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• The infamous Fission Mailed screen in Metal Gear Solid 2. Explanation
  ^{As part of the Mind Screw, near the end of the game a fake Game Over message is displayed with the words "Fission Mailed" instead of "Mission Failed" and the game continuing in a smaller window. As an unaware player can easily die thinking it is a real Game Over screen; the term is used to describe failures of a higher level than normal, as well as the trope it named.}
• "WE'VE MANAGED TO AVOID DROWNING!" Explanation
  ^{One of Raiden's lines. Popular for its Narm, as his tone suggests it's something for which he should be very proud.}
• "I need scissors! 61!" Explanation (spoilers)
  ^{One of the fake Colonel's codec messages after Arsenal Gear is partially infected with a virus. Popular for its absurdity. Used to parody people who post Insane Troll Logic on the Internet. Time Cube is a prime example of the type of thing that gets this response.}
• "Snake, answer me! Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!" Explanation
  ^{Yelled by various characters after a Game Over in most of the games.}
• "Activate it!"
• "DIDJURIKEIT?"
• "You're pretty good."
  • (Handgestures)
  • "Self Esteem Team! Meoowwwww!"Explanation
    ^{Mannerisms particular to Revolver Ocelot.}
• Did you say "nerd"?
• Raiden's Hips Don't Lie.
• A DUD?!
• LOOK AT THIS SCAR, JACK! Explanation
  ^{The Boss reveals her caesarian scar as part of her explanation of her backstory.}
• LIQUID!!!! Explanation
  ^{Liquid and Snake spend a lot of the first Metal Gear Solid yelling at each other.}
  • BRRRRROTHER!!!!
• "I FEEL ASLEEP!" Explanation
  ^{The original Metal Gear had a lot of this.}
  • "Uh-oh! The truck have started to move!"
• Metal Gear 2's "deadly poisonous Zanzibar hamsters".
• On this very wiki, on this very page, ending every entry referring to Metal Gear Solid 2 with a Pot Hole to Mind Screw over a synonym for maybe. Maybe.
• "Metal... Gear?!" Often used to poke fun at Parrot Exposition, stealth gameplay or Metal Gear. Explanation
  ^{About half of Snake's dialogue is copying someone else.}
  • A surveillance camera?!
  • A Hind D?!
  • "Hey, you're that ninja."
• "You can't do that! The future will be changed! You'll create a time paradox!" Explanation
  ^{The Colonel yells this in Metal Gear Solid 3 after a Game Over or killing a character that appears in a chronologically later game. Used when someone does something that would mess with time.}
• ! Explanation
  ^{The reaction all the guards have when they discover the player. Used when someone is surprised.}
  • ?
  • What was that noise?
  • Whose footprints are these!?
  • It's just a box.
• "THERE IS NO TRAP ON THE TRAIN." Explanation
  ^{A Suspiciously Specific Denial your Mission Control gives you at one point. Believe or not, there is in fact a trap on that train.}
• This is just like one of my Japanese animes! Explanation
  ^{One of Otacon's first lines, part of his Establishing Character Moment as a collosal nerd with a tenuous grasp of reality.}
• "Now that's how an assassin operates!"
• "Twelve [noun]s. More than enough to [verb] anything that moves." Explanation
  ^{A snowclone based on Ocelot's claim that he can kill anything with the twelve bullets in his two revolvers.}
• CRAB BATTLE!
• Oh, hotness, I wanna bang you!
• Naked Snake's Flanderization into trying to eat everything in sight, and wondering if it can be eaten if it's not.