History VideoGame / WolfensteinIITheNewColossus

* OrganAutonomy: In the Ferguson timeline, his arm is replaced by that of an übersoldat killer robot, and it has a mind of it's own, punching him in the eye when he tries to sleep, squishing his cookies when he tries to have a SpotOfTea, flipping off Amazing Grace when they're introduced, and ruining his shot with Maria by honking her boob when he tries to confess his live for her at Blazco's birthday party. The last instance is the LastStraw, and he rips it off and repeatedly bashes it against a door frame, then chucks it down the stairs.

** The game as a whole has this. The first half is extremely dark and somber, even compared to its predecessor. [[spoiler:Caroline is killed]], BJ learns he's got weeks to live, and contemplates how he'll never see his children. Reflects on his abusive childhood and wonders if he'd have been a better father. [[spoiler:Is captured after a final confrontation with his abusive father where he learns the man gave his wife to the Nazis, one ally dies trying to save him, and then BJ is beheaded on national television. Only for his head to be recovered, his life saved, and a new superhuman body to be given to him.]] After that point almost all the game's dark elements are just ''gone'' and the game turns on the zanyness and surrealness up to eleven. All of BJ's worries are gone, you go on Venus, meet a senile Hitler that pisses himself. The final boss fight ends with a topless Anya doing a powerslide with two machine guns as nazi blood splashes over her.

* FilkSong: [[https://youtu.be/hAKM-pbZyiw Revolution Spark]], courtesy of Music/MiracleOfSound.

* EarlyGameHell: When the game starts B.J is wheelchair bound and slowly dying due to injuries sustained at the end of the last game, only able to walk after the first mission because of [[spoiler: Grace's PowerArmor]]. The state of his body means he's down to 50 health ''maximum'' in a game where that number can drop ''fast.'' [[spoiler: After Chapter 5 however, about a third into the game, B.J gets captured and executed by the Nazis giving the resistance an opportunity to retrieve his head and reattach it to a SuperSoldier body, restoring his maximum health to 100.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: Resistance fighters still calling Sigrun a Nazi and not liking her may be caused by more than just her origin. Sigrun loves music and doesn't have a bad singing voice... thing is, she doesn't know any music but Nazi music. When she loudly sings "Mond, Mond, Jah, Jah" by Die Kafer (unlike other Nazi songs in the Wolfenstein universe that are sometimes politically neutral and humorous, this one, while being light-hearted and catchy, outright praises the regime and the conquest of the Solar System), even the otherwise polite and compassionate Set Roth outright tells her to shut up.

** Shoshana, the cat-monkey hybrid pet Set keeps, demonstrates that the Da'at Yichud have the technology and know-how to transplant heads onto other bodies. [[spoiler:This technology is used to save B.J after he is executed.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: ''Before'' Rip Blazkowicz revealed his son's location to the Nazis at the cost of his own life, B.J was a dying man on his last legs who had made his peace with his inevitable end. ''After'' B.J's execution, he was brought back with his head pretty much stapled onto the body of a SuperSoldier and in much better health than he'd been in years and more stronger then before. In other words, ''great'' job giving the greatest threat to the Nazi regime a second wind that he needed, Rip and Engel.]]

* MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat: What Washington [=D.C.=] has become under Nazi rule. The National Mall is now a huge amphitheater for executions, the Washington Monument has been reinforced and made taller, and the Lincoln Memorial is a now a swastika-draped shrine to Hitler.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]; it's actually up to the European resistance cell to take America back from the Nazi regime.

* MoodWhiplash: During the middle of a serious argument between BJ and Anya [[spoiler: over his belief that he's SecretlyDying and her denial that he can't know that]], [[ConspiracyTheorist Super Spesh]] walks out of the toilet behind them, [[PottyHumor proclaiming that it does indeed work]].

* {{Irony}}: Gruber, much like Frau Engel before him, compliments B.J. on his "Aryan" features, not quite realizing that he is half-Jewish until Super Spesh puts a slug in his head.

