History Awesome / CallOfDutyBlackOps

* Through the course of the game, Mason is tortured, three of his best friends are killed, and he's forced to answer questions about a numbers station he knows nothing about. When Hudson finally unties Mason out of his chair, Mason decides he's had enough bullshit and punches him in the face.
** Hudson gets his own moment shortly after when he catches up to Mason and [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan knocks him out cold.]]

** Pretty much all of the Zombies mode easter egg songs, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B19u9tHnIs Kino Der Toten's]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7YAHQQQkcQ Shangri-La's]].

** The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version has a few bangers: "New Allies", "Push Forward" and "Soviet Union". The last one was used for a trailer for this version.

** After picking up the Death Machine, the new objective is simply "Raise Hell".

* The [[CrazyAwesome two times]] you use a soldier as a [[BulletproofHumanShield shield]] and gun other soldiers down with the shield's rifle in Black Ops.

* Through the course of the game, Mason [[spoiler: is tortured, three of his best friends are killed, and he's forced to answer questions about a numbers station he knows nothing about]]. When [[spoiler: Hudson]] finally unties Mason out of his chair, Mason decides he's had enough bullshit and punches him in the face.

* Reznov gets one of ''the'' greatest moments ever witnessed in Call of Duty history: [[spoiler: Killing the asshole that developed Nova 6, and by extension, one of the three people responsible for Dmitri's death. ]]
---> '''Reznov[[spoiler:/Mason]]''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY NAME!]] [[LargeHam IS VIKTOR! REZNOV!]] AND I WILL, HAVE, MY RRREVENGE!! ''[[spoiler: [[BoomHeadshot *shoots Steiner*]]]]''
** [[spoiler: You know the best part? At this point, Reznov is ''not alive anymore'' and so is ''not actually there''. This means he's one of the rare heroic [[ImplacableMan nigh-unstoppable man]]; ''not even death himself can stop him from seeking revenge.'']]

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* Basically everything about Frank Woods. His introduction involves grabbing an enemy that wemt to question Mason, stabbing his hand breaking a bottle on him. You briefly play as him the sequel. Some of the moments involve throwing an enemy into a TV.

* Basically everything about Frank Woods. His introduction involves grabbing n enemy that wemt to question Mason, stabbing his hand breaking a bottle on him. In the sequel it's implied escape prison all by himself.

** On a side note there is another CMOA in the same level when you kill the cowardly Russian soldier that clubbed Bowman in the back of the head. "For Bowman!!!" ("For Ice Cube!!!")
** Woods then tops that with a BigDamnHeroes '''AND''' HeroicSacrifice by [[spoiler: shanking Kravchenko with combat knife & then tackling that son-of-a-bitch out a window to save you after he pulls the pins on all the grenades he has on his belt. And as revealed in Black Ops II, [[MadeOfIron he still lives]]!!]]
*** The best part: [[spoiler: Black Ops 2 implies that after Woods was transferred to Da Nang from the Hanoi Hilton, ''he broke himself out of prison'']].

* The "Executive Order" mission on Black Ops. Saving [[spoiler:Weaver]] by ziplining across the base and breaking in from a window with guns blazing is just ''awesome''. Not to mention [[spoiler:stopping the Soyuz 2 launch by '''blowing it up using a guided missile.''']] Holy shit indeed!

* [[spoiler: After Mason manages to discover where the number transmissions are coming from, [[LetsGetDangerous Hudson puts on his sunglasses while a guitar riff plays on the background.]]]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgfWSl0EDao Virus]].

** Doubled with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Not one, but ''two'' women are included in the group of players (a black businesswoman and a younger female doctor with glasses and a ponytail). In this day and age when many gamers still have the mentality that women can't or shouldn't play or make games, it's awesome to see Call of Duty, of all games, make them feel acknowledged.

** Not until we bring up zombie mode with [[Creator/DannyTrejo Machete,]] [[Series/TheWalkingDead Merle Dixon,]] [[Frnchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] and [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer B]][[Series/{{Ringer}} ridgett]] [[BaitAndSwitch Kelly]] fighting [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 George A. Romero.]]

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* The Russian Roulette scene: After the VC passes the revolver to Mason, who bets on the next shot being the round, presses the Python to the VC's chest and shoots, killing him, then opening fire on the other Viet Congs in the room with the deceased Cong's AK-47. Awesome.