It’s his twin brother, Shampoo MacTavish.

Can’t wait until shepherd says “well, i wasn’t in that office”

Guys, he used the Scotland Forever card and respawned. The rest of 141 is from England so they didn’t understand.

1. He wasn't ain that tunnel 2. It was his clone who died 3. It was his twin brother shampoo 4. That was FOAP who died 5. He didn't juju on that beat

“My brain wasn’t in my head”

“I wasn’t in that Urn”

"Somehow, Soap MacTavish returned"

And then the austrian painter said "Well, i wasn't in that bunker"

Zakhev - I wasn't on that bridge. Makarov - I wasn't in Dubai.

Firing the MW19 writers was insane. They made an amazing story that really shows what a good CoD campaign is, and now we got this.

"well i wasnt in that rooftop" - Yuri

Hot Take: The story should be self-contained in the campaign, and not spread between Spec-Ops mode/Raid mode/Warzone cutscenes/Trailers. Especially when it's unclear as to which trailers/cutscenes are canonical to the timeline.

"Well, i wasn't in that cremator" - Soap. "Well, i wasn't in that campaign" - Soap. "Wtf is even going on lol?" -Soap

Soap: “I wasn’t in that tunnel”

They should just retcon this whole fucking story as a dream and play it off like “Price had a nightmare after the inhalation of the gas” and then he wakes up in hospital and no time has passed beyond that.

that looks like Alejandro... got a soap's haircut to remember him

This is getting to the level of Transformers movies with Optimus and Megatron just dying over and over.

General Shepard "well....i guess i wasnt in that office, john."

a theory that I haven't heard yet is that Price is mentally losing it, after the gas exposure, we never got anything more than him passing out, when Soap "died" it was in Price perspective, when the outro cutscene happened, it was in Price perspective, Soap could've easily been someone else, possibly Roach or someone else, and Price could be seeing Soap instead

1:57 at least alex lost his leg in his return graves just said "he wasn't in that tank" alex's return kinda makes sense

Soap: Miss me Makarov? Eh, I guess you did Makarov: How? I shot you in the tunnels. Soap: Well, I wasn't in those tunnels.

Soap: hey Vladimir Makarov: MacTavish? I shot you Soap: turns out you're a lousy shot.

Graves: I wasn't in that tank Soap: That bullet wasn't in my head

I'm not about to go and act like mw3 wasn't a shitshow, but my (probably totally wrong) theory is the body double, but done by Laswell and Soap without the rest of 141 knowing. IRL, the CIA has some pretty crazy stuff for disguises, so its not too much of a stretch to say they could have found someone who could impersonate Soap. Laswell probably wouldn't have to do too much to convince him, and her goal could easily have been to push Price over the brink, to get him to stop holding back and get Shepherd out of the way. Soap was nearly killed by Shepherd and Graves, it was Shepherd and Price who convinced him to not kill Makarov when he had the chance, and in Las Almas his conversation with Ghost was about A: who to trust and B: that he wanted to be like Ghost, but probably wouldn't live that long.

It seems to be an Operation Deadbolt themed season which means all of this happened before the MWIII campaign.

somehow palpatine returned

Ah yes. The same retcon an earlier character had: Soap: “Well, I wasn’t in that tunnel.” Price: “Well then who the f*ck did I watch die and then spread their ashes?!?!?” Soap: “Uh… Makarov.” Price: “How the f*ck does that work?” Soap: “Idk. Ask the bloody writers.”

the bullet hit, went through his skull, and he got it fixed via surgery, and the reason tf141 threw that whole honouring ceremony is that they knew that they were being watched by a drone.

I don’t believe it. Season 2 and 3s intros were all marketing, zero story. I think this is just marketing and he’s still dead.

“I wasn’t in that mansion” - Fidel Castro

Activision shouldn't be afraid of killing their memorable characters. That's what makes many of them so unforgettable.

