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{{quote| '''Snake:''' Anyone going with me?<br />

'''[[Mission Control|Campbell:]]''' As usual, this is a [[One Man Army|one-man infiltration mission]].<br />

'''[[Mission Control|Campbell:]]''' As usual, this is a [[One-Man Army|one-man infiltration mission]].<br />

'''Snake:''' [[With This Herring|Weapons and equipment]] [[No Gear Level|OSP?]]<ref>([[On Site Procurement]])</ref><br />

'''Campbell:''' Yes. This is a top-secret black op. Don't expect any official support. }}

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[[More Popular Spinoff|To many players' surprise]], [[Sequel Displacement|it is not the first game]] in the popular ''[[Metal Gear (Video Game)|Metal Gear]]'' series: Its predecessors were never released in America, aside from the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] version of the original game, ''[[Metal Gear 1987 (Video Game)|Metal Gear 1987]]'', and its standalone sequel ''[[Snakes Revenge (Video Game)|Snakes Revenge]]'', so ''Metal Gear Solid'' was the first game in the series that most people played, and the ''Metal Gear Solid'' moniker carried on to the rest of the series, [[Metal Gear Acid (Video Game)|aside from]] [[Metal Gear Ghost Babel (Video Game)|a couple]] [[Metal Gear Rising Revengeance (Video Game)|of spinoffs]].

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 Fox]] at his own hands, has retired from his life as an agent for FOXHOUND, a [[Badass Crew|special operations force]] for the United States military. His days of running dogs in Alaska are, however, brought to a close when he's kidnapped from his home and brought aboard a submarine beneath the Bering Sea. There, he's greeted by his former superior and "friend," Roy Campbell and the mysterious [[Hot Scientist|Dr. Naomi Hunter]], who draft him into service once more.

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 Fox]] at his own hands, has retired from his life as an agent for FOXHOUND, a [[Badass Crew|special operations force]] for the United States military. His days of running dogs in Alaska are, however, brought to a close when he's kidnapped from his home and brought aboard a submarine beneath the Bering Sea. There, he's greeted by his former superior and "friend," Roy Campbell and the mysterious [[Hot Scientist|Dr. Naomi Hunter]], who draft him into service once more.

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.

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.

Upon the advent of the PlayStation, ''Metal Gear Solid'' became a huge hit for both its melodramatic and somehow incredibly juicy plot, and its wonderfully satisfying gameplay, which despite being the first 3D game of the series (hence the "''Solid''" in the title) avoided hitting the [[Polygon Ceiling]].

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* [[Batman Gambit]]: Liquid Snake {{spoiler|cannot actually launch the nuke because Donald Anderson died prior to giving his code, so he manipulates Solid Snake into using the PAL Key to activate the code to override the nuke's safety precautions instead.}}

** Though it was technically Mantis who came up with the idea.

* [[Bland Name Product]]: Solid Snake's so-called "smokeless cigarettes" (or "bent cigarettes" in the Japanese version) are specifically mentioned to be "Moslems" in the Japanese version. These were actually featured in ''[[Policenauts]]'', where they came in a Marlboro-style red box.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Solid Snake's so-called "smokeless cigarettes" (or "bent cigarettes" in the Japanese version) are specifically mentioned to be "Moslems" in the Japanese version. These were actually featured in ''[[Policenauts]]'', where they came in a Marlboro-style red box.

* [[Blood Knight]]: The FOXHOUND members involved with the revolt on Shadow Moses match this description, especially Vulcan Raven and Liquid Snake. Solid Snake himself was also heavily implied to be this throughout the game as well (See [[Sliding Scale of Anti Heroes]], below).

* [[Blood Knight]]: The FOXHOUND members involved with the revolt on Shadow Moses match this description, especially Vulcan Raven and Liquid Snake. Solid Snake himself was also heavily implied to be this throughout the game as well (See [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]], below).

