A FanWebcomic by Chris Doucette hosted at [[http://gigaville.com/index.php gigaville.com]], ''The Last Days of Foxhound'' is centered around the QuirkyMiniBossSquad from the first MetalGearSolid game, starting several years before the events of the game, when the highly dysfunctional group was still running top secret missions for good old Uncle Sam. The comic is mostly a combination of AffectionateParody (for example a major RunningGag is mocking the game's [[YouFailBiologyForever odd ideas about genetics]], sometimes even correctly) and a deconstruction of life within a QuirkyMiniBossSquad where everyone hates one another. Throw in a pinch of HilarityEnsues, a dash of VillainsOutShopping, a metric fuckton of swearing to accompany the group's antics, and the recipe is complete.

About midway in the comic's run CerebusSyndrome increasingly takes hold, and the gags get put on hold more and more for the deconstructions and showing the group becoming involved with/aware of [[AncientConspiracy The Patriots]], their decision to turn rogue against the United States and attempt to revolt against The Patriots, right up until the inevitable conflict with Snake at Shadow Moses.

In a rare accomplishment for a webcomic, the story completed its entire arc, and the complete 500 comic long strip (plus some filler) can be found at the gigaville archive.
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!!This webcomic contains examples of:

* AbsoluteCleavage: Parodied, as apparently why Sniper Wolf looks like that is because her shirt was accidentally shrunk from a more reasonable neckline.
* AffectionateParody
* AlasPoorVillain
* {{Angrish}}: [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=118 here.]]
* {{Anti Villain}}s: Well, possibly...
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mantis, ''a freaking psychic'', has some narrow ideas about what to accept as plausible to believe in.
** Like ghosts. He doesn't believe in ghosts until The Sorrow puts him through his "test". Which is [[ReverseFunnyAneurysm funny]] considering that [[ReverseFunnyAneurysm in Metal Gear Solid 4]] [[spoiler:Mantis comes back ''as a ghost'']]
** And talking/psychic wolves.
---> '''Berthold''' (the psychic talking wolf): ''A Telepath? no'' freaking ''way. ...Yes, I'' get ''the irony, Liquid, thank you.''
* AuthorTract: Mantis is the typical mouthpiece. [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=272 Dr. Naomi Hunter]] supplements Mantis' rants with more reasonable but obviously frustrated objections.
**[[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the title of one strip: [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=272 "Totally Not The Author Talking Here".]]
* BadassNormal: Wolf is nothing but a normal human being who has received training from the best and is very determined. (And constantly on stimulants). Also, DARPA chief Donald Anderson. [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=444 I'm completely]] [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=484 serious.]]
* BerserkButton: Everyone in the comic has a few, even Raven, ''an Inuit shaman''.
* {{Bizarre And Improbable Ballistics}}/{{Improbable Aiming Skills}}: [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=28 Ocelot]]. And how improbable? [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=267 This improbable]].
* CallingTheOldManOut: Liquid against Big Boss.
* CharacterExaggeration: Most of the squad's personalities are exaggeration of the characters they're based on, although not to excess and still well balanced with real characterization. Sometimes it's just funnier that way.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=6 Named the trope]]
* CoatHatMask: Decoy Octopus' self-image is basically a hat and trench coat, with nothing inside them. When asked why so, he says he's a Bogart fan.
* CompellingVoice: Mantis. It doesn't work on other psychics (except [[spoiler: Eddie]]), [[spoiler: really good liars]], or people with special nanomachines.
* CompensatingForSomething: Nope, I'm definitely not looking at you, Raven. Or implying anything. Or even thinking of implying anything, so please don't hurt me!
* ConspicuouslySelectivePerception: Spoofed repeatedly.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Liquid.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Set aside a weekend, browse the archives, and you'll find a hundred or so. This Troper has always [=ROTFLOLed=] at "[[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=320 LIQVIIIIIIID! MANTIS IS TRYING TO MAKE ZOMBIIEEES!]]"
-->'''Ocelot:''' Oh my God! You WERE going to kill me!
-->'''Sergey:''' [guiltily] My friend, I...
-->'''Ocelot:''' That's ''adorable''!
* DeconstructedTrope
* DepravedBisexual: Vamp, much to Liquid's dismay.
* DoesNotLikeWomen: Psycho Mantis has a somewhat irrational phobia of direct contact with women, to the extent that he doesn't want Sniper Wolf touching him, even though he is about to fall off a cliff.
* DoomedByCanon: Most of the cast is literally doomed by the canon, since [[spoiler:you do kill them in the game]]
* DownerEnding: Though to anyone who's played the game, it's no surprise.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Revolver Ocelot, to the point that [[spoiler:Sniper Wolf develops a short-lived crush on him, despite knowing what a horrible person he is.]]
