First Minister ANYA STROUD & The RECONSTRUCTION of the COG (Gears of War Lore)

First Minister ANYA STROUD & The RECONSTRUCTION of the COG (Gears of War Lore)
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Welcome back to another Gears of War lore video. In this video I'm going to be explaining Gears of War Anya Stroud and the Gears of War Reconstruction of the cog which is the Gears of War New Cog. This video will be explaining Gears of War First Minister Anya Stroud, touching up on Gears of War Mina Jinn, Gears of War Settlement 2 massacre, Gears of War Old Man Marcus & more!
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[@SeaTeaJay]

Jinn loves Anya so much that she tried to kill her Husband and Son.

[@KingAbzTV]

Lmaooo true!!!

[@fixitfelix9830]

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[@machina5]

To be fair, she thought the Outsiders were kidnapping her people and knew that both Marcus and James had anti-cog sentiments.

[@abbsolute5758]

And destroyed the stroud estate which is also... Anyas burial site... smh

[@veteranofbaal8232]

Ok

[@yummylumps9401]

"your inspiration, was my wife" is a fantastic line and in just a few words it shows why Marcus hates the new COG, poor guy can't catch a break

[@BlackPeople358]

Just like how we beg for the old gears He wants the old cog

[@maxs9062]

I don’t think he even liked the old COG either. No one really liked the COG in general.

[@nathanielnadeau6501]

@@maxs9062 exactly. They were just the only option for a somewhat feasible defense against the Locust

[@tandyVR]

Even then, he was imprisoned for not following orders.

[@jalobsterman6475]

Even though they unjustly killed her off atleats she still has relevance and recognition

[@fixitfelix9830]

Castle chrashers neet

[@jalobsterman6475]

@CosmosTF she was killed off screen is what i mean

[@jalobsterman6475]

@@fixitfelix9830 thx😁

[@fixitfelix9830]

I just realised Marcus never settled his beef with Aron griffin possibility?

[@Thomas20Smith]

Wouldn’t mind seeing that

[@bitchpudding2945]

Wouldn't surprise me if Jinn was responsible for Anya's death. It's stated on the wiki that she died due to complications carrying her second child, but this is never stated anywhere in the games so I'm wondering about the validity of that info

[@KingAbzTV]

When Marcus said to Jinn “you and that goddamn fertility program” it basically alluded to that. I was sceptical too but when I put two and two together on it, it made sense. Hence why Marcus was really annoyed about the fertility program.

[@bitchpudding2945]

@@KingAbzTV I actually meant more literally, like interfering directly and sabotaging the treatment to make sure she died

[@BanishedSilentShadow3318]

@@KingAbzTV which also suggested she was fine after having James which we saw in the gears of war 4 trailer with that flashback. So my guess on the second time she probably wanted another child maybe another son or daughter but guess it went wrong.

[@titanus261]

Did anyone noticed that jinn sound a little like myrrah?

[@maxs9062]

“That’s the first time anyone’s ever accused me of optimism.” That’s funny

[@Thomas20Smith]

Jinn just seems like another Prescott. A slimy politician with a lot to hide behind kind words

[@kevinmiller5674]

This franchise has given me so many great memories since game 1. And it is even better when you can share the experience again with your grandchildren.

[@nathanielnadeau6501]

Even throughout the series... Particularly after Gear 2 Marcus began distrusting the Cog. And 100% with good reason. New Hope was basically the first glimpse at how corrupt the "Good Guys" really were. So it's not unreasonable to assume that he dug deeper after the war which is why he hates the Cog so much now. And only puts up with then because they're the best hope once more to saving humanity.

[@belinskiparadox7687]

Marcus was "distrusting" of the COG ever since the Pendulum Wars. Even during the comics when he first met Tai.

[@samfire3067]

Torturing prisioners, false trial for him, secret lab with basicly First gen loucust and Prescott kidnaping his father. He has a Lot to dislike about The COG.

[@ariabalsgamingchannel]

My favourite gears character was always Ayna, even in Gears 1 I could tell they had plans for her and Marcus. When I started diving into the lore she proved to be interesting even further When she was later on a playable character in Gears 3, I played through the campaign with my friends and I always fight to play as Anya other anyone else (sept Sam) and enjoyed her role in Gears 3. I was a little annoyed that she was killed off-screen in Gears 4 but her death is a major point for Marcus and J.D which makes sense. I'll always rock my Ayna Tommarow Skin in Gears 4 and my First Minister Skin in Gears 5

[@gaelgarciar392]

Fuck Anya in gears 3

[@ariabalsgamingchannel]

@@gaelgarciar392 why?

