Let me know what you think of my explanations. The community has definitely been wrong about the orange, yellow, and red eyes but do you think my explanation is correct or do you have any further thoughts? ►5 Aether Story facts - th-cam.com/video/Caek3M6ocCo/w-d-xo.html ►Explaining the new MW3 Zombies cutscene - th-cam.com/video/Xozday9HLbY/w-d-xo.html ►Everything about Project Janus - th-cam.com/video/LiAL6hrj9EA/w-d-xo.html Timestamps: 0:00 Intro - We were wrong about the eye colors 2:26 Yellow Eyes (ONLY Samantha Maxis) 4:00 Blue Eyes (Richtofen) 5:41 Orange Eyes (we were wrong about this) 11:42 Red Eyes (we were wrong about this) 19:15 White Eyes 20:07 Blue Electric Eyes 21:46 Green Eyes 22:58 Pink Eyes 23:17 The future - Purple Eyes - Dark Aether Link (they're likely not blue, 100% purple to show the Dark Aether bond due to exposure)
Lets go TGR! Mans coming with the best zombies story/lore videos recently! The other TH-camrs should take a leaf from this book as the lore has ALWAYS been the best thing about zombies! @mrroflwaffles lol
Jammed very hard to my guitar during this, excellent deep dive on the eye colors of the zombies I always enjoy zombies lore videos!! Understanding all the little details makes it more fun to play
I kinda miss when Mob of The Dead, and the red-eyed zombies, were solely, quite directly, a purgatory, or demonic entity, or just straight-up Hell itself. I feel like that was the intent they were going for anyway, with that whole 'input 115 as a code only to have a voice say "not this time" and switch the numbers to 666' thing (this isn't a result of Element 115, this is literally Hell). It's an interesting one-off idea of "here's this thing, entirely disconnected from everything else, that's simply _mimicking_ the horrors of the zombies and the Aether to torment these characters" - further explaining the perk machines being hazy and unable to properly form. Leaving that unexplained beyond that makes it much more enticing.
Sadly i recently watched an interview, where one of the creators of Motd admitted that they didnt now that the eye colour meant anything. It was an accident XD
It fits the maps so much better. And nobody can tell me that the whole shadowman richtofen stuff wasn´t just cramed into mob. As you said the whole astetik of Mob is hell and purgatory.
The distant monster on zetsubou is based on Zoth-Omogg from Lovecraftian lore who is a child of Cthulhu I think, so it is definitely meant to be an Apothicon
Definitely check out Mr. Rufflewaffles. He hasn’t made too much content as of late because of the mw3 stuff but he makes great story and whiteboard videos
It's understandable though there's still stuff to talk about but we've talked it to death over the past 16 years and the new storyline isn't even connected which sucks
Still wild that Universe 63 just got erased. Like “Oh, y’all lost the thing that we were literally handing off to you when it happened? Sucks to suck.” *snap*
According to someone in the comments, Jason confirmed that the eye colors don’t mean anything. That’s hard to believe when the BO1 easter egg literally has the zombies eye color change from orange to blue. This even happens again at the end of BO2 in buried for Maxis super EE. Maybe from BO3 onward it doesn’t?
He said something of the lines “sometimes it means something, sometimes it doesn’t” but I think with them differentiating explicitly between orange and yellow, and then later adding info for the red eyes in bo4, that they did try and make sense of it. During his direction, he was the one to introduce red eyes, so it was intentional.
I assume this is exactly what happened... this is probably the greatest example of how they "over-added" explanations to the story over time that kind of ruined the earlier games, in my opinion.
It's the issue that Jason Blundell just simply had a completely different idea of the Zombies universe than Jimmy Zielinski. More reason why Jason Blundell's work is so subpar
Nah nah they do its just the maps arnt in order nor is the actual timeline of zombies its kinda a loop for a but then it ended but the blue for the knights in bo3 is cause they arnt controled by anyone at that point just corupted humans theyre eyes are the same as element 115 then they change
Was it ever explicitly stated Brutus was in charge of the zombies in Mob/Blood? My understanding is he was just acting on orders of the Shadow Man, so the theory of red eyes being controlled by Dr Monty/Shadow Man makes more sense to me than Dr Monty/Shadow Man/Brutus
Wouldn't be surprised if red was the shadow man or Monty, if they are technically two sides of the same coin, ie are both are the aether storylines equivalent of the devil than red would make sense, with the code machine partially confirming this in mob (where it changes to 666). I'd even agree with the gaming revolution that the red eyes symbolise a being that controls the zombies without some sorta assisted connection to the aether but can do so at will from anywhere in the multiverse.
