History Monster / MetalGear

* ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' ([[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] version) & ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge'': This non-canon version of [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy lacking all redeeming qualities]] of his canon counterpart. Leader of [[BananaRepublic Outer Heaven]], Big Boss kidnapped Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar and forced him to create Metal Gear, a bipedal WalkingTank capable of launching nuclear missiles from anywhere in the world, threatening to kill his daughter, Ellen Madnar, if he refused. Solid Snake managed to destroy his Metal Gear, free his prisoners, and blow up his base, leading to Big Boss barely surviving, but needing to replace his damaged body parts with cybernetics. Desiring revenge, Big Boss started to recreate Metal Gear, planning to use it to [[NukeEm launch nuclear strikes]] across the whole world, with the first targets being New York, Tokyo and Moscow.

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* [[ItsAllAboutMe Liquid Snake]] is one of the 3 clones of [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss]], who was [[DrivenByEnvy jealous]] of his status as the most inferior. Growing to hate Big Boss, Liquid became furious upon hearing that Solid Snake killed him; angry that he "stole his chance for revenge", Liquid organized a scheme to take over the nuclear base on Shadow Moses, using his FOXHOUND unit to get his hands on a new [[WalkingTank Metal Gear Rex]], which he planned to use to force the US government to hand over the body of Big Boss, and when they refused, he has DARPA Chief Donald Anderson and [=ArmsTech=] President Kenneth Baker [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] for the codes to launch Metal Gear. When that failed, he manipulated Solid Snake into activating Metal Gear and tries to kill him with it, brutally crushing to death Solid Snake's ally Grey Fox, who he had previously brainwasher, in the process. Managing to survive by possessing the body of Revolver Ocelot, Liquid first managed to take over his body when he was about to steal Metal Gear RAY from USS Discovery tanker, and used this Metal Gear to tear this tanker apart, killing dozens of people who were onboard the tanker. Taking over Ocelot's body again, when Ocelot betrayed Solidus Snake and taken over Arsenal Gear, Liquid sent Arsenal Gear towards Manhattan, escaping before it crashed into the city, destroying a big part of it.

** [[AdaptationalVillainy Solidus Snake]] is the self-proclaimed best of the 3 clones of Big Boss and former President of the United States, who was deeply involved in the First UsefulNotes/{{Liberia}}n Civil War, personally going into the field and killing countless people, innocent and otherwise. Building his army of ChildSoldiers there, Solidus at one point killed the parents of Jack and adopted him, and makes another child soldier for his army from him by abusing him his entire life and forcing him to commit murders, like during his 10th birthday he forces Jack to brutally kill 10 of his hostages as a "birthday gift". After Jack was taken away from him by the Patriots, an angry Solidus created a plan to overthrow the Patriots. When the Patriots found out about this, Solidus escaped, bombing a Paris hotel as a cover up, framing Solid Snake in the process. Solidus attempted to extract the brains of a grown-up Jack, who became known as [[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]. Solidus wanted to kill the Patriots and be [[GloryHound hailed as a hero]] by the public for returning their freedom.

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* ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' ([[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] version) & ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge'': This non-canon version of [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy lacking all redeeming qualities]] of his canon counterpart. Leader of [[BananaRepublic Outer Heaven]], Big Boss kidnapped Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar and forced him to create Metal Gear, a bipedal WalkingTank capable of launching nuclear missiles from anywhere in the world, threatening to kill his daughter, Ellen Madnar, if he refused. Solid Snake managed to destroy his Metal Gear, free his prisoners, and blow up his base, leading to Big Boss barely surviving, but needing to replace his damaged body parts with cybernetics. Desiring revenge, Big Boss started to recreate Metal Gear, planning to use it to [[NukeEm launch nuclear strikes]] across the whole world, with the first targets being New York, Tokyo and Moscow.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' ([[https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_(audio_drama) audio drama]]): [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Sergei Ivanovich]] is a partner of the commander of the Esteria Army Special Forces, Mark Cortez, in an attempt to [[TheCoup overthrow the local government]] in South America. In reality [[ManipulativeBastard using Cortez for a scheme of his own]], Ivanovich has Cortez assist him in capturing Colonel Ray Campbell in the planned ambush, killing Cortez's entire unit in the process. From there, torturing Campbell [[ForTheEvulz for fun]], he uses his life signal to lure Solid Snake and Meryl to him, promising to torture them all to death. Ivanovich reveals his plan to extract the FOXDIE virus from Solid Snake, so that he could use it to create a [[SyntheticPlague biological weapon]] to use against the government and innocent people; Ivanovich turned on Cortez, mortally wounding him, before killing the arriving soldiers, and then trying to sadistically kill Campbell, Meryl and Solid Snake.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': [[BloodKnight Sundowner]] led Desperado Enforcement LLC and Desperado's Winds of Destruction. Selling weapons and technology to terrorists, Sundowner [[WarForFunAndProfit instigates war]], which he believes to be the natural state of man. Sundowner comes up with a project to create his own army by kidnapping hundreds of homeless children from third world countries and having all of their organs removed, [[AndIMustScream keeping the brains]], which he puts in a realistic VR simulation of war to brainwash them into becoming [[ChildSoldiers killing machines]]; he sells the rest on the black market. Sundowner starts the plot by gleefully murdering African Prime Minister, N'mani, and all his guards, while using the Metal Gear RAY unit to spread destruction all over the city, solely to ensure that Africa descends into war once again. Sundowner later assists the true BigBad in trying to create widespread conflict.

