History TearJerker / MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots

* Snake and Raiden's relationship as mentor/student and later comrades takes a turn for the tragic when Raiden declares he has NOTHING left to live for except for following Snake and his vision for freedom for themselves. Snake, knowing he'll die soon, tries to discourage Raiden from following him, but Raiden drags himself along the floor and desperately fall's to Snake's knees, begging him not to leave him alone after having lost his parents, his innocence due to his child soldier days, his love and his child. After cursing his birth, Snake then tells Raiden, "You were the lightning in that rain." It hammered home that in many ways, Snake is the closest thing Raiden had to a real father. Manly tears were formed after that scene.

** And right after Snake says to Raiden that unlike him, he has a future and a family, Raiden suddenly has a breakdown, snapping that he has no family and he has nothing (keep this in mind, he too was tricked, with Rose's miscarriage and then marriage to Campbell only being deceptions so that she and her unborn son could be safe from the Patriot's grasp), forcefully grabbing his shoulders, and then, he falls to his knees, [[SecurityCling desperately clutching Snake's leg]].

* The return to Shadow Moses Island: As soon as Snake enters the heliport, a familiar pan flute starts playing, triggering a massive wave of nostalgia. The depressing and dark mood in which the flashbacks are presented is just gut-wrenching. Yes, even "A surveillance camera...?". The strangely emotional part is the flashing images of [=MGS1=] graphics, and after it? The camera... falls off its support and shatters on the ground. Poignant.

* The return to Shadow Moses Island: The depressing and dark mood in which the flashbacks are presented is just gut-wrenching. Yes, even "A surveillance camera...?". The strangely emotional part is the flashing images of [=MGS1=] graphics, and after it? The camera... falls off its support and shatters on the ground. Poignant.

** And right after Snake says to Raiden that unlike him, he has a future and a family, Raiden suddenly has a breakdown, snapping that he has no family and he has nothing (keep this in mind, he too was tricked, with Rose's miscarriage and then marriage to Campbell only being tricks so that she and her unborn son could be safe), forcefully grabbing his shoulders, and then, he falls to his knees, [[SecurityCling desperately clutching Snake's leg]].

** And right after Snake says to Raiden that unlike him, he has a future and a family, Raiden suddendly has a breakdown, snapping that he has no family and he has nothing (keep this in mind, he too was tricked, with Rose's miscarriage and then marriage to Campbell only being tricks so that she and her unborn son could be safe), forcefully grabbing his shoulders, and then, he falls to his knees, [[SecurityCling desperately clutching Snake's leg]].

* Snake and Raiden's relationship as mentor/student and later comrades takes a turn for the tragic when Raiden declares he has NOTHING left to live for except for following Snake and his vision for freedom for themselves. Snake, knowing he'll die soon, tries to discourage Raiden from following him, but Raiden drags himself along the floor and desperately clutches Snake's leg, begging him not to leave him alone after having lost his parents, his innocence due to his child soldier days, his love and his child. After cursing his birth, Snake then tells Raiden, "You were the lightning in that rain." It hammered home that in many ways, Snake is the closest thing Raiden had to a real father. Manly tears were formed after that scene.

** And right after Snake says to Raiden that unlike him, he has a future and a family, Raiden suddendly has a breakdown, snapping that he has no family and he has nothing (keep this in mind, he too was tricked, with Rose's miscarriage and then marriage to Campbell only being tricks so that she and her unborn could be safe), forcefully grabbing his shoulders, and then, he falls to his knees, [[SecurityCling clutching Snake's leg]].

** As if to hammer it in, when Naomi solemnly tells Snake that he has half a year to live, his Psyche Meter automatically drops by a whole block. And then when Naomi explains that the FOXDIE will mutate in three months ''his Psyche Meter drops down to half.'' The tone of his voice as he says "Three months!" is particularly full of shock. He has to face the mission of his life, his final mission, kill Liquid and commit suicide, all in three months before FOXDIE's mutation takes effect, just to keep everyone safe, being forced to make a [[HeroicSacrifice]] for the entire world before a world-scale epidemic occurs.

** From the same scene, Snake removing his bandage to expose his freshly burnt face, the skin on his left cheek completely burnt, how he got, and declaring: "Raiden, look at me. [[ScarsAreForever Do you see this...?]] I have no future." The delivery of the line and the worn expression on Snake's face are truly saddening.

