
Colonel, have you lost your mind?
~ Charkov to Kravchenko, if framed (player-determined).
Is this your way of setting up my fall, Kravchenko? I look forward to hearing the response of the Central Committee.
~ Charkov to Kravchenko, if framed (player-determined).

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Though Charkov is described as a general, his epaulets have the rank of colonel.

Navigation[]

           5b75443e654ce385696653 Villains

Nazi Party
Heinrich Amsel | Friedrich Steiner | Dr. Edward Richtofen | Dr. Ludvig Maxis | Carl Heinrich | Metz | Heinz Richter | Peter Straub | Hermann Freisinger | Jannick Richter | Leo Steiner | Luftwaffe | Waffen-SS

Red Army
Commissar Letlev | Nikita Dragovich | Lev Kravchenko | Daniel Clarke | Spetsnaz | Spetsnaz Operative | Anton Charkov | Nikolai Belinski | Vadim Rudnik

OpFor
Khaled Al-Asad

Russian Ultranationalists
Imran Zakhaev | Victor Zakhaev | Vladimir Makarov

Shadow Company
General Shepherd

Inner Circle
Vladimir Makarov | Viktor | Lev | Kiril | Anatoly | Volk | Alexi

Zaragoza Drug Cartel
Manuel Roba | Gilberto

Brazilian Militia
Alejandro Rojas | Rojas' Assistant

African Militia
Waraabe

Cordis Die
Raul Menendez | DeFalco | Javier Salazar

Strategic Defense Coalition
Tian Zhao

Mujahideen
Mullah Rahmaan

Inter-Services Intelligence
ISI Leader

Menendez Cartel
Jose Luiz Menendez | Raul Menendez

Federation
Gabriel T. Rorke | Diego Almagro | Victor Ramos

KVA
Joseph Chkheidze | Pierre Danois

Atlas Corporation
Jonathan Irons | Dietrich Ansel | Samael | Dark Shepherd | Hidora Kai | Iron Will | Dr. Edward Richtofen | Lazarus | The Marshal | Nyx | Jun Takeshi | Satsumebachi

54 Immortals
Goh Xiulan | Goh Min

Coalescence Corporation
Sebastian Krueger | Yousef Salim

Common Defense Pact
Corvus | Jacob Hendricks | John Taylor | Dylan Stone

Nile River Coalition
Abasi Hakim

Settlement Defense Front
Salen Kotch | Akeel Min Riah | Bradley Fillion | Caleb Thies | Radoslav Barkov | Vlad Derhachov | Damien Nichols

Barkov's Forces
General Barkov | J-12 | Vladimir Makarov

Al-Qatala
The Wolf | Hadir Karim | The Butcher | Khaled Al-Asad | The Chemist | Pyro | Scavenger | Rhinoceros | Sniper

Ultranationalists
Victor Zakhaev | Imran Zakhaev | Vladimir Makarov | Inner Circle | Konni | Konni Captain | Milena Romanova | Ivan Alexxeve | Andrei Nolan | Rook | Gibson | Rees | Davidson | Raptor One | Charlie One | Ari "Dokkaebi" | Sona "Keres" Mirzoyan | Pyro | Scavenger | Bombmaker | Bullfrog

Perseus Spy Network
Perseus | Arash Kadivar | Anton Volkov | Qasim Javadi | Franz Kraus | Robert Aldrich | Vadim Rudnik | Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin | Kapono "Naga" Vang | Freya "Wraith" Helvig | Roman "Knight" Gray | Owethu "Jackal" Mabuza | Kaori "Kitsune" Tanaka | Benito "Fuze" Ortega

Quds Force
General Ghorbrani | Hassan Zyani

Shadow Company
Phillip Graves | Wimbush | Spaulding | Velikan | Scavenger | Bombmaker

Las Almas Cartel
Valeria Garza | Diego Salgado

The Five Knights
Russell Adler | Vladimir Makarov | Raul Menendez | Gabriel T. Rorke | Mace | Édouard "Templar" Couteau | Cecilia "Dame Perrin | Hidora Kai | Vagr Modir | Rott

The Dark Covenant
Stansfield | Kryptis | Anna "Artery" Buckler | Witch Doctor | Dark Shepherd | Édouard "Templar" Couteau | Cecilia "Dame Perrin | Nyx

The Tontine
General Shepherd | Dark Shepherd | Fiona "Flamewing" St. George | Lizbeth "Kestrel" Warnholdt

Apothicon
Shadowman | Dr. Monty

Zombies
Avogadro | Aleksandra Valentina | Cosmic Silverback | Demonic Announcer | Yuri Zavoyski | Samantha Maxis | Dr. Edward Richtofen | Dr. Ludvig Maxis | George A. Romero | Gorev | Hellhounds | Hugo Jager | High Priest of Chaos | The Order | Oracle | The Forsaken | Crawler Zombies | Space Monkeys | Zombie Monkeys | Napalm Zombies | Shrieker Zombies | Astronaut Zombie | Denizens | Jumping Jacks | Jack Fletcher | "Legacy" Baranov | Ari "Dokkaebi" | Sona "Keres" Mirzoyan | Terminus Outcomes | Ghosts | Panzersoldat | Lukas Kurtz | Kortifex | Zaballa | Die Wahrheit | Crog-Zilla | Mephistopheles | Omega Group | Salvatore DeLuca | Billy Handsome | Albert Arlington | Michael O'Leary | Peter Straub | Projekt Endstation | Ordas | Brutus | The God-King | Ulrich Vogel | William Peck | Willard Wyler | Wolfram Von List

Others
A-Train | Alucard | Axis Powers | Black Noir | Cryptids | Empire of Japan | Fidel Castro | General Shepherd | GhostFace | Godzilla | Homelander | Imperial Japanese Army | Inarius | Juggernaut | Kevin Sparks | KGB | Korean People's Army | Lilith | Lukas Richter | Marcus Washington | Manuel Noriega | Mercs | Mexican Army | MPLA | Mendoza | Mendoza's Assistant | Michael Myers | Núñez | Nightfall Program | NVA | Ortelius | Phantom | Predator | Royal Italian Army | Russell Adler | Russian Forces | Stasi | Savannah Mason-Meyer | Skeletor | The People's Covenant | Templar's Shadow | Task Force Tyrants | T-1000 | Xavier Hirtzel | Vernon | VC Bookie

Advertisement