Flynn

"I thought you were a pacifist"

- Marlowe "Even the Buddha had to kick a little ass."

- Flynn

"Thanks for the smokes, brother!"

- Flynn before being killed by an RPG hitting his helicopter

Flynn (Callsign: 'Ghost Rider') is a character in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Role
Flynn is the helicopter pilot who flies Bad Company to their missions in the course of this story. At first he is at odds with Haggard, who calls him "A silly, God damned, muffin headed, fucking liberal." Flynn does have a certain hippie demeanor, often commenting on things being bad for his karma and requesting cigarettes from Haggard. He is a skilled pilot showing at one point he can easily dodge RPGs. He was shot down in "No One Get's Left Behind" by a Javelin and brought into a POW camp. He claims to be a "pacifist" and doesn't engage in combat with his helicopter until his final appearance, where he guns down several gunmen threatening the squad. Almost immediately after Flynn is shot down by a RPG-7 and killed, though in fairness to his dodging skills, he wasn't looking in that direction at the time, and was talking to Haggard.

Trivia

 * Flynn and Haggard apparently become good friends through the story.
 * He dies saving Preston and the rest of Bad Company.
 * His last words are referenced in the trophy/achievement "Thanks for the smokes, brother!"
 * In the intro to "Heart of Darkness", Flynn dodges an RPG, saying that they're "easy to dodge. Now if it was a Javelin, then I'd have to do something real tricky," which is ironic as he is later shot down by a Javelin and later is killed by an RPG.
 * Flynn tries to keep his karma clean, but sometimes has no choice but to kill enemy soldiers. Ironically, when Flynn forcedly kills an enemy squad, he is shot down.
 * His callsign, "Ghost Rider" is probably a reference to the movie "Top Gun", although it may be a reference to the song "Ghost Riders in the Sky" by The Outlaws. It may also be another Modern Warfare 2 reference (to the character Ghost).
 * He is most likely registered as a person who does not partake in combat, although that is unlikely as he uses the helo's weapons system to protect the squad.
 * Flynn may have let the RPG hit him on purpose when he was shot down (again) so as to let the squad escape while the Russians were distracted by the explosion.
 * Haggard refers to Flynn by many terms, such as "Space muffin" "Muffin head" "Pinko Commie Liberal". In his final appearance, though, Haggard calls him his "Friend"