** As if to hammer it in, when Naomi solemnly tells Snake that he has half a year to live, his Psyche Meter automatically drops by a whole block. And then when Naomi explains that the FOXDIE will mutate in three months ''his Psyche Meter drops down to half.''

*** To sum it up,Naomi reveals how she and Vamp should be dead, as she suffers from terminal cancer, and Vamp is basically a walking corpse kept going through his nanomachines. While she is doing this, she lets herself die from said cancer, all the while Otacon is weeping, helpless to stop her from killing herself, begging Naomi to not die. Naomi ignores this and pushes the Mk. III away from her, telling Snake, Otacon, and Raiden to go.

** From the same scene, Snake removing his bandage to expose his freshly burnt face and declaring: "Raiden, look at me. [[ScarsAreForever Do you see this...?]] I have no future." The delivery of the line and the worn expression on Snake's face are truly saddening.
** And right after Snake says to Raiden that unlike him, he has a future and a family, Raiden suddendly has a breakdown, snapping that he has no family and he has nothing (keep this in mind, he too was tricked, with Rose's miscarriage and then marriage to Campbell only being tricks so that she could be safe), forcefully grabbing his shoulders, and then, he falls to his knees, [[SecurityCling clutching Snake's leg]].
* When Big Boss "sends Zero back to nothing" by cutting off the latter's oxygen supply. Yes, Zero was responsible for many of the bad things that happened here, but in the end, he was a good and well-meaning man and genuinely didn't mean for things to [[GoneHorriblyWrong go as badly as they did]]. In the present, he's a catatonic vegetable confined to a wheelchair and hooked up to life support, unable to take responsibility for all the things he had done. It's all capped off by Zero convulsing as his air supply gets cut off while flashbacks of the good man he used to be appear on the screen.

** Sweet and {{adorkable}} Para-Medic, who loved movies, also sided with Zero, and performed unethical and inhumane experiments on Frank Jaeger, and was likewise killed.

* Snake shouting out Otacon's name as he's overwhelmed by Scarabs. Given the series' reputation with SayMyName, you'd expect it to be {{Narm}} but it's a genuinely tense and heartstopping moment.

* Big Mama aka EVA's final moments in Act 3. While on the run from Raging Raven, EVA fell from her motorcycle and receives a similar injury that she had suffered 50 years ago during [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 Operation Snake Eater]]. As she struggles to get up, she briefly sees Old Snake as Naked Snake, the man she never stopped loving all these years. After reaching the docks and watching as Vamp throws the comatose Big Boss into a burning wrecked hull of a ship, EVA, in a futile attempt to rescue him, jumps into the fire and is then shot by Liquid. Big Mama eventually dies, in the arms of her son. To make it even worse, Snake can't even hold his mother's hand before she died, and while he doesn't say anything, he's still sad about it. Also, the mission had ended in a disaster and Snake still had the knife in his shoulder as a result of the brief duel against Liquid Ocelot. His posture a few second later shows him resigned to his fate until Drebin catches up to him and gets the knife off of him.

** And right after Snake says to Raiden that unlike him, he has a future and a family, Raiden suddendly has a breakdown, snapping that he has no family and he has nothing (keep this in mind, he too was tricked, with Rose's miscarriage and then marriage to Campbell only being tricks so that she could be safe), forcefully grabbing his shoulders, and then, he falls to his knees, [[SecurityClingclutching Snake's leg]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z195aCfuRSU Say it with us...]]]]

* The backstories of the B&Bs...all of them. Under all that metal, sadness, anger, laughter and pain, they were innocent women, driven insane by the sheer ''horror'' of what life had thrown at them. Crying Wolf, in particular, really deserves the codename. After losing the rest of her family in a genocide, she accidentally smothered her baby brother while hiding from soldiers. Upon reaching a refugee camp, she was driven insane by the crying of children and murdered them, as well.

* FOXDIE virus in Solid Snake's body is going out of control due to Snake's weakening body, slowly turning him into a walking biological weapon that will kill ''indiscriminately'' in the future. You think his life sucks? Now how about having to erase his own existence so that the world he's trying to protect ''all his life'' is truly safe?

