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Metal Gear is a series of video games by Konami Computer Entertainment. The Metal Gear series centers around Solid Snake, a genetically engineered (cloned) super-soldier. As a member of an elite task force FOX-HOUND, Snake penetrated and destroyed several terrorist organizations, including one led by Big Boss, his genetic father.

Further adventures involve his disarming a nuclear crisis on a remote island in Alaska (and killing his genetic brother in so doing), and helping, as a part of his NGO, Philanthropy, to document and eradicate Metal Gears, including Arsenal Gear, a supercenter for information and warfare built in the New York Harbor by the Patriots.

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[edit] Metal Gear Solid

  • Revolver Ocelot: I love to reload during a battle! There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long

silver bullet into a well greased chamber. (During the Revolver Ocelot fight, the first time he reloads.)

  • Mei Ling: Like beauty, truth is in the eye of the beholder.
  • Meryl Silverburgh: I've been using a gun like this since I was 8 years old. I'm more comfortable with it than I am with a bra.

[edit] Solid Snake

  • You Never Know... (in response to Mei Ling's question, "Cigarettes? How will those help you?")
  • If you're going to doubt yourself, I'll leave you here. [...] Never doubt yourself. Only let it make you stronger.
  • Besides, some people just need killing.
  • This isn't glorious! It's just plain killing! Violence isn't a sport!
  • I'm just a man who's good at what he does: killing.
  • I never felt truly alive until I was staring death in the face.
  • A strong man doesn't need to read the future. He makes his own.

[edit] Liquid Snake

  • Stay alert! He'll be through here, I know it. I'm going to go swat down a couple of bothersome flies.
  • I always knew that one day I would meet you. The man who stole what was rightly mine... the man who stole my birthright.
  • And now, after the sacrifice of our brothers... after 30 long years, finally the two of us meet. The brother of light and the brother of dark.
  • So, the Snake's finally come out of its hole! Are you ready now, my brother?
  • Ask the father that you killed! I'll send you to hell to meet him!!
  • (after crushing Gray Fox with Rex foot) Foolish man. He prayed for death, and it found him.
  • There's a killer inside you. You don't have to deny it; We were created to be that way.
  • Not yet... Don't kill him yet...
  • Snake your blood will be the first to be spilled by this glorious new weapon. Consider it an honor, a gift from your brother. Now I'll show you the power of the weapon that will lead us into the twenty-first century.

[edit] Gray Fox

  • (as Snake aims at him with the Stinger) Now in front of you, I can finally die. After Zanzibar, I was taken from the battle neither truly alive nor truly dead; an undying shadow in the world of lights. But soon... soon, it will finally... end.
  • (last words while Rex foot is crushing him) Snake... we're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... the only thing... I was good at. But at least I always fought for what I believed in... Snake... farewell.
  • I am neither enemy nor friend. I am back from a world where such words are meaningless.
  • It is nothing so trivial as revenge. A fight to the death with you. Only in that can my soul find respite. I will kill you or you will kill me... it makes no difference.
  • Do you remember now, Snake... the feel of battle... the clashing of bone and sinew?
  • (after Snake punches him a few times) Now... we can fight as warriors... hand to hand... it is the basis of all combat. Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon.

[edit] Psycho Mantis

  • NOW, I will show you why I am the most powerful practitioner of psychokinesis and telepathy in the world!! No Snake, there's no need for words.
  • Every living thing on this planet exists to mindlessly pass on their DNA.
  • The first mind I dove into was my father's. I could see nothing but hatred for me in his heart. My mother had died giving birth to me. I was sure he was going to kill me. When I came to, my village was engulfed in flames. I see you have suffered the same trauma.
  • Humans were never meant to bring each other happiness. From the moment we are thrown into this world, we bring each other nothing but pain and misery.
  • I never believed in the boss' revolution. His dreams of conquest do not interest me. I just wanted an excuse to kill as many people as I could.
  • You've been playing Super Mario Sunshine, haven't you?
  • So... you like Castlevania, don't you?

