History Awesome / WolfensteinTheNewOrder

* [[spoiler: Chapter 02 is basically '''HesBack: The Level.''' When the asylum BJ has been staying in is being purged with Anya being hauled off after her parents have been murdered for trying to intervene, he throws off a fourteen-year coma and brain damage ''through sheer rage and hatred for Nazis'', ventilates the officer responsible with a steak knife and proceeds to butcher every Nazi Commando in a RoaringRampageOfRescue.]]

** [[spoiler: Even before that, when he sneaks the knife off the plate while the soldiers are distracted with Anya and her parents. Hell, when the soldier points his gun at [=BJ=], his hands are shaking, he falls to his knees when he tries to pick up a gun and will have occasional moments of dizziness while going through the asylum. But he still doesn't stop.]]

** This also doubles as foreshadowing. [[spoiler: Eventually, she can fly on her own - courtesy of a LostTechnology suit of PoweredArmor]].
** The fact that they pretty skillfully hand-waved the [[spoiler:death of Caroline in the 2009 game with only a few lines of dialogue]] and made her recovery the subject of some ''awesome'' banter between her and B.J., too.

* [[spoiler: [[GreatEscape The liberation of Forced Labor Camp Belica.]]]]
** Villainous scum she may be, but [[spoiler: it is impressive that an old hag like Frau Engel got her jaw crushed, was flung off a cliff and hit a tree on the way, ''[[MadeOfIron and survived]]'']]
* [[spoiler: B.J. single-handedly destroying the [[GiantMecha London]] [[TheDreaded Monitor]].]]
* After [[spoiler: Klaus is shot, Max Hass came to your rescue. He lifted one of sewer gate there to let you access Kreisau HQ before shutting it off, leaving you alone.]] You'd thought the man [[LastStand would die]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome surrounded by that many Nazis]] but no. [[spoiler: The scene on the helicopter has him listening to Klaus' last words, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome looking not much worse for wear!]] ]]
* Those Guard Robots that have been giving you trouble? [[spoiler: Caroline in PoweredArmor kicked their head off in one shot, ''killing them''.]]
* J's [[spoiler: death]], in which [[spoiler: he goes down]] playing an acidic version of the Star-Spangled Banner on guitar loud enough ''for all of Berlin to hear''. There are multiple shots of the city ''shaking'' from the volume. Even better when you consider that J is more than likely [[spoiler: Jimi Hendrix, who was famous for playing the national anthem at Woodstock in 1969]].
** Credit to Tekla too if you play her side of the story. Despite being a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]] backed into a corner, she takes out ''eleven'' EliteMooks with a pair of pistols and says she killed seven others earlier. She even has the corpses stacked like firewood. [[spoiler: And when she goes down she takes a couple more with her, [[OoCIsSeriousBusiness breaking her]] [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre predictive model]].]]

* [[spoiler: Bubi ambushes B.J. with a powerful sedative with the intent of slowly torturing him to death for Frau Engel's vengeful entertainment, but then it turns out the shrapnel embedded in his skull allows him to shrug off most of the effects. B.J.'s response? Tear off Bubi's ear with his teeth just enough that the bastard will bleed out to death in sheer terror if you don't finish him off personally, as B.J. [[TranquilFury simply stands up to tower over the man and rips the knife embedded in his chest right out without even flinching.]]]]
* [[spoiler: Finally being able to fight [[BigBad Deathshead]] as the FinalBoss.]]

** The introductory line of dialogue is awesomely hammy; [[spoiler:with the giant mech he has, Deathshead is goddamn unstoppable, and he ''knows it.'']]

** What's even better is his starting dialogue [[spoiler:in the ''second phase''.]]
-->'''Deathshead''': [[spoiler:[[CallBack DIE, ALLIED SCHWEINEHUND!]]]]

** And when the trailer for ''The New Colossus'' came out, it dropped a bombshell that makes the results of the FinalBattle with Deathshead even more awesome: ''[[spoiler: B.J. Blazkowitz survived]]''.

* Fighting [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Laser Space Nazis]] on the [[CrazyAwesome moon]].

