Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: Difference between revisions

Ten years have passed since Operation Snake Eater and Big Boss has created his army, the Militaires Sans Frontières. He is approached by representatives from Costa Rica requesting they support their government and push out a mysterious armed force occupying the region. Kazuhira Miller encourages Big Boss to send the MSF to protect these clients; however, Big Boss is initially reluctant of this offer until one of the representatives presents Big Boss with a tape that contains a recording of interest to him, along with a complimentary Sony Walkman. Six days later, the MSF move into action.

Warning: This game may make you want to visit [[Useful Notes/Costa Rica|Costa Rica]].

Not to be confused with ''[[Metal Walker]]''.

** Battle Cries provide varying effects that can help your team or yourself in some fashion, but using a Battle Cry means you won't get a S Rank. Ditto the Sidekick skill, though it applies only in CO-OPS play.

* [[Backstory]]: The Data Files provide large amounts of this, including two different retellings of the same sequence of events by different people. Unusually, most of these are revealed only after the A-Plot is resolved.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Played straighter here than any other point in the Metal Gear timeline; Peace Walker has a complete absence of supernaturally empowered human boss characters, and a random soldier or Big Boss must take down gigantic mecha... several times... by himself. Even lampshaded by Kaz during the fight with the Cocoon - "If anyone can do it, it's you, Boss!"

** In hindsight, this is almost a 'slap in the face' to the claim in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' that Big Boss' reputation was wildly exaggerated, and exploited for the purpose of creating a hero for the masses. At the point where he {{spoiler|single-handedly storms...and defeats...the secret U.S. base in Nicaragua}}, and ''Heaven's Divide'' begins playing, [[Manly Tears]] threaten to flow.

** 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.

* [[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).

* [[Colossus Climb]]: The "Cocoon" AI weapon is so huge and so covered in guns that you can --and must-- climb all over it to get to its AI pod. The weapon appears to have been designed with this trait in mind--it's completely covered in gun turrets and missile launchers, and there is no place on it where you're safe. Even hiding underneath it isn't safe; it's got a long flexible robot arm with a chainsaw and machine gun to attack you there too, if it doesn't decide to just lower itself on you and squash you directly.

** {{spoiler|Coldman sent the Boss to her death, alluded to in Portable Ops.}}

** Kaz mentions at the end that eventually the Cold War will end, and then the focus would shift from anti-Communism to anti-terrorism, which would make mercenary companies even more in demand, pointing all the way towards MGS4, though he was more talking about the various merc organizations Big Boss leads.

** The Surround Indicator from Portable Ops/Portable Ops Plus returns as a usable item.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: Hideo Kojima is hiding inside one of the trucks next to the one that carried nukes. You peek in, he's just STANDING there. He gives a little wave and you hear the Fulton Balloon sound effect, indicating he's heading to your base. Stat wise, he ranks among the best in intel and medicine, isn't too shabby at R&D, but is a mediocre cook, and has THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM when it comes to combat stats.

** Did we mention that you also get to fight an organic version of Metal Gear Rex?

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: When Snake is caught by the Peace Sentinels, and they attempt to arrest him, he manages to easily defeat six soldiers, two of which he ended up forcing another soldier to shoot at his own allies and snatch Strangelove's ID badge before being restrained.

** Similarly, if the player fires an M47 at one of the vehicles (specificaly the LAV-typeG at Bananal Fruta de Oro in Main Ops), the escorts will duck and cover and yell "We surrender!" as it is destroyed.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|After fighting Big Boss on top of Mother Base, Paz gets blown off Metal Gear Zeke into the ocean below. Only time can tell whether this turns into another [[Disney Death|Disney-related trope.]] Big Boss himself points out that she was wearing scuba equipment at the time she was thrown out of ZEKE when he comforts Chico in a post-game Briefing File.}}

{{quote| '''Kaz:''' "Finally, we can leave all that crap in San Hieronymo behind."}}

** Then again, while not a direct reference to the events of Portable Ops, {{spoiler|Snake mentioned to Strangelove, when she apologized for the torture earlier, that "he's used to shock therapy"}} which indicates that he had electrocution-based torture more than once prior to Strangelove doing it, which is with Volgin and Cunningham (the latter of whom used a stun baton on Snake twice when interrogating Snake about the other half of the Legacy's location in the beginning of the game.)

