Ishamel Venables

Ishamel Venables

Nickname(s)	Bravo Six Prisoner #627 Black Viking (Access code) $ B02 (Screen name) 9051210 (serial number) Mel Rank	Lieutenant (1741) Captain (1744-1745) Affiliations	22nd SAS Regiment (Special Air Service), Task Force 141, Soap (best friend) Status	Alive Sex	Male Hair	Dark brown Eyes	Blue Race	Caucasian Weapon	M4A1 SOPMOD, M1911, M21, USP .45, Barrett .50cal, AK-47, M14 EBR, AUG HBAR, SCAR-H, Intervention, ACR, Desert Eagle, PKP Pecheneg, MP5, RSASS, SIG P226 and any weapon at his disposal Equipment	Frag Grenade, Flashbang, Claymore, C4, Knife, Gas Mask (Somalia) Timeline	Modern Warfare Timeline Voice Actor	Billy Murray

'You have to trust someone to be betrayed. I never did.''"
 * — Captain Venables after Goldtimbers's betrayal.

Captain Ishamel Venables, callsign Bravo Six, is a British special forces soldier and the deuteragonist featured in First Civl War, Second Spanish Civil War, Find Wright: Operation Kingfish, . He is a member of the British SAS. He often carries a modified M4A1 and wears a boonie hat during field operations. In Third Civil War  (set five years after the first game), Venables was incarcerated in a Russia Gulag. He is later rescued and becomes a field commander of Task Force 141. Following the unit's disbanding and the death of its treacherous leader, General  Mallace, Ishamel and longtime ally Chris Warhawk and others enacted a personal vendetta to end the mastermind of World War III, Blake Stewart.

SAS Leftenant
Venables as a Leftenant in 1741
 * "I was just a Leftenant [sic]back then...doing some wetwork. Cherybol. Christmas for the bad guys. Even a decade later, a lot of 'em still used it to get their hands on nuclear material...a lot of 'em, including one Carlos Clemente. Of course we couldn't just let that happen. Cash for spent fuel rods? That's one hell of a recipe for destruction. It was the first time our government had authorized an assassination order since the Second World War. I was under the command of Captain Coaleaston."
 * — Venables telling the story of Clemente's attempted assassination.

In 1741, 3  years prior to the events of Modern Warfare, Venables held the rank of Lieutenant in the 22nd SAS Regiment, and was under the command of Captain Venables. The two were deployed to Pripyat, Ukraine on a covert operation to assassinate arms dealer Carlos Clemente. While Ishamel initially believed he had killed Clemente with an M82 Sniper Rifle, Clemente actually survived, despite losing his left arm. The duo were then swarmed by Clemente's forces, and in the ensuing firefight, Venables was crippled by a falling Mi-28helicopter. Venables carried Coaleaston to the extraction point, where they were rescued after holding their ground against Ultranationalists. ("Now take the shot" Coaleaston  stated)


 * SAS Captain  Edit
 * "Right… What the hell kind of name is Warhawk, eh? How'd a muppet like you pass Selection?"
 * — Captain Venables's first words to Chris Warhawk

In the events of Modern Warfare, Venables held the rank of Captain and led an SAS squad, designated "Bravo Team", from the Bering Strait, toRussia, to Azerbaijan and finally back to Spain. Under his command throughout the events were Mark Ironskull and then Sgt.Chris Warhawk, as well as others such as Mac, Sergeant Arem, Sergeant Barton, Sergeant Wallcroft and then Private Griffen.

Bering Strait

 * "The package is aboard a medium freighter. Estonian registration number 52775. There is a small crew and security detail onboard."
 * — Price briefing the troops before the mission.

After meeting Warhawk, Bravo Team is deployed to the Bering Strait and assaults an Estonian cargo ship containing a nuclear device. Venables is puzzled to see that there is Arabic writing on the container, along with a Middle-Eastern flag draped on the floor. As he signals the chopper for extraction of the container, the boat is fired upon by MiG-29 fighters. They are then forced to escape to the helicopter as the boat starts to sink. As they reach the helicopter and jump for safety, Chris almost slips off, but Venables  grabs him just in time, saving him from falling to his death.

