History Fridge / MetalGear

** Slightly more humorous one is that snakes are shy creatures, who spend most of their life hiding. Captive snakes feel uncomfortable if they aren't provided with a hide. In MGS4 Snake's stress level goes down when he hides in a box.

---> 141.96 is the frequency for saving, which is mostly covered by {{adorkable}} characters, such as Mai Ling, Otacon and [=ParaMedic=].

* Snake's signature weapon is the [[RareGuns/{{Handguns}} Mark 23 SOCOM]], a .45 caliber pistol noted for being infamously large and heavy and having terrible ergonomics in real life. The devs have stated that the SOCOM was chosen because its huge size was easy to model and Snake handling the SOCOM well enough to take advantage of its full capabilities made him look really cool. But why do many players end up using the SOCOM as their main weapon? PunchPackingPistol aside, the SOCOM was originally designed to be used as a primary weapon in place of a rifle or SMG, and was found to be very accurate and reliable in extreme environments. Which means it's ''perfect'' for protagonists in the Metal Gear universe, who always operate in the wilderness. After all, most players end up using their handguns the most for [[PunchPackingPistol a reason]].

* Snake's signature weapon is the [[RareGuns/{{Handguns}} Mark 23 SOCOM]], a .45 caliber pistol noted for being infamously large and heavy and having terrible ergonomics in real life. The devs have stated that the SOCOM was chosen because its huge size was easy to model and Snake handling the SOCOM well enough to take advantage of its full capabilities made him look really cool. But why do many players end up using the SOCOM as their main weapon? PunchPackingPistol aside, the SOCOM was originally designed to be used as a primary weapon in place of a rifle or SMG, and was found to be very accurate and reliable in extreme environments.

*** In MetalGearSolidV, turns out that one specific Patriot member (who's in this for himself) helped turn [[spoiler:Huey]] into a sociopath. ''Now how many other significant characters in the series has he worked on''.

** That is a fallacy, on par with "Hitler ate sugar". By that logic every game, book, movie/etc where character can hide in closed somehow "indicates" that he/she is gay. Very cryptic, yeah right.

* Big Boss was thought to carry on the emotion of The Boss, the Joy [of battle]. However, he's a conflicted individual that feels that he lives for battle and only battle, yet gets no enjoyment from it besides as a being that 'is a gun', in his own words. Who was the true inheritor of The Boss' emotion, [[spoiler: and, unwittingly, her will for a world united as one in peace in the long run?]] Solid Snake, who Liquid outright states to his face was filled with the joy for battle while fighting FOXHOUND in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.

* Big Boss was thought to carry on the emotion of The Boss, the Joy [of battle]. However, he's a conflicted individual that feels that he lives for battle and only battle, yet gets no enjoyment from it besides as a being that 'is a gun', in his own words. Who was the true inheritor of The Boss' emotion, [[spoiler: and, unwittingly, her will for a world united as one in peace in the long run?]] Solid Snake, who Liquid outright states to his face was filled with the joy for battle while fighting FOXHOUND in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid1''.

* I got into the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' series after hearing so much about it on this wiki. I finished MGS 2, and it occured to me that the whole thing was Hideo Kojima telling the world that he simply didn't believe that he could make a good sequel to MGS that could live up to fans expectations. After I came to this conclusion, I realised that ''the very first action the player would take'' - saving - ''lampshades this,'' with [[IceCreamKoan Otacon's inability to quote correctly, unlike Mei Ling.]] Maybe I'm slow, but it seemed pretty clever to me. - {{randomfanboy}}
** Also, I was very confused by the fact that Naked Snake kept on referring to EVA as Eva even after discovering her real name. Later I realised it was a deliberate reference to Rose referring to Raiden as Jack. In fact, the whole of MGS 3 is simply retelling MGS 2 in a way that people can swallow. Consider: A man named Jack is sent into a battlezone with no clue that his superiors are betraying him. His formally absent parental figure is the villain of the game. The woman he is in love with betrays him. He ends up killing his parental figure because an ancient conspiracy told him to, and he discovers that the whole mission he's been lied to and jerked around. I think it goes deeper than that, but there you go.

* In Big Boss's era of the Metal Gear Solid series all 3 of his games have the antagonist try to fire nuclear weapons at the United States. Think about that for a moment, this was during the Cold War when Americans and Russians alike lived in fear that their homelands could be turned into craters of radioactive dust at any moment, this illustrates how realistic the Cold War paranoia really was. Had it not been for the timely intervention of heroes like Big Boss the world could have ended like so many had feared during the Cold War.