Call of Duty Zombie Movie Reaction | Aether Cutscenes

Diving into the deep end on this one. Multiverse. Time travel. Zombies. Craziness ensues. Hope you enjoy our Call of Duty Zombie movie reaction. These are the intro and outro cutsscenes for the aether storyline.
Our Second Reaction Channel - tinyurl.com/mt334b3b
Support the channel as a Patron - / definitelynotdefinitive
Merch - my-store-c5a517.creator-sprin...
Instagram- tinyurl.com/2u7fyfw7
Discord - / discord
Tips are always welcome and appreciated - tinyurl.com/yc6ka629
Send us postcards and mail
Definitely Not Definitive
P.O. Box 901927
Palmdale, CA 93550-9819
We have family affected by MS which is why we donate a portion of our ad revenue to Can Do MS. Can Do MS is a national nonprofit organization that delivers health and wellness education programs on exercise, nutrition, symptom management, and motivation to help families living with MS thrive. If you are looking for a charity to donate to you can click the link here tinyurl.com/yckpvtb8
original video - • CALL OF DUTY ZOMBIES: ...
#callofduty #callofdutyzombies #cod #reactionvideo

[@misterbones5981]

I forgot how confusing it is to someone who doesn't play cod zombies or read the lore😂😂

[@nathanboyle7573]

It's confusing because whoever laid the video out there watching put everything completely out of order it goes in order by the games I don't know why whoever made the video did this

[@gimok2k5]

@@nathanboyle7573 As someone who has played the games: Nope, the videos are in the order of the map releases. The problem is, not all maps had intro or outro videos until Black Ops 3 (and Giant still had no outro even then).

[@nathanboyle7573]

@@gimok2k5 as someone who's been a longtime player since 2008 by discovering zombie that they're beating the campaign of World at War and have been well well-versed in the zombies Community as well as being friends with some very big zombies KZbinrs, I can tell you that okay maybe it's by release but world at war maps still had cinematic trailers which aren't shown here. But no I was right in what my comment said is that this is not in chronological order so it's not going to make any absolute goddamn sense. Not sure why you tried to argue that just because it's in release order doesn't mean it's in story order

[@gimok2k5]

@@nathanboyle7573 Because the release order IS the story order. That's chronological in terms of events that happen as players experience it. That happens when the plot very early on (as early as the 5th map) involves time travel. And no, the only WaW map that had any sort of intro or outro cinematic (NOT A TRAILER) is Nacht. Which is shown.

[@DriskotTheDense]

Ooh boy, over a decade of a series of games that kept so many of us entertained. I will never forget the 10 year anniversary video. Fun fact about that very first cutscene is that it automatically happens right after you beat the campaign, no one knew of the zombies mode until that hit us all

[@lennyface8195]

It surely scared the shit out of me when I first saw it. God, I wish I could experience that feeling again.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

That’s a nice surprise and good reveal for the zombie mode 🤩

[@DriskotTheDense]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Scared 7 year old me to high heavens, haha

[@marcusw.bryant4857]

​@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames you guys should watch the Call of Duty zombies timeline from @EruptionFang

[@KingKP96]

Call of the Dead in particular is really cool, because Treyarch (the guys that did Black Ops 1) actually had George Romero help them with designing the map back in 2011. He appeared as an incredibly powerful boss enemy that would follow you around the map, going berserk if he was shot and hunting you down with a massive stage light until he either murdered you or you led him to water where he'd calm down. The map was re-made/re-imagined as the final Zombies map for Black Ops 4 in 2019, and while George didn't return as an enemy, his glasses were left on a table and you could interact with them. Doing so would have whatever character you were playing as say a line in remembrance of George or a line morning his passing, which I always thought was really nice.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

That’s a nice homage 🥲

[@vinnievu1]

"Let's do lunch sometime. HOW ABOUT NOW???!!!?"

[@Zyron416]

I don't get emotional often. However, when 10 years of my life, my childhood, have been based around this story line. Watching it all end, watching my childhood walk away. It made me realise nothing good lasts forever, but at least i have the memories the Aether story line gave me.

[@clarkestomps]

Growing up playing call of duty zombies from World at war used to scare me but you know what that proves that it was successful at the time. Zombies as a whole is so replayable I can always go back and play it and always have a great time. My personal favorite map will always be Der Riese the introduction of pack a punch was phenomenal along with perk-a-colas and wonder weapons is iconic!

