It is a revolutionary mobile nuclear missile system, a bipedal tank

It is a revolutionary mobile nuclear missile system, a bipedal tank.

Are you familiar with the theory of the missing link between apes and humans? Well, this technology will be the missing link between infantry and artillery.

A kind of metal gear, if you will.

Metal gear?

You're crocked, aren't you?

Nice shoes.

the legacy is split between the US, China and the USSR

not a single word about the UK which was and still is the second strongest/influential country in the world

What? You've never heard of a Metal Gear before? It's a famous video game franchise!

Do you really think Kojima put that much thought into it

Metal gear?

and still is

The UK lost that title the moment WW2 started

SIGINT THIS GUY TOLD ME ABOUT A MIX BETWEEN APE AND HUMANS AND THE MAJOR TOLD ME TO ASK YOU

Major Zero is English and he becomes the head of the Patriots

They literally solidified it when it started. Germany ended up getting taken out of the equation. Their only fuck up was with the whole Paperclip thing which was a much favourable deal for the US. Also they got fucked over with the whole Manhattan Project thing. The US becoming the first and the sole proprietor of the nuclear arms at the time sealed the UK's position as #2.

Good point.

UK's nuclear arms are the US's
They can't launch shit if the US doesn't want to
The became a vassal state, a cucked state even, especially when you look at them now

The funniest thing about MGS3 is by this point the franchise was well-known for its sophisticated production values but Koijima still felt the need to retroactively develop the origins of names and titles he came up with in the 80s for an MSX game.

Big Boss was granted the title by Lyndon Johnson because he surpassed his mentor, The Boss, like America has fucking knighthoods but only for autistic spec ops soldiers

Metal Gears are called that because they serve to link the role of artillery and infantry like how a gear works to link the motion and movement of various moving parts of a machine

I guess it's better that it's cringe-inducing but sincere rather than somebody all-but-looking-at-the-camera and sardonically quipping that Naked Snake's the biggest boss around.

now that you have your own private military, you really are a big boss

erm.... wait a minute... say that again

Solid Snake should have become Biggest Boss when he killed Big Boss

This is basically the difference between writing that's silly but endearing, and writing that's terminally embarrassed of its own concept. Everyone wants a guy in a big jacket who dual wields pistols, but so many are ashamed of this so they have to mock him while they do it.

But before that, Bigger Boss after killing Venom.

what the FUCK does Solidus means

Read "the anglo american establishment" by carroll quigley.

aint no way unc thinks we readin allat :laugh:

Solidus is a state between solids and liquids.

I refuse

this technology will be the missing link between infantry and artillery.

So, like, guys with tube mortars? Tanks?

Was this an appropriate look for your elite force

The Boss:

My vision is for world peace

Big Boss:

She must mean she wants constant war all the time

W-was he retarded?

In fairness the weird Operator culture in Metal Gear kind of does lend itself to that bullshit. The stage names fit because propaganda is basically a spiritual thing to these people. You need a legend a meme to mold the souls of men
The idea is but apparently it actually means "The hottest state BEFORE solid becomes liquid" so basically the melting point. If Kojimbo actually cared then it essentially means "As much of Snake as he can be before he's Liquid"
Very much.
It was kinda muddied by him seeing that ultimately she was just a pawn between two Nations that never respected her. He kinda loses the plot because he can't really marry the idea of a world at peace with one that will truly respect a soldier's sacrifice and accept the nature of traumatized killing machines.

MGS 4 is not canon
It's fanfiction bullshit
Series "ends" (starts, heh) at 3

this technology will be the missing link between infantry and artillery.

so uh
why does it shoot nukes?

Why the fuck did he make the evil spec ops women in V gross looking bald chicks? What a waste.
This but 3. Big Boss is Sean Connery, not le wacky "but how does it taste? santa claus is real!" funnyman.

yes, creates hesitation in shooting them

They all try to be Chow Jun Fat from A Better Tomorrow, but few can do it.

Big boss' plot is realism vs idealism
Its all noble and fair to wish for no more wars its another thing entirely to actually make that happen. You're not going to get anywhere just by asking people to lay down their arms and stop fighting.

The UK is Canada tier.

Good post

In the in-universe sense the post-MGS3 plot is how nobody got the Boss's ideals right.

In the metafictional sense it's because Big Boss the antagonist leader of Outer Heaven was invented first and then Kojima worked backwards for a young energetic CIA agent in the 1960s codenamed Naked Snake to become that man.

Youve come to the right man Snake, you see it was rumored that Joseph Stalin was developing a hybrid creature which was a cross between human and ape crazy I know. These creatures dubbed “Homo Sovieticus” would be trained as super soldiers of sorts for the conquest of Western Europe and beyond. Harnessing the superior strength of the ape with the intelligence of the human. However as you could imagine it did not get far.

her vision for world peace involved giving hand-held nukes to a crazy dictator who wanted to coup a world superpower