The Entire Zombies Story in 26 Minutes 

COD Zombies gameplay: "you open the door, you have the most money," COD Zombies lore:

If there are so many alternate dimensions in cod zombies, there’s a dimension where the story makes sense

Bro. This all started from “Let’s make a WWII shooter game. People will have fun with that right?” I love it.

"Keepers were seen as gods," Then you play zombies just to one shot them

What they did to the story is the biggest example of "and then" storytelling.

This is the most batshit insane plot to anything I've ever seen lol. It's like someone hit the "random page" link on Wikipedia 200 times, took all of the topics they came up with, threw them into a blender, and then gave them to some poor intern to somehow string together.

This is literally the most confusing story line Ive ever heard, I have no idea what any of this means lol

Gotta love when somebody understands a complicated storyline so well that they can dumb it down and make literally hours of information easily understandable in a 25 min video

I fucking love the fact that George Romero is a canonical character in call of duty

"A meteor crashing in Imperial Japan contains an unknown element exploited by the 3rd Reich, eventually leading to the creation of zombies by a mysterious group of Nazi scientists" will always be a more engaging setting (to me). Sprinkle in some hidden audio recordings and let players tie it all together. With some cross-references between maps. Zombies used to have that creepy atmosphere where you didn't really know the exact story yet anyone could find and interpret pieces of the story.

What a video, way to condense multiple hours of lore into a concise video, seriously this is fantastic, I haven't seen a video going over the story without a stupid amount of detail, you did a really good job of deciding whats important and not, especially when the story gets unreal confusing in BO4.

I have not played COD zombies since transit, I had no clue the story changed this much. Thanks for the video it really cleared up the confusion I had.

I feel bad for any casual zombie players 🤣

FNAF and Cod zombies having a fight over who has the most confusing story to follow

You guys remember the good ol days? When you get to that first zombies map after completing WAW. That was the Coolest thing.

The story is literally so complicated that even im still confused about this.

Best explanation video I've seen yet. I've been playing zombies since World at War and have watched it change and grow over the years. I've taken breaks here and there cause you know, life happens, so I've missed out on some stuff and tryna catch up has been kinda confusing at times and BO4 had many holes in the zombies plot. This video helped clear up what I missed and explain things supremely better on what I already knew while giving more insight. Salute my friend you outdid yourself with this top tier work✊🏽

I was just telling my buddy how I've done all the easter eggs but I was always so focused on beating them that I never followed the lore. This was definitely worth the watch

COD Zombies in 2016: Oh cool so the whole timline is connected a loop, how neat! 2 years later: So about that time loop, scratch that, some mobster just did something different for once.

If they make a standalone Call of Duty’s Zombies game with great storytelling, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. And the game should include something like a story mode + classic zombies survival with all the maps.

Dude you voice of perfect for this I’ve been wanting to know the full story line in depth again keep it up mate :)

Well i kinda followed the story line and i knew what was going al al these time. But this was by far the most understandable video at this date for me. Some parts in the storyline it self was a bit confusing but thanks to u i got it al cleared out now. Thanks m8 and please keep us up to date on the next zombies maps. 🙏🏻 And of course u got my sub.. take it bcause u deserved it

I loved the cut of, "She is one psychotic" lmao it was so good

I like how we're talking about Lovecraftian gods, different dimensions, magic, and alien technology in a CALL OF DUTY game that always made me laugh lol

Ngl up until BO3 zombies was the only thing drawing me back, but it got too burdensome. This just went to provide me with everything I missed. I feel as though even had I wasted my life playing the games to discover *THIS* level of depth is way beyond me. Good job, I hope this video, the comment, and my new sub helps pay the bills.