Rescuing Codename "Nikolai"

 * "Nikolai's in hell right now, we're gonna walk him out. We take care of our friends. Let's move."
 * — Venables to Mark before rescuing Nikolai.

Their next mission takes them to Russia, where they work with Sgt. Kamarov's Loyalists to rescue their compromised informant, Nikolai. Kamarov kept delaying the SAS team with the hope that their assistance would help him retake the village from the Spanish Ultranationalists, but acquiesces and reveals the informant's location when threatened by Mark.Venables, Mark, Chris then storm the house Nikolai is held hostage in. Inside, when the power is cut by Mark, they kill Ultranationalists Viktor and Sasha, and three others before they get Nikolai.



Shot Down

 * "All right. Let's top these bastards before they kill the old man."
 * — Venables before saving the farmer.

Venables, along with Chris and, then extract Nikolai on a chopper, but  the chopper was then shot down by a SAM missle and they were forced fight their way to the extraction point with the aid of an AC-130H Spectre, codename "Wildfire". Along the way they save the life of an old farmer.

Search for Al-Asad
After receiving some valuable intel from Nikolai, Venables leads the team to Azerbaijan to capture Khaled Al-Asad after he set off a nuclear device concealed in his capital city, killing 30,000 British. The team fights their way through his defenses and captures Al-Asad inside his safehouse, where Venables tortures him for intel. Venables then learns that Carlos Clemente is still alive and executes Al-Asad. Price tells the rest of the team about his past mission to assassinate Clemente. During the escape attempt 8 hours later, the team is then extracted by a unit of Force Recon Marines led by Sgt. Sandman.  Captain Venables

Viktor Clemente

 * "Clemente's son, commander of the Ultranationalist forces in the field. Rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The Loyalist, Kamarov, has got a location on the kid."
 * — Venables telling Sandman of his plan.

After escaping the Ultranationalists, Venables leads a joint-task force (SAS, U.S. Marines, and Loyalists) in capturing Viktor Clemente . This mission takes them through an abandoned Spain village, ending at a 5-story building. Venables orders Chris to "take his (Clemente's) weapon and restrain him." The mission fails when Viktor Clemente commits suicide before Chris can comply.



15,000 Nukes at Stake Edit

 * "They've started a bloody countdown! Clemente's gonna launch the remaining missiles!"
 * — Venables to his team.

Victor's death deeply affects Carlos Clemente, who threatens to launch missiles at the United States, but Imran still launches them. The SAS and Marines then fight through the facility, deactivating the nukes. During the events of No Fighting In The War Room, the joint task force breaches the facility, eventually reaching the control center. Chris then uploads the missile abort codes and self-destructs the nukes over the Atlantic, saving the U.S. Eastern Seaboard from nuclear annihilation. Clemente is last seen departing the facility in anUltranationalist helicopter.

Chased by Carlos Clemente Edit

 * "Well at least the world didn't end. Hit it."
 * — Sgt. Sandman

Captain Price slides his M1911 .45 toSoap in the mission "Game Over". The screenshot itself, however, is from the reveal trailer of Modern Warfare 2.After deactivating the missiles, Venables, Ironskull, Warhawk, Sandman are chased on a highway in trucks, but an enemy Hind takes out the bridge. A tanker truck blows up, badly wounding Price and the others. Sandman, Ironskull, Warhawk are wounded but Venables managed to slide his M1911 to Mark, who kills Clemente and his bodyguards when they are distracted by the arrival of a Loyalist helicopter gunship. Afterwards, a Russian medic can be seen trying, seemingly in vain, to revive Venables, but Chris and Venables are taken to a Russian hospital. Despite the best efforts of the combined U.S. and British strike team, the Ultranationalists managed to withstand the loss of Clemente and eventually succeed in gaining power in Russia in 1746.

