History Webcomic / TheLastDaysOfFoxhound

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=6 Named the trope.]] He treats the condition with periodic pulls off an inhaler of [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=63 "Thioazurilamide"]] and in one Mailbag, advises against using "Thioazurilami'''n'''e," which is a cheap knock-off with "[[http://gigaville.com/mailbag.php?id=5 some nasty side effects, such as grogginess, shaky hands, and a desire to watch WB's award winning drama Gilmore Girls.]]" Thioazurilamide "may be a bit more expensive, but is well worth it in order to live a steady-handed life free of teenage angst soap operas."

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=464 Ocelot's reaction]] to the fact that the blast furnace in Shadow Moses is directly next to the cold storage.

* {{Anti Villain}}s: Well, possibly...

* UndercoverWhenAlone: Several reveals from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' jossed a fair amount of Ocelot's behavior. As such, it was retconned that he was simply always undercover and keeping up the illusion when alone was part of how he has a lot of practice being undercover.

* CoatHatMask: Decoy Octopus' self-image is basically a hat and trench coat, with nothing inside them. When asked why so, he says he's a Bogart fan.

* AffectionateParody: Of the events leading up to ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid 1]]''.

* MagicAIsMagicA"

* BrickJoke: [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=246 strip 246]] features Ghost Liquid going on a completely misguided and inaccurate spiel about dominant and recessive genes. Raven notes that Mantis "is gonna have a conniption" if and when he finds out what Liquid's "[[CriticalResearchFailure learned]]". Then comes [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=427 strip 427]] where Liquid suggests consulting the book "American Journal of Inaccurate Genetics: Volume 19" to fix the Genome Soldiers' oncoming gene malfunctions. Cue Mantis [[{{Angrish}} literally foaming at the mouthpiece]]. For more laughs, guess what the title of strip 427 is.

'''Liquid:''' ''(performing a {{Neck Lift}})'' [[Film/{{Armageddon}} So it can shoot down asteroids too, alright? Just like Bruce Willis!]]

* DoesNotLikeWomen: Psycho Mantis has a somewhat irrational disgust for direct contact with women, to the extent that he doesn't want Sniper Wolf touching him, even though he is about to fall off a cliff. He reveals in a mailbag later on that it's because he's [[UpToEleven EXTREMELY]] sexually repressed due to [[MindRape everyone around him thinking about sex practically ALL THE TIME]].

* PregnantBadass: The Boss led the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Normandy Invasion]] while carrying her and The Sorrow's child. She went into labor on the battlefield, so what did she do? ''[[UpToEleven Performed a c-section on herself.]]'' '''With a goddamn COMBAT KNIFE.''' And by the time she took the time to recover from that, she'd already practically '''WON''' UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for the Allies.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Parodied, as apparently why Sniper Wolf looks like that is because her shirt was [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=402 accidentally shrunk]] from a more reasonable neckline.

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=498 Strip #498]] shows Liquid absolutely pumped with anticipation as he rides the freight elevator up the Heliport, blissfully unaware that Snake is now in the room below him. [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=499 Strip #499]] then skips to the end of the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid game]] and shows us the [[KillEmAll fate]] of FOXHOUND.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: When [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=452 the military summons Campbell]] to Warren Air Force Base for a matter of national security, he begs the man they send to tell him they want him to run the [[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate program]]. The man hesitates in saying it ''could'' be that. [[WhatAnIdiot Campbell takes it.]]

* HoYay: Not nearly as much as you'd expect, [[HoYay/MetalGearSolid considering the series]], but hell, there's [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=283 always]] [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=354 Ocelot.]]

* AnachronismStew: [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=260 This strip]] contains a link to a YTMND featuring Darth Vader's [[MemeticMutation infamous]] BigNo. VideoGame/MetalGearSolid is set in the early winter of 2005, whereas Film/RevengeOfTheSith came out in May of that year, several months ''after'' the events of the game.

[[caption-width-right:Everyone's favorite villains.]]

* OutdatedByCanon: Repeatedly.[[=MGS3=]] came out in the middle of the comic's run and required a lot of retcons to hit into the comic and the whole thing was completed just in time for ''Guns Of The Patriots'' to come out and invalidate it all again. Particular with the revelation that [[spoiler:Big Boss wasn't dead.]]

* DoomedByCanon: Most of the cast is literally doomed by the canon, since [[spoiler:you do kill them in the game.]]

** The line is all about RuleOfFunny, but when you think about it this actually makes a fair amount of sense. A lot of Ocelot's war crimes were committed ''in Afghanistan'' against the mujaheddin who later became the Taliban, Bin Laden's allies.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Take a guess.

* FourthWallMailSlot: The mailbags that are answered by the characters. Often used to reveal information on this version of the ''Metal Gear'' universe (as of [[VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] in-universe, [=MGS2=] and later [=MGS3=] in-universe[[labelnote:*]]([=MGS3=] came out during the comic's run.)[[/labelnote]]) that the story can't without going out of its way to do so, relevance be damned.

->''Anderson'': [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=443 I oversee military technology development for the United States. I can get cellphone reception on a submarine.]]

%%* AffectionateParody

* DoesNotLikeWomen: Psycho Mantis has a somewhat irrational phobia of direct contact with women, to the extent that he doesn't want Sniper Wolf touching him, even though he is about to fall off a cliff.

%%* FanGirl: Mei Ling.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil

%%* FourthWallMailSlot

%%* MagicalNativeAmerican: Vulcan Raven.

* MeetMyGoodFriendsLeftyAndRighty: [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=312 Trope namer.]]

** The two characters cut from the game are maybe done justice by there being no sane reason why either of them should be members of a special-ops team. Chinaman is worse than useless and quite possibly actually insane. [[note]]He was originally fought instead of Vamp in the water oxygenation room in the Shell 2 core; the cut made Vamp "inherit" his powers.[[/note]] Old Boy is mostly crazy, senile, and is never seen doing anything except frothing at the mouth and insulting people in German. [[note]]He was originally a PuzzleBoss who would've switched btween different weapons during his fight, depending on which weapon you used against him.[[/note]] They are as useful as a wetsuit in the desert.

** And this is why he hates sex. Because ''that's'' what people think about unfiltered, all day, every day.

* PregnantBadass: The Boss led the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Normandy Invasion]] while carrying her and The Sorrow's child. She went into labor on the battlefield, so what did she do? ''[[UpToEleven Performed a c-section on herself.]]'' '''With a goddamn COMBAT KNIFE.'''

* SuperCellReception: The DARPA Chief: [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=443 "I oversee military technology development for the United States. I can get cellphone reception on a submarine."]]

'''The Sorrow''': Tell that to Mr. and Mrs. Goon!\\