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'''[[Mission Control|Campbell:]]''' As usual, this is a [[One-Man Army|one-man infiltration mission]].
'''Snake:''' [[With This Herring|Weapons and equipment]] [[No-Gear Level|OSP?]]<ref>([[On Site Procurement]])</ref
'''Campbell:''' Yes. This is a top-secret black op. Don't expect any official support. }}
'''''Metal Gear Solid''''', considered [[Your Mileage May Vary|by some]] to be one of the greatest games on the [[
[[More Popular Spinoff|To many players' surprise]], [[Sequel Displacement|it is not the first game]] in the popular ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series: Its predecessors were never released in America, aside from the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] version of the original game, ''[[Metal Gear
Basic plot summary: Six years have passed since [[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake|the fall of]] [[Ruritania|Zanzibar Land]] and [[Posthumous Character|the death]] of [[Evil Overlord|Big Boss]]. [[The Hero|Solid Snake]], haunted by the death of both Big Boss -- [[Luke, I Am Your Father|who claimed to be his father]] -- and best friend [[Friendly Enemy|Gray
This time, the United States is being held hostage by FOXHOUND itself, which has gone rogue and is being lead by a man who not only [[Evil Twin|looks uncannily like Snake]], but is himself called "[[Meaningful Name|Liquid Snake]]". Naturally, Snake's the only one who can stop his deranged doppelgänger and the [[Five-Bad Band]] working for him. What follows is a game that [[No Fourth Wall|loves to break the fourth wall]] while also telling a surprisingly compelling and serious story about war, morality, and nuclear proliferation.
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The game later received a remake for the [[Game Cube]] in 2004 titled ''Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes''. '''Tropes specifically for the remake go on the bottom of the page.'''
The game's story has also been adapted into a graphic novel written by Kris Oprisko, with stylized, sketchy artwork by Ashley Wood that deliberately imitates Yoji Shinkawa's concept art for the game, and the graphic novel itself has been released in a semi-interactive format as ''Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel'' on the [[
A [[Live Action Adaptation|film version]] has been [[Development Hell|stuck in limbo for several years]], but [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808372/ it might be released 2012]. And it ''[[Jossed|won't]]'' be directed by Uwe Boll.
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Note: this page is for the original PS1 game and its ports and remakes (including ''The Twin Snakes'' for the GameCube). For the [[Game Boy]] version (which is technically a separate game), see ''[[Metal Gear Ghost Babel]]''. For the rest of the series, see the main ''Metal Gear'' page.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Jossed with: The English version had Liquid mentioning that he wanted revenge on Big Boss because the latter emotionally abused him by claiming that he was always the weaker one, and yet the original Japanese script, the Twin Snakes, and the in-game novel in Metal Gear Solid 2 claimed that his reason for wanting revenge is because he thought Big Boss deliberately chose him to be inferior before birth. That's also not getting into the more recent information that revealed that not only did Big Boss not initially know about the project, but he quit the Patriots as soon as he found out about it out of disgust.
* [[Action Duo]]: Snake and Meryl through most of the game. Also, Snake and Otacon in the final car chase {{spoiler|if you let Meryl die}}.
* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: Lots, sometimes in places that verge on being totally nonsensical. The most egregious of these is when Snake and Meryl stop to talk about love while, for all they know, a {{spoiler|nuclear strike is on its way to blow them up real good}}.
* [[Alertness Blink]]: '''!'''
* [[Alternate History]]: Not much attention is called to this fact since the game, when it came out, took place in the future, but the backstory already calls for several [[Ruritania|Ruritanias]] from the Cold War. Just about everything else can be explained away or are the usual sort of fictional liberties, but Zanzibar Land and Outer Heaven stick out.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Anyone who's passed 10th grade Biology knows that "recessive genes" doesn't mean "inferior genes". Arguably, this was the point--Liquid was raised to believe that he was inferior so that he would resent his brother. Still...you'd think someone smart enough to mastermind a terrorist uprising might find the time to crack open a science book every once in a while.
** It was less that he thought that recessive genes were inferior, but more that he thought Solid Snake was meant to be the better twin. This gave him a [[Understatement|major]] inferiority complex. Doesn't make him any less wrong.
** Liquid knew that "recessive" does not automatically mean "inferior"; [[It Makes Sense in Context]] and he is regarding himself as inferior because his so-called "soldier genes" are recessive (he thinks) whilst Snake's were not (they are).
