Line #21 Quotes/MetalGearSolidV


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4	[[folder:Character Quotes]]
5	->"Your favorite song... Nicola, Bart - immigrants, wrongly executed... But their deaths served as a message to others: that ours is a society that murders the innocent. Do you, too, believe that your sacrifice will change the world?"
6	-->-- '''Skull Face'''
7
8	->"You've been in a coma for... ''quite'' some time. Yes, yes, I know. You would like to know how long. I'm afraid it's been... ''nine'' years."
9	-->-- '''Dr. Evangelos Constantinou'''
10
11	->[[DareToBeBadass "Now go! Let]] ''[[LivingLegend the Legend]]'' come back [[HesBack to life!"]]
12	-->-- '''Ocelot'''
13
14	->'''Snake:''' Kaz, it's me.\
15	'''Miller:''' Snake...? What took you so long?
16
17	->"Snake. [[MemeticMutation Why are we still here? Just]] ''[[MemeticMutation to suffer?]]'' Every night, I can feel my leg... and my arm... even my fingers. The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still ''there.'' You feel it, too, don't you? [[BeammeupScotty I'm the one who got caught up with Cipher. A group above nations... even the U.S. And I was the parasite below, feeding off Zero's power. They came after you in Cyprus... Then Afghanistan... Cipher... just keeps growing. Swallowing everything in its path... Getting bigger and bigger... Who knows how big now?]] (...) Boss. I'm gonna ''make them'' give back our past! [[BeammeupScotty Take back]] ''[[BeammeupScotty everything]]'' [[BeammeupScotty that we've lost! And I won't rest... until we do!]]"
18	-->-- '''Kazuhira Miller'''
19
20	-->"Just one thing, Kaz... This isn't about the past...[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans We're fighting for the future]]."
21	-->-- '''Punished "Venom" Snake'''
22
23	->"We pull in money, recruits, just to combat Cipher. Rubbing our noses in bloody battlefield dirt. [[RevengeBeforeReason All for revenge.]]"
24	-->-- '''Kazuhira Miller'''
25
26	->'''[[TheLancer Kazuhira Miller:]]''' [[VisionaryVillain A Visionary]] [[LuredIntoATrap robbed of his Future]]\
27	'''[[EmotionlessGirl Quiet:]]''' [[ColdSniper A Sniper]] [[TheSilentBob deprived of her Words]]\
28	'''[[ChildSoldiers Eli:]]''' [[EnfantTerrible A Youth]] [[ScrewDestiny who Curses his Fate]]\
29	'''[[FacialHorror Skull Face:]]''' [[TheSpook A Ghost]] [[MysteriousPast without a Past]]\
30	'''[[GeniusCripple Emmerich:]]''' [[ForScience A Technocrat]] [[NeverMyFault who Stands his Ground]]\
31	'''[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Ocelot:]]''' [[FriendlyEnemy A Rival]] [[MagnificentBastard living a Lie]]\
32	'''[[BlindSeer Code Talker:]]''' [[MagicalNativeAmerican A Wise Man]] [[YouCantGoHomeAgain denied his Homeland]]\
33	''' ''[[{{Unperson}} Those who "Don't Exist"]]'' '''\
34	'''[[ShellShockedVeteran Punished]] [[PlayerCharacter Snake]]:''' [[FallenHero A Fallen Legend]]
35	-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMyoCr2MnpM Red Band Trailer]]'''
36
37	->"The world calls for wet-work, and we answer! No greater good. No ''just cause!''"
38	-->-- '''Kazuhira Miller'''
39
40	-> "Word is that the Hamid fighters at Da Smasei Laman have been annihilated. It seems there were civilians among them, too. There are rumors within our forces that it was our handiwork. These rumors are utterly false. My comrades. The orders we receive are absolute. We stay true to the mission. If they tell us "Burn the village," we burn it. To crush the dushman, for the Motherland. But remember this: Never does that include murdering civilians. If we drag them into this, their resentment will only worsen this conflict. If a superior told me to kill a civilian[[BeAt ...]] [[BlatantLies I would kill him instead.]] For that I am prepared. And I hope you all are, too. If you agree with me, make yourself known."
