Richtofen's purpose in DLC4

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So, after watching the "Origins" teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB_9esQucmw) many thoughts have come to mind

The most important to the large scale zombie storyline however is: What are the o4 doing in 1917, and why is it the end of their story?

My thinking is that it will be one of two motivations of Richtofen:

Motivation 1:

Richtofen has seen what the zombies have done to the world, and although he may end up being the dictator of the world as controller of the zombies (after Richtofen's blops2 easter eggs are completed), he realises that it is not a world he would like to be king of, as there is not much life left to control.

Therefore he is going back in time with his elite companions to stop the zombie outbreak where it started, in 1917 France. While ending the zombie apocalypse, Richtofen will still retain his knowledge of element 115 and time travel, and so can manipulate the world in other ways. I could see a really cool ending cinematic with Richtofen standing at the top of a huge tower with thousands of people below him chanting his name!

Motivation 2:

For this motivation I'm going to have to explain some theorised back story to the zombie universe and the world wars within the universe:

In my opinion, within the zombie universe Germany won the first world war, due to their superior understanding of element 115. Now, this is going to get really messy as far as time paradoxes are concerned. The Germans were able to win the first world war due to technologies such as the 'giant metal men' being traveled back in time via Der Riese. This would explain the name of the map, and the first line of it's

description: "The Giant is rising". Der Riese, or "The Giant" was a facility that mainly created mech-type giants to be used in warfare.

Due to Germany winning the first world war, it allowed Maxis to rise to power, and then eventually play his part in the storyline we know today, with Maxis possibly taking control of the zombies and or severely harming the earth.

So, Richtofen's motivation could be to make sure the first world war is lost by the Germans, so that Maxis can never challenge his power over the zombies, and would never hinder the earth.

Ok, so now Richtofen's possible motivations are covered, now we must wonder: How is he going to achieve these aims?

Well, the most likely way we're going to see this pan out is as Richtofen controlling his younger self (perhaps via talking inside his own head? LOL), and making him act differently to either destroy the zombies, or in someway sabotage the giant and the war effort.

Another possibility is that we play as the characters as we remember them, (Nikolai being drunk etc), but this would not explain why we saw the younger versions of each character in the trailer, unless the teleportation back in time decreased their aging. The only supporting evidence I can use to back this up is the fact that Takeo's face aged considerably between Der Riese on world at war, and Kino on Black Ops 1. This could have been due to a side effect of teleportation that only sometimes happens, but it is more likely that Treyarch just wanted him to look different in Black Ops 1 to suit his character better.

Check out my breakdown of the "Origins" teaser trailer here on my YouTube channel where I talk about the possible storylines for this map: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v_LPymg ... e=youtu.be

Thanks for reading this guys, I know these theories aren't completely solid, but they're just ideas. I hope they serve you well for springing new ideas and theories about the possible storylines to do with this map. Will it be a conclusion the zombies, the original four? We'll have to wait and see!