History Headscratchers / MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater

*** For that matter, why does Volgin need to develop Shagohod anyway? He has one hundred billion dollars and can shoot lightning from his hands. He should just say, "Khrushchev, resign or die."
*** Because Volgin needs some kind of force to be able to stage a coup. Sure, Volgin alone could try to tell Khrushchev "Resign or die" and Khrushchev will reply "Good luck fighting my millions of loyal soldiers, tanks and other military vehicles, and while you can punch lightning, your ten feet of electricity and punch-bullets will be hard pressed to stop the Russian Air Force from bombing you from low orbit and leveling everything in a ten square mile radius." Having the Shagohod gives Volgin the power to nuke Khrushchev from ANY airport runway OR long highway, something that even the entire Russian Military will have trouble covering. Without the Shagohod, Volgin doesn't have much of a chance to win all by himself.
*** He has a hundred billion dollars. That's more than enough to buy the military many times over. In fact, considering the quality of their food, housing and general lives, I'm sure that he could use that money to buy all the loyalty in the world. Plus, he has lightning powers. Does Khrushchev have lightning powers? No, no he doesn't. Who are you going to follow, the guy in a suit giving you the universe's worst food, or the guy promising you steak dinners while firing lightning from his hands?

** I think [=MGS3=] was also designed to provide a potential way in to the series for newcomers, unlike [=MGS2=] where understanding the plot is heavily reliant on having played [=MGS1=]. So it's possible to start with Naked Snake as the hero and watch him become Big Boss & see the consequences of that. There's also no logical way, in-story, to indicate that this guy who is not yet called Big Boss will be in the future. It's like how in The Phantom Menace, the viewers know Anakin is going to become Darth Vader, but he doesn't look like Darth Vader or answer to that name until...well, the point where he does.

*** If its any consolation as well, you can get a [[MoreDakka M63]] after you break out, unless you took a detour a few hours ago to Syvatogornyj East and picked it up there. There should be one in an small armory just north of the manhole entrance to the sewers in Groznyj Grad.

*** Why would you doubt that? The game had whole teams of people doing research into exactly this kind of thing.
** The equipment isent what made him any of them special, or else they would just give jetpacks and rocket fuel flamethrowers to everyone, like the boss its likely he doesent have anything "special" beyond just being really really good, though considering the giant face shaped fireball its possible he had some form of pyrokinesis

*** Then I apply my earlier questions to The Boss.
*** It's presumably a lot harder to do the procedure when you're doing it on yourself, without anesthetic, in the middle of a battlefield, possibly without medical training. Some errors are probably forgivable.

* So, we find out that The Sorrows corpse is right down the valley from Volgins compound, why was it never moved? Literally the worlds most powerful Psychic/Mediums corpse, and it's left to rot, judging by how much this series' world loves genetic engineering, surely that would be a valuable thing to get a hold of.

** The wiki's page for him states: "Volgin's body possessed a physical anomaly that allowed him to generate and manipulate 10 million volts of electricity at will, and he specialized in electric shock attacks. To protect himself from being injured by this exceedingly high voltage, having caused the numerous scars to his face, Volgin wore a rubber suit during combat". So, you just have to accept that in this universe, he was born as a kind of mutant conduit for the electricity, said electricity maimed his face when he was younger and before he found a means to control it more effectively, and the rubber suit did that in that it helped protect him to a degree. There have been more outlandish characters besides him in the series.

* How the hell does Snake be completely unscathed after [[spoiler:the Boss]] has [[spoiler:her]] horse stomp on Snake's hand '''hard''', so much that he silently holds it in pain after it does so, and yet after the cutscene the Survival Viewer shows it to be nothing at all...? I'm well aware that the Fear's surprise attack bolt to Snake's thigh makes sense as it's more severe, but a full-grown horse stomping on someone else's hand in a not-so-delicate kind of way '''should''' have been registered in the Survival Viewer, and yet it's just cutscene-power at play.