* [[Bluff the Eavesdropper]]: {{spoiler|Liquid and Ocelot discuss their PAL codes and Snake's card key deactivating Metal Gear REX, knowing that Snake is spying on them, to further fool Snake into unwillingly doing their bidding for them. The in-game novelization in the following game, ''In the Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth'', further emphasizes it, where it is heavily implied that most of the terrorists actually already knew about Ames and the others eavesdropping on them via Snake's Codec, but continued "discussing" their plans in earshot anyways to further deceive them. Otacon somewhat supports this, stating that the grunts claimed that they already input the PAL codes.}}

** Subverted to an extent in the torture room. {{spoiler|Liquid mentions Decoy Octopus and Baker's deaths as well as the DARPA Chief's death by torture right in front of Snake, giving him an opportunity to figure out that the terrorists cannot launch a nuke, which Snake never does. Even many players missed it.}}

* [[Bond One Liner]]: "That takes care of the cremation."

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: "That takes care of the cremation."

** The novelization mixes this with [[Pre Mortem One Liner]] for astounding levels of [[Narm]]: In the opening dock sequence, Snake approaches a sentry, says "Merry Christmas", and punches their lights out. "Oh, I forgot to tell you," he then adds, "Christmas came early this year."

** The novelization mixes this with [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] for astounding levels of [[Narm]]: In the opening dock sequence, Snake approaches a sentry, says "Merry Christmas", and punches their lights out. "Oh, I forgot to tell you," he then adds, "Christmas came early this year."

* [[Can't You Read the Sign]]: The player could invoke this trope by going to one of the armory rooms, and take a smoke directly beneath a very large "No Smoking" sign.

* [[Catching Some Zs]]: Sleeping guards.

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** Snake himself gets taken out this way once as well.

* [[Climax Boss]]: Metal Gear Rex.

* [[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".}}

* [[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]]''. 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).

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* [[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 [[Play Station]] with a working second controller port}}. This does NOT, however, carry over to ''The Twin Snakes''.

* [[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.]

* [[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.]

{{quote| '''Revolver Ocelot''': "I love to reload during a battle. There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber."}}

* [[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.}}

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* [[Fisticuffs Boss]]: Cyborg Ninja<ref>unless you use Chaff Grenades</ref> and Liquid Snake.

{{quote| '''Cyborg Ninja''': At last, we can fight as warriors. Hand-to-hand: it is the basis of all combat. Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon.}}

* [[Five Bad Band]] / [[Five Token Band]]: FOXHOUND

* [[Five-Bad Band]] / [[Five Token Band]]: FOXHOUND

** [[Big Bad]]: Liquid Snake

** [[The Dragon]]: Revolver Ocelot

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* [[Human Mail]]: You can hide in the cardboard box on a truck to rapidly travel between areas.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: To a lesser extent than later games, but still quite so.

* [[I Cannot Self Terminate]]: {{spoiler|Gray Fox, who clearly wants to die but for some reason needs Snake to do it for him.}}

* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: {{spoiler|Gray Fox, who clearly wants to die but for some reason needs Snake to do it for him.}}

** {{spoiler|Psycho Mantis}} and {{spoiler|Sniper Wolf}} also really just want to die, but rather kill as many people as it takes to get someone who can kill them in battle, than to shoot themselves. For no reason at all.

* [[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}}.

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* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Although most of the bosses have been killed (one before he even got the chance to fight Snake), the person best fitting for this trope is {{spoiler|Gray Fox}}, since he ended up being revived from the last game, and then when doing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] attempt at taking down Metal Gear REX, he ended up squished. If he was left as a bloodstain on the floor, it's pretty evident that he would not return again.

* [[Laser Sight]]: Each of your guns have this, but it seems kind of pointless since it's automatic and doesn't give you any kind of benefit.

* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: Sort of: If the player submits to Ocelot's torture instead of withstanding it, and the player escapes from the cell, Snake will end up catching a cold from Johnny Sasaki.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Sort of: If the player submits to Ocelot's torture instead of withstanding it, and the player escapes from the cell, Snake will end up catching a cold from Johnny Sasaki.