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Cocoon, Pupa and Chrysalis hum an eerily-somber tune while slaughtering/capturing innocent civilians or blowing stuff up.

** Players will most likely go through a cycle of [[Hell Is That Noise]], to [[Nightmare Fuel]], to [[Most Annoying Sound]], to [[Paranoia Fuel]] when the score ups the strains of it.

** Not to mention {{spoiler|Big Boss is going to be murdered by his own son, then rendered comatose and used as a immortal icon by Zero.}}

** Also {{spoiler|Miller will help said son, Solid Snake, take down Big Boss in the future and then be killed and impersonated by his other son, Liquid.}}

** Enemy placement is ''never'' randomized, unlike Portable Ops and its expansion, which at least had the wonder of randomizing pre-set search patterns.

** You also need to repeat the same missions over and over while you wait for your R&D team to stop lounging around and work on your freaking '''weapon upgrades.''' Ditto if you're getting weapon details from Outer Ops.

** You thought fighting the AI weapons plus Peace Walker were fun? You won't after fighting them about a thousand times just to get their parts or all of their AI chips (which gets progressively more annoying to get when you have most of them and end up having to gain repeats).

* [[Fake Nationality]]: British-born [[Robin Atkin Downes]] voices the Japanese Kazuhira Miller.

** Big Boss has traded in his knife for a stun rod since the last game; no more throat-slitting for him! That didn't stop the Peace Sentinels or KGB soldiers from using knives in close quarters when Big Boss or an MSF soldier is caught/raised an alert, however...

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Strangelove (pre-Chapter 4) was evidentially of this trope. However, {{spoiler|Paz/Pacifica Ocean}} qualifies for the entire game, in a way that would shock a lot of players when this is found out.

* [[Flashback Echo]]: {{spoiler|The Boss's horse must be euthanised by the player in a manner similar to that of The Boss.}}

* [[Flash Step]]: The flying "Chrysalis" weapon is able to dodge missiles while in attack mode. If you don't have something that can lock on, you're not going to hit it very much.

** Averted in the case of your own group, the Militaires Sans Frontieres. They actually proved themselves to be quite capable soldiers, and when Zadornov escaped custody the first time and was recaptured the first time, they immediately removed his prosthetic hand in order to ensure that he doesn't try to use it to escape again. It didn't quite work, but then again, that's mainly because of {{spoiler|Paz's}} actions, a person who not even Big Boss suspected as being a spy.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Good luck finding out everything there is to find out about this game on your own. You need to beat certain missions to unlock other missions (ones with highly desirable weapon schematics, like a railgun) but the official strategy guide doesn't explain which unlocks which. Some missions also must be defeated with an "S" rank (meaning no kills, no alerts, and pretty much speeding through as fast as possible) to unlock a few weapon schematics, and the Extra Ops where you collect weapon schematics actually don't unlock them. On that note, good luck trying to get any codenames for yourself, as the game does not tally the amount of weapons one uses or even weapon range, and the guide doesn't elaborate further on exactly how to unlock them.

** Getting parts for Zeke. Most people don't know how to get them (you must leave the part you want either completely undamaged, or rather, you CAN damage it, but any parts below 90% health gives you a ''very'' low chance of getting the parts -- and some require ''no damage at all,'' very hard with the AI weapons that move around a lot, and even ''then'', it is still very much of a small chance of actually getting the parts even ''if'' you don't damage them at all).

* [[Hand Cannon]]: The M19, which [[Blown Across the Room|knocks enemies down enemies]]. Bonus points for the second and third levels of it, adding a longer barrel and a massive laser sight. Also, the Kampfpistol, a converted Nazi flare gun that shoots grenades.

