Wolfenstein’s BJ Blazcowicz is Doomguy’s great-great-grandfather

In December final yr, former iD developer John Romero tweeted a few sequence of adverts for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. In the tweet, he mentioned that Tom Hall, co-founder of the studio, invented the character of BJ Blazcowicz (who first appeared in 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D) primarily based on Keen from the Commander Keen sequence. Commander Keen trivia followers could also be conscious that the character’s actual title is Billy Blaze, which bears a putting resemblance to Wolfenstein’s central character.

A fan principle surrounding the characters, nonetheless, means that’s greater than a coincidence, and that BJ Blazcowicz, Commander Keen, and Doom’s notorious Doomguy are all associated. When a twitter person requested Romero to answer the idea, Tom Hall stepped in to substantiate that “the lineage isn’t a theory. Fact.”

The lineage states that Blazcowicz is Keen’s grandfather. In flip, Keen is both Doomguy’s father or grandfather (Hall isn’t utterly clear in his tweet), confirming that the Blazcowicz clan traversed a lot of iD software program’s central IPs.