Metal Gear Solid Expleened

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  @Dreadnautilus · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Okay, some bits that weren&apos;t brought up in the explanation (mostly to do with Liquid&apos;s motivations because god he monologues for ages):<br><br>*The overarching terrorist group that includes the Genome Soldiers and renegade FOXHOUND unit is technically called the Sons of Big Boss.<br><br>*In addition to hating Solid, Liquid also hates Big Boss due to some kind of insecurity about being his inferior copy. He wants to create his own Outer Heaven mainly just so he can say he suceeded where his father has failed.<br><br>*The reason why they cloned Big Boss in the first place was because he was made sterile by exposure to radiation. If that didn&apos;t happen they would&apos;ve presumably just recruited his natural kids or at least got him to be a sperm donor. <br><br>*The Genome Soldiers aren&apos;t clones like Solid or Liquid, they&apos;re regular people who got DNA transfusions with Big Boss&apos; soldier genes. The side effects of the experimentation causes them to get ill which is why Liquid Snake wants the DNA remains of Big Boss in order to create a cure for them. Liquid wants to help them because he believes you should look out for those genetically related to you (even though he hates his actual father and brother anyway). <br><br>*Liquid Snake actually was lied to by his creators and he was the one with the dominant genes. Thus, Snake proved that genes didn&apos;t determine your fate by beating Liquid despite having inferior genes (even though technically Liquid would&apos;ve just killed him in the end if it weren&apos;t for FOXDIE). <br><br>*Revolver Ocelot is actually a double agent who is working directly for the President. The President actually being Solidus Snake, the secret third clone who has both dominant and recessive genes. <br><br>*Dominant and recessive genes pretty much just determine if a trait is inherited by your kids or if it skips a generation and have nothing to do with the actual quality of said genes. So if you have any knowledge of DNA Liquid just sounds like a total dipshit.

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  @mushuwu · 3 years ago

  You can tell he&apos;s a huge Metal Gear fan, because he knows the best way to make fun of MGS&apos;s ridiculous plot is to literally just summarize it straight.

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  @realkingofantarctica · 3 years ago

  Ocelot was always my favourite as a child. I&apos;d always try and do perfect in his fight so he&apos;d compliment me, something my father never did.

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• LC

  @lcg8220 · 3 years ago

  I think we should all praise internet historian for managing to condense the whole story of the first Metal Gear Solid into the length of a single cutscene.

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  @Mr.Misinformer · 3 years ago

  Fun Fact: Solid Snake was originally meant to be named &quot;Pistol Dave&quot; before Kojima decided it was an awful idea.

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  @stanleysmooth · 3 years ago

  Can&apos;t wait for &quot;Metal Gear Solid 2 Expleened&quot; with a runtime of 9 hours

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  @darkursrike3161 · 3 years ago

  Don&apos;t show this to Hideo Kojima, if he notices that his story is able to be explained in just two hours he will get even more weird ideas

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• ZO

  @ZombieMurdoc · 3 years ago

  Just rewatched and noticed you missed the bit about punching Meryl around the wolves. &nbsp;If you punch her she&apos;ll order the wolves to attack you, but if you quickly switch to a cardboard box a wolf pup pees on it, giving you wolf scent camoflauge.

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  @stephenschaffenberger6765 · 3 years ago

  My favorite part about this is that it&apos;s like a small child asked his parents to tell him the story of MGS1 before bed and the parents just went completely off the rails for two hours.

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  @sweethen · 3 years ago

  The real Metal Gear were the friends we made along the way.

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  @Jakob1035 · 3 years ago

  &quot;Snake, you must remember we are not just soldiers, even though we are both soldiers.&quot;<br><br>That was so beautiful it made me cry and re-think my whole life

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  @Sonichero151 · 3 years ago

  The psycho mantis fight is unparamountably one of the most unique boss fights in gaming history. &nbsp;From vibrating the controller, to reading your memory card not just the games you play but how you play them, to needing to change controller ports to be able to hit him. Kojima and his team somehow pulled off programming and mechanics with the playstation one that no one could have ever imagined possible and still haven&apos;t been pulled off again since

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