*** The existence of XOF would suggest that they absolutely send in a black ops team to capture or eliminate Snake, since XOF was FOX's cleanup crew. Cleaning up the mess would most definitely include eliminating a RogueAgent.

* How the hell does Snake be completely unscathed after [[spoiler:the Boss]] has her horse stomp on Snake's hand '''hard''', so much that he silently holds it in pain after it does so, and yet after the cutscene the Survival Viewer shows it to be nothing at all...? I'm well aware that the Fear's surprise attack bolt to Snake's thigh makes sense as it's more severe, but a full-grown horse stomping on someone else's hand in a not-so-delicate kind of way '''should''' have been registered in the Survival Viewer, and yet it's just cutscene-power at play.

** The wiki's page for him states: "Volgin's body possessed a physical anomaly that allowed him to generate and manipulate 10 million volts of electricity at will, and he specialized in electric shock attacks. To protect himself from being injured by this exceedingly high voltage, having caused the numerous scars to his face, Volgin wore a rubber suit during combat". So, you just have to accept that in this universe, he was born as a kind of mutant conduit for the electricity, and the rubber suit helped protect him to a degree. There have been more outlandish characters besides him in the series.

* Is it ever explained exactly how Volgin controls electricity? All the other bosses have plausible (for the MGS universe), explanations, The Pain uses pheremones and specially bred hornets, The Fear uses special optic camo and his weirdness is surgical, The End is just a reaaaally good sniper, with parasites, The Fury had an armored suit and rocket fuel flamethrower, The Sorrow was psychic powers, but Volgin, he can shoot lightning, that he isn't immune to, hence his scars.

** The wiki's page for him states: "Volgin's body possessed a physical anomaly that allowed him to generate and manipulate 10 million volts of electricity at will, and he specialized in electric shock attacks. To protect himself from being injured by this exceedingly high voltage, having caused the numerous scars to his face,[25] Volgin wore a rubber suit during combat.". So, you just have to accept that in this universe, he was born as a kind of mutant conduit for the electricity, and the rubber suit helped protect him to a degree. There have been more outlandish characters besides him in the series./

** It's possible that, much like his son in [=MGS1=], Naked Snake was trained to swallow certain essential items and regurgitate them in dire need. They would be protected from stomach enzymes by special coverings. In this case, the item was a backup radio. He (and the team) probably recognised that there was a possibility of his being captured given Groznyj Grad's expanded security relative to every other location in the enemy territory, and his special forces/CIA background would mandate having a little trump card like this in such a tight spot. A little bit like how Bryan Mills has a [[spoiler: backup micro-cellphone stored in his shoe]] in Film/Taken2. This is a good justification, considering the unlike the Codec in the modern era, the radio is macroscopic and obviously not hidden within the inner ear. Presume that this also happens whenever Naked Snake is captured in subsequent games.

* Is it ever explained exactly how Volgin controls electricity? All the other bosses have plausible (for the MGS universe), explanations, The Pain uses pheremones and specially bred hornets, The Fear uses special optic camo and his weirdness is surgical, The End is just a reaaaally good sniper, with parasites, The Fury had an armored suit and rocket fuel flamethrower, The Sorrow was Pyschic powers, but Volgin, he can shoot lightning, that he isn't immune to, hence his scars.

*** Also, [[FridgeBrilliance if you think about it]] getting shot by 100 tranq darts is [[RealityEnsues more than enough to kill a man.]]

** It's possible that, much like his son in [=MGS1=], Naked Snake was trained to swallow certain essential items and regurgitate them in dire need. They would be protected from stomach enzymes by special coverings. In this case, the item was a backup radio. He (and the team) probably recognised that there was a possibility of being captured given Groznyj Grad's expanded security relative to every other location in the location, and his special forces/CIA background would mandate having a little trump card like this in such a tight spot. A little bit like how Bryan Mills has a [[spoiler: backup micro-cellphone stored in his shoe]] in Film/Taken2. This is a good justification, considering the unlike the Codec in the modern era, the radio is macroscopic and obviously not hidden within the inner ear. Presume that this also happens whenever Naked Snake is captured in subsequent games.

