History NightmareFuel / MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty

** Adding to that, [[spoiler:for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8j9I90ueM some of the calls]], the Colonel's portrait is replaced (at random) with an X-ray image of his face. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Colonel-skull_5116.jpg This image]]]], which only ever shows up for a split second, with no warning, is truly one of the most horrifying shocks in the entire series, and would make a great page image, were it not such a huge spoiler. It gets even worse - ''its jaw continues to move'' when the Colonel's image talks at various points. To match that, [[spoiler:occasionally Rose's AI will be pictured with ''glowing white eyes''.]]

** Adding to that, [[spoiler:for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8j9I90ueM some of the calls]], the Colonel's portrait is replaced (at random) with an X-ray image of his face. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Colonel-skull_5116.jpg This image]]]], which only ever shows up for a split second, with no warning, is truly one of the most horrifying shocks in the entire series, and would make a great page image, were it not such a huge spoiler. To match that, [[spoiler:occasionally Rose's AI will be pictured with ''glowing white eyes''.]]

* That entire sequence inside Arsenal Gear: [[spoiler:The Colonel and Rose are both revealed to be [=AIs=]. The AI gets corrupted by a virus, and the Colonel [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds starts spouting nonsense]]. Some of the codec calls you receive in this section is truly ''horrifying'': You're naked and unarmed, and while there's definitely something wrong with what's going on (besides you being naked, of course), there's nothing certain except that you really should get moving to finding your suit. Then you get a [=CODEC=] call from the Colonel. "Raiden. Turn the game console off RIGHT NOW."]] This line is especially jarring if you have been playing the game for an extended period of time. From this point on, [[spoiler:the [=CODEC=] calls are ''filled'' with terrifying WordSaladHorror, a lot of which is aimed ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou directly at the player]]''.]]

* That entire sequence inside Arsenal Gear: [[spoiler:The Colonel and Rose are both revealed to be [=AIs=]. The AI gets corrupted by a virus, and the Colonel starts spouting [[WordSaladHorror nonsense]]. Some of the codec calls you receive in this section is truly ''horrifying'': You're naked and unarmed, and while there's definitely something wrong with what's going on (besides you being naked, of course), there's nothing certain except that you really should get moving to finding your suit. Then you get a [=CODEC=] call from the Colonel. "Raiden. Turn the game console off RIGHT NOW."]] This line is especially jarring if you have been playing the game for an extended period of time. From this point on, [[spoiler:the [=CODEC=] calls are ''filled'' with terrifying WordSaladHorror, a lot of which is aimed ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou directly at the player]]''.]]

* Raiden's panic attack after watching [[spoiler: Fortune blast several troops away with her railgun and eviserating the platform.]]
--> '''Raiden:''' It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from!

** Arsenal Gear itself. Imagine a huge black beast loaded with nukes and Rays resting just below the water's surface. Then think of all the people who were utterly crushed when it crashed into NYC.

** Oh, and what if you're ''named'' Jack? Think about when the Colonel [[spoiler:AI]] goes into a monologue about [[spoiler:the La-Lu-Li-Le-Lo, how they're trying to control all the world's information...and by extension, the world itself]]. The insults? The cruelty? The mental whiplash, the doubt, the pain...[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou it's all aimed at you.]]

--> '''Raiden''' It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from!

** The entire MindScrew related to Rose's role in the plot and the reveal that [[spoiler:she and the colonel are AI programs]] has absolutely horrifying implications. Was she really [[spoiler:spying on Raiden?]] Or was that simply something that the Patriots made her say as a hostage? Was she being held hostage, or was she going along with the plot (however begrudgingly)? If she's [[spoiler:an AI]] as well, then at what point did she become so? Was [[spoiler:the real Rose]] ever actually present in this game at all? The ambiguity as to whether anything about her is actually real or not, and the sheer lack of any certainty regarding this, carries teh implication that the woman Raiden loves [[spoiler:might not actually be there, or might be an entirely different person altogether]], which is horrifying.

** Similarly, the part of the underwater section of the Plant Chapter where Raiden opens a door and out floats [[spoiler:the body of Peter Stillman]].

--> '''Raiden''' "It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from."

* Raiden's panic attack after watching [[spoiler: Fortune blast several troops away with her railgun and eviserating the platform.]] "It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from."

* Raiden's panic attack after watching [[spoiler: Fortune blast several troops away with her railgun and eviserating the platform.]] "It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from."