41	-->-- '''Soviet Commander of Da Shago Kallai, Episode 3: A Hero's Way'''
42
43	->"It is just a dream. It is all a dream. I am in it, and you are in it too. I am the dreamer, but you are having my dream. Do you get it now? You do, don't you? Peace Day never came ... Our wishes do not come true. We just cling on to our dreams, our phantoms. Mine and yours."
44	-->-- '''Paz'''
45
46	->"We hold our rifles in missing hands. We stand tall on missing legs. We stride forward on the bones of our fallen. Then, and only then, are we alive. This "Pain" is ours and no one else's. A secret weapon we wield, out of sight. We will be stronger than ever. For our peace... Still, It doesn't feel like this is over..."
47	-->-- '''Kazuhira Miller'''
48
49	->"I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you, plant your roots in me. I won't see you end as ashes. [[AFatherToHisMen You're all diamonds]]... We are Diamond Dogs."
50	-->-- '''Punished "Venom" Snake'''
51
52	->'''Miller:''' [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Cipher sent us to hell - but we're going even deeper - take back everything that we've lost!]]\
53	'''Snake:''' I know. [[HeelRealization I'm already a demon]]...[[ThenLetMeBeEvil Heaven's not my kind of place, anyway.]]
54
55	->'''Kaz:''' We've expanded our housing. They'll have their own quarters. ''Separate'' from ours, '''won't''' be counted as staff.\
56	'''Snake:''' So what, [[DeadpanSnarker we're running a daycare now]]?\
57	'''Kaz:''' They'll learn how to read and write; do basic jobs.\
58	'''Snake:''' A chance at a real life... just not from behind a gun.\
59	'''Kaz:''' Being behind a gun [[HeWhoFightsMonsters is what we do]], Boss. [[TearJerker There's no room for angels in our heaven]].\
60	'''Snake:''' Yeah...
61	-->-- A conversation after [[spoiler: the rescued war orphans]] are brought to base
62
63	->"He mentioned something interesting: Cipher is pursuing new research. He claims that what they're doing in Africa is the missing piece... A weapon to surpass Metal Gear."
64	-->-- '''Ocelot'''
65
66	->"I was born in a small village. I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers. ''Foreign'' soldiers. Torn from my elders, I was made to speak ''their'' language. With each new post my masters changed. Along with the words they made me speak. With each change, ''I'' changed too. My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong. Words - can - ''kill.''"
67	-->-- '''Skull Face'''
68
69	->"This world will become one; I have found the way. Race, tribal affiliations, national borders... Even our faces will be ''irrelevant''. The world that The Boss envisioned will finally become ''a reality'' and it will make mankind ''whole'' again."
70	-->-- '''Zero'''
71
72	->"America is a country of liberty. A meeting of immigrants. Instead of simply assimilating, its citizens live alongside others. So the Major sought a system that used information, ''words'', to control the subconscious."
73	-->-- '''Skull Face'''
74
75	->"In his eyes, the greatest symbiotic parasite the world's ever known isn't microbial. It's linguistic. Words are what keeps civilization, ''our world'', alive. Free the world, not by taking men's lives but by taking their tongues."
76	-->-- '''Ocelot'''
77
78	->"We live and die by your order, Boss"
79	-->-- [[spoiler: '''Infected Soldier, before being executed by the Boss''']]
80
81	->"You too have known loss, and that loss torments you still. You hope hatred might someday replace the pain, but it never goes away. It makes a man hideous, inside and out. Wouldn't you agree? We both are demons. Our humanity won't return."
82	-->-- '''Skull Face'''
83
84	->"[[WhamShot Les]] [[CallBack Enfants]] [[BookEnds Terribles]] [[Videogame/MetalGearSolid ...]] [[TheReveal Zero]] [[EpilepticTrees called]] [[MindScrew it]]."
