Ludvig Maxis

Doctor Ludvig Maxis founded Group 935 to change the world, and did. The mode’s original unseen authority — heard through Der Riese’s radios conducting the teleporter and hellhound experiments — he is betrayed by Richtofen in 1945 with his daughter as collateral, and spends the rest of two sagas as progressively less of a person: a soul on the Moon, an AI in Black Ops II, a brain in a drone at Origins. Fred Tatasciore voices him.

The many deaths of Maxis

Black Ops II is his revenge arc: as an electronic ghost he out-schemes Richtofen through Victis’s hands, wins canonically at Buried, opens Agartha — and dooms the Earth doing it, before Monty wipes that corrupted original from existence. The Dimension 63 version fares gentler: his drone-borne brain flies into the Agartha portal at Origins, and Monty rebuilds him a body in the House — but without a soul, which is precisely the flaw the Shadowman later exploits to get the Summoning Key opened.

Alpha Omega

His last act is his best: warning the crews of Monty’s plan and teleporting Samantha and Eddie to safety before Doctor Monty, in his true form, devours him. The model’s resemblance to philosopher Daniel Dennett — the man who wrote the book on brains in vats — was not an accident.