[edit] Vulcan Raven

  • The boss was right. It is my existence which is no longer needed in this world. But, my body will not lie here - my spirit AND my flesh will become one with the ravens. In that way, I shall return to mother earth who bore me.
  • The path you walk on has no end. Each step you take is paved with the corpses of your enemies...Their souls will haunt you forever... you shall have no peace... Hear me, Snake! I will be watching you! My spirit... will be watching... you!
  • Yes, but there is another event I excel at. It is called the ear pull. Contestants pull each other's ears while enduring the harsh cold. It tests spiritual as well as physical strength.
  • We will see if there is iron in your words.
  • In the language of the Sioux people, Sioux means snake. It is known as an animal to be feared.
  • The raven on my head, it thirsts for your blood!
  • This is raven territory. Snakes don't belong in Alaska. Send him a message!

[edit] Sniper Wolf

  • I witnessed the brutality....the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rifle.
  • I was born on a battlefield. Raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens and screams... they were my lullabies... Hunted like dogs day after day... driven from our ragged shelters... That... was my life. Each morning, I'd wake up... and find a few more of my family or friends dead beside me. I'd stare at the morning sun...and pray to make it through the day. The governments of the world turned a blind eye to our misery. But then... he appeared. My hero... Saladin... he took me away from all that... I became a sniper, hidden watching everything through a rifles scope. Now I could see war not from inside but from the outside as an observer. I watched the brutality... the stupidity of mankind through the scope of my rifle. I joined this group of revolutionaries to take my revenge on the world. But... I have shamed myself and my people.. I am no longer the wolf I was born to be. In the name of vengeance I sold my body and my soul. Now I am nothing more then a dog.
  • [to Solid Snake] I finally understand.. I wasn't waiting to kill people.. I was waiting for someone to kill me. A man like you, you're a hero. Please, set me free.

[edit] Otacon

  • (watching Snake fight Gray Fox) This is just like one of my Japanese animes!
  • The whole reason I got into science in the first place was because I was no good with people. I was scared of them. I was scared of life. I thought that I could never understand them because they're so illogical. But I've finally learned how to like people. I'm not afraid anymore.
  • The truth is... my grandfather was part of the Manhattan Project. He suffered with the guilt for the rest of his life. And my father... he was born on August 6th, 1945.
  • Three generations of Emmerich men. We must have the curse of nuclear weapons written into our DNA.
  • Snake.. people die. But death is not defeat.
  • Life isn't all about loss, you know.

[edit] Dialogue

  • Snake: I managed to sneak in my smokes.
    Naomi: Just how did you manage to do that?
    Snake: In my stomach.
  • Sniper Wolf: Do you want to die now? Or after your female friend? Which will it be?
    Snake: I'll die after I kill you.
  • Otacon: Snake! What was she fighting for!? What am I fighting for!? What are you fighting for!??
    Snake: If we make it through this, I'll tell you!
  • Naomi: Snake! Are you smoking?
    Snake: Yeah. So?
    Naomi: We now know that tobacco contains benzopyrene, which converts into benzopyrene diolate in the body, which attaches itself to the P53 gene of the lung, and causes certain pre-cancerous effects.
    Snake: Yeah. So?

[edit] Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

[edit] Dialogue

  • Solid Snake: Find something to believe in and find it for yourself. And when you do, pass it on to the future.
    Raiden: Believe in what?
    Solid Snake: That's your problem.
  • Otacon: Another Chinese proverb: "Those who look to the Heavens prosper, those who defy it are no more." Do you know this one? The meaning here is - hold on a sec - that you can only survive as long as you're a part of the natural order of things. You remember pre-ripped jeans? Manufacturers thought that just because people loved old, broken-in jeans, they would want to buy new jeans that looked old. So they purposefully...
    Solid Snake: What do jeans have to do with nature and order?
  • Raiden: Still ticking, eh?
    Vamp: Unfortunately, Hell had no vacancies.

