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== [[Metal Gear Solid]] ==
== Due to [[Single-Issue Wonk|Single Issue Wonkers]], all theories regarding Time Lords have been moved to [[Time Lord/WMG|Time Lord]], including 1 for this work. ==
== All games after [[Metal Gear Solid]] 1 are VR simulations. ==
It's implied that [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]] is a VR simulation; however, [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]] seems to have [[Jossed]] that explanation. But who says [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]] is real? Maybe it's a VR simulation as well.
* And just to top it off, maybe all the games that take place during the Cold War are [[Assassin's Creed|Animus]] styled reproductions of Big Boss' memories. (of course, this would require Raiden to have some of Big Boss' genetic code, but that's another WMG)
== Drebin is Fortune's younger brother ==
Aside from the [[Captain Obvious|obvious]] fact that they're both [[Darkskinned Blonde|Dark Skinned Blondes]], imagining them as brother and sister isn't much of a stretch. Keep in mind, if he's Fortune's brother, this would also make him the son of Scott Dolph, the Marine Corps Commandant from [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]. If he's the son of a Marine officer and the brother of a professional terrorist, it's not hard to imagine where he got the skills necessary to make it big as an arms dealer. And by my count, this would also make Ocelot responsible for the deaths of two of his immediate family (for all we know, they're the only family he's got). That would give him more than enough reason to want to make Ocelot's life hell with his arms dealing business. It might also explain his fixation with Solid Snake, and why he conveniently turns up wherever Snake
== All of Metal Gear Solid 2 is a VR simulation. Metal Gear Solid 1 the Twin Snakes may also be, or may not be reliable as an information source to the player. (Context from only the first and second games.) ==
Metal Gear Solid 2 was entirely VR. This includes the Tanker mission at the start. Let's start from the beginning.
* You land on the ship and play as Snake. Kojima used this bit and the advertisements outside the game to make you think you were going to play only as Snake. And then, he took that away, but from the stories' perspective, it's because the simulation doesn't entirely know what happened to Snake in the tanker chapter. They know what kind of tanker it was, so they plotted his likely path, but when the tanker detonated, the simulation took the only likely explanation that Snake bought the farm there. Raiden played this simulation, as you did. In fact, you were controlling Raiden controlling Sim-Snake. Raiden is supposed to be the player analogue after all.
* Then, you (and Raiden) are sent on your seeming first real mission so far. (This would be the first long mission you were sent on in this game.) Raiden comments on having done 300 VR missions, including Shadow Moses. What if Kojima has been training the player/Raiden longer than we know? How are we to know whether or not we are ever given the truth? There is a theory farther down that states that Twin Snakes is the VR simulation, especially with the new crazier things (eg. jumping over a missile). Maybe that's what Raiden saw during his mission. After all, Raiden never witnessed the real events. So Raiden begins his mission in the Plant, but he doesn't know that the Plant is either a giant VR station or a real station that is being influenced by the nanomachines in his body. I am partial to the first, as according to mission control, Snake is not supposed to be in the simulation and should not be trusted. I think he can be trusted, but not for events taking place outside of his philisophical rants or memories. His reality is being just as subjective as Raiden's. He says he has infinite ammo, but that obviously can't be true. Assuming he is not another VR illusion, he merely brought plenty of equipment and figured he had brought enough for them to share. But the VR simulation may actually have made his proclamation real. The simulation needed to stay consistent, and when he said he had infinite, it gave him infinite, at least for the next battle. Snake was probably being fooled by the station into thinking he was fighting all those soldiers just like Raiden was, and that he had continued to have enough extra equipment for Raiden to share with him. For that matter, they may have never been firing weapons of any kind at all at that point, it's nearly impossible to tell. Snake also said that the Tanker simulation Raiden took place in probably wasn't accurate to the real events, as shown by his surviving. Either the sim didn't know what happened to Snake or was deliberately censored, it's hard to tell. The Patriots have a want to censor and control information, but it's unknown if they know know exactly what happened.
** In any case, Raiden/the player never could bounce bullets with a sword, didn't destroy 25 Metal Gears, and never went to Manhattan. But the player/Raiden were trained to think they could and did, as part of a military VR simulation. Raiden never left the Big Shell. He passed out, woke up in "Manhattan", met "Rose", and then the game ends on a note of confusion for Raiden and most likely the player, leaving you wondering who Raiden is and what exactly he did, if he and you did anything at all. To sum it up, you did not. It was just more training, but it's up to the player and Raiden to decide if there was any merit in it to learn from. As for Snake showing up in the end, well, in that form, it's hard to say. He may have shown up in an attempt to free Raiden, or he may have been a VR illusion or a hallucination, it's difficult to tell.
