History YMMV / MetalGearRisingRevengeance

** This game is such an avalanche of memes that nearly everyone of them has reached legendary status. For more info on the laundry list of memes, [Memes/MetalGearRisingRevengeance see here:]]

** Raiden NEEDS [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} GATORADE!]] [[DontExplainTheJoke (It has electrolytes!)]] All the jokes about Raiden drinking Gatorade are a lot funnier when you discover that cutting open a vending machine always yields an Electrolyte Pack.
** "Memes. The DNA of the soul."[[labelnote:explanation]] Even though Monsoon was probably talking about the Richard Dawkins definition of a "meme", try telling that to the 99 percent of people who have heard this out of context in the 2010s and ''immediately'' associated it with internet memes.[[/labelnote]]
** Monsoon of the [[VideoGame/AmongUs sussy imposters]] [[labelnote:explanation]] After Among Us and MGR memes regained popularity in the early 2020s, immediate comparisons were made between Monsoon's design and the design of a crewmate.[[/labelnote]]
** Senator Armstrong being a namesake of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 Major Alex Armstrong]], it eventually evolved into "Those nanomachines have been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!"
** '''''[[MetalScream RULES OF NATURE!]]''''' is used to make several scenes more epic. Examples include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQcyp_WyoYQ Daigo at EVO,]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZpeeVn21Fs Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan,]]'' and some [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7TSJdFO6jE random fight.]]
** [[Toys/{{Jewelpet}} Ruby]] is Raiden. [[labelnote:*]]She's been featured in some fan videos involving songs from ''Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bnSOesw-I This]] one in particular has her jump up to and carve a giant opponent, much like what Raiden does to Metal Gear RAY after throwing it into the air. Both Ruby and Raiden also have white hair (fur in Ruby's case) and red eyes. It helps that Dian is also comparable to [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]].[[/labelnote]]
** '''[[BloodKnight I FUCKING LOVE WAR! I WANNA FUCKING KILL PEOPLE FOR MONEY AND DESTROY CULTURES AND HISTORY, JACK!]]'''[[labelnote:Explanation]] An [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spongebob-i-fucking-love-x image of Spongebob screaming at a woman with this text overlaid]] became popular in late 2021, and it didn't take long for people to realize that Sundowner is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4P6CGpx1c basically the living incarnation of this phrase]].[[/labelnote]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_Aoi6_c7w Make America Great Again!]] [[note]]A line uttered by Senator Armstrong, it's a quote from speeches by real-life US presidents like UsefulNotes/BillClinton and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. It's become more relevant after the game's release when UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump used it as his slogan again during his 2016 Presidential campaign.[[/note]]
** In early 2022, people started putting "It Has To Be This Way" over people resisting a RapidFireFisticuffs attack, similar to Armstrong being unaffected by Raiden punching him.[[note]]This theme [[BeamMeUpScotty doesn't actually play during the depicted Quick-Time Event.]][[/note]]
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwdRMWnt14&t=12s Armstrong barreling into a video]] to punch out Raiden (or the viewer) has become an InterruptingMeme.
*** STANDING HERE, I REALIZE[[note]]The opening lines to "It Has To Be This Way", the boss theme for Senator Armstrong. The song's popularity led fans to edit it into fighting scenes from other works[[/note]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJyI8Vl46Y Samroll/There Will Be Bloodshed]] [[note]]Basically a version of [[Music/RickAstley Rickrolling]] people with bait and switch meme/shitpost videos where halfway it has Sam with his theme "The Only Thing I Know For Real" playing.