** The line "Kawanishi-Noseguchi, Kinunobebashi, Takiyama, Uguisunomori, Tsuzumigataki, Tada, Hirano, Ichinotorii, Uneno, Yamashita, Sasabe, Kofudai, Tokiwadai, Myokenguchi." The creepy thing about these seemingly random words is that they keep showing up throughout the series. After [=MGS2=], The Mammal Pod in ''Peace Walker'' also spouts them off when it's drive uplinks are removed, and Sunny uses them as lyrics in a tune while making her eggs. [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance A decade later]], Raiden asks [[RobotBuddy Bladewolf]] what it means, and even it has no idea. [[note]] It is apparently a list of stations along an electric rail line in Honshū, Japan.[[/note]]

** That "room" must have been designed to be as unsettling as possible. Was it just a holographic simulation created by a horrifically damaged AI? But in the next scene you're obviously outside and on top of [[spoiler: Aresnal Gear]]

** Note that this game came out in ''2001''. The ParanoiaFuel aspect of this revelation is very eerily prophetic.

** Note that this game came out in ''2001''. The ParanoiaFuel aspect of this revelation is very eerily prophetic.
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[[folder:Metal Gear Solid 2]]

* That entire sequence inside Arsenal Gear: [[spoiler:The Colonel and Rose are both revealed to be [=AIs=]. The AI gets corrupted by a virus, and the Colonel starts spouting [[WordSaladHorror nonsense]]. Some of the codec calls you receive in this section is truly ''horrifying'': You're naked and unarmed, and while there's definitely something wrong with what's going on (besides you being naked, of course), there's nothing certain except that you really should get moving to finding your suit. Then you get a [=CODEC=] call from the Colonel. "Raiden. Turn the game console off RIGHT NOW."]] This line is especially jarring if you have been playing the game for an extended period of time. From this point on, [[spoiler:the [=CODEC=] calls are ''filled'' with terrifying WordSaladHorror, a lot of which is aimed ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou directly at the player]]''.]] Adding to that, [[spoiler:for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8j9I90ueM some of the calls]], the Colonel's portrait is replaced (at random) with an X-ray image of his face. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Colonel-skull_5116.jpg This image]]]], which only ever shows up for a split second, with no warning, is truly one of the most horrifying shocks in the entire series, and would make a great page image, were it not such a huge spoiler. To match that, [[spoiler:occasionally Rose's AI will be pictured with ''glowing white eyes''.]]

* That entire sequence where your support team [[spoiler:is revealed to really be an AI]]. [[spoiler:The AI gets corrupted by a virus]], and the "Colonel" starts spouting goofy non-sequiturs. Occasionally, you'll get him shouting at you to shut off the game console because you've been playing too long, which can be a bit jarring if you ''have'' been playing for six hours or so.
** Add to the fact that, in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul8j9I90ueM later CODEC shots,]] the Colonel's image is replaced with an X-rayed version of his head. And then you get this skull-faced Colonel staring at you...with no eyes...
*** And halfway through the battle with Solidus, you get a codec call from the [[spoiler:AI]] Colonel and Rose, and '''[[BlankWhiteEyes Rose's eyes suddenly go blank as she's talking]]'''.
** The demand to shut the game off is pretty much the worst of the lot. You're naked and unarmed, and while there's definitely something wrong with what's going on (besides you being naked, of course), there's nothing certain except that you really should get moving to finding your suit. Then you get a CODEC call from Colonel. "Raiden. Turn the game console off RIGHT NOW."
** "Kawanishi-Noseguchi, Kinunobebashi, Takiyama, Uguisunomori, Tsuzumigataki, Tada, Hirano, Ichinotorii, Uneno, Yamashita, Sasabe, Kofudai, Tokiwadai, Myokenguchi." The creepy thing about these seemingly random words is that they keep showing up throughout the series. The Mammal Pod in ''Peace Walker'' also spouts them off when it's drive uplinks are removed, and Sunny uses them as lyrics in a tune while making her eggs. [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance A decade later]], Raiden asks [[RobotBuddy Bladewolf]] what it means, and even it has no idea. [[note]] It is apparently a list of stations along an electric rail line in Honshū, Japan.[[/note]]
** And if all that wasn't bad enough, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58V7XDgIB2c this creepy, ambient music]] is also playing in the background.