Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: Difference between revisions

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: This isn't the first time [[Mugihito]] ended up [[Mega Man X|causing a catastrophe involving nukes]].

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: {{spoiler|The Boss AI decides to drown itself to prevent an all-out nuclear war, much as the real Boss sacrificed herself. This only annoys Big Boss again, having already rejected The Boss's own sacrifice as a betrayal to what The Boss taught him as a soldier.}}

* [[AKA 47]]: Despite being named and credited properly in ''Portable Ops'', the AK-47, AUG, and vz.61 are rendered into [[Bland-Name Product|Bland Name Products]] here. The similarity between As and Rs/Vs and Us in ''Peace Walker'''s various inventory fonts makes this tricky to spot, though.

* [[AKA-47]]: Despite being named and credited properly in ''Portable Ops'', the AK-47, AUG, and vz.61 are rendered into [[Bland-Name Product|Bland Name Products]] here. The similarity between As and Rs/Vs and Us in ''Peace Walker'''s various inventory fonts makes this tricky to spot, though.

** The AK here is [[Handwaved]] with being a variant, and the other weapons, you have to get blueprints for.

** Some weapons appear in this game before their [[Real Life]] counterparts did. For example, the Steyr AUG was not developed until 1977, yet the MSF has access to it in 1974. However, it should be noted that the game hints that they developed the weapons based on design specs, meaning they most likely developed them first in-universe.

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** {{spoiler|Not quite. It's also very likely that, although he did manipulate some aspects, he did not know about Paz's orders about her launching a nuke at the United States to frame MSF.}}

** Hot Coldman qualifies. Aside from him being the guy Gene mentioned in Portable Ops, he also manipulated various factors to ensure that his goal would come close to succeeding: For starters, he had the false data programmed into Peace Walker, and it is also heavily implied that he also directly programmed the Mammal Pod with not only {{spoiler|leaking the Peace Walker data to NORAD without even his allies knowledge}}, but also the overall programming of the Mammal Pod (He mentioned being the only one to know the abort code, something that apparently even the Mammal Pod's creator didn't know). In addition, {{spoiler|when Coldman was dying and activated Peace Walker, Coldman claimed that he was the only one who knew the abort code, and was heavily implied to have intended to die before he gave out the abort code.}} In addition, it could be argued that he might have manipulated Zadornov into shooting him so he'd have the perfect excuse to do such an action (although he certainly didn't anticipate that Zadornov would actually change the target to Cuba).

* [[CIA Evil FBI Good|CIA Evil, KGB... Still Evil]] the reason the MSF got involved in the first place is because a KGB operative hired the MSF to investigate Costa Rica as to what the Peace Sentinels, a CIA group, was up to and then drive them out. The CIA group in question was not very nice, to say the least. KGB was also proven to be just as bad, and in fact was technically allied with them until they [[The Starscream|changed the target of Peace Walker's retalitory strike to Cuba]]. They're actually rogue (though the sentinels have no idea), with the fact that Coldman was actually an exile at that time, as well as his trying to convince the CIA to give funding for his brainchild, Peace Walker's mass production, as well as the fact that he intended to launch a live nuke via Peace Walker just to step up negotiations with the Peace Sentinels.) The CIA was also implied to be not good in EVA's tapes.

* [[CIA Evil, FBI Good|CIA Evil, KGB... Still Evil]] the reason the MSF got involved in the first place is because a KGB operative hired the MSF to investigate Costa Rica as to what the Peace Sentinels, a CIA group, was up to and then drive them out. The CIA group in question was not very nice, to say the least. KGB was also proven to be just as bad, and in fact was technically allied with them until they [[The Starscream|changed the target of Peace Walker's retalitory strike to Cuba]]. They're actually rogue (though the sentinels have no idea), with the fact that Coldman was actually an exile at that time, as well as his trying to convince the CIA to give funding for his brainchild, Peace Walker's mass production, as well as the fact that he intended to launch a live nuke via Peace Walker just to step up negotiations with the Peace Sentinels.) The CIA was also implied to be not good in EVA's tapes.

