Menendez is the best villain (Black Ops 2) 

Amazing take of mendenez he is truly a tragic character while also being a bad person RIP. Kamar de los Reyes

Rest in peace Kamar de los Reyes. You've made so many childhoods better. You will always be our Raúl Menéndez, hopefully you've reunited with your family and Josefina ❤️...

I actually saved Mason first try. Not because I felt something was off, but because 9 year old me was a lousy shot lol

“Your life will be consumed by absolute loss, only then will you understand what you’ve done to me. “

Menemdez survives a bullet to the eye/head, a grenade seconds after, then he survives an army simply fuelled by the rage for the safety of his sister just to then survive another grenade and to add salt to the wounds to get the good ending you must capture Menendez instead of killing him, he really is immortal

The best part of saving mason is it isn’t just there because we know it’s mason. It’s possible woods is skeptical from Hudson’s communication, the CIA file, and dragoviches interrogation.

Dude, I'm kinda speechless on how good this video was from a channel your size. I played the BO2 campaign as a kid and to me it was just shooting people with a story in the background but being older now and watching this with your in depth analysis gave me a larger appreciation for this game. The campaign mostly stuck with me this whole time due to the scale and gameplay but I always preferred the MW campaigns since they felt more like real war to me. Treyarch's first two entries in the BO series are nothing to sleep on though

People say Makarov, Shepherd, Zachev are the best villains? Nah Raul Fucking Menendez. All the fucking way.

HE WAS THE TRULY BROKEN VILLAN

Honestly, if Menendez actually started his youtube channel irl. He would end up on SO many commentary channels with titles like "The disturbing truth about Xx_CordisDie_xX69".

you removed the entire political background behind the whole thing and made it completely personal. Yes that is a big part of it but remember the factory owner who first scarred Josifina was American and the dictator they suffered under was US-backed, then a US-backed Noriega captured him. The countries he rallies are all ones affected by American imperialism.

BO3 it was "Train go boom" but back in my days we had "sister go boom"

how does this video barely got views omg it's so good

Another great video from the goat for real. I've only played the campaign once at release and I remember being so lost in the plot. It's funny to see that he had 2 billion followers, more than the entire population of China, yet he never made a Twitch channel. Absolute waste of his time, he could've gotten so many Twitch prime memberships. Sadge.

This is a pleasant reccomendation

A neat little detail that you didn't mention is that during the mission where you're in Afghanistan, if you manage to not kill kravchenko, he'll tell you Menendez: "Even has friends within the C.I.A." implying he started to deal within the governments ranks Subtly long before the events of BO2. Which also ends up correlating with the twist where you have the choice of shooting Mason or sparing his life; I also believe he's mentioned only once in BO3, but it doesn't provide much information other that he's dead. And that because of the attacks during the finale of BO2, the world created a new defense systems.

Awesome video, lad - totally agree on everything. I hope we get more of him next year. He was the best villain in any COD game. Right after Jonathan Irons

"To those you serve, your life means NOTHING!!" the sad thing is, Menendez was right.

I love how even though Menendez’s story is about revenge, he isn’t just a “haha revenge go brr” villain, he was determined to spend so much time and energy and money to make his revenge come to fruition. I’m so glad I was recommended this video, it was very well made

I just finished the game and holy sh*t, he is genuinely one of the most terrifying and brutal villains in the franchise, possibly in all of media

Menendez is a man who is too angry to die, and I was all there for it back then. You know what? No. I'm here for it *now* too! I think I'm gonna replay BO2 soon now. Thanks for this.

14:31 I did. When I was younger I shot Mason in the wiener but I had no clue lol. I almost cried ngl.

Ral Menendez makes you hate his ass and makes you want to torture him. Which is why you actually love his character because that is what a great villain is supposed to be.

I forgot he died last year.. rip 🥺

The only Villain in COD you could empathize with, especially when you yourself are a brother and understand his actions through it.

Nice work man. This game rocked my socks back in the day.

I saved mason first try lmao, I just kinda shot him without listening to hudson to get him in the head and got a trophy on my ps3 right after called "Family Reunion" no idea what it was until that cutscene with old Alex

One thing to give dragovich is that he laughed as mason was strangling him at the end of bo1 😂

Handsome Jack clears, I’m sorry

Raul menendez - L3+R3

6:46 second Best scene in the entire game, after literally sliding wit the kap40

I always thought that the whole bo1 campaign was superior to bo2 and it still is but I've found more appreciation for menendez and think that this is the best villain the black ops series has seen

I think what would have made black ops a complete and holy trilogy would be keeping the past missions from black ops 2 as the whole story mode stretching more into the past and Menendez story along with a scene or more screentime with his sister and who he really was. Then have future missions as the black ops 3 campaign with some flashback missions (also choosing to kill or not kill Mason in black ops 2 would effect BO3)

This is why Vladimir Makarov never would turn on Menendez. Because he has a fiery temper when betrayal occurs against him. In the gta verse, Makarov was suppressed of his emotions when he senses a traitor in his mist. Like Joseph Allen. Only because Shepherd leaked the info of a traitor in his circle. Menendez discovers a traitor, he’s emotional and punishes the traitor severely. Like no mercy. Years later, Julian Kostov knew that Farid was a CIA agent, told Menendez about a double agent within his inner circle, and when Farid decided to shoot Harper in the head, as a reward, Kostov shot Farid in the head as he was a loose end to him and to Menendez he discovered him to be a CIA agent. Truly double murder in his presence. It’s why people felt bad when Harper was shot and when Farid was killed, no one cared for him. Showing what the audience shock matters to? The victim or the perpetrator.

