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* Vamp is a DepravedBisexual with the ability to jump from any place, anywhere with great skill [[KnifeNut [[PsychoKnifeNut with that knife of his]], an extreme blood-addiction to the point where he even ripped the throat out of a SEAL, and he can pin you into place by using your own shadow.
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* The title of the series alone speaks volumes: The Metal Gear is absurdly terrifying once you realize what it can do. The thing launches nukes that could reduce a city to ash in seconds, but unlike a missile silo, it ''moves''. And if you try to shut it down, ''it fights back''. It can launch its nukes from anywhere on Earth... and they're completely undetectable by radar. If these things really existed, we would have to live with [[ParanoiaFuel the knowledge that nukes could fall from the sky at any moment without warning]]. Most games would leave this as simple FridgeHorror, but Kojima is absolutely blatant about Metal Gear's implications.

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* The title of the series alone speaks volumes: The Metal Gear is absurdly terrifying once you realize what it can do. The thing launches nukes that could reduce a city to ash in seconds, but unlike a missile silo, it ''moves''. And if you try to shut it down, ''it fights back''. It can launch its nukes from anywhere on Earth... and they're completely undetectable by radar. If these things really existed, we would have to live with [[ParanoiaFuel the knowledge that nukes could fall from the sky at any moment without warning]]. Most games would leave this as simple FridgeHorror, but Kojima is absolutely blatant about Metal Gear's implications.implications because.
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* The title of the series alone speaks volumes: The Metal Gear is absurdly terrifying once you realize what it can do. The thing launches nukes that could reduce a city to ash in seconds, but unlike a missile silo, it ''moves''. And if you try to shut it down, ''it fights back''. It can launch its nukes from anywhere on Earth... and they're completely undetectable by radar. If these things really existed, we would have to live with [[ParanoiaFuel the knowledge that nukes could fall from the sky at any moment without warning]]. Most games would leave this as simple FridgeHorror, but Kojima is absolutely blatant about Metal Gear's implications because, well... SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

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* The title of the series alone speaks volumes: The Metal Gear is absurdly terrifying once you realize what it can do. The thing launches nukes that could reduce a city to ash in seconds, but unlike a missile silo, it ''moves''. And if you try to shut it down, ''it fights back''. It can launch its nukes from anywhere on Earth... and they're completely undetectable by radar. If these things really existed, we would have to live with [[ParanoiaFuel the knowledge that nukes could fall from the sky at any moment without warning]]. Most games would leave this as simple FridgeHorror, but Kojima is absolutely blatant about Metal Gear's implications because, well... SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.implications.

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* Metal Gear leans ''hard'' into horror and fear in a military setting more so than any other similar series. All of the stories are set within the shadow world of ultra black ops, layered over the top of the "normal" world. This drives the sense of alienation and altered reality many characters experience. The average person is a pawn of a vast global conspiracy, pathetically ignorant, and the main group opposing them are war loving fanatics, obsessed with perpetuating a world of carnage without end or purpose. Why? Because because the shared trauma of fighting other people's wars have broken them, making them unable to live normal lives. The various heroes are emotionally and psychologically devastated, alternatively either loving, or loathing, the fact that the battlefields of the world are the only places they can call home. The bosses of the series are the world's deadliest killers, usually outclassing the heroes and driving them to the brink. Throw in literally monstrous doomsday weapons, mental deterioration, and regular villain victories, and it's amazing any of the heroes emerge from the horror sanity intact.

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* Metal Gear leans ''hard'' into horror and fear in a military setting more so than any other similar series. All of the stories are set within the shadow world of ultra black ops, layered over the top of the "normal" world. This drives the sense of alienation and altered reality many characters experience. The average person is a pawn of a vast global conspiracy, pathetically ignorant, and the main group opposing them are war loving fanatics, obsessed with perpetuating a world of carnage without end or purpose. Why? Because because the shared trauma of fighting other people's wars have broken them, making them unable to live normal lives. The various heroes are emotionally and psychologically devastated, alternatively either loving, or loathing, the fact that the battlefields of the world are the only places they can call home. The bosses of the series are the world's deadliest killers, usually outclassing the heroes and driving them to the brink. Throw in literally monstrous doomsday weapons, [[SanitySlippage mental deterioration, deterioration,]] and [[TheBadGuyWins regular villain victories, victories,]] and it's amazing any of the heroes emerge from the horror sanity intact.



** Don't forget the fact that he was [[spoiler: caught in a church bombing, pierced by a crucifix, forced to lie in the rubble next to his dead parents, and only survived by drinking their blood.]] Fun times!

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** Don't forget the fact that he was [[spoiler: caught in a church bombing, pierced by a crucifix, forced to lie in the rubble next to his dead parents, and only survived by drinking their blood.]] [[SarcasmMode Fun times!times!]]



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** Of course, this is a subjective trope for a [[{{Narm}} reason.]]

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** Of course, this is a subjective trope for a [[{{Narm}} [[Narm/MetalGear reason.]]
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** Then again, the cries in the original ''MetalGearSolid'' are probably the worst in this regard. Hearing Mei Ling or Naomi scream SNAAAAKE! with utter ''anguish'' is heartbreaking and terrifying in how real the voiceover feels.

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** Then again, the cries in the original ''MetalGearSolid'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' are probably the worst in this regard. Hearing Mei Ling or Naomi scream SNAAAAKE! with utter ''anguish'' is heartbreaking and terrifying in how real the voiceover feels.
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* No matter how badly [[ThisLoserIsYou Raiden]] is looked down on by the fandom, he really did not deserve what happened to him between [=MGS2=] and [=MGS4=]. [[spoiler: He was eventually kidnapped and put through a similar stage of torture and experimentation that Gray Fox has been through, only worse - he loses everything ''below his upper jaw'' and gets replaced with cybernetic parts. Fortunately it seemed that he hasn't suffer the same psychological trauma that Gray Fox did.]]