Theory: that isn’t actually Soap. If you watch the season 4 black cell video it shows the new black cell operator and its finishing move. For the finishing move the operator can take the on the form of enemies that he has killed, a bit like mystique from x-men. So I think that is actually the black cell operator

Soap is just like Rex in invincible s2 getting shot in the head getting back up😂

The only thing that would make the slightest sense would be if price fell into a coma after the reactor mission after he was poisoned with gas and all the shit we went through didn’t happen.

Metz: "I wasn't in that forest." Hassan: "I wasn't in that skyscraper." Hades: "I wasn't in Greece." Perseus: "I never had cancer." Victor Zakhaev: "I was never in Verdansk. / That bullet never hit my brain."

Everyone: "I wasn't in that tunnel" Me: "Somehow, Soap MacTavish is alive"

Ok let me cook if Soap actually survived: Soap was shot but the bullet was lodged in his head so he was still alive but very weak, Soap goes through an experimental procedure ran by the Atlas Corporation (this time led by someone not Jonathan Irons) but to not emotionally disrupt 141 especially since they’ve gone quiet since Shepard’s death Laswell lies and says he died and they end up burning the body of one of the SAS members in the tunnel, Soap is pretty much in a coma for the first 2-3 seasons of Warzone, awakens for the 4th season, and in the 5th and 6th season is recovering from the shot and training in an Atlas facility (where they can also test the exosuits) and in MW4 Soap will return to save 141 shocking the members of 141 along with Makarov and possibly setting up a reboot AW game series

Either they’re gonna use some Zombies/Dark Aether bullshit to justify him still being alive or this just confirms that everything regarding MWIII’s post-launch cutscenes & story is just non-canon marketing bullshit and doesn’t matter. Probably the latter TBH

Its like that star wars line "Somehow,Palpatine returned." Except now its "I wasn't in that tunnel" or "Somehow,Soap returned."

"I was in a 40 minute coma" - Gabriel t. Rorkes heart

Option 4: There really is no MP storyline anymore and he's back because he's cool. I don't expect the cinematic to explain anything other than showing bundles lmao that's what this is now

People wonder why AAA gaming is being overtaken by indie studios

Soap must have had that courier energy cause he survived a headshot

He never was in that tunnel. 😂

Wow, bringing back a character that clearly had their ashes tossed into the ocean but turns out he just had his jaw shot out. What an exciting twist.

Soap just transfered his consciousness to his body

Conclusion, no one in this game is not gonna die

I swear COD used to actually have a good story, even during seasonable content (Cold War)

Kate Laswell: Somehow Soap McTavish returned

Makarov: "Reversed Cursed Technique!" Soap: "GOT IT RIGHT IN ONE!"

"Well i wasn't in that tunnel",that line alone told me everything i needed to know lol

It might sound fancy but imagine if there is a mw4 and that in the opening cutscene, Soap just wakes up Price who was seemingly having a nightmare about the Mw3 last mission which happened only Price's mind, and when they are actually going on that mission Price just tries to do things differently to prevent Soap from dying

Soap: Gets shot in the head, falls dead. Is dead on the floor while we walk around him in the area of the mission. Gets cremated and his ashes spread. Inkslasher: He's still alive Comparing him to Graves is ridiculous. Graves could have been remote controlling the tank. Soap couldn't be remote controlling himself Unless all multiplayer happens somewhere between the first interaction of 141 with Makarov and Soap getting shot, there is no consistency to the timeline. Basically a money grab by activision with no regard to story

"Well, I wasn't in that Death Star" -- Palpatine's actual words when he came back.

Ghost: "...But we scattered your ashes." Soap: "Well... that wasn't my ashes."

they are Doin a "Phillip Graves Move" i liked that move on Graves but I'm Not Sure About Soup cuz it would Seem So Wired with the Cast and even the Whole Storyline

Its 115. I'm calling it.