85	-->-- '''Punished "Venom" Snake'''
86
87	->"Such a lust for revenge... '''WHOOOOOO?!"'''
88	-->-- '''Skull Face'''
89
90	->"The inspection was nothing but a smokescreen...I heard explosions then...RRGH! ''[[MemeticMutation They played us]] '''[[MemeticMutation LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE!!"]]'''''
91	-->-- '''Kazuhira Miller'''
92
93	->''[[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror Now do you remember? Who you are? What you were meant to do?]] [[VideoGameLongRunners I cheated death, thanks to you. And thanks to you, I've left my mark.]] You have too. You've written your own history. You're your own man. [[AddressingThePlayer I'm Big Boss, and you are too. No... he's the two of us together. Where we are today, we built it.]] [[VideoGame/MetalGear This story, this legend; it's ours.]] [[ScrewDestiny We can change the world, and with it, the future. I am you, and you are me]]. Carry that with you wherever you go. [[BreakingTheFourthWall Thank you, my friend.]] From here on out... you're Big Boss.]]''
94	-->-- '''Big Boss'''
95
96	->[[spoiler:''I haven't forgotten what you told me, Boss. [[TheAntiNihilist We have no tomorrow: but there's still hope for the future.]] In our struggle to survive the present, we push the future farther away. Will I see it in my lifetime? Probably not. Which means there's no time to waste. [[NoPlaceForMeThere Someday the world will no longer need us: no need for the gun, or the hand to pull the trigger.]] [[HeelRealization I have to drag out the demon inside me]], [[MustMakeAmends build a better future.]] That's what I-- what ''we'' will leave as our legacy. Another mission, right Boss?]]''
97	-->-- '''Punished "Venom" Snake'''
98
99	->[[BlatantLies It's just a machine...]]
100	-->-- '''Huey Emmerich, immediately prior to [[spoiler: being revealed as a lying heap of trash by his late wife's last will and testament]]'''
101
102	->''[[spoiler:[[BlessedWithSuck I did not choose to be Quiet.]] [[InLoveWithTheMark I wanted to express my feelings to you.]] If only we shared a common tongue. Vengeance was what drove me to them... The only language left to me, revenge. But the words we shared... No, that was no language at all. [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe That's why I...]] [[LoveRedeems I chose the language of gratitude instead,]] [[FaceDeathWithDignity and go back to silence.]] I am Quiet... I am... the absence of words.]]''
103	-->-- [[spoiler: '''Quiet's''' recorded farewell]]
104
105	[[/folder]]
106
107	!Song Lyrics
108
109	[[folder:Here's To You]]
110	->Here's to you, Nicola and Bart\
111	Rest forever here in our hearts\
112	The last and final moment is yours\
113	That agony is your triumph\
114	[''verse repeated seven more times'']
115	->'''-- Here's To You - Joan Baez'''
116	[[/folder]]
117
118
119	[[folder:Not Your Kind of People]]
120	->We are not your kind of people\
121	You seem kind of phoney\
122	Everything's a lie\
123	We are not your kind of people\
124	Something in your makeup\
125	Don't see eye to eye\
126	\
127	We are not your kind of people\
128	Don't want to be like you\
129	Ever in our lives\
130	We are not your kind of people\
131	We fight when you start talking\
132	There's nothing but white noise\
133	\
134	Ahhh... Ahhh... Ahhh... Ahhh...\
135	\
136	Running around trying to fit in\
137	Wanting to be loved\
138	It doesn't take much\
139	For someone to shut you down\
140	When you build a shell\
141	Build an army in your mind\
142	You can't sit still\
143	And you don't like hanging round the crowd\
144	They don't understand\
145	\
146	You dropped by as I was sleeping\