No, red is not “blank zombies” again, origins never retconned purple, you just probably missed it, purple is clearly the color for uncontrolled zombies, we know the shadow man controls red eyes, orange eyes can clearly be seen as regular dark Aether control like you said but we have an actual color only used for the zombies nobody could entirely control, the purple eyed ones
Compared to other zombies universe, CoD outbreak doesnt come from an infection or virus (advanced warfare not included) but from Dark Magic. Since magic is involved, I always assumed their eyes colors was related to the type of magic that was used.
The song "The One" is from the perspectives of the zombies and the lyrics literally say "I've been waiting for you to come here and kill me and set me free." So killing the zombies is you doing them a favor
During this video I had an idea, considering the colour of the eyes depends on who is in control and its possible for anyone to control zombies with the right equipment, its entirely possible within lore for there to be a moment like that in Halo 3 where we (the playable characters of the map) could temporarily become allied to the zombies/whoever is in control of the zombies to fight a common enemy. I think that idea would make for an awesome easter egg step or boss fight in a map!
Easy to remember scale. White - most stable and controlled. The zombies are being directly controled from nearby. Blue - being stably controlled, however not from nearby and are being controled as an army with less fine control. We know this since Richtofen was much more sane (relatively) than Samantha was. Yellow - not stable, no commands given but controlled. Samatha, even though she was not mentally there, did have “control” over the zombies broadly, but wasn’t utilizing them in an active way like Richthofen was. This is basically if someone is controlling them but is afk. Orange - stable, not controlled. The dark aether is just fine as a host since it isn’t susceptible to being mentally destroyed like Samantha, but it doesn’t really have a will that it puts on the zombies, and therefor is mostly afk like Samantha. Red - Not even the devs know lmao. If I was forced to put it in, I would say stable and controlled like Richthofen, expect with the influence of the dark aether through the shadow man, which corrupts the pure blue into red. Purple - not stable not controlled at all. As seen with origins. This mostly works as a nice cool to warm scale for control of the zombies.
One minute 36 seconds in. With each eye color the voice for power up drops changes as well. And I can't help but remember origins voice was definitely ricktophen. What if with each person in control it is also their voice that plays during powerups. Maybe I'm late. Idk. Lol. Just a thought
So since when did the red eyes change from purgatory. Cause all throughout zombies it’s always been said that red eyes symbolize a state a purgatory which makes sense for all the maps that they are seen in
I stopped bothering with zombies after Cold War because the gameplay was just too boring and easy for my tastes, but I've been watching some videos about the supposed storyline. I can confidently say that said storyline was so much better and more coherent when Treyarch didn't actually write anything down and just gave some hints here and there through EE to let the community make theories up. It all went downhill once they actually started writing stuff because they just tried to connect all the past stuff instead of starting over again. It got even worse with Black Ops 4 once they not only opened a closed story again, but they just kept it up across multiple titles developed by different people. You did a much better job at explaining things than the actual people writing those things, and I think it's very telling of how messy things are
In BO2 the easter eggs have two colors, orange and blue. When you beat the easter egg for Tranzit and Die Rise the tower is either blue if you modify the device to Richthofen’s requirements or orange if you modify the device how Maxis wants. What I think is that it’s not specifically who is controlling the zombies, but the modification to the device that changes the eye color depending on the different way each person controls the zombies. An example similar is how Wolverine from marvel can regenerate himself as his power however even though Deadpool can regenerate himself his method is way different by creating more dead cells in his body instead of living ones. (off topic ik) To sum it up I think it’s the person’s methods that help them control the zombies which affects the eye color rather than the person controlling the zombies themselves.
4:10 I always thought he said "I should be blue" not "Their EYES should be blue" Cant believe I was hearing that wrong for so many years... now it makes sense
This wasn’t known knowledge in the zombies community that the eyes were based on who was in control? I mean the Easter eggs very obviously hinted it because the eyes always matched with who we interacted with on the map..
The zombies' eyes will change color depending on who the Demonic Announcer is. Their eyes are yellow under Samantha Maxis, Ludvig Maxis, and the Forsaken, blue under Richtofen, red under the Warden and Kortifex, and white under the Avogadro. your welcome
Templar zombies on bo3 origins have blue eyes. They do glow yellow however when you kill them you can see that they are blue on the texture. It's just a dev oversight
Honestly it just sounds to me like the type of power that’s in control. Purple Äther(dimensional) blue elictrical(manufactured manipulation) Red rage(direct power) Green (bio breakdown) Pink (life giving or co inhabitence) Orange (hunger) White eyes( pure energy) Yellow(greed)
In origins it makes sense the eyes are blue when the zombies are getting discovered, because at the time they were discovered samantha wasnt there yet to take control of them and years later the eyes changed because she took control 😊😊😊
I mean, Bo4 did restart the entire multiverse. Which lead to this new dark aether timeline, which is a combination of the MW and BO and Zombies timelines.