* [[Lego Genetics]]: Normal soldier + Big Boss Genes = [[Mook]]. The later series includes people saying the whole exercise was pointless.

* [[Logo Joke]]: The music that plays during the logo sequence -- just a handful of notes, really -- is a [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Policenauts]]''.

* [[Male Gaze]]: Meryl has a very distinct walk cycle that gives her away even in disguise, and recognizing it is key to reuniting with her when she's disguised as a soldier. This, of course, means plenty of butt shots. Snake even goes out of his way to compliment Meryl's behind later on.

* [[May December Romance]]: The potential one between Snake and Meryl, big time. In this game, he's thirty-two; she's eighteen.

* [[May-December Romance]]: The potential one between Snake and Meryl, big time. In this game, he's thirty-two; she's eighteen.

** Factor in Snake's accelerated aging thanks to [[Clone Degeneration]], and it becomes a [[Mayfly December Romance]].

** Factor in Snake's accelerated aging thanks to [[Clone Degeneration]], and it becomes a [[Mayfly-December Romance]].

* [[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.

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* [[New Game Plus]]: 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]].

** And in the ''Integral'' version, Meryl gets to wear Snake's sneaking suit.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: {{spoiler|Thanks to Liquid's [[Batman Gambit]], Snake accidentally activates Metal Gear instead of deactivating it.}}

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Thanks to Liquid's [[Batman Gambit]], Snake accidentally activates Metal Gear instead of deactivating it.}}

* [[No Fair Cheating]]: "And don't even ''think'' about using autofire. I'll know." {{spoiler|He shoots you if you do.}}

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: And how! The characters [[Sorry I Left the BGM On|react to the music]], tell you to check the back of the game's case for certain information, [[He Knows About Timed Hits|are familiar with the game's control scheme]], manipulate the controller's vibration function a few times, and even react if you have the sound set to mono. The most famous examples are Psycho Mantis' boss battle (where he reads your memory card and [[Interface Screw|makes it look like your TV turned off]], among other things) and when Ocelot warns you not to cheat a button-mashing sequence with and autofire controller, adding "there are no continues, my friend" (there aren't, if you die in that section).

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* [[Not His Sled]]: Adapting the famous Psycho Mantis boss battle and its memory card reading controller-port-switching gimmicks into comic book form would have been incredibly challenging and awkward, so instead the writers redid the sequence for the graphic novel version, where {{spoiler|Master Miller arrives at the nick of time to take out Mantis, and he and Snake go to REX's hangar where they're ambushed by Liquid and Ocelot... but then Snake notices that Ocelot has both his arms left, and figures out that it's all [[Lotus Eater Machine|an illusion set up by Mantis]].}}

** The novelization does something similar to the above: Snake apparently blacks out, only for Master Miller to arrive to help Snake, they then leave the Commander's room... only to end up in an amusement park that Solid Snake apparently spent time at as a child when he wasn't being trained in military school. Miller disappears, he's alone in the carnival at night, Meryl apparently goes nuts on the rides, and then he finds the funhouse mirrors where Otacon, Meryl, and even Big Boss are trapped in the reflections. Otacon and Meryl are trying to get Snake to help them out, but Big Boss is resigned to his fate, although he does beg for Snake to input the detonation codes or something bad's going to happen to him. Snake doesn't know and Big Boss's face melts.

* [[Not So Different]]: Liquid Snake and Psycho Mantis's speeches indicate that Snake is just as much of a bloodthirsty psychopath, or even more of one, than themselves. See [[Sliding Scale of Anti Heroes]], [[Psycho for Hire]], and [[Blood Knight]] for more information.

* [[Not So Different]]: Liquid Snake and Psycho Mantis's speeches indicate that Snake is just as much of a bloodthirsty psychopath, or even more of one, than themselves. See [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]], [[Psycho for Hire]], and [[Blood Knight]] for more information.

* [[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]]'', 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.}}

* [[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]]'', 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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* [[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''.

* [[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''.

