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Alex! Listen to me... I stole the gas from the Russians, to help us... only to help us! Tell Farah... Tell her, Alex...
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~ Hadir revealing that he stole Barkov's gas to Farah and Alex, before defecting to Al-Qatala.
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I don't care about the world. I did this for my sister.
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~ Hadir explaining his motives while being captured.
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Hadir Karim (Arabic: هدير كريم) is a major antagonist in the 2019 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the main antagonist of the Raids storyline in its 2022 sequel Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.
He is the older brother and lieutenant of his sister Commander Farah Karim, the leader of the Urzikstan Liberation Force, who initially fought alongside her to free the country from General Barkov's control. However, he defected to Al-Qatala, feeling that he needed to go to extreme levels to free Urzikstan from the Russian general's control. After escaping custody, he returns as AQ's new leader to continue his war against Russia and protect his country from Konni. This was until he was killed by his sister, Farah and his former comrades, Captain Price and Alex.
He is voiced by Aidan Bristow, who also played Daniel Allen White in Criminal Minds.
Biography[]
Childhood[]
Hadir was born as the eldest child to Walid and Fatima Karim, and had a younger sister named Farah. Walid was a professor and Fatima was a civil servant for her district in Urzikstan, both respected in their middle class community. Like his parents, Hadir has always sought to make something of himself, but grew up in an uncivil world of war-torn streets and death around every corner.
Hadir's life changed irreparably when a rogue Russian army led by General Barkov invaded Urzikstan and, in a matter of minutes, imposed their will, blanketing his hometown with ordnance and poison gas, and their mother was killed in a bombing that nearly killed Farah as well. He and Farah killed a Russian troop named J-12, who had killed Walid. One minute, Hadir was doing homework and the next, he was trying to escape rifles, gas bombs and capture. Too young, small and scared, Hadir has always been haunted by guilt over his inability to render more aide. With the help of his sister Farah, they attempted to escape, but were both apprehended by Barkov himself and were taken to a prison camp.
War Against Barkov[]
Losing his family, his home and his innocence, like many in his generation, Hadir and his sister Farah grew up in prison without guidance, education or moral instruction. These events fomented a violent and aggressive streak. For Hadir, warplanes, enemy tanks and checkpoints were a normal part of his daily life. After helping his sister lead a rebellion to break free from Barkov’s POW camp, he became a prominent figure and an influence on emerging combatants. Here, he shaped his personality and reputation as a hostile, cunning guerilla fighter. Because he was there when the shelling started, Hadir is viewed as someone to be trusted by his community and beyond.
Left an angry and restless soul with the heart of a warrior, Hadir learned to keep his cards, feelings and plans to himself. Secretive, not through deviousness, but because he had to be to survive. Farah and Hadir see eye to eye on their ultimate goal – to liberate their people – but don't always align on tactics or strategy. Today, Hadir is Farah's lieutenant, but differs with his sister philosophically when it comes to battle.
Hadir has never been beyond the borders of his country and often returns to his birth city to lead counter-occupation attacks. "I couldn't, because my dad and mum are buried here," he says. "I didn't want to be away from them. Now, it is time to go wherever we must, to achieve victory." Hadir considers more aggressive actions to be a necessary part of liberating his people. His singular purpose is to defeat those occupying his land by any means necessary.
Defecting to Al-Qatala[]
By 2019, Hadir started becoming desperate to killing Barkov and with the help of his fellow members of the Urzikstan Liberation Force, stole Barkov's chlorine gas from his Kastovian facility. He continued helping Farah aid her Western allies, particularly Alex Keller, Captain Price and Sergeant Garrick. He participated in the missions to take Barkov's airfield, capturing the Wolf and fought against Al-Qatala in the U.S. Embassy. However, after the Wolf escaped and their attempt to recapture him was intercepted by Barkov's forces, Hadir revealed what he did and unleashed the gas on the Russians and saved both Farah and "Alex" with gas masks. Hadir then joined the Wolf and the Butcher in their HQ, but escaped when an S.A.S.-C.I.A. joint team raided the place. During this, he attempts to convince Farah to join and help Al-Qatala, claiming that they were on the same side against Barkov, but to no avail.
