both are very bad ass. both have went through their own hell. In the end, though, I personally think Big Boss is the true ultimate soldier. At the end of the day only one of the two was killed by Solid Snake, and venom would be nothing without Big Boss. I say this is a win for Big Boss with only the slightest of margins, both are bad ass in their own right. Just like you said in the video, Venom's mind control was interrupted so part of Big Boss's memories were corrupted, and he did not retain everything that made him Big Boss. Adapting a more aggressive CQC may or may not be enough to go up against someone who co-invented the technique. There may be things that Venom did not retain during the mind control process. Big Boss also shows superior tactical prowess, as everything involving Venom, Outer Heaven, and Zanzibar land was his design. Venom was just an expert pilot in some one else's ship with the illusion of control. I also don't think that Big Boss would give Venom every aspect of himself and leave the possibility for a rival. I think that he would hold enough knowledge and memories back so that in the end he would always be the superior of the two. If he wasn't hell bent on power and revenge he would not have went underground creating another better army, he would just retire.

Not gonna lie...Venom has easily become one of my favorite characters in the franchise.

It really comes down to one thing in the end: which soldier can ROCKET PUUUUUNCH

Kaz really just trained solid snake to kill the wrong boss smh my head✋😤

Venom Snake isn't completely forgotten by history. After all, whose name did we all write on Raiden's dogtags in MGS2? If the intention was for it to be the player's name, then that retroactively means the Patriots were trying to turn Raiden into a doppelganger of the Venom Snake, not Solid; which checks out in my mind, because Venom can be seen as the forerunner to the Cyborg Ninjas who would start popping up later on. With Venom representing a proof of concept that you don't need to be genetically identical to the legendary mercenary to replicate his results, it's clear the Patriots AI were trying to duplicate Venom. They're just programs repeating a pattern after all. . .

Trick question, its revolver Ocelot.

Here's to you Venom 🥂 You served your boss faithfully, you were turned into a shadow or should I say phantom of Big Boss but you'll forever be remembered as our Big Boss.

The sadness of Venom reminds me of a quote from Richtofen, "I was the nicest one, and you won't even remember me." It's saddening to know that out of the two Big Bosses, the evil one was the "true" Big Boss, while the other (Venom) is the victim of Big Boss, Zero, everyone. And yet all he will ever be is Big Boss's shadow.

Venom. What he went through was strait up insidious. No human should have ever gone through that. It left me shook for a while after beating the game.

You have to remember when Venom was in MSF he got trained by Big Boss himself. There is a feature in Peacewalker where you can “Snake in” on your fellow snake teammates which made you follow them and do exactly what Snake is doing. This is why the Venom character is so brilliant. If you played a lot of Peacewalker you can see how medic really did learn How to fight like Big Boss himself. Also, most of the best staff members in Peacewalker were doctors.

Venom Snake is better IMO. Just consider everything he did and went through, only for it all to be put to someone else's name. Most of the things Big Boss would become infamous for were actually down to Venom.

I believe Venom is the better "Big Boss". For one he was MSF's best soldier and despite being a medic, so they had a excellent base to build on by implanting Naked Snakes memories and combat training. And the fact that he ended up having shrapnel in his skull, a arm missing, along with wearing a eyepatch and still can perform at the level he does says alot. And that's him getting out of a 9 year coma and had to build himself back up physically and hes soon combating squads of enhanced soldiers and can pin down Quiet, who has the strength to pick up and toss full grown men like it's nothing. Plus he's definitely a more compassionate Big Boss, and I think that has to do with his previous "life" as the medic in wanting to preserve life. In the beginning of the game he asked "Ishmael" what happened to the woman (Quiet), Ishmael (Naked Snake) did give a shit that he set her on fire and for all he knew, she died in the fall out of the window. Plus Venoms guilt on not finding that second bomb in Paz shows he cares about his fellow man where as Naked has long passed moved on about Paz. I just feel that Venom as a character, though doesn't speak much, has such a presence to him and that's a big part of Kiefer Sunderland voicing him. I know he voiced both Venom and the real Big Boss, but you spend a larger time with him as Venom that I associated him with that character. And no scene does the character justice more than when Venom and the remaining Diamond Dogs are about to pour the ashes of the fallen and he decides to use the ashes to make diamonds. He says those lines with such dignity, strength, and compassion, you feel the love he has for his men. Sorry for rambling, Venom is my favorite Snake. 😂

Definitely Venom, he left his life to become a ghost of a man. He went through alot of bullshit and still had to play the villain all the way till the end because it was his mission and promise to a man that was a following his own version of the Boss' legacy. I love this franchise, a story about the cycle of destiny.

