History Characters / MetalGearSolidV

* NameFaceName

* AbsoluteCleavage: Unlocking the Sniper Wolf outfit for Quiet will cause her to wear a military uniform that's unbuttoned in the front with no bra, in addition to giving her blonde hair and gold lipstick.

* IllBoy: Like all in the Devil's House, [[spoiler:he's been used to incubate Vocal Cord Parasites]].

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's supposed to be Big Boss' best soldier back in MSF, but the existence of such character is never acknowledged in ''Peace Walker''. The player has to go out of their way to find a medic with very high combat stat to match Venom's description, and even then the game won't treat him any differently from any other soldier.

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's supposed to be Big Boss' best soldier back in MSF, but the existence of such character is never acknowledged in ''Peace Walker''. The player has to go out of their way to find a medic with very high combat stats to fit Venom's description, even then the game won't treat him any differently from any other soldier.

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's supposed to be Big Boss' best soldier back in MSF, but the existence of such character is never acknowledged in ''Peace Walker''. The player has to go out of their way to find a medic with very high combat stats to fit Venom's description.

* NiceHat: He may be a horrible human being, but his hat is awesome.

* WalkingSpoiler: Discussing his backstory or who he really was in ''Ground Zeroes'' spoils the TwistEnding of ''Phantom Pain''. The fact that, on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, [[SpoiledByTheFormat Venom Snake has his own section]] shows that he isn't the real Big Boss, since each Character Page only deals with characters that debuted in each game.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: It's a spectre capable of maintaining both a physical presence in the world and being a [[RecurringBoss very real]] threat to you. [[spoiler: Subverted, as it's revealed that it already had a physical presence in the world...as Volgin.]]

* ManOnFire: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin You bet]]. And he sets fire to everything around him.

* ImplacableMan: The man eats bullets, grenades, and ''rockets'' for breakfast, survives an armored car ramming right into him ''after'' firing a tank cannon, [[spoiler:gets ran over by a who-knows-how-heavy platform holding Sahelanthropus]] and just gets up and walks/teleports away.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His WeaponOfChoice is a Mare's Leg.

* CyberNinja: Technically, they are a continuation of the recurring Cyborg Ninjas in the series... only this time, [[UpToEleven they are a whole]] ''[[UpToEleven unit]]'' [[UpToEleven of them]].[[note]]And no, ConservationOfNinjutsu is '''[[AvertedTrope not]]''' in effect.[[/note]] They also bear a passing resemblance to [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Sundowner]].

* WeaksauceWeakness: As unbelievable as it sounds, the Sniper Skulls literally '''can't do shit''' if you're inside a smoke plume provided by smoke grenades, so as long as you have Grade 4 [[NightVisionGoggles NVGs]] and a powerful-enough sniper rifle, you can freely pick them off at your leisure whilst inside the smoke plume without them ever firing back at you, just make sure to re-apply a smoke grenade whenever the one you used starts to expire in order to freely pick them off so that they never trigger the classic '''[[red: !]]''' sound. Yes, this even works on their [[UpToEleven Extreme counterparts]], including Quiet herself, where they can usually [[OneHitKill kill you with one shot of their rifles.]] '''No bullshit.'''

* HeroicMime: Not ''[[SubvertedTrope literally]]'' mute, but he's '''way''' less talkative than the real Big Boss. Other than a few times in cutscenes, he's silent the entire game. He won't even talk in CODEC calls, his teammates giving him hints exclusively one-way instead.

[[folder: '''Metal Gear Sahelanthropus''']]

* BaldOfEvil: Palitz.

* BaldOfAwesome: His facial structure varies for each player's game. But he's always Caucasian, blue-eyed, and has a shaved head.

* VillainBall: He picked a fight with MSF/Big Boss, despite it being completely unnecessary for his plans, simply to satisfy his ego. Big Boss' interference with his plans leads directly to his downfall.

** He gets another one as heard in one of the cassette tapes. [[spoiler:He loses his cool when Code Talker figures out why Skull Face is so hell-bent on finding out how to stop the symptoms of the vocal cord parasites from manifesting. The reason for this is because in attempting to create more strains of the vocal cord parasite, Skull Face became infected by the strain that responds to ''his'' own mother tongue: the Hungarian strain that responds to the Szekelys dialect.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: He hits Paz when she objects to his plans, [[spoiler:and even strips and belt-whips her, possibly even raping her.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: He has no problem with torturing Chico for information. [[spoiler:He even puts screws in his feet to keep him from going anywhere.]]

* NoNonsenseNemesis: Just to show how much MGS is evolving into a much grittier and darkly-toned war game, there's barely any clueless, legally blind mooks to sneak past anymore. XOF are ''terrifyingly'' good at their jobs, best examplified in the scene where Ahab and Ishmael play dead in a pile of corpses to hide from a squad of XOF soldiers... [[OhCrap who begin shooting each corpse they see in the head]].
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: If slaughtering hundreds of innocent civilians and just barely not killing Snake on multiple occasions didn't convince you how evil they were, remember, while Skull Face was the one who ordered them to, the soldiers were technically the ones who sexually and physically tortured Paz and Chico.

* InkSuitActor: Much like the Beauties in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Metal Gear Solid 4]]'', Quiet is very closely modeled after the actress providing her motion capture (Stefanie Joosten, a Dutch model, actress, and singer who lives in Japan).

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* MismatchedEyes: In the prologue, while his left eye is blue, his right is a milky white blank due to the accident that caused his coma. [[spoiler: You can optionally give him mismatched eye colours when creating your avatar.]]

** Eventually subverted by the end of the game. With the final scene of the game making several allusions to Venom Snake's role in Operation Intrude n313 and threatening nuclear war upon the world via Metal Gear (his reflection in the mirror showing him covered in blood, and his "horn" having grow to its largest possible size). Despite now now knowing he isn't the "real" Big Boss, he fully accepts his role as Big Boss's doppelganger and becomes his image in morality as well as looks.

* BaldOfEvil: Complete lack of hair on men and [[BaldWomen women]]: Check. Do the dirty work for Skull Face: Check.

* {{Butterface}}: The female Skulls have incredibly voluptuous figures with {{Gainaxing}} physics, yet the mere fact that they are veiny, pale-skinned, cyborg-like BaldWomen makes them appear [[FanDisservice nightmarish rather than sexy]]. The game makes emphasis of this by showing shots of their breasts and butts before moving to their faces.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite being implied [[spoiler:and eventually confirmed]] to be Hungarian, he speaks with a flawless American accent. [[JustifiedTrope Justified, as he's supposed to be a master spy who has worn numerous identities over his career]]. Learning to speak multiple languages without any accent is one of the requirements for the job.

* WalkingTank: Subverted. Unlike the previous Metal Gears, this one appears to have more of a humanoid shape.

* GoodCounterpart: Despite his rather horrifying appearance, there's ''a lot'' of in-game hints that Venom is the more benevolent side of the two Big Bosses, often showing mercy, honor, and compassion towards his foes, and being much more tempered, and level headed then say Kaz, and the original Big Boss. Further reflected by Outer Heaven's morality, compared to Zanzibar Land. [[spoiler: This is likely due to the remnants of his original personality. Being a medic, his primary duty in life was the preservation of life. Opposed to Snake whose primary purpose was to end the lives of MSF's enemies.]]