Matt If we're talking about Conspiracy Theories then Nikolai "could" be the announcer for Cold War. We know 100% that he was alive after the events of Tag Der Untoten as we don't see his death. In that case the "END" in BO4 wasn't the "true ending" we saw. I guess we were fooled by treyarch again.
iirc the Cold War announcer was confirmed to be the forsaken which was a Russian soldier trapped in the dark aether in the new timeline. I haven’t done the CW Easter eggs in about a year so correct me if I’m wrong :)
they purple eye theory is quite interesting for the future of zombies but when u look at the black ops 6 zombies trailer Richtofen disappears possibly into the dark aether so maybe its sam controlling them from the dark aether
I know this is an old video but after playing bo6 zombies I noticed that the Sam trials as in Samantha Maxis on Terminus and Liberty falls spawn in purple eyed zombies
most of the easter egg steps spawn them too In BO6 the purple(ish) eyes represent zombies that don't count toward the round total, basically, they're there so that if something needs zombies you can do it without ending the round (and they give basically no points to compensate)
after the end of the og crews story i stopped following zombies story, but i recently got back intop it after the lexify drama and omfg the nostalgia i got from hearing nothing but dead silence, then audio tapes playing was a blast to the p[adt
The disciples can’t take Lifeforce from zombies they can only give it. That’s why they can only power them. The only way they can regain health is by Stealing it from players
i think the eye colors have to do with the level of darkness in ones soul that is in control like blue is pure yellow is not good nor bad and orange bad but not pure evil like red
I always thought that the zombies in waw had more of an orangish tinge rather than just yellow, one of the images for verruckt actually shows a set of zombies and their eyes are more orange. I would also argue that with the gorod krovis blue eyed zombies, the Valkyrie drones actually reanimate them so they are electrically charged but reanimated from the drones themselves (could argue the drones control them basically)
They are the same person but split into two, each side of one coin. One became the “devil” and the other “god” from what I understand. When we banished them into the dark Aether after Black ops 4 we assumed they were reunited but that’s gone nowhere so guess it doesn’t matter lmao
@NewBetaMarioSeries No, your point is wrong. There is no cloning they are literally one person split into two. They are not exact copies of each other. They are halves
@@NewBetaMarioSeriesI guess you can look at it that way, but a clone means a copy of the real thing, when he was actually half of the whole, he was Dr Monty, Dr Monty was the shadow man, same person , not a clone, not a twin, hakf of a whole, one living being with all knowledge and emotions split in hakf and using those abilities differently.
@@NewBetaMarioSeriesi dont think so, the one being just got split into dr monty and the shadowman, so by your logic you can say that the shadow man and monty are a clone of the one being
Yeah and may I say I just remembered having a realization when watching some lore video that had me realize that sam wasn't in control of the zombies on moon or something but they had the same eye color of zombies that she was confirmed to control.. now I'ma watch the video 😂
Red eyes have been confirmed to be just a random choice on game design by the director back in BO2, interview with Kevin Drew of Treyarch where he explained it.
I had this way wrong, i don’t play a lot of zombies but i always thought they were hints at dropping perks or the last zombie of the round but i never bothered to test or confirm. Had no idea it was actually story based
Honestly it doesn't even make sense that richtofen controls the blue eyed zombies because it would mean that while he's trying to convince stuhlinger and victis to do what he says he's also simultaneously trying to kill them, which makes no sense if he needs them to do what he wants xd
There's a very long video spanning hours that was fascinating for me to watch/listen to about the entire lore. Aether story is confusing but very interesting imo. Everything just clicks into place if you give it a watch. It was pretty satisfying ngl
Damn it still makes me so mad that they didn't give black ops 4 zombies the popper treatment it turly deserve. You know how badass it would have ben if ultimis and primis team up fight doctor Monty in the great war, then the bomb drop that only to fix the universe the last thing is ultimis and primis would have to die. I think it would have may the dark aether storyline have a popper start. The idea that maybe Richtoften might have sent children into other universe as a last sitch effort for self preservation and unfortunately bringing the dark aether to Eddie I Think makes more sense and maybe Eddie wants to revive the primis for some reason that what I think the new storyline is trying to get at.
What if rictofen isnt just trying to save his son, but what if hes trying to hring back primis crew? What avout zombie rictofen, could he be playing a part in the dark arther story?
I looked it up and the correct term would be paraquel. He made it really confusing for people to understand if he didn’t clear it up about it taking place during the events of Moon.
Ever played little nightmares 2? The game's story is a backstory to the main villain that chases you down in the main story. Think of a cycle of you trapped in a desert forever and a supposedly evil version of you is trying to kill you to stop the cycle. You manage to live and end up playing as that evil version but there are some events in between as it's own little game. The first part and last part would be a paraquel because it's happening at the same moment but with new context.