Venom’s identity is not to be taken literally for analysis, only metaphorically, the ending was simply an evolution of “the player is Snake” concept Kojima had always pursued. There’s nothing reliable to take into consideration from it for the core canon, what was real and what wasn’t, how and what things actually happened, all that’s left for player interpretation, for each player to formulate their own “MGS Saga” sequence of events how they see it based on their experiences, thoughts and feelings. For all intents and purposes, Venom’s just Big Boss, nothing in the ending completely discredits Big Boss losing his mind. But let’s say you were to believe in the first MG boss being a mere medic, there’s still interesting discussion there, as the idea of soldier genes essentially gets turned on its head in favor of knowledge and life experience/memories (what was transferred over to Venom), which only furthers the theme of the Snakes never really being that special to begin with, at least not genetically. And right there people can look at that in 2 different ways, A. as a confirmation of BB losing his mind if they believe genetics are important, or B. as a twist that establishes what had long been hinted of genetics not really mattering as much.

I never even clocked onto the fact Big Boss can speak fluent Russian (it's been a long time since I've played MGS3), and that you need a translator in MGSV. When this game first came out, I hated it for all the obvious reason, but I've since gone back to it and avoided all the repetitive side-ops, just to play the essential story missions and listen to the tapes to get a more rounded opinion of the story, and I have a great appreciation for it now. The attention to detail is staggering, quite frankly, and the whole phantom mantra which is present throughout brings a lot of subversion -- but immersion -- to the table when you look into it. It's such a shame Mission 51 didn't get finished, because I think it would have concluded Liquid's arc, but rounded off Venom's story a little more satisfyingly as well.

This video is so well done. Perfect analisis of both Venom and Naked. If i need to pick one i would go with Venom. It would be one hell of a battle, the hardest one each one has faced. But the reason why i pick Venom over Naked is for multiple facts like for example, he was one hell of a soldier when he was the medic. Big Boss himself picked him as his personal medic and Ocelot states in the tapes that he was the best soldier of MSF. After he got the therapy by Ocelot, he became even much better when thought he was Big Boss. And through the game we see him taking down Quiet, The Skulls, the man on fire, Sahelantropus and Psycho Mantis most powerful form. He also survived an entire wave of tanks and soldiers going at him at some point. And when it comes to CQC he has been shown to be able to CQC and overpower skulls and Quiet herself when they are eassily 4 times stronger than a regular human. In any case it would be one hell of a battle. Thank you for this video.

Venom Snake is probably the superior warrior in terms of physical might. Between his prosthetic arm and the upgrades you can make to him, he's pretty much the precursor to the cyborg ninjas. He never had the same charisma as the original though, and isn't nearly as proactive. Building Diamond Dogs wouldn't have been possible without "Big Boss." If Big Boss and Venom and had ever come to blows, I'm certain Big Boss would've come out on top for the same reasons Solid defeated Liquid despite the differences in abilities.

When i was still young , the first metal gear game that i played was MGS3 , then the second one was Leace Walker , since then , BB was kinda like my idol , he's like the hero that we need and also deserved and i thought of how cool and badass BB is ,when i played ground zeroes , i was kinda mad because mother base was destroyed by skull face , chico , paz , cecile , and other s rank staff that i lost , i think BB would have had the same feelings as i do , then TPP came out , waking up in a hospital thinking where is kaz , and later on was escaping from volgin and quiet , at the end where venom is listening to the tape , i was shocked , realizing that the man that i've played wasn't the real BB at all , but then i thought , how depressing venom's life is , he finally met the love of his life , only to be taken away from him to save him , he was feeling guilt that he could have saved everyone including paz in ground zeroes's chopper if he could have found the other bomb , he was forced to live on the life he never wanted , and later on killed by a clone of his boss , but he just accepeted it all , because venom is loyal to 1 person , and that is BB . Big Boss will always be my favourite character in the franchise , but we can't deny the fact that venom's life is the most depressing life in the franchise arguably the most in all games after solid snake

Crazy to think Venom was hated on after release. Now 5 years later, most people see him in a better light. Personally I always thought that he went the closest to achieving the Boss’s will before BB got his grubby little mitts on him. I like to think that in the mirror scene, when Venom smashes it, that’s him expressing his disgust at finally realizing the real truth; BB used him all along and he was going to die for it. Everything he built up was for naught. He lost himself to the demon inside of him for following who he thought was his idle and friend.