** Also, ''Metal Gear 2'' hinted in both its manual as well as the beginning prologue after the main menu that the entire world had disarmed most of its nuclear weapons by this point, and the only country to hold nuclear weapons was none other than Zanzibar Land. Turns out that wasn't the case at all in this game, where at LEAST 20,000 nuclear weapons still exist in 1998 (the time the game was released).

* [[Ring Out Boss]]: Liquid Snake can only be defeated by being kicked off the Metal Gear.

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* [[Sinister Silhouettes]]: FOXHOUND are shown as such during the Briefing mode.

* [[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.

* [[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.

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* [[Video Game 3D Leap]]

* [[Warrior Heaven]]: {{spoiler|It turns out this is Liquid Snake's ultimate goal, along with his whole "let's cure the Genome soldiers of their random genetic diseases" thing and his desire to off Snake.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Revolver Ocelot:''' You're a soldier. You should understand. You and I can't continue to live in a world like this. We need tension...conflict. The world today has become too soft. We're living in an age where true feelings are suppressed. So we're going to shake things up a bit. We'll create a world dripping with tension... ...a world filled with greed and suspicion, bravery and cowardice. You want the same thing that we do. Liquid Snake is the one. He is an incredible man. He is the man who can really make it happen.}}

* [[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.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Nastasha Romanenko.

* [[What the Hell Hero]]: One of Naomi's reasons for injecting Solid Snake with FOXDIE (besides [[Just Following Orders]]) essentially amounted to this in regards to what Snake indirectly had her adoptive older brother, Gray Fox, endure after the fight in Zanzibar Land.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: One of Naomi's reasons for injecting Solid Snake with FOXDIE (besides [[Just Following Orders]]) essentially amounted to this in regards to what Snake indirectly had her adoptive older brother, Gray Fox, endure after the fight in Zanzibar Land.

** Also Liquid and Psycho Mantis's [[Not So Different]] Speeches.

** If the player submits to the torture, Revolver Ocelot will actually tell off Snake for endangering Meryl to him.

* [[Why Am I Ticking]]: After escaping from the torture room, Snake will recover his equipment. Unfortunately for him, he also has an extra gift among his belongings from Ocelot: A ticking time bomb. Luckily, if the player doesn't notice it quickly enough, Deepthroat will let them know via Codec. It's not the only time this happens, either, as a timer bomb can also be found in the drainage ditch, which Snake can dispose of with ease, and it has even less time before it detonates.

* [[Worth Living For]]: Living in this case as opposed to merely surviving, {{spoiler|when Snake finds out he's going to die anyway}}.

* [[Wig Dress Accent]]: After the re-released versions of ''Metal Gear 2'', as well as ''Peace Walker'', {{spoiler|Liquid Snake's disguising himself as Miller}} is closer to this trope. More obviously Decoy Octopus, as not only is he capable of matching a person exactly (hence his codename), but he can even use their blood with his own just to ensure he doesn't get caught.

* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: After the re-released versions of ''Metal Gear 2'', as well as ''Peace Walker'', {{spoiler|Liquid Snake's disguising himself as Miller}} is closer to this trope. More obviously Decoy Octopus, as not only is he capable of matching a person exactly (hence his codename), but he can even use their blood with his own just to ensure he doesn't get caught.

* [[With This Herring]]: This mission is On Site Procurement, except for cigarettes.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Ocelot and Snake are this against each other.

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* [[Serendipity Writes the Plot]]: David Hayter has mentioned in an interview that the reason why the dialogue had to be re-recorded for ''The Twin Snakes'' was because all the original dialogue was recorded in an apartment that had been converted into a recording studio. With the GameCube's much improved sound card, the player would have heard ''the traffic outside''.

** Some of the voice clips still needed to be re-recorded, since they made reference to specific controls and button functions of the PS1 controller. It wouldn't have made much sense to hear Ocelot say the "press the circle button repeatedly" in a GameCube game.

* [[~~Videogame~~ 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 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.]]

** You can shoot Sniper Wolf's corpse.