Changes: Potato

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Russian Soldier: "These are potatoes, Comrade Commissar! Why are we using potatoes instead of real grenades?"

Commissar Letlev: "Because real grenades are valuable! In fact, they are worth a lot more than you are!"

— A Soviet soldier and Commissar Letlev.

Potatoes are "weapons" featured in Call of Duty 2 as a substitute for an actual RGD-33. They also feature as props in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Call of Duty 2

Potatoes are used in "Red Army Training", the opening level of the Call of Duty 2 campaign. They are grenade substitutes used by the player and his fellow comrades to practice throwing grenades. Being nothing more than a normal potato, they do not cause any damage, nor do they explode like conventional hand grenades. If thrown at another character, they harmlessly bounce off without the NPC reacting at all. Sometimes if thrown at an enemy, they die.

Gallery

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Potatoes are seen in a box in the weapon armory in "F.N.G." as a throwback to Call of Duty 2.

Call of Duty: World at War

Unused potato models can be found in the game files.

Video

Call of Duty 2 Potato

Trivia

If the player throws a potato at a German soldier in the level "Red Army Training", the German will be surprised and confused, and say "Kartoffeln?" which is German for 'potatoes?'. Also, if the player throws enough at the German, a potato will get stuck in his head.
It's possible to kill the German prisoner being interrogated, with the potatoes. However, doing so will fail the mission.

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-{{quote|These are potatoes, Comrade Commissar! Why are we using potatoes instead of real grenades?"<br />"Because real grenades are valuable! In fact, they are worth a lot more than you are!|A [[:Category:Red Army Soldiers|Russian soldier]] and Commissar [[Letlev]].}}
+{{dialogue a-b|Russian Soldier|These are potatoes, Comrade Commissar! Why are we using potatoes instead of real grenades?|Commissar Letlev|Because real grenades are valuable! In fact, they are worth a lot more than you are!|A Soviet soldier and [[Letlev|Commissar Letlev]].}}
-'''Potatoes''' are "weapons" featured in ''[[Call of Duty 2]]'' as a substitute for an actual [[RGD-33]]. They also feature as props in ''[[Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]]'' and ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]''.
+'''[[wikipedia:Potato|Potatoes]]''' are "weapons" featured in ''[[Call of Duty 2]]'' as a substitute for an actual [[RGD-33]]. They also feature as props in ''[[Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]]'' and ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]''.
-== Call of Duty 2 ==
+==Call of Duty 2==
 {{Infobox/weapon
-| image = [[File:potato2.png]]
+|image = [[File:Potato model CoD2.png|200px]]
-| name=''Call of Duty 2''
+|name = ''Call of Duty 2''
-| damage= 0
+| damage = 0
-| maxammo= 4
+|maxammo = 4
-| radius=0
+|radius = 0
-| used=[[Soviet Armed Forces]]
+|used = [[Soviet Armed Forces]]
-| pickup=Potato_pickup_CoD2.png
+|HUD= [[File:Potato pickup CoD2.png]]
+|console = <tt>potato</tt>}}
-}}
-Potatoes are used in "[[Red Army Training]]", the opening level of ''[[Call of Duty 2]]''. They are grenade substitutes used by the player and his fellow comrades to practice throwing grenades. This is surely due to the fact that the Soviet Union's war industry was still very slow to start off in this early state of the German invasion of the [[USSR]]. Being nothing more than a normal potato, it does not cause any damage, nor explode like more conventional hand grenades. If thrown at another character, it will harmlessly bounce off without the NPC reacting at all. Sometimes if thrown at an enemy, they die.
+Potatoes are used in "[[Red Army Training]]", the opening level of the ''[[Call of Duty 2]]'' campaign. They are grenade substitutes used by the player and his fellow comrades to practice throwing grenades. Being nothing more than a normal potato, they do not cause any damage, nor do they explode like conventional hand grenades. If thrown at another character, they harmlessly bounce off without the NPC reacting at all. Sometimes if thrown at an enemy, they die.
-<gallery columns="3" captionalign="left">
+===Gallery===
+<gallery>
 potato1.png|Potato being thrown.
+Player_about_to_throw_a_potato_COD_2.png|Player about to throw the potato, seen at field of view of 120
 </gallery>
 ==Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare==
-Potatoes are seen in a box in the weapon armory in "[[F.N.G.]]".
+Potatoes are seen in a box in the weapon armory in "[[F.N.G.]]" as a throwback to ''Call of Duty 2''.
-<gallery captionalign="left">
+<gallery>
 COD4 Potato.png|Potatoes in ''Call of Duty 4''.
+</gallery>
+==Call of Duty: World at War==
+Unused potato models can be found in the game files.
+==Video==
+<gallery>
+Call of Duty 2 Potato|Potatoes used throughout the level
 </gallery>
 ==Trivia==
 *If the player throws a potato at a German soldier in the level "[[Red Army Training]]", the German will be surprised and confused, and say "Kartoffeln?" which is German for 'potatoes?'. Also, if the player throws enough at the German, a potato will get stuck in his head.
+*It's possible to kill the German prisoner being interrogated, with the potatoes. However, doing so will fail the mission.
-*In ''[[Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]]'', a box of potatoes can be seen inside the weapons room in the level "[[F.N.G]]".
-*This level marks the first time in any ''[[Call of Duty Series|Call of Duty]]'' game that a food item was used as a weapon.
-*There are crates of Potatoes in the basement of [[Vladimir Makarov|Makarov]]'s safehouse in "[[Loose Ends]]".
-*There are also potatoes present in the ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]'' level, "[[Cliffhanger]]". Shortly after the player enters the enemy camp, there is a pot over a fire, to the left. Directly under the pot are multiple potatoes.
-*Robert Englund makes a possible reference to the potato when he gets a pistol out of the mystery box
-==Video==
-[[Video:Call of Duty 2 Potato|thumb|300px|left|Potatoes used throughout the level]]
-{{CoD2 Weapons}} {{Stub}}
+{{CoD2 Weapons}}
-[[Category:Weapons]]
+[[Category:Call of Duty 2 Single Player Weapons‎]]
-[[Category:Misc Weapons]]