10 Times Video Games Got Science WRONG

Metal Gear Solid is hardly the first place anyone should look for scientific plausibility, but even so, the series' emphasis on genetics does nevertheless provide it with a grounded tether to our own reality.

Except, the end of Metal Gear Solid features a sequence in which the villainous Liquid Snake speaks of his "flawed, recessive genes," while noting that Solid Snake got "all the old man's dominant genes."

Liquid's assumption that he is the inferior clone of Big Boss and Solid is the superior one due to their respective genetic loadouts is totally incorrect, though.

Recessive genes are simply less likely to be passed on during reproduction, while dominant genes are more likely to be - yet this has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of those characteristics.

In a delicious bout of dramatic irony, the game's post-credits scene even compounds Liquid's misunderstanding further, by revealing that he was actually the "superior" clone all along - whatever that actually means in the context of Kojima's muddy grasp of genetics.

Though Kojima later claimed that Liquid was intentionally incorrect, it felt more like an attempt to hand-wave either his own flawed writing or a major mistake in the game's English translation.