Line #9 YMMV/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound


1	* {{Fanon}}: A number of the comic's characterizations and theories gained widespread support in the fandom. And in a few cases, [[IKnewIt they turned out to be]] ''[[IKnewIt true]]''.
2	* HarsherInHindsight:
3	** In [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=441 #441]], Master Miller is killed by Ocelot. The true ending of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' has Miller and Ocelot part ways on very bad terms with Ocelot remarking that "One of us will have to kill the other", heavily implying that the same thing happened in canon.
4	*** In the same strip (his one appearance in the comic), only Miller's left arm is visible. Guess which arm he ended up missing in canon?
5	** Big Boss tells Liquid that the Boss was betrayed and vilified by the Philosophers because they were fighting over money. This was years before ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' revealed that it was anything but money that led to her death, and just how much shit she had to take even before Operation Snake Eater.
6	* HilariousInHindsight:
7	** Take a good look at the date on [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=121 this comic]]. Puts a whole new spin on "TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture", doesn't it?
8	** Mantis' persistant refusal to believe in the existence of ghosts (despite great evidence to the contrary) became even funnier after the release of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' where Mantis appears...''as a ghost''.
9	** In [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=445 #445]], Liquid tells Otacon to program REX to accept any projectile on its rail gun, including a nuclear warhead. When asked why, [[BlatantLies he says that it's so REX would able to shoot down asteroids]]. In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', it turns out that [[spoiler: JD, the main Patriot AI, was housed in a U.S. military satellite orbiting the Earth disguised as debris, and Liquid Ocelot planned to use REX's rail gun to launch a nuclear warhead at it so he could use GW to take control of the entire Patriot AI system.]]
10	** According to [[WordOfGod Hideo Kojima]], Liquid ''really does'' have a horrible grasp of genetics.
11	** Check out [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance the title]] [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=210 of this strip.]] For bonus points, Big Boss says of Gray Fox's death, "Can't make an omelette, y'know?"
12	** And [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=229 this strip]] and some earlier ones make mention of Big Boss writing an autbiography. Big Boss, in Liquid's body, lets slip about his fight with The End and tries to cover by claiming he read it in his memoirs which he then claims are on Amazon. Come ''[=MGS4=]'', and apparently Big Boss' memoirs (or at least the Snake Eater mission) are now declassified.
13	** Doucette guessed in one strip that the reason everyone says "la-li-lu-le-lo" instead of "the Patriots" is because they are all been brainwashed into being incapable of saying "the Patriots" as a phrase and a mental override always made them say that instead. Turns out that was in fact the canon reason.
14	** [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=340 At one point, Big Boss remarks to The Sorrow that the latter "play [Liquid] like a damn Stradivarius."]] Cue 2014 with ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearsolidVThePhantomPain Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes]]'' and guess what line spoken by Miller is now a meme?
15	** [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=53 Big Boss says that in 1975]] he wound up in a coma. The events of ''Ground Zeroes'' occur in 1975.
16	** In [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=321 #321]], Mantis reveals an experiment wherein he would try to manipulate dead bodies as he mind-controlled people, against the wishes of The Sorrow. Cue [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Screaming Mantis]], who in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' controls living people with a Mantis doll and dead bodies with a Sorrow doll.
17	** In [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=429 #429]], Liquid misspells Outer Heaven as "Outer Haven" in his list of demands. Come ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Metal Gear Solid 4]]'', guess what Liquid Ocelot names his [[spoiler: aquatic battle fortress]]?
18	** Mixed with HarsherInHindsight where in [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=200 #200]], Big Boss's spirit takes over Liquid's unconscious body which mirrors the events of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain]]'' [[spoiler: where The Medic from ''Ground Zeroes'' would fall into a nine-year coma and wake up to unwittingly serve as a body double of Big Boss.]]
19	** Out of everyone, Mantis is the one who hates Liquid the absolute most, and is by far the person on the team he respects the absolute least, and Liquid doesn't even bother to not annoy Mantis. According to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', Mantis and Liquid are both probably the closest thing the other has ever had to a true friend, with Mantis even letting Liquids consciousness override his own to use a Metal Gear and cured him of the vocal parasite before resucing him from being bombed.
20	** Right at the start when Liquid first meets Mantis, Mantis manages to identify Liquid before the former can even finish his own introduction. If ''Phantom Pain'' is any indication, it may not have been mind-reading so much as [[spoiler:Mantis just plain remembering him.]]
21	** Mantis having trouble controlling zombie soldiers effectively becomes this since, as of ''Phantom Pain'', he's actually much more adept it at than he is here [[spoiler:since he was the controller and herald of the very much zombie-like Volgin.]]
22	** [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=313f This guest strip]], a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' parody, features the now famous Smash invitation letters roughly seven years before they were introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU''.
23	* HoYay: Not nearly as much as you'd expect, [[HoYay/MetalGear considering the series]], but hell, there's [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=283 always]] [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=354 Ocelot.]]
24	* IKnewIt: For all the stuff the comic failed to predict about the canon, it also managed to hit the nail on the head in a truly absurd number of ways. If your first read through is after the contradictory material came out, you’ll probably gloss right over the stuff it called ahead of time. The whole “La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo” as a forced mental block so people couldn’t say “The Patriots”? That wasn’t canon yet when the comic established it. Big Boss going into a coma in 1975? The coma was only mentioned in the translation of the first game as a {{Woolseyism}}, and would only be made canon by VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes over a decade later. The comical abuse of nanomachines? While they already existed in canon, the comic ended before ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' even came out and made them a meme for explaining everything. To a lesser extent, Berthold is basically [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Blade Wolf]] as an organic being and Psycho Mantis puppeting a zombie soldier would later come up in VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain. While he never tried to replace his eye, Big Boss getting a replacement body part would also become a thing. [[spoiler:Kinda.]]
25	* MemeticMutation: "I'm covered in bees!!!"
26	* SacredCow: While the comic has been outdated by ''4'', ''Peace Walker'', and ''V'', it's still fondly-remembered by those who read it and is generally considered to be one of the best gaming-focused webcomics.
27	* TearJerker:
28	** The flashback chapters [[spoiler: in Ocelot's mind]] chronicling the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' portray the events of that game without the usual lightheartedness of the comic, with Liquid being [[EvenEvilHasStandards completely disgusted]] by everything that [[TheConspiracy the Philosophers]] have done. And when Liquid questions [[spoiler:Big Boss]] about whether he struck back against the Patriots, even [[spoiler:Big Boss]] is regretful over the fact that they still exist, and that he had to resort to the same underhanded tactics they used because they would've never given him a chance otherwise.
29	** The fate of [[spoiler: Berthold, looking on sadly at his master's dead body, already rendered mentally disabled trying to stop Grey Fox.]]
30	** Liquid [[spoiler:silencing the crackers by snapping one’s neck and mindwiping the other. It’s truly his StartOfDarkness, where he starts tossing the lives of his allies aside for the plan.]]
31	** The penultimate comic, which shows us the dead bodies of all the main characters (excluding Ocelot), might also count. The sheer ''suddenness'' of it all, after seeing Liquid gushing about the prospect of facing Snake on the elevator, accentuates it, as we don't even get to see the events of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid the game]] from their P.O.V. For a new reader, they're all fine and ready for action one minute, then with the single innocent click of a mouse [[SuddenDownerEnding they're all dead]].
32	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While the SuddenDownerEnding in Chapter 499 is effective in its drama, one wonders if it would have been more interesting to [[POVSequel show the events of the game from FOXHOUND's perspective]] as Snake [[DwindlingParty picks them off one by one]].
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