Bo1 zombies consumed years of my life. Ascension will always be my favorite map.

its funny, I knew the aether storyline up until everything was banished to the dark aether, so i came here to see how the old storyline connects with the cold war one and ended up learning a lot. thanks for this great video

Revelations was the best way to cap off the zombies storyline at least for me b/c I have not played BO4 (yes I saw the ending in tag der toten) and revelations was the map I replayed the shit out of over the summer of 2017 and I got to prestige master twice (main account got perma banned by trolls) and I would always wake up in the morning get on fire up a solo game of rev and then when I got my set up. Perkaholic, pack a punched thunder gun and the apothican servant, Arnies and grav spikes. I would run around the map hit all 3 teddy bears and go sit in the power room in Verruckt and just prepare to be sitting there from morning until night just firing the apothican in the middle of the room so it would suck up the zombies and then pull my thunder gun or my pack a punched mule kick gun when the shadowman decided to throw a margwa or Panzer in my face. Ah good times and this song made it even better and I never got tired of hearing it. Elenas voice is just god tier and very soothing. Zombies holds a special place in my heart b/c back when my friend and I finished the world at war co op campaign (my friend had already beaten it solo but he didn’t tell me until after the last mission) but anyways he told me that if we skip the credits we are gonna be thrown into a bonus mode and then when we spawned in Nacht. I remember asking my friend ok so where are the enemies do we have to clear this building out? And then I heard a moan and my friend told me to go find the source of the moaning and I had my first ever encounter w/ a zombie tearing down one of the wooden barriers (I knew what a zombie was thx to dead rising) and I remember being scared shitless that I ended up getting downed so I ended the game and did not touch zombies until BO1 came out. I then made some friends that wanted to play Kino and I slowly got used to zombies and then when moon came out. I loved the story and was starting to catch up on the current lore at the time then B02 came out and more lore and then BO3 and I remember I was playing Zetsubou w/ my best friend and he was like holy shit bro. You went from being scared of zombies to a badass zombie slayer that always takes the big risks (examples are taking a huge train of zombies in a small area, soloing Easter eggs b/c I did rev, DE and Zetsubous EEs solo after I did it w/ ppl and hell I would solo the rev and Zetsubou ees for my friends in co op as well) but yeah zombies has always cheered me up and I’m glad that I gave it a Second chance those many many years ago.

The Ultimis/ Primis storyline will never be outperformed by these newer COD titles. What I loved the most about zombies (WaW- BO3) is that they included some historical truth, which really added to the scary factor! 🧟🧟🧟 I can't get the same feeling with the new zombies...

I know the more confusing side of the lore, so watching this was actually very easy to understand. I definitely applaud your ability to condense about ½ a days worth of information into ½ an hour. There were some things you missed, but you definitely had most if not everu significant story detail, so great work!

This is the best telling of the zombies storyline I’ve seen, take my sub man. I hope to see more great content

Wow, Cold War is my first COD Zombies, the whole story is insane, it seems like the story is a lot simpler now. Will COD Vanguard Zombies continue Cold War's Zombies story or it will have like a prequel zombie story?

i think its healthier to make your own canon for this story, because this is too complex. I wish they actually had written a set story from the start, not just keep adding stuff to the story from the dlcs with no thought whatsoever

The story didn't need to be this convoluted. They should have made multiple self contained stories.

I love “and she is one psychotic-“ and then it’s cuts to another scene xD

Bro this is a perfect story. Every other story I’ve heard abt zombies story line is trash and makes no sense but this one, is perfect

Bro this shit is amazing. I’ve always just played the game not caring for story and u just opened my eyes with this shit like I never knew any of that shit was happening

This is way better than a 6 hour documentary , you really summed up the story well

You explained it the best anyone probably could but I'm still completely dazzled

26:04 love how 3 Price’s from 2018 and a yellow biker suit Portnova from 1981 are fighting Valentina in 1985.

The Aether zombies story line is honestly one of the coolest video game stories aesthetically. The issue I have with it is it feels like they tried too hard to tie gameplay elements into the story. It feels like a cop out when the explanation for literally everything is inter dimensional demons and time travel.

In between these beautiful events someone decides to have 3 captain prices at the same time.

This is why I like zombies because of the mystery and the story, not just because of the game mode itself

The COD zombies storyline be like: ⬇️⬆️⬆️➡️🔂🔀↙️↘️⬆️↪️🔁↩️⤴️↖️↩️🔂↪️⤴️⬅️↕️↔️🔀⤵️↗️↪️↙️⬅️↘️⬆️⤴️↩️↖️↖️↖️⤴️↙️↖️↙️↘️↘️↙️↙️↙️

I thought you would have million of subscribers bc it seems like you put in a lot of effort in this video

It would've been pretty neat to know which stories came from which game, I'm new in Cold War and this is intriguing

Its awesome to see the work you put together. Great job. Hope to see more content.

