Call of Duty: Black Ops/Trivia

• Actor Allusion: Ed Harris running the Black Ops his character from The Rock was famous for - even corresponding to the same places.
  • The way Reznov yells EVERYONE! at the end of "Project Nova" calls back to Gary Oldman's Villainous Breakdown in Léon: The Professional.
    • Ice Cube "plays" a Navy SEAL.
• Fake American: Mason is voiced by Australian Sam Worthington. It's... quite apparent, especially when he's shouting.

Mason: YEW FOCKIN SONNUVA BAYTCH!

Mason: HE KILLED HIM ROIT IN FRONNA ME!

• Hey, It's That Voice!: In addition to Gary Oldman as Reznov AND Dr. Clarke, Ed Harris as Hudson, and Ice Cube as Bowman, Sergei Kozin is, er..."voiced" by Colonel Mustang.
  • Hey! Terrance Brooke is Excalibur, Italy, Abel Nightroad, and... Jetfire?!?
  • Yuri Lowenthal is one of the soldiers in the mission "Rebirth." He's the one screaming for everyone to put on their hazmat suits.
  • Richard Nixon is voiced by Akuma.
  • Dmitri Petrenko is voiced by Major Petrov.
  • And of course, Mason is Jake Scully.
  • Robert Picardo is Robert McNamara.
  • In the Downloadable Content "Call of the Dead" map for Nazi Zombies mode, the female of the group is not just Sarah Michelle Gellar, she's basically reprising her role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As is Danny Trejo from Machete. The other two guys are Michael Rooker of The Walking Dead and Robert Englund, aka Freddy. They fight George Romeo. Yes, yes it is.
  • What about the Japanese dub?
    • Basically, Alex Mason is Raiden.
    • Reznov is Jiraiya.
    • Woods is Jack Bauer!
    • Weaver and Bowman are certain nation-tans.
    • In addition to Nova-6, Steiner apparently also oversaw a battalion of vampire Nazi super-soldiers.
    • And Dragovich is Norio Wakamoto. 'Nuff said.
• Throw It In: The "Warlord" perk, which allows the player to use more than one attachment on their gun, got its name simply because Treyarch couldn't think of anything better to call it.