History WebVideo / MetalGearSolidTheAbridgedSnakes

Has been concluded, with an abridged series of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' announced in TheStinger. However, after an announced hiatus (citing a disenchantment with the Metal Gear series following Ground Zeroes as a reason), Creator/LordQuadros teased and then premiered Puns of the Patriots, a parody of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''. Although [[HalfwayPlotSwitch halfway through the series]], it segued into a premiere for ''Snake Theater.''

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Johnny Sasaki and Snake.
** Snake's informant also names himself "Handjob".

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Episode 0 gives us this discussion after it's revealed Liquid is taking part control of Ocelot via his arm.
-->'''Liquid:''' "EVERY time this old bastard yanks his meat I'm the one who has to get in there! And do you know what he's thinking about when he does it? ''Our dad''. Just...think about that for a second before you bitch about how the situation effects ''[[ItsAllAboutMe you]]''!"

* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler: Metal Gear RAY considers both Liquid and Ocelot to be his mothers.]]
-->"Yay! Other Mommy's taking me swimming!"

* CutAndPasteTranslation: "Oh boy I can't wait to just automatically be at Strut A when the call ends."

* NoFourthWall: Accentuates the source material's lack of a fourth wall UpToEleven.

** Ocelot, per source material, but definitely turned UpToEleven.

* TooSoon: Ames ends up doing a very literal example, saying that Solidus "has more screws loose than [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill a BP Oil Well]]. Raiden shouts "Whoa, too soon" and when Ames asks if that's really the case, Raiden points out that the game is set in 2009 so that [[AnachronismStew hasn't even happened yet]].

* ShockingSwerve: Parodied. Big Boss reveals his [[LukeIAmYourFather connection]] to Snake very hastily, as their relationship was basically Retconned into existence in the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid source material]].
--> '''Big Boss''': SNAAAAAKE! This isn't over! It's not over yeeeeet...bythewayI'myourdad '''AAAAARGHH!''' (explodes).

* ThemeTuneCameo: Used to great effect during the final fistfight with Liquid.

* TooSoon: Played with, in-universe. Quite literally too.
-->'''Chicknwings''' The guy's got more screws loose than a BP oil well.
-->'''Raiden''' Whoa! Too Soon!
-->'''Chicknwings''' Really?
-->'''Raiden''' Well yeah. It's 2009, and that hasn't even happened yet.

* WilhelmScream: In contrast to the VideoGame/PacMan death noises from Puns of the Patriots, we hear several Wilhelm Screams in rapid succession as Ocelot guns down the KGB bodyguards. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance due to the Wilhelm Scream's usage having started in the 90's.

-->'''Kyle Schneider:''' You Knew? But...
-->'''Snake:''' That's for letting me walk into the gas chamber without a mask in Outer Heaven! My voice hasn't been the same since!

-->'''Liquid:''' "EVERY time this old bastard yanks his meat I'm the one who has to get in there! And do you know what he's thinking about when he does it? ''Our dad''."

* PermissionToSpeakFreely: "P-p-permission to freak out sir... Sir?

* ShoutOut: Soldiers for Private Abridging Contractors, or PACs, are called PAC-Men. Consequently, Pac-Man's death sound is played whenever they die.

* WilhelmScream: In contrast to the VideoGame/PacMan death noises from Puns of the Patriots, we hear several Wilhelm Screams in rapid succession as Ocelot guns down the KGB bodyguards.

* WilhelmScream: In contrast to the PacMan death noises from Puns of the Patriots, we hear several Wilhelm Screams in rapid succession as Ocelot guns down the KGB bodyguards.

* ShockingSwerve: Big Boss reveals his [[LukeIAmYourFather connection]] to Snake is very hastily, as their relationship was basically Retconned into existence in the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid source material]].

-->'''Liquid:''' "EVERY time this old bastard yanks his meat I'm the one who has to get in there! And do you know what he's thinking about when he does it? ''[[HoYay Our dad]]''."

* AsYouKnow: Campbell in Episode 1 explains the origins of the Big Shell, just as in the source material. Raiden [[LampshadeHanging has no idea why]].
-->'''Raiden:''' Again, these are things that everybody in the world knows...[[ButThouMust But go on...]]

* SyntheticVoiceActor: [[spoiler: The mass-produced Metal Gears at the end are all "voiced" by [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop CD-I Link]]]].

--> '''Snake''': And that wonderful Konami, have they ever made a bad game?

* AntiHero: According to Liquid, Snake. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]

--> '''Otacon''': Oh my god! He's...''[[CrossesTheLineTwice black]]!''

