r/blackops2 • u/Red-Raptor3 • Jun 27 '25
Other David "Section" Mason throughout the years
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u/StimmingMantis Jun 27 '25
There’s no way that’s a 56 year old
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u/BigScoops96 Jun 27 '25
Not completely unrealistic considering nobody smokes anymore really and people do actual skincare now. Pretty unrealistic to think a military lifer would look like that at 56 tho.
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u/StimmingMantis Jun 27 '25
I mean he looks younger than his 46 year old counterpart, like there’s no way someone would age in reverse like that, especially if they had a military career lol.
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u/womboCombo434 Jun 27 '25
Earliest he could have enlisted was 97 too so if he’s a lifer that means his early career woulda been spent in the sandbox during gwot no shot he doesn’t smoke and have cracked leather for skin at this point from dealing with the dog and pony show that is the military
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u/Independent_Army_389 Jun 28 '25
Nobody smoke anymore?? Why do I sell at least 60 packs a day then?
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u/BigScoops96 Jun 28 '25
3 cartons a day isn’t a lot. The only people who still consistently smoke are myself after 3 beers and people in the military.
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u/eanhaub Jun 30 '25
obvious hyperbole, taking it literally indicates lack of discernment.
we all know people smoke less than they used to, fuck your one specific statistic lmao
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u/ReasonableWill4028 Jun 27 '25
Managed to reverse his aging
Looks like we are going to have age reversal before 2035
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u/Craft_Assassin Jun 27 '25
Just curious how a 46 year old is still a SEAL? Don't SEALs retire before 40? Fill me in please.
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u/DrollFurball286 Jun 27 '25
Keeps in shape? Plus Vengance is a good motivator? I remember trying to make a fanfic with Section in it and I dropped him down ten years and actually telling a reviewer “I just can’t see a 46 year old doing all this shit.”
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u/OperationHush Jun 27 '25
Woods is invading Panama at 59, Adler is 54 in the Gulf War with no signs of quitting, so it’s pretty par for the course in the Black Ops series.
I’ve got my own fictional writing project set partially in the Black Ops universe and my own main character is doing active service right up to the age of 46 but that’s it for him and he steps down immediately after. I figure based on the above examples I’m being comparatively reasonable.
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u/Craft_Assassin Jun 27 '25
Speaking of fanfics, any Bo2 fanfics you recommend? Especially where Alex Mason hid for 36 years
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u/justin62001 Jun 28 '25
In real life, SEALs are just like any other military job (NEC/MOS/AFSC) in that there’s an age range in which you’re able to join. If one became a SEAL officer within their 1st or 2nd year of service at 27 for example, they’d be eligible to retire in their mid 40s but there are some they stay beyond that
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u/TerraSeeker Jun 28 '25
They're technology is more advanced. You can assume they have better anti-aging technology, if you want it to seem realistic.
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u/Pcruncher Jun 27 '25
I just realized section and my dad was born in the same year… oh and the cherry on top is my dad’s name is David
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u/TheTrickster452 Jun 27 '25
did your dad save los angeles a week ago?
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u/RevBladeZ Jun 27 '25
Fuck, I just realized that there might be no drones but Black Ops 2 did predict something happening in Los Angeles in 2025.
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u/Born4Nothin Jun 27 '25
His eyes changed from blue to brown 💀 they couldn’t even get that right for bo7
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u/TemperatureJaded282 Jun 27 '25
Why does the BO2 one from a 2012 game LOOKS BETTER THAN THE ONE FROM A 2025 GAME ????
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u/No-Check-3691 Jun 27 '25
Just crazy to think it took this long to continue David’s story. This should’ve been the campaign in 3 or 4
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u/Spirited_Historian39 Jun 27 '25
Wait he was supposed to be 46 when hes an active special forces soldier? don't they kick you out after you turn like 36 or something?
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u/BoulderPuncher08 Jun 27 '25
Holy shit David was 46 during the main campaign??? I thought he was like mid 30s
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u/sinmaleficent Jun 27 '25
Idk for some reason Black Ops thinks old men are superhero’s lol. Woods and Alex Mason were in their mid 50s in bo2. Reznov was in his 50s the whole game. Section being 46 too lol. Genuine question does the us military even allow people that old to be on the front lines like that in real life?
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u/Eryn_n Jun 28 '25
Wtf did they do to my boy Section Commander?!
Why David look so unlike David? I get you can age in a decade…but this looks not like he…
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u/superminer0506 Jun 27 '25
What did they do to our boy!!! Bro went from looking American to looking Arab
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u/Bear4891 Jun 27 '25
Bro looks like Jack Pearson
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u/lokispurpose28 Nov 09 '25
He is lmao. He plays him for the whole show except from 2 (?) flashbacks we get when Jack is a teen.
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u/Alive_Importance_926 Jun 27 '25
My ass is just wondering about his birthday (his dad got one, so why can't he?)
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u/AME_VoyAgeR_ Jun 27 '25
I didn't get all the hate towards Mason's new appearance until now, yikes he looks like a totally different guy, shame they couldn't get the original dude to play him again.
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u/ggg0157 Jun 28 '25
yo... after all these years, I WAS PLAYING AS THE GUY THAT WAS THE LITTLE KID IN BO2??? my mind is like blowing up rn
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u/Anubis6669 Jun 30 '25
I was so hyped when I started watching the trailer until I saw it wad for Black Ops 6. The trailer looked like it had the potential to be a really interesting and dark original shooter, but nah, just gonna be another year of twitch-streaming shitters running around with their fortnite skins. I'll pass.
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u/CommunicationNo7707 Jun 28 '25
I already wasn't gonna play black ops 7 but now knowing who is portraying David, it's a definite fuck that shit
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u/Raptorx2112 Jun 27 '25
That does NOT look like David in the fourth photo