History YMMV / CallOfDutyBlackOps

** [[DirtyCommunists Major General Nikita Dragovich]] is a sociopath who creates the "numbers" program that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes captive American soldiers]] into sleeper agents to kill their own people. Dragovich first demonstrated his untrustworthy and callous nature at [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Stalingrad]], when he deserted his own men and left them to be butchered by the German forces. After the war, Dragovich would lead an operation on the Arctic to retrieve the biochemical weapon, [[DeadlyGas Nova 6]], from the Germans. To test its effectiveness, Dragovich and Colonel Lev Krevchenko used it on Russian soldiers. Dragovich would later become one of the Soviet Union's most powerful members, where he would capture [[PlayerCharacter Alex Mason]] and brainwash him into becoming a presidential assassin. Dragovich's ultimate plan was to use his sleeper agents to release Nova 6 on the entire United States.

** [[BigBad General Nikita Dragovich]] is a sociopath who creates the "numbers" program that [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes captive American soldiers]] into sleeper agents to kill their own people. Dragovich first demonstrated his untrustworthy and callous nature at [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Stalingrad]], when he deserted his own men and left them to be butchered by the German forces. After the war, Dragovich would lead an operation on the Arctic to retrieve the biochemical weapon, [[DeadlyGas Nova 6]], from the Germans. To test its effectiveness, Dragovich and Colonel Lev Krevchenko used it on Russian soldiers. Dragovich would later become one of the Soviet Union's most powerful members, where he would capture [[spoiler:[[PlayerCharacter Alex Mason]]]] and brainwash him into becoming a presidential assassin. Dragovich's ultimate plan was to use his sleeper agents to release Nova 6 on the entire United States.
** [[TheDragon Colonel Lev Kravchenko]], the sadistic right-hand man to Nikita Dragovich, once mutilated and murdered his own sister when she rejected Dragovich's advances. Hunting down remaining German forces on the Arctic, Kravchenko would execute all the German prisoners before he and Dragovich use the lethal Nova 6 on the Russian soldiers. Kravchenko would later brainwash several American soldiers for Dragovich's "numbers" program and tortures Grigoi Weaver when he learns of his ties to the CIA, before [[EyeScream gouging one of his eyes out]]. Kravchenko would also subject numerous people to Nova 6 at Vietnam, including American [=POWs=], his own men, innocent women, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--even infants--and later sends Frank Woods to the Hanoi Hilton prison camp after surviving his attack. Appearing in [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII the sequel]], Kravchenko becomes an ArmsDealer selling Soviet weaponry to the highest bidder, denouncing his allegiance to the Soviet Union and declaring loyalty only to himself.
** [[HerrDoktor Dr. Friedrich Steiner]] is an ex-Nazi [[MadScientist scientist]] responsible for the creation of Nova 6 who, like his two superiors, has no loyalty and only seeks self-preservation. Originally an officer in the [[StateSec SS,]] he immediately defects to the Soviets through secret radio contact with Dragovich once the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII war in Europe]] is hopelessly lost to the Allies and Soviets. When the latter's troops arrive, he "helps" them by killing several of his own SS bodyguards, and later turns a blind eye to the rest of his surviving men being executed by Kravchenko. When Dragovich asks for a live test of the Nova 6, he complies without hesitation, and helps in the execution of Dimitri Petrenko. Years later, under Dragovich's command, he partakes in human experimentation and torture through the Numbers brainwashing program, with Alex Mason being one such guinea pig. When Dragovich comes close to pushing through with his plan to attack the US, he begins to see the German scientist as a liability for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]], and so Steiner attempts to defect to the CIA to save his own skin.

* WinBackTheCrowd: After the dedicated server brouhaha with ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2 Modern Warfare 2]]'', ''Black Ops'' came to PC with dedicated servers and a server browser again. Not to mention the return of [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies everybody's favorite gamemode]] from ''World at War''.

* SpecialEffectFailure: In "U.S.D.D.", there's a brief scene during the meeting with JFK where Mason hallucinates a 1911 pistol in his hand, turning to face him and aiming it at his face before things go back to normal. ''Much'' later in the game, when it's glossing over the possibility that Mason really did shoot JFK, rather than reusing that bit of animation... they simply put a still picture of JFK from that cutscene and overlay the 1911's regular in-game drawing and aiming animations over it.