[@Alyrael]

The only map that STILL scares me is Nacht der Untoten, the atmosphere and sound in that map is _unreal,_ as well as the cutscene that leads to it.

[@clarkestomps]

@@Alyrael the original world at war maps had that feeling of horror to it which I like now as for the reboots in other titles they’re ok they look less creepy.

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😎🤟👻

[@briancarnalla1112]

@@Alyrael don’t forget about another scary zombies map, Verrückt

[@Didymoii]

Why not put world at war zombies first because that’s the first zombies ever

[@richyrich04]

Everything seems all over the place, but when you play the aether story you get attached to the characters and you learn the long but amazing story

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Yeah this one was tough for just cutscenes. Definitely feels like one you have to be fully immersed in 🙂

[@TheAHuman]

It’s the character you get from their lines in game that makes you care about them and makes me still tear up a little at the blood ending.

[@jadedcode8953]

Dang, Black Ops Zombie storyline is great. Too bad the video they reacted too is cut terribly 😓

[@BigRagatheOpStomper]

They reacted to all the animated cutscenes, so it was bound to happen.

[@Sheadudess]

I know about copyright, but the song shepherd of fire should be heard in the video. It really adds to it.

[@JustSomeGuywithEpicGrasses]

Reacted to*

[@ManuelRodriguez-by5su]

@@BigRagatheOpStomper That wasnt all of them, and a lot was cutted from others showed in the video.

[@rabbit2686]

I had no idea the storyline of the OG crew ended. That was a journey that I was not expecting to have finished.

[@displeasable]

It’s a very complex and confusing storyline, and realllly long too, but if you guys would be interested in learning the chronological storyline I think it would help clear things up for you two, as well as showing you both how insane the creators and writers of the story were when they were coming up with it all. I’d expect the whole story reaction would be multiple parts as most of the full-depth storylines on KZbin are many hours long. This was a nice experience to have with you two anyhow :) thank you both

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Complex and confusing indeed. Lot going on here and we still enjoyed checking it out even if we didn’t know everything that was going on 😅

[@yeet8163]

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Ive played all of the games and still dont understand the storyline 😂

[@TheAHuman]

Just the timeline poster is WILD.

[@thwomp1542]

Time for the 6 hour long zombies storyline explanation video

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

😯🤯

[@dark_disciple]

Despite how long it is it's actually is a very good video at explaining everything

[@HBShadows]

@@dark_disciple i made a 9 hour one 2 years ago😭

[@dark_disciple]

@@HBShadows damn bro

[@o5-193]

@@HBShadows I’ll watch yours later

[@Hodie_Cras]

Okay as a huge CoD zombies fan I'm gonna savor every single second of this. You, Definitely Not Definitive, are quite epic. Thank you a lot

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Haha, our pleasure 🤗

[@cec6304]

Yeah I absolutely love this story. The Zombies Call of Duty Storyline is well over a Decade Old. So What happens in the cutscenes is honestly like 3% of what the story is. You honestly with an over hour reaction you just got important events without actually explanations of each event, why they were doing it. Who people are, etc. Like I'm being honest here, you're missing out on 97% of this storyline. Its an incredible storyline, one that I grew up with. first started playing Cod Zombies when I was like 10 or something young. Right playing Black Ops 2 and then kept up with every Zombies games. I am now 21. And its still one of my favourite Game Stories of ALL TIME

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Well we still are interested in playing zombie mode in cod so maybe we will do a full playthrough down the line 😅

[@spartangaming1159]

The story of zombies is amazing definitely one of my favorite stories of all time hope you’ll watch a story explained video. Always enjoy y’all’s content!

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Yeah we would need a video to help explain what we watched for sure 🙂

[@5thyonko491]

A bit late to comment but growing up playing cod zombies from bo1 to know it’s always so cool to seeing people first reactions to cod zombies

[@varnasblade]

I'd love to see you guys react to the full story, but it's a very long complicated thing

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

Haha, from the parts we saw we believe you 😅

[@bloodgroundgaming7871]

I remember doing couch co op zombies with my buds after a long day of school all the time back in the day. Good times.

