Family members of Call of Duty players are learning the hard way that experiencing No Russian for the first time isn’t for the faint of heart.

No Russian is a mission from the Modern Warfare 2 (2009) Campaign, which had you control undercover CIA agent Joseph Allen and participate in the mass shooting of civilians at an airport. The imagery is so disturbing there is an option to skip the mission.

Despite receiving criticism, the mission is one of the most iconic in series history, and other titles have used it as inspiration. For example, Modern Warfare 2019 leaned into using intense emotional moments for a mission and had you step into the shoes of a child and escape a war zone.

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Meanwhile, MW3 also used No Russian as inspiration and featured a mission in which you hijack a plane and blow it up with a bomb. In saying that, neither mission elicited the same visceral reaction caused by the original.

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No Russian trend takes over TikTok

For the latest TikTok trend, Call of Duty fans have filmed their loved ones reacting to No Russian for the first time.

One TikToker shared his wife’s reaction, and she was visibly disturbed and thought he was lying about it being a Call of Duty mission.

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Most users in the comment section weren’t phased by the graphic violence; a lot of them even first played through the mission when they were kids.

“I really didn’t even realize it was a big deal till like years later. It was just another mission.”

“But we all did it and didn’t even bat an eye.”

Other missions in subsequent titles have struck a similar chord, but it remains to be seen if developers will ever produce something to this extent again.

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