History YMMV / Wolfenstein

* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: In response to critics complaining about the storylines in these games being historically innacurate, ridiculous, or worse, insensitive, fans are likely to reply that ''Wolfenstein'' was never intended to be a serious franchise, and runs on [[{{Camp}} campy charm]]. The [=MachineGames=]' series, despite actually taking the crimes of the Third Reich seriously, is even more scolded for that, mainly due to being advertised as an AlternateHistory which mislead newcomers into thinking it would attempt to be realistic.

* CompleteMonster: [[MadScientist Oberst-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Strasse]], better known as "Deathshead"--"Totenkopf" in German--is the monstrous Nazi behind much of the suffering throughout the series. and the ArchEnemy of Captain [[Characters/WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz]]. [[VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein Attempting to launch a V-2]] with an experimental biological warhead into London and experimenting on various creatures, Deathshead helps the SS paranormal unit resurrect Heinrich I. [[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein2009}} Returning years later]], Strasse takes over the Nazi forces in Isenstadt after the death of General Zetta and seeks to use the Nazi superweapon powered by the Black Sun to wipe out Isenstadt and its entire population as a demonstration. Having miraculously survived the Zeppelin crash, Deathshead is resurrected in ''[[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder The New Order]]'', where he demonstrates the full depth of his depravity and abominations. Carrying out painful and excruciating experiments, Deathshead captures Blazkowicz, and [[SadisticChoice forces him to choose]] which of his two friends Deathshead will painfully dissect, [[ForcedToWatch forcing BJ to watch the process]] before Deathshead leaves the survivor to burn alive. Using the fruits of his terrible experiments to [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory give the Nazis victory]] and establishing a cruel dictatorship, Deathshead continues his experiments by forcing a mental asylum to give him subjects and then ordering his soldiers to murder all the remaining patients when he decides he does not need them anymore. Finally confronted by B.J., Deathshead takes his dissected friend's brain and places it in a robot as a fully conscious slave--a fate he intends for all his dissected victims and B.J. himself--and forces him to attack B.J. Fully committed to his scientific legacy and believing compassion does not befit the "MasterRace", while surpassing almost all Nazis in horrifying cruelty and ruthlessness, Deathshead represented the worst of the Third Reich.

* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: In response to critics complaining about the storylines in these games being historically innacurate, ridiculous, or worse, insensitive, fans are likely to reply that ''Wolfenstein'' was never intended to be a realistic franchise, and runs on [[{{Camp}} campy charm]]. The [=MachineGames=]' series, despite actually taking the crimes of the Third Reich seriously, is even more scolded for that, mainly due to being advertised as an AlternateHistory which mislead newcomers into thinking it would attempt to be realistic.

* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: In response to critics complaining about the storylines in these games being historically innacurate, ridiculous, or worse, insensitive, fans are likely to reply that ''Wolfenstein'' was never intended to be a realistic franchise, and runs on [[{{Camp}} campy charm]]. The MachineGames' series, despite actually taking the crimes of the Third Reich seriously, is even more scolded for that, mainly due to being advertised as an AlternateHistory which mislead newcomers into thinking it would attempt to be realistic.

* CompleteMonster: [[MadScientist Oberst-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Strasse]], better known as "Deathshead"--"Totenkopf" in German--is the monstrous Nazi behind much of the suffering throughout the series. and the ArchEnemy of Captain [[Characters/WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz]]. [[VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein Attempting to launch a V-2]] with an experimental biological warhead into London and experimenting on various creatures, Deathshead helps the SS paranormal unit resurrect Heinrich I. [[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein2009}} Returning years later]], Strasse takes over the Nazi forces in Isenstadt after the death of General Zetta and seeks to use the Nazi superweapon powered by the Black Sun to wipe out Isenstadt and its entire population as a demonstration. Having miraculously survived the Zeppelin crash, Deathshead is resurrected in ''[[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder The New Order]]'', where he demonstrates the full depth of his depravity and abominations. Carrying out painful and excruciating experiments, Deathshead captures Blazkowicz, and [[SadisticChoice forces him to choose]] which of his two friends Deathshead will painfully dissect, [[ForcedToWatch forcing BJ to watch the process]] before Deathshead leaves the survivor to burn alive. Using the fruits of his terrible experiments to [[AlternateHistoryNaziVictory give the Nazis victory]] and establishing a cruel dictatorship, Deathshead continues his experiments by forcing a mental asylum to give him subjects and then ordering his soldiers to murder all the remaining patients when he decides he does not need them anymore. Finally confronted by B.J., Deathshead takes his dissected friend's brain and places it in a robot as a fully conscious slave--a fate he intends for all his dissected victims and B.J. himself--and forces him to attack B.J. Fully committed to his scientific legacy and believing compassion does not befit the "MasterRace", while surpassing almost all Nazis in horrifying cruelty and ruthlessness, Deathshead represented the worst of the Third Reich.

