Trivia / Call of Duty: Black Ops II

• Actor Allusion:
  • Steven Bauer voices a mujaheddin member in a level that takes places during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
  • Robert Picardo once again dies by getting shot in the neck.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Oliver North is voiced by himself. Yeah, THAT Oliver North.
  • In the Latin American dub, Raul Menendez is voiced by Mexican actor and director Julio Bracho.
  • Jimmy Kimmel voices himself in the game's Golden Ending.
  • Hudson is voiced by Michael Keaton; see The Other Darrin below.
• Creator Killer: The main games, in true Call of Duty fashion, were astoundingly successful. However, the Play Station Vita-based Gaiden Game, COD: Black Ops Declassified, was so bad that it pushed its developer out of console/handheld game development completely.
• The Danza: Michael Rooker as Mike Harper.
• Fake Nationality: Nicaraguan Raul Menendez is voiced by Puerto Rican Kamar de los Reyes.
• The Other Darrin: Hudson is voiced by Michael Keaton instead of Ed Harris. It's very noticeable as the two sound nothing like each other. In Declassified and Black Ops Cold War, Hudson's voice actors are at least trying to pull off a reasonable Ed Harris impersonation.
• The Other Marty: In the original E3 gameplay footage, Section is voiced by Liam O'Brien. In the game proper, he is voiced by Rich McDonald.
• Throw It In!: According to James C. Burns, Woods' famous "Nurse Batshit! Where's my smokes?!" quip was improvised by him.
• Playing Against Type: Tony Todd, known for playing plenty of Scary Black Men, as Admiral Briggs, an affable, heroic leader.
• Technology Marches On: Averted and played straight early in the campaign. We see Menendez posting a YouTube video in 2021 with the black-and-white video layout that YouTube wouldn't release until a few days after the game released, but the YouTube video still has a top comments feature. Of course, with the rate at which YouTube changes its layouts, it's extremely unlikely that YouTube will look the same in 2021, and as of the real life 2021, it certainly doesn't, though many concepts present at the time of the game's release are still in effect.
  • Soldiers in this game are seen using large, wrist-mounted computers to lob grenades, scale buildings, hack things and do basically anything. The smartwatches of the real world run along similar lines but are much smaller (and unable to lob grenades, regrettably). Presumably the ones in-game have to be bulked up for military use, but that doesn't necessarily explain why the cast insist on using bulky arm computers in non-combat areas.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The E3 demo had Liam O'Brien voice David Mason.
  • Apparently there were plans in place to include a playable female character in the game, with the implication being that the player could choose to go through the game as the son or daughter of Alex Mason. The idea was ultimately scrapped though due to the need for double voice and mocap performance (which, to be fair, would be extensive for the game's main character). Treyarch later went through with the concept in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

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