I came from your newer tiktoks and this is the first time I had an idea of the complete story. Thanks so much for your work and time. God bless you bro 🙏🏽

Major plothole....the guys we get the souls from in BO3 are NOT ULTIMUS. At that point in time, all the ultimus guys (besides richtofen) were already captured by 935. So Tak wouldn't have been in japan still. And there was no mention of dragons by the OG Nikolai.

Still can't believe the original group are gone forever, I'm hoping they'll include them in the next zombies maps, seeing as how they were banished to the dark aether, and Sam seems to be able to traverse there safely

Do you plan on covering Forsaken and the upcoming Vanguard zombies storyline? I hope so because I finally understood the storyline thanks to your video.

Waw-bo1 (perfect story) Bo2-bo4 (detailed/amazing story) CW (boring)

GOD FKN DAMMIT. Thank you for just going straight into the video and not begging for subs or explaining why you haven't posted recently or anything. *BIG UPS*

Perfect of example of not keeping it simple. Call of Duty Zombies should just be, soldiers fighting zombies.

You’re underrated man, this must have taken weeks or months! Good job!

I like it when it used to be Zombies and Zombies only, back in the day where there was mystery about the Zombies Story, the Story was actually made by the fanbase which Treyarch took it to fruition

I feel like you could be a very good professor/teacher or an actual historian (if you aren't already), because this is summed up very well, and you go back to previous information when people forget stuff. You also have the perfect voice for it, and good visuals on screen. Do you know if Burgertown from Infection in exozombies is related at all in terms of story to the one in Forsaken?

This will probably get buried, but for some clarity: This is a very abridged (but still great) summary of the story that can’t capture many of the nuances and small details. For example: Group 935 was founded to be a group without borders dedicated to mankind’s betterment. They turned to Germany for the war because of the funding. Most of the different universes also have names. Along with that, there are still a handful of unsolved ciphers years later. It’s crazy. Development is also an issue. Black Ops 4 saw much of the zombies funding put towards the Chaos story to attract newer audiences. Cold War was originally supposed to be a Sledgehammer title, who backed out and threw it onto Treyarch. That’s why Treyarch did Cold War AND Vanguard (we don’t talk about this one) back-to-back. Other than that, there was lots of exchanging hands and differing visions in Black Ops 1-3. The story seems cobbled together sometimes because it literally was. Lastly, there are multi-hour storyline videos that exist and really lay out every detail from black ops 1 to black ops 4, skipping over the chaos story. If you liked this video, you’d like one of those too.

How it began: "Hey, let's make an endless survival horde mode where the player fights nazi zombies." How it ended up: "H.P Lovecraft in FPS form"

Must’ve taken you a long time good work man!

I lost interest in COD games like 6 years ago and up until this video I had no idea they actually built an entire lore around how the zombies appeared. This video is awesome I might have to get the next COD game. Zombies was what I enjoyed the most.

COD zombies has a better story than any COD campaign 😭

The many iterations and the many back-firings of the “ don’t worry this time we’re with the real good guys” trope is so interesting!

The story ended after BO1 moon. Everything after is non fucking canon in my book

21:15 I legit thought you said mining Ethereum 😂. Peck is truly a visionaire

Great video. Really helped me grasp an understanding of the video game series i used to love as a kid. I kinda only knew the story up until bo3 if im honest, after that it went a lil too confusing but this video helped me see what was made of the story afterwards. Thanks

Ima just gonna say it all ends at 16:36 and call it a day. As confusing as the timeline is with so many dimensions and copies of people, it still has cohesion. Whatever was happening after that just doesnt make sense, my head cannon stops there.

My wife: “why are you so invested? It’s just a game…” Me: *this video*

I honestly never liked the lovecraftian direction of the stories after shadows of evil and feel like zombies could've ended at origins, but this was a great background video thank you

Remember when we all played the first zombies for the first time and that’s all it was, just shooting zombies for no reason

Cod zombies lore is comparable to how confusing/long fnaf lore is.