* [[Climax Boss]]: After the fist-pumpingly-awesome Get To The Control Tower mission, it seems like it'd be hard for the final battle with Peace Walker to top that. [[Two Words Obvious Trope|Two words: it's better.]]

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Strangelove electrocutes Big Boss in order to gain information on why he had to kill The Boss (either by lightning rods or by laughing rods, depending on whether you're talking about the English or Japanese version). It's also heavily implied that she did not like having to torture Big Boss at all, as future torture sessions have her becoming more reluctant to continue/kill Big Boss, and later she actually apologizes to Big Boss for her part (English version only, the Japanese version, for [[Executive Meddling|obvious reasons]], simply had her apologize without specifying why she is apologizing to Big Boss).

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* [[Foreshadowing]]: Well, okay, it's more like "back-shadowing", but if Snake calls Huey on the Codec while near the river, Huey will remark that he has always dreaded being near the water. [[Driven to Suicide|Two guesses as to what happened to him by the time of Metal Gear Solid 2]].

** Also, notice how despite the fact that Paz didn't do any evil by the end of Chapter 4, her introduction had her name highlighted in red as if she were a villain? {{spoiler|Let's just say that there's [[Double Agent|a very good reason for why such is the case]].}}

* [[Full Frontal Assault]]: Forget that the regular "Naked" option lets you go shirtless (or with a tanktop, for the ladies) into battle; you can get a "Swim Trunks" (or Bikini, for female soldiers) option that lets you carry virtually no equipment and has a terrible camo index. The benefit is that you can run a LOT faster without all that pesky clothing getting in the way. This form of bravery also boosts Heroism earned at the end of the stage by 30%... (the damage you take is also outrageous, often certain death, but...)

* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Forget that the regular "Naked" option lets you go shirtless (or with a tanktop, for the ladies) into battle; you can get a "Swim Trunks" (or Bikini, for female soldiers) option that lets you carry virtually no equipment and has a terrible camo index. The benefit is that you can run a LOT faster without all that pesky clothing getting in the way. This form of bravery also boosts Heroism earned at the end of the stage by 30%... (the damage you take is also outrageous, often certain death, but...)

** {{spoiler|Paz strips down to her undies when she pilots ZEKE during the [[True Final Boss]] fight. This is either because she's gone a little crazy or because ZEKE's pilot pod fills with water when it goes into battle mode.}}

** {{spoiler|She takes off the clothing because it's technically symbolic of her shedding her skin, and revealing her true identity, which is not a school girl, but a 21 year old woman. And [[Fan Service]], ofcourse.}}

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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Although Big Boss was shown to be feeling remorse at The Boss's death in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3]]'', it is implied in this game from various intrusive flashbacks to Tselinoyarsk and reacting with shock at someone referring to "Jack" and {{spoiler|learning about The Boss AI's existence}} that the [[Heroic BSOD]] he earned in the ending of Snake Eater had worsened significantly by this game.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] / [[Redemption Equals Death]]: The Peace Walker's Mammal Pod, after fighting Big Boss twice, decided to not carry out Coldman's final will in regards to leaking the NORAD data (especially when it was going to cause a nuclear war), and allowed Big Boss in so he could remove all the uplink drives in the Mammal Pod, and when that didn't work, decided instead to drown itself in order to short-circuit the transmission of the false data, and it is also implied that because of these actions, The Boss was cleared of all charges of treason.

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]:

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:

** In the Japanese dub, Paz is voiced by [[Nana Mizuki]], and she had the honor of singing the first image song for [[Metal Gear]].

*** In the English dub, Paz is voiced by... [[Tara Strong]], who also voiced Rikku from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' (whom coincidentially Paz shares a similar face model with).

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* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Listen to some of the tapes with Paz. You can definitely tell there's some of this between Snake and her.

* [[It Got Worse]]: The entire climax of Chapter 4.

* [[I Knew It]]: In-universe, comes from Strangelove when she's trying to interrogate Snake into revealing the one piece of data that will allow her to complete her recreation of the Boss's mind: why she apparently nuked Russia when she was (a) defecting to them and (b) supposed to be ultimately loyal to America in the first place. The only possible solution is that the Boss was a [[Fake Defector]]; Snake's silence under torture proves the theory. Big Boss also immediately deduces that Ramon Galvez Mena/{{spoiler|Vladimir Zadornov}} is actually a KGB agent and not a Professor of Peace, because of his prosthetic hand.