[edit] Colonel's Breakdown

  • Colonel: Raiden! Turn the game console off right now!
  • Colonel: Honestly though, you have played the game for a long time. Don't you have anything to do with your time?
  • Colonel: Actually, I am in really bad shape financially. I pay money to my ex-wife as part of our divorce settlement, among other bills... I just had no choice but to make you pay for lunch the other day. I'm really sorry.
  • Colonel: You wouldn't be trying to give yourself a bogus score using some ingenious trick would you? That's just about as low as anyone could possibly stoop! I can't believe you sometimes...
  • Colonel: (If you kill dozens of enemies before Arsenal Gear) "You seem to get a real thrill out of slaughtering the enemy. Are you frustrated about something?"
  • Colonel: I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari-kari rock. I need scissors! 61!
    • (While inside Arsenal Gear, affected by virus)
  • Colonel: Snake... remember what de Gaulle said... 'the graveyards are full of indispensable men.' Snake, you're all alone and surrounded by bad guys, try to avoid getting into a fight when ever you can.
    • A reference to Mei Ling's advice from MGS1.

[edit] AI's Ending

  • Rose: We've always kept records of our lives. Through words, pictures, symbols... from tablets to books...
    Colonel: But not all the information was inherited by later generations. A small percentage of the whole was selected and processed, then passed on. Not unlike genes, really.
    Rose: That's what history is, Jack.
    Colonel: But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible.
  • Colonel: The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.
    Rose: Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans.
    Colonel: Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims.
    Rose: Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing.
    Colonel: Be nice to other people.
    Rose: But beat out the competition!
    Colonel: "You're special." "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."
    Rose: But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...
    Colonel: You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.
  • Rose: Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."
    Colonel: And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
    • The Colonel's comment here is a reference to the final lines of T.S. Eliot's famous poem, "The Hollow Men" (1925).

[edit] Epilogue

  • Otacon: Snake, you there? It's me. I've finished going over that disc.
    Snake: Did you find the Patriots' list?
    Otacon: Of course. It contains the personal data of twelve people. There was a name on it-- Snake, it was one of our biggest contributors.
    Snake: What's going on around here?
    Otacon: I don't know...
    Snake: ...Anyway, where are they?
    Otacon: Well, we were right about them being on Manhattan, but...
    Snake: But what?
    Otacon: They're already dead. All twelve of them.
    Snake: When did it happen?
    Otacon: Well, ah... about a hundred years ago.
    Snake: What the hell...

[edit] Solid Snake

  • Solid Snake: Who dares, wins.
  • Solid Snake: You never asked.
  • Solid Snake: Not happy about that? Get over it.
  • Solid Snake: Semper Fi.

[edit] Other Characters

  • Olga: I grew up on the battlefield. Conflict and Victory were my parents. The unit is my Life, my Family. I have no one, nothing except the unit. Nothing else matters to me!
  • Mr. X: Neither enemy, nor friend.
  • President Johnson: Even if a pawn becomes a queen, it is still just a playing piece...
  • Otacon: Huh? We didn't lie to you. We just didn't tell you everything.

[edit] Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

[edit] Naked Snake/Big Boss

  • Naked Snake/Big Boss: A name means nothing on the battlefield. After a week, no one has a name.
    • A reference to Metal Gear Solid, snake tells Meryl the same thing when she asked his name.
      • Naked Snake/Big boss: I've never been interested in other people's lives [to Eva]

[edit] Eva

  • I realized that the gravity in this universe was holding me back. That's all. People and their countries are both changed by the environment. And by the times.
  • There's a world of difference between this country and America. But it's only a difference of position. A difference of perspective. Coming here made me realize something. Half of what I'd been told was a complete and utter lie... the other half was a conveniently constructed lie.
  • It's only when I'm on the bike that I'm free to be the real me. I only get off my bike when I fall in love or fall dead...
  • Scholars tell us that the first spy in history was the snake in the Book of Genesis. In that story it was Eve who was tempted by the snake in the garden of Eden. But this time around it was I who tempted the snake and got away with the forbidden fruit of knowledge. Forgive me, Snake.

