9 Video Games You Didn't Realise Stupidly Broke Their Own Rules

3. The Big Boss That Suffered WASN'T The Real Big Boss - Metal Gear Solid V

The Rule:

Topping the family tree of influence when it comes to Metal Gear's "newer timeline" games, Big Boss is a real force to be reckoned with.

Showing up as a premiere warmongering tyrant to be brought down in the original 2D games, even his corpse sparks conflicts and wars around who it "belongs" to, and who should have access to that all-important, "best soldier ever" DNA.

This juxtaposition of villainy and elite skills is locked in, but what made him turn to the proverbial dark side?

The Phantom Pain was set to finally, definitively, provide an answer.

But Wait...

Though the entirety of the game shows Big Boss goes through everything from being betrayed by one of his comrades (Huey Emmerich) to executing half his own troops to save them from a viral outbreak, it's all for naught, as this Big Boss was... a clone.

MGS V ends by making a character you created at the beginning the clone of Boss you've been playing the whole way through.

The real Big Boss was off around the world, readying himself for the events of future games and building his army of disaffected soldier-types. Nothing about what happened to you or the clone mattered inasmuch as future characters only interact with the other Big Boss, and that Boss still goes from hard-working soldier to maniacal warlord at the drop of a hat.