* You don't even have to go so far as to say that only The Twin Snakes was a VR mission. MGS1 being a VR mission explains why Meryl is alive in MGS4 even though you may have let her die in the ending you saw. As the player, you get your choice of endings because you are a soldier being trained in the Shadow Moses VR mission. The ending where you save Meryl is what really happened. The other is a mission failure but perhaps something the Patriots want in a soldier for some reason (Haven't thought it out enough to figure out why they'd want you to give up under torture.)
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**** Given the Kojima teaser site and the Raiden looking cyborg with one eye bandaged I'd say it's plausible.
**** Close. There's two more MGS games coming out, one starring Big Boss, the other starring Raiden.
***** If there ''is'' a prequel featuring The Boss as the main
*** To be honest, I don't think they'll ever let us play as The Boss. None of us would be Badass enough to play the game as her properly. The game would probably be too easy anyways...
** [[Jossed]], as ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'' is [[MGS 5]]. They just [[Stopped Numbering Sequels]].
** Kojima pitched the idea after [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|MGS4]], [http://www.vg247.com/2011/12/14/mgs5-the-boss-cobras-one-of-several-ideas-says-kojima/ but didn't feel that the team was experienced enough to make the game without his involvement.] Hopefully, we can say that [[I Knew It!|we called it one day.]]
== Big Boss was messing with Ocelot ==
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*** Given the skill Ocelot had demonstrated up to that point, Snake knew that by the time he had to reload, there would be at least six dead bodies on the ground. Between that and his pack of minions, reloading was unlikely to be a concern.
*** All of this ignores the fact that Ocelot '''literally''' gets off on reloading and has a cowboy fetish. It was just a matter of time before he tried reloading a revolver in a fight. Also, choosing the SAA Colt was Ocelot's choice. He could have tried a revolver that could use a speed loader.
**** All of this also ignores the fact that, except for extremely limited and rare circumstances, for military purposes a handgun is an emergency back-up weapon. It's for fighting your way back to pick up the rifle you shouldn't have put down in the first place. It is not the primary CQB weapon of choice.
* Big Boss specifically tells (an uncomprehending) Paramedic that Ocelot "might just be handy with a high-caliber revolver." Even if he didn't specify which one (the Makarov, perhaps...), it subtracts from the notion that he didn't mean exactly what he told him.
** A makarov is an autoloader pistol...
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**** [[Completely Missing the Point|So the box is Hideo's wife's vagina?]]
**** [[Don't Explain the Joke|It's that old dick in the box prank]]
* So I guess Raiden, the Cyborg Ninjas, and [[Snatcher
== John Clark, from Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series, is actually Big Boss ==
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* One problem with this theory: According to [[The Other Wiki]], John Clark was born in 1944, which would make him 20 years old (i.e., the same age as Ocelot) during Operation: Snake Eater. And it's been mentioned (or at least implied) that Big Boss joined the military around 1950. Unless the U.S. has a "Child Soldier" Program that we don't know about, the numbers don't match up.
* Child soldiers? AKA one of the main plot points in the series?
** I simply meant that, based on the numbers from ''Peace Walker'', Big Boss was born in 1935, or 9 years before John Clark. Big Boss joined the military around 1950 (probably lying about his age), and I don't know if he saw any 6-year-olds running around like the way [[The Simpsons (animation)|Abraham Simpson]] did in WWI.
== The first ''Metal Gear Solid'' is all VR. ==
It turns out we weren't playing through the Shadow Moses incident as it happened, we were playing through Raiden's VR training of it. His real combat experience was his child soldiering, but he did do the VR training in his adulthood as well; he was able to identify things and people which "kept coming back to Shadow Moses". And don't forget Ghost
* Possibly, said difference is that ''[[Tomato Surprise|Liquid Snake never existed]]''. He's a personality fabricated by Ocelot, and MGS4 will reveal that in the real Shadow Moses incident, Ocelot was talking to himself, and it was Ocelot driving Metal Gear REX. Big Boss made such an impression on Ocelot in his youth that he was split between his dedication to the Philosophers and the contradicting ideal of Big Boss's Outer Heaven, a world not controlled by the conspiracy. This resulted in a second personality forming in Ocelot, the "son of Big Boss", just as theatric and idealistic as Ocelot was when he was young, while the other personality, Shalashaska, continued to work for the American branch of the Philosophers. Oh, and of course this is why it makes any kind of sense for Liquid to be alive ''inside an arm''.
** Cute, but Jossed.
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*** Which means that Outer Heaven is simply another Fight Club?
*** Er, maybe that...or maybe he's making it up for the sake of some [[Plan]] (though with the state of this game's canon, a [[Gambit Roulette]] seems more likely).