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* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Snake, Meryl, the DARPA Chief and Kenneth Baker are all vindictively tortured by Ocelot. Ocelot is so enthusiastic about it that he accidentally kills the DARPA Chief. {{spoiler|Well, "accidentally".}}
* [[Copy Protection]]: Notably, the game requires the player to look on the back of the game case for a Codec frequency (Meryl's) that's required for the game to progress. However, since this frequency is identical for every game, it's not really copy protection so much as the game giving the bird to the [[Fourth Wall]]. That, and the game will simply add Meryl's frequency number to the Codec's memory window if the player calls Campbell more than four times.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This game is definitely darker than the [[MSX|MSX2]] games, even ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]''. For one thing, unlike the previous two, the main villains actually attempt to launch a nuclear strike via Metal Gear (previously, although TX-55 Metal Gear and Metal Gear D utilized nukes, Big Boss did not issue a nuclear threat or utilize a nuclear strike in either Outer Heaven or Zanzibar Land). Plus, ''Metal Gear Solid'' actually utilizes torture this time around (even in ''Metal Gear'', where Snake has to get himself locked up in order to find Gray Fox, he never actually experienced torture during that time).
* [[Death Seeker]]: Again, Cyborg Ninja, who just wants one last battle to the death with Solid Snake.
** And, to some extent, Sniper Wolf, who is waiting for someone to kill her.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "This is just like one of my Japanese animes!" It is probably a translation oversight. In Japan, ''anime'' does not refer specifically to Japanese animation.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Nearly everyone who has read about this game knows about the Psycho Mantis fight. What most don't know is that Kojima actually had a failsafe in the event that the intended solution could not be performed. If you were to get the Codec call giving you the solution and then die without performing it, calling Campbell will result in the failsafe kicking in and the backup plan going into effect, allowing you to still defeat Mantis without {{spoiler|having to get on a [[
* [[Difficulty by Region]]: The Japanese version only has two difficulty settings. The default one and an unlockable "No Radar" mode, which is just the same difficulty with the radar turned off. In the English version, the default Japanese mode became Easy mode, while the Normal and Hard modes (along with an unlockable "[[Harder Than Hard|Extreme]]" mode) were added. The ranks from the Japanese version of the game are used for Hard in the English version, while the "Big Boss" rank, achieveable only in No Radar mode in the Japanese version, is achievable only in Extreme in the English version.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|That can't be taken the wrong way at all,]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7UfgWYHiY Revolver Ocelot.]
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* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: {{spoiler|Ocelot just sort of disappears before the final battle with Liquid. However, it turned out that he wasn't really on Liquid's side during [[The Stinger]] and he had acquired the test data for Metal Gear REX, and had no more reason to stay.}}
** {{spoiler|Based on ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', he might actually have wanted Liquid to succeed, since their ultimate goals were similar (basically the same as Big Boss, against the Patriots and for a world of chaos), in which case he performed a [[Xanatos Gambit]] since even though Liquid lost, he still got what he needed. Plus you can argue that since he just had his hand cut off, he didn't fight Snake again because he really wasn't in any shape to do so, and not just because he had completed his secret mission.}}
* [[Dystopia Justifies the Means]]: Liquid's goal is to ignite global conflict and plunge the world into perpetual warfare so that soldiers will always have a place and nbe valued for who they are. (Outer) Heaven for soldiers, Hell for everybody else. And even most soldiers would probably be against this; it's really for those Rambo-types who know nothing ''but'' war and aren't really able to fit in anywhere else, and again only the most sociopathic of ''these'' would sacrifice the welfare of everyone else on the planet to sate their own bloodlust or quench their thirst for purpose.
* [[Final Speech]]: Oh so many.
* [[Fisticuffs Boss]]: Cyborg Ninja<ref>unless you use Chaff Grenades</ref> and Liquid Snake.
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* [[Five-Bad Band]] / [[Five-Token Band]]: FOXHOUND
** [[Big Bad]]: Liquid Snake
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* [[Get On With It Already]]: Compared to most games, ''Metal Gear Solid'' is this. In comparison to the other games in the series, however...
* [[Hand Cannon]]: Meryl's long-barreled Desert Eagle. [[Lampshading|Lampshaded]] by Snake, if while being somewhat chauvinistic.
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* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Delivered by Liquid to Snake, pointing out that he had only stuck to their current mission because they love the action and violence.
* [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: [[Discussed]] in the [[Novelization]], when Otacon insists that Sniper Wolf must be a good person because she likes dogs, Snake points out that Hitler, too, was a dog lover. Not a straight example because Snake (himself a regular musher) is merely refuting Otacon's claim as fallacious rather than demonizing dog ownership.
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* [[Implacable Man]]: Both Solid and Liquid Snake due to their status as genetically engineered super soldiers. Liquid however deserves special recognition for being shot down, having his Metal Gear blown up under him, beaten senseless, knocked over a forty foot drop, taking multiple gunshot wounds, a car crash and he STILL nearly kills Snake before FOXDIE kicks in... {{spoiler|and still survives in spirit thanks to Revolver Ocelot}}.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Revolver Ocelot, a villainous example. Though wielding a revolver (and never, ever using his other hand to steady it), he's got unerring accuracy, on-par with even Sniper Wolf. He can even ricochet bullets off of walls. When his right hand gets cut off, he just starts shooting with his left instead, without any perceptible drop in accuracy (although the GC version adds a scene where Ocelot tries to twirl his revolver in his left hand and drops it on the floor like a goof).