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* No matter how badly [[ThisLoserIsYou Raiden]] is looked down on by the fandom, he really did not deserve what happened to him between [=MGS2=] and [=MGS4=]. [[spoiler: He was eventually kidnapped and put through a similar stage of torture and experimentation that Gray Fox has been through, only worse - he loses everything ''below his upper jaw'' and it gets replaced with cybernetic parts. Fortunately it seemed seems that he hasn't suffer suffered the same psychological trauma that Gray Fox did.]]

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* While not a canon game, ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' never-the-less has one of the creepiest villains in the series, Marionette Owl. He was born with a condition that let him see in the dark and became a SerialKiller after [[FreudianExcuse finding his childhood friend cut to bits and strewn over a field by another serial killer]]. He was recruited into the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Black Chamber]] unit after he was cornered by the FBI, but was given a pardon by the team's leader, Black Arts Viper in exchange for working for them. He fights against Snake in complete darkness while using two large marionettes. It's revealed that they aren't normal marionettes either. They were created using the severed limbs and body parts of his prior victims, and during the fight with Snake, comments that after he kills him, he's [[AnArmAndALeg going to use his clavicle and femur bones]] to repair one of his marionettes. And then he goes to Hell for being a monster... and his last words show that he knows it. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Rated E for Everyone, folks]]!
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* While this is not a canon game, ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' never-the-less it nevertheless has one of the creepiest villains in the series, Marionette Owl. He was born with a condition that let him see in the dark and became a SerialKiller after [[FreudianExcuse finding his childhood friend cut to bits and strewn over a field by another serial killer]]. He was recruited into the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Black Chamber]] unit after he was cornered by the FBI, but was given a pardon by the team's leader, Black Arts Viper in exchange for working for them. He fights against Snake in complete darkness while using two large marionettes. It's revealed that they aren't normal marionettes either. They were created using the severed limbs and body parts of his prior victims, and during the fight with Snake, comments that after he kills him, he's [[AnArmAndALeg going to use his clavicle and femur bones]] to repair one of his marionettes. And then he goes to Hell for being a monster... and his last words show that he knows it. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Rated E for Everyone, folks]]!
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->''"The mission is a failure! Cut the power right now!"''

For all VideoGame/MetalGearSolid examples, [[NightmareFuel/MetalGearSolid go here.]]
For all VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty examples, [[NightmareFuel/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Go here.]]
''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' examples, [[NightmareFuel/MetalGearRisingRevengeance go here.]] For ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' examples, [[NightmareFuel/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain go here.]]




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[[folder:Metal Gear Solid 3]]
* Getting caught by a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile gavial crocodile]] underwater is a very effective reminder of why the fuckers are so damn terrifying in RealLife.
* After saving the game after Snake ends up in prison in [=MGS3=], you expect it to load up at the prison where you left off. Instead, you are treated to the most bizarre sequence ever, where the entire screen was black and white, you wielded a big sword, were capable of gravity defying stunts, and zombies came lumbering at you endlessly that spewed impractical amounts of blood after you sliced through them, something that might have come out of a machine that mixed ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' with ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden''. The sheer unexpectedness of such was freaky; even if you weren't necessarily scared by the zombies, you'd probably be wondering if your [=MGS3=] disc is faulty.
** This was actually a very cleverly hidden tech demo for a game in production at the time, entitled ''Guy Savage''. [[{{Vaporware}} Said game never wound up being released]], which debatably makes the demo even better.
* Several of the bosses count. There's The Pain, who attacks using thousands of [[BeeAfraid bees]], and is, himself, a living beehive. The Fear has a long, forked tongue, and double-jointed elbows that allow him to scurry up and down trees in a very creepy manner. The End's battle is a long, drawn-out sniper battle, and though tense, isn't scary... though if you sit around in first-person view for too long, he'll sneak around ''right'' behind you and shoot you, which is sure to make some people jump. The Fury stalks you around in a series of dark corridors, with slow, heavy footsteps; hearing those footsteps ''running'' full-speed at you can be freaky. And, finally, the worst of the bunch, there's The Sorrow, who comes to you during a near-death experience, and takes you on a nightmarish trip through a river filled with dead fish and human skulls. Disturbing pictures occasionally fill the screen, accompanied with a scream. You must confront everyone whose lives you've ended so far, too. They're depicted in the way you killed them: If you shot a guy in the leg, his ghost will be limping. If you slit his throat, his head will be hanging back, his neck spurting blood as he shambles towards you. If you've been taking the Rambo approach to the game, indiscriminately gunning down guards and innocent scientists alike, this sequence can be quite gut-wrenching, as you'll be facing down dozens, even hundreds, of angry ghosts.
** Not to mention his speech. Firstly, The Sorrow himself has that deliberately quiet tone that suggests he's absolutely ''furiously'' angry (more so than The Fury, who just overacts a bit) as he admonishes Snake; "The dead...are not...''silent''." As he finishes his speech, a bloody tear runs down his cheek, a gunshot sounds out, and one lens of his glasses shatters. Shiver.
*** He mentions 'you will be killed by your own sons.' If you have slaughtered enough guards, you get a nifty picture of ''Solid shooting Naked'' as one of the images you can get.
** Then you have the sequence itself, with screams and whimpers of 'I'm worthless now!' as the dead try to grab at Snake. Creepier still, though, is the sight of The End. He's floating face-down in the river, and still somehow drifts towards you.
*** "Rawk! Grandpa, grandpa!" Cue whimpers of 'I didn't shoot the bird! I didn't!' for a few minutes. Later, after finding out what happened to the animals in the cages when Snake was captured... *shiver*
* "I can see the earth! Mission control, '''I'm coming home!''' [[StuffBlowingUp (cue explosion)]]
** It gets worse after that. A giant inferno is blazing around the room above Naked Snake's head. Naked Snake barely makes it to the door as a giant flaming head of The Fury shrieks "FURRRY!!!" and then... [[EarthShatteringKaboom KABOOM!!!]]
* The worst thing you can hear the ghost of a dead guard say on the river; "You ate me! '''[[ImAHumanitarian You ate me!]]'''"
* What about the ending, where [[spoiler:you have to ''[[ShootTheDog shoot The Boss in the face?]]'']] Kojima actually forces the player to personally pull the trigger.
* The End's bulging eyeballs are both creepy and disgusting.
* The Shagohod's explosive entrance into the world from the ruins of Groznyj Grad is nothing short of watching a dragon being unleashed into the world of Metal Gear. Rockets annoy it, and bullets are not even ignored, and ''nothing'' is able to stop it from tossing tanks aside like toys and mowing men down like so much grass with its thunderous charge. All this would ''not'' be so bad were it not for that nerve shredding Battle-cry, which is akin to the bending and distorting of metal meeting the screams of a giant baby.... Shiver...
* The sequence in which Snake gets captured and is [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] by Volgin. In contrast to the torture sequences in the previous games, there is no fancy electrical equipment, nor is the player given the opportunity to heal themselves - Snake is simply left to hang from the ceiling while Volgin pummels him to a bloody pulp. It starts off incredibly brutal and shocking, and only gets ''worse'' from there.
** It gets to the point where Big Boss pisses himself from the electrical surges going through his body, and Volgin is aroused by it.
** And not only is Volgin aroused by it - ''so is Ocelot''. By this point, he's so obsessively attracted to Snake that seeing Snake being tortured is not only an arousing experience for him, but it makes him have an epiphany that torture is "the ultimate form of expression," and it leads to him becoming a world-renowned expert on the subject. The way in which he describes this viewpoint to Snake is incredibly unsettling, seeing as how his arrogance and his feelings for Snake had largely been played for comedy up to this point.
* The Pain interfering in Snake and Ocelot's fight, leading him to send a swarm after everyone in the area. Some of Ocelot's soldiers become cannon fodder, and their screams as they're stung to death leading their bodies to become horribly disfigured in the process is terrifying.
* There are some points in the game when trying to contact EVA is impossible. Her inability to answer the codec is probably because she is busy being [[spoiler:raped and tortured by Volgin while disguised as Tatiana]]