In [[Franchise/MetalGear a franchise]] where many antagonists have [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loved ones]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]], or [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] goals, these select few stand out as [[CompleteMonster utterly reprehensible figures]].

!!Video Games (each group sorted by release date)

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!!Other Non-Canon Media

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* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' (Creator/IDWPublishing series):
** [[ItsAllAboutMe Liquid Snake]] is one of the 3 clones of [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss]], who was [[DrivenByEnvy jealous]] of his status as the most inferior. Growing to hate Big Boss, Liquid became furious upon hearing that Solid Snake killed him; angry that he "stole his chance for revenge", Liquid organized a scheme to take over the nuclear base on Shadow Moses, using his FOXHOUND unit to get his hands on a new [[WalkingTank Metal Gear Rex]], which he planned to use to force the US government to hand over the body of Big Boss, and when they refused, he has DARPA Chief Donald Anderson and [=ArmsTech=] President Kenneth Baker [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] for the codes to launch Metal Gear. When that failed, he manipulated Solid Snake into activating Metal Gear and tries to kill him with it, brutally crushing to death Solid Snake's ally Grey Fox, who he had previously brainwasher, in the process. Managing to survive by possessing the body of Revolver Ocelot, Liquid first managed to take over his body when he was about to steal Metal Gear RAY from USS Discovery tanker, and used this Metal Gear to tear this tanker apart, killing dozens of people who were onboard the tanker. Taking over Ocelot's body again, when Ocelot betrayed Solidus Snake and taken over Arsenal Gear, Liquid sent Arsenal Gear towards Manhattan, escaping before it crashed into the city, destroying a big part of it.
** ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Sons of Liberty]]'':
*** [[AdaptationalVillainy Solidus Snake]] is the self-proclaimed best of the 3 clones of Big Boss and former President of the United States, known as George Sears, who was deeply involved in the First UsefulNotes/{{Liberia}}n Civil War, personally going into the field and killing countless people, innocent and otherwise. Building his own army of ChildSoldiers there, Solidus at one point killed the parents of Jack and adopted him, and makes another child soldier for his army from him by abusing him his entire life and forcing him to commit murders, like during his 10 year birthday he forces Jack to brutally kill 10 of his hostages as a "birthday gift". After Jack was taken away from him by the Patriots, Solidus, angry that the Patriots took away "a precious resource" from him, soon started to create a plan of overthrowing the Patriots and usurping their power. When the Patriots found out about this, Solidus escaped, bombing a Paris hotel as a cover up, framing Solid Snake in the process. Forming his own army "The Sons of Liberty" and hiring the Dead Cell unit, Solidus took over the Big Shell facility, planning to get the names of the Patriots from Arsenal Gear and when that's failed, he tried to get them by attempting to extract the brains of a grown-up Jack, who became known as [[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]. Scheming to abandon Dead Cell on Arsenal Gear, so they would distract the government from him, Solidus wanted to kill the Patriots and be [[GloryHound hailed as a hero]] by the public for returning their freedom.
*** [[FatBastard Fatman]], aka "[[MadBomber The Emperor of Explosives]]", is one of the members of the Dead Cell terrorist group and the vilest of them all. Having a fascination with bombs, Fatman, [[EnfantTerrible as a child]], creates a nuclear bomb, thus earning his nickname after the bomb [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki dropped on Nagasaki]], and while still a child he killed at least one of his classmates by blowing him up, all because he wanted to build himself a name and hated that classmate for daring to think himself smarter than Fatman. Helping Dead Cell commit their crimes by creating explosives and assisting them in taking over the Big Shell facility, Fatman [[TheMole became a spy for the Patriots]], just for the chance of killing his former mentor Peter Stillman. Chaotically blowing up parts of the facility solely to kill Raiden, Fatman rigged the entire facility, desiring to destroy it and to kill all hostages and his own teammates, if either Raiden or Stillman would have bested him.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid[[superscript:2]]'': [[InsaneAdmiral General Wiseman]], a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the mastermind behind the horrific event known as the Praulia Massacre. Thinking that the data about the Model 2 soldiers was [[ForScience insufficient]], he had the technicians provoke said soldiers into going berserk, causing the deaths of 10,000 people. After this, he sent the Model 3 soldiers in to eliminate the Model 2 soldiers, [[LackOfEmpathy despite knowing]] that eliminating their brethren hurt them. These actions resulted in death of Dr. Thomas Koppelthorn's wife--which Wiseman [[FrameUp pinned on Snake]]--resulting in Koppelthorn threatening to launch a nuclear attack unless those responsible for the death of his wife were handed over to him. Sending Snake and Venus to stop Koppelthorn, Wiseman in reality used them to destroy any evidence of his involvement in the Praulia Massacre, planning to dispose of them as well [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when they finished]], resulting in Snake's amnesia.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid[[superscript:2]]'': [[InsaneAdmiral General Wiseman]], a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the mastermind behind horrific event known as the Praulia Massacre. Thinking that the data about the Model 2 soldiers was [[ForScience insufficient]], he had the technicians provoke said soldiers into going berserk, causing the deaths of 10,000 people. After this, he sent the Model 3 soldiers in to eliminate the Model 2 soldiers, [[LackOfEmpathy despite knowing]] that eliminating their brethren hurt them. These actions resulted in death of Dr. Thomas Koppelthorn's wife--which Wiseman [[FrameUp pinned on Snake]]--resulting in Koppelthorn threatening to launch a nuclear attack unless those responsible for the death of his wife were handed over to him. Sending Snake and Venus to stop Koppelthorn, Wiseman in reality used them to destroy any evidence of his involvement in the Praulia Massacre, planning to dispose of them as well [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when they finished]].

