Mattias Nilsson (Mercenaries)

Mattias Nilsson, or The Viking, is a playable character in the 2005 video game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and it's 2008 sequel Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, voiced by Peter Stormare. He is a Swedish mercenary who sports a mohawk and beard, and is heavily tattood. He is extremely reckless and violent, and is obsessed with explosives.

Biography
Nilsson was born in Arvidsjaur, Sweden in 1973 and served in the Swedish Navy as an artillery officer, and as an Arctic Ranger in the Swedish Army. After leaving the military, he was involved in criminal activity and was a member of a local biker gang called the Jagare (Swedish for "Hunters"). After escaping from a Swedish prison, he became a mercenary to satisfy his thirst for destruction and money. Nilsson has fought in a number of warzones around the world including North Korea and Venezuela. He is able to speak English and Russian, as well as his native Swedish. It is also possible that he speaks Danish and Norwegian, as many Scandinavians do. In the video games, his speciality is Tough Merc which means that he is able to regenerate health faster. He is also very quick on foot and is able to overwhelm his enemies quickly.

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
The President of North Korea, Choi Kim, was overthrown by his son Choi Song, who brought his own government into power. This upset a number of the world's superpowers as it threatened world peace, and was an immediate threat to North Korean-South Korean and North Korean-Chinese relations. The Allied Nations invaded and put up a most wanted list or "Deck of 52", comprising of North Korea's 52 most wanted government and military leaders. After the successful military coup, Nilsson travelled to North Korea seeking employment and hoping to make money from the situation. He hunted down these 52 fugitives, killing some and capturing others, and also did work for the South Korean and Chinese militaries who were also acting as peace-keepers in the country. While in North Korea, Nilsson used his contacts in the Russian Mafia to obtain weapons, vehicles and other necassary supplies.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Set in Venezuela during August 2010, Mercenaries 2 takes place against a backdrop of political and military turmoil. At the beginning of the game, Nilsson is greeted by a man named Blanco, who he apparently once worked with but left when he stopped making money. In the meeting inside the villa, Venezuelan multibillionaire Ramon Solano hires him to rescue a top Venezuelan Army General named Carlos Carmona, one of Solano's friends, who is being held prisoner by the Army after a failed coup attempt. A small faction in his army did not agree with the coup, captured him, and has taken him prisoner in an old colonial fortress on an island off the coast of Venezuela. Mattias uses weapons and air strikes supplied by Solano to infiltrate the fortress and rescue Carmona. Once Carmona is rescued, however, Solano attempts to murder Mattias to avoid payment, and to make sure there is no interference with his plans for Venezuela. He is able to escape, despite being "shot in the ass", and begins to plan revenge on Solano. Nilsson hires Fiona Taylor, Ewan Devlin, Eva Navarro, Misha Milanich to help him hunt Solano down, and aquired a nuclear bomb from the People's Liberation Army of China in order to destroy the bunker where Solano was hiding. Once inside the bunker, Nilsson killed Solano in a helicopter crash, but managed to escape himself.