* [[I Knew It!]]: In-universe, comes from Strangelove when she's trying to interrogate Snake into revealing the one piece of data that will allow her to complete her recreation of the Boss's mind: why she apparently nuked Russia when she was (a) defecting to them and (b) supposed to be ultimately loyal to America in the first place. The only possible solution is that the Boss was a [[Fake Defector]]; Snake's silence under torture proves the theory. Big Boss also immediately deduces that Ramon Galvez Mena/{{spoiler|Vladimir Zadornov}} is actually a KGB agent and not a Professor of Peace, because of his prosthetic hand.

* [[Irony]]: {{spoiler|A KGB agent named Vladimir Zadornov, AKA Ramon Galvez Mena, as well as his entire KGB unit, were taken down by FSLN Members who were originally organized by them behind the scenes, similar to how Zadornov betrayed Coldman and his Peace Sentinel unit.}}

** Also, {{spoiler|you build your own final boss, ZEKE. How powerful it is is directly influenced by how well you've built it.}}

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** As noted by IGN in their review, it is quite ironic that Peace Walker, easily the biggest [[Metal Gear]] game in terms of content, is on the PSP, Sony's smallest device.

** {{spoiler|Pacifica/Paz's dedication to the mission is extremely similar to The Boss's dedication to the mission. Though, Paz was scared out of her mind of what would happen if she betrayed Zero, compared to The Boss's total dedication to the US despite knowing what would happen to her, and kept denying she hated the MSF, and eventually gets her ass kicked with little fanfare (besides Chico's grieving and what-ifs and Miller's grumbling about her betrayal - which he caused).}}

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Shockingly reversed at the beginning of the game, then hugely played straight multiple times later on. Before the first mission proper, Galvez reveals himself as a KGB spy [[I Knew It|after Big Boss calls him on it]], ''and still hiring him to help usurp U.S. control of Central America to trigger a massive socialist revolution that will allow the USSR to destroy America'' (Although to be fair, he also conveniently leaves out the fact that he also intended to use an experimental mech to essentially frame the United States for nuking Cuba, and makes it seem as though the primary reason he wants to hire them was to investigate the CIA's activities besides driving out the Soviet presence). As Big Boss is a mercenary (and Galvez waved a small child at him) he doesn't have too many moral qualms about this and takes the mission anyway (and it is strongly implied that one of the main reasons he decided to undergo the mission initially was to investigate if The Boss had indeed survived).

* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Shockingly reversed at the beginning of the game, then hugely played straight multiple times later on. Before the first mission proper, Galvez reveals himself as a KGB spy [[I Knew It!|after Big Boss calls him on it]], ''and still hiring him to help usurp U.S. control of Central America to trigger a massive socialist revolution that will allow the USSR to destroy America'' (Although to be fair, he also conveniently leaves out the fact that he also intended to use an experimental mech to essentially frame the United States for nuking Cuba, and makes it seem as though the primary reason he wants to hire them was to investigate the CIA's activities besides driving out the Soviet presence). As Big Boss is a mercenary (and Galvez waved a small child at him) he doesn't have too many moral qualms about this and takes the mission anyway (and it is strongly implied that one of the main reasons he decided to undergo the mission initially was to investigate if The Boss had indeed survived).

** Later on {{spoiler|Coldman exposits most of his plan to Big Boss ''twice'', both on occasions where Big Boss was at Coldman's complete mercy and Coldman had nothing to gain from either keeping him alive or letting him know what his plans were (excluding his false data/NORAD gambit, which would probably have been unnecessary had Big Boss known nothing at all). Indeed, if Coldman had kept his mouth shut and/or [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|double-tapped Big Boss on sight]], MSF would have had no idea that a large nuclear bomb was about to fall on them until it was too late.}}

** {{spoiler|Then Vladimir bursts in and exposits about how he's going to kill Big Boss and let him act as a martyr as Che did, buying MSF enough time to kick the doors in and stop their collective scheming. And Vlad [[Sanity Has Advantages|didn't even have the insanity excuse that Coldman had]].}}

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*** Peace Walker is also unflatteringly analogued to an infamous historical figure, William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary who became President of Nicaragua.

