History AwesomeBosses / MetalGear

* Oh, and did we mention this is all happening on the [[GameBoyColor Game Boy Color]]?

** ...but it's not over yet. Now you have to deal with the defenses on the top of Gander. Snake has to dodge auto-fire turrets, spread-shot turrets, anti-air missile launchers '(that somehow work inside a confined freight elevator)', and even [[AttackDrone aerial drones]]. Oh, and the flamethrower isn't out of commission either, so the fight ends with Snake chucking grenades into the mouth of a flamethrower ''that is currently turning the battlefield into nothing but flaming rubble.''

* Although relatively casual due to the Dwarf Gekkos's nanopaste, Mistral offers an entertaining fight as the first Winds of Destruction. As the fight continues, the two fighters start moving to other areas, and end duking it out surrounded by fire.

* You thought the Metal Gear RAY battle was awesome? Just wait until you go toe-to-toe with '''Metal Gear Excelsus''', a HumongousMecha the size of a city block, armed with [[{{BFS}} massive HF Blades]] and [[WaveMotionGun plasma cannons]]! After slicing off its front legs, Raiden proceeds to throw the boss over his shoulder, rips off one of its blade (which are as long as Metal Gear RAY was tall), then uses that blade to parry Excelsus's other blade before cutting it to pieces! And the boss's theme, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ar2Z8ShiM oh God it's theme...]]

* From the Bladewolf DLC, we have Khamsin, a [[{{Eagleland}} crazy American ex-soldier]] in a [[MiniMecha mech suit]] with a ''rocket powered [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] [[AnAxeToGrind axe]]''. He has a lot of cool-looking attacks, he can move faster then you'd think given his size, there's a stealth section, and his finisher [[spoiler: (cutting apart his mech, ripping him out and carving him up in mid-air)]] is satisying to do and awesome to watch. To top it off, his boss theme is the previously [[WastedSong unused]] but blood-pumping "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRWyLHoCqTU Hot Wind Blowing]]".

* From the Bladewolf DLC, we have Khamsin, a [[{{Eagleland}} crazy American ex-soldier]] in a [[{{MiniMecha}} mech suit]] with a ''rocket powered [[{{ChainsawGood}} chainsaw]] [[{{AnAxeToGrind}} axe]]''. He has a lot of cool-looking attacks, he can move faster then you'd think given his size, there's a stealth section, and his finisher [[spoiler: (cutting apart his mech, ripping him out and carving him up in mid-air)]] is satisying to do and awesome to watch. To top it off, his boss theme is the previously [[{{WastedSong}} unused]] but blood-pumping ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRWyLHoCqTU Hot Wind Blowing]]''.

* Another candidate for the greatest boss battle in the entire series must be the final battle between Snake and Liquid Ocelot. It's not very unusual or spectacular, but uses the health bars and theme music from all four games, to take your one more time through the entire series before it finally comes to an end.

* Although relatively casual due to the Dwarf Gekkos's nanopaste, Mistral offers an entertaing fight as the first Winds of Destruction. As the fight continues, the two fighters start moving to other areas, and end duking it out sorrounded by fire.

* The first boss, [[MetalGearSolid2 Metal Gear RAY]]. It's constantly firing missiles at you (which can be destroyed before they explode). Instead of its high-pressure water cannon from MGS2, it has a [[FrickinLaserBeams Plasma Cannon]]. Parrying its attacks and damaging its feet allows you to slice off its armor, and the first part of the battle ends with Raiden slicing off its right blade. The second part of the battle is mostly the same, but in a more confined area with Raiden elevated to RAY's face. You can slice off its head armor and guns, then it launches a salvo of missiles at you which Raiden ''[[{{HSQ}} proceeds to jump across]]'' so that he can slice off RAY's remaining blade. Even after that, it's not over, as now, you have to run down the side of a building, avoiding gunfire, missiles, and the Plasma Cannon, so that Raiden can stab his blade through the head of RAY and ''slice it in half length-wise!'' [[ItGetsBetter And this is only the first boss!]]