* DramaticThunder: Invoked and lampshaded.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: By virtue of the comic's ForegoneConclusion, in the comic itself the fate of 95% of the cast is dealt with [[spoiler: in a single strip]]. You know it's coming, but after getting to know the characters for 498 strips straight, the suddenness of it all is actually quite a TearJerker.
* {{Egopolis}}: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], Liquid wanted to rename Outer Heaven into Liquidia, but no one supported the idea.
*EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ocelot is definitely gay for Big Boss.
* EvillyAffable
* {{Fan Girl}} Mei Ling
* {{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]]'''.
* ExpressiveMask: Psycho Mantis.
* {{Five Man Band}}/{{Five Bad Band}}
* ForegoneConclusion
-->'''Liquid''': "That ''sucked''."
-->'''Big Boss''': [[spoiler:''You'' suck]].
* {{Fourth Wall Mail Slot}}
* {{Funny Animal}} Berthold, the telepathic wolf.
* GatlingGood
* GeniusDitz: The comic [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=158 goes to pains to show exactly]] [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=159 how ditzy Otacon would have to be in order to build a]] [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=351 walking nuclear death tank while thinking that he was designing a missile defense system]]. [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=155 Also includes ]] [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=220 a tremendous amount]] [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=410 of mocking him for it]].
** There's Mei Ling, who starts her Powerpoint presentation of Nanotechnology with a picture of HelloKitty.
* {{Genki Girl}} Mei Ling again.
* GlassCannon: Odds are anyone in the world could tear Mantis' fragile body apart. Fortunately for Mantis, his [[SpiderSense mind reading ability lets him know what people are going to do and react accordingly]].
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Played with hilariously in one strip.
* HeManWomanHater: Mantis. At one point, Ocelot contemplates killing him by surrounding him with big breasted women chanting "Give us babies" and forcing him to flee onto railroad tracks, but decides it would be too much trouble.
* HeroicBSOD: Liquid starting [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=49 here]] along with a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind.
**Later repeated with Ocelot, though that might have been part of his XanatosGambit.
* HandsInPockets: Naomi
* HeroicSociopath: Psycho Mantis, who uses his immense psychic powers mainly to cause lots and ''lots'' of problems for the other cast.
* {{He Who Must Not Be Seen}}/{{He Who Must Not Be Heard}} Solid Snake only occasionally appears towards the end of the comic... as a silhouette who doesn't get any lines.
* IdiotHero: The comic's explanation for Liquid's {{Narm}}tacular and idiotic statements and behavior in the original game is that he literally suffered brain damage just before the start of the comic.
* {{Jossed}}: Right up to, and arguably including, the last page.
** A retroactive version of this trope exists in oversights on the writer's part, as he seems to forget that Wolf is a Kurd, Dead Cell are actually an anti-terrorist ''training squad'' not an actual field unit, and that Snake actually used specially timed placements of explosives, not a rocket launcher, to defeat the first two Metal Gears.
*** Well, the first seems to be a TakeThat towards the performance of the voice actress who did Wolf's part, hence the running gag about her accent constantly slipping. (It's even on the cast page) The other two...
*** The whole "rocket launcher thing" happened in ''MetalGearSolid 2'', though. Perhaps the author was projecting their thoughts on one soldier being able to scrap 3 to ''20'' Metal Gears on foot, and forgot exactly how Snake did it in the first games.
*** Solid Snake used a rocket launcher to defeat Big Boss in ''Metal Gear''. Or at least, that was the easiest weapon to do the job with.
*** Also happened in [=MGS3=], which came out during the comic's production and necessitated some re-writes.
** Of course, [[IKnewIt the opposite has happened a time or two]].
* KickTheDog: Liquid is revealed to have had a few of these moments [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=223 in his past]], and then there's what happens when Scratch stumbles onto his plans to steal Metal Gear Rex...
* LamarckWasRight: Spoofed to hell and back.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Parodied.
-->'''Ocelot:''' There are things I must tell you, Mantis. Things only you can know.\\
'''Mantis:''' Like what?\\
'''Ocelot:''' I am your father, Mantis.\\
'''Mantis:''' No you're not. I killed my father when I was eight.\\
'''Ocelot:''' Yeah, I know. I just wanted to remind you of that.
* MadeOfIron: Liquid. [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=104 And how!]]
* MagnificentBastard: Despite early appearances to the contrary, Ocelot is ''still'' one of these here.
--> '''Mantis:''' But it's all ''about'' the little details! I mean, you must spend every day pretending to act like you’re falsely letting on that you aren’t not unbetraying someone you don’t not purport to allegedly work for but really ''do''! How do you keep all this shit straight without having an ''aneurysm''?
