History Headscratchers / CallOfDuty

** Presumably, [[CaptainObvious they investigated]]. Like, say, took his facial features and ran a search based on their databases. Shepherd would have every reason to let it be known that Allen was a CIA agent. The Russians look through their databases, find a match for a recently promoted field agent assigned to Makarov's group, and go from there. And the FSB doesn't know immediately that the ambulance's crew shot Allen; all they know is that there's a ton of chaos at the airport, terrorists are running around, they've got dozens of corpses of their own men and hundreds of dead civilians, and there's an ambulance pulling out right in front of them, and look, there's a corpse. The situation is too violent and chaotic to organize a tailing of a suspicious vehicle; by the time the FSB agents who've found Allen's body have made the connections, gotten on the radio to their superiors, and the superiors organized a pursuit, the ambulance is going to be long gone and Makarov's likely going to have switched vehicles. It won't help that the radios are going to be clogged with a horrific slew of conflicting reports and radio traffic as everyone tries to report in, people call for help and medical support, morons on certain channels will be hot-miking and locking up that entire channel, and their superiors are going to have to coordinate multiple teams of agents, EMT vehicles, regular police, and likely military. The communications situation in any disaster or terrorist attack like this is a mess no matter how well-trained your operators are, so I see why Makarov is able to escape before the FSB can arrange a pursuit of the suspicious ambulance.

*** Actually special operations teams, at least American ones, are made up of mostly mid-to-high-ranking NCOs. There also is a least one officer, the team/squad leader.

*** Not quite; according to the [=CoD=] Wiki, Mason removes the round in the chamber before handing the gun over.

** [[spoiler:His playable segment shows him to be at least three times tougher than either of the Masons. He could take those G-forces better than most.]]

*** I feel the need to mention that there were only ''six'' men in the helicopter at the end of "Blackout" (Soap, Gaz, Price, Nikolai and the two pilots), yet at the start of "Hunted" there are ''eight'' (Soap, Gaz, Price, Nikolai, the two pilots "Paulson" and another {{Redshirt}}.).

** One must remember that "Spetsnaz" is a generic term. Its roughly the same as "Special Forces" in English, so it could refer to any number of organizations that operate as special operations units within the Russian government. Alfa and Vympel are both spetsnaz groups, but they aren't both a part of an organization called "Spetsnaz". So really, when we fight "Spetsnaz", SAS might be fighting whatever organization in the Ultranationalists functions as a Special Forces unit.

-->'''Mason''': Then I picked up an AK-47 that had a flamethrower attachment....
-->'''Interrogator''': Uh, okay. You ''did''. Then what happened?
*** That makes even more sense considering, last time I played through the game, Hudson's levels had even crazier shit than any of Mason's - apparently Mason is tripping so much he can't even correctly remember what the hell Hudson told him or is just making shit up. Compare ''S.O.G.'', where (ignoring the blatant Jeep ProductPlacement in the last section) the only really out-there thing you can find is the aforementioned flamethrower attachment, to ''Numbers'', where you start with [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielded CZ-75's]] and can continue with dual Kiparis's, a SPAS-12, PSG-1, G11, and the like - none of which was in service anywhere at that time.

!! VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3

** [[WebVideo/FindMakarov Operation Kingfish]] gives a BroadStrokes explanation of what happened. Essentially, Price and the 141 went after Makarov, but during the mission to take him out, Makarov's men laid an ambush and Price was captured during the attempt to fight their way out. Since ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare3'' shows that Makarov was in control of much of the Russian military, we can presume Makarov had Price locked up in the gulag and tortured regularly for his own amusement.

******** There's also definitely an in-game model for Frost, they re-use it for multiplayer and Survival mode.

** From the ModernWarfare page Foreshadowing example: "A creepy bit of Fridge Brilliance sets in when one re-plays "No Russian." Shepherd introduces Makarov by noting repeatedly that he's in it for the money. And then he says "You have no idea what it cost to put you next to him." The Player assumes this means dead informants or whatnot, but Shepherd could just as easily be referring to the literal financial cost and/or the cost to his own soul." If we assume it is actual foreshadowing then Shepherd had set this up with Makarov beforehand.