** Solid Snake is also able to cripple an
* [[Improbable Piloting Skills]]: Liquid shoots down two F-16 fighter jets... with a Hind-D.
* [[Infant Immortality|Cub Immortality]]: You can [[Shoot the Dog|kill every wolf]] in the canyon area just before Sniper Wolf, except the puppy at the very end who is enamoured with Meryl.
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* [[Minion Maracas]]: Solid Snake does this to Otacon while interrogating him about Metal Gear REX, assuming Otacon had full knowledge it was a "nuclear-equipped walking deathmobile" as Snake put it.
* [[Moon Logic Puzzle]]: Famously, Meryl's Codec number. Your only clue is that the number is on the back of the CD case (or, as Baker puts it in the GC version "the package"), and you have an item in your inventory that vaguely looks like one, leading many players to search for ways to examine the in-game disc to find the number, or searching high and low around the levels to find what CD case Baker was talking about. Of course, the number is actually printed [[No Fourth Wall|on the back of the actual game box]], where you can see Snake talking to Meryl in the Codec screen.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Whether or not the player succeed in the button mashing torture sequence decides if Meryl joins Snake in the ending scene (and grants the player the infinite bandana for their next playthrough). If the player gives up, Meryl dies, and Otacon joins them instead (giving the player his stealth camouflage). With Meryl appearing again in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Meryl's ending has been confirmed as the canonical one, although [[The Reveal]] from the alternate ending ({{spoiler|Meryl is actually Campbell's illegitimate daughter and not his niece, since he had an affair with his deceased brother's wife}}) is referenced in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]''.
* [[Mysterious Informant]]: {{spoiler|Gray Fox}}, going by the pseudonym "[[Meaningful Name|Deepthroat]]".
* [[New Game+]]: Starting a tradition in the series: Depending on which ending you get, you can start a second playthrough with either the stealth camouflage or the infinite bandana. Get both, and on your third playthrough Snake will be [[Badass in a Nice Suit|wearing a tuxedo]], while the Cyborg Ninja will be [[Shout-Out|recolored to resemble]] [[Spider-Man]].
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* [[Pacifist Run]]: While low kill runs are possible, this is the only ''Metal Gear Solid'' game where it's impossible to get ''no'' kills, since there's no mechanism for non-lethally dealing with bosses and several combat encounters can't be beaten without casualties.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: In an optional Codec call, Master Miller gives Snake advice on how to move silently on noisy surfaces by sneaking. Snake responds that he simply can't do it, ''because Snake doesn't have a sneaking move in the game to begin with''. This call was changed in the GC version to reflect the new control scheme.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Retroactively subverted. In ''Metal Gear Solid'', the player is led to assume that {{spoiler|all Liquid had to do to pass off as Master Miller was changing his accent slightly, wearing his hair slightly differently, and putting on shades, and Snake totally fell for it, with Liquid even taunting Snake about his "flawless" disguise (which Snake could still somehow see over his Codec)}}. However, in the re-released versions of ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'', Master Miller's portrait was updated to resemble {{spoiler|Liquid's disguise}}, and in ''Peace Walker'', not only do they have {{spoiler|Miller look almost exactly like Liquid with shades, they even had the voice actor for him voice him in a similar manner to how Liquid spoke when he posed as Miller.}}
* [[Parachute in a Tree]]: A parachute in a tree, sans passenger, is how Solid Snake can learn that Liquid is alive after his helicopter was blown up. Snake believes it was left there intentionally as a coded threat by Liquid.
* [[Passive Rescue]]: When Snake's captured, Otacon gives him some ketchup, which he can use to pretend to be dead and make Johnny Sasaki open the door to investigate.
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* [[Psycho for Hire]]: The majority of the FOXHOUND unit qualifies as such in addition to their [[Blood Knight]] status. To a lesser, but still notable, extent, Solid Snake himself qualifies, as Liquid Snake specifically told Solid Snake when atop Metal Gear REX's ruins that [[Hannibal Lecture|he, Snake, enjoys all the killing]], and Meryl mentioned something quite similar when they met in the bathroom (basically she deduced from Solid Snake's status that Solid Snake most likely felt alive when he saw everyone dying around him, that he enjoyed war and didn't want it to go away).
* [[Rape as Drama]]: [[Implied Trope|Implied]] near the end of the game:
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'''Snake:''' Torture?
