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== ''Metal Gear Solid 1/ The Twin Snakes'' ==

* Each of the alternate endings in the original ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' had a handful, so there was no escape. Upon failing to save Meryl, Snake - sounding on the edge of tears for the first time so far - rants at himself for being too selfish to save her; it's genuinely moving until he cries, "I'm a loser!" If he rescues her, you then get to sit through one of the most gloriously cheesy romantic scenes ever written.

* The usage of stock footage in both Baker's and Otacon's long speeches. It completely pulls me away from the action in that "...Did they actually USE THAT?" sort of manner.

* ''The Twin Snakes'' had awful facial expressions, especially when you consider that ''MGS2'' contained some strikingly subtle ones three years prior (for a good example, watch Snake's face during {{spoiler|Emma's death scene}}). Snake, in ''TTS'', has a permanent facial expression of [[Dull Surprise|mildly-annoyed confusion]], which is all the more hilarious because it unintentionally [[Parrot Exposition|suits his character]]. It hits rock bottom when Gray Fox is being crushed by Liquid, and Snake gives an impassioned scream of ''[[Say My Name|FOOOOOOOOOOOOX!]]'' - his face looks so terrible that it becomes immediately funny. And the [[Say My Name]] abuse was funny in itself.

*** Liquid's, er... '[[Fake Brit|British]] [[I Am Very British|accent]]' in general in the original ''MGS''. One of the few bits of narm that was arguably improved for ''Twin Snakes''.

* No mention of the Cyborg Ninja ( {{spoiler|Gray Fox}}) fight yet? It's hard to concentrate since {{spoiler|Gray Fox}} seems to having an orgasm from the fight.

* The DARPA Chief, Anderson, dies of an apparent heart attack right in front of Snake, complete with trying to voice his final words while clutching at Snake's shirt. After he falls to the ground, Snake takes his pulse, and simply says, "Huh. Dead." Funnily enough, Snake's justifiably freaked out in the codec conversation immediately afterward.

* The conversation between Otacon and Snake in the elevator of invisible soldiers is rather scary, with the music growing in intensity...right up until Otacon ''leans into the screen'' and starts screaming at Snake to get out while the music swells in volume. There's just something about Otacon screaming combined with his zoomed in, terrified face that is ''hilarious''.

* "A rat must have eaten it!"

* Snake's wonderful description of why it's unlikely that Liquid would survive:

** This is changed in The Twin Snakes to "He'd have been cut to ribbons by the rotor blades."

* "Can love bloom Snake? Even on a battlefield?"

* The death of Sniper Wolf ([[Your Mileage May Vary|I know]], [[Tear Jerker|I know]]). I wouldn't have found her long speech half as amusing if she hadn't stated at the beginning that she had been shot ''in the lung.''

* How could ''nobody'' have mentioned the ladder instructions, yet?!

* This is more of a generational Narm, but… If you played the later installments first, then went to the original Metal Gear Solid, you won't be able to take it seriously. At all. Why? '''BECAUSE NOBODY HAS A GODDAMN ''FACE''.'''

** this gets even more funny when you play [[MGS 4]] and optain a camo mask of Snake's [[PS 1]] face, jagged textures and all.

** The La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo thing makes a cameo in ''[[Super Smash Bros]]. Brawl'' in all its deadpan glory (at least in the English version). It's in Snake's codec of Luigi.

*** Said ''Brawl'' Codec also mocks the death scream:

* ''MGS2'' also had [[Replacement Scrappy|Jack]] and [[Theme Naming|Rose]]'s relationship drama, which, despite aiming for meaningful and moving, has been known to send many gamers into fits of hysterics. The favorite whipping-boy of these conversations is the one about Raiden's room and the infamous "empty like your heart!!!" line. Rose repeatedly attempts to get Jack to recall why the, er, [[Arc Words|Arc Date]] April 30th is important to her; while some of her nagging was intended to be funny, it meant that, when it took a darker turn, it got ''funnier''.

** There's also the classic Raiden delivery of "[[Memetic Mutation|We've managed to avoid drowning]]!" as if it's something to be terribly, terribly proud of.

'''Raiden''': Did you say "nerd"? }}

*** Actually the drowning line ''is'' significant. Emma has severe hydrophobia, so she was paralyzed when she had to swim through some flooded corridors.

** As well as the title-- "Snake Eater"... well, we'll let you guess what "snake" is code for in porn.

* Some of Ocelot's cred as a hyper-[[Badass]] is undermined by MGS3 when he calls for support.

** ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' had a [http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=284 field day with that one.]

** [http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/24362.html#cutid1 "SELF-ESTEEM TEAM!"]

* "You are above even the Boss. I hereby award you the title Big Boss." Utterly kills the mood of the final scene.

* The death of The End is made much less dramatic when his dentures fly out of his mouth. That it happens ''mid-sentence'' is just icing on the silly cake.

* During the scene at the end of Metal Gear Solid 3 when Ocelot is fighting Snake as EVA is trying to stabilize the [[Wi G]] cargo plane, that Ocelot had just fired a bullet into the engine of, she says, "Not good!" I'm sorry but that that one line came off as soundly terribly silly, the tone of voice EVA delivers the line in sounds like she is forcing out a turd or something and the sheer wallbanger territory the line reaches when you realize how obvious it is that the situation is not good, Snake is fighting Ocelot in a fist fight without the aid of a gun to protect himself if things go south and the plane all three of you are in is about to crash... OF COURSE THINGS ARE NOT GOOD! The overall scene is an incredibly awesome fight between Snake and Ocelot and serves as great character development between the two and shines some light on later revelations about Big Boss and Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 4, but EVA's line and the delivery of it makes it somewhat narmful.

* Boss' reveal of her self performed cesarean section scar. The story behind it is more effectively dramatic, but the way she rips her shirt open like she's a flasher is less so.