History WMG / WolfensteinIITheNewColossus

All things considered, BJ's head transplant went fairly smoothly, his head fit the SuperSoldier body perfectly, and his new physique is pretty much identical to his old one. This is because A: Set Roth is an incredible surgeon and B: BJ's new body ''is'' BJ... kind of. After years of Terror-Billy kicking their asses, the Nazis decided to fight fire with fire and used BJ as the template for their new model of SuperSoldier, either just basing the design off him or even cloning him after getting their hands on his DNA (which is plausible, considering how many times he's been captured).

Max Hass despite his generally pacifistic ways is shown to tank bullets and flatten people with his fists when provoked. Not only does he take bullets he doesn't seem to even notice them for the most part. Combine that with his noticeable fear of certain specific power tools and what goes into making the other super soldiers it seems likely he's a failed super soldier candidate. Max was probably from the early era of Deathshead back when normal soldiers were being converted into super soldiers not purpose grown for it. Something about Max didn't work out, maybe he was too compassionate or too intelligent for their liking, so he was sent on to experimentation after the augmentation procedure failed to get what they were going for. Eventually he escaped but only after a partial lobotomy disguised his noteworthy intelligence beneath near total memory loss and an immature personality.

* Jossed. The heavy set woman is Sigrun Engel, and she is indeed Frau Engel's daughter, but she is in no way mentally handicapped. In fact, she is one of the most brilliant characters in the series. Oh, and Frau Engel, being...[[CompleteMonster Frau Engel]] did no real protecting of her; it becomes clear right from the start that Sigrun's mother regularly abuses and berates her daughter and implies she had been considering ''having Sigrun killed or sent to a concentration camp'' before Sigrun's HeelFaceTurn.

Max Hass despite his generally pacifistic ways is shown to tank bullets and flatten people with his fists when provoked. Not only does he take bullets he doesn't seem to even notice them for the most part. Combine that with his noticeable fear of certain specific power tools and what goes into making the other super soldiers it seems likely he's a failed super soldier candidate. Max was probably from the early era of Deathshead back when normal soldiers were being converted into super soldiers not purpose grown for it. Something about Max didn't work out, maybe he was too compassionate or too intelligent for their liking, so he was sent on to experimentation after the augmentation procedure failed to get what they were going for. Eventually he escaped but only after a partial lobotomy disguised his noteworthy intelligence beneath an immature personality.

There's hints in this that all isn't like the Nazis boast from the AwesomeButImpractical tweaks to their forces to an insistence of repairing busted things despite "infinite" resources. And add in the fact that a number of noted leaders dying by BJ's hand. It seems the time Deathshead's genius bought has run out and it'll show the next time the Nazis show themselves, though with the chaos that's breaking out at the end, they'd just one of many things to deal with.

* This would make a surprising amount of sense. It's not commonly known, but [[Main/Egopolis Stalingrad]] was named because Stalin played a key part in commanding the defense of Tsaritsyn (modern-day Volgagrad) which was renamed in his honor long before he became leader of the Soviet Union

Hitler's movie was supposed to show Hitler defeating and killing Blazkowicz. Given that Hitler is shown to have complete disregard for human life, it is not a big stretch to assume he was actually going to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill]] the actor [[FatalMethodActing playing Blazkowicz]] on camera and [[AllPartOfTheShow put this scene in the movie]]. This means that without B.J.'s intervention all four actors would have been doomed to be killed by Hitler regardless of the results of the audition.

* Well, maybe not the Grand Intellect, considering [[spoiler:he's a fellow classmate of Billy's and wouldn't have been born during the events of New Colossus. They could always put in his ancestors, though. Just keep an eye out for anyone named McMire.]]

[[WMG: As the game progresses, more and more NPCs will show their support]]

As for the Commander Keen reference, keep in mind that, canonically, Billy Blaze is B.J. Blazkowicz's grandson, and with B.J. having twins on the way, it's possible that B.J. encounters the Voritcons and the Grand Intellect decades before his grandson will.
* Well, maybe not the Grand Intellect, considering [[spoiler:he's a fellow classmate of Billy's and wouldn't have been born during the events of New Colossus. They could always put in his ancestors, though. Just keep an eye out for anyone named McMire.]]

Similar to ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' when Jacob Taylor and Miranda Lawson are asking Commander Shepard who the "Virmire Survivor" was at the start of the game, B.J. will be asked who he remembers as part of the [[LaResistance Kreisau Circle]] in Berlin: whomever players select to be spared is the one who will be present in the playthrough, while the other is KilledOffForReal due to the events from ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' prologue [[spoiler: and BJ destroying the victim's brain after the brain being transplanted into a prototype combat robot which BJ fought near the end of The New Order]].

* The heavy set woman is Sigrun Engel, and she is indeed Frau Engel's Daughter. But she is nothing like Frau Engel, which is why she behaves differently from the other Nazis.

BJ's old childhood friend will show up in the next game, and they'll both talk to each other... along with jokes about them having the same name and pretending to be confused whenever someone says 'Billy'/'Billie'.