--> '''Ocelot:''' *shrugs* Practice.
* MagicAIsMagicA
-->'''[[spoiler:Liquid:]]''' How did The Sorrow put it? The only body a spirit can inhabit... is his own.
--> '''[[spoiler:Big Boss!:]]'''What a delightfully ambiguous rule.
** [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=500 Look carefully!]] [[spoiler:The final thought balloon is a different color!]]
* {{Magical Native American}} Vulcan Raven
* MemeticMutation: "I'm covered in bees!!!"
* MindScrew: Ocelot rather likes these.
--> Even if I can't kill you, I can still make your life miserable. Take that cup of coffee, for example. Maybe this morning, when you weren't looking, I poured a jar of my own urine into it while it was brewing. Or maybe not. Anyone else, you could read their mind and find out. But with me, you'll never know. So I think I'll have a very nice day, in fact. Enjoy your coffee.
* MoreDakka: Raven's a believer in it.
--> Subtlety is a thing for philosophy, not combat. If you're going to kill somebody, you might as well kill them a whole lot.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Do not get between Psycho Mantis and his coffee.
* {{Nakama}}: In a twisted fashion.
* NearDeathExperience (Ocelot and Liquid)
* NonActionGuy: Decoy Octopus, [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=249 as The Sorrow learns]].
* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: Obviously. A very dysfunctional one, usually played for laughs. Dead Cell from ''[=MGS2=]'' is presented as being even worse. Also the Cobras from ''[=MGS3=]'', although they're specifically ''not'' dysfunctional, just quirky.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* RedEyesTakeWarning Naomi, Mantis, and even Liquid have shown this on occasion.
* RetCon: to account for new {{canon}} after [=MGS3=]. Handled rather masterfully starting [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=299 here]] (with a cheerful lampshade hanging, via the title)
** As early as [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=97 here]] even, concerning Big Boss' eye loss (or the first one, anyway, according to him).
* ReverseFunnyAneurysm: YourMileageMayVary on this, I suppose, but when Mantis threatened to find Ocelot's mom's grave and fuck her corpse? Considering his mom is [[spoiler: The Boss]], [[{{Kazokuhouou}} this troper]] found that ''hilarious''. Have fun getting your ass kicked, Mantis!
* SarcasmFailure: Psycho Mantis is occasionally prone to the humorous variant.
* SignLanguage: The Sorrow communicates exclusively through this, except when he's actually in people's heads. [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=330 It occasionally gets a bit ridiculous]].
* SpitTake: Frequently appears. One set of them may mark Ocelot as a MagnificentBastard. (If the {{Mind Screw}}s and other antics didn't already).
--> Ocelot: I mean, I only gave you that coffee so I could watch you do spit takes.
** Even Mantis manages to do them '''through a gas mask'''!
* SpotTheImposter: Some of the better humorous examples this troper has ever seen, [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=13 starting here]].
* TearJerker: The fate of [[spoiler: Berthold.]] The penultimate comic, which shows us the dead bodies of all the main characters (excluding Ocelot), might also count.
** Might? This comic will totally altered how this troper perceived Foxhound on playing through ''[[MetalGearSolid MGS1]]'' again. It's that sad.
* ThemeNaming: Hilariously lampshaded with ''Bose-Einsteinium Condensate Snake''
* ThirtyXanatosPileup: Well, it is based on ''MetalGearSolid''...
* ThoseTwoGuys: Eddie and Scratch.
* TortureTechnician: [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=236 Ocelot]]. [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=488 Just..]] [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=497 Ocelot]]
--> '''Revolver Ocelot''': "Torture is such an ''inelegant'' word. I'm an artist. [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=413 Their testicles are my canvas.]]"
* TrapDoor
* TheUnreveal: Several.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s
* {{Well Done Son Guy}} Liquid's relationship with Big Boss.
* WhamEpisode: Timed to take place about once every hundred comics, or once a year, making this one of the few webcomics with ''seasons''.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The Chinaman, who lacks any abilities besides being a swimmer and is thus useless outside of water.
** [[InsistentTerminology And special effects expert!]]
* YouFailBiologyForever: Played for laughs with The Pain, whose status as a living BeeBeeGun is attributed with his mother's constant craving for sweets led to The Pain being born with honey DNA.
* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: The main characters are the bosses of ''MetalGear Solid'', so the inevitable ending resulting in everyone's (save for Ocelot's) death should be expected.
* YourMom
* YouSuck: Big Boss's response to [[spoiler:GHOST]]Liquid's verdict of "that sucked" in 499.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: By Liquid, who combines it with CallingTheOldManOut in strip [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=253 #253]].
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