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid[[superscript:2]]'': [[InsaneAdmiral Wiseman]] instigated a horrific event known as the Praulia Massacre: Wiseman felt that the data about the Model 2 soldiers was insufficient, so he had technicians provoke said soldiers into going berserk, causing the deaths of 10,000 people. He then sent the Model 3 soldiers in to eliminate the Model 2 soldiers, knowing that eliminating their brethren hurt them. Wiseman was also responsible for the death of Dr. Thomas Koppelthorn's wife, resulting in Koppelthorn's later actions. In addition, he had Venus shoot Snake because the latter had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]], resulting in Snake's amnesia.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' ([[https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_(audio_drama) audio drama]]): [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Sergei Ivanovich]] is a partner of the commander of the Esteria Army Special Forces, Mark Cortez, in an attempt to [[TheCoup overthrow the local government]] in South America. In reality [[ManipulativeBastard using Cortez for a scheme of his own]], Ivanovich has Cortez assist him in capturing Colonel Ray Campbell in the planned ambush, killing Cortez's entire unit in the process. From there, torturing Campbell [[{{sadist}} for fun]], he uses his life signal to lure Solid Snake and Meryl to him, promising to torture them all to death. Ivanovich reveals his plan to extract the FOXDIE virus from Solid Snake, so that he could use it to create a [[SyntheticPlague biological weapon]] to use against the government and innocent people; Ivanovich turned on Cortez, mortally wounding him, before killing the arriving soldiers, and then trying to sadistically kill Campbell, Meryl and Solid Snake.

