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'''''Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops''''', released in 2006 for the [[
Set six years after the events of ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', the game explains how Big Boss formed FOXHOUND.
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Note: While this game is canon, it is considered an [[Obvious Beta]]. ''Portable Ops'' was succeeded by ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker]]''.
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* [[A Father to His Men]]: Snake plays this straight, and the [[Big Bad]] does a twisted parody of this.▼
* [[And I Must Scream]]: In the mission where Snake has to do reconnaissance at the Soviet Patrol Base and recover a launch schedule for a stolen American weapon, eavesdropping on the Soviet officer will have him state his fear and desire to flee, but finding himself unable to before questioning what is the power Gene possessed, implying that Gene's [[Compelling Voice]] also leaves the soldiers fully aware of emotions such as fear, but completely incapable to reacting to said emotions via methods like fleeing from the peninsula.
* [[Art Shift]]: The cutscenes are
* [[Badass]]: A lot of the gameplay revolves around this trope, and in universe, Snake's reputation for this allows him to found his own army against Gene.
** [[Badass Abnormal]]: Python (Due to being [[An Ice Person]]). Ursula (due to [[Psychic Powers]])
** [[Badass Army]]: Practically the whole point of the game is to [[Start My Own|start your own]].
** [[Badass Pacifist]]: Elisa
** [[Badass Labcoat]]:
** [[Badass Longcoat]]: Gene
** [[Four-Star Badass]]: Snake and Gene.
** [[Handicapped Badass]]: Cunningham.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In an optional radio conversation with EVA in [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]], she will state that Raikov possessed a weak stomach despite being a big eater, which acted as the reason why he often goes to the bathroom. When recruiting him in Portable Ops, the location you find him at is right in front of a urinal in his cell.
* [[Clear My Name]]: The reason why Naked Snake had to participate in the events of the game in the first place. To put it simply, the US Government thought that Naked Snake was involved in the FOX rebellion because the person who caused it had similar abilities to Snake. {{spoiler|the direct instigator was Gene.}}
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: In one of Snake's codec calls to Para-Medic, after she explained to him about the lost city of Gold, El Dorado, and similar locations in South America, including Golden Knives, Snake expressed interest in the Golden Knife part... as he would use it to distract the enemy with CQC, causing Para-Medic to
* [[Continuity Nod]]: An optional radio call with Roy Campbell has Snake explaining to Campbell when he is asked about The Boss that she was a true patriot who died for her country, referring to EVA's debriefing tape.
** Similarly, EVA herself and her MIA fate is referenced (although not by name) by Campbell and Snake in an optional radio call.
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* [[Fake Defector]]: Subverted with the FOX Unit. The CIA intended to have the FOX Unit fake defection to the Soviet Union so they could supply the ICBMG to the Soviets and thus have the CIA maintain all the power it gained during the [[Cold War]]. However, this plot was undone by the Pentagon (of whom {{spoiler|Cunningham}} was a plant to), where FOX was to launch the ICBMG at Soviet Russia in order to tarnish the CIA's reputation. It's even further subverted when Gene intended to nuke America with the ICBMG. See [[Gambit Pileup]] below.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Big Boss does wind up naked at one point, but the circumstances and art style drain all the possible [[Fan Service]] out of the moment.
▲* [[A Father to His Men]]: Snake plays this straight, and the [[Big Bad]] does a twisted parody of this.
* [[Flag Bikini]]: Kind of: The European Versions of Portable Ops and especially Portable Ops Plus have soldiers who wear uniforms that are designed to resemble the flag of each respective country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Finland, and the Netherlands.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Gene's speech as well as Elisa's precognition. See [[Harsher in Hindsight]] for the former.
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** However, it is to be noted that unlike most Gaiden games, Portable Ops was also heavily referenced via the speeches of EVA, Liquid Ocelot, and {{spoiler|Big Boss}} (the latter via flashback) from the use of stills from that game.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: {{spoiler|The CIA, the Pentagon, Gene are all running [[The Plan]] against each other, with Snake/Big Boss serving as the [[Spanner in the Works]].}}
** {{spoiler|And Ocelot is using all the above, Snake included, to fulfill his own
*** {{spoiler|And Zero is in turn using him to take out the Philosophers and found the Patriots in the Boss' memory.}}
* [[Groin Attack]]: Cunningham places his artificial leg directly on Naked Snake's groin when attempting to extract info from Naked Snake as to where he took the other half of the Philosopher's Legacy.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Elisa definitely qualifies. Heck, she does it both times (although one time was completely against her will, {{spoiler|as Gene was starting to forcibly awaken her other personality half.}}), and later does it with {{spoiler|her other half}}/twin sister. Raikov also technically counts, namely in regards to allying with Naked Snake (in the last game he appeared in, he was an enemy. Of course, considering what Naked Snake did in Metal Gear Solid 3, he probably does still view him as his enemy, and probably would fight against him [[Enemy Mine|had it not been for the fact that they had a common enemy]]), though also due to the fact that he wished to redeem himself in the Soviet Army's eyes (they exiled him to the San Hieronymo Peninsula due to the fact that he abused Soviet Soldiers, as well as Volgin's death).
** Python has a [[Heel Face Turn]] if he is fought non-lethally in the battle with him.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Two. Both are [[Tear Jerker|Tearjerkers]].
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Big Boss is still uncomfortable with the title of Big Boss at the beginning and still insists on being called Snake, but by the end of the game, it becomes something of a term of endearment by his men, which is fully realized in the sequel.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Big Boss aided the Soviet soldiers in their time of need, especially when it became apparent that Gene was seemingly going to launch a nuke at Russia. The Soviet soldiers repaid Big Boss handsomely by {{spoiler|helping him destroy the ICBMG before it could be launched into America.}}
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Cunningham laughs rather insanely {{spoiler|when trying to use his
** Also, Skowronski really begins to lose it after Big Boss met him, causing Big Boss to shoot the lock out of his cage to spare him of his desperate rantings and manic laughter.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: The ICBMG combines the best of the Cruise (pinpoint accuracy in hitting the targets) and Ballistic variants (virtually impossible to intercept once launched) of Nuclear Missiles, and has none of the worst aspects.