* [[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!]]:

** 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).

*** In English, Miller's voiced by... no, not Cam Clarke, but Robin Atkin Downes, aka [[No More Heroes|Travis Touchdown]]. His delivery is pretty darn similar to Cam Clarke's Miller, though. There's also some [[Fridge Brilliance]] in not casting Cam Clarke: {{spoiler|Cam Clarke never voiced Miller himself, but an imposter ''posing'' as Miller.}}

** Chico is voiced by [[Kikuko Inoue]], who voiced Jaime Seed in ''[[Snatcher]]'', Karen Hojo in ''[[Policenauts]]'', The Boss in ''Snake Eater'' and Rosemary in ''Sons of Liberty.'' And since [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Cute Shotaro Boys]] are not her usual forte, this counts as playing against type.

** Hot Coldman is voiced by the same voice actor as Sigma from the Mega Man X series in the Japanese Version. In America, he is voiced by H. Richard Greene (AKA, Congressman Robert Royce from The West Wing)

** And [[Romi Paku|Amanda]] sounding like [[Naruto|Temari]] or [[Nana|Nana Osaki]].

** Donna Burke, the singer who sings "Heaven's Divide" is the voice of [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Raising Heart.]]

** Ramon Galvez Mena/{{spoiler|Vladimir Alexandrovich Zadornov}} is voiced in the Japanese version by [[The Matrix|Agent Smith]].

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Hinted to be one of Coldman's beliefs due to the tattoo on the back on his head depicting a wolfman holding a peace symbol also including the phrase "Homo Homini Lupus", which is a latin phrase that translates to "Man is a wolf to [his fellow] man", although this also may be a form of [[Lampshading]] on his part about his characterization as an unrepentent [[Complete Monster]]. In addition, Paz hints that humans are naturally inclined to battle each other and thus be absolute jerks towards one another, both in her Peace-loving act and {{spoiler|in her true self}}.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Even by [[Metal Gear]] standards this game is saturated. {{spoiler|"Huey" Emmerich has developed four prototypes for the Peace Walker deterrent system, each designed with a significantly different motor-control systems and armaments. He also develops a fifth for Big Boss, bringing the total to five.}}

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Big Boss finds himself holding it when first meeting Dr. Strangelove, who emotionally gets a rise out of him. He even admits it later that "she played <nowiki>[him]</nowiki> like a piano."

* [[Instrument of Murder]]: The AI Weapons are primitive [[Vocaloid|Vocaloids]] put into big, heavily-armed tanks.

*** 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.

** 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.

** In one of EVA's tapes regarding The Boss's secret mission that resulted in her abandoning Snake (which, prior to the release of ''Peace Walker'', [[Noodle Incident|had not been elaborated on]]), she mentioned that one of her moles for America that was within the Soviet Union ended up falsifying documents for NASA which The Boss noticed. It's later revealed he defected to the Soviet Union, although what shocked The Boss more was why he defected: The CIA pocketed a majority of his paycheck and giving him a tiny percent despite risking his ''life'' trying to get the intel, and so defected completely to the Soviet Union.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Source of the "controversial" "Vic Boss" "joke".

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Around the time of the main villain's death, {{spoiler|the doomsday weapon ends up being activated and is going to fire a nuke at its programmed targets, thus forcing the main character to fight it within a time limit?}} [[Snakes Revenge|Now where have we seen this before?]]

* [[No Body Left Behind]]: Subverted and played straight; dying, unconscious or stunned guard soldiers remain on the ground so the player can use the [[Enemy Mine|Fulton Surface-To-Air Recovery System]] on them, while dead soldiers disappear after a few seconds, presumably so the player doesn't accidentally use a balloon on them. On alert or elimination missions, stunned or sleeping enemies disappear after a few moments with a non-lethal blue version of the "near death" skull.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: It wouldn't be a Metal Gear Solid game otherwise. This one gets down to business immediately; we start off with a drill instructor angrily shouting at the troops (and the player, since Big Boss is joining the training exercise) that we need to press the X button to change stances, tap the X button to crouch, and keep it held to lie down. "DON'T FORGET IT!"

