19 Things We Learned From The Metal Gear Solid Series

4. Military Professionals Will Lose Their Goddamn Minds If You Can't Answer The Phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJ3K1uPYjE Some of the most popular Metal Gear tropes have bled through into pop culture for the right reason, as one of the most famous aspects of the series' 'Game Over' screens always feature one of your supporting cast absolutely losing themselves at the prospect of your demise. How do they know this though? Simply because you haven't had the time to crouch in the middle of a battlefield and caress your ear enough until it can get a signal? Roy Campbell, a man who has escaped prisons and battled alongside the great Big Boss, will still scream the house down if Snake ever misses a call. He's like some incredibly over-concerned parent who can't let their kid have a little grenade-powered fun.

3. Professional Spy Solid Snake Is Dumbfounded By A Security Base Having Monitoring Equipment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anYifuhLWrg The last of the ones you may have heard before, and also one of those moments where people playing through knew they were in for something truly special/genuinely stupid fun. Following straight after the actions of no.9 on this list, most players made a beeline northwards away from the footprint-following guard, only for a cutscene to kick in and voice actor David Hayter to exclaim the perfect mix of disgust and surprise at something that was completely expected. It instantly went down in the history books, and has been relentlessly mocked and parodied ever since.

2. American Patriotism Is So Palpable It Became A Physical Thing

"Over the past 200 years, a kind of consciousness developed layer by layer in the crucible of the White House. Not unlike the way life started in the oceans four billion years ago."

Some day this might happen, if there actually is some other force in the universe that the likes of some magicians and other paranormal-botherers claim to be tapping into. We all know if there's anything completely unwavering and strong enough to eventually be willed into life, it's America's self-worth. Nothing against such a thing of course, Patriotism can be a truly beautiful thing, us England'ers tend to go round headbutting the nearest authority if something so little as a football match goes the wrong way. However in Sons of Liberty, Kojima brought about the idea that the person on the other end of your communication had been an A.I all along. And not just any old computer like that of within Peace Walker, no, rather the actual digital embodiment of patriotism incarnate. Now before you turn away in disgust, always remember...