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Gear: Ghost Babel]]
* Getting caught by While not a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile gavial crocodile]] underwater is a very effective reminder of why the fuckers are so damn terrifying in RealLife.
* After saving the game after Snake ends up in prison in [=MGS3=], you expect it to load up at the prison where you left off. Instead, you are treated to the most bizarre sequence ever, where the entire screen was black and white, you wielded a big sword, were capable of gravity defying stunts, and zombies came lumbering at you endlessly that spewed impractical amounts of blood after you sliced through them, something that might have come out of a machine that mixed ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' with ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden''. The sheer unexpectedness of such was freaky; even if you weren't necessarily scared by the zombies, you'd probably be wondering if your [=MGS3=] disc is faulty.
** This was actually a very cleverly hidden tech demo for a game in production at the time, entitled ''Guy Savage''. [[{{Vaporware}} Said game never wound up being released]], which debatably makes the demo even better.
* Several of the bosses count. There's The Pain, who attacks using thousands of [[BeeAfraid bees]], and is, himself, a living beehive. The Fear has a long, forked tongue, and double-jointed elbows that allow him to scurry up and down trees in a very creepy manner. The End's battle is a long, drawn-out sniper battle, and though tense, isn't scary... though if you sit around in first-person view for too long, he'll sneak around ''right'' behind you and shoot you, which is sure to make some people jump. The Fury stalks you around in a series of dark corridors, with slow, heavy footsteps; hearing those footsteps ''running'' full-speed at you can be freaky. And, finally, the worst of the bunch, there's The Sorrow, who comes to you during a near-death experience, and takes you on a nightmarish trip through a river filled with dead fish and human skulls. Disturbing pictures occasionally fill the screen, accompanied with a scream. You must confront everyone whose lives you've ended so far, too. They're depicted in the way you killed them: If you shot a guy in the leg, his ghost will be limping. If you slit his throat, his head will be hanging back, his neck spurting blood as he shambles towards you. If you've been taking the Rambo approach to the
canon game, indiscriminately gunning down guards and innocent scientists alike, this sequence can be quite gut-wrenching, as you'll be facing down dozens, even hundreds, of angry ghosts.
** Not to mention his speech. Firstly, The Sorrow himself
''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' never-the-less has that deliberately quiet tone that suggests he's absolutely ''furiously'' angry (more so than The Fury, who just overacts a bit) as he admonishes Snake; "The dead...are not...''silent''." As he finishes his speech, a bloody tear runs down his cheek, a gunshot sounds out, and one lens of his glasses shatters. Shiver.
*** He mentions 'you will be killed by your own sons.' If you have slaughtered enough guards, you get a nifty picture of ''Solid shooting Naked'' as
one of the images you can get.
** Then you have the sequence itself, with screams and whimpers of 'I'm worthless now!' as the dead try to grab at Snake. Creepier still, though, is the sight of The End. He's floating face-down
creepiest villains in the river, series, Marionette Owl. He was born with a condition that let him see in the dark and still somehow drifts towards you.
*** "Rawk! Grandpa, grandpa!" Cue whimpers of 'I didn't shoot the bird! I didn't!' for
became a few minutes. Later, SerialKiller after [[FreudianExcuse finding out what happened his childhood friend cut to the animals in the cages when Snake bits and strewn over a field by another serial killer]]. He was captured... *shiver*
* "I can see the earth! Mission control, '''I'm coming home!''' [[StuffBlowingUp (cue explosion)]]
** It gets worse after that. A giant inferno is blazing around the room above Naked Snake's head. Naked Snake barely makes it to the door as a giant flaming head of The Fury shrieks "FURRRY!!!" and then... [[EarthShatteringKaboom KABOOM!!!]]
* The worst thing you can hear the ghost of a dead guard say on the river; "You ate me! '''[[ImAHumanitarian You ate me!]]'''"
* What about the ending, where [[spoiler:you have to ''[[ShootTheDog shoot The Boss in the face?]]'']] Kojima actually forces the player to personally pull the trigger.
* The End's bulging eyeballs are both creepy and disgusting.
* The Shagohod's explosive entrance
recruited into the world from [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Black Chamber]] unit after he was cornered by the ruins of Groznyj Grad is nothing short of watching FBI, but was given a dragon being unleashed into pardon by the world of Metal Gear. Rockets annoy it, and bullets are not even ignored, and ''nothing'' is able to stop it from tossing tanks aside like toys and mowing men down like so much grass with its thunderous charge. All this would ''not'' be so bad were it not team's leader, Black Arts Viper in exchange for that nerve shredding Battle-cry, which is akin to the bending and distorting of metal meeting the screams of a giant baby.... Shiver...
* The sequence in which
working for them. He fights against Snake gets captured and is [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] by Volgin. In contrast to the torture sequences in the previous games, there is no fancy electrical equipment, nor is the player given the opportunity to heal themselves - Snake is simply left to hang from the ceiling complete darkness while Volgin pummels him to a bloody pulp. It starts off incredibly brutal using two large marionettes. It's revealed that they aren't normal marionettes either. They were created using the severed limbs and shocking, body parts of his prior victims, and only gets ''worse'' from there.
** It gets to
during the point where Big Boss pisses himself from the electrical surges going through his body, and Volgin is aroused by it.
** And not only is Volgin aroused by it - ''so is Ocelot''. By this point,
fight with Snake, comments that after he kills him, he's so obsessively attracted [[AnArmAndALeg going to Snake that seeing Snake use his clavicle and femur bones]] to repair one of his marionettes. And then he goes to Hell for being tortured is not only an arousing experience for him, but it makes him have an epiphany that torture is "the ultimate form of expression," and it leads to him becoming a world-renowned expert on the subject. The way in which he describes this viewpoint to Snake is incredibly unsettling, seeing as how his arrogance monster... and his feelings last words show that he knows it. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Rated E for Snake had largely been played for comedy up to this point.
* The Pain interfering in Snake and Ocelot's fight, leading him to send a swarm after everyone in the area. Some of Ocelot's soldiers become cannon fodder, and their screams as they're stung to death leading their bodies to become horribly disfigured in the process is terrifying.
* There are some points in the game when trying to contact EVA is impossible. Her inability to answer the codec is probably because she is busy being [[spoiler:raped and tortured by Volgin while disguised as Tatiana]]
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* The various commercials that you watch in the beginning range from tame to disturbing, all featuring hints of UncannyValley. Probably the worst offender is the ''[[ForeignQueasine Bomb Shelter Buffet]]''. It features cooks who work with animal carcasses ''on camera'', including the chef ''cutting off the head of an alligator''. It's NauseaFuel all around.
** Considering the commercials seem to be typical for the [[AlternateHistory Metal Gear Universe]], [[FridgeHorror that says quite a lot about the Patriot-controlled society]]...
* Snake's opening monologue about the world driven by War Economy. Soldiers (ultimately) no longer fighting for food, money, resources, loyalty, religion, belief or ideals. They are fighting and die like flies everyday simply to... keeping this very cycle of killing going and ''nothing more''. [[spoiler:There was no one you can point to a the villain, since the person who started it is completely in comatose, and you can't really blame the [=AIs=]... It went from ideology contained in a man to a ''concept'' of pure-raw evil, one that everybody accepted and lived under in daily life without realizing.]]
** And to think this happened because of [[spoiler:The Boss']] wish to [[spoiler:see the world in peace]]...
* FOXDIE in Snake's body [[spoiler:is going out of control due to worsening body condition, possibly turning Snake into walking biological weapon that kills everyone indiscriminately in the future]]. As if Snake has enough of himself to worry about...