[edit] The Boss

  • Just because soldiers are on the same side right now doesn't mean they always will be. Having personal feelings about your comrades is one the worst sins you can commit. Politics determine who you face on the battlefield. And politics are a living thing. They change along with the times. Yesterday's good might be tomorrow's evil.
  • People's values change over time. And so do the leaders of a country. So there's no such thing as an enemy in absolute terms. The enemies we fight are only in relative terms, constantly changing with the times.
  • Sooner or later, your conscience is going to bother you. In the end, you have to choose whether you're going to live as a soldier, or just another man with a gun.
  • Which will it be, Jack? Loyalty to your country, or loyalty to me? Your country, or your old mentor? The mission, or your beliefs? Your duty to your unit, or your personal feelings? You don't know the truth yet. But sooner or later you'll have to choose.
  • Life's end... isn't it beautiful? It's almost tragic. When life ends, it gives off a final, lingering aroma. Light is but a farewell gift from the darkness to those on their way to die. I've been waiting, Snake, for a long time. Waiting for your birth, your growth, and the finality of today.
  • It was November 1st 1951. I was in the Nevada desert, participating in Atomic testing... The name "nevadas" is derived from Spanish; "covered in snow, white as snow"... And snow is exactly what I saw in that Nevada desert - It froze my blood white.
  • In 1960 I saw a vision of the ideal future... from space.
  • I could see the planet as it appeared from space... That's when it finally hit me... Space exploration is nothing but another game in the power struggle between the US and the USSR. Politics, economics, the arms race... They're all just arenas for meaningless competition. I'm sure you can see that. But the world itself has no boundries - no East, no West, no Cold War...
  • A world without communism or capitalism... that is the world I wanted to see... But reality continued to betray me.
  • There's only room for one Boss. And one Snake

[edit] The End

  • The moment you close your eyes on the battlefield is the moment you never open them again.
  • I beg of you, grant me the strength to take this final prey. Let me linger in this world just a little longer. I have already slept enough for one lifetime. Enough for an eternity. You have my thanks... I have to thank you for waking me. If you hadn't shown up, my sleep would have been eternal. Do you hear me Snake? I am The End... I am here to send you to your ultimate fate. You'll make a fine quarry for my final hunt.
  • Spirits of the forest.. I thank you. The Boss would be proud of you. The time has come for a younger generation to rise. I've been wandering for more then a century and now my journey comes to a close. What a splendid way to end it all. I have no regrets. I can return to the fore-- [jibbersh takes over as his teeth fall out]

[edit] The Fury

  • I am The Fury. The flames of my rage will incinerate you. I came back from space. As I returned, I had one vision. The world set ablaze. And do you know what I saw there? (he aims his flamethrower upwards and incinerates a group of bats) Fury! A great and terrible Fury at being alive. Now you're going to feel the scorching heat of that horrible blackness.
  • Boss...this is the end of the Cobras. You've got to live on. You're the only one left. I'm off, to join The Sorrow.("He removes his helmet and the flames converge upon his face.") Behold the flames of Fury. The fires of hell will purge me clean. ("He staggers, grasping madly for his igniter. He is clearly out of his mind.") I can see it. Mission Control, do you read me? I'm coming home. I see the earth!"("He blasts off directly into the ceiling")

[edit] The Sorrow

  • Sad... so sad... a host of sorrows... and you are one of them. I am The Sorrow. Like you I too am filled with sadness. This world is one of sadness. Battle brings death, death brings sorrow. The living may not hear them, their voices may fall upon deaf ears. But make no mistake the dead are not silent. Now you will know the sorrow of those who's lives you have ended.
  • The spirit of the warrior, will always be with you...
  • You will all be killed by your own sons.
  • Death is tragic but life is miserable... The is why you have been summoned here.
  • Go back to your own world... Wake up!
  • (to the Boss before she kills him) Don't be sad.

[edit] The Fear

  • [After successfully hitting Naked Snake with a crossbow bolt] THE FEAR! I am The Fear. That bolt is coated in the venom of the Brazilian Wandering Spider. Soon A most exquisite pain will engulf your entire body, your limbs will be paralyzed, your lungs cease to draw breathe. Eventually your heart will stop beating. Ah, but what fun would that be? Not a fitting death at all. The Boss' apprentice... I will give you fear such as you've never experienced before! Come into my web. It is time... for you to feel the fear!

[edit] Colonel Volgin

  • Welcome to my country, and to my unit!
    • To The Boss, after her desertion.
  • This is war, Major. A Cold War, fought with information and espionage. We must root out spies wherever they hide. It is kill or be killed.
    • To Major Ocelot, after killing Granin.
  • Who's afraid of a little thunder?.
    • Volgin's last words.