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* [[Mega Manning]]: Variation: Defeating the boss characters under certain circumstances (and especially via draining their stamina for most of them) results in the bosses being recruited to your side, which also means that you can use their weapons (take note, however, that their weapons are usable only by them). Python just needs stamina depletion to join. Null requires beating him twice and doing a new save file (and unlike most boss characters, it doesn't require stamina-kills), Cunningham requires both stamina depletion AND battling him before January 1st, 1971, and Gene requires that you stamina deplete him and have recruited 200 soldiers under your belt. In order, their exclusive weapons that can be used only by them are LN (Liquid Nitrogen) grenade, Machete, Laser (from his flying platform), and Bowie Infinity knives.
* [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]]: {{spoiler|Cunningham's}} reasons for {{spoiler|defecting from the CIA to the Pentagon, and thus trying to have FOX and Gene launch a nuke against Russia, as well as presumably wipe out both FOX and the Russians on the peninsula with a Soviet Davy Crockett}}, stemmed from the fact that the CIA pretty much forced him into a desk job after he ended up having his leg amputated, and it is also implied that their role in The Boss's defection also had him similarly sore with the government group he worked for.
** Also the real reason why the Soviet soldiers are serving Gene and FOX after they usurped the command chain even though they obviously don't completely trust either him or his unit (Not Brainwashing): The Soviet personnel, despite working in harsh conditions and losing many of their men either to Malaria or during their allied battles with FARC against the Colombian government, and having little food and laboring under intense weather all so they could accomplish their mission directives for the Soviet government, and weren't even allowed to tell their families due to its top secret nature, ended up being cast aside (in Jonathan's words, "stabbin [the personnel] in the back!") after a regime change and the SALT talks between Brezhnev and Nixon, with all communications and supply transports either being cut or diverted, and they were forced to remain on the peninsula instead of returning back to Russia so that in the event the missile base was discovered, the Soviets would come up with the "convenient" coverstory of it being done by [[Renegade Russians]].
* [[No Hero to His Valet]]: Roy Campbell has a brief moment of feeling like this when he first meets Big Boss.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The last mission that Snake and Python had together essentially amounted to this: Nothing much is actually revealed other than it taking place in Vietnam (presumably north Vietnam), it
** Given the history and what was going on around that time period (as well as Cunningham's reference to the CIA operations in North Vietnam), it can be assumed that it was in reference to the Civilian Irregular Defense Groups project.
* [[No Smoking]]: Despite Naked Snake/Big Boss having a thing for Cigars, Snake does not smoke even once in this game. He does, however, briefly mention wanting a Cigar to Ocelot during the recruitment mission for him late in the game.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Cunningham's reaction when he realizes, {{spoiler|while threatening Snake and his men to make Snake reveal where he knew where he hid the other half of the Philosophers' Legacy (something Snake genuinely doesn't even know, as he never had it), that he implied that he was actually working for the Pentagon and that they were involved in the mission as well}}.
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'''Snake:''' [[Parrot Exposition|The Pentagon?!]]<br />
''(Cunningham gapes at the realization of what he said)'' }}
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: You can unlock secret characters ({{spoiler|namely Teliko, Venus, and Zero}}) for a second
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Apparently, Gene generated mind shielding to prevent even Ursula from reading in what his true plans were, and only let it down when it seemed as though she died, presumably to avoid the risk of her revolting. The fact that he would do this to prevent her from revolting despite his demonstrating that he is more than capable of defeating her anyways due to his speed if they did end up fighting implies that he may not have wished to kill her.
* [[Plot Twist]]: Although it has several twists left and right, arguably the biggest one to deserve a mention on here is {{spoiler|Volgin launching a nuke towards the Sokolov Research Facility being revealed to have been intended all along by a single deviously cunning strategist, whose identity is revealed in ''Peace Walker''}}.
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* [[Start of Darkness]]: Here's where Big Boss's disillusionment with the shabby and disgusting treatment of soldiers by their ungrateful governments really starts to solidify.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Jonathan does this with Big Boss when the latter is fired at during a mass-hysteria riot incited by Gene, resulting in both a chest and a head wound, making his death inevitable.}}
* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|Cunningham attempts to do this to Naked Snake after the latter defeated him and refused his offer to get on the chopper to go home to allow the Pentagon to continue their conspiracy... by attempting to [[
* [[The Rival]]: Gene sees Snake as one.
* [[Timed Mission]]: Towards the end, when you are infiltrating the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]].
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* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Subverted. The San Hieronymo Pennisula exists in the real world, and a map is in-game to show you where.
** It's the Magdalena River basin in Colombia, for those interested.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Averted. At one point, scaffolding fell down, with Gene and Ursula having predicted that it would collapse and promptly warning Cunningham to stay still. The soldier apologizes for the blunder. Gene's response is to tell him to stand still, as well as demand that medics arrive to retrieve him due to the soldier's wounded status, and then promptly apologize (in his hypnotic voice) for working the soldiers too hard.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Gene has his men commit mass-riot suicide at the assembly plant after the ICBMG is completed.}}
* [[You Monster!]]: Skowronski calls Python this after his attempt to kill Python failed due to Python's ice abilities. Python did not react well to the statement ("You try to kill a man, and then call him "monster?" Such crude behavior!" ''(proceeds to freeze Skowronski's gun, and his arm in the process.)'')
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