It arguably gets worse for him in the Remastered Edition. Then you get to see through his eyes as he helplessly staggers through the radioactive landscape and dies.
The marine shown on Modern Warfare promotional materials, believed to be Sgt. Downplayed in that the radius is so big that they might have not gotten away regardless. Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her Helicopter crashing leads to leads to a rescue attempt which wastes valuable time, causing Jackson's team to get caught in the blast radius and get killed.The Stoic: She is pretty casual about everything that happens to her in the mission.Smurfette Principle: She's the named female character in this game.Danger Deadpan: She is the pilot of "Deadly", and does a great job at keeping her cool.Character Death: She doesn't survive the nuke either.All for Nothing: All the effort lead to save her ends up so, considering every single one of them end up dying, including Pelayo.She dies pretty much just before Jackson does. Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Survives a tiny bit longer after the nuke in Remastered, to the extent the player can watch her on the ground, coughing and choking as she dies a slow, agonizing death in "Aftermath".Pilot of the AH-1W Super Cobra, callsign "Deadly," in the first Modern Warfare game. Voiced by: Anna Graves (English) note Other Languages:Elena Solovyova (Russian)
Verbal Tic: Oorah (USMC shout, equivalent to the Army's Hooah).Token Minority: He's the only member of Latino heritage.The Stoic: Along with all American characters except Griggs.No Indoor Voice: Granted, when you're in a warzone with at least five guns being fired at any given moment, you kinda have to yell to make yourself heard.Character Death: He doesn't survive the nuke.
Big Damn Heroes: Definitely willing to attempt it, even reminding Jackson that "no one gets left behind", but it gets all of them caught in the blast radius of Al-Asad's nuke.Badass Baritone: It's David Sobolov, people.He dies pretty much just before Jackson does. Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Survives a tiny bit longer after the nuke in Remastered, to the extent the player can watch him pitifully walk forward before falling and groaning out his last in "Aftermath".Leader of Sergeant Jackson's Marine Force recon unit in the first Modern Warfare game. Voiced by: David Sobolov (English) note Other Languages:Denis Nekrasov (Russian)