[@gaelgarciar392]

@@ariabalsgamingchannel I always played gears with my brothers and obviously I was the second player, I loved playing with dom, in the 3rd game after his death that you have to play with Anya is not the same, I didn't even want to continue playing, don't get me wrong anya is a good character, but just after all the time with dom, i didn't want to play as anya

[@hyfrovoxojuice]

waiting on your video explaining why her hands are bigger than the matriarchs

[@brotherhoodofsteel4751]

Anya didn't know the locust would be coming back otherwise she would have told Baird to fire up the fucking thing

[@samfire3067]

*throws more water on The loucust Nest before Throwing every one of then inside*

[@titanus261]

Throw then into lava...

[@adarkwind4712]

Exactly

[@Stubzgaming]

Thanks excellent so hopefully they can let us know how she actually died one day in a game ,it could be via flash backs.

[@KingAbzTV]

Yeah true, they need to elaborate on it more in the future.

[@AShinyRay]

Fantastic video mate, such a good topic to cover!!!! 💚

[@KingAbzTV]

Thanks Ray, love to see ur comments! 💙

[@Trademarked26]

Love these videos! Keep it up!

[@KingAbzTV]

Thank you very much!!

[@masterofgaming433]

Thanks mate for this video, you rock ;)

[@KingAbzTV]

you're welcome, thank you for the kind words!!

[@DannyeXceeds]

Love it man! Just subbed!

[@KingAbzTV]

Thank you Danny 💙

[@mrandrew1017]

Hopefully we get more details about anya during that time❤️❤️

[@LoweredDissent]

Hey Abz I was thinking i would love to see your do a character tier list of all greats characters would be amazing to see which characters you believe are like A tier

[@KingAbzTV]

That's a cool idea!!

[@machina5]

You're right, today's was really well done

[@KingAbzTV]

Thanks dude, I’m a man of my word 😉

[@abbsolute5758]

Finally someone else who knows the story @5:50 is when I realized you’ve actually read the books. Most people do not know how Marcus got his scar on his face, or that Bernie is a man

[@EastlakeRasta7]

Yeah I never understood why did everyone hate first Minister jinn in part 4, I had a feeling probably in one of the books 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@joshuaguerrier7392]

Wait how tf Bernie a man I read the books bruh

[@abbsolute5758]

@@joshuaguerrier7392 When they first meet Bernie and she’s in a truck with them. Cole calls her the cat lady because of Bernie’s fur boots and Marcus (fresh out of jail says he’d hack it) his words exactly when Bernie told them

[@joshuaguerrier7392]

@@abbsolute5758 are we talking about the Bernie with dreads? Because it was stated she was graped by another man and killed him by hunting him down and it also stated in comics after she left Hoffman she got married and was going to have kids but never happened

[@adarkwind4712]

​@joshuaguerrier7392 Yeah, I don't think they know what they're talking about with this one.

[@AximusPrime33]

Anyone else think that Jinn had a personal hand in Anyas death?

[@BanishedSilentShadow3318]

It's likely happened after having James. Jinn did say she came to her two times which the first would've obviously been James and likely she died trying getting another child.

[@ArcticRob]

Great video bro

[@KingAbzTV]

Thank you bro!!

[@titanrahlgaming]

I never liked Jinn from the start, but for a different reason. Jinn means devil or demon in Arabic and after watching her character enough she has the personality for one.

[@WonkyTonkBotty]

She basically embodies the COG's authoritarianism and turns it to 11.

[@jodybranson925]

Why am I getting major "Michael Altman" from dead space at the fact from how Anya die? Seems there was a Jin might backstabed Anya, sounds kind of sus to me.

[@mikeychainsaw9760]

Nice. Can I get a link to where I can get the comics to this and other Gears of war lore

[@RudyMeza-bf9fk]

Man i feel bad for Marcus sadly i feel for him. I unfortunately know what its like to have your partner pass away its extremely hard to deal with

[@Ro6entX]

I wouldn’t doubt Jinn had little something to do with Anna’s death.