** Zadornov mentions that his first name, "Vladimir," translates to "ruler of peace." He appreciates the irony.

* [[Mistreatment Induced Betrayal]] / [[Not What I Signed On For]]: Huey only worked with Coldman with the intention of effectively applying nuclear deterrence so a nuke won't be launched even once. Unfortunately, after learning that Coldman's just an omnicidal wacko whose idea of deterrence is "nuke everyone so no one can nuke anyone", he understandably refuses to cooperate with Coldman, and after Coldman [[Moral Event Horizon|shoves Huey (a paraplegic) off the stairs]], he ends up aiding Big Boss in destroying the Pupa, and also later joining the Militaires Sans Frontieres. Strangelove herself is also implied to have undergone a similar help face turn, since she was originally quite hateful of Big Boss for killing The Boss, but when she was torturing him, it was implied that she covertly let him escape (presumably due to learning of Coldman's involvement in The Boss's death as well as his satisfaction in planning that event), and later thanked Big Boss for stopping the Peace Sentinels, and after the events of the fourth chapter, joined the Militaires Sans Frontieres.

* [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]] / [[Not What I Signed On For]]: Huey only worked with Coldman with the intention of effectively applying nuclear deterrence so a nuke won't be launched even once. Unfortunately, after learning that Coldman's just an omnicidal wacko whose idea of deterrence is "nuke everyone so no one can nuke anyone", he understandably refuses to cooperate with Coldman, and after Coldman [[Moral Event Horizon|shoves Huey (a paraplegic) off the stairs]], he ends up aiding Big Boss in destroying the Pupa, and also later joining the Militaires Sans Frontieres. Strangelove herself is also implied to have undergone a similar help face turn, since she was originally quite hateful of Big Boss for killing The Boss, but when she was torturing him, it was implied that she covertly let him escape (presumably due to learning of Coldman's involvement in The Boss's death as well as his satisfaction in planning that event), and later thanked Big Boss for stopping the Peace Sentinels, and after the events of the fourth chapter, joined the Militaires Sans Frontieres.

** Although Miller was on Snake's side pretty much the entire time, he also briefly worked with Cipher as a neutral business partner only under the promise that MSF is allowed to expand as a result. However, after {{spoiler|Paz hijacked ZEKE and then proceeded to, under their orders, prepare a nuclear strike against the East Coast of America}}, its implied that Miller quit working with Cipher afterwards, especially considering that the {{spoiler|nuclear strike}} would jeporadize any chances of MSF expanding.

** It is heavily implied that most of the American operatives of the Peace Sentinels (and possibly some members of the FSLN) had joined the Peace Sentinels / FSLN and the Militaires Sans Frontieres later on because they had nowhere else to go, because the American government apparently abandoned them shortly after they returned from Vietnam.

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* [[He's Just Hiding|She's Just Hiding]]: [[Invoked]] [[In Universe]]: {{spoiler|A briefing tape unlocked after getting all of Paz's diary tapes that takes place after Paz was defeated by Big Boss has Big Boss hinting at the possibility that Paz survived the fight due to her both landing in the water as well as wearing scuba gear.}}

* [[Serial Escalation]]: {{spoiler|The sheer scale of The Boss's trials and tribulations, as revealed by EVA and Strangelove. Hideo might have taken it too far.}}

* [[Short Range Shotgun]]: Heavily averted. Even the sawn-off shotguns have pretty good range once you take the time to focus your aim, and there's also the mentioned ''sniper shotgun'' that does [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]].

* [[Short-Range Shotgun]]: Heavily averted. Even the sawn-off shotguns have pretty good range once you take the time to focus your aim, and there's also the mentioned ''sniper shotgun'' that does [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]].

* [[Shout Out]]: As should be expected for a Hideo Kojima game, there's lots.

