The Archetypes

"The cancer is spreading... Our Archetypes are the cure. You, Me, Woods, Mason... all of us."

- Raul Menendez describing the importance of The Archetypes to Savannah Meyer

The Archetypes is a faction featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Specialist HQ mode. They are likely subjucts both involved with and as a result of Project Blackout.

Summary
While the full extent of what The Archetypes are is left a mystery, they are a group of people brought back to life possibly as one of Project Blackout's main objectives. The faction consists of Alex Mason, Frank Woods, Raul Menendez, and Viktor Reznov. It's not known if there are any other Archetypes brought back to life.

Trivia

 * In an interview with GameInformer, David Vonderhaar of Treyarch stated that Blackout is not a simulation, which would rule out that The Archetypes are A.I. within a program.
 * Additionally, there is evidence to show that Project Blackout and the Blackout mode are both connected to further prove this claim's authenticity
 * In the Specialist HQ Intel file "The Running Woman," Battery says that "People are actually dying out there in the zone" and that she sees shapes, which Ruin corrects by saying they're actually numbers - Likely referring to the Collapse in Blackout.
 * In the Specialist HQ Intel file "Angel Heart," Menendez says that "Sites are under construction all over the world." In Blackout, there are some construction sites.
 * In the Specialist HQ cutscene "It's YOU in the box," Woods and Mason are at the Asylum from Blackout.