[@Rawr93]

❤️

[@arjundhupar2393]

Someone plz answer - I'm a big gears of war fan, but I NEVER heard abt Marcus and Anya getting married, at 2:50 of this video there's a comic page which I definitely have never seen before. What comic is that?? Did they get married in it?

[@leatherlass6730]

They got married after the events of gears of war 3, and were dating before that. They started dating before the events of gears 1, but at the end of the pendulam wars. That comic, however, I dont know.

[@foxtrot8132]

Soooo we’re gonna get a Force Ghost Anya in Gears 6?

[@Zeiss120]

Lol don’t know if Gears story tellers know what their doing but Anya really represents the strong making it peaceful for the weak and the new Minister the weak tearing down what the strong had to fight for.

[@idk----_]

Could you make a berserker lore video

[@KingAbzTV]

I can add it to my list of lore videos :)

[@Nolongerhereanymore]

IN A PALPATINE VOICE: DO IT DO IT DO IT

[@jenniferdewee1663]

Stroud

[@christophertidwell2422]

When your the only hope the world has then you can get away with whatever you want, as the man said "in the face of extinction, every alternative is preferable."

[@titanus261]

From who?

[@HasTheHighground]

Jinn loved Anja ? For what ? Destroying almost Everything that still remembers at Anja ? Gears 4 was actually my First Gears ever & i hated her from Second One, she just...let's just say "Special" i hate her even More then Chairmen Prescott, anyways that's still a Good Video😉

[@samfire3067]

Anja?

[@BobBob-up8fz]

Damn. Why didn't she say that to Markus? "The Hammer strikes authorised by Chairman Prescott, killed many people. Including my parents... So no Sgt. Fenix. I am not willing to reactivate the Hammer system." It'd have made her point more valid. Gears 4, each time the factions met, to talk about the larger threat. They'd just start shooting each other. xD But i guess if gears actually talked first. Then gears 4 wouldn't have happened.

[@titanus261]

He'll just say back that they lost too many people and they wont use it against people

[@adarkwind4712]

It really wouldn't make it more valid honestly. They're backs are so far against the wall they may as well be getting pushed through it. They don't have the numbers or infrastructure to fight the locust again right now. They'll need the hammer more than ever and anything else they can get.

[@buddyimevil5775]

“Gave u you’re son, and mine” Who even went down on her?

[@timothycrawford3476]

Read the books!!! I promise they feel in so much of the story and most of your unanswered questions. Good video explaining some of the story, though.

[@KingAbzTV]

Indeed! This video was made a long while ago

[@timothycrawford3476]

@King Abz your videos are phenomenal. The comment was meant for those who haven't read the books and are interested in the lore of Gears. I'm really glad you made these videos. Some only play the games and have known clue about how deep the story really goes. I'm a big Halo fan as well, lol we searched the caves in Halo Infinite for Noble 6 body.

[@KingAbzTV]

@@timothycrawford3476 thank you Tim, much appreciated my friend!!

[@dominicknatale5866]

That the only reason i dont think twice and let reyna kill del

[@oOGTKILLA01]

I wish marcus would've kicked the shit out of jinn and kait, well we all have our wishes😂😂 Edit: TC should give us the gears 3 classic baird i miss that tall blonde cut

[@TheShapeshifter]

Good luck with that. Man's bald now

[@EastlakeRasta7]

In-game why does everyone hate jin??? I get the hate for chairman Prescott considering he was the chairman before e-day and how he disappeared which all makes sense but I don't get why do the characters hate jinn 🤷🏾‍♂️ Or is it mentioned in a book 😒

[@tylerbaldwin3269]

I think it's mainly due to how unreasonable Jinn is. Not wanting to launch more Hammer of Dawn satellites is understandable, but almost refusing to deal with the swarm threat at Hoffman's suggestion(hivebusters) isn't great for her

[@samfire3067]

And alson, bad writing.

[@EastlakeRasta7]

@@tylerbaldwin3269 I'm specifically referring to 4 because I'm just lost, the hate is more understandable in 5 but I'm a Casual Gamer so I don't consume the novels 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@adarkwind4712]

​@tylerbaldwin3269 not really understandable with the swarm stronger than the locust and having less infrastructure and even fewer combat capable people.