* The first boss, [[MetalGearSolid2 Metal Gear RAY]]. It's constantly firing missiles at you (which can be destroyed before they explode). Instead of its high-pressure water cannon from MGS2, it has a [[FrikkinLaserBeams Plasma Cannon]]. Parrying its attacks and damaging its feet allows you to slice off its armor, and the first part of the battle ends with Raiden slicing off its right blade. The second part of the battle is mostly the same, but in a more confined area with Raiden elevated to RAY's face. You can slice off its head armor and guns, then it launches a salvo of missiles at you which Raiden ''[[{{HSQ}} proceeds to jump across]]'' so that he can slice off RAY's remaining blade. Even after that, it's not over, as now, you have to run down the side of a building, avoiding gunfire, missiles, and the Plasma Cannon, so that Raiden can stab his blade through the head of RAY and ''slice it in half length-wise!'' [[ItGetsBetter And this is only the first boss!]]

* Although relatively casual due to the Dwarf Gekkos's nanopaste, Mistral offers an entertaing fight as the first Winds of Destruction. As the fight continue the two fighters start moving to other areas, and end duking it out sorrounded by fire.

* Jetstream Sam, this time being a rematch with your arch nemesis. A sword on sword duel with no complications. Just you and your reaction time against a powerful swordsman with several fast attacks, and again, a really metal soundtrack.

* [[spoiler: Steven Armstrong]], a multi stage boss where you spend several sequences helplessly wailing away without being able to cause any damage before [[spoiler:Bladewolf throws you Sam's sword]], evening the fight. Meanwhile, the boss throws huge pieces of debris while you only have a moment to precisely slice in two, rewarding you with slamming your blade in the boss' face and sending him flying into a wall. You also get to be involved in a punch out that ends in an epic right hook around the boss' arm. Finally, in the most appropriate way to end the fight [[spoiler: You perform multiple precise Blade Mode slashes on the armor around his heart before you perform the same move you've been doing all throughout the game and ''tear out his heart''.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhS8oJ_N-Kc To top it all off, his theme is arguably the best of all the bosses.]]

* [[spoiler: Steven Armstrong]], a multi stage boss where you spend several sequences helplessly wailing away without being able to cause any damage before [[spoiler:Bladewolf throws you Sam's sword]], evening the fight. Meanwhile, the boss throws huge pieces of debris while you only have a moment to precisely slice in two, rewarding you with slamming your blade in the boss' face and sending him flying into a wall. You also get to be involved in a punch out that ends in an epic right hook around the boss' arm. Finally, in the most appropriate way to end the fight [[spoiler: You perform multiple precise Blade Mode slashes on the armor around his heart before you perform the same move you've been doing all throughout the game and ''tear out his heart''.]]

** This is taken up to eleven in the Gamecube remake ''Twin Snakes.'' Why? [[spoiler: Because Gray Fox pulls off his DyingMomentOfAwesome with even greater style. Dodging machine-gun fire, blocking it with his katana before hurling it straight at REX's radome, charging the monster head-on (losing pieces of his CoolMask in the process) and, for the sequence when he finally blows up the Radome, his cannon charging to life with a hesitant-but-rising frequency that embodies the wounded Gray Fox gathering all his resolve for one last volley. And finally, when he's dead, Snake picks up his katana, gazes along its blade as if remembering the whole of his friendship with Fox...and then whipping the sword around and slamming it into the ground like a gravestone before charging REX head-on. Now tell me that isn't bad-ass.]]

* The first boss, [[MetalGearSolid2 Metal Gear RAY]]. It's constantly firing missiles at you (which can be destroyed before they explode), instead of it's high-pressure water cannon from MGS2, it has a [[FrikkinLaserBeams Plasma Cannon]], parrying it's attacks and damaging it's feet allows you to slice off it's armor, and the first part of the battle ends with Raiden slicing off it's right blade. The second part of the battle is mostly the same, but in a more confined area with Raiden elevated to RAY's face. You can slice of it's head armor and guns, then it launches a salvo of missiles at you which Raiden ''[[{{HSQ}} proceeds to jump across]]'' so that he can slice off RAY's remaining blade. Even after that, it's not over, as now, you have to ''run down the side of a building, avoiding gunfire, missiles, and the Plasma Cannon, so that Raiden can stab his blade through the head of RAY and slice it in half length-wise!'' [[ItGetsBetter And this is only the first boss!]]