[@TheAHuman]

This is so nostalgic. Especially Gorod because that summer was so nostalgic. Watching the Zhouse, seeing all the Dr. Monty videos to Zombies KZbinrs, playing DE and Gorod with my neighbors. It was such a great summer. This whole story is one of the greatest stories in gaming history.

[@thatmemeguy2520]

100% agree

[@DannerGlay]

This was the first time I've seen the Final cutscene in 3 years, and it brought me tears again. The aether storyline was my entire childhood and I love it with a passion. Thank you for the reaction and the memories!

[@pasdri]

This was so sad to rewatch. We had the same characters for 20 years and this is how it all ended. A lot of tears were shed. also 1 thing. it was upsetting for us players who grew up on zombies since the company didnt get funding and we only got drew animations near to the end of the story in the game, but they added a little animated part at the end for us all which was really nice and upsetting at the same time

[@SolProxy]

20 years? I think your math is a bit off.

[@LightTheBeammm]

The characters were introduced in 2009 and the story finished in 2019, that’s 10 years not 20

[@mistertwister2000]

Dude that Mob of the Dead intro is a classic, best zombies map

[@NomoBox]

I love that you guys watched this! I understand there might be some confusion through out this movie. The Call of Duty zombie storyline is very complex and long. And there is definitely some plot holes in this movie. But none the less it's a great movie to react to if you're new to this

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

It got confusing for sure but still got us more interested in learning more on zombie storyline 🙂

[@chilli6143]

This brought so many great memories, I'm really grateful for you guys doing this. Alot of the cinematics won't make sense, I suggest you watch someone explain it, it might shed some light on the situation. But great video :D

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

We will definitely need some more explanation to grasp the full extent of what is going on 🙂

[@noodlecat_]

Oh boi the lore is deep with this one , this story gets real crazy and really weird but it's definitely a blast

[@jovanyc3397]

The COD Zombies storyline is extremely hard to explain but I absolutely love it and grew up with it and it basically did the multiverse before the MCU fully delved into it. This most understandable way I can explain these cutscenes is that a group of 4 survivors team up to survive a zombie outbreak and the player is led to believe that its just a game made up by these 2 children, Sam and Eddie. It fast fowards to a mysterious version of Richtofen coming through a portal and stealing a powerful artifact called the summoning key; he's recognizable but he's different and his intention is unknown. He was commanded by Dr. Monty (essentially Ms. Minutes from Loki) to go through time and to fix the multiverse, by destroying an alien race called the Apothicons and eliminating the other versions of themselves. This plan was all set out in a book that Monty gave him that tells him exactly what needs to happen. However, on their journey the doubts of the Primis Crew grows and they begin to lose trust in Richtofen and the book and he begins to doubt Monty as well, because one powerful being trying to use people as pawns to destroy another powerful being doesn't sit right with him, but he follows through with the plan anyways. They miraculously succeed by using the summoning key and creating a black hole that gets rid of everything they were fighting against, then Dr. Monty reveals that he was just using them and that they were no longer needed. This was thought to be the end by a lot of players... if it wasn't for Richtofen making a backup plan to create a branch that they could go back to if Monty ever double crossed them, after they collected Takeo's soul (you can see a teleporting animation after Takeo's death). Monty decided to drop them off in The Great War, but through the paradox caused by the blood viles, they could go back before Nikolai's death and find a different ending to the story. Richtofen knew what must be done because of the book, but now the pages have changed and he realizes the solution to fix the multiverse is not by beating the Apothicons, but by eliminating all branches in the multiverse in which these powerful being exist, including anything related to Dr. Monty and the Apothicons, and leaving them in one realm where they can be banished. There is one final caveat to this, in order to eliminate all connections to the multiverse Richtofen has to terminate one last connection... Himself. This was a moment that made me cry since it is a franchise I have played for a decade and there was no coming back from this moment ("He was the nicest one, and they wont even remember"). Templar Richtofen takes the rest of the Primis Crew to get some backup, and who else is better than themselves, so they go back and recruit the Ultimis Crew. In their universe Samantha has powers (almost like a Scarlet Witch) and even controls the zombies, like she did in her game, but she later turns good and loses connection to the zombies. With Nikolai as the new leader of the crew and Samantha on their side, they collect the final piece they need to fight the war and phone one last crew for help. The Victis Crew, previously seen in the beginning, was put on ice for this exact moment, where they could do the dirty work of combining all of the artifacts to end everything once and for all. Nikolai now had the book and knew what was next, so he held a celebration with everybody so they could have a good final send off. They drank until they all passed out and they died in their sleep; Nikolai had poisoned them so they would die happily. Oh yeah, Ultimis Richotfen is part zombie after he switched bodies with Sam on the Moon, so he had to be killed twice. Anyways, the deed was done, most characters were dead and the final pieces were put into place by Victis. There was no war, yet they fought it over and over again somewhere. With the summoning key destroyed, all the universes collapsed and were sent into the Dark Aether. Nothing was left, except for 2 young survivors, Sam and Eddie, and they walked into one final universe where there would be no more zombies, no more Apothicons, no more trouble. That is until.... Eddie grows up, and becomes the one and only Edward Richtofen. The story continues from there in Cold War and lets just say the competition between Sam and Eddie is much more than child's play now. Sam still has her powers and Eddie still has his tricks.