* FamousLastWords:
** "Never give up, Blazkowicz. Never give into these people." [[spoiler:Caroline Becker]]
** "My God, it's you!" [[spoiler:Kommandant Gruber]]
** "They heard everything." [[spoiler:Rip Blazkowicz]]
** "It was space aliens, man!" [[spoiler:Super Spesh]]
** "You are dead! I severed your head from your shoulders! ''I killed you!''" [[spoiler:Irene Engel]]

* MirthlessLaughter: Grace laughs upon hearing the FamousLastWords of [[spoiler:Super Spesh, since she wasn't there to see it happen]]. Although given the context of the scene, she hardly finds it funny.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: ''Before'' Rip Blazkowicz revealed his son's location to the Nazis at the cost of his own life, B.J was a dying man on his last legs who had made his peace with his inevitable end. ''After'' B.J's execution, he was brought back with his head pretty much stapled onto the body of a SuperSoldier and in better health than he'd been in years. Nice job giving the greatest threat to the Nazi regime a second wind Rip and Engel.]]

** Super Spesh's plan to [[spoiler: help a restrained BJ escape execution]] is the classic strategy of luring a guard in and [[InTheBack taking them out with a knife,]] something BJ's done numerous times in the series as practically a signature trait. [[spoiler: RealityEnsues due to Spesh heavily overestimating his odds of rescuing the most wanted man in the planet from his ultra-high security cell and Frau Engel being onto his ruse the entire time.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** As high up in the Nazi totem pole Deathshead was, his death, and the deaths of all the Nazis before him, barely made a dent in their worldwide order.[[note]](Deathshead was also [[EvilOldFolks incredibly old]] by the time of the previous game and likely not far from a natural death. Not to mention many of his most important technological innovations/Da’at Yichud reverse engineering projects, had already been completed and integrated into the Nazi regime. Lesser scientists could carry on his work.)[[/note]]
** Sure, B.J. is tough and was able to survive Deathshead's TakingYouWithMe at the end of ''The New Order'', but it left him severely crippled to the point that he's reliant on the Da'at Yichud PoweredArmor to even move.
** [[spoiler: Caroline's PoweredArmor is heavily armored against small arms fire, so how do the Nazis get her out of it? They smash her head until she gets a concussion.]]
*** Related to above, [[spoiler: even though BJ is seemingly invincible while using Caroline's powered armor (albeit with a downgraded health level), he still suffers from unconsciousness and extensive damage when falling inside his old house as the house is ravaged by ''Ausmerzer'' within a high altitude, where Engel and her henchmen can easily apprehend him and stripped the powered armor off from him, as the powered armor cannot stand damage when dropped from such heights.]]
** [[spoiler:Not even B.J. is strong enough to break his shackles at the trial, and the RoaringRampageOfRevenge level during the trial turns out to [[ImagineSpot merely be a daydream]]. [[StealthPun Cut to his execution by decapitation.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Super Spesh's plan to break BJ out of his aforementioned capture is to pose as his lawyer, call in a guard after making it look like B.J. attacked him and kill him, then help break B.J. out. Unfortunately for Spesh, this relies a little too much on assuming that the totalitarian Nazis would actually honor any sort of attorney-client privilege and forgetting that he's a known political agitator. Spesh gets executed by Frau Engel, who reveals she knew who Spesh was and what he was planning the entire time.]]
** [[spoiler:Even aided by Da'at Yichud super-science, BJ's head transplant isn't easy. Once he gets decapitated, the resistance needs to work quickly to get an oxygenated blood supply to his brain. Shortly after he wakes up, Set advises him to take things easy for a while, so they can be sure the transplant will actually take and the body won't reject the head. Set also mentions other difficulties when he first explains the concept in regards to his cat/squirrel monkey pet, such as adapting the very different immune systems to work together properly.]]

