History Fanfic / OnMissingLimbs

** The references to Father's Day during TheSting may be related to the film [[Film/{{FathersDay2011}} Father's Day (2011)]], wherein a crazed one-eyed vigilante called Ahab attempts to hunt down a demonic serial killer who murdered his father.

** The references to Father's Day during TheSting may be related to the film Film/FathersDay2011, wherein a crazed one-eyed vigilante called Ahab attempts to hunt down a demonic serial killer who murdered his father.

** The references to Father's Day during TheSting may be related to the film Film/FathersDay, wherein a crazed one-eyed vigilante called Ahab attempts to hunt down a demonic serial killer who murdered his father.

* NoNameGiven: The identity of the parahuman recruited by [[spoiler:Cauldron/XOF]] in the second epilogue is never revealed.

** Miss Militia, in {{Backstory}} only -- and only briefly, at that. By the time she appears in the plot (even in the 1985 flashback), she is no longer a child soldier; though being a Ward of the Protectorate is arguably the same thing.
** Offscreen, Raiden was conditioned as a child soldier by Solidus Snake. However, within the constraints of the existing story, he is effectively a LadyNotAppearingInThisGame.

* SimulationGame: Similar to the Big Shell arc of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty, the entire plot of the story arises as a consequence of the ''[[spoiler: VSS]]'' or ''[[spoiler: Venom Snake Simulation]]'', a project intended by [[spoiler: Revolver Ocelot]] to artificially cultivate Taylor Hebert as [[spoiler: a reproduction of a "legendary hero"]].

** The name of the offscreen character M.W. Mond is a reference to the Tezuka manga Manga/{{MW}}, and Mustapha Mond from Literature/BraveNewWorld. At one point, he adopts the pseudonym Matthew William O'Brien. The surname "O'Brien" is a reference to the similarly named character from 1984.

** [[spoiler: Revolver Ocelot]]'s pseudonym, Charles Adam Iriomote, is really a conscious, in-universe CharacterNameAlias; it's a reference to Charlie Townsend of Charlie's Angels. Like Charlie, [[spoiler: Ocelot]] is assisted by the three female members of the HAVEN superhero team. HAVEN, incidentally, is a call forward to Outer Haven, from VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots; the three females are AlternateTimeline versions of the members of the Beauty and Beast Unit.

* ShockAndAwe: The Stun Arm prosthetic prepared for Taylor by Armsmaster, based on notes regarding Venom's combat prosthetic recovered by the CIA. Operating on [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness a somewhat shady explanation of physics]] and RuleOfCool, the arm is somehow capable of rendering humans unconscious with an electric discharge without ill consequence.

* SnipingMission: The showdown between Taylor and Miss Militia is highly reminiscent of sniper battles in the Metal Gear Solid series. [[spoiler: Possibly, this is due to the fact that Taylor is Quiet's biological daughter, Miss Militia is [[CanonCharacterAllAlong this world's version of Sniper Wolf]].]]

* AnArmAndALeg / ArtificialLimbs: As a result of injuries sustained in the aftermath of her internment to her locker, Taylor Hebert's left arm had to be amputated in the same manner as Venom Snake's. [[spoiler: This is later revealed to have been unnecessary; the amputation was intentionally carried out on a healthy limb to grant Taylor cosmetic features appropriate of a DistaffCounterpart to Venom Snake.]]

** "Chapter 11: (Reunion) The Patriot" is a reference to the VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain mission titled "Episode 11: (Reunion) Cloaked in Silence" -- the version of Episode 11 that appears if the player replays the mission 7 times subsequent to Quiet's death. In the conclusion of the Reunion version of the mission, Quiet noncanonically rejoins the player as an AssistCharacter. Chapter 11 in this story, comparatively, is a [[SniperDuel]] against Miss Militia, who is revealed to be an AlternateTimeline version of [[spoiler: Sniper Wolf]]. The "Reunion" aspect is invoked by the fact that Miss Militia is meeting a DistaffCounterpart to Big Boss, who she has been tracking for ages.

* LethalJokeItem: Taylor ends up defeating the majority of her opponents with nothing more than clever use of [[InJoke a cardboard box]].