* [[Shout-Out]]: As should be expected for a Hideo Kojima game, there's lots.

** "2001: A Space Oddysey" is referenced numerous times, both by Huey and Dr. Strangelove. In fact, how you defeat the AI weapons is a direct reference to how HAL was dismantled in that movie; you climb into the weapon's brain, a cramped red room, and start yanking out circuit boards. {{spoiler|In the final battle, both start spewing gibberish as the boards are yanked out.}}

** Multiple ones to Che Guevara, considering this game takes place in the 1970's in Latin America. Snake's camera is the same kind Che used, they make mention of his drinking mate tea, and his final words, "Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!" are uttered by Snake himself. When it looks like Snake's number is up, the villain remarks, "Dead at 39. Just like El Che."

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** Gear Rex's origin story is a blatant reference to how Godzilla was created. Minus the necromancy bit.

** Coldman basically forcing the US Government/Military to decide whether to retaliate or not with the intention of proving that Humanity is too weak willed to go through with retaliation even when nukes are launched, only for them to prove his theory wrong, is very similar to [[The Joker|The Joker's]] "social experiment" in the climax of [[The Dark Knight]].

** [[Dr. Strangelove]] herself is the obvious [[Shout Out]] to the film of the same name, but Peace Walker itself functions in much the same manner as the Doomsday Weapon from ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''.

** [[Dr. Strangelove]] herself is the obvious [[Shout-Out]] to the film of the same name, but Peace Walker itself functions in much the same manner as the Doomsday Weapon from ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''.

** What do some of the MSF soldiers want to do with the money they made in MSF for after leaving? [[Forrest Gump|become a Shrimper and have him and his friends buy themselves a big boat.]]

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Oh, yes. Wouldn't be a Metal Gear game without it. However, this is the second time you don't actually get to ''use'' cigarettes or a cigar in gameplay, the first being Portable Ops, where there was only one mention of a Cigar in the whole game.

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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Kaz, just like Roy in ''MPO'', is a blond-haired womanizing combat buddy of Naked Snake who becomes his second-in-command throughout the course of the game.

* [[The Mutiny]]: {{spoiler|What ended up happening when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, under Naked Snake's advice, decided to call off the retaliatory strike due to the realization that the nukes are fake.}}

* [[Unstable Equilibrium]]: In true form for a ''[[Metal Gear]]'' game, going for [[Hundred Percent Completion]] after the end of the game gets you many, many [[Game Breaker]] items along the way.

* [[Unstable Equilibrium]]: In true form for a ''[[Metal Gear]]'' game, going for [[Hundred-Percent Completion]] after the end of the game gets you many, many [[Game Breaker]] items along the way.

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: The console release as part of ''Metal Gear Solid HD Collection'' in the United States, as well as the Japanese-only ''Peace Walker HD'', both of which feature redone controls with extremely minor graphics changes.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Big Boss. While most games had the player being manipulated by at least one organization, this one takes the cake with Big Boss, and several of the characters in some way or another, being manipulated by ''three'' organizations.

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* [[You're Insane!]]: Miller's reaction to Coldman when {{spoiler|the latter managed to activate Peace Walker and nearly drove the world into an all-out nuclear war in his attempt to make retaliation inevitable}}.

** Amanda also has this reaction when she realizes that the Peace Sentinels are actually continuing the drug trafficking route they originally used and were turning their own country, America, into junkies.

* [[V Sign]]: The [[Arc Words|V-sign.]] Also used in a [[Stealth Insult]] by Zadornov towards Snake, twice - palm-inwards is the equivalent of giving someone the middle finger in Britain and Australia.

* [["V" Sign]]: The [[Arc Words|V-sign.]] Also used in a [[Stealth Insult]] by Zadornov towards Snake, twice - palm-inwards is the equivalent of giving someone the middle finger in Britain and Australia.

* [[Vocaloid]]: Used to voice all the first-stage Cypher bosses. Players could, with a lot of effort, make their own songs and sayings for the Cyphers to say during battles.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: It is heavily implied that Amanda and Chico's father, the former leader of the Sandinistas, ended up killed by the Peace Sentinels when the latter infiltrated Costa Rica.