Dr. Edward Richtofen is a playable character in Survival. The color of his points is usually green (just like Michael Rooker and Fidel Castro). However, on the Moon map, this is coincidental. He used to be the antagonist in the story of the survival fight, now in a way he is an antihero. His voice is lent by synchronous legend Nolan North.

History

Richtofen worked for Dr. Ludvig Maxis in Group 935, a group sent by the German government to Shangri La to investigate a comet in which they found and extracted the previously unknown element 115. Since they did not know the element, they began to experiment with it. While Maxis was working on a teleporter and the reanimation of the dead, Richtofen was already experimenting with living test objects: American Tank Dempsey, Japanese Takeo Masaki and Russian Nikolai Belinski. Since Maxis and Richtofen were arguing about the teleporter during the research, Richtofen planned to get Maxis out of the way. During a teleporter test, Richtofen locked Maxis and Maxis’ daughter Samantha inside. Samantha was accidentally teleported to the moon and took control of the zombies when she touched the giant black pyramid.
When Richtofen got rid of Maxis, he completed the construction of the teleporter and teleported to the moon. There in his ignorance he also touched the pyramid and an unknown power slipped into him. Richtofen began to hear voices that first drove him mad and then evil.

To gain control over the zombies, he collaborated with Tank Dempsey, Nikolai Belinski and Takeo Masaki, who agreed because they had lost their memory due to the experiments with Element 115. First they traveled to an enchanted swamp and then to a German weapons factory where the zombies were created. However, after the teleporter there was overloaded by Element 115, they traveled through time into the future and landed in an abandoned theater in Berlin, just before 1963. After that, the journey went to an abandoned Soviet spaceport, where a scientist named Gersch was hoping to be freed from the Krassimir complex.

As a result, the group traveled to Siberia, where George A. Romero wanted to shoot a zombie movie with four well-known actors. Their situation worsened when real zombies appeared and turned George into one of them. The actors find the four original characters trapped in a small room. Richtofen wants them to find the golden staff for him. When they manage to do so, Richtofen leaves them the miracle weapon DG-2 and the group makes off. They load up in Shangri-La, which despite its peaceful name is overrun with zombies because there are mines in which Element 115 was also found. Richtofen takes the group to this place to grab the focus stone, a powerful artifact. Along the way, the group helps a researcher and his assistant escape from a time loop.
When Richtofen has everything needed for his plan, he teleports the group to Hangar 18 of Area 51, which has been overrun by zombies. The group is able to quickly escape into the teleporter, which teleports them back to Greif Station on the moon. Thanks to the previous tests of the 935 group, there are also undead here. The group is able to open a mysterious machine and looks for the first time at Samantha Maxis, who was able to keep the body of a young girl because she was frozen. Richtofen fuses the focus stone and the golden staff and swaps bodies with Samantha to take control of the zombies.
Through the computers in the station, the group is contacted by Maxis and is told that there is a way to minimize the damage Richtofen will cause. The group is able to watch as three missiles hurtle toward Earth, severing the connection between the Earthly world and the universe where Richtofen is located. Luck is not on Richtofen’s side, however, and the rockets destroy the connection between Earth and the moon. But Earth also takes great damage and only a handful of people survive.
Among the survivors on Earth, Samuel J. Stuhlinger is approached by Richtofen as a voice in his head because he previously ate the flesh of undead. Because of Richtofen’s insatiable hunger for power, he assigns Stuhlinger to perform some tasks that will restore the connection between Earth and the Moon so that he will have power over every earthly life form. It would also banish the soul of Samantha Maxis forever.
To complete his plan, Richtofen wants Stuhlinger to convince his comrades Misty, Marlton and Russman to establish a link in a Washington city by powering it. The four survivors are teleported to some collapsing skyscrapers in what used to be Shanghai, China, where they are to activate a second device. They can’t we klich die since they are revived by Richtofen so they can do their work, but Maxis also gets into the race and tries to activate the tower. No matter who the group ends up working for, they end up being led by Russman to an underground city in Angola where they hope to find answers to their perplexing questions.
There, they can finally decide whether to help Maxis or Richtofen. If you help Richtofen, he will gain power and go into Stuhlinger’s body, not knowing that he would still be in there.
In Origins, an alternative parallel universe, we meet Richtofen again. However, he has not yet gone insane. There he tries to keep his best friend Maxis alive when he gets infected by the element. However, he doesn’t succeed and Maxis dies. Thanks to Samantha’s help he can travel to another universe with the other three helpers of the troop (Dempsey, Nikolai & Masaki). In the process, Richtofen visits other universes for the time being.
When he arrives in Shadows of Evil (if you do the Easter Egg you will see a sequence) Richtofen grabs the “Summoning Key”, which is the most powerful object in all universes. With the object he escapes into a portal and disappears.
In The Giant of an Old German Weapons Factory, Richtofen 1.0 enables the new Richtofen(2.0)to teleport. These two meet and Richtofen 2.0 shoots Richtofen 1.0 without warning the other three competitors (Takeo, Nikolai and Dempsey). Richtofen tells them that they should just trust him, because he has a plan.

