23 Facts About Soap MacTavish

John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional character in the Call of Duty story arc Modern Warfare.

Soap MacTavish first appears as a main playable character in the 2007 video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare where he is part of the 22nd Special Air Service regiment as a sniper and demolitions expert.

Soap MacTavish later appears in the sequel Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released in November 2009, as both an NPC and as one of the playable characters.

Soap MacTavish appeared in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, released in November 2011.

The reboot version of Soap was briefly mentioned in the 2019 reboot title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and its battle royale companion mode Call of Duty: Warzone, where he is featured as a playable character, before making his full debut in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

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Soap MacTavish was well received by critics and became one of the most popular Call of Duty characters.

John "Soap" MacTavish plays a key role in the storyline of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare where he is on the front lines of the fight against the Ultra-nationalists as part of the SAS, more specifically Captain Price's Bravo Team.

Soap MacTavish appears to be modeled after the character "Lake" in the 2003 movie Tears of the Sun.

Soap MacTavish is later killed in action during the course of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 after an explosion where he experiences massive blood loss, whilst on a mission to assassinate Vladimir Makarov, a continuing antagonist of the series appearing in all three titles.

Soap MacTavish is voiced by Scottish actor Kevin McKidd in Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3.

Soap MacTavish is first introduced in the opening mission, after having been selected for the 22nd SAS, based at Hereford.

Soap MacTavish is introduced to fellow squadmates as well as his new commanding officer, Captain John Price, where he undergoes a routine training exercise in the killing house before proceeding on a mission to infiltrate a container ship in the Bering Strait and retrieve a nuclear device.

Soap MacTavish is part of the team responsible for the capture and execution of Khaled Al-Asad, the man responsible for the detonation of a similar nuclear device in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, and the death of Imran Zakhaev, the man responsible for providing Al-Asad nuclear weapons.

Soap MacTavish is part of Bravo Team, which works with US Marine Force Recon in disabling nuclear missiles which Zakhaev launched at the shores of the United States, where he later kills Zakhaev after an Mi-24 Hind destroys a major bridge on their evacuation route.

Five years later, Soap MacTavish is the captain of Task Force 141, a promotion he received in the aftermath of Operation Kingfish, where Price was captured and taken to a gulag in eastern Russia after an attempt on the life of Vladimir Makarov, Zakhaev's former top lieutenant.

Soap MacTavish appears on the mission "Cliffhanger" as an NPC, assisting the player's character, Gary "Roach" Sanderson.

Hours after being extracted from Site Hotel Bravo, Task Force 141 has been disavowed and a dying Soap MacTavish has been extracted to a Russian loyalist holdout in India.

Soap MacTavish saves Yuri's life by pushing him out of the window at the last moment, and is then jettisoned himself from a very high elevation, at which point Soap MacTavish's previous knife wound is reopened.

Soap MacTavish is later mentioned by Price when the latter calls MacMillan to let him know that Soap MacTavish has died and pleads for help in finding Makarov's location.

At some unknown point during 2020, Soap MacTavish is officially recruited to join Task Force 141, though he does not participate in the operations in Verdansk alongside Price and the other Task Force members.

Similar to the Call of Duty character Captain Price, Soap MacTavish appears in a video posted on YouTube by Machinima entitled "Captain Soap MacTavish Plays Halo 3", as part of their Call of Duty and Halo crossover series.

The character appears in the Soap MacTavish Legend Pack, a DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts where Soap MacTavish is a playable multiplayer character.

Soap MacTavish's return was highly anticipated in the reboot series, but many were disappointed by the character's physical appearance upon his release in Warzone, criticizing it as not looking alike to his original counterpart and mocking it with the name "Shampoo".