* '''Alternate Theory: The original ''Metal Gear Solid'' for the PSX was real; the remake, ''Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes'', is the simulation.''' Think about it: This explains why Twin Snakes was so messed up. Accents were removed due to being unimportant to the simulation, making characters easier to understand for users, and besides it being easier to accurately simulate just a voice as opposed to a voice ''and'' an accent. The remake is considered much easier than the original, just a simulation would be far easier than the real thing. And this explains the rampant abuse of [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]
** Or maybe its the version Raiden went through? Raiden had never met any of the major players in the Shadow Moses incident, so he would be unfamiliar with their voices and the way they sounded, letting the Patriots get away with free censorship without Raiden noticing. Raiden's more advanced training (and perhaps dormant skills), combined with the test being monitored and controlled would explain the new gameplay changes and lowered difficulty. As for the cutscenes, Raiden's entire perception of the Shadow Moses incident comes from "In the Darkness of Shadow Moses", and from what he was told. He idolizes Snake, thinking him much more than just a normal man, and this perception could have bled over into the simulation; Raiden is seeing Snake as expects to see him, as a Legendary Badass.
* '''Alternate Alternate Theory: It's the other way around.''' Mei Ling appears in ''MGS4'' without an accent, sounding much like she does in ''Twin Snakes'' and ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', which could mean her accent in the original game was a mistake on the part of the simulation's developers. Clips of the original ''Metal Gear Solid'' and ''VR Missions'' are shown in the montage when Raiden talks about his VR training. Further, well-designed training simulations actually need to be ''harder'' than the real thing, so that once you can handle the simulation, you can handle the real thing easily. Denying Raiden the ability to walk slowly, aim guns, and hang from ledges in the simulation could be a way to add [[Fake Difficulty]] to the simulation. This could also account for the less realistic graphics in the original game.
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== The Shadow Moses Incident was set up by the Patriots too. ==
The whole thing was a prelude to the experiments with Raiden, an examination of nature v. nurture. Two clones of Big Boss were created, and raised according to different specifications. One, Solid, was raised as a normal human being, which in fact he was. The other, Liquid, was tweaked at the genetic level to be superior to Solid in all
* Alternatively, Liquid was genetically identical to Solid (as the [[Word of God]] has said), but the experiment was otherwise the same.
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Everything but everything: his 40 years of unswerving service to the Patriot Group, his betrayal of everyone who knew him, every waking moment under the eyes of his masters, have all been an immense ruse to bring him into the same room as the men who killed his mother and betrayed his idol. And then... there will be a old-western style reckoning. "Six bullets. More than enough to kill anything that moves."
* Of course, if the Patriots are as inhuman/immortal as they sell themselves, he may be in for a rude awakening.
* Also, there are twelve Patriots. Maybe he should start carrying around two guns.
* He owns like three. He has it covered. Ocelot always has it covered.
* Nah. He can kill them all with one bullet.
* {{spoiler|Interestingly enough, there were six founding Patriots. And they all ended up dead.}}
* Possibly [[Jossed]] by "Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops".
* And ''Guns of the Patriots'' {{spoiler|confirmed he's been against the Patriots all along, and that the Philosophers and Patriots were different organizations. He was loyal to the latter, but became disenchanted with the group alongside Big Boss and EVA.}}
== Vamp was infected with Dark Matter from the Doomsday World of {[[Video Game]]/{Boktai}}. ==
We know that portals open there, as Snake was himself sucked into the End Of The World twice in Boktai 2 and Boktai 3 (wasn't officially translated in the U.S.). Being forced to feed on the flesh of his family just attracted the portal.
* Jossed: {{spoiler|The [[Applied Phlebotinum]] in this case was nanomachines that healed him really fast.}}
** New theory, Dark Matter is actually {{spoiler|nanomachines powered by negative psychic energy.}} The Gun De Sol massively purifies this. Given the [[Schizo-Tech]] setting of [[Boktai]], it's not too far a stretch. Vamp's are hybridized with Earth tech.
== Meanwhile, Snake has the Lunarian and Solarian genetic markers. ==
Gotta hand it to the Enfante Terrible project, really. Both the Gun Del Sol and the Gun Del Hell are findable weapons in the Metal Gear Ac!d games. Snake can use them, which in [[Boktai]] is explained only those of Solarian and Lunarian blood can do. He really, really should bring along the Gun Del Sol the next time he fights Vamp.
* In MGS4, the Solar Gun is an unlockable weapon. That you can use against Vamp. So, he kinda did. However, the Solar Gun's slow-moving projectile makes it very, very easy for him to dodge. It does, however, cause aggravated psyche damage so that if it does hit, beats Vamp ''quickly.''