* YMMV/WolfensteinYoungblood

* YMMV/WolfesteinYoungblood

* YMMV/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus

* YMMV/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus
* CompleteMonster: [[YMMV/WolfensteinTheNewOrder General Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strausse]] & [[YMMV/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus Rip Blazkowicz]]. See those pages for details.

* CompleteMonster: [[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder General Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strausse]] & [[VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus Rip Blazkowicz]]. See those pages for more details.

* YMMV/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus

* YMMV/WolfensteinTheNewOrder

* [[YMMV/Wolfenstein3D]]
* [[YMMV/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein]]
* [[YMMV/Wolfenstein2009]]
* [[YMMV/WolfensteinTheNewOrder]]

* AnticlimaxBoss:
** If you time your shots right and have the right weapon, you can blow away the first Despoiled that serves as a boss in under ten seconds. The latter confrontations with Despoiled are... harder.
** By way of being {{puzzle boss}}es, this also applies to [[spoiler:General Zetta]] and [[spoiler:the Geist Queen]].
* GeniusBonus: Fictitious weapons appear to be based on real-life guns. Tesla Pistol (a gun shooting lightning arcs) uses the grips and receiver of the relatively obscure Polish ''Blyskawica'' submachine gun from WW2. Its name is Polish for... 'Lightning'. Oh, and there's also the relationship with B.J.'s surname.
* MostAnnoyingSound: The Castle mission. The Resistance members will annoy you by way of their constant use of ContinueYourMissionDammit.
--> ''"We have to save [[spoiler:Caroline]]"''
--> ''"For [[spoiler:Caroline]]!"''
* SpiritualSuccessor: Perhaps less a successor to ''RTCW'' than a reskin of the basic design for Hexen 1 and 2's gameplay style.
* TearJerker: The death of [[spoiler:Caroline Becker]].
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A common complaint on release week. The most common gripes include the lack of a [[GatlingGood Chaingun]], the use of RegeneratingHealth in single-player and even in multiplayer mode, and how the game's multiplayer was simplified from the much more famous ''RTCW'' and its multiplayer spin-off, ''Enemy Territory''.

* AnticlimaxBoss: If you time your shots right and have the right weapon, you can blow away the first Despoiled that serves as a boss in under ten seconds. The latter confrontations with Despoiled are... harder.
* GeniusBonus: Fictitious weapons appear to be based on real-life guns. Tesla Pistol (a gun shooting lightning arcs) uses the grips and receiver of relatively obscure Polish ''Blyskawica'' submachine gun from WW2. Its name is Polish for... 'Lightning'.

* AnticlimaxBoss: If you time your shots right, you can blow away the first Despoiled that serves as a boss in under ten seconds. The latter confrontations with Despoiled are... harder.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Perhaps less a successor to ReturnToCastleWolfenstein than it is a reskin of the basic design for Hexen 1 and 2's gameplay style.
* PoorMansSubstitute: In ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'', the OSA Director was played by the late Tony Jay. In this game, though, he was replaced by a new actor who doesn't sound the least bit like him. To be fair, though, there wasn't anything else that could have been done; the guy ''is'' dead, after all.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A common complaint on release week. The most common gripes include the lack of a [[GatlingGood Chaingun]], the use of [[WalkItOff regenerating health]] in singleplayer and even in multiplayer mode, and how the game's multiplayer was simplified from the much more famous ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein'' and its multiplayer spin-off, Enemy Territory.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A common complaint on release week. The most common gripes include the lack of a [[GatlingGood Chaingun]], the use of [[WalkItOff regenerating health]] in singleplayer and even in multiplayer mode, and the game's simplified, ''{{Halo}}'' / ''{{CallOfDuty}}'' style multiplayer mode in contrast to the more in-depth, tactical, class-based multiplayer of ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein''.

* AnticlimaxBoss: If you time your shots right, you can blow away the first Despoiled that serves as a boss in under ten seconds. The latter confrontations with Despoiled are... harder.
* FetishRetardant: Elite Guard, circa ''Wolfenstein'' (glowing skeletons and masculine haircuts are NOT sexy). Getting burned alive or disintegrated horribly isn't good for your skin, either.