147	You came to see the whole commotion\
148	And when I woke I started laughing\
149	The jokes on me for not believing\
150	\
151	We are not your kind of people\
152	Speak a different language\
153	We see through your lies\
154	We are not your kind of people\
155	Won't be cast as demons\
156	Creatures you despise\
157	\
158	We are extraordinary people\
159	We are extraordinary people\
160	We are extraordinary people\
161	We are extraordinary people\
162	'''-- Not Your Kind of People - Garbage'''
163	[[/folder]]
164
165
166	[[folder:Sins of the Father]]
167	->Blind in the deepest night\
168	Reaching out, grasping for a fleeting memory\
169	All the thoughts keep piercing this broken mind\
170	I fall but I'm still standing motionless\
171	\
172	Far in the distance\
173	There is light; a light that burns these scars of old\
174	All this pain, reminds me of what I am\
175	I'll live, I'll become all I need to be\
176	\
177	Words that kill\
178	Would you speak them to me?\
179	With your breath so still,\
180	It makes me believe\
181	In the Father's sins\
182	Let me suffer now and never die\
183	I'm alive\
184	\
185	{{Pride}} feeds their blackened hearts\
186	And the thirst, must be quenched, to fuel hypocrisy\
187	[[FirePurifies Cleansing flames]], [[TheAtoner is the only way to repent]]\
188	[[LossOfIdentity Renounce, what made you]]\
189	\
190	Words that kill\
191	Would you speak them to me?\
192	With your breath so still,\
193	It makes me believe\
194	\
195	[[ChronicVillainy The Sins never die]]\
196	Can't wash this blood off our hands\
197	[[ThenLetMeBeEvil Let the world fear us all]]\
198	[[WellIntentionedExtremist It's just means to an end]]\
199	\
200	[[RedemptionQuest Our salvation lies]] ''([[SinsOfOurFathers in the Father's sins]])''\
201	Beyond the truth ''(Let me suffer now)''\
202	\
203	In my heart I just know that there's [[MoralEventHorizon no way to light up the dark]]\
204	[[EyesNeverLie In his eyes]]...\
205	'''-- [[TitleThemeTune Sins of the Father]] - Donna Burke'''
206	[[/folder]]
207
208
209	[[folder:Nuclear]]
210	->[[WatchingTroyBurn Standing on the edge]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes of the crater]]\
211	[[ForegoneConclusion Like the prophets once said]]\
212	And the ashes are all cold now\
213	[[YouAreTooLate No more bullets, and the embers are dead]]\
214	\
215	Whispers in the air tell the tales\
216	[[TheDeadHaveNames Of the brothers gone]]\
217	[[EverybodysDeadDave Desolation, devastation]]\
218	[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What a mess we made when it all went wrong]]\
219	\
220	[[UsefulNotes/ColdWar Watching from the edge of the circus]]\
221	[[CycleOfRevenge For the games to begin]]\
222	[[PunchClockVillain Gladiators draw their swords]]\
223	[[WarIsHell Form their ranks for Armageddon]]\
224	\
225	[[WellIntentionedExtremist I'm Nuclear]]\
226	[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I'm wild]]\
227	[[ShellShockedVeteran I'm breaking up inside]]\
228	[[BrokenAce A heart of broken glass]]\
229	Defiled\
230	Deep inside\
231	The abandoned child\
232	\
233	[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Standing on the edge]] [[{{Hell}} of the underworld]]\
234	[[HeWhoFightsMonsters Looking at the abyss]]\
235	[[TrappedInVillainy And I'm hoping for some miracle]]\
236	[[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain To break out, to escape from all this]]\
237	\
238	Whispers in the air tell the tale\
239	[[YouCantGoHomeAgain Of a life that's gone]]\
240	Desolation, devastation\
241	[[HeelRealization What a mess we made when it all went wrong]]\
242	\
243	I'm Nuclear\
244	I'm wild\
