My thoughts of trailer

[LJx19]

My first sad attempt at putting together a theory. Enjoi. I'll try to avoid using time paradoxes as much as possible.

I'll start with the trailer:

So this is supposedly Sam Maxis giving us her take on the story of call of duty zombies and how it all began. The only problem is, given the date shown in the trailer, many have assumed Sam wasn't even born yet. However, maybe we're wrong and Sam had actually been born around or slightly before this time?

The map is apparently taking place in 1918 which is pretty much the end of WWI. We're shown some footage of soldiers cracking open some kind of grave/burial ground or something, underneath a megalith structure (refer to the thread by PINNAZ). After they've opened through to the next side, a zombie rushes them, with what seems to be purple eyes and wearing some quite interesting stuff. The zombie is wearing the armor of the Knights Templar. This is where it gets really interesting for me regarding the location of the map and the year of the war. Common sci-fi knowledge tells us that most things that turn into a zombie either have to be killed by a zombie, or turned into one by other means while alive, but never becoming one after you've already died and been dead for a while. This information, when you consider when the Templars organization existed (1119-1312), is (pardon my french) kinda fucking impressive.

Little templar info:

The Templars' existence was tied closely to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the Order faded. Rumours about the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created mistrust and King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, took advantage of the situation. In 1307, many of the Order's members in France were arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and then burned at the stake.[9] Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the "Templar" name alive into the modern day.

Which means that we just saw a zombie over 600 years old rush out of a tomb to kill them. Out of fascination from this and info from the thread by PINNAZ, I did a quick google search on graves of templars in France, and didn't find much. Can't say I was too surprised though as many of them got burned at the stake (and we all know if its one thing a zombie wont survive its fire), or died in battles far away from their country. Now I honestly have to say I avoided going into the whole Paris catacombs idea here but this is what I got:

Templars: In 1120, the French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem and proposed creating a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims. King Baldwin and Patriarch Warmund agreed to the request, probably at the Council of Nablus in January 1120, and the king granted the Templars a headquarters in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque.[11] The Temple Mount had a mystique because it was above what was believed to be the ruins of the Temple of Solomon.[5][12] The Crusaders therefore referred to the Al Aqsa Mosque as Solomon's Temple, and it was from this location that the new Order took the name of Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, or "Templar" knights. The Order, with about nine knights including Godfrey de Saint-Omer and André de Montbard, had few financial resources and relied on donations to survive. Their emblem was of two knights riding on a single horse, emphasising the Order's poverty.[13]

And Catacombs: Since Roman times, Paris has buried its dead on the outskirts of the city, but habits changed with the rise of Christianity and its practice of burying its faithful in the consecrated ground under and around its churches, no matter their location. By the 10th century, many of Paris's parish cemeteries were well within city limits, and eventually some, because of their central location in dense urban growth, were unable to expand and became overcrowded. An attempt to remedy this situation came in the early 12th century with the opening of a central mass burial ground for those not wealthy enough to pay for a church burial. Depending on the St. Opportune church near Paris's central Les Halles district, this cemetery had its own Saints Innocents church and parish appellation by the end of the same century. Eventually, Paris's other churches adopted the technique of mass inhumation as well. Once an excavation in one section of the cemetery was full, it would be covered over and another opened. Residues resulting from the decaying of organic matter, a process often chemically accelerated with the use of lime, entered directly into the earth, creating a situation unacceptable for a city whose then-principal source of water was wells.

I wont say much about it since a even I dont support the whole catacombs idea much but its the only way I could even see templars coming out of a hole in the wall making sense.

Next we see our main zombies cast from BO1 make a return (Tank, Nikolai, Takeo, Richtofen), and see them murdering zombies with axes, katanas and knives, till eventually they find themselves in a room in a mexican standoff. However they soon realize that wait these guys are all fighting on the same team, we're the allied powers. I've seen some people assume that this means Nik, Tank and Tak all new each other beforehand, but I looked at it more realistically. Japan, Russia and the U.S were all members of the allied powers in WWI, so naturally they looked at what country each was fighting for (probably just went by uniform style) and decided that these arent the enemy, the enemy is the fucking german over there. So Tank walks over to the very distraught looking Richtofen, who seems to have been operating on a body. Not to mention the body looks SURPRISINGLY like the picture of Dr. Maxis we were shown in the same trailer. Cue giant robot and end scene. No words for whatever the fuck that shit was necessary for.

Now what I found strange was that Richtofen looked almost remorseful after the entrance of the 3 soldiers. But that's only because we have ever seen rich after he went completely insane. Who's to say that once upon a time, he wasn't just an ordinary genius scientist? No not that its richtofen after going into the MPD returning to his old body and feeling sorry. As I said I'm avoiding time stuff.

My take on the whole scenario is gonna be that in the true beginning, it was contact with either the vril, or (since as they're using templars, why not) some other spiritual controller (like in MoTD we have the devil controlling them). Possibly the forces that inhabited the aether before Sam and Rich, were truly much more powerful than they could have truly imagined. Maybe these four elements that we're supposed to access are when used what creates the zombies and it was only by some ancient ritual dating back to the time of the templars did someone find out about it and attempt it and successfully turn the templars into an army of the walking dead and got trapped underground.

Idk these are just my thoughts and attempt at a half assed theory. :P