** [[ItsAllAboutMe Liquid Snake]] is one of the 3 clones of [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss]], who was [[DrivenByEnvy jealous]] of his status as the most inferior. Growing to hate Big Boss, Liquid became furious upon hearing that Solid Snake killed him; angry that he "stole his chance for revenge", Liquid organized a scheme to take over the nuclear base on Shadow Moses, using his FOXHOUND unit to get his hands on a new [[WalkingTank Metal Gear Rex]], which he planned to use to force the US government to hand over the body of Big Boss, and when they refused, he has DARPA Chief Donald Anderson and [=ArmsTech=] President Kenneth Baker tortured for the codes to launch Metal Gear. When that failed, he manipulated Solid Snake into activating Metal Gear and tries to kill him with it, brutally crushing to death Solid Snake's ally Grey Fox, who he had previously brainwasher, in the process. Managing to survive by possessing the body of Revolver Ocelot, Liquid first managed to take over his body when he was about to steal Metal Gear RAY from USS Discovery tanker, and used this Metal Gear to tear this tanker apart, killing dozens of people, who were onboard the tanker. Taking over Ocelot's body again, when Ocelot betrayed Solidus Snake and taken over Arsenal Gear, Liquid sent Arsenal Gear towards Manhattan, escaping before it crashed into the city, destroying a big part of it.

*** [[FatBastard Fatman]], aka "[[MadBomber The Emperor of Explosives]]", is one of the members of the Dead Cell terrorist group and the vilest of them all. Having a fascination with bombs, Fatman, as a child, creates a nuclear bomb, thus earning his nickname after the bomb [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki dropped on Nagasaki]], and while still a child he killed at least one of his classmates by blowing him up, all because he wanted to build himself a name and hated that classmate for daring to think himself smarter than Fatman. Helping Dead Cell commit their crimes by creating explosives and assisting them in taking over the Big Shell facility, Fatman became a spy for the Patriots, just for the chance of killing his former mentor Peter Stillman. Chaotically blowing up parts of the facility solely to kill Raiden, Fatman rigged the entire facility, desiring to destroy it and to kill all hostages and his own teammates, if either Raiden or Stillman would have bested him.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' ([[https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_(audio_drama) audio drama]]): [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Sergei Ivanovich]] is a partner of the commander of the Esteria Army Special Forces, Mark Cortez, in an attempt to overthrow the local government in South America. In reality using Cortez for a scheme of his own, Ivanovich has Cortez assist him in capturing Colonel Ray Campbell in the planned ambush, killing Cortez's entire unit in the process. From there, torturing Campbell for fun, he uses his life signal to lure Solid Snake and Meryl to him, promising to torture them all to death. Ivanovich reveals his plan to extract the FOXDIE virus from Solid Snake, so that he could use it to create a biological weapon to use against the government and innocent people; Ivanovich turned on Cortez, mortally wounding him, before killing the arriving soldiers, and then trying to sadistically kill Campbell, Meryl and Solid Snake.

*** [[AdaptationalVillainy Solidus Snake]] is the self-proclaimed best of the 3 clones of Big Boss and former President of the United States, known as George Sears, who was deeply involved in the Liberian Civil Wars, personally going into the field and killing countless people, innocent and otherwise. Building his own army of ChildSoldiers there, Solidus at one point killed the parents of Jack and adopted him, and makes another child soldier for his army from him by abusing him his entire life and forcing him to commit murders, like during his 10 year birthday he forces Jack to brutally kill 10 of his hostages as a "birthday gift". After Jack was taken away from him by the Patriots, Solidus, angry that the Patriots took away "a precious resource" from him, soon started to create a plan of overthrowing the Patriots and usurping their power. When the Patriots found out about this, Solidus escaped, bombing a Paris hotel as a cover up, framing Solid Snake in the process. Forming his own army "The Sons of Liberty" and hiring the Dead Cell unit, Solidus took over the Big Shell facility, planning to get the names of the Patriots from Arsenal Gear and when that's failed, he tried to get them by attempting to extract the brains of a grown-up Jack, who became known as [[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]. Scheming to abandon Dead Cell on Arsenal Gear, so they would distract the government from him, Solidus wanted to kill the Patriots and be [[GloryHound hailed as a hero]] by the public for returning their freedom.

** Liquid Snake is one of the 3 clones of the Big Boss, who was jealous of his status as the most inferior of them. Growing to hate Big Boss, Liquid became furious upon hearing that Solid Snake killed him, angry that he "stole his chance for revenge", he organized a scheme to take over nuclear base on Shadow Moses, using his FOXHOUND unit to get his hands on new Metal Gear Rex, so that he could use it to force US government in handing him over body of the Big Boss and when they refused, he has DARPA Chief Donald Anderson and [=ArmsTech=] President Kenneth Baker tortured for the codes to launch Metal Gear. When that failed, he manipulated Solid Snake into activating Metal Gear and tries to kill him with it, brutally crushing to death Solid Snake's ally Grey Fox in the process, whom he had brutally brainwashed before. Managing to survive by possessing the body of Revolver Ocelot, Liquid first managed to take over his body, when he was about to steal Metal Gear RAY from USS Discovery tanker, and used this Metal Gear to tear this tanker apart, killing dozens of people, who were on board of the tanker. Taking over Ocelot's body again, when Ocelot betrayed Solidus Snake and taken over Arsenal Gear, Liquid sended Arsenal Gear towards Manhattan, escaping before it crashed into the city, destroying big part of it.

