Captain Alex Mason is a CIA operative and retired Marine Force Recon Captain.[2] He is the main protagonist and the main playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops. He returns as a deuteragonist in Call of Duty: Black Ops II as the main playable character for the 1980s missions (excluding Suffer With Me). He also appears as an NPC in Black Ops DS and as a playable character in Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified. In Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, he's one of the four Archetypes brought back to 