History VideoGame / CallOfDutyBlackOpsII

** On the multiplayer side of things, the Guardian apparently uses [[Film/BackToTheFuture 1.21 Gigawatts]] of power.

** The flashback missions themselves are much less anachronistic than ''Black Ops'' was, due to having mostly the same weapons but being set two decades later, but there are still some goofs if you look hard enough, such as Woods holding an [=M16A4=] in a flashback to 1972.

* GoldenEnding: In order to get the best possible ending, you must [[spoiler: save Chloe and ''Alex'' (as hinted at in the game achievements), spare Briggs, let Farid kill Harper in "Achilles' Veil" and spare Menendez at the end, along with completing all Strike Force missions]].

* ManOnFire:
** One is seen in the cutscene for the first level. Your character attempts to break the window out from the vehicle the man is stuck in, but unfortunately, he dies before you're able to rescue him.
** [[spoiler:Menendez's sister suffered this as well. You can see her briefly in the ending if Karma is killed and the virus doesn't get stopped when Menendez pays one last visit to Woods in the retirement home.]]

** Harper can also get this, if you drive a boat through flames with him in it. [[MadeOfIron Though he just seems to shrug it off]].

* BareYourMidriff: Some of the female civilians in the dance club in the "Karma" level.

** Manuel Noriega goes from simple, corrupt drug lord to quadruple-agent backstabbing monster whose personal soldiers are constantly amped up on drugs and beat civilians to death, and who was only taken out simply because he worked with Menendez, and [[spoiler:(possibly) tricks Woods into slaying Alex, and ensures Hudson's death and Mason's crippling, ''just because''. And all with the hugest, smuggest smirk on his face]]. Noriega didn't take kindly to his villain upgrade and [[http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/manuel-noriega-gets-overthrown-court initiated a lawsuit to sue Activision]] for using his image without his agreement. The suit was later dismissed.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Storm PSR, unlocked for use during the final two campaign missions. It's a semiautomatic sniper rifle with superior hipfire spread to [=SMGs=], a massive 30 round magazine, a high-power thermal scope capable of seeing enemies with absolutely no regard for cover, and a charging ability that lets it pierce through almost anything.
* InkSuitActor:
** Tian Zhao is essentially a digital copy of his voice actor, Byron Mann. Same goes for Admiral Briggs (Tony Todd) and David "Section" Mason (Rich McDonald).

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Promotional materials translate Cordis Die's name from Latin as "The Heart Day," but it actually translates as "The Day Heart" (The Heart Day would be "Dies Cordis").

** The RPD goes both ways. It's still being used by Soviet forces in 1986, a good 12 years after the RPK should have replaced it... and by virtue of being adapted from the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'' model (which was set in 2016), it also has Picatinny rails at least half a decade before they were standardized.

* ArtificialStupidity: The friendly AI for the Strike Force missions are dumb as rocks and can neither shoot worth shit nor understand the most basic instructions, often forcing you to assume direct control of one of the soldiers in order to get the job done.

* RareGuns:
** The [=XM8=][[note]]called the "[=M8A1=]" in-game, as the gun is the standard-issue assault rifle of US forces in the Black Ops timeline[[/note]] makes an appearance two full decades after it was cancelled in reality, as does the AN-94, which Russia does not sell to foreign countries.
** The LSAT, currently in the prototype and testing phase in real life, is a usable light machine gun in multiplayer.
** Menendez' preferred sidearm, the "Executioner", is a never-produced version of the Taurus Judge designed to load 28-gauge shotshells.

* WhatTheHellHero: This seems to be the case during several Campaign levels. In fact, a WhatTheHellHero moment is what caused the main events of Black Ops II in the first place. Woods did get tortured and so did his men which we absolutely understand, but his grudge against Raul caused him to attempt to chuck a live frag grenade like a rock at Raul. The only problem is that it not only ''missed'' it's target (Raul), but it also bounced off a wall and into Raul's sister's bedroom, exploding resulting in the death of an innocent civilian that shouldn't have even happened in the first place.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Unless you get the GoldenEnding, Menendez appears to either succeed in his grand plan to bring down the First World and level the global playing field or cause a jailbreak and kill Woods before ending his own life. Even killing him doesn't make a real difference to his scheme. In fact, it is stated, by Menendez himself, that doing so would spark the destruction of the first world]].

* BodyHorror: Many characters are seen with some pretty gruesome injuries, but [[spoiler:Josefina perhaps has it the worst. She was badly burned as a child, and her face is still badly disfigured, along with her eyes apparently having been sealed shut, though you only see that image at the very end if Menendez escapes from prison.]]

%%* EvilBrit: [=DeFalco=].

** Tian Zhao is essentially a digital copy of his voice actor, Byron Mann. Same goes for Admiral Briggs (Tony Todd).

Coinciding with the release of the main game is ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsDeclassified'', a GaidenGame for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita that fills in the gap between the first and second Black Ops games. It was negatively received universally for its rushed mechanics and sloppy AI as well as having a plot that failed to live up to its premise.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: When Salazar is explaining Menendez's backstory at the beginning of "Old Wounds," his statement that "as a boy, he witnessed the Contras rape and murder his people" can be misleading to those who are unfamiliar with Nicaraguan history. During the 1960s and most of the 1970s (which is when Menendez would have been growing up), Nicaragua was a dictatorship ruled by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somoza_family Somoza family]], whose primary muscle was the Nicaraguan National Guard. While the Somoza regime's forces did receive U.S. support, and committed their fair share of atrocities, they were nonetheless not "Contras" in the sense that most people use the term. The U.S-backed Contras that achieved such notoriety in the 1980s were, literally, counter-revolutionaries who had rose up in opposition to the leftist Sandinista goverment, which overthrew the Somoza regime in the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution (and by that point, Menendez's rise to power as a drug lord would have already begun).

* BloodlessCarnage: Like most [=CoD=] games sold in Japan, it's been censored a bit by Square Enix to remove most of the gore. [=SE=] justifies it due to the CERO Z rating, which is equal to an Adults Only rating.

* DeweyDefeatsTruman: David Petraeus is Secretary of Defense in 2025. He resigned as CIA Director on November 9, 2012 due to an extramarital affair. While career comebacks are not unheard of in politics, such an event is rather unlikely to happen.
** Of course, up until that date, he was still a possible candidate for that position, hell, even the Presidency, so it was a safe assumption on Treyarch's part at the time. However, having to come to light only 4 days before release makes it practically impossible to change the story.

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY:
** The "Die" in Cordis Die is pronounced like "Dee-ay" (think "Carpe diem"; the name is Latin, as pointed out in the first future level).
** Menendez's name may be pronounced "Rawl" or "Ra-oul".
** Menendez himself pronounces David's first name with a distinctly Latino pronunciation, "Da-veed".

Coinciding with the release of the main game is ''Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified'', a GaidenGame for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita that fills in the gap between the first and second Black Ops games. It was negatively received universally for its rushed mechanics and sloppy AI as well as having a plot that failed to live up to its premise.

* InterfaceSpoiler: The "Family Reunion" achievement (which is ''not'' a secret achievement, and is awarded when you [[spoiler:shoot the hostage (Alex) in "Suffer With Me"]]) distinctly says, "There are two futures," thereby tipping off that there's more than one way to complete the objective (thus changing the ending).