[[caption-width-right:350: [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z195aCfuRSU Say it with us...]]]]]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3Ey_pPlXk Snake's "War has changed" monologue in the opening.]] Soldiers fight and die like flies. Cities get blown to bits. All these are (ultimately) not because of food, resources, belief, ideology or religion. The war economy has encompassed society for the sake of... keeping this systematic killing going and ''nothing more'' [[spoiler:by taking away the reason for war and leaving behind a world ''where conflict is a status quo''. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Something that The Patriot members]] [[GoneHorriblyRight realized too late]].]] For all the inventions humankind has made, this is a truly horrifying and sad sight to see.
* FOXDIE virus in Solid Snake's body [[spoiler:is going out of control due to Snake's weakening body, slowly turning him into a walking biological weapon that will kill ''indiscriminately'' in the future. You think his life sucks? Now how about having to erase his own existence so that the world he's trying to protect ''all his life'' is truly safe?]]

* Raiden[[spoiler:'s HeroicSacrifice at the end of Act 4 and then screaming Rose's name, despite pretending to not care for her]]. [[spoiler:Thankfully, he survives.]]

* During the [[spoiler:wedding scene]] where Hal and Sunny watch the sunset together, there's a brief moment: Sunny, knowing nothing about [[spoiler:Snake's plan to kill himself]], asks when Snake is coming back. Otacon's reply is visibly painful.
-->'''Otacon:''' [[spoiler: Snake...is sick. So, he went on a trip to help him get better.]]
-->'''Sunny:''' [[spoiler: We're not going with him?]]
-->'''Otacon:''' [[spoiler: ...No. He needs to be alone.]]
-->'''Sunny:''' [[spoiler: ...I wonder if I'll ever see him again.]]
** What absolutely seals it, however, is Otacon's next line, which is probably ''one of the most simple and honest statements'' in a series built around lies and deception. [[spoiler: "Snake...had a hard life. He needs some time to rest."]] Cue the ManlyTears, from both Otacon and the player.
** [[spoiler: Naomi.]]

*** To sum it up, [[spoiler:Naomi reveals how she and Vamp should be dead, as she suffers from terminal cancer, and Vamp is basically a walking corpse kept going through his nanomachines. While she is doing this, she lets herself die from said cancer, all the while Otacon is weeping, helpless to stop her from killing herself, begging Naomi to not die. Naomi ignores this and pushes the Mk. III away from her, telling Snake, Otacon, and Raiden to go]].
* Not to mention when [[spoiler: Snake apparently commits suicide in order to prevent his rapidly mutating FOXDIE from creating a worldwide epidemic right after saving the world... Thankfully he doesn't, but still...]]
** This is pretty much Snake's MO throughout the entire game. From when he [[spoiler:runs into a fire to pull Big Mama out, screaming in pain as his face gets burned in the process -- and it will stay that way for the rest of your playthrough, cutscenes, and gameplay --]] to the horrifyingly sad [[spoiler: trudge through the room being bombarded by microwave radiation, the player having to jam Triangle to get him to push forward as his suit pops and fizzles and his strength depletes, forcing him to have to pull himself along the ground with one arm at the end, all the while a cut scene takes up the top half of the screen showing all his friends slowly being overtaken in their respective fights]].

* [[spoiler:The dying Big Boss painfully stands up to salute in front of The Boss's grave]].
** [[spoiler:Big Boss tells Old Snake first that the whole saga "began with a bunch of old fools" and implicitly including himself... then that "''if you'd been in my place back then... Maybe you wouldn't have made the same mistakes that I did''."]] Yes, the one that we're all gay for admits that perhaps Old Snake is better than him... arguably canonizing [[WordOfGod Kojima's belief]] that Solid "Old" Snake is the only true hero of ''Metal Gear Solid''.
** [[spoiler:Big Boss echoing The Boss's line "There's only room for one Snake and one Boss"... and then reconsidering, deciding that the world would be better off with none, and telling Snake to live his life before his own death. Snake ''does'' die at the end... but Dave can finally live]].
** The whole deal with [[spoiler:Big Boss and his cigar. All throughout the game, the player sees quotes of Snake of "having one last smoke before death". You expect it to be true for Solid Snake, but not for Big Boss. And the way it was shown. Big Boss not having any life left to light the cigar up, then Snake lights it up for him.]]
** [[spoiler:"This is good... isn't it?"]]
** What makes the conversation even more poignant is that it's almost the complete opposite of [[spoiler:the conversation Snake and Big Boss have in VideoGame/MetalGear2, shortly before Snake defeats him.]]