* Fighting against The Boss was the highlight of the game. You are both standing in an open field of white flowers, with the boss not only being blond and pale skinned, but also wearing her iconic white combat suit. Being able to CQC her like she did Snake was amazing. She tells you you have 10 minutes to kill her before bombers will blast the whole place to ash and about 5 minutes into the fight, an instrumental version of the theme song, which you have heared several times during the game, starts playing. And it is clear that when the last note plays, it's all over. [[TearJerker It all goes downhill when]] [[spoiler: [[TearJerker Snake has to shoot her in the head with her own weapon...]] [[PlayerPunch with the game making]] ''[[PlayerPunch you]]'' [[PlayerPunch pull the trigger.]]]]

* ''Hmm''... I see you like ''Franchise/MetalGear''. Do not ''worry'', Psychfo Mantis is only here to BreakTheFourthWall. There is no need to ''switch controller ports''.

** The Substance version of the game has "External Gazer," which concludes with Snake fighting Solidus...with nothing but his fists!

* ''Hmm''... I see you like ''Franchise/MetalGear''. Do not ''worry'', Psycho Mantis is only here to BreakTheFourthWall. There is no need to ''switch controller ports''.

* The battle with Vulcan Raven in the freezer room.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' gives us The Sorrow. He's an unusual boss, because he's [[spoiler:already dead]]. He's another in a long tradition of {{HopelessBossFight}}s- you can only win by [[spoiler:trudging past the ghosts of everyone you've killed]]. He also has some of the best dialogue in the game before the fight.
-->The Sorrow: [[spoiler:The living... may not hear them. Their voices... may fall upon deaf ears. But [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Make. No. Mistake.]] The dead... are NOT silent. Now you will know the sorrow of those whose lives you have ended.]]

* Later you fight Sniper Wolf in a SniperDuel. At night. In the middle of a blizard.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' gives us The Sorrow. He's an unusual boss, because he's [[spoiler:already dead]]. He's another in a long tradition of {{HopelessBossFight}}s- you can only win by [[spoiler:trudging past the ghosts of everyon you've killed]]. He also has some of the best dialogue in the game before the fight.

** Made more awesome by the ghosts. If you kill a guy with a nutshot, he'll grasp his crotch and yell "I'm useless!" The prize for the most creative ghost goes to the one where you kill a sentry on a mountain, let a bird eat him, kill the bird, and eat it, the ghost appears with the bird on his shoulder crying "You ate me!"

** The End has some extremely crafty AI, too. You can use the Directional Microphone to learn that he's hiding in the next map, by listening for his breathing. Then, when you enter the next area, you find that he was waiting for you ''right in the transitional area'', and he smacks you down with a flashbang. Or you find his sniping point, but can't reach it from the same map. So you go to the next area, re-enter from a point where you ''can'' reach his perch, and find that he ''isn't there anymore''. Instead, he's at a completely different perch, and ''has his scope trained on his old spot'', so even if you have 100% camo, he can still ''completely sucker you''.

* Laughing Octopus has perfect camouflage abilities and you fight her inside a small hut, where she can hide in any place and disguise herself as anything, becomming part of the walls or the furniture, but always leaving some tiny traces by which you can spot her if you look carefully enough.

* Fighting against The Boss was the highlight of the game. You are both standing in an open field of white flowers, with the boss not only being blond and pale skinned, but also wearing her iconic white combat suit. Being able to CQC her like she did Snake was amazing. She tells you you have 10 minutes to kill her before bombers will blast the whole place to ash and about 5 minutes into the fight, an instrumental version of the theme song, which you have heared several times during the game, starts playing. And it is clear that when the last note plays, it's all over. [[TearJerker It all goes downhill when]] [[spoiler: [[TearJerker Snake has to shoot her in the head with her own weapon.]]]]