Metal Gear

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If you're here on the Internet and have not heard of Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid, you're obviously pretty new or just straight up ignorant... But for the sake /tg/ and everyone, we'll help.

Metal Gear and the subsequent games coming after it are action-adventure stealth games starting in 1987. While Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 on the EN EE ESS were well-received and iconic, it was Metal Gear Solid in 1998 on the PEE ESS JUAN that changed not only the franchise but third-person shooters in general and practically being the herald of stealth games. Though each game has a different story, it typically follows the supersoldier agent Solid Snake during the Cold War as he infiltrates something, destroys whatever's inside, and is a badass while doing it. We would explain more of the story here but honestly it gets stupidly complicated with government conspiracies, clones, ghosts, sudden but inevitable betrayals, and many more. While somewhat grounded in reality it has a very obvious sci-fi feel to it, similar to BattleTech, Shadowrun, and in some ways Warhammer 40K

Metal Gear and /tg/

Like much of the Internet and 4chan, /tg/ has a pretty distinct love for Metal Gear. We've had several quest threads following the Metal Gear universe, most notably Rise from Ashes and Revengeance Quest. While there's not a definitive homebrew for it, there's limitless potential and that certainly hasn't stopped us from trying.

Metal Gear Vindicare is a pretty obvious /tg/-MSG relation, being inspired by the famous codec used by Solid Snake in the game. Centers around Love Can Bloom with Doomrider as a special guest. DO COCAAAAIIIINNE!

A lot of things about Metal Gear correlate with the interests of fa/tg/uys. Despite what most people think, /tg/ loves their giant robots, which Metal Gear Solid has in spades. There's also a good enough amount of both grimdark and hilarious stupidity to keep a wide variety of neckbeards entertained.

Characters

Solid Snake

The protagonist for most of the games. He starts out his career in Metal Gear as a rookie FOXHOUND agent, uncovering the existence of the Metal Gear and the double-crossing of his superior, Big Boss. He later discovers that he's actually the clone-son of Big Boss, created specifically because The Patriots couldn't trust him to obey their orders. Snake spends the rest of the games fighting Big Bosses' other clones as well as uncovering the grand conspiracy his father had been fighting, typically involving more advanced Metal Gear weapons platforms along the way. He finally ends his career in Metal Gear Solid 4, his clone-genes rapidly degenerating and near the end of his life. But he doesn't get to die before finally making amends with his father in a rather touching moment.

Big Boss

While initially portrayed as the villain, one could argue whether or not his actions were justified given the reveal of the Patriots existence. Big Boss stars as the protagonist of all the Metal Gear games before Solid begins his career, dating back to the 1960s when he was known as Naked Snake. Naked Snake discovers the progenitor of Metal Gear in Soviet Russia while also being "betrayed" by his former leader, The Boss. After an arms deal goes wrong, he's forced to kill her to cover up America's involvement, which leaves a lasting impact for the rest of his life. He decides to abandon the United States and create his own military group "Militaires Sans Frontieres," later "Diamond Dogs," while fighting his own shadow war against former comrade Zero, the founder of the Patriots. After fighting a number of early Metal Gear models, Big Boss began building a few Metal Gears of his own to try and even the odds.

During a battle against one of the Patriots' splinter groups, Cypher, Big Boss is forced into hiding and has a body double, Venom Snake, become the public face of his PMC while he fought his own private war against the Patriots. Venom ended up being killed by Snake, while Big Boss entered into a coma until he was revived just after the patriots were defeated.

Liquid Snake

The antagonist of Metal Gear Solid and Snake's clone brother. Liquid has a distinctly British accent and blond hair. According to the game's very loose grasp of genetics, Liquid inherited all the recessive genes of Big Boss, while Snake inherited all the dominant genes (actually we find out it's the opposite). Even as a child, he was a surprisingly competent soldier, giving Venom Snake (who he believed was his father Big Boss) a lot of headaches when he started acting out. Liquid would have died from Skull Face's parasite had he not become BFFs with his future comrade, Psycho Mantis. Liquid has massive Daddy issues, which lead him to rebel against the US government and seize Metal Gear REX for himself. He also really hates Snake for the afformentioned gene issue, possessing a really intense inferiority complex and needing to constantly prove himself. Snake fights him several times, including shooting down his helicopter and Metal Gear, but the bastard JUST. WON'T. DIE. Of course he finally does die from an engineered virus... sort of. "Liquid" takes possession of Ocelot and keeps giving Snake headaches until he finally dies for real.

Ocelot

A Russian gunslinger and a guy with a LOT of mixed loyalties. Formerly a member of GRU (the Soviet Military's version of the civilian KGB), Ocelot became bros with Big Boss, helping him in secret despite nominally being a member of the Patriots. Ocelot joined Liquid's rebellion, but only to act as the Patriot's inside man and steal the plans for Metal Gear REX. He also manages to steal Metal Gear RAY, but at this point he starts acting out his secret plan to destroy the Patriots from within. How does he do this? Well....

1. Pretend to be possessed by the ghost of Liquid and steal Metal Gear RAY (later retcon as really was possessed due to inherenting his father's psychic powers, but then starts pretending he still is anyway)
2. Use one of the Patriots' AI to infiltrate their system and take effective control over their military assets
3. When the patriots send Snake after him, put up a convincing show of resistance by nearly killing him multiple times
4. Steal the railgun off of Metal Gear REX and aim it at the Patriots' main satellite
5. Hope that Snake is still alive at this point and that he's developed the worm necessary to kill the Patriots AI
6. Fistfight him bare-chested until you die of exhaustion.
7. ???
8. Profit!

Yeah... when we talk about how convoluted the story is, it's usually Ocelot's fault. Still, for an elderly old bastard, he's pretty damn badass.