In the epilogue of the third game, which takes place decades after the Nazi regime has fallen, B.J.'s IdenticalGrandson [[VideoGame/CommanderKeen Billy Blaze]] will make an appearance.

The "attack" to free BJ from Engel's custody was staged to keep Engel from getting suspicious; after all, it wouldn't make sense if the Resistance ''didn't'' go after their top asset against the Nazis. Spesh was simply the final detail, the sacrifical lamb meant to make the Nazis fall completely for the bluff. While it was not explicitly planned for him to die, they probably all knew what the odds of survival were and Spesh probably had orders to self-terminate if he wasn't killed outright.

The newspaper in the first game only said he was rumored to be killed. This sounds like a ''Main/NeverFoundTheBody''. He would be keeping himself alive using stolen Nazi tech.

The newspaper in the first game only said he was rumored to be killed. This sounds like a ''Main/ChekhovMIA''. He would be keeping himself alive using stolen Nazi tech.

It's the only group that's lacked representation in the cast. So far all there has been is side characters in the form of two Japanese-American sisters in Horton's group (Also an Arab in the Kreisau Circle but that's taking a pretty broad, albeit completely historical, definition of Asia). Come the third game we'll get a main character of Asian descent though!

Afterwards the world picked up the pieces, but now they suddenly had a ton of extremely high-grade tech that required a lot of power, which in a couple of decades led to an energy crisis, which drove humanity to Mars. There they find the Argent energy, which opens up Hell, and then they realize that their tech is compatible (since it came from the same source), so they try to exploit it, therefore we have DOOM 2016.

* This would make a lot of sense; in the previous game, J actively calls Billy out in chapter 7 on how racist America was even before the Nazis were in control. The trailers have hinted that Grace Jones also feels considerable contempt for how quickly white America went from their pre-WW2 racism to reinstating slavery and other inhumanities. Add in that America was referred to during both world wars as "the sleeping giant", and suddenly the game's subtitle takes on a rather ominous cast of {{foreshadowing}}...

*Confirmed

The Da'at Yichud are an ancient Jewish secret society whose tech is so advanced it looks like magic even though they should have no way to manufacture them. DOOM has demons that are actually inter-dimensional conquerors, and their magic can not only be reproduced as magitech by humanity, but it might be simply sufficiently advanced (bio)technology itself. King Solomon, the ancient Jewish king, has tales about him where he controlled demons and had them build his palace and get him gems and other rare thigns. Now put it all together: The ancient Jews had encountered the demons in the past. Somehow they managed to capture some of them and gained some of their magitech. Since it was too dangerous and/or corruptive, they created the Da'at Yichud, who then used the knowledge as a foothold to make their own breakthroughs, and they purposely erased the source of this knowledge so that they wouldn't end up as cultists. Then the Nazis found their caches in Wolfenstein, made use of their tech, which then allowed them to take over the world, but then the same technology (and BJ) led them to their downfall. Afterwards the world picked up the pieces, but now they suddenly had a ton of extremely high-grade tech that required a lot of power, which in a couple of decades led to an energy crisis, which drove humanity to Mars. There they find the Argent energy, which opens up Hell, and then they realize that their tech is compatible (since it came from the same source), so they try to exploit it, therefore we have DOOM 2016.

Midway through the game, BJ [[spoiler:''survives decapitation'' thanks to a carefully executed plan by his friends, and is then given a new body]]. So, what may have happened to what he's left behind? [[spoiler:While badly damaged, it's still the body of the man who was a nightmare of the Nazi regime for years; too good a specimen to just have that corpse burned or exposed, and while Deathshead is dead, he's probably left enough knowledge and technology behind for others to continue his work. So, also to quash the rebellions that will erupt after the events of TNC, the Nazis [[CloningBlues will create one Ubersoldat, or even more, based on BJ]]. This may even be a cause for an HeroicBSOD by the original: seeing and eventually confronting a monstrous, unhinged version of himself may lead BJ to question his own humanity (he's been arguably descending into SociopathicHero territory for a long time, on top of having an artificial body himself now), although he'll eventually rise up, stronger and more determined than ever.]]

Midway through the game, BJ [[spoiler:''survives decapitation'' thanks to a carefully executed plan by his friends, and is then given a new body]]. So, what may have happened to what he's left behind? [[spoiler:While badly damaged, it's still the body of the man who was a nightmare of the Nazi regime for years; too good a specimen to just have that corpse burned or exposed, and while Deathshead is dead, he's probably left enough knowledge and technology behind for others to continue his work. So, also to quash the rebellions that will erupt after the events of TNC, the Nazis [[CloningBlues will create one Ubersoldat, or even more, based on BJ]]. This may even be a cause for an HeroicBSOD by the original: seeing and eventually confronting a monstruos, unhinged version of himself may lead BJ to question his own humanity (he's been arguably descending into SociopathicHero territory for a long time, on top of having an artificial body himself now), although he'll eventually rise up, stronger and more determined than ever.]]