Infinity Ward and Activision unveiled a host of online multiplayer features this morning for the latest entry in the “Call of Duty” franchise, but one of the most surprising had to do not with a weapon or co-op mode, but with the gender of a character,

At the conclusion of a new trailer for this November’s “Call of Duty: Ghosts” — the clip features a previously unreleased song from Eminem — a sniper levels a gas station. Cut to a close-up of the previously unseen soldier’s face and, in a rarity for the “Call of Duty” franchise, the shooter is shown to be a woman.

Female characters have cropped up from time to time in the “Call of Duty” series, but never before in what’s long been a boys-character-only club of online multiplayer. It’s a second “first” when it comes to characters for “Call of Duty: Ghosts” — Infinity Ward and Activision previously showed off a combat-ready canine created for the game.

When it comes to adding women to “Call of Duty’s” multimillion-strong multiplayer modes, “it’s something that we’ve gotten tons of requests for and it’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time,” said Eric Hirshberg, who oversees the “Call of Duty” franchise for Activision Publishing.