Allen's torso tattooed with St. Basil's Cathedral for his undercover mission
|Appears in||Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Mentioned/Flashback/Photograph)
|Rank||Private First Class|
|Affiliations||U.S. Army Rangers, Task Force 141, CIA, Inner Circle (as a spy)|
|Killed By||Vladimir Makarov|
|Birth||1994, Ithaca, New York|
|Marks||Tattoos (pictured above)|
|Death||August 12th, 2016, Zakhaev International Airport, Moscow, Russia (aged 22)|
|Weapon||M4A1, Desert Eagle, M9, M240, any other weapon at his disposal|
|Equipment||Knife, Frag Grenade, Flashbang|
|Voice Actor||Troy Baker|
Private First Class Joseph Allen (a.k.a. Alexei Borodin) (Russian: Алексей Бородин) was a playable character and a protagonist in Act 1 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
75th Ranger RegimentEdit
Allen was introduced in "S.S.D.D.", helping Sergeant Foley train Afghan National Army troops at Firebase Phoenix in Afghanistan. He demonstrated to the troops how to aim, fire a weapon, throw a grenade to take down targets. He then underwent a selection phase for Task Force 141, running "The Pit", prior to engaging local OpFor troops immediately afterwards.
Task Force 141/C.I.A.Edit
After completing "The Pit", he is hand-picked by General Shepherd to go undercover in Vladimir Makarov's personal cell under the alias Alexei Borodin. During the events of "No Russian", Allen is selected to participate in Makarov's assault on Zakhaev International Airport where the Inner Circle perpetrates a massacre of the civilians present and of the responding FSB forces. Allen is eventually killed by Makarov when attempting to escape from the airport, who had learned about his real identity ahead of time. His body was then left behind for FSB forces to find, implicating the United States as the perpetrators of the attack and thus igniting World War III. He became a victim of a conflict of goals between General Shepherd and Makarov.
- Firebase Phoenix, Afghanistan - Assisted in the training of local military forces, participated in combat operations IVO Firebase Phoenix.
- Red Zone, Afghanistan - Helped take control of small Afghan school and town.
- Zakhaev International Airport, Moscow, Russia - Participated in CIA-sponsored deep-cover infiltration of Makarov's inner circle; compromised and killed by Makarov.
- The name Alexei Borodin might be a reference to the first Call of Duty game, because of the fact that the first playable Russian character's first name is Alexei, and the first person the player meets has the last name "Borodin".
- The tattoos on Allen's chest that were added as part of the operation are Russian Prison tattoos. The cathedral is symbolic of how long a person has been in prison, with each steeple representing a sentence.
- Joseph Allen is mentioned in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 during the cutscene before "Turbulence", on a sticky note that reads: "Who is Alexei Bodorin?", the alias being misspelled.