Line #14 WebVideo/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfAbridgerty


1	The sequel to WebVideo/MetalGearSolidTheAbridgedSnakes, by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/LordQuadros LordQuadros]], parodying VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty. Proposed as an April Fool's Day joke long before the first series was over, this series is nonetheless underway as a legitimate [[TheAbridgedSeries Abridged Series]].
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3	Has been concluded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjIbbWrxWU as of February 25th]], with an abdridged series of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' announced in TheStinger.
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5	!!This series provides examples of:
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7	* ActorAllusion: Very meta example. [[spoiler: Adamwestslapdog provides the voice for Metal Gear RAY. The mass-produced [=RAYs=] are "voiced" by clips of CD-I Link. Adamwestslapdog is known in the abridging community for voicing Link in his own abridged series of ''Ocarina of Time''. All versions of RAY are voiced by a humorous knockoff of Link]].
8	* AmbiguouslyGay: Snake. "We're here, we're queer... I mean, all for one and one fo- forget it." (walks away)
9	** The one [[spoiler: mass-produced RAY]] asking Raiden for a kiss.
10	** Ocelot, per source material, but definitely turned up to eleven.
11	* AsYouKnow: Campbell in Episode 1 explains the origins of the Big Shell, just as in the source material. Raiden [[LampshadeHanging has no idea why]].
12	-->'''Raiden:''' Again, these are things that everybody in the world knows...[[ButThouMust But go on...]]
13	* BaitAndSwitch: Episode 0 starts with the intro speech to [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]] instead of Snake's ''[=MGS2=]'' intro, but starts up normally afterward.
14	** In the series proper, Raiden attempts a Snake impersonation during the beginning of Episode 1, but Campbell tells him to "Knock that shit off".
15	* BetterThanABareBulb: A lot of times. Vamp in particular moves on from making innuendos to being this, with regards to his role in the series.
16	* BlatantLies: Campbell's instant denial of any other intruders being in the base even though Raiden just saw him.
17	* BossBanter: Deconstructed. Solidus keeps taunting Raiden from within the Harrier, but it distracts and annoys Vamp, who is trying to pilot.
18	* CallForward: In regards to the source material, at least. In the finale, Solidus begins a sinister speech, but gets interrupted by Raiden, who is using the exact same words the original Raiden would later use against the FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Complete with raspier tone.
19	** A short video released at the beginning of 2014 using footage from the same playthrough has Otacon, Snake and Raiden predicting the future. Otacon and Snake start thinking about ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' (because it's set in 2014) while Raiden headbangs to "Rules of Nature" from ''Revengeance''. The other two give him weird looks.
20	* TheCameo: Paul Eiding as "Big Teddy" in the opening of Episode 9. Very much an ActorAllusion, given the part of the game that episode covers.
21	* CharacterFilibuster: The Colonel AI (with help from the simulated Rosemary) goes on a four minute-long speech about how the failure of DMCA means nothing given that SOPA has been proposed, the Patriots' ultimate ambition to monetize abridging and parodying as advertisements for the source material, and how Raiden ([[SelfDeprecation and all the stale jokes in this series]]) has played perfectly into their hands, concluding that Raiden forms a perfect AudienceSurrogate by being amused at such stale humour, covering both ThisLoserIsYou and TakeThatAudience. This is very much in keeping with the ''original'' [=MGS2=], where the Patriots rant at length about societal control.
22	** Solid Snake has a particularly heartwarming one after the end credits roll, about how one really shouldn't care about corporatism or being hated when making original work, and that as long as ''you're'' proud of what you've done it's worth it in the end.
23	* CompressedAdaptation: it is an ''abridged'' series, after all. Still, it can be startling to see the entire Tanker half of the game squozen into exactly 481 seconds.
24	* CreatorCouple: [=LordQuadros=] and [=Whip0fAlchemy=]
25	* DeadpanSnarker: Almost [[WorldOfSnark everyone]], but Fatman takes it and rollerskates away with it.
26	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Solidus and Vamp are trying to recover from the Harrier fight, [[spoiler: Metal Gear RAY keeps nagging Ocelot to pay attention to him]].
27	* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Raiden, eating gunpowder, murdering people, all played for funny.
28	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All but Episode 0 and the final episode are named after puns of Big Shell, Dead Cell, or [[spoiler: Arsenal Gear]].
29	* IdiotBall: Snake points out how RAY, an anti-Metal Gear weapon, shouldn't be something they want to destroy.