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General:
Richtofen is the inventor of the monkey bombs, the DG-2 wonder weapon and the QED.
Richtofen likes Nikolai, who also treats him with respect until the celebrities in Call of the Dead get the golden rod for him, after which everyone hates him.
Richtofen is the first playable antagonist in the history of Call of Duty. The second is Raul Menendez
Dead Ops Arcade and Dead Ops II are the only maps where Richtofen does not make an appearance.
Richtofen’s favorite weapons are the MP40, the Spectre and the punched crossbow.
Richtofen and Dempsey don’t like each other at all.
In the campaign, multiplayer and survival you can find scattered books whose author is called “Edward Richtofen”.

Call of Duty: World at War:

There is a scar under Richtofen’s right eye. This is not visible in Shi No Numa.
In the ios version of Survival, the wounded doctor guides you through the tutorial before becoming a zombie himself.

Call of Duty: Black Ops:

Richtofen uses the same first-person model as Hudson in Rebirth.
Sometimes when you use the Pack a Punch machine , he hums the ringtone of double-fire malt beer.
On the promotional poster of Ascension, Richtofen is holding the Thundergun. There he is bald, but in the game he has his hair back.
In Ascension, Richtofen had a new outfit, a space suit, which he also wore in Moon. This makes him the first character in Survival to change his appearance.
Sometimes, when playing Ascension or one of the later maps, you can hear the voices in his head.
In Ascension, he reveals that he had a sister whose doll he destroyed to make her cry.
According to the radios in Call of the Dead, Richtofen began to hate his superior and his superior’s daughter when the DG-2 wonder weapon didn’t go into mass production because Maxis was far too distracted by Sophia.
In Shangri-La and Moon, he still possesses the golden staff when you complete the Easter Egg in Call of the Dead.
When you kill hellhounds in Cinema of the Dead he says Mama forbade me to torture animals….

Call of Duty: Black Ops II:

Playing Nuketown Zombies, you can hear Richtofen as the rounds go by, explaining several steps of his grand plan. By round 25, he has completed it and gains control of the zombies whose eyes are colored blue from then on.
When you first pick up a power-up on TranZit, he explains that he still has to get used to being the ruler of the undead now, after which he says the power-up.
Some of his sayings on TranZit indicate that he misses Dempsey, Nikolai, and Takeo, because he often remembers his life before he swapped bodies with Samantha. He makes fun of the four new characters because they are still so inexperienced.
When he is betrayed by Maxis, he is the first zombie to have the ability to speak, plus he then has the form of a boss (like George A. Romero and Brutus).
According to his letter in Origins, Richtofen was secretly worried about Maxis.
Richtofen is extremely proud of the giant robots in Origins – you can tell by his comments when the robots walk across the map.
After Origins, Richtofen carries two blood vials with the prisoner numbers of two characters from Call of the Dead.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4:

Was apparently in Mob of the Dead before, without the crew.

Call of Duty

The Call of Duty series has existed since 2003 and in addition to various spin-offs, including for the handheld systems Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, 14 major titles of the series have now been released. Ever since the first part of the series, great emphasis has been placed on the online multiplayer mode in addition to the single-player campaign, which is also reflected in the development of the shooter series. Since the first Call of Duty, World at War, which was developed exclusively by Treyarch, each part also included cooperative challenges that you could play together with friends. The latest installment, Call of Duty: World War II, also features an extended multiplayer mode that puts you and your friends in the combat zones and famous battles of World War II. Using the divisions, you’ll be able to choose between the deadly sniper and the brute armored division and support your comrades in battle. In addition, World War II also has a zombie mode “Nazi Zombies”, as in its predecessor Call of Duty: Black Ops. Face the monsters of the Third Reich and win glory and honor.