* Bear this in mind: Due to the card-based nature of the Ac!d games, the Lunarian and Solarian genetic markers extend to Teliko, Venus, and {{spoiler|the Model 3 Snake clone}} by default. Which means any of the following:
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== Arsenal Gear is the TV Tropes Wiki server. ==
As already established, the whole ending of MGS 2 happened only in Raiden's head. That means Arsenal Gear was not destroyed, and must still be active today. But the continuated existence of 4chan, for example, clearly indicates that it is not controlling the Internet as it was supposed to do. On the other hand, you have this wiki here, with it's unstoppable power to ensnare new tropers, that will someday become Suzumiya Haruhi, it just cannot simply be stored on some server in Seattle. So, obviously, Arsenal Gear was really created to be the Tv Tropes wiki server, and its Internet Control function was only a cover.
* On the contrary, 4chan was created by the Patriots to serve as a testbed for memetic soldier programming techniques, and continues to exist because Arsenal Gear periodically seeds it with CP so that they can V& everyone involved in the event that the project outlives its usefulness.
**
*** Therefore, the admins need scissors. 61.
**** But I gave you scissors YESTERDAY.
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== Ocelot is channeling Liquid's spirit through his arm ==
Probably quite obvious and the most logical explanation they could use, Ocelot is obviously the son of the Boss and the Sorrow (Kojima himself confirmed this). The Sorrow was known for being able to channel and communicate with the spirits of the dead as a medium, so it would make sense that this natural ability would be passed on to Ocelot himself. Now that Liquid Snake's arm is grafted to him, he is using it as a conductor of sorts in order to subconsciously channel Liquid's spirit.
* It really says something about the series that this is, in fact, perfectly obvious.
* And it's also {{spoiler|WRONG! Nothing more than a [[Red Herring]]. He's actually faking it because he's actually against the Patriots.}}
** {{spoiler|But maybe not entirely. I wonder if he did actually absorb Liquid's spirit, but only as a method to improve his acting. The Sorrow was similar, he absorbed the outward personality and skills of his targets but his motives and beliefs remained the same (Otherwise he would turn on the rest of the Cobra Unit the moment he used his powers). It would explain a couple of plot holes, and hardly be inconsistent with what we already know.}}
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== Fox Hound doesn't give out codenames. ==
Solid Snake has a brother, named Liquid Snake, and another named Solidus Snake. Their dad went by Naked Snake for a while. Does this look familiar? They're just names!
* Why does Solid Snake say his name is Dave then?
** It's a surname. His full name is Dave Snake.
** To screw with Hal? "Hal and Dave, lawlz!"
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* He's {{spoiler|an imperfect clone, along with Liquid Snake, like the ''[[Star Wars]]'' clone troopers; in contrast, Solidus Snake would be the 'true' clone, like Boba Fett}}.
== The Metal Gears are precursors of the Dreadnoughts of [[Warhammer
Realistically speaking, bipedal robots are a pain in the ass to build and get working, simply due to the mechanics of human movement. As such, the modern military normally doesn't consider them a viable combat option. However, the Metal Gear series has depicted various government and terrorist organisations building Metal Gears for various military purposes, which leads to the logical question: if conventional tanks are more effective than bipedal robots, why the hell are they going through all this fuss to build bipedal war machines, let alone making them nuclear? The answer: because the Emperor is pulling the strings behind the scenes (or even in front of the scenes) to make sure the perfect design is created for a bipedal robot to mass produce as part of the original Space Marine legions.
* Which means that the Emperor is either Big Boss (and isn't actually dead, this explains why they did experiments to create super soldiers from Big Boss' genes) or Hideo Kojima (which, knowing the Metal Gear series, is probably more likely...).
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== Johnny Sasaki is going to be the protagonist in Metal Gear Solid 5 ==
Sure, he spends the majority of the series as a diarrhea-plagued [[Butt Monkey]], but man, does he ever [[Took a Level
* Following this, Johnny is the fourth Son of Big Boss, either biologically or clone-ically.
** Or rather, Johnny is the only remaining and only successful Genome Soldier. He survived ten years on pure "Soldier Genes" of the highest caliber. He certainly [[Made of Iron|takes bullets]] like a Snake.
*** His codename? [[The Last Days of Foxhound|Bose-Einsteinium-Condensate Snake]].
**** I have a really bad sore throat, and this put me in a lot of pain from laughing so hard...
* Alternatively, Meryl will be the main character and Johnny will take the [[Mission Control]] role.
** Or both will be playable, with online co-op.
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** Fortune? MILES.