I'm not gonna lie, for how many problems I have with MWZ, I still enjoy it, especially when I think about how the story led up to that point. While, I think MWZ is lackluster and is pretty disappointing, it's clear it also has importance. It also makes me wonder if the Dark Aether entities like Kortifex, Inviktor, Vercana, and the others, including the ones in Vanguard/Cold War lore, existed before the end of Black Ops 4, and what their relevance was as beings in the Dark Aether, or if they evolved into what they were from other entities.
Let me know what you think of my explanations. The community has definitely been wrong about the orange, yellow, and red eyes but do you think my explanation is correct or do you have any further thoughts?
►5 Aether Story facts - th-cam.com/video/Caek3M6ocCo/w-d-xo.html
►Explaining the new MW3 Zombies cutscene - th-cam.com/video/Xozday9HLbY/w-d-xo.html
►Everything about Project Janus - th-cam.com/video/LiAL6hrj9EA/w-d-xo.html
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro - We were wrong about the eye colors
2:26 Yellow Eyes (ONLY Samantha Maxis)
4:00 Blue Eyes (Richtofen)
5:41 Orange Eyes (we were wrong about this)
11:42 Red Eyes (we were wrong about this)
19:15 White Eyes
20:07 Blue Electric Eyes
21:46 Green Eyes
22:58 Pink Eyes
23:17 The future - Purple Eyes - Dark Aether Link (they're likely not blue, 100% purple to show the Dark Aether bond due to exposure)
Lets go TGR! Mans coming with the best zombies story/lore videos recently! The other TH-camrs should take a leaf from this book as the lore has ALWAYS been the best thing about zombies! @mrroflwaffles lol
Purple eyes Springtrap is controlling them
Jammed very hard to my guitar during this, excellent deep dive on the eye colors of the zombies I always enjoy zombies lore videos!! Understanding all the little details makes it more fun to play
Red eyes were just put in because either treyarc or raven soft did not know what to do
Was confirmed by the makers
I kinda miss when Mob of The Dead, and the red-eyed zombies, were solely, quite directly, a purgatory, or demonic entity, or just straight-up Hell itself. I feel like that was the intent they were going for anyway, with that whole 'input 115 as a code only to have a voice say "not this time" and switch the numbers to 666' thing (this isn't a result of Element 115, this is literally Hell). It's an interesting one-off idea of "here's this thing, entirely disconnected from everything else, that's simply _mimicking_ the horrors of the zombies and the Aether to torment these characters" - further explaining the perk machines being hazy and unable to properly form. Leaving that unexplained beyond that makes it much more enticing.
Sadly i recently watched an interview, where one of the creators of Motd admitted that they didnt now that the eye colour meant anything. It was an accident XD
It fits the maps so much better. And nobody can tell me that the whole shadowman richtofen stuff wasn´t just cramed into mob. As you said the whole astetik of Mob is hell and purgatory.
I’d love to like this comment but it has 115 likes and I don’t want to mess that up😂
Nah
The distant monster on zetsubou is based on Zoth-Omogg from Lovecraftian lore who is a child of Cthulhu I think, so it is definitely meant to be an Apothicon
you are correct Zoth-Omogg is the third child of Cthulhu but only in the expanded mythos
@@thequeeninblack4390I was gonna comment this but somebody else who knows beat me to it, good job
They did release a chtuhlu operator skin too. So you might be right
I'm glad you're making more story videos. At least we have 1 big creator still putting effort into the story
It’s hard for creators to put effort into Cod nowadays when even the studios don’t 😂
Black ops amazing ???
@@Dexter-Morgan-Miami-metro hahaha no
Definitely check out Mr. Rufflewaffles. He hasn’t made too much content as of late because of the mw3 stuff but he makes great story and whiteboard videos
It's understandable though there's still stuff to talk about but we've talked it to death over the past 16 years and the new storyline isn't even connected which sucks
I liked that the police zombies in space land had red/blue eyes
Space land honestly is really underrated. Nobody ever talks about it.
I honestly enjoyed ZISL. I remember consistently tryna take the ufo down
It's my favorite map besides origins, very underrated
@@Prince_Trickyall of it is underrated. people just didn’t like cartoony games at the time
I preferred Rave in the Redwoods.
Still wild that Universe 63 just got erased. Like “Oh, y’all lost the thing that we were literally handing off to you when it happened? Sucks to suck.” *snap*
According to someone in the comments, Jason confirmed that the eye colors don’t mean anything. That’s hard to believe when the BO1 easter egg literally has the zombies eye color change from orange to blue. This even happens again at the end of BO2 in buried for Maxis super EE. Maybe from BO3 onward it doesn’t?