* SequelDifficultySpike: On a baseline, ''The New Colossus'' is noticeably harder than ''The New Order'' or ''The Old Blood''. You no longer have the health and armor upgrades that significantly improved your durability, and in fact your health will be limited to 50 for the first half of the game. Player damage feedback also seems significantly worse than in the previous games, making it easy for enemies outside your field of view to blast away over half your health[=/=]armor before you even notice. This is especially apparent when replaying missions with the Combat Simulator, where you don't have access to weapon upgrades like the assault rifle's armor-piercing sniper mode or the Laserkraftwerk's charged shot which significantly tilt the balance of the game back in your favor. In addition, enemies simply do way more damage here than they did in the previous game.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: B.J.'s goal is to organize a revolutionary army, consisting of groups with a broad range of ideologies, including a communist offshoot in New Orleans.
* RealityEnsues:

** Rip Blazkowicz beat his wife, constantly belittled BJ for not being "manly" enough, and once forced BJ to shoot the family dog as punishment for being friends with (or judging from his words, ''showing common decency toward'') a black girl. [[spoiler:When BJ learns that Rip sold BJ's Jewish mother Zofia out to the Nazis, BJ [[SelfMAdeOrphan kills his father without remorse]].]]

* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: [[spoiler:By this point in the timeline, Adolf Hitler is 71 years old and a paranoid wreck of an old man prone to bouts of senility and losing control of his bladder and gag reflex. When he shows up to the casting for his latest propaganda flick, he coughs, pukes, pisses blood, mistakes the director for his mother and puts his head in her boobs for comfort, and shoots all of the actors bar B.J.]]

* DeathByCameo: [[spoiler: [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Ronald Reagan]] ]] shows up at the casting call on Venus just long enough to introduce himself to the producer and then get shot in the head for calling him [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive "Mr. Hitler."]] instead of "Mein Fuhrer."]] And then shot [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill eight]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice more times.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Super Spesh, a paranoid conspiracy theorist, dies because he was insufficiently paranoid, and forgot the oppressive government had him profiled. Turned out they saw his whole plan from the moment he walked in, and ''conspired'' to let him get to BJ for their own amusement.]]

* ContinuityNod: Panzerhounds can't be misled by grenades, likely due to Fergus [[FeedItABomb tricking one into swallowing a stilhandgrenate]] by telling it to "fetch!" in the prolouge of ''The New Order."

* WretchedHive: References to slaves comitting theft being sent to New Orleans and Nazi soldiers desiring to serve on death squads in that city seem to indicate that it has become a large-scale ghetto/camp for undesirables.

* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Zig-zagged when BJ infiltrates a casting call to play "Terror Billy", i.e. himself. He [[BadBadActing does badly at the initial line-reading]], causing [[spoiler:Hitler]] to talk him down and saying he could learn much from another actor who puts much more emotion into the lines. When they perform mock battles against a guard, though, BJ [[FatalMethodActing straight-up murders the guard]] in an [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill excessive fashion]] (including emptying his own gun into him, bashing his corpse with it several times, then throwing it at the glass) and then threatens to do the same to every other Nazi in the world... and [[AllPartOfTheShow steals the show with that performance]], with [[spoiler:Hitler]] praising him for being so attuned to the psychotic urges of "Terror Billy" and proclaiming him the actor who will play the role in the film (while [[BlackComedy executing the last actor]]).

** Rip Blazkowicz beat his wife, constantly belittled BJ for not being "manly" enough and once forced BJ to shoot the family dog as punishment for being friends with (or judging from his words, ''showing common decency toward'') a black girl. [[spoiler:When BJ learns that Rip sold BJ's Jewish mother Zofia out to the Nazis, he kills him without remorse.]]

* ActionGirl: Anya now gets to show off the skills she had in her backstory.

* BadassInDistress: Although still a total badass, B.J. needs to be rescued by Anya and the crew multiple times [[spoiler:(including once posthumously)]] throughout the course of the game.

* MoralMyopia: America under Nazi rule has Klansman walking around openly during parades and officers drinking milkshakes while people are scared shitless around them. It is expressed repeatedly and vocally through the game that it all hinges on [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain their racism]]: they care if you are Aryan, everyone else ([[CategoryTraitor including otherwise "pure" Aryans who are "deviant" in refusing to embrace Nazi ideology]]) is literally subhuman in their eyes.
* MechaMooks: The Nazis have these now, in addition to the robotic dogs and cybernetic/armored human troops. They can take more bullets than flesh-and-blood Nazis, dual wield laser blasters, and can perform super-jumps and rapid sideways or forward dashes.