* The fight against Screaming Mantis. It doesn't help that the dead are reanimated, and you're dealing with a boss that can float and teleport in a game that isn't supposed to be absurdly supernatural. The second half of the battle is, if possible, freakier; dealing with a woman slowly walking up to you while effortlessly sidestepping your attacks as the screen goes to black and white, all while hearing a chorus of screams of what must be torture victims, made it a rather distracting battle. Oh yes, and she is begging, ''begging'', for Snake to kill her. Sweet dreams.
** And then she screams after the fight... [[spoiler: and then who should show up but ''Psycho Mantis''?]]
* The fight against Laughing Octopus. Octopus has a cloaking device that renders her near invisible, making night-vision pretty much your only option of seeing her. She can also go anywhere with her tentacles, meaning she could be right above you at any given moment. Also note the fact that she could disguise herself as a dead body, your pal the Mk. II, furniture, and your friend Naomi Hunter. It gets even scarier later in the fight when she does away with the tricks and starts to randomly jump out at you from the windows charging maniacally, allowing her high-damage dealing tentacles to hit you.
** ''All'' of the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad B&B corps]] were freaky. Take beautiful women [[SpyCatsuit in what appears to be skintight latex]], add horrible psychological problems and cybernetic augmentations, arm them heavily, have a scene that shows them slaughtering a dozen or so FacelessGoons and imply that ''they knew the PlayerCharacter was watching all along''. Then in the second stage of each boss fight, you have to defeat the same women in their human form with their masks off, still in the bodysuits. If they get close enough, they can ''[[ParanoiaFuel hug you to death]]''. The repeated fetishistic shots of their feet don't help either, nor does the easter egg where you can take photos as they pose for you, in one case ''while one of the women is crying''. Guess what the juxtapositions [[{{Squick}} cause]]?
** While most players find the Beauties' backstories full of {{Narm}}, Raging Raven and Crying Wolf have pretty realistically horrifying ones. Raven was abducted by insurgents as a child, beaten, starved, and had her flesh pecked at by hungry crows for who knows how long. Crying Wolf was escaping a war-torn African village with her infant brother, and accidentally ''smothered him to death'' while hiding from pursuers. Even worse, after that she began hallucinating and [[spoiler: murdered every child in her refugee camp]]. After all of that, being put in a high-tech killing suit and forced to practically run on negative emotions sounds like the epitome of AndIMustScream.
** Just a guess, going by these scenes and End of Evangelion do you think Hideo Kojima and Hideaki Anno know each other?
*** Never mind the constant screaming as the women stagger towards you, as the sounds of whatever trauma broke their minds play back.
** Laughing Octopus is the creepiest. The others are fine. It's normal for someone in that kind of situation to scream, be angry, or even cry. Octopus just laughs the entire time. She's not even laughing at you. She's just...laughing. Even while you shoot her. And she just won't stop.
*** It also doesn't help that Laughing Octopus drops what was (prior to ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Rising]]'') [[PrecisionFStrike the only F-bomb in the entire series.]] It's incredibly unnerving.
--> '''Laughing Octopus''': It's all so ''[[SuddenlyShouting FUCKING]]'' hysterical!
* [[spoiler:Zero's death]] in the ending: [[spoiler:No matter how responsible he is for the countless atrocities and disasters caused directly or indirectly by The Patriots, watching a wheelchair-bound old man suffocate to death for several seconds as his air supply is cut off, right before he goes limp and flatlines, is not exactly pleasant]].
* The Gekko are extremely unsettling, on an intellectual level. Those legs aren't just nanotech synthetic muscles, they're ''actual cloned living ungulate tissue''. They're basically two disembodied cow legs hooked up to life support, with a mini-tank on top. And after doing anything strenuous, they excrete excess lactic acid. Creepy. As. Hell.
** They're very likely ''designed'' to scare and unsettle, especially considering the variety of bizarre noises they emit during combat. These range from the chirping of cicadas to the screams of cattle, the latter being particularly unsettling considering their relation to Japanese WWII air raid sirens.
** Does the Uncanny Valley apply to legs? There's something very human- almost feminine about gekko legs but the color and size are off. The organic and inorganic nature of these things is also unsettling.
* What Zero did to Big Boss: After supposedly being best friends and brothers in arms, Big Boss turned on Zero and left the Patriots. Zero's revenge? Have Snake "kill" Big Boss (in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2''), retrieve his body, and keep it barely alive on life support, using him as the ''only'' working key to his super computer network that he chose to be his successor. [[FromBadToWorse And if that wasn't bad enough]], it turns out that Big Boss is not simply in a coma - he's actually in a permanent state of [[AndIMustScream locked-in syndrome]], a state maintained by the nanomachines injected into his body by the Patriots. As a result, he cannot move, speak, or do anything, but he is fully aware of his environment. Okay, he can thrash about a little bit - which only makes it worse. And of course, [[spoiler:it turns out they did this to Solidus too]].
* That bit where Snake wakes up with his pixelated [=MGS1=] head on his hi-res [=MGS4=] body. It just drives straight into the UncannyValley and never leaves.
* The Microwave Hallway is a combination of this and TearJerker.
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[[folder:Peace Walker]]
* The [[spoiler:Boss AI's]] speech dissolves into random phrases while its voice drops into static. Especially near the end where [[spoiler:she just screams "Jack!"]] over and over in a slow, distorted voice. [[spoiler:The Boss]] just ''should not'' sound like that. Ever.
* The Peace Walker unit, specifically what would happen if it was mass produced, is also extremely terrifying to imagine. Aside from the fact that it can launch retalitory strikes at countries, or even be tricked into launching nukes at other countries by making it think that there was going to be an attack on the US homeland, there's also the fact that it is equipped with a huge hydrogen bomb so it could sneak into enemy territory and self destruct, most likely obliterating an entire nation. When you remember that Hot Coldman planned on mass-producing Peace Walker throughout Central America (from Belice all the way to Panama), it becomes ''a lot'' more horrifying when you take into account the implications of what might happen if he, or some other mass-murdering madman, decided to have all the Peace Walker units stationed in Central America self destruct in their respective countries. In fact, Hot Coldman is the most evil, insane, and depraved character in Metal Gear history, even outranking Colonel Volgin (If he managed to make even an extremely sadistic GRU Colonel who has absolutely no qualms about blowing up countrymen for laughs run for his money, you know that Coldman is bad news.) and, to an extent, even Skull Face (whose horrific actions are of a much more personal nature).
* Whenever the Chysalis shows up, it always announces its presence by singing a pleasant little tune, [[DissonantSerenity even as it machine guns and kidnaps people]]. Its downright unnerving.
* [[spoiler:[[TheFakeCutie Paz]]. [[AxCrazy Just]]...[[EvilAllAlong Paz]]. But to be specific, Paz the "peace-loving pacifist" really wants to unite the world under [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill one will]] with Cipher and Major Zero. Paz wants to kill Big Boss despite struggling with BecomingTheMask according to her audio tapes, has ''very'' few problems launching nukes and framing MSF, was playing Big Boss for a chump since the start of the game, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and hates kittens]]. [[IronicEcho "Say Peace!"]]]]
* There's something completely unnerving about the bosses chirping out stuff like "Chaingun" in their cutsey Vocaloid autotuned voices.
* "Jesus. Coldman guessed [[spoiler: '''[[NukeEm wrong]]'''. They're '''gonna''' [[HumansAreBastards go through with it]]!]]"
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* When Big Boss arrives to rescue Chico from Camp Omega, Chico [[BreakTheCutie freaks out and even lashes at him]], forcing Snake to put the poor kid in a sleeper hold. Then the camera pans to [[spoiler: nails driven through the heels of his feet to prevent him from trying to escape on his own.]]