Captured[]
Later, Hadir led Al-Qatala in raiding Barkov's residence in Moldova and took his family relatives as hostage as revenge for what he did to his own. As he started planning to destroy Barkov's gas factory and kill the evil general once and for all, he was intercepted by Price and Garrick. After he revealed that he found where Barkov's gas factory was, he helped them escape as Barkov's men tried to kill them. Hadir is collected from the pair by Kate Laswell and handed over to the Russian government.
He was initially feared to be killed by the Russians for his crimes on their territory. However, according to Laswell after Barkov's death, Hadir was revealed to still be alive and that the Ultranationalists under the command of Imran Zakhaev's son Victor were big fans of his actions and planning to get him out.
Return and Death[]
At some unknown point, Hadir escaped Russian custody and rose in the ranks of Al-Qatala until he eventually became their new commander. In 2022, he led AQ to raid a recently-discovered Soviet-era bunker in the Sattiq mountains in Urzikstan, which housed several Soviet-made thermonuclear missiles. He and his men also fought ULF soldiers led by Alex, whom he spared while killing the others. As AQ took the warheads, Hadir had Alex deliver a message to Farah and her allies: join him in his war against the Russians or stay out of his way. Farah, Alex and Price proceed to pursue him, and eventually catch up to him. As they reach him, they are led into a room rigged with explosives, where he finally encounters his sister and Price with Alex after a long time, who are forced to surrender.
Hadir tried to win over his sister and both Alex and Price but to no avail. So instead, he ordered to have the trio locked up until his mission was done; however they broke out and a fight to the top ensued. The trio later found Hadir in an elevator trying to escape from Atomgrad to Russia while AQ soldiers surrounded the area in a last stand to protect him. Hadir's escape route failed when the three damaged the elevator's mechanism to the point it collapsed to the ground. Found mortally wounded, Hadir tried to reason with Farah to use the nuclear device against Russia, warning that the "real Russians" were coming for Urzikstan. However, before he could give them a name, he drew his last breath. Farah then shed a tear as she acknowledged her brother's death before leaving with the others and the nuke.
Quotes[]
Gallery[]
Images[]
Hadir with his family in a portrait.
Hadir being protected by his father from
J-12.
Hadir attempts to stop J-12 from attacking his father.
Hadir speaking to his dying father.
Hadir seeing a corpse in the gassed town.
Hadir with a flare under a ULF tunnel.
Hadir threatening the Wolf at the U.S. embassy.
Hadir with his sniper rifle.
Hadir being cornered by Captain Price and Sergeant Garrick at the Barkov estate.
Hadir fighting a Russian soldier.
Hadir as seen in Atomgrad, now the Commander of Al-Qatala c. 2022.
Videos[]
Kid Farah Kills a Russian Soldier to Revenge Her Father - Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019
Trivia[]
- In "Hometown", a drawing in Hadir's house has his name spelled as "Haider" (Arabic: حيدر) which is a synonym for lion.
- Due to being Middle-Eastern and being nicknamed by his father as "his little lion", Hadir was rumored by fans to be the reboot timeline's incarnation of Khaled Al-Asad, whose name translates to "the immortal lion". Despite further developments that supported this theory (such as Victor Zakhaev being a fan of Hadir and breaking Al-Asad out; and when Hadir returned as an Al-Qatala commander), it was ultimately disproven by Hadir's death.
- While Hadir loved his sister and supported her cause in freeing Urzikstan from Barkov's control, there are early indications that he developed doubts about her leadership and efforts. For example, when Alex says that Farah is in command, Hadir does agree with this before adding "...and the Russian army is still here." This leans to a possibility that Hadir's defection is because he started to disagree with her methods and unwillingness to hold nothing back against Barkov's forces.
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