- Metal Gear
- Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
- Metal Gear Solid V
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Metal Gear Survive
- Snake's Revenge
Trivia tropes
- Adaptation First: The Nintendo Entertainment System version of Metal Gear was the first version released in North America, as the original MSX2 version was never available in North America. Although technically a port, it has enough differences to be considered a separate game.
- The Character Died with Him: Due to the death of Takeshi Aono, Hideo Kojima stated that Roy Campbell won't appear in any future games out of respect.
- Creator Breakdown: Kojima didn't really want to make any sequels past the original Metal Gear Solid, and there were death threats against him after making Metal Gear Solid 3 because he didn't want to make a fourth game. As a result, Metal Gear Solid 4 is full of subtext
about Kojima's reluctance to make yet another Metal Gear game and resolve story points he never intended to be resolved.
- Disowned Adaptation:
- Kojima considers the NES version of the original Metal Gear to be a Porting Disaster of his original MSX2 game.
- Zigzagged with Snake's Revenge as he has had mixed feelings about the game.
- Franchise Zombie: Quite literally. After Hideo Kojima left Konami, the next game in the franchise, not including him, is Metal Gear Survive, a zombie game after he considered the franchise done.
- Hostility on the Set: David Hayter has made it no secret he and Hideo Kojima never got along during their time working together. According to David, Kojima tried to get him replaced as Snake in practically each game since Metal Gear Solid, which eventually he did with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Why Kojima disliked David is unknown, but it's commonly assumed that Kojima hated not having a big name actor playing Snake, due to Kojima's well known love of Hollywood and movies. Reportedly, when Kiefer Sutherland replaced David as Big Boss for MGSV, David was not even aware until after the fact.
- Meme Acknowledgment:
- David Hayter, English voice of Solid Snake, has been known to spend a lot of time saying "OhmyGodhotnessIwannaBANGYOU" and "CRAB...BATTLE...", references to two popular MGS Flash parody shorts.
- Hayter has also recited the "Colonel, I'm trying to sneak around, but I'm dummy thicc
" meme.
- No Export for You: The MSX2 version was only released in Japan and certain European countries. It wasn't until its inclusion in the Subsistence edition of MGS3 that it got a wide release (particularly in America).
- Old Shame: Averted. Not only are the earlier games in the series referenced in the Solid storyline, they become large parts of the story, and the original graphics are even used in flashbacks—no re-renders here. True, "Bloody Brad" and "Running Man" aren't given quite as large a remembrance as Gray Fox or Big Boss, but even so, remarkably little of the original games was retconned by later installments.
- Recursive Adaptation: Played with the series as a whole. The series started out as a PC game (yes, MSX2), and in some sequels, ported to video gaming consoles, and then some of them even ported back to PC, and then a few of them consoles again.
- Referenced by...:
- VG Myths: Solid Snake Person as Verb in "Hyrule Myths - Can You Kill Ganon With A Cucco?", when talking
about sneaking:
Somehow, I don't think the guy with the incessantly screaming chicken on his head is gonna be Solid Snaking his way through this fortress.- Chapter 41 of Boldores And Boomsticks is titled "Tactical Espionage Action".
- One of the game over screens in Batman: Arkham Knight is the Joker saying "Bats? Bats? BAAAAAAAATS!"
, even mimicking being in a communicator for the first two.