** However it does undermine the [[Running Gag]] of MSF soldiers referring to Big Boss as "Vic Boss", as some interpret this joke infers that they are mispronouncing the first "B" in his name due to their having South American accents. Which they don't have. Whether this joke is inferred to be due to translation convention, a joke on the part of BB's men or something else entirely [[Your Mileage May Vary|is quite contested among fans.]]

** Many think it's short for "Victory Boss". He still doesn't like being called Big Boss at this point, and prefers that if they insist on calling him something besides Snake it be this. Think about the dialogue at the beginning, it makes it pretty obvious:

The Player: ''Oh crap oh crap oh crap!!'' }}

*** Hope you're fast enough to do enough damage to Peace Walker in time. If you're not, and the nuke launches, Snake will have this ''exact'' expression on his face.

* [[Omniglot]]: Big Boss, aside from knowing Russian and English, is shown to be fluent in French (he says a phrase in French to attempt to calm Cecile Cosima Caminandes down when meeting her), and both Big Boss and Kazuhira Miller are implied to be, if not fluent, at least knowledgeable in Spanish (Big Boss uses various spanish phrases when communicating with the Nicaraguans, he also mentioned that Miller was gifted in Spanish in a briefing tape regarding how they met, and the motto for Militaires Sans Frontieres during their operations in Colombia was "Liberte O Muerte", which is Spanish for "[Give me] liberty, or [give me] death"), and the latter of the two is good at speaking both Japanese and English (the former being his native tongue). Big Boss, in a briefing tape with Chico regarding Trenya, also implies that he subconsciously learned how to speak cat. Aside from knowing Russian and presumably English, Vladimir Zadornov is also implied to know Spanish, as well (he uses various spanish words when talking, and it is implied that he was the one who directly recruited the FSLN), as is Paz/{{spoiler|Pacifica}}, who spoke with various spanish phrases and English, and it is implied that she is capable of speaking Russian as well (when {{spoiler|unveiling her true colors}}, Paz is speaking in a distinctly Russian accent).

* [[On Site Procurement]]: Surprisingly averted in regards to the weapons and most of your equipment, considering the fact that the [[Metal Gear]] series was the [[Trope Namer]]. You actually have to gain design specs and create weapons and most of your equipment from scratch after gaining the design specs (some of which [[Guide Dang It|are also extremely]] [[Fake Longevity|annoying to get]]). Rations and ammo (sometimes ammo that belongs to weapons you have yet to develop [IE, Railgun Ammo]) are played straight, however.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Not a human character, but Peace Walker transforms from a biped to a quadruped after beating it at the mine base. It should be noted that this is the closest [[Metal Gear]] has ever canonically gone to invoking the trope. The series overall, however, had Big Boss going [[One-Winged Angel]] in the non-canonical [[Snakes Revenge]].

* [[One-Woman Wail]]: The AI Weapons in ''Peace Walker'' all ''sing'' an eerie, haunting song even as they attack you. Cecile also implies that the AI Weapons (barring Peace Walker) used Strangelove's voice.

* [[Pacifist Run]]: A heck of a lot easier to attempt than in previous MGS games, simply because the game is broken up into bite-sized missions. So you can S-Rank one or two missions here or there, and get back to the ones where you were forced to take lethal action later, aided by non-lethal weapons you've collected and developed since the last time.

* [[Power Floats]]: Sort of. Chrysalis was designed to be a VTOL, but it rarely, if ever, lands (although Negishi revealed that it was originally intended to land in-game), making the only way for it to meet ground is to forcibly introduce Chrysalis to it.

* [[Press X to Not Die]]: Some of the cutscenes include quick-time events; however, this will not result in a [[Game Over]] and will simply replay that part of the cutscene over again.

* [[Private Military Contractors]]: How Outer Heaven came to be from Militaires Sans Frontières.