[edit] Other Characters

  • Major Zero: You're a ghost, Snake. In every sense of the word.
  • Major Ocelot: Thank you, for teaching me the joy of the revolver.
  • Sokolov: I would once again find myself creating weapons of mass murder. Every day I help create things that should never be used. Things that should never have existed in the first place.
  • Major Ocelot:You're pretty good.
  • Sokolov: All I wanted to do was build space rockets... But it was not to be. The space race between America and Russia became the prey of politicians. The space race and the arms race is one and the same. Missiles, rockets... What's the difference? Scientists are always being used.
    • Possible reference to Metal Gear Solid, Otacon mentions how scientists are wrongfully used to build weapons.

[edit] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

[edit] Characters

  • Liquid Ocelot: Do you see this, Zero? We are victorious! Behold! Guns of the Patriots!
  • Liquid Ocelot: Brother, Rejoice! We're not copies of our father, after all!
    • Screams this to Old Snake
  • Liquid Ocelot: It's all part of the plan.
  • Raiden: Sunny told me to tell you... "I cooked them right" (to Naomi before she dies)
  • Naomi: Good for you Sunny...
  • Raiden: I am lightning...The rain Transformed
  • Screaming Mantis: NO, SORROW, MY DOLL!!! - NO, MANTIS!!!
  • Sunny: Come quick, they're ready! It looks... Yummy! Like the sun... It's rising again... (game's last words before ranking)

[edit] Old Snake

  • Old Snake: War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War, and its consumption of life, has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID tagged soldiers carry ID tagged weapons, use ID tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control. Information control. Emotion control. Battlefield control. Everything is monitored, and kept under control. War has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control. All in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction. And he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war...becomes routine.
  • Old Snake: I'm no hero. Never was, never will be. I'm just an old killer, hired to do some wet work.
  • Old Snake: I'm a shadow, one that no light will shine on. As long as you follow me, you'll never see the day.
  • Old Snake:: You were the lightning in that rain, you can still shine through the darkness.
  • Old Snake:: LIQUID!

[edit] Big Boss

  • Big Boss: Everything has its beginning. But doesn't start at "one." It starts long before that, in chaos. The world is born... From zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes two, two becomes ten, ten becomes 100. Taking it all back to one solves nothing. So long as zero remains one will eventually grow to 100 again. And so our goal was to erase Zero. Even the mighty Patriots began with a single man. That one man's desires grew huge, bloated; absorbed technology; began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late that we had created a beast. We had helped turn Zero into 100. His sin... was ours. And for that reason, I'm taking it upon myself to send Zero back to nothing.
  • Big Boss: Ever since the day I killed The Boss, with my own hands, I...was already dead.
  • Big Boss: It all began with a bunch of old fools. Now... They've all passed away. Their era of folly is over. I'm the only one left, and soon I'll be gone, too.
  • Big Boss: I never thought of you as a son. But... I always respected you, as a soldier... and as a man.
  • Big Boss: It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others and believing in your own...Isn't that...what...you fought for? At last, I understand the meaning of what you did...At last, I understand the truth behind your courage.
  • Big Boss: Know this, Zero... and... I... Liquid and Solidus... We all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty to free ourselves from systems, nations, norms and ages, but no matter how hard we fought the only liberty we found was on the inside, trapped within those limits... The Boss and I may have taken different paths but in the end, we were both trapped inside the same cage... "Liberty."
  • Big Boss: This is good, isn't it? [Big Boss' last words]

[edit] Gravestones

  • Big Boss: A hero, forever loyal to the flames of war, rests in Outer Heaven. 193X - 1999
  • The Boss: In memory of a patriot who saved the world 192X - 1964