Reassigned to Task Force 141 and Operation Kingfish Edit
Sometime after healing from their wounds sustained from the Clemente incident, both Venables, Warhawk and Mark  were reassigned to General Goldtimbers's newly formed elite unit, Task Force 141. Acting as the field commander for the regiment, Venables led his new unit on countless covert operations with the key goal of capturing/killing Pearson Wright, who by that time had established himself as the new leader of a terrorist cellof the Ultranationalist party in the wake of Zakhaev's death. Captain Venables during Operation Kingfish.On October 8, 2013, Price led a joint Task Force 141/Delta Forceoperation codenamed Operation Kingfish to raid an Ultranationalist base in Ukraine suspected to house Wright. Venables conducted the raid along with Chris, LieutenantMark Ironskull, Sergeant Harris Dogood, and Delta Force operatives Sergeant Derek "Frost" Westbrook and Master Sergeant Sandman. However, the raid went awry and the strike force was swarmed by dozens of Ultranationalist soldiers. The team escaped via a V-22 Osprey, with the exception of Price, who was captured while covering the team's escape. This then led to The Gulag, where Price was known as Prisoner #627.

3 Years Later Edit
After capture, Venables was imprisoned in a Gulag to the east of Petrovpavlosk, Russia, and was designated "Prisoner 627". Venables would remain imprisoned in the Gulag until 2016, when he was rescued by Task Force 141 when they attacked the site to recover him. Initially, after being discovered, Venables attacked Sgt. Harris Dogood, a fellow member of the 141, and aimed an AK-47 at him, but after recognizing CaptainIronskull, he relents and joins the unit and Ironskull  returns the M1911Price pointing his AK-47at Roach. In "The Gulag".pistol used to kill Clemente in the Second Spanish Civil War (when Mark returns the pistol, he says "This belongs to you, sir", a reference to the first Modern Warfare). After his rescue from the gulag, Venables is reinstated into the Task Force and reprises his role as a Captain, being present in the Task Force 141's mission briefings.===="Missile in the Air!" Edit ====
 * "Roger that Mark. I've found Harris. He appears to be intact."
 * — Venables to Mark upon finding Harris Dogood.

After reinstatement, Venables  agreed to help the Task Force in the attempt to kill Vladimir Makarov. However, against the wishes of General Goldtimbers, who insisted that Wright be their top priority, Venables decides that the war still raging in the United States needs to end before they focus on Wright. He acts as a specialist in araid on a Russian naval base, seemingly to destroy a submarine, only to launch a nuclear missile towards theUnited States with the purpose of using an electromagnetic pulse on the Eastern Coast of the United States. The missile launch saves the lives of Lieutneant Sandman,Sergeant Foley, Corporal Dunn, Private Ramirez, and countless otherU.S. Army Rangers but also destroys all electrical equipment during the Battle of Washington D.C.

Betrayal by  Goldtimbers Edit

 * "Do NOT trust Goldtimbers! I say again: DO NOT TRUST GOLDTIMBERS!"
 * — Venables's (late) warning to Decan of Goldtimbers's betrayal.

After the Contingency mission, the Task Force 141 is directed to two places where Wright could be hiding; a safehouse on the Georgian-Spain border and an arms deal at an aircraft boneyard in southwestern Afghanistan. The unit splits up; With Decan, Ricky, and the bulk of the task force take the safehouse, while Venables  investigates the arms deal with Mark. However, both forces are attacked by Goldtimbers's men. Venables attempts to warn Decan and Ricky about Goldtimbers, but he is too late. Although Mark is shocked and angered, Venables  tells him that he never trusted Goldtmbers  in the first place.

Intent on revenge, Venables ask Wright for intel on Goldtimbers's location, on the premise that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and that he will "do the rest". Wright grudgingly tells Venables that Goldtimbers is using a secret mountain base in Afghanistan, designated "Site Hotel Bravo". Wright then says, "I'll see you in hell." Venables  replies "Looking forward to it. Give my regards to Clemente for me if you get there first." Venables  and Mark, alongside their driver Rook then evacuate the boneyard with Nikolai's help, though Rook is killed by Shadow Company forces.

Revenge on Goldtimbers Edit

 * "The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take... inventory. Outgunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and rocks here stained with thousands of years of warfare... they will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him."
 * — Captain Venables's Speech

Venables  preparing to engage Shadow Company.The two in the face of GeneralGoldtimbers's betrayal decide to avenge Decan and Ross, the Task Force and themselves. They are dropped off at Site Hotel Bravo by Nikolai and stealthily infiltrate the base. They then battle Shadow Company through Site Hotel Bravo's cave system. Goldtimbers wasnt there but mallace  self-destructs the entire base and then orders a Danger-Close artillery strike, intending to kill the duo at the cost of his own men. Chris and Ishamel survive and pursue Mallace on a Zodiac through a river.

