History Characters / MetalGearSolid

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"The private sector's not so bad, is it? Privacy guaranteed."-]'' ]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"I'm just surprised you're willing to sacrifice yourself. You've got the genes of a soldier, not a savior."-]'' ]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"I can't believe I'm being hit on by the famous Solid Snake."-]'' ]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"You're a real bastard, just like my uncle said."-]'' ]]

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* ActionSurvivor: She survived Liquid's insurrection even when her comrades fell victim to his secret weapon.

* ShoutOut: Mei Ling is also a name for [[spoiler:a dagger-throwing boss in Konami's earlier BeatEmUp game, ''VideoGame/YieArKungFu II'']]. No one acknowledges this although Konami likes to make references to past games.

%%* MilitaryBrat

* PrisonRape: Implied at the end of ''Metal Gear Solid''.

* ChineseGirl: Though she may or may not have a Chinese accent depending on which game you're playing. The English versions of ''Metal Gear Solid'' and ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' feature the lisping and problematic relationship with the letter "r." She speaks with an American accent in the other sequels.

[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | '''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]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSenatorArmstrong Senator Armstrong]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid2 Acid 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The reason he joined Snake. See NotWhatISignedOnFor below.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Subverted: Meryl and Snake break up shortly after Shadow Moses.

* In ''1'' she beat up Johnny when he was one of Liquid Snake's henchmen to escape from the Shadow Moses holding cells. In ''4'' she beats up Johnny on a routine basis as a running gag after he joined her unit.

* DoesNotLikeMen: "Men. Selfish, egotistical pigs." Even enforced by Army when she joined, as Meryl underwent hypnotherapy and gene therapy to prevent attraction to the opposite sex- though that clearly didn't work. Not only she became attracted to Snake and was in a brief relationship with him, she later drops the attitude in ''4''.

** In ''1'' she had an athletic build and was strong enough to overpower Johnny (who whilst a grown man, was not exactly the strongest of Liquid's henchmen). In "4' she has a much more muscular body, and won an arm wrestling contest with Jonathan who is nearly seven feet tall with a powerlifter's build.

** In "1" her messy hairstyle seemed to be a combination of naturally wavy "hat hair" (presumably from wearing a helmet as she's in the Army) with the hair on the sides and rear of her head appearing to be extending laterally because of the blocky graphics. Whereas in "4" she has straight hair with the hair at the rear pointing outwards in long spikes that appear to have been cut and gelled that way as part of an elaborate hairstyle.
** In "1" she had an athletic build and was strong enough to overpower Johnny (who whilst a grown man, was not exactly the strongest of Liquid's henchmen). In "4" she has a much more muscular body, and won an arm wrestling contest with Jonathan who is nearly seven feet tall with a powerlifter's build.
** In "1" Meryl mentioned to Snake that she lacks interest in men because of psychotherapy given to her by the military (presumably to prevent fraternisation), but didn't express any disdain towards the opposite sex, and her conditioning self evidently didn't stop her from having feelings for Snake, or expressing admiration for her male military heroes (namely, Snake, her uncle, and her late father). By "4" she has become much more of a StrawFeminist, as best exhibited by her having an intense tantrum and condemning the entire male sex as a bunch of "selfish egotistical pigs" after Snake brought up her uncle (who turned out to be her real biological father).

Remember, Solid Snake first appeared in ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' and tropes should be applied in [[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake his own page]]. Master Miller and Roy Campbell appeared in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''. This page is for characters that debuted in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 1998, not the entire series.

* SoapboxSadie: She often rants about the dangers of nuclear weapons. Justified, as a Codec call will reveal that she lived in a town near the [[{{UsefulNotes/Chernobyl}} Chernobyl power plant]] (implied to be Pripyat) and lost her parents (who helped decontaminate the plant and/or build the containment sarcophagus) following the explosion.

* BrokenArmorBossBattle: In the fight against it, you have to destroy REX's sensor dish in order for the vulnerable interior to be exposed.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Played with. She and Snake got together after the first game but broke up before the second game. By the fourth game they both have a mutually cold attitude toward each other. However it seems they still care for one another, and she still apears to be pinning for him.