** Colonel Campbell? Someone spilled beer on the CODEC communicator. Possibly at the same time as someone else was playing a high-stakes game of...damn, whatever that dangerous game with the scissors was called.
*** Swiss Variation [[The Simpsons (animation)|Knifey-Spoony]]?
** The President? Played by William Hurt.
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"Confidential Legacy" happens in 2005 just a few months after Shadow Moses, then in 2006, Snake is introduced to the Big Shell, the hidden place where the US is constructing another Metal Gear (Kept in secret) he goes through "Dead Man's Whisper" then on early 2007, before the Tanker incident, "A Wrongdoing" happens (Ames is refering to "Confidential Legacy" when he speaks about Snake's mission on a tanker, instead of the proper Tanker incident) much later in the year, Snake and Otacon form Philantrophy, and Snake is implicated in the Tanker incident, then, the government makes the Big Shell public, although hiding it's true purpose, Snake rescues Emma in "Big Shell Evil" (E. E. later returns to the plant after having an argument with Otacon) and finally in 2008 he infiltrates Big Shell again to do the "External Gazer" mission (Which is mostly VR anyways). Snake completed all of them with non-lethal methods.
== Hideo Kojima is any combination of the following
Blessed with the gift of prophecy, a Time Lord and/or [[The Chessmaster]] behind Anonymous.
Observe the following conversation, taken from the game script of MGS2 on [[
{{quote|
''Snake:'' What?
''Otacon:'' We didn’t dig up this info -- about the new Metal Gear -- on our own. Not like usual...
''Snake:'' How did you find out, then?
''Otacon:'' It was a tip. An anonymous tip.
''Snake:'' Anonymous? You’ve never trusted those -- why would you start now? }}
I assume this sounds perfectly innocent when it's ''voice-acted'', but consider the ''actual words'': Capitalize the 'a' in Otacon's last line, and consider the '--' in Snake's last line him interrupting himself (presumably to stop himself calling them "hackers on steroids") and suddenly it's [[
* The previous poster is clearly insane. Pay him no mind. His absence is due to ordinary liver problems and will be...resolved shortly.
* [[Ben Drowned|You shouldn't have done that...]]
== Snake does not actually recognize "Master Miller" in Metal Gear Solid. ==
The characters are well aware of the fourth wall ([[No Fourth Wall|or lack thereof]]). As such, they are also aware of technical improvements from one game console to the next, and that their own appearances can change from game to game. So when Liquid impersonated Miller, Snake had no idea what Miller was actually supposed to look like (not having seen him since Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake on the MSX2), and as a result was easily fooled by Liquid's [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]. This also explains why nobody noticed Otacon's hair change from gray to brown between the first two games or his inexplicable bishiefication in MGS4. For the same reason, Snake can hardly be expected to notice anything unusual about Miller's voice, since until that point everyone had spoken in subtitles.
** This fits in well with the polygon mask in MGS4 and the flashbacks to original graphics in MGS2 and 4..
== [[Zone of the Enders]] takes place in MGS's future. ==
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This troper is not kidding when he says he, with no warning, became violently, violently ill shortly after {{spoiler|helping Rat Patrol Team 01, soiled Johnny included, fight through the wave of Frogs.}} Clearly, Hideo Kojima was worried that we would have a hard time being sympathetic to Johnny, not because he's unlikeable, but because of schadenfreude over his diarrhea. After ten hours of intense stabbing pain in the stomach, followed by nearly a full hour in the bathroom and repeated, random spells for a day afterward, this troper has gained an immense amount of sympathy for Johnny.
* ''This troper would like to second this.'' While not nearly as bad, she [[Unusual Euphemism|had to make a big deposit at the brown bank]] (and she's leaving it at that, lest we get into [[Too Much Information]] territory) shortly after either that sequence or the scene where you first meet Johnny; she can't quite remember at the moment, but she's thinking it's the former.
** This Troper hasn't yet played MGS4 because he doesn't have a [[
== Both "explanations" for Liquid Ocelot are true ==
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== Big Boss has [[Code Geass|a Code]] ==
Explains how he fell a really long
* So, what was Snake's geass before he was given Big Boss's code?
** The Solid Eye of course.
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** Or maybe one of his parents are albino. You know, like Raiden?
== [[Watchmen (comics)|Adrian Veidt]] was a secret associate of the Patriots whose fate wasn't settled in Guns of the Patriots, and will be the Big Bad in MGS 5. ==
Given the different political situations of the Metal Gear and Watchmen universes, Veidt had to channel his Dark Messiah tendencies into something a bit more subtle.
* Kojima Production's special E3 2010 shows a bunch of video screens showing different programs. Hmm, now where have we seen that before?
