Metal Gear is one of Konami's biggest and best franchises. This year marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the series at large, but Konami doesn't seem to have any plans as of writing. Earlier this year saw a resurgence in memes about Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, but that's about it. Luckily, fans have it covered with great memes.

Memes have always been a big part of the series' history. Metal Gear Solid 2 made several references to the phenomenon in the game's story. So it's no surprise that there are plenty of memes that summarize the games. Fans have made some truly hilarious images making light of the gameplay and story in a loving way.

Loyalty To The Boss

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The Boss is the most perhaps the most important character in the world of Metal Gear. Players won't meet her until the third Metal Gear Solid game, though. She's a military genius who inspires most characters in the franchise into action. As such, "failing" The Boss is one of the worst fates characters can have.

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Big Boss, in particular, worries constantly about failing his mentor. Throughout the events of Metal Gear Solid 3, he constantly worries about letting her down. However, the villainous Patriots also are inspired by her legacy. By the end of MGS4, though, it seems everyone has failed her, much like Dexter has in the meme.

Disclaimer: Future Sight

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Hideo Kojima games are known for being weirdly prophetic of future events, which is especially impressive given how bizarre they can seem while playing. Fans know that Metal Gear Solid 2 especially does a great job of predicting future events.

The entire finale of the game is a treatise on the dangers of misinformation. The focus on culture and memes has weirdly become extremely prescient nowadays and this meme points this out with a fake disclaimer of "futuristic" scenes.

Tactical Espionage Explosion

Metal Gear is a series all about stealth, yet not every mission is solved with espionage and sneaking. Especially in later titles, Snake gets a lot more lethal options for dealing with enemies. This includes a ton of explosives and ballistics.

Players of Super Smash Bros will recognize Snake's dependence on explosives. It's less prominent in the game, but the world's best soldier can still bomb enemies into oblivion. Setting explosive traps might not seem like a good way to remain unnoticed, but it often works in Snake's favor.

Who Is Big Boss?

As important as The Boss is her protégé, Big Boss. He's the original Snake from which the main playable character has been cloned. In fact, most playable characters are based on him in some way and as such, there's a lot of confusion over which character is the "real" Big Boss.

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This meme illustrates the complicated nature of Big Boss' identity. Before he was called Big Boss, he was called Naked Snake, and there was a period where he was called Venom Snake, except not because it was actually a body double. It's all rather convoluted, but still fun to unravel.

Ocelot's Allegiance

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Revolver Ocelot is one of the most iconic characters in the Metal Gear Solid series. He's a gunslinger with a panache for showing off with fancy gunplay, and this has resulted in some truly fantastic scenes and boss battles. His most interesting quality is his allegiance, though.

Ocelot is constantly betraying others throughout the series. His true allegiance isn't known until the very end of Metal Gear Solid 4, which puts him on par with his mother, The Boss, in terms of variable loyalty and status as a double agent.

Soldier Logic

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This meme doesn't just apply to Metal Gear Solid, but to many action-stealth games. Guards in these games tend to be overly paranoid, which only makes sense in order to up the game's difficulty. However, it makes little sense why guards would be so receptive to every little thing.

This meme is hilarious in how accurate it is. Shadow Moses Island is crawling with guards, but they never seem to bump into each other. The footsteps are always from an intruder and never from a fellow unit. It's a great example of the suspension of disbelief needed to make the genre work.

Simpsons Eater

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The Simpsons have the talent for having a relevant episode for almost anything and Metal Gear Solid is no exception. Perhaps it's not that strange, as Konami also made the excellent Simpsons arcade game. In any case, the bosses of Snake Eater have been adequately represented by the classic animated sitcom.

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The meme starts with Bette Midler's wonderful and tough guest appearance in The Simpsons, which surprisingly looks a lot like the Boss. The Cobra Unit bosses are all represented well in vibes, although The Pain's entry could use more overt references to bees (it is revealed that Smithers is allergic to bee stings). Supervillain boss Hank Scorpio is a great choice for The Fury, and finally, the electrocuted Krusty is a hilarious choice for the over-the-top electrokinetic Volgin.

Lore Bumped

This meme shows the difference between the story of the earliest installments in the series and the rest of it. The earliest game was a simple quest to destroy a dangerous weapon with a last-minute twist that was only really impressive for the time. Future games add more to the basic soldier characters from the original, which makes sense, given how notoriously long the game's cinematics would become.

While the meme only contains a fraction of the total story of the series, the choice of "The Man Who Sold The World" for the background music of the meme is incredibly fitting. The story goes from a story about the good military fighting the bad military to a far more complex one about the politics of war.

Must Have Been The Wind

This meme is in direct opposition to the previous memes about guard AI. While the previous one was about how vigilant they are, their AI can also only go so far. Guards will often lose interest in the smallest things. Famously, guards in Metal Gear are fooled by a cardboard box, including guards losing interest in finding their coworkers dead.

It's pretty implausible that guards would lose interest in this. However, for the purpose of the gameplay balance, it's necessary that they will. While this does sometimes raise an alertness level, in general guards seem pretty willfully ignorant. This meme is spot-on with how dumb the guard AI can be at times.

Re-Shrek-geance

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is probably the game in the series with the most memes about it. It's a spin-off focusing on the character of Raiden, which is completely over-the-top, with cyborg ninjas, politicians with nanomachines, and discussions about the nature of memes. As this meme points out, though, it has a hilarious amount of similarities with another famously memed story.

Shrek surprisingly has a number of hilarious similarities with the story of Revengeance. Both of the protagonists are outcasts, with a talking animal companion, that fights against a politician. Their rivals are also quite similar in how beloved they are. While the meme does cherry-pick a bit, it is a hilarious point. If Shrek's meme status is any indication, Metal Gear Rising is sure to not lose its meme status for years to come.

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