History Characters / MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater

* FaceDeathWithDignity: She's [[spoiler:eerily at peace with the idea of her own demise. It demonstrates how strong her spirit is, as a lesser person would have broken under the strain, while she barely sheds much tears.]]

%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold

* IronicName: Despite her old codename being The Joy, The Boss rarely rare smiles. Actually, she, like the rest of her allies, get their name from the emotions they feel in combat. However, her husband, The Sorrow, is always seen smiling.

%%* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:Subverted.]]

%%* NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:A big part of her motives.]]

* IronicName: Despite her old codename being The Joy, The Boss rarely rare smiles. [[spoiler:Actually, this codename -- along with the other Cobras' names -- represent [[AnthropomorphicPersonification emotions]] that Snake must "kill" in order to succeed in his mission: he overcomes the Pain, the Fear, the End and the Fury, but unfortunately he also killed his Joy, and was left only with Sorrow, the only emotion he didn't kill -- which left him a [[BrokenAce broken]], embittered man for the rest of his life.]]

* HypocriticalHumor: If Snake calls her on the codec while smoking the cigar, she'll scold him and tell him to stop. When he brings up how she used to smoke cigars herself, [[NotSoAboveItAll she just says "never mind what I did."]]

[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidFOXHOUND FOXHOUND]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Sons of Liberty]] ([[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]) | '''Snake Eater''' | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Guns of the Patriots]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]] | [[Characters/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSenatorArmstrong Senator Armstrong]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid2 Acid 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]

* BadassNormal: The Boss spends the entire game surrounded by supernaturally empowered apprentices and an AxCrazy general who wields ShockAndAwe. She is ''still'' the greatest soldier present.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: You still get their camouflages if they're defeated via stamina-kill. And in The End's case, his gun as well.

* AntiVillain: The Villain in Name Only variant; even though she's one of the game's main antagonists, she's strangely kind and compassionate. [[spoiler:This is because she turns out to be a HeroAntagonist. She's only an "enemy" because the U.S. Government essentially screwed her over after her [[FakeDefector fake]] defection [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfired]] due to [[AxCrazy Volgin]] and presumably the [[TheResenter CIA's]] influence.]] It's also worth pointing out that, despite the many clashing personalities and agendas in ''Snake Eater'', she's the only person that ''everyone'' respects (in Volgin's case, it's more due to [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership fear]], but considering that he's AxCrazy, that's still saying something).

* BadassNormal: Compared to her supernaturally empowered apprentices, she is ''still'' the greatest warrior amongst them all. She's even able to intimidate Volgin.

* BigGood: One for the series as a whole. [[spoiler:See PosthumousCharacter below.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: In one of the joke videos. See DirtyOldMan.

* DepravedBisexual: He's in relationships with EVA (disguised as Tatyana) and Major Ivan Raidenovich Raikov, who are a woman and a man, respectively.

* WeakSauceWeakness: Sorry buddy, but no amount of camouflage or invisibility conceals [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome your heat signature]].

* CoolGuns: An M1891 Mosin Nagant, something of an anachronism by 1964, which has been customised with a pistol grip and folding stock. Most notably, it also fires tranquilizer darts. For those moments when you really want to reach out and touch somebody, but you don't want to rough them up too much.

* DeathBySecretIdentity: A non-villainous example. [[spoiler:While being interrogated by Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid, he discovers who Ocelot is, and is killed to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident]].

** [[spoiler: They also could represent Snake's emotions during the game. He felt pain, fear, fury, and joy on the battlefield. Yet he was overcome with '''Sorrow''' when The Boss died never leaving until he met his '''END''']].

* ActOfTrueLove: Snake Eater which can be considered The Boss' theme, explores the depths of her philosophy and why she sacrificed her life. She isn't motivated by notion of honor or glory, and was in fact willing to discard all of it and die a bloodstained villain in order to save the world. She did this out of true love for the world itself when she realized that Volgin's actions would mean World War III without any intervention on her part, and for Jack whose relationship cannot be classified by any normal definition of romance and goes beyond a simple Mentor-Pupil relationship.

* SirSwearsALot: Although most of the characters swear in the series, only two (one in the English version) actually went as serious as dropping the F-bomb.

* CallForward: If hit by his only "attack" several times, the pictures that appear include glimpses of Solid and Liquid Snakes. Furthermore, one of his lines is "You will all be killed by your own sons", foreshadowing Snake's fate in VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake [[spoiler: or rather, VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4.]]

* ShellShockedVeteran: Strongly implied to be the case: He suffered from a Cosmonaut mission-related accident that resulted in most of his skin being burned and being incapable of feeling any pain. [[spoiler:When killed, he is also seen "radioing" mission control, to which the director's commentary strongly implies is actually his reliving his memories of the day of his accident.]]

* BadassBookworm: He doesn't look like a fighter at all. But tapes during Peace Walker shows he was just as good at espionage as the Boss was.

** Makes a brief appearance in Metal Gear Solid 2 : Bande Dessinée, expressing disappointment at Ocelot's lack of control over [[spoiler:Liquid's spirit.]]
** [[spoiler:In ''Guns of the Patriots'', he sends Psycho Mantis back to the afterlife. If you press L1 during this, you can see him with is arms crossed. Screaming Mantis even had a puppet made in his image.]]