== The main character of MGS5 will be Sunny. ==
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== [http://kotaku.com/5272382/kojima-updates-site-yet-again-with-familiar-face-hidden-mystery-mask This ninja] is Olga. ==
Olga is already a ninja. She was shot in the head, but said head was mostly intact when she died and Gray Fox came back from worse. This ninja's eye is covered, which could cover Olga's gunshot wound. She could potentially be brought back to life if her brain wasn't damaged.
* Jossed. The game stars Raiden and is supposed to take place between Metal Gears Solid 2 and 4. That said, Zombie Cyborg Ninja Olga making an appearance would be hella cool.
== Solid Snake's accelerated aging isn't due to the fact that he's a clone or because of his genetics... ==
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Despite [[Death Note/WMG|theories to the contrary]], a constant string of celebrity deaths needs many more than 23 days to properly orchestrate and execute. Hence the use of FOXDIE as a smokescreen by the Patriots to lure public attention away from their 1500-page climate control bill, designed to control the amount of carbon humans can use as yet another extension of the S3 Project.
== Roy Campbell is part [[
How else can he instantly befriend prisoners from within an army truck AND detect when the wrong people are killed in Snake Eater? Green Beret cross-training with the TSAB, that's how.
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== The BnB Unit girls' traumas didn't happen exactly the way they were depicted in the game. ==
They did suffer horrible trauma that drove them Axe Crazy in their various individual ways, but the [[Animal Motifs]] of their particular psychoses were instilled by hypnotherapy once Liquid Ocelot recruited them, as some sort of twisted tribute to FOXHOUND. Given that this is the guy responsible for {{spoiler|Mount Snakemore}} we're talking about, it wouldn't necessarily be out of character for him to go to this much trouble over an issue of style, and even in the Metal Gear universe, it's a bit improbable that Ocelot managed to locate four young women who each manifested two traits from two separate, previous [[Quirky Miniboss Squad
== The Cobra Unit retired during MGS3 ==
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== The Ending of Metal Gear Solid 4 was all a dream. ==
Snake died in the microwave hallway, the rest of the game was all a hallucination.
The Patriots Demise was Snake's desire to see them destroyed before he died, Johnny and Meryll's Wedding was the life he failed to have after MGS1 (Supported since the other members of Rat Patrol are there...and they looked pretty dead at the end of Act 3), The scene between him and Big Boss was taking place at the pearly gates.
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== Paz is the true villain. ==
Considering how many times the word 'peace' is used to associate with her, would it really be that shocking to learn she is behind the Peace Walker Project? She does say she'll do 'anything' to protect her namesake, perhaps making her a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]. She will kill Galvez after he's lived out his usefulness to her goal.
* The music video featuring Paz may in fact foreshadow this. Starting at 2:15, portraits of the main cast are shown in logos corresponding to their alligence or group. Notice anything implied at 2:33-2:39? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7aACDTi278
** {{spoiler|Confirmed. She pulls out an ''[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|ocelot]]'' working as ''[[Double Agent|Triple Agent]]'' for CIA, KGB, and Cipher the proto-PATRIOT although she is not exactly the [[Magnificent Bastard]]}}
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== Big Boss's scar is due to an operation he underwent as a result of the injury that put him in a coma. ==
Alternatively, Kojima read one too many M-Preg fics...
== Coldman is based on designs and elements of cut character Old Boy. ==
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== In Peace Walker, the traditional boss squad (eg. FOXHOUND, Dead Cell, etc.) will not be humans but... ==
...Machines. A character, possibly Galvez, in the TGS trailer talks about how "from now on our only heroes will be machines". Machines like the new Shagohod and the flying mech were created to be the 'new heroes' to replace the old. Both mechs also seem to have a red cylinder object, perhaps a power source, attached to them. The rest of the machine bosses will most likely have these devices too.
* This theory has been totally {{spoiler|confirmed. Most of the bosses in the game are either AI weapons or armored vehicals of some sort. The only exceptions are the Non-Canon [[Monster Hunter]] bosses, but those don't count.}}
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== Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar did indeed die in Metal Gear 2. ==
The Dr. Madnar mentioned in MGS4 is his daughter, Ellen Madnar. We never see 'Madnar' in person. Perhaps Dr. Madnar is like Dr. Clark, somewhat of a recluse and rarely exposing themselves in person to others. Naomi thought Dr. Clark was a man as a result of this, so it's possible that this could be the case again. Dr. Madnar apparently did work strictly underground, so perhaps this is why she stayed hidden.
== Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar is a cyborg ==
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== Strangelove is from the future. ==
She traveled to the past to make sure Big Boss starts Outer Heaven and ensure a stable time loop takes place. It's possible she's an adult Sunny, as Strangelove does seem to have a resemblance to her...
