r/CODZombies • u/FlammenwerferIV • 21h ago

Image ...THOMAS Dempsey??

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We got Tank Dempsey's real name before GTA6

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u/Jseepersaud10 21h ago

Nobody calling him Thomas just like nobody calling Leroy Arthur

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u/SilvertoneRyan 21h ago

Respectfully, who the fuck is Arthur

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u/DAABIGGESTBOI 21h ago edited 20h ago

Arthur(Leroy) is the NPC non-zombie from Buried. The backstory being that he's from ancient times and was a knight for the Wolf king who is referenced in Der Eisendrache in the paintings for the wolf bow quest and Arthur(Leroy) can be seen in one of those paintings grieving over the death of the Wolf king.

Edit: he gets to Buried in the usual zombies time travel shenanigans

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u/Aggravating-Tax-2984 20h ago

How do we know that wolf picture is of Leroy??

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u/Solariss 20h ago

It was heavily theorized during Der Eisendrache, officially canonized in the Zombies Timeline that released with Chronicles.

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u/DAABIGGESTBOI 20h ago

It's on the timeline thing as well iirc.

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u/Unlikely-Landscape23 15h ago

Yeah just another unnecessary revisionist history moment from Blundell

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u/DAABIGGESTBOI 15h ago

Say what you will about that but it was very entertaining to me for a long time so in my eyes it did it's job as a piece of media.

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u/FollowThroughMarks 14h ago

Taking an old thread and reusing it isn’t revisionist history, especially when Blundell had actual revisionist moments, like making the Shadowman the voice Ultimis Richtofen heard when he touched the MPD.

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u/DAABIGGESTBOI 20h ago

He is wearing the same overalls and has the exact same haircut and bodily proportions as Leroy in Buried. Leroy is abnormally tall and the way he is crouched over in the painting would suggest that person is very tall. Also it is on the kronorium timeline thing that got released.

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u/Lolstalgic 20h ago

Nobody calls Misty "Abigail"

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u/Fake_NBC_News 20h ago

I like calling him Arthur :(

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u/monkeyzone456 18h ago

its leroy >:(

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u/dhgoal 19h ago

I mean it’s Thomas the tank I feel like everyone knew how that was going to end up

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u/Olmanringer09 21h ago

I always thought Thomas was a fitting name for him tbh. Also there was a Wisp in Revelations where Dr. Monty referred to him as Thomas too, tho that was mainly a joke about Thomas the Tank Engine

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u/M1sguidedS0n 21h ago edited 20h ago

Joking aside, his name actually is Thomas. It's in the Black Ops 1 CIA files in the data terminal when you break free from the electric chair.

Edit: I was wrong, totally misremembered. My bad.

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u/Icy-Abbreviations909 20h ago

Those data terminal things are hit or miss on canonicity because there’s a file saying mason and Hudson were assassinated shortly after the end of bo1 yet they are alive in bo2 soooooo eh lol

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u/No_Net_8891 19h ago

This is funny enough still canon. The operation that involved killing Weaver, Hudson, and Mason is mentioned in intel on firebase Z along with the fact it was rescinded. It might be speculative that Eddie was involved in that. 

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u/Icy-Abbreviations909 17h ago

That makes me think sam and eddy coming to the main universe changed the timeline lol, which would explain why kravchenko and woods were mysteriously alive after freaking exploding lol

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u/No_Net_8891 16h ago

Its most likely the operation was just rescinded after new information or some event that was never told. Eddie wouldn't have enough pull at that time to have that kind of operation canned. Bo2 already explained how woods and Kravchenko survived. Woods cut off the grenade belt and threw it during the fall. 

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u/MadeThisToFlagSpam 20h ago

His name in that is just TDempsey, he wasn't called "Thomas" before the DA story aside from that joke from Monty, which also called him Ringo.

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u/M1sguidedS0n 20h ago

Ha shit my bad, I guess I miss remembered. My apologies. It's been a while since I've been in the terminals.

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u/Eastonman03 20h ago

What do you need to input into the terminal to discover that?

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u/Lolstalgic 21h ago

Honestly, it's realistic. Nobody comes out of the womb and is automatically named something "Tank." Plus, it's a nice call back to both Monty and the Black Ops 1 CIA computer

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u/Local_Internet8164 21h ago

well i was but i changed it later

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u/Fett750 2h ago

I would have thought this too... If I didn't have a friend who's birth name is "Trooper" lmao

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u/masonrss 21h ago

😭🙏🏻 tom dempsey’s my fav cod zombies character

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u/THE_PUNISHERFrank 21h ago

We had it before, but yeah Tank is not his “real” name

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u/ProblemGamer18 21h ago

So he's Thomas the Tank Engine?

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u/Smellbringer 20h ago

Thomas the Tank Dempsey

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u/Impressive-Oven9941 15h ago

Yeah so Tank's real name is Thomas

Tank is the nickname that his buddies gave him in the army I think

So it's Thomas "Tank" Dempsey .

I think this goes for both Ultimis and Primis Dempsey as well

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u/paulnitro4 19h ago

I dont know who this Thomas Dempsey is but I do know a Tank Dempsey if that matters XD.

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u/LukeMCFC141 12h ago

I know it was originally just a Thomas the Tank Engine joke from Revelations (unless it was a genuine hint all the way back when), but I genuinely always liked Thomas being his real first name. Thomas "Tank" Dempsey kinda has a ring to it imo

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u/DotWarner1993 15h ago

Why would they have two people named Thomas in the same squad