[edit] The Ending

  • Big Boss: That's right. Good. No need for you to go just yet. It's been a long time... Snake.
  • Big Boss: He was a perfect clone. Zero, and the proxy AIs that came after him, were convinced that Solidus was me. I was implanted with nanomachines... kept in a state of eternal sleep... by JD the proxy AI. They had me sealed away completely... not only physical body, but my will, too. The technology was similar to what they used to restrain the B&B members you encountered. For me to wake again... The System had to be destroyed... one way or another. Ocelot and EVA wanted two things... To bring me back to life, and to end the Patriots. That meant destroying the AI and killing the man... JD and Zero. Right before you uploaded the virus into GW... The way to JD was opened, but only through the physical manifestation of GW. That's when we finally learned the location of this man... Zero. For me, and for them... For Naomi... nothing was more important. And it was for that they put their grand scheme into motion. EVA stole my body from them and reconstructed it by replacing the missing parts with pieces from Liquid and Solidus. And Ocelot... in order to fool the System... used nanomachines and psychotherapy to transplant Liquid's personality onto his own. He used hypnotic suggestion to turn himself into Liquid's mental doppelganger. For all our advances in nanotechnology... Information and genetic control... They've never managed to control people at will... Let alone turn one person totally into another.
  • Big Boss: The proxies were only one small part of the vast cycle that Zero created. The corporations, for-profits... and research institutions that comprise the military-industrial complex were part of it, too. They operated on budgets automatically allotted to them by the proxies... Accounts maintained by the Patriots. The network covered everything from weapons R&D and investment to production and marketing. It encompassed the people, the companies - even the laws that protect them. Politics and economics became nothing more than iterations of the same oppressively uniform system. I don't think anyone realized that it was all a setup... A mere set of norms. The Patriots were those norms - a neural network reduced to its simplest form. That's what they really represented... Uniformity without individual will, without change. But then one day, those norms suddenly deviated from that pattern, and underwent a mutation. It was like the birth of a new life form... The System found a new way to propagate itself... War. The norms the Patriots had crafted for their unified state quickly became dependent on a single business... The war economy. Meanwhile, the political cause of creating a "cleaner, safer battlefield" provided a convenient catalyst. By then, the System was no longer being steered by Zero's will -- or anyone else's. It was then that the norms - manifested as AIs, the inheritors of Zero's will... began to reproduce and take on a life of their own. Zero's original intent was to carry on The Boss's will and establish a unified world state... An inside world. But his successors failed to carry on his will. Eventually, JD became the very age itself, propagating its will as it pleased. And this age chose to act through economics instead of nation-states. Powered by the industrial and digital revolutions that came before it... this age gave birth to a twisted economic revolution - a battlefield revolution. It created a new world without substance. In this new world, there were no ideologies, no principles, no ideals... not even the thing she treasured most... Loyalty. There was only the war economy. It was a colossal error in judgment - one Zero couldn't possibly have foreseen.
  • Big Boss: With the American system in a state of collapse... The Patriots' society has reverted to a blank slate. This man was the source of it all. And he doesn't even realize it. He's completely unaware of the fact that he led the world to the brink of ruin. Even with so much bad blood between us... It's funny... Now that I'm actually face to face with him again... The hatred is gone. All I feel is a deep sense of longing. And pity. Did Zero really hate me? Or... did he fear me? It's too late to ask him now. The original members... Para-Medic... Sigint... EVA... Ocelot. They've all passed on. Only Zero is left. Everything has its beginning... but it doesn't start at "one." It starts long before that... in chaos. The world is born... from zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes two... Two becomes 10... 10 becomes 100. Taking it all back to one solves nothing. So long as zero remains... One... will eventually grow to 100 again. And so... our goal... was to erase Zero. Even the mighty Patriots began with a single man. That one man's desires grew huge... bloated. Absorbed technology began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late... that we had created a beast. We had helped turn Zero... into 100. His sin... was ours. And for that reason... I'm taking it upon myself to send Zero... back to nothing.
  • Big Boss: They did it again. They used you to kill me. The Patriots. No... their proxies... In order to bury us... They did it again. In the end, they're no more than a program. All they can do is repeat the same pattern over and over again. Do me a favor, will you? Take me over to her. There's one more thing Naomi wanted me to tell you. About the... old FOXDIE in your body... The only that mutated. The new FOXDIE inside you continues to multiply. At the same time... it is preventing the old... mutated FOXDIE from reproducing. The new FOXDIE is uprooting the old. Naomi confirmed it in her follow-up. The mutants are receding. Before long, they'll be gone entirely.
  • Big Boss: Everyone dies. You can't stop it. You can't run away from it. Let me tell you something... Don't... Don't waste the life you have left fighting. I've never thought of you... as a son. But I've always respected you as a soldier. And... as a man. If you'd been in my place back then... maybe you wouldn't have made the same mistakes that I did. Ever since the day I killed The Boss... with my own hands... I... was already dead. Boss... you were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others... And believing in your own. Isn't that... what you fought for? At last... I understand the meaning behind what you did. At last... I understand the truth behind your courage. It's almost time for me to go. And with me... the last ember of this fruitless war dies out. And at last those old evils will be gone. Once the source of evil returns to zero... a new one... a new future... will be born. That new world... is yours to live in. Not as a snake... but... as a man. Know this... Zero and I... Liquid and Solidus... We all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty. We fought to free ourselves from nations... and systems... and norms, and ages. But no matter how hard we tried, the only liberty we found... was on the inside... trapped within those limits. The Boss and I may have chosen different paths... But in the end, we were both trapped inside the same cage... Liberty. But you... You have been given freedom. Freedom to be... outside. You are nobody's tool now... No-one's toy. You are no longer a prisoner of fate. You are no longer a seed of war. It's time for you to see the outside world with your own eyes. Your body... and your soul... are your own. Forget about us. Live... for yourself. And find... a new lease on life. Boss... you only need one snake. No... The world would be better off without snakes. This is good... isn't it?