He said something of the lines “sometimes it means something, sometimes it doesn’t” but I think with them differentiating explicitly between orange and yellow, and then later adding info for the red eyes in bo4, that they did try and make sense of it. During his direction, he was the one to introduce red eyes, so it was intentional.
I assume this is exactly what happened... this is probably the greatest example of how they "over-added" explanations to the story over time that kind of ruined the earlier games, in my opinion.
@@CaptainEarls I couldn't agree with you more and honestly kinda surprised I haven't heard anyone else saying this yet
It's the issue that Jason Blundell just simply had a completely different idea of the Zombies universe than Jimmy Zielinski. More reason why Jason Blundell's work is so subpar
Nah nah they do its just the maps arnt in order nor is the actual timeline of zombies its kinda a loop for a but then it ended but the blue for the knights in bo3 is cause they arnt controled by anyone at that point just corupted humans theyre eyes are the same as element 115 then they change
Was it ever explicitly stated Brutus was in charge of the zombies in Mob/Blood? My understanding is he was just acting on orders of the Shadow Man, so the theory of red eyes being controlled by Dr Monty/Shadow Man makes more sense to me than Dr Monty/Shadow Man/Brutus
He’s definitely working for The Shadow Man but it seems to be him in control through The Shadow Man. Either way, it doesn’t really make a difference.
Wouldn't be surprised if red was the shadow man or Monty, if they are technically two sides of the same coin, ie are both are the aether storylines equivalent of the devil than red would make sense, with the code machine partially confirming this in mob (where it changes to 666). I'd even agree with the gaming revolution that the red eyes symbolise a being that controls the zombies without some sorta assisted connection to the aether but can do so at will from anywhere in the multiverse.
Red eyes is Hell circle. You're in Hell in BoTD and MoTD. At that point, whoever rules the underworld of your religion is in control
"only 4 maps at launch"
6 months later bo6 is released with 2 maps at launch
Fun fact: the zombies eyes are just gun reticles in the code
I knew the eyes were important but damn. I had no clue how deep the zombies mode went
Watch full history lore. 6 hours.
No, red is not “blank zombies” again, origins never retconned purple, you just probably missed it, purple is clearly the color for uncontrolled zombies, we know the shadow man controls red eyes, orange eyes can clearly be seen as regular dark Aether control like you said but we have an actual color only used for the zombies nobody could entirely control, the purple eyed ones
I think they pick whatever eye color looks the coolest in that map :)
They would have more colors if that was the case I think
Bruh, dont stop making content. 🔥
I liked the zombies history.
Dog I’m not gonna lie I thought it was a aesthetic choice I didn’t know there was lore to the eye color 😂😂😂 love the video by way.
the more you know, thank you for watching
Compared to other zombies universe, CoD outbreak doesnt come from an infection or virus (advanced warfare not included) but from Dark Magic.
Since magic is involved, I always assumed their eyes colors was related to the type of magic that was used.
The song "The One" is from the perspectives of the zombies and the lyrics literally say "I've been waiting for you to come here and kill me and set me free." So killing the zombies is you doing them a favor
Dude carries the zombies community on his back at times and is unrelenting ❤
What about black ops amazing? He does content on black ops zombies and talks about the storyline and explains things that people ask in the comments.
@@raymondontiveros6604 I appreciate all the creators I’ve been watching revolution the longest tho not trying to dis the others but he’s my fav
i was skeptical but no you werent kidding about this being the most comprehensive video discussing the eye color. bravo dude
During this video I had an idea, considering the colour of the eyes depends on who is in control and its possible for anyone to control zombies with the right equipment, its entirely possible within lore for there to be a moment like that in Halo 3 where we (the playable characters of the map) could temporarily become allied to the zombies/whoever is in control of the zombies to fight a common enemy. I think that idea would make for an awesome easter egg step or boss fight in a map!
I remember the first time seeing the ending of origins. I thought that it was all in their head and we never existed as the victus characters
Easy to remember scale.
White - most stable and controlled. The zombies are being directly controled from nearby.
Blue - being stably controlled, however not from nearby and are being controled as an army with less fine control. We know this since Richtofen was much more sane (relatively) than Samantha was.
Yellow - not stable, no commands given but controlled. Samatha, even though she was not mentally there, did have “control” over the zombies broadly, but wasn’t utilizing them in an active way like Richthofen was. This is basically if someone is controlling them but is afk.
Orange - stable, not controlled. The dark aether is just fine as a host since it isn’t susceptible to being mentally destroyed like Samantha, but it doesn’t really have a will that it puts on the zombies, and therefor is mostly afk like Samantha.
Red - Not even the devs know lmao. If I was forced to put it in, I would say stable and controlled like Richthofen, expect with the influence of the dark aether through the shadow man, which corrupts the pure blue into red.
