15 Origin Stories of Your Favorite Video Game Characters You Probably Don’t Know

WILLIAM ‘BJ’ BLAZKOWICZ (WOLFENSTEIN)

William B.J Blazkowicz has been the protagonist of the Wolfenstein series for as long as the series has existed, but it wasn’t until 2014’s The New Order that the franchise started treating him less as a Nazi-killing machine, and more as an actual character. Its sequel, The New Colossus, takes that one step further, and delves even deeper into the character’s backstory. We get to find out about his abusive father, and how he lived under his shadow as a child, and how that ultimately shaped him to become the soldier we know him as today.