Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Difference between revisions

** Sneaking through the snow with Soap in "Cliffhanger" homages the level "All Ghillied Up" from the previous game, but the true call back comes in "Contingency," in which Roach and {{spoiler|Price}} sneak around sniping soldiers and dogs. {{spoiler|Price}} even says the dogs are nothing compared to the ones in Pripyat.

*** That in itself is a shoutout to the fanbase, with whom the dogs had a rather... tenuous relationship in ''Call of Duty 4''.

*** {{spoiler|Price}}'s lines during this level also reference many of Captain MacMillan's in "All Ghillied Up." Specifically "Don't do anything stu-pid", "gooooodnight". and "this one's mine."

** ''Modern Warfare 2'''s final level is one huge homage to ''Call of Duty 4'''s final level. Both have "game" in the title ("[[Game Over]]" and "Endgame"), both involve a vehicular chase (in CoD4, the player is being chased in a truck; in ''MW 2'', the player is doing the chasing in a boat); both involve said vehicle being destroyed and the player ({{spoiler|Soap}} in both levels) being wounded, and then even more badly injured; and both involve {{spoiler|Soap}} desperately using an emergency weapon (pistol in CoD4, knife in MW2) to kill the [[Big Bad]] before he kills {{spoiler|Price}}.

** After {{spoiler|Makarov orders the nuclear bombing of Al-Asad's capital in a flashback}}, Yuri comments "This wasn't war, this was madness." which is a virtual callback to Chernov's line "This is not war. This is murder!" in World at War.

** Price's conversation with Baseplate/MacMillan in MW3 is a callback all the way to the first mission (chronologically) in the entire Modern Warfare franchise, 'All Ghillied Up/One Shot, One Kill':

'''Price:''' Don't give me that! You still owe me for Pripyiat. I'm calling it in. }}

** Soap's field journal in the MW3 Hardened Edition reveals Price's race horse is called [[Call of Duty|MacGregor.]]

* [[Climb Slip Hang Climb]]: The beginning of "Cliffhanger" from ''Modern Warfare 2''.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Nikolai gives one, [[Bilingual Bonus|in Russian]], to Makarov's men and {{spoiler|Shadow Company}} in ''The Enemy of My Enemy''

* [[Cold Sniper]]: Cpt. MacMillan in ''Modern Warfare'', though he is also brilliantly ironic and averts this when it comes time to high-tail it out of the sniping position.

* [[Comeback Mechanic]]: Deathstreaks. Much like it sounds, it's a bonus given to players who're doing particularly bad. If they die multiple times in a row without ever getting a kill, the game will give them a buff of some sort (such as increased health or dropping a grenade upon death) to help them out.

** Although it isn't pointed out directly, {{spoiler|Yuri}} was gutshot by {{spoiler|Makarov}} ''four days'' before he shows up as the playable character in MW3.

** The US military during the battle of {{spoiler|[[Washington DC]]}}. One of the most memorable lines is:

** Captain Price in ''Modern Warfare 3'', who will stop at nothing to hunt down Makarov.

** Special mention has to go to Makarov, who survives {{spoiler|being shot dead center in the chest three times and then being strangled. It's only once he gets tossed down a glass ceiling and hung by a zipline does he finally die, and spends a good thirty seconds flailing when the force should have broken his neck.}}

** In ''Modern Warfare 1'' {{spoiler|Griggs is killed while trying to get a paralyzed Soap to safety}}.

* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]: Captain MacMillan does this to a soldier (who drops the only accessorized P90 in single-player) with his rifle during the level where you play as Captain Price in the past during ''CoD4''.