[[/note]]
** Brazilians can double jump. [[note]][[https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/comments/q8cw79/the_real_meaning_of_sams_bossfight/ This]] Reddit post jokingly [[ComicallyMissingThePoint proposed this as the true meaning of Jetstream Sam's boss battle.]] The quote took off in online references to Sam and Brazilian gamers were happy to play along, stating that being from Brazil ''does'' grant you access to double jumping and other cool abilities.[[/note]]
** [[{{Squick}} Dip your balls in sulfuric acid]][[labelnote:explanation]] For some bizarre reason, it has become popular to post variations of this phrase over a gif of Jetstream Sam nodding his head in approval, like he's so charismatic that it would make the viewer ''want'' to dip their balls in sulfuric acid.[[/labelnote]]
** "Nice argument, Senator, how about you back it up with a source?" "My source is that I made it the fuck up!"[[note]]An exchange between Raiden and Armstrong in WebVideo/Max0r's Incorrect Summary of this game. This line is typically used to poke fun at people making stuff up on the fly in arguments online. This one only got more popular in 2022 when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIMWs7xUif4 the actual voice actors for Raiden and Armstrong said their respective lines in the exchange]].[[/note]]
** "Like I said - kids are cruel, Jack. ''And I loooove minors!''[[note]]The ''other'' most iconic line from WebVideo/Max0r's Incorrect Summary of this game.[[/note]]
** "DOKTOR, TURN OFF MY X INHIBITORS!"[[labelnote:explanation]] An easily-snowcloned and highly memorable scene of Raiden turning off his pain inhibitors in order to awaken his Jack the Ripper persona, and can be swapped out with basically anything that one would normally try to "inhibit" for an instant meme.[[/labelnote]]
** WHEN THE WIND IS SLOW AND THE FIRE'S HOT![[note]]The opening of the main chorus of "Red Sun", which is Sundowner's boss theme, has become popular sometimes showing characters from other franchises listening to the chorus and jamming to the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, or occasionally as BaitAndSwitch similarly to Samroll.[[/note]]
** Revengeance Status[[labelnote:explanation]]An InterruptingMeme in which an unrelated video suddenly transitions to a scene from ''Revengeance''. The most common scene transition is Armstrong running towards the screen to punch the viewer out of the other video.[[/labelnote]]
** "[[Series/TheOfficeUS They're the same]] fanbase"[[labelnote:Explanation]]After the release of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', the [[FriendlyFandoms huge overlap]] between ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' and ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' fans have reached the point where crossover memes are very common, people joke about both fandoms being merged into one. It also stems from the trend where online users with ''Devil May Cry''-related profile pictures post ''Revengeance'' memes, and vice versa.[[/labelnote]]
** BEING TRACKED BY A STARVING BEE, LOOKING FOR ITS DAILY FEE[[note]]If you listen very closely to Rules of Nature, the singer sounds like he isn't singing the last consonants.[[/note]]
** AND IT WILL COME, LIKE A FLOOD OF COME, POURING COME ON ME[[labelnote:Explanation]] a somewhat juvenile swapping of all the nouns and verbs in Monsoon's theme "The Stains of Time" with "come" to make it sound like...[[TheImmodestOrgasm well...]][[/labelnote]]
** All I want for Christmas is Collective Consciousness/Collective Christmas[[labelnote:Explanation]] Somehow, it was discovered that "Collective Consciousness" has ''exactly'' the same cadence and tempo as "[[Music/MariahCarey All I Want For Christmas Is You]]", and only a bit of pitch shifting was needed to create this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX8auatwCP0 amazing medley]].[[/labelnote]]
** "Hey did you hear about X-" "[[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A response to internet drama that has been talked about to death.[[/labelnote]]
** The Principle Saga[[labelnote:Explanation]] A [[https://www.reddit.com/r/whenthe/comments/tdj9qg/recipe_for_success/ meme]] posted to r/whenthe spiralled into a shonen-esque saga consisting entirely of Metal Gear Rising memes. The main timeline (Yes, there are multiple) has been compiled [[https://reddit.com/r/whenthe/comments/tjy2k5/it_has_finally_been_completed_i_had_to_learn/ here]].[[/labelnote]]

