Trivia / Mob of the Dead

• Shrug of God: What was the canonical ending of Mob? Did Al break the cycle or not, or did it not matter if he did given he's still present in Alcatraz in Blood of the Dead? The official Zombies timeline gives no word on the matter, only noting that the four were trapped in an endless cycle.
• What Could Have Been:
  • There exist some unused quotes of the mobsters (sans Weasel) which were supposed to be used in place of the Demonic Announcer.
  • A Wonder Weapon cut from Mob was Richtofen's head, which would be partially zombified and speak as it was used by the player. This got far enough into development that it was fully rendered and Nolan North also recorded lines for it, but it was removed, perhaps due to it being such an eclectic addition to the darkest, most serious Zombies map to date.
  • Mob of the Dead was originally designed to be a scale model of the entire Alcatraz Island. However, technological and time constraints nixed it. Blood of the Dead later incorporated several of the cut concepts from Mob.
  • In Mob, Sal believes that Brutus is a reincarnation of Stanley Ferguson, the night guard killed in the opening cinematic. While Blood of the Dead would later confirm that Stanley and Brutus are separate individuals, cut audio files have Brutus stating he had a wife and son and directly references lines from the cinematic, suggesting that originally Brutus was Stanley.
  • Mob of the Dead was initially first in line to be included in Zombies Chronicles, however Jason Blundell felt that it clashed with the pack's theme of revolving around the adventures of the original four characters and it was left out. However, Blundell has stated that Mob still has a purpose, which, along with the final issue of the Zombies comic book, implied that it would be remastered in Treyarch's next game instead. Sure enough, the trailers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 would confirm that Mob would be remade as Blood of the Dead, though with the Primis crew instead of the Mobsters.