-->'''Blazkowicz''': They think the war is over... [[BadassBoast But they're dead wrong]]

[[caption-width-right:350: They're rewritin' history... But they forgot about [[OneManArmy me]]]]

** [[spoiler:Even before that, when he sneaks the knife off the plate while the soldiers are distracted with Anya and her parents. Hell, when the soldier points his gun at [=BJ=], his hands are shaking, he falls to his knees when he tries to pick up a gun, and will have occasional moments of dizziness while going through the asylum. But he still doesn't stop.]]

* Stealing the [[FutureCopter Project Whisper helicopters]]. Complete with SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and the fact that these choppers' rotors can fold up and redeploy in the span of less than five seconds and turn on a dime, enough to fit into a sewer system!

* [[spoiler: B.J. single handedly destroying the [[GiantMecha London]] [[TheDreaded Monitor]].]]
* After [[spoiler: Klaus is shot, Max Hass came to your rescue. He lifted one of sewer gate there to let you access Kreisau HQ before shutting it off, leaving you alone.]] You'd thought the man [[LastStand would die]] [[DyingMomentOfAwesome surrounded by that many Nazis]] but no. [[spoiler: The scene on helicopter has him listening to Klaus' last words, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome looking not much worse for wear!]] ]]

* J's [[spoiler: death]], in which [[spoiler: he goes down]] playing an acidic version of the Star Spangled Banner on guitar loud enough ''for all of Berlin to hear''. There are multiple shots of the city ''shaking'' from the volume. Even better when you consider that J is more than likely [[spoiler: Jimi Hendrix, who was famous for playing the national anthem at Woodstock in 1969]].

** The Gibraltar Bridge incident is rather stand out because it takes it's time showing you just how much ''devastation'' your use of the Spindly Torque wrought, producing an incredibly rare [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment that's not uttered in regret but in ''awe''. It's especially awesome in that it's the first true moment you've done something that leaves the Nazis with nothing. The London Nautica bombing? It didn't knock the whole thing down, it was mostly intact. The escape from Frau Engel's labor camp? You didn't get everyone out and the camp's still standing. Destroying the Gibraltar Bridge is the first time the player has truly damaged the Nazi war machine and it feels ''good''.

* [[spoiler:Finally being able to fight [[BigBad Deathshead]] as the FinalBoss.]]

* During Bethesda's E3 2016 press conference they dropped a bombshell. ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' is back with the new game of ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions''. When revealing the trailer they opened up to a DOS-esque load up screen giving off a list of entries in [[Creator/IDSoftware iD's]] franchises, from ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' to ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom2016}} DOOM]]'', in chronological order. In the list there was one curious entry at the very bottom...''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus''.

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[[caption-width-right:350: That Nazi robot is about to become Nazi scrap metal.]]

** Anya's grandfather, Roman, [[BadassGrandpa blowing the head off a Nazi with his double-barreled shotgun]]. But what makes it even more awesome is what he tells you to do next.

* Stealing the [[FutureCopter Project Whisper helicopters]]. Complete with CrowningMusicOfAwesome and the fact that these choppers' rotors can fold up and redeploy in the span of less than five seconds and turn on a dime, enough to fit into a sewer system!

-->'''Wyatt:''' Get away from him, you big, ugly [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]!

'''B.J.''': ''(Holding a knife to his neck)'' Fine! I will gut you ''standing''.

** The Gibraltar Bridge incident is rather stand out because it takes it's time showing you just how much ''devastation'' your use of the Spindly Torque wrought, producing an incredibly rare [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of a MyGodwhatHaveIDone moment that's not uttered in regret but in ''awe''. It's especially awesome in that it's the first true moment you've done something that leaves the Nazis with nothing. The London Nautica bombing? It didn't knock the whole thing down, it was mostly intact. The escape from Frau Engel's labor camp? You didn't get everyone out and the camp's still standing. Destroying the Gibraltar Bridge is the first time the player has truly damaged the Nazi war machine and it feels ''good''.

* [[spoiler: Chapter 02 is basically '''HeroicSecondWind: The Level.''' When the asylum BJ has been staying in is being purged with Anya being hauled off after her parents have been murdered for trying to intervene, he throws off a fourteen-year coma and brain damage ''through sheer rage and hatred for Nazis'', ventilates the officer responsible with a steak knife and proceeds to butcher every Nazi Commando in a RoaringRampageOfRescue.]]