[@dangernoodle3343]

So the Victis still confuses me, what role did they play from the start?

[@jovanyc3397]

@@dangernoodle3343 They really were meant just for the story of BO2 and then were tied into everything at the end, like most of the obscure things in the zombies storyline. Richtofen used Victis to help him get control of the zombies, which was one ending to BO2, and then there was the Maxis ending. Maxis's ending seems more cannon but they are both considered non-cannon because it is in a different universe. I think it was basically to show that Richtofen couldn't entirely be trusted and may have had a different reason for the secrecy and mad doctor personality. Also the events the Victis crew set in place opened a rift allowing Origins to happen and Samantha to be able to reach out to Primis

[@discordmemes1231]

Bro they actually watched every one good dedication lol

[@trypticon8619]

You guys should watch a vid explaining the story, cause it’s really good, but also complicated, if you can’t do that, please listen to some of the cod zombies songs like 115 or beauty of annihilation, they created actual music to go with each map

[@iiambasicz8111]

LET’S GOOOOO. I’VE BEEN ASKING THIS FOR MONTHS 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you so much for this guys !!! What a fun video 💪😂

[@Yung_Slush]

I know I’m 3 months late to commenting and after watching you guys watch the storyline first then coming to this video of all the cutscenes, it really made me go all the way back to when zombies first started, just watching it grow in story through all the maps and figuring out all the Easter eggs on the maps with my friends was truly a remarkable experience growing up. It was a big part of my teenage years with my friends just playing through and having fun with my friends. It was sad to see it end, but I won’t ever forget all the memories that I made playing each and every map of this cod zombies storyline.

[@TheMicroDrummer]

Very unique content for a reaction and I loved it! The thing you may not understand is this entire thing you watched began when the fan base were kids and ended when we were in our mid-late 20’s. It was a crazy journey that lasted our entire childhoods and it was sad to see it end.

[@trouble3911_]

This gives me so much nostalgia. It's crazy I still remember all the lines.

[@SrVerataro]

"Takeo is my favorite" See lads, the first and last time such words have been uttered

[@thatgamerbitch24]

As my first video of y'alls, I gotta say, you guys did actually make a lot of great observations from the little context you had. Great reactions, you both are wonderful

[@EddieLove]

I appreciate you guys for taking the time to react to video games and all these classics when call of duty world at war released back in either 2009 or 2010 and zombies dlc was added later on through its life span. I was between 8-9 years old when I experienced COD zombies for the first time and I played it consistently all the way through Black Ops 2 and black ops 3 somewhat. Black Ops 1 and 2 though... classic times 💯 I love you guys man! Making me reminisce

[@megthomas6507]

So much that we all been growing up seeing the 4 og we were all sad that it was their last day of the game thanks for giving us amazing game and characters we all still love you and memories ❤️❤️

[@christophercollier5737]

Thanks for being willing to do such a long reaction!

[@jmfdarkside]

I loved seeing your guy's reaction to this but I can see that this story looks confusing just from a glance (aka watching the cutscenes) and while yes the story can be confusing it's not as bad as you may think. There are plenty of videos explaining what happens in the story, there's even one that is six hours long but goes into just enough detail about its universe and its characters. That six hour long video is the one I would recommend (but you should do it in parts), but there are ones that are not as long and they give you a decent look at the story. Again as someone from this community looking out it is cool to see people's reactions to these and I love watching your guy's reactions. Also the cod zombies story you reacted to is called the aether story, it has a sequel called the dark aether story which is also a good story.