[edit] Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

[edit] Naked Snake/Big Boss

  • Justice huh... The meaning of justice can change from one day to the next... A professional soldier doesn't bring Justice into the mission. The only ones who need a reason to fight, are the ones who fight for a living. That's what my mentor told me. Politics are fickle... they change with the times. So as long as we remain loyal to our countries, soldiers like us need nothing to believe in. She died out of loyalty, not to justice, not to her country, but to herself, for the mission.
  • I've learned something... I'm not living unless I'm in battle. So I have to find my own reason to fight. I have to pass on what's been handed down to me.
  • It was four years ago, in Mozambique. There was a child soldier fighting with a guerrilla group in the struggle for independence. He killed dozens of government soldiers with just a single knife. He'd throw the enemy off guard with the innocent frankness of a young boy. Then he'd prey on them with the cold cruelty of a hunter. He spoke a little German so his enemies called him, "Frank Jaeger"... the frank hunter.
  • You use fear to keep your soldiers in line. You use words to deceive your allies. You exploit those who look up to you as a mentor and then you throw them away! The country you're building is no heaven for soldiers. The place they're looking for is outside your "heaven."

[edit] Elisa

  • I believe in you, Snake. My sister foresaw you plunging the world into fear. I foresaw you stopping Metal Gear. It was the first time in our lives our visions weren't one and the same. I believe in you.
  • Nobody, of course. The Perfect Soldier project ended in failure and was abandoned. He was the only success. That's why they gave him the code name Null. He's a lost number. He has no feelings and no memories. Not even a project number. Don't even think about fighting him. You can't possibly win, Snake.
  • Snake, oh Snake, everything is clear now, the futures we saw really were one and the same. You will destroy Metal Gear and you will build a new Metal Gear in its place. Snake your children Les Enfants Terribles... Snake,your son will bring the world to ruin, your son will save the world!

[edit] Lt. Cunningham

  • Simply apply the right type of pain, to the right degree, at just the right location. It's always been my policy for persuasion, and I've found it to be quite effective.
  • What has the CIA ever done for us in FOX? They sent us on the most brutal missions. And when I came back wounded, they shuffled me to a desk job. They did the same to you, too. They cast your mentor - the mother of our Special Forces - out into a foreign land and left her there to die!

