History Trivia / WolfensteinIITheNewColossus

* IKnewIt:
** BJ Blazkowicz had been [[AmbiguouslyJewish speculated as being Jewish for years]], but nothing concrete ever showed up. Until this game revealed his mother was Jewish. Also a GeniusBonus when you remember that Jewish heritage, unlike most other types of lineage, is transferred ''matrilineally'', making his Jewish heritage even more concrete since it came from his mother.
** The [[spoiler:head transplant plot point]] was successfully predicted just after the game's announcement due to several hints shown in the trailers. Most notably, [[spoiler: the cover art depicts a post-surgery BJ.]]

* GodwinsLaw: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Some [[https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbj9xv/the-alt-right-thinks-wolfenstein-the-new-colossus-is-racist-to-white-people members of the "alt-right" (which is seen by some as overtly a neo-Nazi movement) are complaining that the game vilifies white and/or right-wing people.]]

* TheMountainsOfIllinois: B.J.'s hometown of Mesquite, TX and the surrounding area suffers from this.
** The EstablishingShot of the highway approaching Mesquite depicts a barren and dusty desert, with boulders littering the ground and craggy mountains in the background. This is '''nothing''' like the actual real-life area, instead seemingly modeled more after the desert landscapes around El Paso (over ''600 miles'' to the west). The geography of real-life Mesquite is relatively flat prairieland with plenty of vegetation.
** The game also implies that Mesquite is in the middle of nowhere, whereas real-life Mesquite is a suburb of [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]] that was well-surrounded by city even in the 1960's. This ''may'' have been altered by virtue of being an AlternateUniverse, so Dallas may have taken a few casualties during the war.
** B.J.'s farm is slightly better in that there are more trees and vegetation, but overall is still much drier than that area of North Texas actually is.

** Having [[spoiler: obtained the body of a super soldier, in this case having his head attached to one.]] B.J has now become even more like [[WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Captain]] [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom America]].

** In the first level, one of the sub-levels is titled "Under Siege," [[NamesTheSame which also happens to be the name]] of the 1992 Creator/StevenSeagal action flick ''Film/UnderSiege'' which Rip's voice actor Creator/GlennMorshower had an acting part in early in his career. In both the game and the film, Morshower plays a {{Jerkass}}.

* QuoteSource:
** AnAxeToGrind

** Creator/GlennMorshower, who's usually cast as no-nonsense government agents or military officers, as BJ's [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted]], [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] Rip.

* InkSuitActor: The four new major characters of Grace, Horton, Sigrun and Zofia are modeled directly after their voice actors (Debra Wilson, Christopher Heyerdahl, Alyssa Preston and Michelle Forbes, respectively).