[@jmfdarkside]

Sorry if this response is kinda long and weird, I'm not too good at wording things :/

[@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames]

We didn’t think the story was bad, especially since we knew w weren’t getting full story, mainly it was just tough to follow like this. Lot going on inbetween that we tried our best to piece together. An explanation video would be helpful for sure 😀

[@primalwolfe4711]

Zombie richtofen saying "I know and i am so sorry." Always hits me.

[@Chaka2225]

Ooh wow, ive never seen the back half of these cutscenes, cool to see them explain why the four heroes end up being the ones you play as in the new remakes instead of the og characters from them

[@patrickhuot001]

Quick refresher: Robert Englund portrayed Freddy Krueger in “Nightmare on Elm Street.” For the 2010 remake, it was Jackie Earle Haley.

[@Beep325]

If you look closely in the Call of the Dead trailer, Michael Rooker shoots 3 shells out of a double barrel shotgun somehow.

[@infamousdingus3361]

I’ve been waiting for this for so long! You guys should watch some of the maps music trailers. They are incredible

[@JarvisCosric885]

Good memories. Nice job reacting to this classic

[@williamjonathan2254]

Love the classic zombie so much, its so nostalgic now

[@dreadful4949]

I'm so glad that something niche like this is getting reacted to. It's among my favorite stories, and definitely one of my favorite game modes. "The road is long und dark, but I know where we are going. I... we, will complete our mission." Huh. It seems like all the videos were cut waaaay short. Was that your doing, or was the video you watched just cut like that by default?

[@meisvictor6035]

OMG YESS FINALLY, I'm so glad, I'm gonna watch all of this with excitement

[@Kaltsit-]

There are two videos that do the Aether storyline explaining it. Both are very long. But it’ll make you understand more of the cutscenes. And also in order.

[@the_accident_wasnt_my_fault]

Feeling under the weather today this is making it feel like it's gonna be a good day

[@fazekelly]

JFK saying “Zombies” like it’s a normal Friday night

[@389OpiE]

It's actually because they shortened the recording for the game. At first Macnamara describes them with a technical term after Nixon freaks out then JFK says zombies to let everyone else know what he was saying

[@Drakefance5]

So there was a couple of quiet cutscenes, notably the great war and the dragon one, this was due to copyrighted music playing throughout the entire cutscene.

[@loneroninymd]

This is a cool movie of cutscenes, in fact cod zombies is my favorite codverse, nice video reaction

[@jonathancarino5719]

A reaction to their dialouge would also be cool, they have pretty funny lines

[@Guccipoooch]

I actually really dig the silent reaction you guys do, not feeling the need to add things constantly cause you think we’ll get bored, I am entertained nonetheless

[@RealTyd]

Now this is right up my alley! You should Definitely react to the cod zombies maps trailers as well

[@geraldthegoose1685]

Cod zombies was and still is my childhood, I remember when black ops 2 came out and I but probably 2000 hours in it with zombies alone

[@the_seer_0421]

Now you absolutely need to watch "the entire call of duty zombies storyline explained" by the KZbinr blackopsamazing. It's about an hour long I think he did a pretty good job explaining most of it without making it either too confusing or too oversimplified. It would be the perfect follow up video after this. I'm very happy you finally got into the cod zombies story. It's a little confusing but very interesting story.

[@wetegg]

this is cool seeing more people learning about cod zombies for the first time, wish the videos were in order, super jarring to hop from the first ever one to a video from a gamer later, then another game later, still cool though!

[@darioflores1081]

wow, as somebody who followed the story since black ops 1 in 2010, i never realized how convoluted the story really was to newcomers, a reaction to the story explained is definitely recommended

[@TopDogAnubis9047]

Call of duty zombies was something I always grew up around, takes me back to when I was 11 and playing this with my cousin, now me and him are grown adults he's in the air force and I had a job at a deli but I was recently fired a week ago, but I always check up on my cousin to see how he is doing in the service

[@maxthebabe]

As a zombies fan its so funny when you guys reacted to it because you guys had no idea what was going on, trust me it is a very complex story but it's really interesting 😂🤣

[@ChaoticSpectator]

I only knew this story up to the dimensional stuff. When I was a kid, piecing the OG story together was my obsession!