** [[WebVideo/FindMakarov Operation Kingfish]] gives a BroadStrokes explanation of what happened. Essentially, Price and the 141 went after Makarov, but during the mission to take him out, Makarov's men laid an ambush and Price was captured during the attempt to fight their way out. Since ''ModernWarfare3'' shows that Makarov was in control of much of the Russian military, we can presume Makarov had Price locked up in the gulag and tortured regularly for his own amusement.

!! ModernWarfare 3

*** Price, and a few others, refer to him as Kingfish in the game a few times too...StarWars here we come.

*** One would think Allen would see this massacre as Russia's 9/11. It's a similar scenario. An attack by a foreign group (Technically in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'''s case) prompts military retaliation towards the attacking country.

* "Davis Family Vacation" seems like it belongs in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'', before the Russians invade. Why would a family of American tourists be skipping around London without a care in the world 6 weeks after an invasion of the US Mainland? We are at DEFCON 2, people!

*** Except the Russians were completely justified in attacking. A high ranking US general was launching terrorist attacks against them, and they didn't know he wasn't acting in his capacity as an officer of the US government (the whole "lie" thing Price refers to in the Endgame intro video). Hell, the subtext of ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2'' was the United States paying the price for thinking they can commit to unilateral action anywhere in the world, and how destructive this "It's only a tragedy when it happens to my side" ultranationalist mentality Dunn exhibits is. The US government doesn't really have a leg to stand on, and making the Russians pay massive reparations for a war ''one of their own men started'' wouldn't be very wise.

** Maybe he just wasn't there? Of course then you have to answer the question of why.[[/folder]]

[[folder: Why the DSM?]]
* Instead of wasting time transferring the contents of Makarov's computer to the DSM, why not just open up the casing and remove the hard drive(s). It wouldn't take nearly as long, and you'd only have to worry about the the hard drive(s) being damaged or destroyed by gunfire, as opposed to the hard drive and/or the DSM.
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*** One would think Allen would see this massacre as Russia's 9/11. It's a similar scenario. An attack by a foreign group (Technically in MW2's case) prompts military retaliation towards the attacking country.

* "Davis Family Vacation" seems like it belongs in MW2, before the Russians invade. Why would a family of American tourists be skipping around London without a care in the world 6 weeks after an invasion of the US Mainland? We are at DEFCON 2, people!

*** Except the Russians were completely justified in attacking. A high ranking US general was launching terrorist attacks against them, and they didn't know he wasn't acting in his capacity as an officer of the US government (the whole "lie" thing Price refers to in the Endgame intro video). Hell, the subtext of MW2 was the United States paying the price for thinking they can commit to unilateral action anywhere in the world, and how destructive this "It's only a tragedy when it happens to my side" ultranationalist mentality Dunn exhibits is. The US government doesn't really have a leg to stand on, and making the Russians pay massive reparations for a war ''one of their own men started'' wouldn't be very wise.

*** Just because the CIA has ordered black operations without approval from the government (why the hell IRL, the US government thought giving them that freedom was a good idea is beyond me...), doesn't mean that the rest of the world is quite aware of the CIA's tendency to do that, or those that do would even believe their claims that that was the case here. The Russians would only need the body of a CIA agent to give them enough pretense to declare war on the US, plus as mentioned, regardless of whether or not it was directly approved by the government, the US did know about the attack and did nothing to warn Russia about it or stop it.

** If you look closely during the ending where Section and Woods visit Alex's grave, Woods' service uniform shows he has the rank of Master Sergeant, which is a senior enlisted rank in the Marine Corps that usually takes 15+ or more years to attain. So he retired from active duty service with that rank.