* [[spoiler: Paz]]'s brutal surgery. It's horrifiying hearing [[spoiler: her]] screams and moans in agony, but worse hearing the fear in Snake's voice. Even worse? The surgery is done to remove a bomb in [[spoiler: her]] stomach, which is the size of a freakin' postal package. Even worse, after [[spoiler: CIPHER's destruction of Mother Base, she attempts to kill herself.]] Why? Because [[spoiler: she has a second bomb inside her. ''In her vagina''.]] Holy fucking SHIT, Kojima!
* All of the things Big Boss goes through. He wakes up after a nine-year coma and is missing an arm, has to crawl his way out of the hospital, gets a piece of metal lodged in his head, and starts having all sorts of weird hallucinations.
* Quiet being tortured in the "red band" trailer.
* Skull Face. Just the appearance of Skull Face in general.
** The appearance? Try what he actually ''does'' on for size - notably, his [[spoiler:stripping and belting of Paz]] is extremely discomforting to listen to.
** That pales in comparison to what he makes [[spoiler: Chico do to Paz. Wanna know? He forces him to ''rape her'']]
* Big Boss apparently gunning down a group of imprisoned African slaves near the end of the trailer. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he shot the lock off of the door.]]
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* While not a canon game, Ghost Babel never-the-less has one of the creepiest villains in the series, Marionette Owl. He was born with a condition that let him see in the dark and became a SerialKiller after [[FreudianExcuse finding his childhood friend cut to bits and strewn over a field by another serial killer]]. He was recruited into the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Black Chamber]] unit after he was cornered by the FBI, but was given a pardon by the team's leader, Black Arts Viper in exchange for working for them. He fights against Snake in complete darkness while using two large marionettes. It's revealed that they aren't normal marionettes either. They were created using the severed limbs and body parts of his prior victims, and during the fight with Snake, comments that after he kills him, he's [[AnArmAndALeg going to use his clavicle and femur bones]] to repair one of his marionettes.
** And then he goes to Hell for being a monster... and his last words show that he knows it. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Rated E for Everyone, folks]]!
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\n[[folder:Metal Gear Solid 4]]\n* The various commercials that you watch in the beginning range from tame to disturbing, all featuring hints of UncannyValley. Probably the worst offender is the ''[[ForeignQueasine Bomb Shelter Buffet]]''. It features cooks who work with animal carcasses ''on camera'', including the chef ''cutting off the head of an alligator''. It's NauseaFuel all around.\n** Considering the commercials seem to be typical for the [[AlternateHistory Metal Gear Universe]], [[FridgeHorror that says quite a lot about the Patriot-controlled society]]...\n* Snake's opening monologue about the world driven by War Economy. Soldiers (ultimately) no longer fighting for food, money, resources, loyalty, religion, belief or ideals. They are fighting and die like flies everyday simply to... keeping this very cycle of killing going and ''nothing more''. [[spoiler:There was no one you can point to a the villain, since the person who started it is completely in comatose, and you can't really blame the [=AIs=]... It went from ideology contained in a man to a ''concept'' of pure-raw evil, one that everybody accepted and lived under in daily life without realizing.]]\n** And to think this happened because of [[spoiler:The Boss']] wish to [[spoiler:see the world in peace]]...\n* FOXDIE in Snake's body [[spoiler:is going out of control due to worsening body condition, possibly turning Snake into walking biological weapon that kills everyone indiscriminately in the future]]. As if Snake has enough of himself to worry about...\n* The fight against Screaming Mantis. It doesn't help that the dead are reanimated, and you're dealing with a boss that can float and teleport in a game that isn't supposed to be absurdly supernatural. The second half of the battle is, if possible, freakier; dealing with a woman slowly walking up to you while effortlessly sidestepping your attacks as the screen goes to black and white, all while hearing a chorus of screams of what must be torture victims, made it a rather distracting battle. Oh yes, and she is begging, ''begging'', for Snake to kill her. Sweet dreams. \n** And then she screams after the fight... [[spoiler: and then who should show up but ''Psycho Mantis''?]]\n* The fight against Laughing Octopus. Octopus has a cloaking device that renders her near invisible, making night-vision pretty much your only option of seeing her. She can also go anywhere with her tentacles, meaning she could be right above you at any given moment. Also note the fact that she could disguise herself as a dead body, your pal the Mk. II, furniture, and your friend Naomi Hunter. It gets even scarier later in the fight when she does away with the tricks and starts to randomly jump out at you from the windows charging maniacally, allowing her high-damage dealing tentacles to hit you.\n** ''All'' of the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad B&B corps]] were freaky. Take beautiful women [[SpyCatsuit in what appears to be skintight latex]], add horrible psychological problems and cybernetic augmentations, arm them heavily, have a scene that shows them slaughtering a dozen or so FacelessGoons and imply that ''they knew the PlayerCharacter was watching all along''. Then in the second stage of each boss fight, you have to defeat the same women in their human form with their masks off, still in the bodysuits. If they get close enough, they can ''[[ParanoiaFuel hug you to death]]''. The repeated fetishistic shots of their feet don't help either, nor does the easter egg where you can take photos as they pose for you, in one case ''while one of the women is crying''. Guess what the juxtapositions [[{{Squick}} cause]]?\n** While most players find the Beauties' backstories full of {{Narm}}, Raging Raven and Crying Wolf have pretty realistically horrifying ones. Raven was abducted by insurgents as a child, beaten, starved, and had her flesh pecked at by hungry crows for who knows how long. Crying Wolf was escaping a war-torn African village with her infant brother, and accidentally ''smothered him to death'' while hiding from pursuers. Even worse, after that she began hallucinating and [[spoiler: murdered every child in her refugee camp]]. After all of that, being put in a high-tech killing suit and forced to practically run on negative emotions sounds like the epitome of AndIMustScream.\n** Just a guess, going by these scenes and End of Evangelion do you think Hideo Kojima and Hideaki Anno know each other?\n*** Never mind the constant screaming as the women stagger towards you, as the sounds of whatever trauma broke their minds play back.\n** Laughing Octopus is the creepiest. The others are fine. It's normal for someone in that kind of situation to scream, be angry, or even cry. Octopus just laughs the entire time. She's not even laughing at you. She's just...laughing. Even while you shoot her. And she just won't stop.\n*** It also doesn't help that Laughing Octopus drops what was (prior to ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Rising]]'') [[PrecisionFStrike the only F-bomb in the entire series.]] It's incredibly unnerving.\n--> '''Laughing Octopus''': It's all so ''[[SuddenlyShouting FUCKING]]'' hysterical!\n* [[spoiler:Zero's death]] in the ending: [[spoiler:No matter how responsible he is for the countless atrocities and disasters caused directly or indirectly by The Patriots, watching a wheelchair-bound old man suffocate to death for several seconds as his air supply is cut off, right before he goes limp and flatlines, is not exactly pleasant]].\n* The Gekko are extremely unsettling, on an intellectual level. Those legs aren't just nanotech synthetic muscles, they're ''actual cloned living ungulate tissue''. They're basically two disembodied cow legs hooked up to life support, with a mini-tank on top. And after doing anything strenuous, they excrete excess lactic acid. Creepy. As. Hell.\n** They're very likely ''designed'' to scare and unsettle, especially considering the variety of bizarre noises they emit during combat. These range from the chirping of cicadas to the screams of cattle, the latter being particularly unsettling considering their relation to Japanese WWII air raid sirens.