* Snake and Raiden's relationship as mentor/student and later comrades takes a turn for the tragic when Raiden declares [[spoiler: he has NOTHING left to live for except for following Snake and his vision for freedom for themselves. Snake, knowing he'll die soon, tries to discourage Raiden from following him, but Raiden drags himself along the floor and desperately clutches Snake's leg, begging him not to leave him alone after having lost his parents, his innocence due to his child soldier days, his love and his child. After cursing his birth, Snake then tells Raiden, "You were the lightning in that rain."]] It hammered home that in many ways, Snake is the closest thing Raiden had to a real father. Manly tears were formed after that scene.
** From the same scene, [[spoiler: Snake removing his bandage to expose his freshly burnt face and declaring: "Raiden, look at me. [[ScarsAreForever Do you see this...?]] I have no future."]] The delivery of the line and the worn expression on Snake's face are truly saddening.
* When [[spoiler:Big Boss "sends Zero back to nothing" by cutting off the latter's oxygen supply. Yes, Zero was responsible for many of the bad things that happened here, but in the end, he was a good and well-meaning man and genuinely didn't mean for things to [[GoneHorriblyWrong go as badly as they did]]. In the present, he's a catatonic vegetable confined to a wheelchair and hooked up to life support, unable to take responsibility for all the things he had done. It's all capped off by Zero convulsing as his air supply gets cut off while flashbacks of the good man he used to be appear on the screen.]]
** Perhaps just as sad is [[spoiler: Big Boss holding his old friend as he dies; it's been forty years since they were last together, and they will never truly be able to reconcile. The scene becomes an even bigger punch when we later find that the Patriots and their war economy were never designed this way, and that Zero's last fully-functioning years were spent desperately attempting to reverse the pieces he had set in motion, including XOF, Cipher, and the [=AIs=] he had commissioned; Sadder still is the fact that Zero's condition ''isn't'' natural, not the onset of dementia or old age, but the result of an attack on him by an embittered former ally]].
** During Act 3, [[spoiler: when Eva is talking about Big Boss's death at Zanzibar Land she talks about Zero's reaction to it. "For Zero, more than anyone else... your father.... was an irreplaceable icon." And then she comes right back and speaks the truth. "No... the truth is, for Zero.... he was an irreplaceable friend". And while this is happening, you can see a picture of Zero; it's hard to make it out, but he looks utterly distraught in sorrow.]]
** The secret tapes received after completing [=MGSV=] shed more light on Big Boss and Zero's relationship. After the attack on MSF, Zero used his remaining days of clarity to keep the comatose Snake as safe as humanely possible. The final time Zero sees Snake is when he visits him in Cypress, telling him his regrets while he thinks Snake can't hear. He sounds incredibly sad, and hopes Snake will recover and that he can forgive him. [[spoiler:After he leaves, the remaining seconds of silence on the tape are broken by the sound of Snake moving in bed, implying this was after he woke up (but before Venom) and heard everything.]] Consider how this parallels Big Boss discussing Zero with Old Snake while he's vegetative in a wheelchair.

** Sweet Para-Medic, who loved movies, also sided with Zero, and performed unethical and inhumane experiments on Frank Jaeger, and was likewise killed.

* [[spoiler: "Let it go, my son. I'm not here to fight. Or should I call you brother? It's over, time for you to put aside the gun, and live."]]
* Raiden's ending in ''[=MGS4=]'', where [[spoiler: he gets to meet his little boy]].
* Three words; [[spoiler: You're pretty good.]]
** [[spoiler: *hand gesture*]]
* What about Otacon, at the end of ''4'', stubbornly refusing to let Snake die alone? Snake points out that he'll be dead soon, and Otacon replies that this is exactly why he needs to be with him. Even if it's just a voiceover on a black screen, it's heartbreaking. ThePowerOfFriendship, indeed.
* After [[spoiler:the [=AIs=] are destroyed]] in the end of [=MGS4=], the soldiers from the Missouri pull the surviving FROGS out of the water, who are suffering mental breakdown without the nanomachines suppressing their fears and stress. In one of the boats an exhausted mercenary is holding her comrade, patting her head. You shot these bitches by the dozen, but they probably just got pulled into this entire mess like everyone else.