** Captain Price has his own variation in "Just Like Old Times"... with a knife.

* [[Hide Your Children]]: Horribly averted in the third game with the Davis Vacation Scene. {{spoiler|It's a video from the perspective of a camcorder showing a family on vacation in London. A little girl is playing with some birds when a terrorist bomb in a truck next to her suddenly explodes.}}

* [[It Got Worse]]: Invoked twice in ''CoD4''. The first time is just after you've rescued the downed American chopper pilot, then {{spoiler|as you're being evac'ed, a nuke goes off, crashing your helicopter and killing the Marine character Sgt. Paul Jackson.}} The second time is when the joint S.A.S.-Marine squad is making their way toward Zakhaev at the missile silo, only to {{spoiler|1=watch in horror as two ICBMs launch and head toward America, where the projected casualty rate will be almost 42 million instantly killed.}}

** Arguably the ''point'' of ''Modern Warfare 2''.

*** Taken to eleven in ''Modern Warfare 3'', if the advertising campaign is anything to go on. A poster with a Time magazine mock-up, showing a mostly destroyed or crumbling urban center, with the headliner "World On The Brink" featured prominently.

* [[It's Up to You]]: Many, many examples. Let's just say that unless the player moves their ass and gets across the room, the enemies will usually keep spawning at the far end indefinitely. Though, to be fair the NPCs, especially the unkillable ones, sometimes act useful to the plot, too. Fortunately, in some case, it only ''looks'' infinite... particularly if you're just picking a really suboptimal approach to the objective. The first game has more justifiable examples in certain spots.

* [[Military Alphabet]]: Military game. Natch.

* [[Mis Blamed]]: "No Russian" in MW2. The general consensus, before release, is puzzlement at an already wildly popular, M-rated game series going the [[Rated "M" for Money]] route, some even demanding that IW should remove it from the game. The game allows the player to choose to skip it right at the outset or during the mission, which does not count towards any Achievements/Trophies or towards the completion percentage, and no one would even [[Moral Guardians|think about making that demand of a book or a movie]]. The idea that they're doing it for the sake of the narrative barely seemed to cross ''anyone's'' mind. To quote [http://www.destructoid.com/why-i-will-support-modern-warfare-2-153852.phtml Destructoid];

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: It's very difficult to notice, but Makarov has a green left eye and blue right eye.

* [[Monumental Damage]]: {{spoiler|Look no further to Washington D.C.}}

** The Akimbo weapons are the best examples, especially machine pistols or submachine guns. Light machine guns also count. You can also use the "double tap" perk from the first game, which doubles any gun's firing rate.

* [[Motive Rant]]: {{spoiler|Shepherd}} gives one after {{spoiler|stabbing Soap in the chest and pulling out his revolver}}.

* [[Multinational Team]]: Task Force 141, as well as the "Joint Operation" team from near the end of COD4. The COD4 team is made up of SAS and USMC Force Recon, TF141 is made up of US, British, Australian and Canadian special forces, and modeled on real-life special operations task forces operating in Iraq, Afghanistan and probably elsewhere.

** Of course {{spoiler|1=TF141 ends up being [[Red Shirts]] and cannon-fodder for Shepherd's plans, with only two Brits left and everyone else either dead or completely unaware of what Shepherd did.}}

** Same goes for {{spoiler|letting one's target (i.e. Faust or Shepherd) get away, and Price dying if you fail to crawl for Shepherd's revolver, then to retrieve and finally throw the knife from your chest at Shepherd}}.

* [[Noodle Incident]]:

'''Gaz:''' Bloody right you do. }}

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Deconstructed hard]] for the Americans in ''Shock and Awe'' from the first game.

** Characters voiced by Craig Fairbrass complaining about their uncooperative backup.

*** Gaz in ''Heat''

'''Gaz:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|That's just great!]] Where the hell are they gonna land now?<br />

'''Sea Knight Pilot:''' Bravo-Six, we're getting a lot of enemy radar signatures, we'll try to land closer to the bottom of the hill to avoid a lock-on.<br />

'''Gaz:''' Oh, he's gotta be takin' the piss! We just busted our arses to get to this LZ and now they want us to go all the way back down?! }}

*** and again in ''Game Over''. Although it's then subverted.

'''Sgt. Kamarov:''' Standby, we're almost there, ETA 3 minutes Kamarov out. }}

*** Ghost in ''Takedown''

*** Wallcroft in ''Mind the Gap''

'''Wallcroft:''' Bollocks! Nothing takes five minutes! }}

* [[Sawn Off Shotgun]]: Which can be [[Guns Akimbo|dual wielded]]. [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/30/ Tycho and Gabe agree;] it's the mark of a cad.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Many, many references.

