Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs are hidden surprises throughout the Call of Duty series. They are most prominent in Zombie Modes, in the games developed by Treyarch. Some are easy and can be achieved alone, while others require a great deal of cooperation. Many of them, the most elaborate, can be used to gain an advantage either in a singleplayer campaign or multiplayer zombies game, and some unlock achievements. Every Nazi Zombies map has a secret song which plays after activating a number of objects.

Note that map or level features that are distinctive or interesting, like the Porter Justice posters in the Modern Warfare games, the ghosts in the Zombie Mode maps of Call of Duty: World at War, or the Brady Bunch house on Nuketown, are not noted here and can be found in the trivia pages of each map or level.

Campaign
Underground Passage: Ghostly room, Kaiser Bear, Sticky Bear, German dance party

Operation Little Saturn: Giant Red Apple

Surrender at Aachen: Teddy Bear

Come Out Fighting: UFO House, Secret Wall

Depot Saboteurs: Sultan Room

Campaign
Crossroads (United Offensive): Cow : A giant cow in a hidden room.

Campaign
Little Resistance : Ray Gun : Use a Ray Gun in the campaign.

Nazi Zombies
Nacht der Untoten: A radio which plays different songs.

Verruckt: Lullaby for a Dead Man (hidden song): Plays after flushing a toilet three times.

Shi No Numa: The One (hidden song): Plays after a telephone is activated.

Der Riese: Various easter eggs: This map contains a lot of different hidden surprises, including radio messages, the hidden song Beauty of Annihilation, and a game of hide and seek which unlocks an achievement.

Campaign
"WE MAKE WAR THAT WE MAY LIVE IN PEACE"
 * No Russian: In the mission there are two cases which appears to be Modern Warfare 2 on the front and Modern Warfare on the back, it can be spotted on the back of the case as the player walks up the escalators or stairs to a store on the left
 * S.S.D.D.: If using noclip console command, it is possible to see that one of Rangers that is sitting near several M16A4's at the start of the level has dog tags. On them, it is possible to see written

- Aristotle . It is part of the quote "And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."

Campaign/Multiplayer
Teddy Bears: Various teddy bears are hidden throughout the single and multiplayer modes.

Main Menu
CIA Data System: A computer accessible from the main menu room allows you to browse the contents of a CIA computer and enter various cheat codes. This allows you to access Dreamland and play Zork, which unlocks an achievement.

Campaign
Numbers: Thundergun: Use a Thundergun in the campaign, simply on the first part destroy all Nova 6 barrels with a grenade or gun, there should be six of them, then go to the room on the right and find the open tape dock. Hold square or X (it won't notify you) and continue to escape. When you reach the room with the wall of weapons, find the open tape dock, hold square or X again, it will close. If you did this right after a few seconds the screen should shake. Wait a few more seconds and hold square or X once again, you should now have obtained the Thundergun.

Multiplayer
Nuketown: Hidden song: If the heads of the mannequins are decapitated within 15 seconds, "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones is played. Requires multiple players to achieve. This may be hard, as the mannequins are randomly placed on the map every round, some might even spawn outside the map itself.

The names on the mailboxes are the names of the protagonists in the campaign, Mason, Hudson and Woods. They will also have other names on them, which may be of some of the developers.

The "Welcome to Nuketown" sign will change population according to how many players are currently in the game.

Convoy: In the building on the top right of the map, there's a cargo transport board showing the names of all the maps in the game, including the First Strike and Escalation packs.

There are "Wanted" posters all over the map of a boy named Raffaele Angelini at the age of 14. It says that he's wanted for "pwning noobs". It also says that his occupations are "Pwning noobs and being awesome" and that he's a very good Call of Duty player. Further down it says that he's very loved by the developers at Treyarch and Activision Blizzard. According to the description, he may be the son of one of the developers.

In the police station, posters can be found that says "Men with long hippie hair will be attended to last". Under it says that long hippie hair is: "Hair touching the eyebrows" or "Hair falling across the forehead" or "Hair covering the ears" or "Hair reaching below an ordinary shirt collar". There are also picture illustrating these.

In the lower left house there's a rack of magazines named "Exposed", which on the front page says "Russians launch first primate into space, and it returns a... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" with a picture of one of the Space Monkeys from Ascension on it.

