Henry Blackburn

"You can't just walk away from the threat!"

- Blackburn, on being interrogated during The Great Destroyer

Henry "Black" Blackburn is a playable character and main protagonist in Battlefield 3. He is a Staff Sergeant in the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps and is deployed in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan and Tehran, Iran in the war effort against the People's Liberation and Resistance in 2014, and is also the one who killed the game's main antagonist, Solomon.

He and Dima are the main protagonists of the story in Battlefield 3's single player, and Blackburn is the player-controlled character in the vast majority of the missions in the game, including Semper Fidelis, Operation Swordbreaker, Uprising, Operation Guillotine, Night Shift, Rock and a Hard Place, Kaffarov, and in the very end, The Great Destroyer.

Biography
Nothing is known about Henry's life except that his father's name is Michael Blackburn who fought during the Vietnam War, and according to Henry he would have random outbursts by the traumatized effects of the War. His mother's name is not known, he also has a girlfriend/fiancee named Charlene and his grandfather George Blackburn fought in the European Theatre.

Trivia

 * His voice and character model is portrayed by his English actor, Gideon Emeric.
 * Blackburn's rank is shown as Staff Sergeant when he gets out of the LAV in Operation Swordbreaker.
 * Blackburn's squad's callsign, heard from radio chatter throughout the campaign, is Misfit 1-3.
 * Henry was born in Buffalo, New York.
 * It would seem possible that Blackburn is a Designated Marksman, as he is the one of the squad who carries sniper rifles such as the Mk11 Mod 0 in Operation Swordbreaker and the M40A5 in Night Shift.
 * In Fear No Evil when the player plays as Jonathan Miller, Blackburn can be seen for the first, and only time, in the game apart from the cutscenes.
 * Despite being a Staff Sergeant and the highest ranking soldier of Misfit 1-3, he isn't in command of the squad.
 * In the "Fault Line" trailers, Blackburn is sleeveless and both of his arms are completely visible.
 * Also, he wore black USMC Engineer gloves in the trailers, but the colour has changed to the standard USMC Kevlar gloves (Brown/White) in the actual game.

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