[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | '''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]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSenatorArmstrong Senator Armstrong]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid2 Ac!d 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]

[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | '''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]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSenatorArmstrong Senator Armstrong]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Lampshaded in ''Metal Gear Solid''. She claims she became interested in genetics because she grew up knowing nothing about her own ancestry. This seems to have been forgotten by ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', however.

* [[ButNotTooBlack But Not Too Brown]]: Naomi's Konami bio for ''[=MGS1=]'' describes her as a "brown-skinned beauty" and in game, Naomi believes that she received her skin tone from the Indian laborers in Rhodesia. Yet in ''Integral''/''VR Missions'', Naomi could be mistaken as white in her polygon model that can be viewed, being lighter skinned than both Snake and Mei Ling's models. In the fourth game, Naomi's new design does give her a bit of a tan, but she still looks like a light-skinned woman of ambiguous ethnicity.

* {{Bishonen}}: Who knew he was one all along under that mask?

* NotDrawnToScale: The REX in ''Twin Snakes'' is notably scaled down compared to the original size for both the PSX version and ''Guns of the Patriots''. As a result, this Metal Gear looks slightly smaller, with the REX's legs looking thinner, with Snake's body looking like an action figure instead of a toy soldier.

* MildlyMilitary: The Colonel states that the unit is made up biochem units, technical escort teams and the Nuclear Emergency Search Team. Then he adds more troublingly ex-members of Outer Heaven. The unit's strength and organization is not revealed.

[[folder:Metal Gear Codename: '''Rex''']]

* BrokenArmorBossBattle: In the fight against it, you have to destroy Ray's sensor dish in order for the vulnerable interior to be exposed.

* GatlingGood: It's other short-range weapon alongside the laser. Two 30mm Vuclans, in his case.

* SuperPrototype: It is implied that none of the derivative designs based of its blueprints and test data were built to the same standards. [[spoiler:And with Otacon's supercomputer working in parallel with its on-board attitude control AI to significantly reduce its response time to control input, it is capable of fighting toe-to-toe with the allegedly technologically superior RAY (designed to fight the knockoffs based off its exercise data) in a severely damaged state from the outset. In fact, aside from the missing raydome and railgun, REX appears to have suffered minimal actual damage from being disabled by Solid during the original Shadow Moses incident.]]
* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: [[spoiler:The ultimate fan wanted showdown of Metal Gear REX vs Metal Gear RAY. REX being the prototype and RAY being the upgrade. REX suffered heavy damage years ago in the Shadow Moses Incident, has had its primary weapon (its railgun) removed, had laid in the ruins of Shadow Moses untended for years and the pilot has to have the cockpit open at all times to even see, thus rendering them vulnerable; but it has been repaired to functionality by Otacon, has been granted far more processing power via cloud connection, and has a secret combat subroutine activated this time around. Meanwhile, RAY was made to destroy other Metal Gears and is fairly fresh off the factory floor, but the Metal Gears it was designed to fight were cheap knockoffs and far weaker than the real deal.]]
** End result: [[spoiler:REX manages to defeat and destroy RAY mere moments before its own aging systems finally failed. Had REX been at 100% capacity during the fight, it would have likely wiped the floor with RAY much quicker.]]

* StockholmSyndrome: Snake seems to think he has it in the first game, as he's developed a crush on Sniper Wolf, to the point where he begs Snake not to kill her in their second encounter.

* BringMyBrownPants: He pees his pants in terror during his introduction scene, when a heavily armed Grey Fox pushes him into a corner. [[spoiler:The stain is still there a decade later.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: To Sunny Emmerich, the biological daughter of Olga Gurlukovich. After her mother's death, [[HasTwoMommies Otacon and Snake]] take over raising Sunny, with the former even legally adopting her.

[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | '''Metal Gear Solid''' | [[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]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSenatorArmstrong Senator Armstrong]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]