We’ve entered an age where being shot in the head or impaled by a lightsaber gets us a „walk it off” message from the doctor

It was all a hallucination, Captain Price was so used to having Soap by his side during missions so he thought Soap died trying to protect him from Makarov but it was just a loyal friendly who unfortunately got shot in the head.

Soap’s brain wasn’t in that body

They literally cremated him🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ Ink you on a perc Edit: so looks like I took the L because his defense lawyer, Carpediem, has come out and stated that he "wasn't cremated"🤷🏾‍♂️

The bullet that went into Roach’s lower abdomen: “I wasn’t in that gun”

Woods: "Well, I wasn't really in that nursing home."

Bro is pulling a Menendez move

"MY BRAIN WASNT ACTUALLY IN MY SKULL!"

What if that gas that price inhaled and somehow survived, caused him to have weird hallucinations

4:32 I had a crazy idea about what if it wasn't Soap's ashes, I mean you only see the scene where they spread Soap's ashes on the cliff but you don't see the scene where they put him in the crematorium. Because who knows if it's someone else's ashes? just my thoughts

Soap is still alive in MWZ universe, maybe that's the reason. Not in campaign universe.

Cyborg Soap!!

Courier 6: "Well ain't that a kick in the head! I've seen this before."

Its wasn't Soap from the start, Ghost clearly called him Foap. Now we get the real Soap.

Ivan-Alpha 01 be like- well I wasn’t in that speech of Makarov until Nolan shot my face.😂

How do u survive getting shot in your head💀

Soap: "Guess what guys? Turns out my brain WASN'T in my skull!"

Don’t event tell me his alive they spread his ashes and you can see the bullet went through the other side of his head and I don’t even want to see “Well, I wasn’t in that Urn”

well i wasn't in that tunnel -soap

I was gonna imply that all of those missions that we played or had Soap with us was actually him but it wasn’t til that final mission whereas he was sent undercover and that was a body double the entire time with Price in the tunnels.

The entire og mw2 cast comes back and joins the fray “well we weren’t in that game”

Soap- GHOOOOOOAAAST I FOUND SOME CANDLE WAX..GHOOOAASST WERE SHOULD I PUT THE LUBE I FOUND GHOOOOAAAASSST IM CUMMIN GHHOOOOOAAASSST. Ghost- A man after my own heart.

i tell you its gotta be zombies related since he is alive in that mode. so this season may be zombies related with this contamination theme

He's a clone

This is what the indomitable human spirit does to a man

“Well I wasn’t in that body”

Somehow… Soap MacTavish lives

L.T. You must know “Makarov Knows Yuri”

Soap: Well I wasn't in that body

The way they "revived" Alex is actually true that he was alive at the start because in MW2 he had a proestetic leg or in the MW2019 as an operator with that proestetic leg. In an episode of MW2 raid Alex said that Hadir (Farah's Brother) helped him

Maybe soap had a twin brother and his brother was the one who was killed

SOAP is actually the guy in the Final Cut scene in MW3, thoughts?

Wait til they bring Shepherd and Hassan back “I wasn’t in that office” “I wasn’t in that building”

This is some metal gear level storytelling

That’s because Warzone takes place before his death

Definitely his brother named Shampoo

Or maybe when Makarov shot Soap in the head, they made it like when Lincoln Clay got shot in the head in Mafia 3 by Georgie!

You come up with the craziest Theories 😭

It’s just like when Far Cry 6 brought Vaas back from the dead.

He’s a clone

With Alex abd graves it makes sense cause with Alex you only see the building blow up, you don't actually see him die. And with graves you never actually see him in the tank so there was always a possibility of him remote controlling it. But with soap it makes no sense cause in the entire mission he's there and there's a whole cutscene of him dying plus the whole ashes cutscene. Unless Activision can come up with an actual reason he's alive, at this point you can't really believe any death you see on screen now cause apparently all of their main plot characters can just keep coming back to life

They probably gonna give some random back story saying "soap had a metal plate in his head from a incident in the past" and that's what stopped the bullet from killing him

It’s not Soap. It’s Soup!