* Furthermore, this might explain the presence of technology that seems advanced for the time, even by Metal Gear standards. Strangelove brought her knowledge of future technology to the past and offered her expertise in helping to create the AI Weapons.
== Zero was behind Liquid's upbringing ==
They are both Brits and Zero seems to have been behind a lot of things, why not his old teamate's project.
** Considering they share the same Japanese VA, this would be really fitting.
== Liquid's real name is John/Jack. ==
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== Raiden won't be the hero of Rising ==
You'll switch to some new guy an hour in.
** Or new girl...
== Ocelot raised Liquid and Solid and Snake and both had their memories of this replaced/wiped. ==
[[Rule of Drama|Because it would be dramatic.]]
== EXTREMELY STUPID CROSSOVER-TYPE THEORY GO!! ==
[[House MD|House]] is the fourth clone of Big Boss and he found a way to fix and reverse the rapid aging problem, along with FOXDIE. Through cardboard box-related threats, Snake made him share this secret with him and became young again/FOXDIE-less. He faked his own death so that far into the future he could become the mysterious Master Chief. And, in the past, Ocelot fathered [[Death Note|Light Yagami]], [[Code Geass|Lelouch Lamperouge]], and many others, including God. Because his [[Manipulative Bastard]] / [[Chessmaster]] / [[Magnificent Bastard]] skills are [[In the Blood]].
== Raiden's...modifications...in MGS4 are similar in nature and root to that of the B&B corps ==
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== Metal Gear and [[Hellsing]] share a universe. ==
Big Boss is said to have been with a group called the Wild Geese for some amount of time. That could be the mercenaries from Hellsing, hell BB could've been fighting alongside Pip's dad/grandpa. Other than that I have no proof besides [[Rule of Cool]] and… wouldn't it just've been awesome to see what Millennium would've done with their own Metal Gear?
** The reference is most likely directed towards the classic war movie [[The Wild Geese]], featuring a group of mercenaries.
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== Ocelot knew he was the biological son of The Boss. ==
Two versions.
<br />1) Big Boss figured it out after {{spoiler|finding out that he's a x-tuple agent brought up in a Philosopher-controlled facility.}} The time frame fits, and he even ''looks'' like his parents in MGS3, as far as This Troper is concerned (she didn't know that they were related before the end of MGS4, mind you.) He then used this to cement his trust with Ocelot and earn him a lifelong and loyal-to-death subordinate [[Ho Yay|(without realizing that he didn't have to do any of this, of course.)]]
<br />2) The Boss herself told Ocelot/he figured it out himself during the events of Operation Snake Eater. Given that Ocelot was {{spoiler|ADAM all along}} he must have picked up on The Boss' true mission from the start, and might have even called her out on this. The Boss must have also been aware of Ocelot's true status, both as {{spoiler|a triple agent}} and her son, so she might have either outright told Ocelot or let him cautiously probe the information out of him. If her {{spoiler|impending [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} wasn't enough a reason for Ocelot to trust her and make a promise that he wouldn't intervene with Volgin's and Snake's match, this information surely was.
* As a sidenote, regarding Ocelot's sudden ability to counter and act against Snake's CQC {{spoiler|in the plane sequence after defeating The Boss}}, The Boss might have, either by her own volition or after being asked by Ocelot, taught him some basic CQC. As she and Snake were both the very best in CQC, ''basics'' is a pretty liberal term here, so a small-scale [[Training
Besides, Ocelot is ever only portrayed showing real loyalty towards The Boss and Big Boss. The latter he was in love with (canonically now) and the former... well, [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]].
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At some point during the campaign, Roach gets a little disgruntled at how much he's done, for seemingly little effect. He starts thinking back to "Cliffhangers" - the basic elements are there, a sneaking mission in a frozen environment, complete with near-sighted guards using FAMAS'. However, in his hypothetical world, Roach is a great and respected hero, with a better codename - Snake, that sounds good. Solid Snake, the brave war hero, single-handedly stopping the evil terrorists from destroying the world, none of this shoddy [[Gray and Grey Morality]]. Metal Gear, of course, is a representation of {{spoiler|the submarine from "Contingency."}}
After {{spoiler|retrieving the DSM, and being knocked silly by an artillery blast,}} Roach's scrambled mind rethinks the events of his original story, and...well...Metal Gear Solid 2. Finally, after being {{spoiler|shot by Shepherd}}, who he finds represents the scheming politicians of the world, who could care less about soldiers, Snake (now much older, {{spoiler|as Roach realizes the end is nigh}}) destroys the Patriots. He then reconciles with Big Boss ({{spoiler|Price, whom Roach was more than a little annoyed at after he launched the nuke}}). {{spoiler|And then he dies.}}
== Raikov was a woman in disguise, Raiden was her grandson and Volgin was the grandfather. ==
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== Peace Walker takes place after MGS4 ==
It's all an advanced VR Simulation that Little John is going through, playing the role of Big Boss. Sunny also takes part in the training under the codename 'Strangelove'. The Monster Hunter mode was also her idea, being a video game fan as indicated by her owning a [[
== The entire series is one big [[Stealth Parody]]... ==
...of Hollywood action movies.