[@Starhunter_YT]

44:13 I just wanted to let you guys know this trailer is a weird one but they were supposed to go to the moon but Dempsey shot a gun while teleporting which messed up everything and made them go into the pentagon edit the girl with the teddy bear is Samantha she is in the evil state at the time edit 2: the characters u see locked up were once at the moon after destroying the earth but then got teleported to area 51 before the events of the earth blowing up and they got locked up for questioning. but the 1 with the hat richtofen swapped souls with Samantha and started to control the zombies when the earth was blown up but since that event was stopped he was put back in his body

[@geordonconway2536]

Great reaction! If you want to learn more about the story, I recommend watching the entire aether timeline although it is very long and complicated, one video in particular being over 6 hours long

[@blindeyecreed]

After watching many videos i still have no clue but i one thing i do know is that the story is a master piece!

[@sahzus]

Another great vid, you guys should watch the intro scenes to the maps as well. They give some pretty good backstory to some events

[@Nuttyice935JH]

Damn watching the ending one made me tear up The aether storyline will always be a great part of my life

[@simphiwedlamini8407]

It's been years since I was in this universe, I was still in high school one of the reasons I got deep into a passion of gaming

[@blackowlgamer5078]

the story is partially explained in cutscenes. because all maps that were shown are very closely tied to each other. basically it's one hell of a complicated but amazingly interesting story to listen to

[@TheGremlinGhost]

I can’t be bothered to explain everything so I’ll leave you with a small bit of knowledge. The talking zombie in the prison is called Brutus. Brutus is the prison guard who was killed by the convicts the first time around comeback as a zombie prison warden who traps poor souls in his own pocket dimension: a purgatory where an endless cycle takes place. In game he’s a tough son of a as well since he can break things that you fix, disable the prison power, appear from literally anywhere and whenever he appears you know it as his footsteps can be felt from anywhere in the prison. Just his running causes the ground to shake.

[@GrimReaper3131]

Not sure why everything is all jumbled, but there is a video "movie" that explains it all in detail with game footage and sound that goes into great nearly perfect detail. It's 6 hours long, but if your interested it's perfect to break up into segments or watch all at once and get everything ypu need to know

[@Gokurro098]

Absolutely watch a video that explains the whole story. Myself and others grew up with this game, story and best of all, the characters. This story's conclusion when the easter egg was solved with the last cutscene can truly make a man cry. T-T

[@WilfulNebula301]

I absolutely love that they did they this video im a zombie die hard when it comes to activision zombies

[@KissMyCorpse]

Ive been watching guys long enough that I do the intro with you two 😆

[@kev8169]

This has to be my favorite reaction!

[@YoKaiSorrows01]

Letssss gooooo I was asking for this the longest timmmee

[@jameskelly984]

Cod zombies has such a special place in my heart I found so many friends playing zombies online. Friends that I still talk with to this day I don’t play as much anymore but I cherish those memories. A couple of people have said the zombies story is very convoluted and complicated and I agree so please don’t be discouraged if you don’t understand it fully

[@LobsterRei]

Ahhhh cod zombies holy smokes i remember when i was a 14 i played call of duty black ops religiously…and my biggest achievement then was reaching round 107 with my friend. We were high on excitements that day good times good times

[@ki11atj49]

The storyline is way more complex than these cutscenes a lot of the storytelling is oriented where you find it while playing. There are a lot of great videos on the zombie story line

[@j-aaxch9658]

I will always remember that ending. They all deserved better

[@KillerViper8]

The reason Nikolai took the main character role so late into the story is due to the fact that they'd gone through the timeline 3 different times. The final time, Nikolai was the only one that kept his soul. Richtofen from the 2nd cycle stopped this, hence giving him the book and telling him his soul would be needed. It was too late for Dempsey and Takeo as they had already taken their other selves in this cycle but with it broken. Nikolai was the only one capable of carrying out the remaining steps to finishing the job.

