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-->"'I have a dream.' That one day every person in this nation will control their own destiny. A nation of the truly free, dammit. A nation of action, not words, ruled by strength, not committee! Where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around. Where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to think -- to act -- for himself! Fuck all these limp-dick lawyers and chickenshit bureaucrats. Fuck this 24-hour Internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! '''Fuck American pride! Fuck the media!''' '''''FUCK ALL OF IT!''''' America is diseased. Rotten to the core. There's no saving it -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. BURN IT DOWN! And from the ashes a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive -- free to live as they see fit, they'll make America '''great again'''! ... In my new America, people will die and kill for what they BELIEVE! Not for money. not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!"

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-->"'I have a dream.' That one day every person in this nation will control their own OWN destiny. A nation land of the truly TRULY free, dammit. A nation of action, ACTION, not words, ruled words. Ruled by strength, STRENGTH, not committee! committee. Where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around. Where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to think -- to act -- for himself! Fuck all these limp-dick lawyers and chickenshit chicken-shit bureaucrats. Fuck this 24-hour 24/7 Internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! bullshit. '''Fuck American pride! 'American pride.' Fuck the media!''' '''''FUCK ALL OF IT!''''' '''''Fuck all of it!''''' America is diseased. Rotten to the core. There's no saving it -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. BURN IT DOWN! And from the ashes a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive -- free to live as they see fit, they'll make America '''great again'''! ... In my new America, people will die and kill for what they BELIEVE! Not for money. not Not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!"
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[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidFOXHOUND FOXHOUND]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Sons of Liberty]] ([[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Guns of the Patriots]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]] | [[Characters/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]] ('''Senator Armstrong''') | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid2 Acid 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]

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[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidFOXHOUND FOXHOUND]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Sons of Liberty]] ([[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Guns of the Patriots]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]] | [[Characters/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]] ('''Senator Armstrong''') | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Ground Zeroes/The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid2 Acid 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]Revenge]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSurvive Survive]]-]]]
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* BareFistedMonk: He uses no weapons and has no reason to.

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* BareFistedMonk: He uses no weapons and has no reason to.Armstrong ''is'' a weapon, so he obviously doesn't one, marking quite the contrast to his QuirkyMinibossSquad's {{Impossibly Cool Weapon}}ry.
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* SurvivorshipBias: Armstrong discusses this trope with Raiden, who disagrees with the former's darwinistic ideology because he suffered hell on the battlefield. Armstrong retorts that Raiden did survive and take back control of his life. This makes their discussion an usual version of this trope where the ''survivor'' is the one arguing against the environment that he supposedly succeeded in, since he still has to [[ShellShockedVeteran live with the trauma]].

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* SurvivorshipBias: Armstrong discusses this trope with Raiden, who disagrees with the former's darwinistic ideology because he suffered hell on the battlefield. Armstrong retorts that Raiden did survive and take back control of his life. This makes their discussion an usual unusual version of this trope where the ''survivor'' is the one arguing against the environment that he supposedly succeeded in, since he still has to [[ShellShockedVeteran live with the trauma]].
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* SurvivorshipBias: Armstrong discusses this trope with Raiden, who disagrees with the former's darwinistic ideology because he suffered hell on the battlefield. Armstrong retorts that Raiden did survive and take back control of his life. This makes their discussion an usual version of this trope where the ''survivor'' is the one arguing against the environment that he supposedly succeeded in.

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* SurvivorshipBias: Armstrong discusses this trope with Raiden, who disagrees with the former's darwinistic ideology because he suffered hell on the battlefield. Armstrong retorts that Raiden did survive and take back control of his life. This makes their discussion an usual version of this trope where the ''survivor'' is the one arguing against the environment that he supposedly succeeded in.in, since he still has to [[ShellShockedVeteran live with the trauma]].
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* SurvivorshipBias: Armstrong discusses this trope with Raiden, who disagrees with the former's darwinistic ideology because he suffered hell on the battlefield. Armstrong retorts that Raiden did survive and take back control of his life. This makes their discussion an usual version of this trope where the ''survivor'' is the one arguing against the environment that he supposedly succeeded in.