245	I'm breaking up inside\
246	A heart of broken glass\
247	Defiled\
248	Deep inside\
249	The abandoned child\
250	\
251	I'm Nuclear\
252	I'm wild\
253	I'm breaking up inside\
254	A heart of broken glass\
255	Defiled\
256	Deep inside\
257	The abandoned child\
258	\
259	Deep inside the abandoned child\
260	'''-- Nuclear - Music/MikeOldfield'''
261	[[/folder]]
262
263
264	[[folder:Quiet's Theme]]
265	->Birds... in the sky\
266	Carry... these words for me\
267	Life... tasted sweet\
268	It let me live\
269	Let me breathe\
270	Love... hurt so bad\
271	But still... saved my soul\
272	Flowers of... our brighter past\
273	They bloomed so free\
274	Beneath the sun\
275	\
276	Memories...\
277	I want to give them to you...\
278	So you can see...\
279	What we left there...\
280	\
281	When all hope bleeds out,\
282	what remains is doubt\
283	Should've left it all for you\
284	for tomorrow...\
285	\
286	As your time draws near,\
287	will you live in fear?\
288	Could've left it all for you,\
289	but we let go...\
290	'''-- Quiet's Theme - Stefanie Joosten'''
291	[[/folder]]
292
293	[[folder:The Man Who Sold The World]]
294	->[[IWasJustPassingThrough We passed upon the stair]].\
295	[[MrExposition We spoke of "was" and "when"]].\
296	[[LaserGuidedAmnesia Although I wasn't there]],\
297	[[MysteriousProtector he said I was his friend]],\
298	which came as some surprise.\
299	I spoke into his eyes,\
300	"[[DyingAlone I thought you died alone]]\
301	a long, long time ago."\
302	"[[NotQuiteDead Oh no! Not me!]]\
303	I never lost control.\
304	You're face to face\
305	with [[TitleDrop The Man Who Sold The World]]."\
306	I laughed and shook his hand\
307	[[BackInTheSaddle and made my way back home]].\
308	[[QuestForIdentity I searched for form and land]].\
309	[[WalkingTheEarth For years and years I roamed]].\
310	I gazed a [[PerfectlyCromulentWord gazely]] [[ThousandYardStare stare]]\
311	at all the millions here.\
312	[[ExpositoryPronoun We]] [[LossOfIdentity must have died alone]]\
313	[[ThatManIsDead a long, long time ago]].\
314	Who knows? [[DecoyProtagonist Not me!]]\
315	[[LegacyCharacter We]] [[StillTheLeader never lost control.]]\
316	[[TheManBehindTheMan You're face to face]]\
317	with [[FallenHero The Man Who Sold The World]].\
318	Who knows? [[BodyDouble Not me!]]\
319	[[CollectiveIdentity We]] [[BigBadDuumvirate never lost control.]]\
320	[[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf You're face to face]]\
321	with [[BecomingTheMask The Man Who Sold The World]].\
322	'''-- The Man Who Sold The World - Music/DavidBowie (Midge Ure Cover)'''
323	[[/folder]]
324
325	[[folder: A Phantom Pain]]
326	->I'm searching for a whole new beginning\
327	An endless void\
328	This notion that I sense within me\
329	\
330	You're still by my side\
331	\
332	Oh, I feel your presence\
333	You'll never leave here\
334	But if I reach out there to hold you\
335	Every part that's real disappears\
336	\
337	As I become more present now\
338	I can't see through the pain\
339	A hollow cut through my veins\
340	(the phantom takes his toll)\
341	\
342	The days that just keep on coming\
343	The stain that they leave\
344	I wish I could break this casket\
345	But I'm left here to grieve\
346	In a world of my own design\
347	\
348	As I become more present now\
349	I can't see through the pain\
350	A hollow cut through my veins\
351	(the shadows takes their toll)\
352	And did you leave me anything?\
353	You're the phantom of my past...\
354	Do you expect me to last, this way?\
355	(a scar and a phantom pain)
356	-->'''-- A Phantom Pain - Ludvig Forssell'''
357	[[/folder]]

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