Purple - not stable not controlled at all. As seen with origins.
This mostly works as a nice cool to warm scale for control of the zombies.
What im truly curious about is if the apothocons are truly gone.
the red eyes were an accident as blundell didn’t know that eye colors had a meaning
Doctor Schuster sounds very similar to Admiral Wullf Yularen from Star Wars.
Meanwhile me:wait zombies have eye glow? I only thought bosses did
It makes sense that zombie richtoften has orange eyes as he is. Well, dead. He isn’t in control so why would they be blue
One minute 36 seconds in. With each eye color the voice for power up drops changes as well. And I can't help but remember origins voice was definitely ricktophen. What if with each person in control it is also their voice that plays during powerups. Maybe I'm late. Idk. Lol. Just a thought
So since when did the red eyes change from purgatory. Cause all throughout zombies it’s always been said that red eyes symbolize a state a purgatory which makes sense for all the maps that they are seen in
What’s the purgatory in Gorod
@@GrungleBucketthe brutality of war. You can't leave or you get jailed.
@@zage932 kinda seems like a stretch
@@GrungleBucketNikolai is in his own purgatory. He traps himself with alcohol to forget the death of his wife.
I stopped bothering with zombies after Cold War because the gameplay was just too boring and easy for my tastes, but I've been watching some videos about the supposed storyline. I can confidently say that said storyline was so much better and more coherent when Treyarch didn't actually write anything down and just gave some hints here and there through EE to let the community make theories up. It all went downhill once they actually started writing stuff because they just tried to connect all the past stuff instead of starting over again. It got even worse with Black Ops 4 once they not only opened a closed story again, but they just kept it up across multiple titles developed by different people. You did a much better job at explaining things than the actual people writing those things, and I think it's very telling of how messy things are
In BO2 the easter eggs have two colors, orange and blue. When you beat the easter egg for Tranzit and Die Rise the tower is either blue if you modify the device to Richthofen’s requirements or orange if you modify the device how Maxis wants. What I think is that it’s not specifically who is controlling the zombies, but the modification to the device that changes the eye color depending on the different way each person controls the zombies. An example similar is how Wolverine from marvel can regenerate himself as his power however even though Deadpool can regenerate himself his method is way different by creating more dead cells in his body instead of living ones. (off topic ik) To sum it up I think it’s the person’s methods that help them control the zombies which affects the eye color rather than the person controlling the zombies themselves.
4:10 I always thought he said "I should be blue" not "Their EYES should be blue" Cant believe I was hearing that wrong for so many years... now it makes sense
Plot twist, the makers of the map just chose random colors just to confuse people
This wasn’t known knowledge in the zombies community that the eyes were based on who was in control? I mean the Easter eggs very obviously hinted it because the eyes always matched with who we interacted with on the map..
Dude thank you! This was both easy and hard to understand so thanks for all the effort you put in!
Am I the only one who thought the yellow and orange eyes just looked the same
The zombies' eyes will change color depending on who the Demonic Announcer is. Their eyes are yellow under Samantha Maxis, Ludvig Maxis, and the Forsaken, blue under Richtofen, red under the Warden and Kortifex, and white under the Avogadro.
your welcome
The plot line and story was better in World at War. Now it’s scattered and all over the place.
People hate the fact that the aether story is a thing. But i cant get enough of it! I love the aether and dark aether its so cool.
Templar zombies on bo3 origins have blue eyes. They do glow yellow however when you kill them you can see that they are blue on the texture. It's just a dev oversight
TheGamingRevolution what happened in England in 1882? That Shadows of Evil quote was really interesting. Is there a canon explanation for 1882?
Salam witch trials. I think anyway, around that time in New England and it was said to have started by mold
@@beentheredonethat5908 I think the quote is definitely hinting at a canon zombies event. Maybe it was a cancelled map?
New England isn’t actually England. It’s a term used for the top right area region of the USA. Basically where the British started the USA.
reference to colour out of space a book from lovecraft
Salem witch trials were in 1692
I played every single zombies ever released and didnt pick up any of this lol
How? I remember the very first lore being added to zombies with Shi No Numa, and subsequently Der Riese. Did you not listen to radios or anything?
Honestly it just sounds to me like the type of power that’s in control. Purple Äther(dimensional) blue elictrical(manufactured manipulation)
Red rage(direct power)
Green (bio breakdown)
Pink (life giving or co inhabitence)
Orange (hunger)
White eyes( pure energy)
Yellow(greed)
I wish they’d just give us a zombies game with all the old maps so we can play through the whole story and just enjoy the old maps again
In origins it makes sense the eyes are blue when the zombies are getting discovered, because at the time they were discovered samantha wasnt there yet to take control of them and years later the eyes changed because she took control 😊😊😊
I believe zombies splits universes and changes outcomes and storylines (this includes Campaign stories)
I mean, Bo4 did restart the entire multiverse. Which lead to this new dark aether timeline, which is a combination of the MW and BO and Zombies timelines.
