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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2: How will THIS logic-defying plot point be explained?

Sergeant Frank Woods is alive. But he shouldn't be

Words: on May 3, 2012
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  • vin-howard - May 3, 2012 5:22 p.m.

    As he fell, he grabbed onto a pole how did he survive being inside the blast radius of 5 nades? errr.... Chuck Noris got between him and the nades! But I mean really, why are people so obsessed with bring back old characters; it hurts the storyline; and when someone tries to write a good story line, they get yelled at by the "fans" for removing their fave characters (I would mention the show I was thinking of, but I am afraid I would be accused of going off-topic)

  • Lemby - May 4, 2012 4:15 a.m.

    Is it Boardwalk Empire? OT: The only way this matters to me is that Reznov might be alive in one of the timelines

  • SGTBillyShears - May 3, 2012 3:59 p.m.

    Does anyone remember that after Woods "dies" you see him for several seconds, tells you something and then he disappears? It was probably an illusion that Mason saw brought on by his brainwasing

  • IndyGuy313 - May 3, 2012 3:13 p.m.

    Has anyone here actually beaten Blop's campaign? Towards the end, you find out that Mason's been brainwashed for most of the game. That's why Reznov magically shows up in half the missions even though he died after Vorkuta. Wood's death was probably just an illusion.

  • ivanho163 - May 3, 2012 2 p.m.

    It's the Schrödinger's Frank Woods theory. We didn't observe his death, so he can be both alive and dead.

  • valance23322 - May 3, 2012 1:23 p.m.

    Maybe Kravchenko'ss body shielded Woods from the majority of the explosion>

  • DoctorCrazy - May 3, 2012 12:39 p.m.

    They can get away with it because he died off screen. Most of the time characters somehow miraculously escape when you don't actually see them die.

  • GrandmaSlayer - May 3, 2012 12:03 p.m.

    Lazarus project

  • ARCHANGEL309 - May 3, 2012 1:44 p.m.

    This comment is filled with all kinds of awesomeness.

  • J-Fid - May 3, 2012 noon

    This is Call of Duty, since when is anything realistic. ReCaptcha just gave me $130,000. How should I spend it?

  • BackwaterRifle - May 3, 2012 5:10 p.m.

    Jellybeans, lots of jellybeans.

  • KidJustKid - May 3, 2012 11:51 a.m.

    He was reconstructed by the bad guys so he can... *sniff* SAAAVE THE WOORRRLD and do whatever they want, until he kills one of the bosses of the faceless baddies, and is revealed to actually a morally responsible person before being converted back to the goodies inexplicably in the sequel before being led through a set of entirely choreographed and somewhat stale set pieces before being given a quick time event to determine if you bleed out while clasping the nuke codes, or bleed out while clasping the abort codes, or bleed out while clasping the '3 sounds like a good number, so let's ham another cutscene it' codes. KK? Captcha: FONDLE, odabase Seriously, no joke.

  • Fox_Mulder - May 3, 2012 11:51 a.m.

    I love you for this article Cundy. Couldn't have done a better pie chart myself.

  • Fox_Mulder - May 3, 2012 12:02 p.m.

    Woods was found dead at the hideout by JFK and Nixon. Throughout their time-traveling, zombie slaying foray, they discovered how to make zombies. Immortality hadn't been discovered yet, so they resurrected Woods with zombiefycation. Woods then went to a nursing home to live out the rest of his days, until Edgar J. Robertsplathe discovered immortality while surveying Saturn's rings. (Side Note: Robertsplathe when on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for Ending All Wars, and became the owner of planet Earth.) Anyway Woods bought himself some immortality and became un-zombiefied. Since then, Woods has appeared as a guest star on a number of hit sitcoms.

  • jspins - May 3, 2012 11:43 a.m.

    Unrelated topic: What's Matt Cundy doing in his profile pic?

  • mbavalo - May 3, 2012 10:50 a.m.

    There is only one explanation to this... Woods is Chuck Norris in disguise :o

  • ColinKapow - May 3, 2012 9:40 a.m.

    He's a ghost?

  • NanoElite666 - May 3, 2012 9:35 a.m.

    It was the guys from Zombies. In all their time-traveling zombie-murdering shenanigans Dempesy, Nikolai, Takeo, and Richtofen managed to make a very brief stop in time to that exact point in time and somehow managed to save Woods from being turned into a fine paste. Then they went to the moon and nuked the planet sometime later down the line, so Woods probably died there anyways. Reznov was there too, because someone has to tell you pick up the minigun and make a general mess of everything that looks at you funny. Reznov was always there...

  • Unoriginal - May 3, 2012 9:29 a.m.

    He respawned

  • g4m3rk1dd - May 3, 2012 1:25 p.m.

    Best. Explanation. Ever.

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