** It's possible that, much like his son in [=MGS1=], Naked Snake was trained to swallow certain essential items and regurgitate them in dire need. They would be protected from stomach enzymes by special coverings. In this case, the item was a backup radio. He (and the team) probably recognised that there was a possibility of being captured given Groznyj Grad's expanded security relative to every other location in the location, and his special forces/CIA background would mandate having a little trump card like this in such a tight spot. This is a good justification, considering the unlike the Codec in the modern era, the radio is macroscopic and obviously not hidden within the inner ear. Presume that this also happens whenever Naked Snake is captured in subsequent games.

** It's possible that, much like his son in [=MGS1=], Naked Snake was trained to swallow certain essential items and regurgitate them in dire need. They would be protected from stomach enzymes by special coverings. In this case, the item was a backup radio. He (and the team) probably recognised that there was a possibility of being captured given Groznyj Grad's expanded security relative to every other location in the location, and his special forces/CIA background would mandate having a little trump card like this in such a tight spot.

** It's possible that, much like his son in [=MGS1=], Naked Snake was trained to swallow certain essential items and regurgitate them in dire need. In this case, a radio. He (and the team) probably recognised that there was a possibility of being captured given Groznyj Grad's expanded security relative to every other location in the location, and his special forces/CIA background would mandate having a little trump card like this in such a tight spot.

* Snake finds plenty of things to eat during the mission which is all well and good but at no point is he shown having anything to drink plus it’s never established if any of the bodies of water he passes on his travels are drinkable. Thing is, although their would be plenty liquid in the animals and noodles etc that he eats, he would surely need plenty water in order to avoid becoming dehydrated. Just how does he get enough drinkable water to survive throughout the game?

* What confuses me during the torture/imprisonment part is why the Russian soldiers didn’t take Snake’s radio away. Yes, the radio is important in the gameplay in helping you get out of the cell, but I’m speaking from merely a story standpoint. They stripped him of everything from his weapons to his camouflage to even his food, so surely they would’ve taken his radio away. In addition, Snake is a prisoner of war and among their top priorities was not letting him escape, so it’s pretty stupid on the Soviets’ part to not take away any method of communication between Snake and his teammates.

* What confuses me during the torture/imprisonment part is why the Russian soldiers didn’t take Snake’s radio away. Yes, the radio is important in the gameplay in helping you get out of the cell, but I’m speaking from merely a story standpoint. They stripped him of everything from his weapons to his camouflage to even his food, so surely they would’ve taken his radio away. In addition, Snake is a prisoner of war and among their top priorities was not letting him escape, so it’s pretty stupid on the Russians’ part to not take away any method of communication between Snake and his teammates.

* What confuses me during the torture/imprisonment part is why the Russian soldiers didn’t take Snake’s radio away. Yes, the radio is important in the gameplay in helping you get out of the cell, but I’m speaking from merely a story standpoint. They stripped him of everything from his weapons to his camouflage to even his food, so surely they would’ve taken his radio away. In addition, Snake is a prisoner of war and their top priority was not letting him escape, so it’s pretty stupid on the Russians’ part to not take away any method of communication between Snake and his teammates.

** At the risk of sounding like an idiot, maybe both? Or it’s like how apparently REX’s warhead not having propellant makes it invisible to radar, somebody messed up in spite of the research, and so a stupid statement made its way into the story.

* The ending was all dramatic and sad, but...well, it just bugs me that they mention that the Boss' horrible fate is for her to die, remembered in history as a traitor to her country and a war criminal. Which sad indeed, until you think...remembered as a traitor by all of a dozen people who know about her and her involvement in the incident. And come to think of it, at least three people know the whole truth.