* The backstories of the B&Bs...all of them. Under all that metal, sadness, anger, laughter and pain, they were innocent women, driven insane by the sheer ''horror'' of what life had thrown at them. Crying Beauty, in particular, really deserves the codename. [[spoiler: After losing the rest of her family in a genocide, she accidentally smothered her baby brother while hiding from soldiers. Upon reaching a refugee camp, she was driven insane by the crying of children and murdered them, as well.]]

* In the novelization, Snake says this before [[spoiler: his abortive suicide attempt]]:

* The final battle between Snake and Liquid is this for many fans as well. This is THE cumulative battle between the series' main characters, and a fitting ending for [[spoiler: one of them]], Liquid injects Snake full of healing drug, in potentially fatal doses, in order to have one last fight with his brother. Even then, about a quarter of the way through, [[spoiler: Liquid reveals his new arm.]] From that point, the music becomes much more morose and sad. Liquid's fighting style matches [[spoiler: the combat techniques utilized by Liquid Snake and/or Ocelot in [=MGS1=]-3, with accompanying music]], and in the end? Their final battle becomes a drawn out, worn down, brawl between two tired, old men, yearning to be free from their inhuman lives.
** [[spoiler: Emphasized by a point about three-fourths through, when Snake and Ocelot, near DEATH, collapse against each other on top of Outer Haven. Two syringes fall out of Liquid's pockets, and each Snake grabs one. Right when it seems like they're going to use them on themselves, they swing their arms forward and use them on each other in PERFECT SYNC. This really shows how much they want this battle to go on, so that they can fulfill their purposes one last time.]]
*** [[spoiler: And then when you realize it's a near perfect replica of Liquid's fight atop REX in [=MGS1=]...]]

* [[spoiler:Big Mama aka EVA's final moments in Act 3. While on the run from Raging Raven, EVA fell from her motorcycle and receives a similar injury that she had suffered 50 years ago during [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 Operation Snake Eater]]. As she struggles to get up, she briefly sees Old Snake as Naked Snake, the man she never stopped loving all these years. After reaching the docks and watching as Vamp throws the comatose Big Boss into a burning wrecked hull of a ship, EVA, in a futile attempt to rescue him, jumps into the fire and is then shot by Liquid. Big Mama eventually dies, in the arms of her son. To make it even worse, Snake can't even hold his mother's hand before she died, and while he doesn't say anything, he's still sad about it. Also, the mission had ended in a disaster and Snake still had the knife in his shoulder as a result of the brief duel against Liquid Ocelot. His posture a few second later shows him resigned to his fate until Drebin catches up to him and gets the knife off of him.]]
** [[spoiler:It becomes harsher when it is revealed that EVA didn't die from her injuries but from a new strain of FOXDIE that Snake had contracted with, therefore, Snake essentially killed his mother. Even moreso, EVA knew about this but chooses to die with the knowledge that the Patriots' time is about to end.]]

** [[spoiler: Emphasized by a point about three-fourths through, when Snake and Ocelot, near DEATH, collapse against each other on top of Outer Haven. Two syringes fall out of Liquid's pockets, and each Snake grabs one. Right when it seems like they're going to use them on themselves, they swing their arms forward and use them on each other in PERFECT SYNC. This really shows how much they want this battle to go on, so that they can fulfill their purposes one last time. ]]

* [[spoiler:Big Mama aka EVA's final moments in Act 3. While on the run from Raging Raven, EVA fell from her motorcycle and receives a similar injury that she had suffered 50 years ago during [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 Operation Snake Eater]]. As she struggles to get up, she briefly sees Old Snake as Naked Snake, the man she never stopped loving all these years. After reaching the docks and watching as Vamp throws the comatose Big Boss into a burning wrecked hull of a ship, EVA, in a futile attempt to rescue him, jumps into the fire and is then shot by Liquid. Big Mama eventually dies, in the arms of her son.]]

** The whole deal with [[spoiler:Big Boss and his cigar. All throughout the game, the player sees quotes of Snake of "having one last smoke before death". I was expecting it to be true for Solid Snake, but not for Big Boss. And the way it was shown. Big Boss not having any life left to light the cigar up, then Snake lights it up for him.]]