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* FinalBoss: He's the final enemy of both the main game and the Jetstream DLC.

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* FinalBoss: FinalBoss:
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He's the final enemy of both the main game and the Jetstream DLC.DLC.
** Chronologically, he's the FinalBoss of the series as a whole, due to ''Revengeance'' being LeftHanging.
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* CoolOldGuy: Villainous example. One can even see that his hair has started whitening a bit. And in his life he was a quarterback for the University of Texas, a Navy veteran, a United States Senator, and possibly the most dangerous fighter alive thanks to his superhuman physique.

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* CoolOldGuy: Villainous example. One can even see that his hair has started whitening a bit. And in his life he was a quarterback for the University of Texas, a Navy veteran, a United States Senator, and possibly the most dangerous fighter alive thanks to his superhuman physique. He seems to be touchy about his age, as Sam insulting him for it triggers a particularly brutal attack.

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** At the Airstrip, a Codec with Boris has him and Raiden ponder who could be waiting for them at the end of the base, specifically mentioning Armstrong just in case the player forgot about him. They rule him out as being at the base, though, instead assuming a cyborg to be leading Operation Tecumseh.

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** At the Airstrip, a Codec with Boris has him and Raiden ponder who could be waiting for them at the end of the base, specifically mentioning Armstrong just in case the player forgot about him. They rule him out as being at the base, though, instead assuming a cyborg to be leading Operation Tecumseh. The fact that he's even at the base and takes on Raiden with EXCELSUS, instead of hanging back on the other side of the planet watching the operation unfold, also shows that he is ''far'' tougher than a typical corrupt politician.
** Throughout the HopelessBossfight portion of the battle, parts of his body including his head inexplicably turn metallic black when stuck or used for attacks, showing how he's curbstomping Raiden before he formally reveals his nanomachine enhancements.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: In the Jetstream Sam campaign, he uses ''the stump of his chopped-off hand'', of all things, as a weapon.

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* ImprobableWeaponUser: In the Jetstream Sam campaign, he uses ''the '''the sharp, curved nanomachine-hardened stump of his chopped-off hand'', hand''', of all things, as a weapon.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"I'm not one of those beltway pansies. I could break the president in two with my bare hands!"-]'' ]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"I'm not one of those beltway pansies. I could break the president in two two, with my bare hands!"-]'' ]]
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* InternalReformist: ''"I'm using War as a Business to get elected, so I can'' end ''War as a Business."''
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* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: While he [[VillainHasAPoint has a number of points]] regarding the issues with his country, his pointed solution is to replace it with a society where "every man will be free to fight his own wars": a world where people would have complete freedom to do any good ''or'' bad thing they so desired so long as they had the pure strength to do so, [[MightMakesRight with anyone weaker than them being "purged" and left at their mercy]]. Which is to say, a world where those with cybernetic enhancements, military strength or political power, like ''him'', would be free to rule over the rest of mankind.

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* CouldveBeenAContender: Downplayed; Armstrong tells Raiden he played football at University of Texas, [[JumpedAtTheCall and that if he didn't enlist in the navy]], he would've turned pro really.

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* CouldveBeenAContender: CouldHaveBeenAContender: Downplayed; Armstrong tells Raiden he played football at University of Texas, [[JumpedAtTheCall and that if he didn't enlist in the navy]], he would've turned pro really.


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*JumpedAtTheCall: In the "call to service" variety. He joined the navy instead of turning pro in football.
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* CouldaBeenAContender: Downplayed; Armstrong tells Raiden he played football at University of Texas, [[JumpedAtTheCall and that if he didn't enlist in the navy]], he would've turned pro really.

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* CouldaBeenAContender: CouldveBeenAContender: Downplayed; Armstrong tells Raiden he played football at University of Texas, [[JumpedAtTheCall and that if he didn't enlist in the navy]], he would've turned pro really.
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* CouldaBeenAContender: Downplayed; Armstrong tells Raiden he played football at University of Texas, [[JumpedAtTheCall and that if he didn't enlist in the navy]], he would've turned pro really.

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