\n** Does the Uncanny Valley apply to legs? There's something very human- almost feminine about gekko legs but the color and size are off. The organic and inorganic nature of these things is also unsettling. \n* What Zero did to Big Boss: After supposedly being best friends and brothers in arms, Big Boss turned on Zero and left the Patriots. Zero's revenge? Have Snake "kill" Big Boss (in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2''), retrieve his body, and keep it barely alive on life support, using him as the ''only'' working key to his super computer network that he chose to be his successor. [[FromBadToWorse And if that wasn't bad enough]], it turns out that Big Boss is not simply in a coma - he's actually in a permanent state of [[AndIMustScream locked-in syndrome]], a state maintained by the nanomachines injected into his body by the Patriots. As a result, he cannot move, speak, or do anything, but he is fully aware of his environment. Okay, he can thrash about a little bit - which only makes it worse. And of course, [[spoiler:it turns out they did this to Solidus too]].\n* That bit where Snake wakes up with his pixelated [=MGS1=] head on his hi-res [=MGS4=] body. It just drives straight into the UncannyValley and never leaves.\n* The Microwave Hallway is a combination of this and TearJerker.\n[[/folder]]\n\n[[folder:Peace Walker]]\n* The [[spoiler:Boss AI's]] speech dissolves into random phrases while its voice drops into static. Especially near the end where [[spoiler:she just screams "Jack!"]] over and over in a slow, distorted voice. [[spoiler:The Boss]] just ''should not'' sound like that. Ever.\n* The Peace Walker unit, specifically what would happen if it was mass produced, is also extremely terrifying to imagine. Aside from the fact that it can launch retalitory strikes at countries, or even be tricked into launching nukes at other countries by making it think that there was going to be an attack on the US homeland, there's also the fact that it is equipped with a huge hydrogen bomb so it could sneak into enemy territory and self destruct, most likely obliterating an entire nation. When you remember that Hot Coldman planned on mass-producing Peace Walker throughout Central America (from Belice all the way to Panama), it becomes ''a lot'' more horrifying when you take into account the implications of what might happen if he, or some other mass-murdering madman, decided to have all the Peace Walker units stationed in Central America self destruct in their respective countries. In fact, Hot Coldman is the most evil, insane, and depraved character in Metal Gear history, even outranking Colonel Volgin (If he managed to make even an extremely sadistic GRU Colonel who has absolutely no qualms about blowing up countrymen for laughs run for his money, you know that Coldman is bad news.) and, to an extent, even Skull Face (whose horrific actions are of a much more personal nature).\n* Whenever the Chysalis shows up, it always announces its presence by singing a pleasant little tune, [[DissonantSerenity even as it machine guns and kidnaps people]]. Its downright unnerving.\n* [[spoiler:[[TheFakeCutie Paz]]. [[AxCrazy Just]]...[[EvilAllAlong Paz]]. But to be specific, Paz the "peace-loving pacifist" really wants to unite the world under [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill one will]] with Cipher and Major Zero. Paz wants to kill Big Boss despite struggling with BecomingTheMask according to her audio tapes, has ''very'' few problems launching nukes and framing MSF, was playing Big Boss for a chump since the start of the game, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and hates kittens]]. [[IronicEcho "Say Peace!"]]]]\n* There's something completely unnerving about the bosses chirping out stuff like "Chaingun" in their cutsey Vocaloid autotuned voices.\n* "Jesus. Coldman guessed [[spoiler: '''[[NukeEm wrong]]'''. They're '''gonna''' [[HumansAreBastards go through with it]]!]]"\n[[/folder]]\n\n[[folder:Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain]]\n* When Big Boss arrives to rescue Chico from Camp Omega, Chico [[BreakTheCutie freaks out and even lashes at him]], forcing Snake to put the poor kid in a sleeper hold. Then the camera pans to [[spoiler: nails driven through the heels of his feet to prevent him from trying to escape on his own.]]\n* [[spoiler: Paz]]'s brutal surgery. It's horrifiying hearing [[spoiler: her]] screams and moans in agony, but worse hearing the fear in Snake's voice. Even worse? The surgery is done to remove a bomb in [[spoiler: her]] stomach, which is the size of a freakin' postal package. Even worse, after [[spoiler: CIPHER's destruction of Mother Base, she attempts to kill herself.]] Why? Because [[spoiler: she has a second bomb inside her. ''In her vagina''.]] Holy fucking SHIT, Kojima!\n* All of the things Big Boss goes through. He wakes up after a nine-year coma and is missing an arm, has to crawl his way out of the hospital, gets a piece of metal lodged in his head, and starts having all sorts of weird hallucinations.\n* Quiet being tortured in the "red band" trailer.\n* Skull Face. Just the appearance of Skull Face in general.\n** The appearance? Try what he actually ''does'' on for size - notably, his [[spoiler:stripping and belting of Paz]] is extremely discomforting to listen to.\n** That pales in comparison to what he makes [[spoiler: Chico do to Paz. Wanna know? He forces him to ''rape her'']]\n* Big Boss apparently gunning down a group of imprisoned African slaves near the end of the trailer. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he shot the lock off of the door.]]\n[[/folder]]\n\n[[folder:Metal Gear: Ghost Babel]]\n* While not a canon game, Ghost Babel never-the-less has one of the creepiest villains in the series, Marionette Owl. He was born with a condition that let him see in the dark and became a SerialKiller after [[FreudianExcuse finding his childhood friend cut to bits and strewn over a field by another serial killer]]. He was recruited into the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Black Chamber]] unit after he was cornered by the FBI, but was given a pardon by the team's leader, Black Arts Viper in exchange for working for them. He fights against Snake in complete darkness while using two large marionettes. It's revealed that they aren't normal marionettes either. They were created using the severed limbs and body parts of his prior victims, and during the fight with Snake, comments that after he kills him, he's [[AnArmAndALeg going to use his clavicle and femur bones]] to repair one of his marionettes.\n** And then he goes to Hell for being a monster... and his last words show that he knows it. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Rated E for Everyone, folks]]!\n[[/folder]]\n----\n''Raiden, close the web browser right now!''----
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* Metal Gear leans ''hard'' into horror and fear in a military setting more so than any other similar series. All of the stories are set within the shadow world of ultra black ops, layered over the top of the "normal" world. This drives the sense of alienation and altered reality many characters experience. The average person is a pawn of a vast global conspiracy, pathetically ignorant, and the main group opposing them are war loving fanatics, obsessed with perpetuating a world of carnage without end or purpose. Why? Because because the shared trauma of fighting other people's wars have broken them, making them unable to live normal lives. The various heroes are emotionally and psychologically devastated, alternatively either loving, or loathing, the fact that the battlefields of the world are the only places they can call home. The bosses of the series are the world's deadliest killers, usually outclassing the heroes and driving them to the brink. Throw in literally monstrous doomsday weapons, mental deterioration, and regular villain victories, and it's amazing any of the heroes emerge from the horror sanity intact.
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* Several of the bosses count. There's The Pain, who attacks using thousands of bees, and is, himself, a living beehive. The Fear has a long, forked tongue, and double-jointed elbows that allow him to scurry up and down trees in a very creepy manner. The End's battle is a long, drawn-out sniper battle, and though tense, isn't scary... though if you sit around in first-person view for too long, he'll sneak around ''right'' behind you and shoot you, which is sure to make some people jump. The Fury stalks you around in a series of dark corridors, with slow, heavy footsteps; hearing those footsteps ''running'' full-speed at you can be freaky. And, finally, the worst of the bunch, there's The Sorrow, who comes to you during a near-death experience, and takes you on a nightmarish trip through a river filled with dead fish and human skulls. Disturbing pictures occasionally fill the screen, accompanied with a scream. You must confront everyone whose lives you've ended so far, too. They're depicted in the way you killed them: If you shot a guy in the leg, his ghost will be limping. If you slit his throat, his head will be hanging back, his neck spurting blood as he shambles towards you. If you've been taking the Rambo approach to the game, indiscriminately gunning down guards and innocent scientists alike, this sequence can be quite gut-wrenching, as you'll be facing down dozens, even hundreds, of angry ghosts.