'''Meryl:''' And things even worse than that. }}
* [[Recursive Import]]: The Japanese ''Integral'' version has the extra difficulty settings and English voice acting.
* [[Recurring Riff]]: Da-da da da-da! Although it's mostly just a [[Leitmotif]] for this game in particular, it proved popular enough to be used on [[Game Over]] screens for every game with ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' in the title since (except ''[[Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops|Portable Ops]]'').
* [[Rescue Introduction]]: Snake meeting Otacon when he rescues him from the Cyborg Ninja.
* [[Retcon]]: Solid Snake and Roy Campbell stated that Big Boss [[Luke, I Am Your Father|told Snake that he was his father]] back in Zanzibar Land, or at least implied it. This conversation was not in ''Metal Gear 2''.
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* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Solid Snake loves to smoke up so much, he was willing to smuggle his cigarettes onto the mission by [[Stomach of Holding|swallowing a whole pack and then regurgitating it]], after taking a shot that supressed his stomach acids (although Snake wasn't quite willing to go that far in the novelization, where he steals a pack of cigarettes on-site and spends the rest of the book complaining about the flavor). He can even use them to detect laser traps.
* [[Sympathetic Murder Backstory]]: Snake is tormented by {{spoiler|his murder of Big Boss and especially Gray Fox.}} Significantly, it's when he describes to Naomi how {{spoiler|his murder of Gray Fox}} was done with professionalism and with no hatred, and that they loved beating each other to death ("like a sport"), that Naomi begins to realize that Snake is an [[Anti-Hero]] rather than a villain.
* [[Traumatic Superpower Awakening]]: Psycho Mantis had his powers fully awaken after he accidentally read his father's mind and thought his father would kill him, resulting in the destruction of his entire village.
* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: More than one. Like everything else in the series, it gets complicated.
* [[Truth in Television]]: Psycho Mantis was recruited by the KGB and the FBI during the Cold War due to his psychic abilities. In real life, during the Cold War, both the East and the West were studying psychic abilities, and the FBI has been known to consult psychics for its harder to solve cases.
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Liquid barely qualifies, as his main motivation for his actions against the United States Government is that he wants soldiers to truly be respected and not be tools to be disposed of by the government via hypocritical political policies, and he needed Big Boss's remains to cure the Genome soldiers as they are succumbing to an unknown illness.
** Also, Ocelot. His main motivation for wanting a world filled with strife is explained as him wanting people to have the ability to actually voice their true emotions and viewpoints, something he knows the current age forbids. The fact that {{spoiler|Liquid Ocelot}} states something similar in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' implies that for once, he actually was being honest about his goals that time. This explaination requires a lot of work and luck to get, though, as it can only be accessed after surviving the third torture round.
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: The entire third act. Everything after you beat Raven is pretty much a twist out of nowhere.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Nastasha Romanenko.
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Somewhat conspicuously, both the cinematics and music were completely redone, with mixed results. While the new soundtrack is sometimes considered to be superior to the original, the new cinematics have often been derided for their over-the-top (even by ''Metal Gear'' standards) style and blatant use of [[Bullet Time]] in imitation of the then popular ''[[Matrix]]'' movies and ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' games. Kitamura claimed in an interview that the cutscenes were initially to be redone to look exactly like their [[PS 1]] counterparts, but Kojima had asked for them to be done in the manner seen in the final version.
Because of the aforementioned, ''The Twin Snakes'' continues to divide opinions to this day on whether it's a fantastic upgrade to an already-spectacular game, or a mockery of the original masterpiece.
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== ''The Twin Snakes'' provides examples of: ==
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** Ironically, the same cutscene development also downplayed some of Snake's abilities. For instance, in the original game, Snake was knocked back by the tank's cannon, he managed to recover mid air and land on the ground safely. In ''The Twin Snakes'', Snake is knocked back by the tank's cannon, hits the cargo door before collapsing, and attempts to avoid the fuel barrels near him before the tank could blast them, only to fail.
* [[Pacifist Run]]: Doable this time thanks to the inclusion of non-lethal weapons such as the tranquilizer firing M9 and the inclusion of the stamina meter for the bosses.
* [[Retcon]]: Although some script changes from the original game were debatable (as apparently some of the original dialogue were actually [[Woolseyism|Woolseyisms]]), the ending narration definitely qualifies, as it was changed the date of the expected removal of all nuclear weapons and the date that, as of that time, 20,000 nukes still exist from 2001 and 1998 to 2007 and 2003, respectively.
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: ''The Twin Snakes'' carries over the non-lethal weaponry of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' and actively encourages the player not to kill their enemies, [[One Hundred Percent Completion|even rewarding them for it]].
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Sniper Wolf's wolfdogs can be killed, including the [[Kick the Dog|puppy.]]
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