*** Solidus Snake is a self-proclaimed best of the 3 clones of the Big Boss and a former president of the United States, known as George Sears, who was deeply involved in the Liberian Civil Wars, personally going into the field and killing countless people, innocent and otherwise. Building his own army of child soldiers there, Solidus at one point killed the parents of Jack and adopted him and makes another child soldiers for his army from him by abusing him his entire life and forces him to commit murders, like during his 10 year birthday he forces Jack to brutally kill 10 of his hostages as a "birthday gift". After Jack was taken away from him by the Patriots, Solidus, angry that the Patriots taken away "a precious resource" from him, soon started to create a plan of overthrowing the Patriots and usurping their power. When the Patriots find out about this, Solidus escaped, bombing Paris Hotel as a cover up, framing Solid Snake in the process. Forming his own army of "The Sons of Liberty" and hiring Dead Cell unit, Solidus has taken over Big Shell facility, planning to get the names of the Patriots from Arsenal Gear and when that's failed, he tried to get them by attempting to extract the brains of a grown up Jack, who became known as Raiden. Scheming to abandon Dead Cell on Arsenal Gear, so they would distract the government from him, Solidus wanted to kill the Patriots and be hailed as a hero by the public for returning their freedom.
*** [[FatBastard Fatman]], aka "[[MadBomber The Emperor of Explosives]]", is one of the members of the Dead Cell terrorist group and the vilest of them all. Having a fascination with bombs, Fatman at one point creates a nuclear bomb, which was used on Nagasaki and in his childhood he killed at least one of his classmates by blowing him up, all because he wanted to build himself a name and hated that classmate, for daring to think he smarter than him. Helping Dead Cell to commit their crimes by creating them explosives and assisting them in taking over the Big Shell facility, Fatman in reality became a spy for the Patriots, just for the chance of killing his former mentor Peter Stillman. Chaotically blowing up parts of the facility solely to kill Raiden, Fatman rigged the entire facility, desiring to destroy it and to kill all hostages and his own teammates, if either Raiden or Stillman would have bested him.

*** [[FatBastard Fatman]] AKA "[[MadBomber The Emperor of Explosives]]" is one of the members of the Dead Cell terrorist group and the vilest of them. Having a fascination with bombs, Fatman at one point creates a nuclear bomb, which was used on Nagasaki and in his childhood he killed at least one of his classmates by blowing him up, all because he wanted to build himself a name and hated that classmate, for daring to think he smarter than him. Helping Dead Cell to commit their crimes by creating them explosives and assisting them in taking over the Big Shell facility, Fatman in reality became a spy for the Patriots, just for the chance of killing his former mentor Peter Stillman. Chaotically blowing up parts of the facility solely to kill Raiden, Fatman rigged the entire facility, desiring to destroy it and to kill all hostages and his own teammates, if either Raiden or Stillman would have bested him.

In [[Franchise/MetalGear a franchise]] where even the most nuke-happy terrorists can have [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes loved ones]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]], or [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] goals, these select few stand out as [[CompleteMonster utterly reprehensible figures]].

In a world where even the most nuke-happy terrorists have loved ones, standards, or well-intentioned goals, these select few stand out as utterly reprehensible figures.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': [[BloodKnight Sundowner]] led Desperado Enforcement LLC and Desperado's Winds of Destruction. Selling weapons and technology to terrorists, Sundowner [[WarForFunAndProfit instigates war]], which he believes to be the natural state of man. Sundowner comes up with a project to create his own army by kidnapping hundreds of homeless children from third world countries and having all of their organs removed, [[AndIMustScream keeping the brains]], which he puts in a realistic war VR simulator of war to brainwash them into becoming [[ChildSoldiers killing machines]]; he sells the rest on the black market. Sundowner starts the plot by gleefully murdering African Prime Minister, N'mani, and all his guards, while using the Metal Gear RAY unit to spread destruction all over the city, solely to ensure that Africa descends into war once again. Sundowner later assists the true BigBad in trying to create widespread conflict.

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