In some buildings there are pictures of an early version of Hotel and the map Stockpile

Zombies
Note that the Zombies Mode easter eggs from World at War are also found in the Black Ops remakes.

Nacht Der Untoten

 * Undone (hidden song): Plays after shooting several barrels outside
 * Hidden song plays when you shoot the radio near the Mystery Box in the Help Room

Verruckt

 * Lullaby of a Deadman (Hidden song) Activated when one of the toilets are flushed 3 times

Shi no Numa

 * Radio: A radio which explains information about 115
 * Hidden Song- Talking on the telephone in the hut via Comm Room Section

Kino der Toten

 * 115 (hidden song): Plays a song when 3 pieces of meteor are activated.


 * Film Reels/Radios: 3 film reels can be found and played on the projector, and 3 radios (one of which has not been found) can be activated to play recorded messages.

"Five"

 * Telephones: Plays Eminem's "Won't Back Down" when all three red phones are activated.

Dead Ops Arcade

 * The hidden zombie game mode itself, Dead Ops Arcade, is unlocked by entering "DOA"(Or 3ARC UNLOCK but this unlocks all the campaign and zombie maps) in the CIA Data System.

Ascension

 * Casimir Mechanism: Long easter egg requiring four players and Wonder Weapons; gives everyone a Death Machine for 90 seconds.


 * Abracadavre (hidden song). Plays after three teddies holding sickles are activated.


 * Character Dolls: Matryoshka dolls can be found that look like the original Nazi Zombies characters, which also talk.


 * There are several telephones across the map that will sometimes ring. When answered, character quotes from "Five" can be heard.

Call of the Dead

 * Original Characters Trapped: A long easter egg which sends the usual Zombies characters to "Paradise". Unlocks an achievement for performing this both in solo and multiplayer.


 * Not Ready to Die (hidden song): Hidden song by Avenged Sevenfold.


 * Radios: Play messages recorded by Richtofen.

Shangri-La

 * Eclipse: Another long easter egg in which you free Gary And Brock.


 * Pareidolia (hidden song): Plays a song when 3 pieces of meteor are activated.

Moon

 * Coming Home (hidden song): Plays a song when 3 Teddy Bears are activated.


 * Re-Damned: Hidden song which is activated by pressing the "use" button on a computer next to the Bio-Dome's door.


 * 8-bit Pareidolia: Hidden song which is activated by obtaining a disc and using it on a computer in the bottom floor of the labs.


 * 8-bit Coming Home: Hidden song which is activated by obtaining a disc and using it on a computer in Tunnel 6.


 * Nightmare (hidden song): Activated by having somebody die when an Excavator is down, and then finishing the round, resulting in them spawning on the other side.


 * Richtofen's Grand Scheme: A long easter egg which consists of two parts, which must be completed in the following order:


 * Cryogenic Slumber Party: An easter egg where it requires the player to complete a number of steps to release Sam from the Pyramid, when the pyramid opens, all players will be granted a Death Machine for 90 seconds.


 * Big Bang Theory: An easter egg which requires the players to complete a number of steps to launch three rockets to Earth. After they hit Earth, all players are granted with permanent eight perks.

Campaign

 * Snowman room: Contains the Crossbow. Using it unlocks the weapon for multiplayer