** Sundowner, and a possible AntiClimaxBoss at that, given that he's TheHeavy and initially made out to be the BigBad. Formidable as he is, he doesn't require nearly as much finesse and skill to keep up with as [[ThatOneBoss Monsoon]], the previous boss. He also has disproportionately low health considering his physique and fighting style (some players poked through game files and found out that while Monsoon has 8000 health points, Sundowner has only 5000)[[note]]even taking the perpetual Ripper Mode and Monsoon's agility into account, Sundowner still goes down faster[[/note]], you can also ignore his main gimmick (cutting through his shields with Blade Mode when prompted) pretty easily, and his attacks in his second phase are slow and heavy enough that parrying them should prove fairly easy even for someone struggling with the parry mechanics.

** Virtually Flawless/Virtually a God, which requires you to beat every VR Mission with a 1st Place Rank. The time requirements for some missions are simply insane and annoyingly many of them rely too much on enemy randomness to be able to beat them in the required amount of time, and the last 4 are generally considered to be ThatOneSidequest, making the trophy harder than necessary.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. It's half the reason the goddamn ''tutorial boss'' ends up being so memorable.

--->'''[[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Pat]]:''' I have a feeling there’s like, thirty guys out there watching this going, "Oh my God, I would so vote this guy!"

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_Aoi6_c7w&nohtml5=False Make America Great Again!]] [[note]]A line uttered by Senator Armstrong, it's a quote from speeches by real-life US presidents like UsefulNotes/BillClinton and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. It's become more relevant after the game's release when UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump used it as his slogan again during his 2016 Presidential campaign.[[/note]]

*** [[https://youtu.be/KrwdRMWnt14?t=12 Armstrong barreling into a video]] to punch out Raiden (or the viewer) has become an InterruptingMeme.

** "Nice argument, Senator, how about you back it up with a source?" "My source is that I made it the fuck up!"[[note]]An exchange between Raiden and Armstrong in WebVideo/Max0r’s Incorrect Summary of this game. This line is typically used to poke fun at people making stuff up on the fly in arguments online. This one only got more popular in 2022 when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIMWs7xUif4 the actual voice actors for Raiden and Armstrong said their respective lines in the exchange]].[[/note]]
** "Like I said - kids are cruel, Jack. ''And I loooove minors!''[[note]]The ''other'' most iconic line from WebVideo/Max0r’s Incorrect Summary of this game.[[/note]]

** The Metal Gear Ray boss fight, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypphRK14t8#t=2m13s these two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypphRK14t8#t=4m26s segments]] in particular. It's gotten to the point where "Rules of Nature" is [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-nature-goes-with-everything the new Guile's Theme.]]

** There's also the Metal Gear Excelsus fight, particularly the whole [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzfYcwo7Wtw#t=5m26s flip a giant mech, rip off one of its building-sized blades, and use said weapon to take it down in a sword fight]]]] part.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. It's half the reason the goddamn ''tutorial boss'' ends up being so goddamn memorable.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. It's half the reason the goddamn ''tutorial boss'' ends up so memorable.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature" of course. It perfectly representshow the game goes from a 0 to a perfect 100 in the intensity scale during the ''tutorial'' (and will remain doing so throughout the rest of the game).

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature" of course. It perfectly encapsulates how the game goes from a 0 to a perfect 100 in the intensity scale during the ''tutorial''.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. The game goes all in the very first 10 minutes, and this song perfectly represents that.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. It's likely that no other video game soundtrack will probably ever make the player go ''"HOLY FUCK!"'' in a freaking tutorial boss.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. No other video game music will probably ever make the player go ''"HOLY FUCK"'' in the freaking tutorial boss.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. No other video game music will probably ever make the player go "''HOLY FUCK''" in the freaking tutorial boss.

* SignatureSong: "Rules of Nature", of course. It's featured in the freaking tutorial boss, as a perfect showcase of how the game goes absolutely bonkers with the action in just the first 5 minutes.

** "Hey did you hear about X-" "[[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]] this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebreaty bullshit!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A response to internet drama that has been talked about to death.[[/labelnote]]

** The Principle Saga[[labelnote:Explanation]] A [[https://www.reddit.com/r/whenthe/comments/tdj9qg/recipe_for_success/ meme]] posted to r/whenthe spiralled into a shonen-esque saga consisting entirely of Metal Gear Rising memes. The main timeline (Yes, there are multiple) has been compiled [[https://reddit.com/r/whenthe/comments/tjy2k5/it_has_finally_been_completed_i_had_to_learn/ here]].

** All I want for Christmas is Collective Consciousness[[labelnote:Explanation]] Somehow, it was discovered that "Collective Consciousness" has ''exactly'' the same cadence and tempo as "[[Music/MariahCarey All I Want For Christmas Is You]]", and only a bit of pitch shifting was needed to create this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX8auatwCP0 amazing medley]].[[/labelnote]]

* SlowPacedBeginning: The first level is ''always'' played without any upgrades, meaning that each NewGamePlus playthrough starts with a lengthy gameplay segment where you have none of the fancy equipment you're used to. On higher difficulty levels, the game makes sure you'll grow to hate the level by throwing large amounts of difficult enemies at you, making the level seem much longer than it is.

** What is Khamsin doing with the Desperadoes? Who is Khamsin, really? His motivations make him seem like a pretty admirable fighter for freedom, but then why would a group of amoral {{PMC}}s who are using war as a means to an end hire a [[TokenGoodTeammate guy like him]]? What did he do to earn the ire of Mistral that she would want to bump him off under the radar of her teammates? The Bladewolf DLC is really more focused on its' titular character, which makes Khamsin feel like a generic baddie whose motivations are unexplored compared to the likes of Sam and Armstrong.

** Revengeance Status[[labelnote:Explanation]]An InterruptingMeme in which an unrelated video suddenly transitions to a scene from ''Revengeance''. The most common scene transition is Armstrong running towards the screen to punch the viewer out of the other video.[[/labelnote]]