[@dth99times]

They go through the timeline a lot more than 3 times... All of the zombies chronicles maps are canon. All of the deaths the characters indure are canon. There's no telling how many times they went through at least as I understand it.

[@dudelove5551]

the first cod zombies game had Takeo the "serious" warrior / Tank the "bad ass" american soldier / Nikolai the "drunken russian with 40 wives" and Dr. Edward Richtofen the "insane german" they were goofy and Tank would occasionally talk to the player. In later cod games they stripped down the goofiness and made them all serious. Thats why in the cell scene the group already in the cell are a bit more goofy mostly nikolai with his vodka and edward with his unforgettable insane voice

[@derrickparr7258]

Something to note is that the cutscenes are shown in release order not chronological order for example the second map with Alcatraz (Blood of the Dead) happened before the dragon map (Gorod Krovi)

[@yuriwilde506]

AMAZING. Honestly now u guys should look at the trailers for the individual maps of zombies

[@michaelgrijalva1257]

the thought that all this continues in the cold war zombies story line is awesome, soft reboot with an interesting story

[@notriggz8955]

1:06:06 the dove you see flying up with the souls is actually weasel's soul, one of the prisoners from the first alcatraz map

[@frajorge_5328]

Oh my god, so excited to see this video!

[@chrisc767]

The Aether storyline is so good it should be made into a live action movie!

[@ElysiumLeoSK]

The CoD: Zombies Aether timeline is a really good story to binge out. Personally the Aether cutscenes didn't explain enough, but here's a video that you could check out to fully understand the Aether timeline of CoD: Zombies. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGTk4R9p7aNosU Also post-Aether timeline, if you are wondering, starts in CoD: Black Ops - Cold War and I think it's not yet done and fully established itself.

[@SoulKingKurosaki]

Oh nice. Might be good to brush up some COD Zombie playing for Halloween

[@shnuckels]

“Fill in the gaps of our understanding”, well in that case. *clears throat*, in the beginning…

[@DeadlyD05]

I thoroughly enjoyed the Aether timeline for zombies. With the full background on it, you'd definitely come to appreciate it a lot more. And while I'm not one to plug other videos within my comments normally, I'd have to refer anyone interested in the details to go to Eruption Fang's complete timeline for this storyline. It's extremely detailed and can fill in any gaps you may not have found yourself if you simply didn't play some of the games, or didn't get to finish the stages yourself to get the lore... PS - I just read the comments below mine suggesting the exact same thing, so I'll add a heads up. Eruption Fang's video is about 6.5 hours long, just to warn you. Still worth it imo. I watched/listened to it in one sitting.

[@user-hx5sd6sp8c]

- Johnny Smoak (In A Violent Nature)

[@deathrisingx6328]

1:03:41 What Dempsey meant by DI was Drill Instructor for the army

[@castrange]

Oh yeah! Memory lane! I loved this as a teenager, especily the black ops 2 stories.

[@ilnascosto9546]

.A piece of childhood,sometimes i miss those days

[@wiredvex99]

So what you watched was the intros and outros to the maps in the games. Theres like 5 games total and so many many maps to play but they usually come with an intro and outro. These dont really sum up the story of zombies but id love to see you two react to the whole story. Might be a multi part video series if anything haha. The story is bonkers but man when you put the pieces together and get the full picture its such wild ride. Alot of the story ends up being behind each maps easter egg, the surrounding scenery, hidden radios with voice clips and some times non game stuff like comics.

[@Dope-a-meme]

i really liked this video because i have call of duty black ops, call of duty black ops 2 and call of duty black ops 3, and i like how people react to games i like this because all of the cutscenes are really cool

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Awesome Video.

[@flucklight4189]

Thanks for this video 👻🎃

[@Hex_Glitches]

'"I was the nicest one... And you won't even remember" Most heart wrenching line in all of Zombies history.

[@XxxHawk66]

As much as I adore this storyline, this has got to be the most confusing way to experience it lmao. It doesn't help that whoever made this cut out some of the most important parts early on(and even a cutscene with Jeff Goldblum, Heather Graham, Neal McDonough, Ron Perlman!). There are several videos on KZbin that could give you a decent understanding of the Aether storyline but I would personally recommend watching The Chaos Storyline, Infinite Warfare Zombies, and Exo Zombies cutscenes since they're much easier to follow from the cutscenes alone.