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* [[Creator Cameo]]: Hideo Kojima returns to service under Big Boss once again.
* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Venom's hallucinations of Paz.}}
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Ranging from Soviet Spetsnaz in Afghanistan to XOF personnel and the parasite-enhanced Skulls.
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: While Diamond Dogs isn't necessarily evil (at least by this point), it's rather indiscriminate when it comes to recruits. Given how they come from various cultures, nationalities and even gender.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: While Konami gave Kojima relatively free rein over the game's development, [[Word of God]] is that rather substantial portion had to be altered if not left on the cutting room floor. [[What Could Have Been|This includes a chapter simply titled "Peace."]]
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* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: {{spoiler|Zero}} is revealed to be [[The Atoner]] and had been trying to undo what he helped set in motion. {{spoiler|Only for Skull Face to intervene, ultimately reducing him into the vegetative old man Snake sees in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]''.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Quiet, who's one of those sent in to kill Big Boss at the intro, becomes one of Venom's closest comrades-in-arms.
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: "The world calls for wet-work, and we answer! No greater good. No just cause!"
* [[Legendary in the Sequel]]: A peculiar case as this game is ultimately ''about'' how Big Boss comes to be a legend by the time the later ''Metal Gear'' games take place.
* [[Magical Native American]]: Subverted with Code Talker, who only seems to be this because of his manner of speaking as well as the self-experimentation.
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* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: One the major themes in the game is language and the power of words.
* [[Private Army]]: You run one. In fact, so do a lot of people, many of which will be your enemies.
* [[Red Herring Mole]]: Subverted with Ocelot. Given his canon tendency to betray those he nominally works for, one would expect him to do this to Diamond Dogs. {{spoiler|He doesn't actually turn on them at all, but ''is'' keeping an eye on things for the ''real'' Big Boss.}}
* [[Red Herring Twist]]: Zero is propped as being the ultimate antagonist. {{spoiler|He's not.}}
* [[Russians With Rifles]]: The Soviet 40th Red Army motorized rifle division is the primary enemy force in Afghanistan.
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* [[The Eighties]]: The game is set in 1984 and has Venom going into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and a war-ravaged African frontier.
* [[Time Skip]]: Compared to ''Ground Zeroes'', the game is set in 1984. {{spoiler|The last scene of the game fast-forwards to 1995, during the events of the original ''[[Metal Gear]]''.}}
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Not really "tranquil," but Miller has been seething in rage for the better part of a decade, seeking vengeance on Cipher.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Miller is noticeably angrier and much more bitter. Given what happened over the past decade, it's justified.
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: Quite wide, with two very large world areas. They do have eventual borders, but the area one can cover is quite vast in both. Some parts of the area of each world are blocked off in some minor ways due to certain missions, but otherwise the world spaces of Afghanistan and the Angola-Zaire border are quite huge.
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