'''Caroline''': Don't be. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0JeHkq3GY I've learned how to fly]].

* ''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner "Na]][[HesBack zi]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge sc]][[MookHorrorShow um...!"]]''

** The fact that BJ threw off a fourteen-year coma and brain damage ''through sheer rage and hatred for Nazis.''

* [[spoiler: [[GreatEscape The liberation of Forced Labour Camp Belica.]]]]

* During Bethesda's E3 2016 press conference they dropped a bombshell. ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' is back with the new game of ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions''. When revealing the trailer they opened up to a DOS-esque load up screen giving off a list of ID's video games from ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' to ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom2016}} Doom 4]]''. In the list it revealed the next game in the ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''Wolfenstein: The New Colossus''.
** And when the trailer for ''The New Colossus'' came out, it dropped a bombshell that makes the results of the FinalBattle with Dethshead even more awesome: ''[[spoiler: B.J. Blazkowitz survived]].''

* A minor one: most of the newspaper clippings found throughout the game serve to highlight what a CrapsackWorld the world has become after they were subjugated by the Nazis. The one exception to this? The French news clippings, which imply that twenty years later, the French Resistance is ''still'' fighting the Nazis, [[{{Determinator}} and are no closer to giving up than they were at the start of the war]]. It's pretty damn awesome to know that one country is still fighting after most of the rest of the world has gone to heck in a handcart.

** The fact that BJ threw off a fourteen-year coma and brain damage ''through sheer rage.''

--> '''Blazkowicz''': "I'm sorry about your legs."
--> '''Caroline''': "Don't be. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je0JeHkq3GY I've learned how to fly]]."

* [[spoiler: Finally being able to fight [[BigBad Deathshead]] as the FinalBoss.]]
-->'''Deathshead''': ''(Emerging from the wreckage)'' [[DefiantToTheEnd I will NEVER kneel to you]]!
-->'''B.J.''': ''(Holding a knife to his neck)'' Fine! I will gut you ''standing''.

-->"You kill the Nazis! KILL EVERYONE!"

** His teammates [[ItsUpToYou had him do almost everything]]. The difference from [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2 Ramirez-esque]] protagonists is that they ''know'' he is ''the'' badass who will finish his task successfully, '''and he whole-heartedly embraced that fact'''.

*** In said banter, Caroline says she doesn't remember much of what happened to her - but she ''does'' remember punching Hans Grosse in the face...

** Credit to Tekla too if you play her side of the story. Despite being a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action-Girl]] backed into a corner, she takes out ''eleven'' EliteMooks with a pair of pistols and says she killed seven others earlier. She even has the corpses stacked like firewood. [[spoiler: And when she goes down she takes a couple more with her, [[OoCIsSeriousBusiness breaking her]] [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre predictive model]].]]

-->'''Deathshead''': ''(Emerging from the wreckage)'' I will NEVER kneel to you!

* ''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner "Na]][[HesBack zi]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge sc]][[KillEmAll um...!"]]''

** His teammates [[ItsUpToYou had him do almost everything]]. The difference from [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2 Ramirez-esque]] protagonists is that they ''know'' he is ''the'' BadAss who will finish his task successfully, '''and he whole-heartedly embraced that fact'''.

* During Bethesda's E3 2016 press conference they dropped a bombshell. ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' is back with the new game of ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions''. When revealing the trailer they opened up to a DOS-esque load up screen giving off a list of ID's video games from ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' to ''VideoGame/[[{{Doom2016}} Doom 4]]''. In the list it revealed the next game in the ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''Wolfenstein: The New Colossus''.

* During Bethesda's E3 2016 press conference they dropped a bombshell. ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' is back with the new game of ''VideoGame/QuakeChampions''. When revealing the trailer they opened up to a DOS-esque load up screen giving off a list of ID's video games from ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' to ''VideoGame/{{Doom 4}}. In the list it revealed the next game in the ''Wolfenstein'' series, ''Wolfenstein: The New Colossus''.