I just thought it was how much harder they was to fight cuz I'd notice them change every 10 rounds
They had a amazing zombie story back in the day. Now its all over the place
Matt If we're talking about Conspiracy Theories then Nikolai "could" be the announcer for Cold War. We know 100% that he was alive after the events of Tag Der Untoten as we don't see his death. In that case the "END" in BO4 wasn't the "true ending" we saw. I guess we were fooled by treyarch again.
iirc the Cold War announcer was confirmed to be the forsaken which was a Russian soldier trapped in the dark aether in the new timeline. I haven’t done the CW Easter eggs in about a year so correct me if I’m wrong :)
What do you mean by "we don't see his death"? He handles a handgun to Samantha and tells her to shoot him with it, and we see her shooting him with it
Samantha shot him, we saw her do it. Open your eyes when you watch cutscenes.
@@theidiotssoapbox1219 can you show the "confirmation?"
@@Nova-p6z We don't see his "Death" in the very next game the announcer sound just like Nikolai
I hate the way this guy pronounces a lot of words but its a very informative and well researched video. Thoroughly enjoyed it
they purple eye theory is quite interesting for the future of zombies but when u look at the black ops 6 zombies trailer Richtofen disappears possibly into the dark aether so maybe its sam controlling them from the dark aether
I would be surprised if Shadow Man takes control of the zombies' red eyes and makes scenes
I just need Jason to make a 12 hour video on zombies
The red eyes are predominantly on maps where one or more factions are trying to kill you for some reason or another
I know this is an old video but after playing bo6 zombies I noticed that the Sam trials as in Samantha Maxis on Terminus and Liberty falls spawn in purple eyed zombies
most of the easter egg steps spawn them too
In BO6 the purple(ish) eyes represent zombies that don't count toward the round total, basically, they're there so that if something needs zombies you can do it without ending the round (and they give basically no points to compensate)
Dr Monty is the same actor who played Dr loomis in Rob Zombie’s Halloween
I dont understand why they didn’t just make purple eyes instead of orange
after the end of the og crews story i stopped following zombies story, but i recently got back intop it after the lexify drama and omfg the nostalgia i got from hearing nothing but dead silence, then audio tapes playing was a blast to the p[adt
The disciples can’t take Lifeforce from zombies they can only give it. That’s why they can only power them. The only way they can regain health is by Stealing it from players
Should explain on why they changed element 115 to blue when it was always red
it would be a cool idea if they made eddie the one in control cuz he never got his turn in origins
Eye color meant something when Zielisnky was in charge, with Blundell he uses it as he wishes.
Real
I'm kinda confused with the story but the eye colors are still interesting.
i think the eye colors have to do with the level of darkness in ones soul that is in control like blue is pure yellow is not good nor bad and orange bad but not pure evil like red
Richtofen you backstabber! Stop the zombies immediately!
Great video!
Thanks!
✝️LOVE JESUS CHRIST ✝️
Not the place
Dont worry bro theres always a place for jesus
not in the cod zombies lore video 😭
Same! Amen!
@@funnymonkeycomment1172why not?
The devs also stated that after a while the colors don’t mean literally anything
At 11:37 the patch on his arm is the COD WW2 Infantry Division in multiplayer
this whole time I thought the zombie's eyes were yellow in bo3 and cold war. Not including Gorod Krovi and Revelations.
BO6 has purple eyes. Adult Samantha is in control after being corrupted by the dark aether
I always thought that the zombies in waw had more of an orangish tinge rather than just yellow, one of the images for verruckt actually shows a set of zombies and their eyes are more orange.
I would also argue that with the gorod krovis blue eyed zombies, the Valkyrie drones actually reanimate them so they are electrically charged but reanimated from the drones themselves (could argue the drones control them basically)
(Me not following the story since bo3) What the kentucky fried fuck happened?
So the Shadowman is a clone of Dr. Monty, or did I misinterpret that?
They are the same person but split into two, each side of one coin. One became the “devil” and the other “god” from what I understand. When we banished them into the dark Aether after Black ops 4 we assumed they were reunited but that’s gone nowhere so guess it doesn’t matter lmao
@@jman72898 Then my point still stands, and the Shadowman is still technically a Dr. Monty clone...