- VG Myths: Solid Snake Person as Verb in "Hyrule Myths - Can You Kill Ganon With A Cucco?", when talking
- Relationship Voice Actor: Many of the Japanese voice cast worked before together in other titles, sometimes in a very hilarious way:
- Fist of the North Star: This is maybe one of the series most of the voice cast already worked before: the late Kōji Totani (Revolver Ocelot) voiced Jagi, who's also has a serious case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and also use guns. Kenji Utsumi (Volgin) voiced Raoh and his brother Kaioh, Kaneto Shiozawa (Gray Fox) voiced Rei, Norio Wakamoto (Gene) voiced Shuren, Toshio Furukawa (young Roy Campbell) voiced Shin, Takeshi Aono (older Roy Campbell) voiced Rihaku, Hideyuki Tanaka (Otacon and his father Huey) voiced Falco, Houko Kuwashima (Mei Ling) voiced Yuria in the Hokuto Musou game, Daisuke Gōri (Lt. Cunningham and Scott Dolph) voiced Uighur and many other mooks, Shōzō Iizuka (Peter Stillman) voiced Mr. Heart, Takaya Hashi (Skull Face) voiced Toki and the most hilarious one: Banjo Ginga (Liquid Snake) voiced Souther in the TV series and Akio Ōtsuka (Solid Snake) also voiced Souther in the newest movies.
- Dragon Ball: Kenji Utsumi (Volgin) voiced Recoome and Shenlong, Daisuke Gōri (Lt. Cunningham and Scott Dolph) voiced Mr. Satan, Chikao Ohtsuka (Big Boss) voiced Tao Pai Pai, Shōzō Iizuka (Peter Stillman) voiced Nappa, Norio Wakamoto (Gene) voiced Cell, Hiromi Tsuru (Naomi Hunter) voiced Bulma, Kōzō Shioya (Fatman) voiced Majin Boo, Banjo Ginga (King Vegeta and Giran) voiced Major Zero and Liquid Snake (and Liquid Ocelot in 4), Yukitoshi Hori (Vulcan Raven) voiced Cyborg No. 19, Toshio Furukawa (young Roy Campbell) voiced Piccolo and the late Takeshi Aono (old Roy Campbell) voiced his father, Piccolo Daimaoh. And while she didn't voice any character in any Metal Gear game, Miki Itō (Cyborg No. 18) was the voice director for the Japanese version of the original Metal Gear Solid.
- The Other Darrin:
- The English voice acting agency got a bit lazy when it came to rehiring the original voice actors in spin-off titles. Most notably:
- They're not great at continuing the actor allusions onto the English localized versions. In the Japanese version of MGS2, Olga and Solidus were played by Kyoko Terase (Meryl) and Akio Otsuka (Snake), respectively. In the English version, Olga and Solidus are played by different actors than Meryl and Snake, so the idea that both sound alike is lost. This also happened with the Bonus Boss fight against Meryl in the Substance re-release. Meryl uses the same sound clips as Olga does in her boss fight from the main game, since they shared the same Japanese voice actress, which results in Meryl gaining an inexplicable Russian accent for the fight in the English version.
- Solid Snake is voiced by Peter Lurie when he guest-starred in the third Ape Escape game.
- Miller's voice actors in the Japanese and English versions are different between Metal Gear Solid and Peace Walker. This is justified as the former was actually an imposter.
- In MGSV, Kiefer Sutherland voiced Big Boss, replacing David Hayter.
- The English voice acting agency got a bit lazy when it came to rehiring the original voice actors in spin-off titles. Most notably:
- What Could Have Been:
- When they first started considering a Metal Gear movie, they used an image of Michael Biehn as the model for Solid Snake on the game's box art - anticipating casting him as Snake.
- Kojima had wanted to make a crossover game between Metal Gear and Rumble Roses with Rumble Roses' producer Akari Uchida, but the Metal Gear team refused to work with the Rumble Roses team. However, Reiko Hinomoto and Rowdy Reiko, her evil alter ego, would eventually appear as secret characters in Subsistence's iteration of Metal Gear Online.
- The Wiki Rule: The Metal Gear Wiki
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- Working Title: Intruder
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Miscellaneous trivia
- The series has an odd affinity with characters appearing in crossover Platform Fighters:
- Solid Snake appeared in DreamMix TV World Fighters.
- Snake made another appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the first revealed third-party character in the series. And ten years later, he would make a return appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- Raiden, with his Metal Gear Rising appearance, appeared in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, as one of a number of third-party fighters.