[edit] Gene

  • Open your eyes, Snake. This is our calling. It's all part of a greater mission. Compared to this calling, the individual wills of individual soldiers are meaningless. Those who have no calling must be given one by those who do. They must follow the teachings of those with a greater will.
  • (Echoing intensely): Soldiers, hear my words! The Cold War will soon be over. For the United States and the Soviet Union no longer have the strength or authority to shape the world as they seem fit. Even as America sinks deeper into the quagmire of the Vietnam War, her allies in the West have achieved tremendous economic growth. And with the collapse of its planned economy, Russia can no longer keep up with the financial demands of her vast army. But the end of the Cold War does not mean that peace will follow. Freed from the domination of the world's superpowers, nationalism will soon be the driving force behind global politics. And the ever-widening gap between rich and poor will fan the flames of hatred between nations. Nuclear weapons will slip from the superpowers' grasp and spread throughout the world. Soon no one will know when or where the nukes will come from. Today's ally may be tomorrow's bitter enemy. Or worse - the time may come when soldiers of the same country will kill their brothers, just like you are now. Who of you can say that tomorrow you won't be aiming your rifles at your neighbors? Your comrades? Your families? Is there no one who has a grudge against you? No one who mocks you? No one who really needs you? Is there truly no one out there who would kill you? One of my men is standing amongst you right now. His instructions are to kill you - for your betrayal. Your enemy is standing right beside you. Is it you?... Or perhaps you?... This planet is like a giant bomb. See how easily it blows itself to bits with a single nuclear warhead. Or rather, a single bullet. (Cruel laughter) There he is... It's the enemy!
  • I will use superior force of arms to achieve superior force of will.
  • I don't have to kill anyone. These men are quite capable of doing it themselves. Humans are fragile, foolish, violent creatures. See for yourself, Snake. See what mankind truly is.
  • Gene: Chaos will be created on an unprecedented scale. Worst case scenario: America ceases to exist as a nation. The existing world order crumbles. And Russia won't escape unscathed, either. Metal Gear will have been launched from a Soviet nuclear missile base. Under a storm of international criticism, the Warsaw Pact will lose its sway over the Third World. It may even faced armed conflict with NATO.
  • Gene: To free the world from the Philosophers' control. I'll create a new global balance of power of my own design. My goal of building a new nation of mercenaries with only the most capable soldiers is real. But this peninsula is not the right place for it. Our nation will be an organization of shadows, without shape or form. We will lurk deep underground and intervene in conflicts all over the world. History will be ours to control. I will accomplish what the hollow shell of the Philosophers could not with a superior breed of soldier. This organization will be the true "peninsula of the dead". I call it "Army's Heaven."
  • Gene: I will not allow the world to be a playground for abstract national interest and petty political gambits. I will use superior force of arms to achieve superior force of will. Thus I will make the world whole again. For I am the Successor, and this is my calling.

[edit] Python

  • Can you recall those you've killed in battle Snake?! I do! I have nightmares about them! Nearly every night! They won't leave me alone!! But I've spilled far too much blood by now, to EVER make amends! The nightmares end today!!! Let's go!
  • [S]oldiers like us won't find redemption in the good of the nation, or the hatred of an enemy. Soldiers need a hero. They need a man for whom they can gladly risk their lives. Can you bear the burden of knowing that you hold your men's lives in your hands, Snake?

[edit] Ocelot

  • Betray them?! No! I'm going to END them!
  • It's all part of our plan to make the world she envisioned a reality.

[edit] Null

  • Why are you still alive? I used to get dreams, about my comrades. They would save me with strong arms and laughing voices. When I woke up from these dreams, I had nothing. No joy, no sorrow, no hatred, no memory. When I woke up from the darkness, all I saw were the bodies of men I've killed, lying in front of me. I know. Everyone dies. Crime. Diease. Accidents. War. No matter how good a man you are, no matter how good a soldier, there are no exceptions. Even if I don't kill them, they die. This world is full of death and yet you won't be killed. Why? Why do you still live? What do you hope to accomplish by living?
  • I am the perfect soldier. Where I exist, there are no other soldiers.

[edit] Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

  • Liquid Snake: When death is entreated, the battle is decided!

[edit] Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

  • Big Boss: The nightmares? They never go away, Snake. Once you've been on the battlefield, tasted the exhilaration, the tension... it all becomes part of you. Once you've awakened the warrior within... it never sleeps again. You crave ever bigger tensions, ever bigger thrills. As a mercenary, I'd think you would have realized that by now. You care nothing for power, or money, or even sex. The only thing that satisfies your cravings... is WAR! All I've done is give you a place for it. I've given you a reason to live.

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