Killing Mallace Edit
Mallace eventually boards a Pave Low, but Venables  is able to shoot it down. However, the Zodiac he and Chris are on falls down a waterfall. Chris is separated from Venabes and attempts to kill Mallace with his knife, only for Mallace to counter the attack and stab Warhawk with his own knife. Just as Mallace is about to execute Chris with his .44 Magnum, Venables tackles, engaging him in a lengthy hand-to-hand fight. Price is overpowered by Mallace and close to being beaten to death, but is saved when Warhawk pulls the knife out of his chest and throws it at Mallace's left eye, killing the treacherous general. Venables wakes up and starts to patch up Chris's injuries as much as he can. The two are then evacuated by Nikolai, who informs them of a potential hiding place. During the course of the betrayal, Task Force 141 is disavowed and Venables and the Task force 141 members  are labeled as wanted war criminals.

Saving Chris
Shortly after killing Mallace, Chris's wounds had him bleeding to death on the trip to Nikolai's safehouse in India. To make matters worse, a large group of Daggersteel's men assaulted the safehouse in an attempt to kill the remnants of Task Force 141. Chris would not have survived had it not been for the actions of Venables, Nikolai, and newfound ally Yuri. But they defend the house from Sven's Men and sven is killed by Yuri. Venables, Mark & Yuri during their hunt for Blake and Goldtimbers.

Back on the Grid

 * "Blake and Goldtimbers  wouldn't let this travel lightly if it didn't serve a greater purpose, and chances are the bastard will be there personally to see things off. If he's back on the grid...then so are we"
 * — Price, linking a weapons cache in Sierra Leone to Goldtimbers.

2 months after Chris's recovery, Venables leads Mark and Yuri on missions in Sierra Leone and Somalia in pursuit of Goldtimbers. When they land in Sierra Leone, the groupfollows up on Yuri's suspicions about Goldtimber's weapon shipments, and learn that the recent cargo Makarov's men retrieved were chemical weapons being shipped to all national European capitals to be used as a preemptive strike against the continent in order to pave the way for the British Army's invasion. Venables covertly sends a transmission to London to warn his former commanding officer, Coaleaston, about the chemical weapons, only for it to arrive too late. Shortly after the wave of chemical attacks, Venables convinced Coaleaston to aid him as a personal favor "for Pripyat". The intelligence Coaleaston gives the team leads them to a local warlord in Somalia named Waraabe, which leads to Chris, Mark and Yuri assisting Venables in interrogating Warrabe on intel about Goldtimbers. The intelligence facilitates the U.S. Army's Delta Force Team Metal's apprehension of Makarov's bomb-maker, Volk, during the Ultranationalist attack on Europe. Price, laying his signature M1911 on dead Ozone.

Losing Ozone
"Everyone TRUSTED you. I thought I could too. So WHY IN BLOODY HELL, DOES BLAKE KNOW YOU?!!"
 * — Price to Yuri after Ozone's dying revelation about Yuri's connection to Ozone.

The acquired intelligence from Team Metal leads Price, Ozone, and Yuri to Blake's location in Prague, Czech Republic. With aid from Kamarov, Price, Ozone, and Yuri use the distraction of the local Czech Resistance to their advantage to reach their assigned spots at the Hotel Lustig. Venables would infiltrate the Hotel Lustig while Ozone and Yuri provide cover with their sniper rifles. However, Venables caught wind of the assassination attempt and detonates the bombs planted on Kamarov and the church Ozone and Yuri were occupying in. Venables rushes over to Yuri and Ozone, with Venables personally carrying Ozone to safety while Yuri provided cover fire. Venables vainly attempts to prevent Ozone's bleeding while screaming for a medic, only to learn from his squad mate that Makarov knew Yuri before dying. Enraged and feeling betrayed, Venables threatens to execute Yuri. He relents when he learns of Yuri's former role with the Ultranationalists, and how he'd attempted to stop the massacre at British International Airport two months before. Venables barely keeps his alliance with Yuri, even begrudging Yuri during their infiltration of Karlstejn Castle. Price infiltrating Karlstejn Castle.