--> '''Snake''': Say hi to Dad for me. *beat* [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Oh, and Baker.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Revolver Ocelot [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments does an anti-drug PSA.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Snake proudly admits to being an enormous asshole (to the point where [[EvenEvilHasStandards even]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Ocelot]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards is disgusted by him]]).

--> '''Campbell''': Snake, [[WhatTheHellHero what the Hell]]! [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You're letting Meryl die]]!

-->'''Campbell''': No, YOU remember your heart condition...[[SeeYouInHell IN HELL]]!

--> '''Snake:''' [[LampshadeHanging "Was that someone trying to speak English or vomiting?"]]

* CharacterFilibuster: The Colonel AI (with help from the simulated Rosemary) goes on a four minute-long speech about how the failure of DMCA means nothing given that SOPA has been proposed, the Patriots' ultimate ambition to monetize abridging and parodying as advertisements for the source material, and how Raiden ([[SelfDeprecation and all the stale jokes in this series]]) has played perfectly into their hands, concluding that Raiden forms a perfect AudienceSurrogate by being amused at such stale humour, covering both ThisLoserIsYou and TakeThatAudience. This is very much in keeping with the ''original'' [=MGS2=], where the Patriots rant at length about societal control.
** Solid Snake has [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments a particularly heartwarming]] one after the end credits roll, about how one really shouldn't care about corporatism or being hated when making original work, and that as long as ''you're'' proud of what you've done it's worth it in the end.
* CompressedAdaptation: it is an ''abridged'' series, after all. Still, it can be startling to see the entire Tanker half of the game squozen into exactly 481 seconds.

* DeadpanSnarker: Almost [[WorldOfSnark everyone]], but Fatman takes it and rollerskates away with it.

-->'''Snake:''' Oh, I get it...[[LampshadeHanging So we're idiots, now.]]

* [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya "My name is Helena Dolph Jackson."]]
** YouKilledMyFather
** [[spoiler: [[InvertedTrope I am prepared]] [[PrepareToDie to die]].]]
* NoFourthWall: Par for the course; Raiden trains for his mission by watching The Abridged Snakes, hoping to avoid visual gags and awkward tangents. [[MindScrew Considering the source material,]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption it didn't help him out in the least.]]
* OnceAnEpisode: "Metal Gear?!...There, I said it. [[TemptingFate Now nobody has to repeat it in the comments EVER again.]]"

* [[PermissionToSpeakFreely PermissionToX]]: "P-p-permission to freak out sir... Sir?

* [[spoiler: SequelHook: To the inevitable abridged series of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater. Quadros himself talks to Snake and tells him that he can use a file on Emma's disc. That file has information on Operation Snake Eater]].

** Episode 8 has the theme of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]] [[NowDoItAgainBackwards playing backwards]] while Raiden and Emma climb down a very long ladder, a reference to Naked Snake's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTe30im5NY own climb]] ''up''.

** Raiden keeps trying to say {{The Cake is a Lie}}. Mc Phayckneighm and Mr. X are [[DiscreditedMeme not amused]].

-->'''Raiden''' Whoa! TooSoon!

-->'''Raiden''' Well yeah. [[AnachronismStew It's 2009, and that hasn't even happened yet]].
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: One of his songs, [[MindScrew Everything You Know Is Wrong]], is the opening theme.

''Sons of Abridgerty'' is the sequel, parodying ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. Proposed as an April Fool's Day joke long before the first series was over, this series is nonetheless underway as a legitimate [[TheAbridgedSeries Abridged Series]]. During this series, Quadros also abridged ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Revolver Ocelot [[CrowningMomentOfFunny does an anti-drug PSA.]]

** Solid Snake has [[HeartwarmingMoments a particularly heartwarming]] one after the end credits roll, about how one really shouldn't care about corporatism or being hated when making original work, and that as long as ''you're'' proud of what you've done it's worth it in the end.

Has been concluded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjIbbWrxWU as of February 25th]], with an abridged series of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' announced in TheStinger. However, after an announced hiatus (citing a disenchantment with the Metal Gear series following Ground Zeroes as a reason), Creator/LordQuadros teased and then premiered Puns of the Patriots, a parody of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''. Although [[HalfwayPlotSwitch halfway through the series]], it segued into a premiere for ''Snake Theater.''

* TakeThat: A [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=PSY3Ikw5o7g Mika Banhara]] zinger results in [=LordQuadros=] lampshading it with a titlecard reading "LQ Alienates the Viewers Part 1: A RobotAlchemicDrive Reference".

* TooSoon: Played with, in-universe.

-->'''Raiden''' Well yeah. It's 2009, and that hasn't even happened yet.