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

 * Teddy Bear: In the multiplayer map "Lockdown" there is a building not far outside the map on the right of 3 hanging bodies; the rightmost window on this building can be flown through if using a Recon Drone or if the player is in Spectator, inside is an over sized Teddy Bear wielding Akimbo Gold Desert Eagles that use the Call of Duty 4 model.
 * Arkaden Teddy Bear: In the map Arkaden, the food joint has a window the shows the "kitchen" it has many grills and a giant bear (much like the bear in lockdown but without the desert eagles).
 * Porter: In the map Mission, there is writing above a teddy bear saying: "Porter wuz here", which is a reference to the inventor of the Pack-a-Punched Ray Gun, from Zombies.
 * Wallstreet: In the Mission "Black Tuesday" when you reach the New York Stock Exchange there are TV-Screens on the Wall saying: IW, BLZ, SHG, WAR, ATVI and TREY these are References to Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Activision, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games and Blizzard.
 * Train directions: When coming out of the tunnel with the wrecked train on Mind The Gap, there is a map of train directions with referencing names such as 'Black Cat Way', 'Verruckt', 'Infinity Station Ward', etc. And with weird names as well such as 'random place', 'no ammo road' etc. Also, this map is behind one of the original spawn points on Underground, the one that faces the actual subway station.
 * Gold Teeth: In the mission "Eye of the Storm", as you swim in a stream with Soap and Price, you will see the first dead body thrown into the water. Go to that body and as you pass through his body, stay in the middle of the figure as for a glitch will happen where you can see his eyes, teeth, and forehead. His teeth appears to have one gold tooth. His eye has a cut running from top to bottom, and his forehead has a scar that forms the initials "MW3".
 * Carbon: On phones in this map, there is inscription - COD4
 * Shepherd: In the Special Ops mission Stay Sharp, after getting to Sandman, turn to your right without shooting any cutouts. You will see a picture of Shepherd with three throwing knives in it. One knife is in his eye; a reference to how he was killed in Modern Warfare 2.
 * Ghost Voices: In the map Sanctuary, if the player goes to any of the four grassy patches near the middle of the map, he can hear ghostly voices saying "Hehe, look at me, daddy! Hehe!", "Don't get too close to the road, sweetie", "Hehehehehe.", and "Sarah, don't go too far!" The voices are sound clips taken from Davis Family Vacation.
 * Village: Outside the map on the east corner, there is a partially revealed hatch with the numbers "4 8 15 16 23 42" engraved on the window, an reference to the hatch in the TV series "Lost".

Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Campaign

Multiplayer
 * Zombies are Coming: When getting the gift in Section's room in the mission "Odysseus", If you look to the right when going through the door, there will be some sticky notes attached to the cupboard. One of them reads "Zombies are Coming"
 * Song and Dance: After the credits, Raul Menendez and Woods play "Carry On" with Avenged Sevenfold.

Zombies
 * Atari: Destroy all the mannequins in Nuketown 2025 and you can play Atari arcade games.
 * Flags: Outside the multiplayer map of Nuketown there are flags with Spetznaz and Black Ops call signs on them, referring to factions of Black Ops.


 * Moon sign: In zombies (Green Run) Town. There is a motel sign with missing letters and the remaning letters spell moon.
 * Die sign: In the tunnel there is a green sign hanging from the roof with all but a few letters blacked out.  The remaining letters spell "Day x over 2 me".  Also in the Diner area the sign's letters that are lit spell " Now Die" and "On For You".
 * Green Run Nacht der Untoten Easter Egg : An easter egg in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, where a completly re-made version of the map located halfway between Farm and Power.
 * The song "Carrion" by Kevin Sherwood (not the same Carry On by Avenged Sevenfold) plays when all three teddy bears on the map "Tranzit" are activated.
 * Teddy bear one: found outside in Bus Depot sitting on a bench near the mini lava pit.
 * Teddy bear two: found in the Farm area.  It is laying on a mat on the second floor of the house where one can build the Turret.
 * Teddy bear three: found in Town in the bar on the first floor.  After entering through the big entrance turn right and look at the booths.
 * A main Easter egg following the story of Misty,Marlton,Russman,and Samuel which includes many steps that is called the Tower of Babble.
 * On Die Rise, after three teddy bears are activated, the song "We All Fall Down" plays.
 * Teddy bear one is on the floor below the spawn room next to the SVU-AS.
 * Teddy bear two is in the upturned resteraunt (Buddah room) on the edge of the floor.
 * Teddy bear three is in the power room atop a sewing machine.
 * The main Easter egg for Die Rise that includes many steps which is called High Maintenance.
 * On Mob of the Dead, input the numbers 935 on the numberpad instead of the correct numbers and the song "Where Are We Going" will play.
 * On Mob of the Dead, find the three beer bottles to have "Rusty Cage" played by Johnny Cash.
 * Bottle one is in the library, on the bookshelf next to the Olympia.
 * Bottle two can be found in the infirmary near the roof, resting on a desk across from the blood baths.
 * Bottle three is found at the far left side of the gate at the docks, hidden underneath a wooden crate.
 * In Mob of the Dead if you look to the fireworks display with a sniper rifle for a second you can see a scary picture of what appears to be Russman and a high pitch scream.
 * A main Easter egg on Mob of the Dead that tells the story of the prisoners which is called Pop Goes the Weasel.
 * The main Easter egg for Buried that continues the story for Misty, Marlton, Russman,and Samuel that has many steps which is called Mined Games.