@NewBetaMarioSeries No, your point is wrong. There is no cloning they are literally one person split into two. They are not exact copies of each other. They are halves
@@NewBetaMarioSeriesI guess you can look at it that way, but a clone means a copy of the real thing, when he was actually half of the whole, he was Dr Monty, Dr Monty was the shadow man, same person , not a clone, not a twin, hakf of a whole, one living being with all knowledge and emotions split in hakf and using those abilities differently.
@@NewBetaMarioSeriesi dont think so, the one being just got split into dr monty and the shadowman, so by your logic you can say that the shadow man and monty are a clone of the one being
got distracted by the WaW campaign music lol
Yeah and may I say I just remembered having a realization when watching some lore video that had me realize that sam wasn't in control of the zombies on moon or something but they had the same eye color of zombies that she was confirmed to control.. now I'ma watch the video 😂
Theres also those green blue eyes from nightmares on bo3
True but I'm pretty sure Nightmares isn't part of the zombies story, similar to Dead Ops Arcade meaning nothing.
Red eyes have been confirmed to be just a random choice on game design by the director back in BO2, interview with Kevin Drew of Treyarch where he explained it.
There is after the fact
Actual certified yapper
11:00 thats the tree guy in cold war right
I have always wondered this but never bothered to ask or figure out if there even was a reason.
I feel like it all gets messed up with Blops 3, even thematically I felt like Blops 3 made the lore jump the shark.
I had this way wrong, i don’t play a lot of zombies but i always thought they were hints at dropping perks or the last zombie of the round but i never bothered to test or confirm. Had no idea it was actually story based
How would it be richtophen he is a playable character
the "england 1882" loredrop sounds exactly like the bo1 era teasers for paris and london zombies maps. sigh....... maybe some day..........
i actually found out my self that blood of the dead happened right before revelations
Orange means normal zombie, red means they have blood plague and green means they're being targeted by the Haven Device.
Anyone else here because Black Ops 6 Trailer + Gameplay shows yellow zombie eyes.
TLDR: Zombies story post-Zeilinski is weird.
imagine in black ops 6 we get a map for the 1882 event
Damn yeah, Samantha’s eyes are Purple after leaving the Dark Aether in Firebase Z so maybe she will become the Demonic Announcer again for Black Ops 6
Honestly it doesn't even make sense that richtofen controls the blue eyed zombies because it would mean that while he's trying to convince stuhlinger and victis to do what he says he's also simultaneously trying to kill them, which makes no sense if he needs them to do what he wants xd
Its to keep them moving and that can also make them wanna use richtofen as their guide to get through the zombies n survive
Dude the Aether story is so unnecessarily confusing! I’ve never seen a more confusing multiverse
There's a very long video spanning hours that was fascinating for me to watch/listen to about the entire lore. Aether story is confusing but very interesting imo. Everything just clicks into place if you give it a watch. It was pretty satisfying ngl
Damn it still makes me so mad that they didn't give black ops 4 zombies the popper treatment it turly deserve. You know how badass it would have ben if ultimis and primis team up fight doctor Monty in the great war, then the bomb drop that only to fix the universe the last thing is ultimis and primis would have to die. I think it would have may the dark aether storyline have a popper start. The idea that maybe Richtoften might have sent children into other universe as a last sitch effort for self preservation and unfortunately bringing the dark aether to Eddie I Think makes more sense and maybe Eddie wants to revive the primis for some reason that what I think the new storyline is trying to get at.
What if rictofen isnt just trying to save his son, but what if hes trying to hring back primis crew? What avout zombie rictofen, could he be playing a part in the dark arther story?
"its both a prequel and a sequel since theyre both happening simultaneously" dude, WHAT?!?!?
I looked it up and the correct term would be paraquel. He made it really confusing for people to understand if he didn’t clear it up about it taking place during the events of Moon.
Ever played little nightmares 2? The game's story is a backstory to the main villain that chases you down in the main story. Think of a cycle of you trapped in a desert forever and a supposedly evil version of you is trying to kill you to stop the cycle. You manage to live and end up playing as that evil version but there are some events in between as it's own little game. The first part and last part would be a paraquel because it's happening at the same moment but with new context.
I'm not gonna lie, for how many problems I have with MWZ, I still enjoy it, especially when I think about how the story led up to that point. While, I think MWZ is lackluster and is pretty disappointing, it's clear it also has importance. It also makes me wonder if the Dark Aether entities like Kortifex, Inviktor, Vercana, and the others, including the ones in Vanguard/Cold War lore, existed before the end of Black Ops 4, and what their relevance was as beings in the Dark Aether, or if they evolved into what they were from other entities.
I have noticed their eyes have been changing but never thought they meant anything
man i lowkey hate watching these videos it makes me wonder if we could live through these days again
how could you say the mpd is destroyed on the moon after DE if the step before destroying the moon is “pick up old from mpd”
LMFAO if you think those noises are zombies asking for help then cograts i guess