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: While there isn't a cohesive unit to provide the MGS-staple of batshit insane bosses, the nearest thing would be the unmanned AI weapons. They come bristling with [[More Dakka]] and [[Calling Your Attacks|chirp out]] their attacks in either an increasingly calm female computer voice ( {{spoiler|which takes on an angry tone when facing the Custom models}}) or an eerie tune.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Invoked with a DLC uniform called the Pink Uniform. Invoked ''twice'' in the Japanese version, with the [[Arakawa Under the Bridge|Maria]] t-shirt.

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: A flaregun that fires miniature grenades as its primary ammo couldn't possibly be real...wait, such a weapon existed in World War II?

* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: One of Paz's diary tapes indicated that the MSF, when holding birthday parties every month, often had very crude behavior at the parties. For one thing, when Kazuhira Miller attempted to do shield Paz from the crude atmosphere at the party, he ended up getting drunk enough to moon the attendees of the party and claiming that they should see the real Kazuhira Miller, causing them to laugh quite a bit.

* [[Rocket Punch]]: {{spoiler|Vladamir/Galvez}} tries this in the endgame. It's not very effective, but it does give Big Boss a free cigarette lighter, which he's been looking for the whole game.

* [[Rubber Band AI]]: A form of it: The better you've built Metal Gear ZEKE, {{spoiler|the more formidable it is as an opponent}}.

* [[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.}}

* [[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."

** Snake and his soldiers can perform the Leap of Faith from [[Assassin's Creed]], with purposefully inaccurate history lessons over the radio telling of how piles of straw were used by assassins of the Third Crusade.

** 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]].

* [[Sword of Damocles]]: Peace Walker, built on the idea that since humans don't have the will to wipe out humanity themselves, will launch nuclear retaliation automatically. The "perfect deterrent".

* [[Take That]]: Big Boss gives a subtle one towards the student movements in Japan and the Hippie movement in America when talking with Cecile about the success of France's student movement.

** That's not all Peace Walker does, either. For instance, as its second-most dangerous ability (barring the aforementioned NORAD thing), and its most dangerous physical weapon, the titular mechanoid was mentioned in the briefing tapes to have a hydrogen bomb equipped on it (specifically that huge, death-star esque sphere that acts as its "head") that has a vastly higher explosive yield than even the Tsar Bomba (the biggest nuke in existence). The reason why it has it? It is so that, if it is required to go into enemy territory and if needs be, it can simply waltz into the enemy nation and self destruct.

** It also borderlines Fridge Horror and High Octane Nightmare Fuel when you take both this and Coldman's plan of mass producing Peace Walker and placing them all over Central America: If he or some other madman sees fit, he could easily blow away Central America from the face of the Earth by having the various models self-destruct.

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: The Metal Gear Solid games of the past averted this, but this one averts it harder than all those before it. Paz pleads with you to try to spare the lives of the enemies gunning for you, and your rank goes down if you kill an enemy or leave an injured enemy to die. A mortally wounded enemy may be rescued by another one who injects him with life-saving medicine and gratefully says "You saved my life!" Not to mention, every enemy you spare is a potential recruit.

** They've also got their own hopes and dreams... or arguments about Santa existing... or bug catching... or trying to hit on Big Boss... or being creepy...

** It's implied in Paz's diary tapes that she was working on Mother Base as a chef. In addition, she also had a somewhat strained relationship with Kazuhira Miller, apparently reaching its breaking point when Miller, trying to emulate French customs in what is evidentially a method to impress Cecile, obliviously picked the absolute worst year of French wine to stock Mother Base with. Also, one of Cecile's briefing files (specifically the one relating to her role on Mother Base) heavily implied that Big Boss assigned her to be a scout due to her experience as a birdwatcher being very similar to the standard operating procedure of scouts.

*** Justified in that they became members of FOXHOUND at the end of [[Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops]]. It's possible that some of them went with him when he left (thus, forming the MSF), but many others stayed, including Campbell, Null et al.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: {{spoiler|Mammal Pod is full of butterflies! Which become the pale petals of Rokovoj Bereg! The final butterfly becomes a peace symbol upon contact with water! Hideo Kojima is a genius stop looking confused!}}