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1	* BillingDisplacement: Despite Captain Price being prominently featured in many promotional pieces as well as the boxart, he isn't the protagonist, although he is still a very important supporting character. The ''actual'' protagonists, Kyle Garrick and Alex, aren't given as much spotlight in the promos as Price.
2	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Season 4 ended up getting delayed as its release would've coincided with the 2020 Minneapolis riots, which protested police brutality and saw military action being taken to quell them.
3	* ExecutiveMeddling: After announcing Godzilla and Kong's involvement with the Franchise/MonsterVerse crossover, Activision posted a list of stipulations regarding their portrayals -- many of which were broken by the various [=MonsterVerse=] movies. For example, Godzilla cannot be shown running, jumping, or flying -- the first two of which he was shown doing in ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'' and ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', and the latter of which is a reference to ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah''. Even more bizarrely, one rule stipulates that Godzilla cannot be associated with the terms nuclear, atomic, or radioactive -- despite his BreathWeapon being referred to as "Atomic Breath" in ''Godzilla vs. Kong'', as well as the "Nuclear Pulse" he used to kill King Ghidorah in ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]''.
4	* NoExportForYou: Physical release on all platforms and any sort of release on the Platform/PlayStation4 were cancelled in Russia, presumably for antagonizing Russia once again, although this one is a [[RenegadeRussian rogue military general]]. It didn't help that Urzikstan, the fictional nation that is the center of the conflict, is basically an {{Expy}} of Syria and Chechnya.
5	* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: In 2021, Activision fired and blacklisted Jeff Leach, the voice actor for Ghost, after he made disparaging comments towards female gamers on his Twitch stream.
6	* TheOtherDarrin: [[Series/{{Six}} Barry Sloane]] takes on the mantle of Captain Price, succeeding Billy Murray. The voice team even loved Sloane's audition so much they dropped the pretenses, scribbled on the script to use Price's name instead of the pseudonym they were using for audition purposes, and had him read the lines knowing he was auditioning for Price.
7	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Ever noticed that there are no Humvee's in this game? In 2017, AM General filed a complaint regarding the series' previous use of the HMMWV, claiming that as a trademarked product they had to give permission regarding its inclusion. This was resolved in 2020, when a court ruled in favor of ''Call of Duty'' on the basis that its use of the HMMWV had proper context and artistic merit, meaning that the Humvee is open to appear in future games.
8	* TechnicalAdvisor: Infinity Ward consulted with retired Navy [=SEALs=] Steve Sanders and Mitch Hall for both the game's levels and overall narrative, giving advice on how soldiers should move through spaces and react to a given scenario, as well as help create a story that would ring true to soldiers like them.
9	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
10	** The ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' reboot is the first COD game since ''Ghosts'' to lack a Zombies mode. However, one of the artists at Infinity Ward, Arron Beck, [[https://www.pcgamesn.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare/zombies-mode showed concept art that revealed that Zombies actually was considered to return]]. According to Beck, it was cancelled because it clashed with the more grounded and realistic tone of the reboot. One would eventually be featured in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIII'', albeit produced by Treyarch and continuing their Dark Aether story.
11	** The Accuracy International [=AX50=] originally [[https://tcrf.net/Call_of_Duty:_Modern_Warfare_(Windows)#Cut_variant_of_AX-50 had a variant that resembles the CheyTac Intervention]], a sniper rifle used in ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare MW2]]''. The Intervention would later be added to the second ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareII MWII]]'' as the FJX Imperium.

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