That intro is hard asf

I prefer Markov but menendez is still a great villain.

Menendez was already hard. Take away something he loves and he's unstoppable. Just found out Keaton played Hudson

I'm mad they made killing mason canon

This video is actually so good. I expected it to have 10 times as many views! Honestly felt like I needed to add a like since it stood out to me from the other analysis videos. Apart from that, I do very much agree. Raul Menendez is one of the best villains I've ever seen. And the BO2 campaign overall is nothing less than a masterpiece.

it would have been perfect if americans knew how to SPEAK PROPER SPANISH, FOR GOD'S SAKE "bueno fortuna"????? did he mean "Buena Suerte"??? cause that doesn't translate to good karma, and the list goes on, like cubans speaking portuguese at the first mission, besides that yeah, pretty good fcking villain

I know this would have never came out but when bo2 first came out I thought they should have made a zombies map similar to five where you play has Menendez against the zombies like half way though to have enough time for him to the bad guy but then bam zombies like a introduction similar to five but with Menendez flare

Miss translation Menéndez states (the Americans know nothing about the reality maybe we should demonstrate)

That youtube cordis die thumbnail was so fucking funny. Great channel, subbing.

3:58 that was hilarious 😂

Say what you want about Menendez but that mf can rock a suit hella clean like Makarov.

Best cod games are : bo1 bo2 world at war

Great video man, the quality is really very high for a channel of your size. You analyzed one of the games that I played and loved most in my childhood very well. I hope you can make your way! keep it up

8:54 That's how pissed off he was too, he was willing to kill Hudson as well

Maturing is realising Menendez was not the bad guy.

Let's goooooo

Raul Menendez is one of the greatest villains of all time in any media!

He is like pain from Naruto if he was good

RIP Kamar De Los Reyes

Man does the algorithm cook some times

Menendez was genuinly scary, he was smart, ruthless and confident. You knew he truely wasn't scared of you in the slightest, he wasn't faking it like other COD villans. By the end of the game, you really, really want to kill him. But you lose if you do, it's so frustrating but you understand why. I'm gonna play BO2 again.

Treyarch had no business writing this gem, but they cooked. They cooked so well that Gordon Ramsey in comparison is a fast food 2 day cook.

The fact that that everything is still Canon for black ops 6 is awesome. They confirmed Mason actually died here too and the ending were he lives is an alternative timeline. I love Mason he his a huge part of my childhood and him surviving is the best ending of course. But I think it’s a great story choice that he actually dies as the weight of it on Woods while he’s raising Mason will be a great plot point I hope they flush out in the story But I feel like they are just trying to pull the wool over our eyes. I also hope we get Menedez again as well even if it’s just a cameo it would be a hugely missed opportunity if we didn’t get a scene with whoever“the mole” is talking to him

This video is amazing. I love the America sucks joke on YT. Cordis Die with 2.1 billion subscribers, probably made a video titled how I converted mr beast to a cult.

Eh, I may lack taste in characters, but I think they made this guy too cool for his own good. Reznov was cool too, very cool actually, but I don't see him going "you don't want to see my dark side, you don't want me seeing red" he is just a russian dude at the end of it. I didn't like the guy the moment I saw his smug confident sass, amazing voice actor, but they gave him too much importance. He gets caught, he escapes, it's like he is a weekly villain.

“So we are the same David, shaped by that which we have lost…” I don’t think I will ever get that line/cutscene out of my head, infamous

3:57

14:06 recently it has been confirmed that Alex Mason has been KIA by the hands of woods. Just wanted to put that out there

Incredible video bro. Very well made and edited!

Enendez was right,farid's life is worth nothing.

Mason only dies if you shoot him in the head. I think the canon ending is the one where he survives

Wow I just realized that radio dude was Menendez

do rorke next plz

Ding ding. You got a new subscriber

8:51 woods trick shot Mendez’s sister

I think Menéndez wanted to make Woods suffer for what he did to his sister. Took his legs and his best friend, for 30yrs

This seriously needs more views

This guy I swear 😅😅😅

Great video bro!

Brilliant vid.

most call of duties have a sense of victory at the end except for black ops 2 and on a special note Ghost (where you actually didn't win)

you met menendez on Nicaragua not angola

I know this is random, but you think they should bring back Joseph Bowman?

No he ain’t

I heavily disagree with the first 30 seconds. Menendez is smug because he is fully aware of the THICK PLOT ARMOR protecting him. Making him essentially omnipresent was also a mistake. And the WORST thing overall with the Black Ops series is that they DERAILED the setting. The COLD WAR setting. BO2 took us out of the Cold War and put us into a HIGHLY unrealistic "near future" setting.

How did you get your FOV so high?

Fantastic video man