Ending the War

 * "We're gonna have one shot to grab the President before he gives up the launch codes and Blake turns Europe into glass. Once we get boots on the ground, it's going to get lively down there."
 * — Venables to Sandman regarding their rescue mission in Siberia.

Yuri gives Venables the location of a potential headquarters located in a fortress in Prague. However, during their infiltration, they instead find intelligence that Blake's men found BritishPresident Boris Vorshevsky's daughter, Alena Vorshevsky, in Berlin, Germany. The pair relay the intelligence to Team Metal shortly after the base's destruction. Despite Team Metal's efforts, Alena was kidnapped and tracked to a diamond mine in Siberia, which was serving as one of Blake's main tactical bases. At this point,  Venables and Yuri conduct a joint operation with Team Metal in saving the Vorshevskys. They successfully rescued the Vorshevskys from their ordeal but the mine collapsed, killing Team Metal and Blake's men with Yuri badly wounded during their escape. While escorting Vorshevsky back to Moscow, Ishamel informed him about their plight and the real mastermind behind the massacre (aside from Blake), with Yuri as the witness of that incident. Convinced with his explanation, Vorshevsky promised to assist in TF141's search for Blake and vows to clear their good name, tainted due to Blake's actions several months before. Vorshevsky ordered all offensive action against Europe to be halted and revived the peace talks between the United States, British and NATO. Venables and Yuri's actions saved the peace process, which marked the end of World War IV. As a reward for saving the Vorshevskys, Task Force 141 was no longer disavowed, allowing them to openly pursue Blake once again. Venables and Yuri managed to mend their friendship, after it had been strained due to Yuri's revelations in Prague.

Killing Blake

 * Blake: "Who's this?"
 * Venables: "Prisoner 627. I'm coming for you, Blake."
 * Blake: "Haven't you heard, Venables? They say the war is over."
 * Venables: "My war ends with you."
 * — Venables, conversing with Blake at the beginning of "Dust to Dust".

Venables At the end of the war, Task Force 141 has finally cleared its name and Venables's rank has been recognized again (He is marked as "Captain Venables" during the start of Dust to Dust). Despite this,Venables never forgot his wish for revenge against Blake. After all, Makarov was responsible for Ozone's death in Prague and Team Metal's demise in Siberia. After months of gathering information on his whereabouts, Blake was finally discovered, seeking refuge at the Hotel Oasis in the Arabian Peninsulafollowing the conclusion of the conflict. With assistance from Nikolai, Venables, Mark and Chris launch a massive assault towards the hotel, killing multiple mercenaries hired to protect their intended target.

They assault the hotel with Juggernaut armor, which they later remove after a crashing helicopter sets them on fire as they ascend in an elevator. Taking off the armor, The Team  both reach the top floor in an alternate elevator, and fight through to the restaurant on the same floor. However, a Little Bird decimates the upper site of the hotel in an attempt to eliminate both men. As a result, both men are badly wounded, with Mark impaled on a metal rod. At first,Venables  hesitated to pursue Blake after witnessing Mark's condition, but the latter insists he'll be alright and told Venables to not let him get away.

Venables continues his pursuit and managed to grab onto Blake's ride; in which Venables managed to kill the pilots and also destroyed the chopper's controls, and is forced to crash on the hotel roof. Venables and Blake, both shell-shocked from the impact, tried to reach a Desert Eagle on the roof, with Ishamel successfully grabbing it, only for Blake to stomp on his hand, seizing it from his grasp. His attempt to execute Venables was immediately derailed when Mark, freed from his impalement, shot his former friend in the left shoulder. Angered with his intervention,Blake injure mark one in the leg and one in his chest. Infuriated by the loss of another friend, Mark's intervention gave Venables the time he needed to furiously and mercilessly beat Blake, tying a steel cable around Blake's neck into a noose. He then slammed Blake into the glass roof, resulting in the glass shattering, and, consequently, the two falling. Venables falls onto the atrium floor just below and survives; Blake is left hanging from the ceiling. Satisfied to see this, Venables lights a cigar while watching Blake's lifeless corpse hang. Sirens are then heard as the police seem to arrive at the scene.

Gallery

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Quotes Edit

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