30	-->'''Otacon:''' This means we're against ALL models of Metal Gear, regardless of whether we end up shooting ourselves in the foot.
31	-->'''Snake:''' Oh, I get it...[[LampshadeHanging So we're idiots, now.]]
32	** Raiden electrocuting himself simply because Campbell tells him to.
33	* MindScrew: It's ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', a competitor for Mind-Screwiest video game out there. Of course this gets lampshaded repeatedly, to the point of the opening theme being [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Everything You Know Is Wrong]].
34	** Episode 10 "ends" multiple times, each with a variation of METAL GEAR SOLID in a reference to the FissionMailed TropeNamer.
35	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Used by "Campbell" about the PRESIDENT, no less.
36	* [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya "My name is Helena Dolph Jackson."]]
37	** YouKilledMyFather
38	** [[spoiler: [[InvertedTrope I am prepared]] [[PrepareToDie to die]].]]
39	* NoFourthWall: Par for the course; Raiden trains for his mission by watching The Abridged Snakes, hoping to avoid visual gags and awkward tangents. [[MindScrew Considering the source material,]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption it's unlikely this will help much.]]
40	* OnceAnEpisode: "Metal Gear?!...There, I said it. [[TemptingFate Now nobody has to repeat it in the comments EVER again.]]"
41	** "Stop saying Metal Gear!!"
42	* OnlySaneMan: Zigzags. Raiden tried to keep track of all the crazy things happening but the counter ended up saying "FUCK THIS" but he has daft moments as well.
43	* ParrotExposition: It is Metal Gear Solid.
44	--->'''Ocelot:''' "Stop saying Metal Gear!!"
45	* [[PermissionToSpeakFreely PermissionToX]]: "P-p-permission to freak out sir... Sir?
46	* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Metal Gear RAY]]
47	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Federal Hall statute of George Washington gives one to Solidus upon his defeat.
48	--> '''Solidus:''' President Washington... lets go meet the other great revolutionaries...\
49	'''Washington:''' Solidus, I recruited men who were willing to fight for their freedom. You raised child soldiers to fight in a war abroad. You won't meet anyone great. You're going to Hell!
50	* TheScream: Raiden's reaction to being told he has to talk to Rose.
51	* [[spoiler: SequelHook[=/=]TheStinger: To the inevitable abridged series of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater.]]
52	* SeriousBusiness: Mc Phayckneighm's view on cardboard boxes.
53	* ShoutOut: Numerous; Episode 1 even starts with the definition of an [[TheAbridgedSeries Abridged Series]] found on this very site!
54	** Episode 0 has Ocelot gives his name via a Mother/Earthbound screen.
55	** Episode 7's fight with Vamp has Castlevania music playing in the background, complete with a song namedrop.
56	-->'''Vamp:''' Fancy yourself a ''vampire killer'', do you?
57	** Episode 8 has the theme of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]] [[NowDoItAgainBackwards playing backwards]] while Raiden and Emma climb down a very long ladder, a reference to Naked Snake's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTe30im5NY own climb]] ''up''.
58	* ShownTheirWork: "[=McPhayckneighm=]" states that although Shell 2 exploded, the hostages were fine because since it was Sunday, they were all in Shell 1. Raiden contests that it's actually Wednesday. April 29th, 2009 was a Wednesday.
59	* TheStinger: Announcing the future parody of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''.
60	* SueDonym: Sudonimm [=McPhayckneighm=]
61	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: 'What are you implying? That I betrayed your father and killed him? Hah, what a ridiculous accusation. You're crazy, paranoid and dumb.'
62	* SyntheticVoiceActor: [[spoiler: The mass-produced Metal Gears at the end are all "voiced" by [[YouTubePoop CD-I Link]]]].
63	* TakeThat: "Campbell" is not amused by Raiden's Snake imitation, and says that while everyone and their mother thinks they can do a good Snake voice, they ALL suck.
64	** Raiden keeps trying to say {{The Cake is a Lie}}. Mc Phayckneighm and Mr. X are [[DiscreditedMeme not amused]].
65	* TakeThatAudience: The Colonel AI's rant on how only the throwaway jokes were considered funny and that nobody appreciates creativity in this information age. LampshadeHanging when he bets that people are about to down-vote the video and unsubscribe from the channel.
66	** A month later, the video has three downvotes and 225 upvotes. The fans must have been too amused to be offended.
67	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: One of his songs, [[MindScrew Everything You Know Is Wrong]], is the opening theme.

Context WebVideo / MetalGearSolid2SonsOfAbridgerty