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* Several of the bosses count. There's The Pain, who attacks using thousands of bees, [[BeeAfraid bees]], and is, himself, a living beehive. The Fear has a long, forked tongue, and double-jointed elbows that allow him to scurry up and down trees in a very creepy manner. The End's battle is a long, drawn-out sniper battle, and though tense, isn't scary... though if you sit around in first-person view for too long, he'll sneak around ''right'' behind you and shoot you, which is sure to make some people jump. The Fury stalks you around in a series of dark corridors, with slow, heavy footsteps; hearing those footsteps ''running'' full-speed at you can be freaky. And, finally, the worst of the bunch, there's The Sorrow, who comes to you during a near-death experience, and takes you on a nightmarish trip through a river filled with dead fish and human skulls. Disturbing pictures occasionally fill the screen, accompanied with a scream. You must confront everyone whose lives you've ended so far, too. They're depicted in the way you killed them: If you shot a guy in the leg, his ghost will be limping. If you slit his throat, his head will be hanging back, his neck spurting blood as he shambles towards you. If you've been taking the Rambo approach to the game, indiscriminately gunning down guards and innocent scientists alike, this sequence can be quite gut-wrenching, as you'll be facing down dozens, even hundreds, of angry ghosts.



* The sequence in which Snake gets captured and is tortured by Volgin. In contrast to the torture sequences in the previous games, there is no fancy electrical equipment, nor is the player given the opportunity to heal themselves - Snake is simply left to hang from the ceiling while Volgin pummels him to a bloody pulp. It starts off incredibly brutal and shocking, and only gets ''worse'' from there.

