Released in 2015, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 was the third game in the Black Ops part of the franchise and developer Treyarch Corporation's sixth entry in the Call of Duty series. The game took place roughly forty years after the events of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and focused on a cold war that had developed between two global alliances. Like previous entries, it also included a Zombies mode.
Originally introduced in Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War, a zombie horde mode has become a mainstay of the franchise. The mode was so popular that to this day people still play the Zombies mode in the Call of Duty game. In Black Ops 3, Verruckt was one of the less popular maps in the game, but it includes a Breaking Bad reference that some might have missed.
Breaking Bad was a show that was full of colorful antagonists. The most memorable was probably Giancarlo Esposito's Gus Fring who still wants a Breaking Bad prequel based around his character. The story would likely involve his rival Hector Salamanca who may have had an appearance in the Verruckt Zombies map of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. In a recent post, Reddit user FreshSqueezedDoms posted an image of something that they came across in Verruckt. Specifically, it shows a man handcuffed to a wheelchair with a sun hat on and made the comparison to Hector Salamanca's look in the show.
In Breaking Bad, Hector Salamanca was played by Mark Margolis and was something of an enigmatic figure in the series. Wheelchair-bound and unable to speak, the character and his family clearly had some kind of antagonist relationship with Gus Fring. This was further expanded upon in Better Call Saul and involved Lalo Salamanca's fate in the series. Hector ultimately got the last laugh when he teamed up with Walter White and killed Gus in the fourth season finale of Breaking Bad.
Since Breaking Bad ended, Giancarlo Esposito's resume has expanded quite a bit. He frequently plays villain roles in other series, like Moff Gideon in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. In addition, the Breaking Bad star played the primary antagonist in Far Cry 6. Mark Margolis has, as of this writing, only lent his talents to the industry once for the 2002 game Manhunt. While his on-screen rival's career may be flourishing, currently Margolis is the only one who can say his character may have been in a Call of Duty Zombies mode.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is now available on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