* The backstories of the B&Bs...all of them. Under all that metal, sadness, anger, laughter and pain, they were innocent women, driven insane by the sheer ''horror'' of what life had thrown at them.
** All the cutscenes with the Beauties. Seeing them struggling to get up and walk, powerless, insane and reduced to shadows of their formerly-powerful selves... Especially Crying Beauty, given that she's nearly-naked and spends a while trying to get up and walk, on a frozen island, while it's snowing.
*** Speaking of Crying Beauty, while most of the audience considers the B&Bs' backstories to be full of {{Narm}}, hers really deserves the codename. [[spoiler: After losing the rest of her family in a genocide, she accidentally smothered her baby brother while hiding from soldiers. Upon reaching a refugee camp, she was driven insane by the crying of children and murdered them, as well.]]

** As if to hammer it in, when Naomi solemnly tells Snake that he has half a year to live, his Psyche Meter automatically drops by a whole block.

* Raiden's ending in [=MGS4=], where [[spoiler: he gets to meet his little boy]].

* What about Otacon, at the end of 4, stubbornly refusing to let Snake die alone? Snake points out that he'll be dead soon, and Otacon replies that this is exactly why he needs to be with him. Even if it's just a voiceover on a black screen, it's heartbreaking. ThePowerOfFriendship, indeed.

* Ultimately Philanthropy fails miserably at its role of destroying the Metal Gear derivatives throughout the world. Why is this a tear jerker? because this was the task that gave Solid Snake back his reason to live, the reason why he stopped being the PTSD driven alcoholic mess that he became in the wake of Zanzibar Land, the reason why he still fights and goes as far in 2 as to claim that it is his legacy to future generations due to the fact that he can not have children of his own. And yet as we see in Revengeance he failed. Maybe he did succeed in finding another reason to live like he claimed at the end of 4; but it is still sad that the life's dream of one of history's greatest men went so unfulfilled.

* The microwave room scene. The screen is split into section, one showing Snake and the other showing his allies fighting waves after waves of enemies. Already a dying old man, Snake slowly walk through the room, enduring the pain from the microwaves to the point the he is forced to crawl. Meanwhile, Johnny and Meryl continue fighting until they are run out of bullets, Raiden is overwhelmed too and the crew of the Missouri are being attacked by numerous Dwarf Geckos and Metal Gear Rays as well. Combined the the sad theme playing, one might expect that some of them to die but fortunately Snake succeeds.

* The end of [=MGS4=], [[spoiler: when Big Boss "sends Zero back to nothing." Yes the guy was the BigBad, but in the end, he was just an oblivious old man in a wheelchair, completely unaware of all the things he had done, convulsing as his air supply was cut off, while flashbacks of the good man he used to be appear on the screen.]]

* [[spoiler:Big Mama aka EVA's final moments in Act 3. While on the run from Raging Raven, EVA fell from her motorcycle and receives a similar injury that she had suffered 50 years ago during [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 Operation Snake Eater]]. As she struggles to get up, she briefly sees Old Snake as Naked Snake, the man she never stop loving all these years. After reaching the docks and watched as Vamp throws the body Big Boss into a burned wrecked, EVA, in a futile attempt to rescue him, jumps into the fire and is then shot by Liquid. Big Mama eventually dies, in the arms of her son.]]

** From the same scene, [[spoiler: Snake removing his bandage to expose his freshly burnt face and declaring: "Raiden, look at me. [ScarsAreForever Do you see this...?]] I have no future."]] The delivery of the line and the worn expression on Snake's face are truly saddening.

** From the same scene, [[spoiler: Snake removing his bandage to expose his freshly burnt face and declaring: "Raiden, look at me. I have no future."]] The delivery of the line and the worn expression on Snake's face are truly saddening.

*** To sum it up, Naomi reveals how she and Vamp should be dead, as she suffers from terminal cancer, and Vamp is basically a walking corpse kept going through his nanomachines. While she is doing this, she lets herself die from said cancer, all the while Otacon is weeping, helpless to stop her from killing herself, begging Naomi to not die. Naomi ignores this and pushes the Mk. III away from her, telling Snake, Otacon, and Raiden to go.