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* Snake's opening monologue about the world driven by War Economy. Soldiers (ultimately) no longer fighting for food, money, resources, loyalty, religion, belief or ideals. They are fighting and die like flies everyday simply to... keeping this very cycle of killing going and ''nothing more''. [[spoiler:There was no one you can point to a the villain. It went from ideology contained in a man to a ''concept'' of pure-raw evil, one that everybody lived under without realizing.]]

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** The Pain interfering in Snake and Ocelot's fight, leading him to send a swarm after everyone in the area. Some of Ocelot's soldiers become cannon fodder, and their screams as they're stung to death leading their bodies to become horribly disfigured in the process is terrifying.

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** And not only is Volgin aroused by it - ''so is Ocelot''. By this point, he's so obsessively attracted to Snake that seeing Snake being tortured is not only an arousing experience for him, but it makes him have an epiphany that torture is "the ultimate form of expression," and it leads to him becoming a world-renowned expert on the subject. The way in which he describes this viewpoint to Snake is incredibly unsettling, seeing as how his arrogance and his feelings for Snake had largely been played for comedy up to this point.
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*** He mentions 'you will be killed by your own sons.' If you have slaughtered enough guards, you get a nifty picture of Solid shooting Naked as one of the images you can get.

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*** He mentions 'you will be killed by your own sons.' If you have slaughtered enough guards, you get a nifty picture of Solid ''Solid shooting Naked Naked'' as one of the images you can get.



* "I can see the earth!" [[StuffBlowingUp (cue explosion)]]

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* "I can see the earth!" earth! Mission control, '''I'm coming home!''' [[StuffBlowingUp (cue explosion)]]
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* "Jesus. Coldman guessed [[spoiler: '''[[NukeEm wrong]]'''. They're '''gonna''' [[HumansAreBastard go through with it]]!]]"

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* "Jesus. Coldman guessed [[spoiler: '''[[NukeEm wrong]]'''. They're '''gonna''' [[HumansAreBastard [[HumansAreBastards go through with it]]!]]"
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* "Jesus. Coldman guessed [[spoiler: '''wrong'''. They're '''gonna''' [[HumansAreBastard go through with it]]!]]"

to:

* "Jesus. Coldman guessed [[spoiler: '''wrong'''.'''[[NukeEm wrong]]'''. They're '''gonna''' [[HumansAreBastard go through with it]]!]]"

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