** ''[[Airplane!]]!'' - Before "Mile High Club"

Gaz: "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." }}

** ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' a ton of them in the freighter level: "I like to keep this for close encounters." "Check those corners!" "We - are - leaving!"

* [[Sniping the Cockpit]]: At one point your character does this to a Havoc. Then Captain MacMillan does it to another one. Which almost crashes on top of him.

* [[Society Marches On]]: A dialogue between two background soldiers in ''2'' was clearly written before [[wikipedia:Donchr(27)t Ask, Donchr(27)t Tell Repeal Act of 2010|December 22, 2010]].

'''Soldier 2''': Don't ask, don't tell, man. }}

** Not surprising, since MW2 came out in November 2009.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: A bug which was once taking over MW2 multiplayer involves players tricking the game into cooking a Javelin Anti-Tank missile. The second you die, it fires into the ground at your feet, killing everyone nearby. Fortunately for everyone ticked off about how a coding error turned half the players in any given match into running suicide bombs, the Javelin Glitch has been excised.

** "Of Their Own Accord" from MW2 gave us this awesome line:

** And this is essentially the point of the MW1/MW2 perk/deathstreak "Martyrdom" (drop a grenade after you die) and the MW3 perk "Dead Man's Hand" (detonate [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|C4]] after you die).

* [[A Taste of Power]]: Sort of. The default classes in multiplayer have stuff that you won't be able to use off-the-bat after you gain class customization.

* [[Tricolours With Rusting Rockets]]

* [[The Unfettered]]: {{spoiler|Price}} comes back from the gulag a little crazy. He flat-out confronts Shepherd on if he's willing to do whatever it takes to win. {{spoiler|Then he launches a nuke at the country he was sprung to save, wreaking God knows how much hell to eventually turn the tide of the war.}} He goes straight from that into becoming the world's most wanted man and embarking on a one-way trip to kill the [[Big Bad]]. {{spoiler|Shepherd might have had a blank check, but Price forgot his First Bank of Badass balance years ago and is ignoring all the calls from collections.}}

* [[Universal Driver's License]]: Averted, in that you can either fire weapons from a vehicle but not drive it (both games) or the vehicles you can control are relatively simple to do so in real life (MW2, using a snowmobile and a small boat; in both cases, you can only fire a small machine pistol).

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: ''All Ghillied Up'' and ''[[Death From Above]]'' in ''Call of Duty 4''. Some of the levels in ''Modern Warfare 2'' also qualify.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Shepherd}}'s end goal is to snap average American citizens out of what he sees as willful ignorance towards how much sacrifice is necessary to maintain everything they take for granted, {{spoiler|giving him a near-endless supply of volunteers and the funds to load them out for bear with.}} To say he does some extreme things to achieve this, crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] multiple times in hindsight, is an understatement.

* [[We Have Reserves]]:

* [[Wham! Episode]]: All games have at least one. Call of Duty 4 has "Shock and Awe" and {{spoiler|the nuke and Jackson's death,}} the first indication that the game really means business. ''Modern Warfare 2'' ups the ante with a seemingly endless string of these, but the biggest is probably {{spoiler|Shepherd's betrayal at the conclusion of "Loose Ends."}}

** ''Modern Warfare 3'' has "Blood Brothers." {{spoiler|Makarov's still one step ahead of you, and Soap dies after it looked like he was going to make it.}} Also, there's {{spoiler|the little girl and her family dying in a terrorist attack.}}

 

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