[@jacobkolstad8654]

I thought it was the Fenix estate

[@samfire3067]

Fênix rising

[@TgamerBio5529]

Actually loved Anya unfortunately she died of screen 😞

[@torincook2732]

MY FUCKING TOMATO's

[@admiralgarrickversio6745]

Do We Even Know How Anja Died???

[@Trademarked26]

I'm not sure what the direct cause was, but I'm sure it had something to do with the fertility program.

[@admiralgarrickversio6745]

@@Trademarked26 Oh That Make Well Sense

[@ariabalsgamingchannel]

Well, you see Anya signed up for the Fertility program that Jinn created to boost the survival rate and increase morale and later on successfully gave birth to J.D, then at some point after that, she would also go through it again a second time but something went wrong that time and Ayna and the unborn child died. I don't think it has been stated what gender the child was or what stage they were at the time but it if was a baby girl then it would also show why Marcus is so close to Kait in Gears 4 and 5

[@admiralgarrickversio6745]

@@ariabalsgamingchannel Wow That Really Makes Lot of Sense Thanks For Answer Me Question🙃

[@ariabalsgamingchannel]

@@admiralgarrickversio6745 Nop worries

[@ZeroXionXZ]

I don't care a sheet on Jinn, hope she gets ditched on gears 6

[@KingAbzTV]

All my homies hate Jinn

[@Arkham1222]

Who is jinns son?

[@KingAbzTV]

No idea, nothing has been said on it, apart from her one line on it.

[@Arkham1222]

@@KingAbzTV you get a lot of comments LOL

[@leatherlass6730]

@@Arkham1222 I dont think hes been born yet

[@samfire3067]

I Realy though It was del after begining gears 5. But Then i though, " she was sending death machins after then ,uhhh, probaly not".

[@deangohn7222]

I think in gears 6 jinn will reveal that she purposely did something to the fertility program so Anya would die so Jinn could take over because she thought Anya was soft and did not have what it takes to save the human race but Anya would not step down so Jd and Marcus would flip that could be a cool story arc.

[@Thomas20Smith]

I’m pretty sure that’s exactly where they’re going to go with that plot line

[@samfire3067]

Unless we kill JD in The ending of 5. So Will be only Marcus.

[@adarkwind4712]

. . . . .Jinn is softer than Anya at war. Anya had no reason to bring the hammer online. Right now, she absolutely would Anya commanded and personally fought during the locust war. She knows what a bad situation looks like and what it takes to walk out the other side.

[@ks_carri3d571]

Anya was the best femen gear in my opinion

[@alexrangel1123]

Were Marcus or Anya sterile? Otherwise why couldn’t they have a child the conventional way without the fertility program?

[@leeeverett4716]

Hold up- jinn is pregnant?!

[@KingAbzTV]

Yessirr

[@leeeverett4716]

@@KingAbzTV imagine if they do a huge year skip for gears 6 so they can have jinns child as one of the characters and have more comics to fill the space I think that would be a great opportunity for lots of people to get more into the comics and we would also get a new character or more cause we've seen them add comic characters to the multiplayer and I think that would be pretty cool to have jinns child as a playable character but the problem with that is Marcus and baird and them might not be alive and that would be pretty sad

[@GoWugly]

Wym he lost Benjamin Carmine lmao they was not close

[@KingAbzTV]

Benjamin dying had an impact on Marcus, in Marcus’ nightmare of the fall of Ephyra Benjamin was in there. It did have an impact on him.

[@leatherlass6730]

They weren’t close, but Benjamins death weighed heavily on Marcus because Marcus promised Ben that he would see the sun again, and that was a promis Marcus failed to keep.

[@ThePilleroflightning]

@@KingAbzTV Not only that, but Marcus took the inspiration of his idea to add a flashlight to the lancer.

[@dirtylaces8866]

@@ThePilleroflightning3 years late but that honestly is an amazing piece of tiny detail the games do. 4-5 honestly steered so far from the aesthetic of gears but the small details of callbacks is great to see

[@constantdoodle32]

What a shit way to kill off anya....

[@whyNotGuy557]

Why didn't they give us the actual first minister skin? Instead they gave us this down grade. Down right lazy version of the skin.

[@ARuiz-eu3hk]

Yeah. This story sucks. God why.

[@doesnotconquerall4997]

I still love Gears 4 and 5’s story in spite of being pissed off at how Anya died off screen