== The ending of MGS2 is all a dream (with a twist) ==
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== Strangelove is Otacon's mother. ==
It's known that Huey has a thing for her, and heavily implied that she returns his affection. Plus it would explain Otacon's massive [[Ho Yay]] if we're assuming that homosexuality is at least partially genetic.
* Is silver/gray his natural hair color then? Since he manages to have it at age 25. Maybe he learned his computer judo from her too.
== The Boss faked her death at the end of Mission Snake Eater ==
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== Otacon was the Spanner in the Works necessary to defeat the Patriots, and his being so is a direct backfiring of what the Patriots had intended for him. ==
Here's what happened: Julie was a [[Honey Trap]] /Patriot plant meant to seduce both the Emmerich men, thus driving Huey to commit suicide (they no longer had any use for him) and [[Break the Cutie|causing Hal to think of himself as a worthless person]] (therefore a malleable one), as well as driving him to make something of himself. Through subtle planting and information monitoring (an inspiring teacher here, a cool robot show there), they created in him the desire to make super robots, a desire they knew they could take advantage of. Thus, he was the chief architect of Metal Gear REX.
As they monitored his interactions with the other scientists on the REX project, the Patriots realized that they could not remove his strong [[Neutral Good]] tendency and turn him fully into their tool. Nor, they realized, could they hide the truth from him for the rest of his productive life. Thus, their plan was to leak him the information about REX having nukes after its first successful deployment. [[Despair Event Horizon|Distraught by the notion that he was and would be responsible for a large-scale loss of human life,]] [[Heroic BSOD|and feeling utterly abandoned by humanity,]] Otacon would then commit suicide, like his father before him. His attraction to Sniper Wolf ensured that he would be too distracted to discover just what was going on until it was too late. After his death, the Patriots would upload Hal's knowledge and thinking style into an AI, without that pesky [[Neutral Good]] alignment.
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== The HD Collection will have a Nintendo 6 version, with Twin Snakes as an exclusive bonus ==
Being a partnership with Nintendo is 99% the reason it isn't in the [[
== In Snake Eater 3D, the 3D effect will be disabled when Snake loses his eye. ==
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He invented the basics of sniping when he shot a notorious gang leader from more than 400 meters away to stop him from killing an old and fat one-eyed Federal Marshall and kept improving his technique from there. As a side effect of developing photosynthesis, he was also able to use the sun's healing power to heal a nasty wound to his tongue that left it nearly severed.
== The "message" behind [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]] is not meant for the player ==
Enter Kojima Hideo's name and personal info into the dog tag rather than your own, and the end where Raiden throws it away takes on a whole new meaning. He's not freeing himself from the player's control and chastising them, ''he's shrugging off the influence of his creator''. No longer is he a pawn forced down a road, part of a game designed by a contemptuous higher being, he's his own man; no one programs him or sets out a path for him to follow. Raiden is truly liberated.
== The "Saladin" mentioned by Sniper Wolf wasn't actually Big Boss ==
Because the idea of Snake assuming any soldier in any conflict after World War II who gained a nickname is actually Big Boss was just way too amusing to me. Especially since this series has [[No Fourth Wall]] and the Shadow Moses Incident chronologically takes place after ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' was released.
== Metal Gear Online (2) is a depiction of the War Economy in action, mercenaries against other mercenaries. ==
Furthermore Liquid Ocelot participates in these battles because he is testing out his control of the SOP system. Everyone else is just a gameplay interpretation of the various battles that took place in the story, for example Raiden vs Vamp.
== Snake is responsible for Sunny's mental/emotional problems. ==
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== Vulcan Raven is asexual. ==
He's not repulsed by sexuality the way Mantis is, he just doesn't care to pursue such things for himself. The evidence - unless running around shirtless wielding a giant phallic symbol counts, he's probably the least sexualized of MGS's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]. Ocelot has his reloading fetish among other kinkiness, Wolf has her [[Stalker with a Crush]] eros/thanatos business, Liquid brings the [[Twincest
== Mei Ling is gay or asexual, and Otacon knows it. ==
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