Otacon

The weeaboo of the series. We're not exaggerating, by the way. He wanted to work on Metal Gear REX specifically because he's obsessed with anime. Otacon is your typical nerdy support character, giving Snake technical assistance in his fight against the Metal Gears. He's also a quite literally hopeless romantic, as his two romantic interests ended up dying. Though to be honest, the first was a terrorist who showed no real interest in him, and the second was his stepsister. Also we learn that his dad committed suicide because he had sex with his stepmom. Yeah.

Meryl

Colonel Roy Campbell's niece and the only FOXHOUND agent to not join Liquid's rebellion. She starts out as a rookie way in over her head, but she helps out Snake by providing him with useful information. Snake also starts to develop a romantic interest in her after all the shit they go through. In Metal Gear Solid, depending on whether Snake submits to Ocelot's torture, Meryl lives or dies at the end of the game. This is later retconned in Metal Gear Solid 4, where she lives but also learns the truth that she's Roy's daughter, not his niece, which pisses her off. Meryl becomes the commander of her own unit, and decides that because at this point Snake's turned into a crusty old fart, she's going to marry her perpetually incontinent subordinate, who's also a weeaboo.

Raiden

He's introduced as the "true" protagonist of Metal Gear Solid 2, but his original appearance is nowhere near as badass as Snake. He's a white-haired effeminate Bishie that tends to rile up most people who loathe anime stereotypes. Raiden starts out as a Child Soldier in Africa (despite being whiter than white-out) before being taken in by the Patriots as their successor to Solid Snake. He's lived nearly his entire life in simulations and being fucked over by AIs. Once he's actually let out into the real world to stop Solidus and his terror cell, he meets Snake, and together they discover the existance of the patriots.

Raiden gets a significant upgrade after MGS2, where he gets kidnapped by the Patriots and has his entire body below his upper jaw cut off and replaced by a cyborg ninja body. Everyone agrees that his version of Raiden is much better, and he ends up starring in the spin-off game Metal Gear Rising, where he uses his sword and ninja athleticism to fight other cyborgs and even Metal Gears to stop a crazy US senator from controlling the world.

Solidus

The last of Big Bosses' clones, Solidus was much more under the control of the Patriots. He spent some time fighting in Africa, where he picked up an orphaned Raiden and turned him into a pawn of the Patriots. While he was eventually made President, this really didn't count for much as the Patriots still made all the decisions and he was basically a puppet. Solidus decides that he's had enough of this shit and steals the Patriots' new warship, Arsenal Gear, and decides to take the fight directly to them. Of course, this didn't end well for him when Snake and Raiden interfere and the ship crashes into Manhatten. He gets killed by Raiden, but his body ends up being a macguffin because his DNA is an exact match to Big Boss, allowing Ocelot to hack into the Patriots network.

The Patriots

Also known as "Cypher", or "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" if you're under their direct control. Financed by the inheritance of the 20th Century's wealthiest men, the Patriots control literally everything. Originally this was a group formed by Big Boss, Zero, Sigint, Para-Medic, Ocelot, and Eva in order to fulfill The Boss' wishes of uniting the world and ending the Cold War. However, this group split in half over differences on how to fulfill this vision. Zero wanted to control the entire world and all facets of human life through all-knowing AIs, while Big Boss wanted to create "Outer Heaven," a place where soldiers would always belong and not be the puppets of governments. When Zero went comatose, the group was taken over for a short time by Skull Face, who wanted to fulfill the Boss' vision by eliminating language itself using a language-based parasite, in a sort of anti-tower-of-babel plot. Eventually the Patriots was controlled by Five AIs: JD, GW, TJ, AL, & TR (John Doe, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt respectively). These AIs decided that the best thing to unite the world was to plunge it into perpetual conflict and proxy wars, bringing together the worst of Zero's and Big Boss' visions. The Patriots AI were killed off when Snake unwittingly uploaded a worm that killed all of them, finally freeing the world from their influence.

Metal Gear Models

Shagohad: Technically not a Metal Gear, but created the precedent for mobile nuclear platforms. This crazy contraption was basically a giant armored hovercraft that would rocket-boost in order to give its nuclear payload an extra boost. It also had point-defenses up the wazzoo.

Metal Gear RAXA: A four-legged Metal Gear that could be launched from a ICBM.

Peace Walker: A four-legged walker that was fully AI controlled. It could only fire nukes defensively, but could be tricked into launching a premature attack.

Metal Gear ZEKE: Big Boss' first attempt at a Metal Gear, this one was fully bipedal. Originally it was AI controlled too, but was modified to use a human pilot when Cypher attempted to steal it. This metal gear was also customizable and could be sent out on combat missions alongside MSF soldiers.

Sahalanthropus: This one was designed by Otacon's Dad, Huey. While technically more advanced than Metal Gear REX in that it could walk upright, one flaw was that the cockpit was too small for a full-sized human. Cypher got around this by using Pyscho Mantis to control it psychically.

TX-55: The first Metal Gear to appear in the games. This model didn't have that many frills, it was simply a robot that could fire nukes.

Metal Gear REX: This dinosaur-looking motherfucker takes the original Metal Gear concept one step further by firing nukes from a railgun instead of a ballistic missile, making nukes nearly impossible to track. It also had a badass assortment of weaponry, from chainguns to lasers to missiles.

Metal Gear RAY: Designed to be the ultimate anti-Metal Gear weapon, RAY is amphibious by design, and instead of carrying nukes, its weapons include a powerful water cannon that can cut metal. Despite being built specifically to fight Metal Gears, it still loses in a fight against an already damaged Metal Gear REX.

See Also

Metal Gear Vindicare

BattleTech

Gallery

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