Thank you so much for this it was very helpful to get a refresh of the whole storyline

Shout out to you bro I’ve watched 100 of these videos and 5 mins in I’m lost and don’t care anymore but your explained it so well and precise I understand fully now, thank you.

Just to clear up a bit of a ‘plotline’. The reason Maxis in Agartha frees the Shadow Man from the Summoning Key is because when he was reborn by Monty he lacked his soul and only had his brain. Without a soul, he couldn’t resist the Shadow Man’s temptations due to being an empty husk, which manipulated him.

I've seen your videos on tik tok just wanted to say keep it up my man

Love it. Great job explaining it in an easy to understand way. You're a natural at telling stories. Would def do other games and stuff if you can. 👍😁

COD WAW LORE: SAM! COD now: You need the blood of AN ELDER GOD

It amazes me how ya'll know all this info bout zombies and I really appreciate the info but I'm still amazed by the stuff that ya'll know

So basically this is a story with a lot of "but wait!" I remember I kept up with it and than just got to lost. Also I loved that all this stories stuff started off in the beginning as some Easter eggs in a side zombie game, just.. well growing up with codblack ops I'm just amazed because I remember the beginning of it all. It was like oh cool this game has a zombie game with it and it's multi-player, time for split screen and late night gaming with your friends just to see how long you can survive. Than you discovered some small Easter eggs from youtube back when there wasn't so much ads and rules. And it slowly grows into a more detailed big story with time traveling and other dimension as more games come out while the game still tells another story with woods and everything. Like... just wow.

There’s different dimensions of the same story line and characters. No wonder everyone’s confused, don’t get why they couldn’t keep the story more simple

The quickest way to completely ruin a story/ plot is to add in different universes, dimensions, and timelines! They started out great! and then everything became complicated and weird. Not even enjoyable anymore.

Original zombies:"Get the second floor, get heavy guns, camp" Zombies now:"so these different dimensions right...."

My god this is more complicated than it needs to be.. thank you for putting it all together!

Congrats on putting together this story that actually doesnt make any sense

This is the most comprehensive storyline vid ive seen so far

This is like the “zombie story line over simplified” 🤣🤣🤣

A long long long long time ago in a galaxy far far far far away a very good person delivered us a video on cod zombies explaining the lore that isn’t two and a half hours long thank you

i clicked on the video bc it was only 26 minutes and when he said "okay the end" i laughed thinking there was gonna be another five mutes to finish it up and then saw i was only 7 mins in lol bro squeezed so much info in here

Maaaaan... the work and time put in to this... great vid!! You got a new sub =)

I mean this is a really effective cost saving measure just walk into the nearest mental hospital and use whatevers written on the cell walls

You lost me at 1:00 💀

I miss when the story was just four soldiers from different countries surviving a zombie outbreak controlled by a little girl that toyed with them, 80% of the zombie storyline past Black Ops 2 seems like it was written in two hours by new writers that have no connection to the previous games and just wanted to be special.

feel like they should have made Cold War a lot clearer after ending the storyline in BO4. Dark Aether didn’t need to exist, they could have just made a new storyline like in Exo Zombies or Infinite Warfare

WaW Zombies Lore: Group 935 was a shady German science group that did crazy tests that resulted in zombies and teleporters and wonderweapons. Later zombies lore : *trap remix of Somebody That I Used to Know plays*

Everything was fine before for Cold War

Hey, thanks so much for explaining zombies! I was really into zombies during WaW and BO1, but kinda lost interest afterwards. I finally understand what the Easter eggs are all about too. Subbed !

Fun fact element 115 is a real life reference to moscovium. The real element 115 that Bob Lazar first reported in 1989. He claimed that is what the ets used as fuel for the gravity engine he reversed engineered at area s4.

I like how the story for call of duty zombies didn’t have to be this complex and convoluted but it just is because

No matter how many times i learn about the timeline and lore, im always lost in the end

At the very end you say “Janus” as in “Jay-ness” but it’s actually pronounced “Ya-noose”, like the Roman god of gates, time, beginnings, doorways, transitions, passages, and endings. Seems pretty fitting for such a teleportation and time travel heavy story, no?