I always admired BB, and making us believe BB was the only super soldier and no one would be as him and because of that they made clones of him, venom snake proved it that it's possible, he did almost all what the real BB did in a sort of period of time, he was a leader, he suffered the same pain as big boss but even more by shooting his own soldiers one by one(while BB did it ones) and i say almost all as BB except that venom wanted to end the cycle , the cycle which that is becoming another big boss , all began with the boss and snake eater, then big boss with venom snake, liquid and solid,the same case with solidus and raiden, i have to go with venom snake on this one, besides it took two BBosses to kill him, the mastermind of old big boss and the youth of solid snake.

Venom easily takes the win in my heart despite whoever would when an actual fight of rather not consider. Venom was a true warrior to his death big boss betrayed himself and his ideals.

Venom is better. He did everything with a prosthetic arm and shrapnel in his skull.

At the end of TPP, Venom knew he was brainwashed. But he still stayed loyal to Big Boss.

The only thing I disagree on was Venom's supposed 'brutality.' I took him asking the question to silence Paz as simply being the fact that his memories of her were lacking. But the PTSD side content with her in the game showed he had a deep regret for letting her die, not just from Boss's memories, but from Medic's own failure to remove both bombs. These memories returning only after finding all the pictures, so at that point, he probably wouldn't have asked 'Should we silence her.' Venom has showed both kindness and compassion to his men on Mother Base when morale is low, and sparing Liquid's life and telling him that one shouldn't turn their weapons on family and allies. Not to mention he knew Quiet was the one who tried to murder him SEVERAL times, yet he let her go and even saved her life all while growing to care for her deeply. Shooting his men wasn't just brutality, it really was the only thing he could do for them at the time. That was certainly a moment that broke him to become a villain later, but before all that, he was emulating Big Boss much more accurately than one would think.

Damn..people really forgot about peace walker do they... Big Boss fighting all those metal gears and those t-rexes

As much as I love Big Boss, Boss uses Venom for a reason, to bear the brunt of his existence while he goes into hiding and builds Zanzibar. Boss steps away from the frontline and instead becomes a political ideology. Venom never leaves the battlefield. He spends the rest of his life in conflict in his outer heaven. It would stand to reason that Venom has all of Bosses experience and more with how he has to remain in conflict because of how he is the current embodiment of Bosses meme. Venom hands down

The only thing bothers me,when venom get rescued from Jeep in dhekelia,and ocelot save the real bigboss and comeback to save venom snake,how long between that event before ocelot comeback to save venom again?,consider the sun are rising behind big boss when his escape with bike

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Also don’t forget he chose to keep quiet alive. There are moments where the hood venom, out weighs the villain big boss. Edit: he chooses to go after her. All along the way, he follows the kind hearted choices of ocelot opposed to Kaz’s ruthless and evil desires.

MGs 3 was my first metal hear game, so I’m biased towards BB. But I have to go with venom being a better soldier. During the phantom pain incident we see him cqc against skulls and win, he beats the man on fire, sehelanthropus, and psycho mantis. Even when he was a medic in MSF ocelot said he was the best soldier they had. And he got far better once he became venom.

I identify myself more with venom snake, because I have the same arm missing.

Venom snake has a really sad story. His identity was taken. He turned from a medic to a fucking commander, he had to kill so many people that did nothing to him directly. And quiet, the only chance of him having innocence in the world left him. And I’m the end he had to be killed by someone who thought he was truly big boss…

Judging from what I’ve just seen, if the two were to be faced against the other, I’d have to say Venom would win. Stated by the video, he’s more “ruthless” and has seemingly perfected CQC. Venom snake also took down a bipedal metal gear by himself that’s far superior to what the Big Boss had fought before. Venom just seems to have better feats of strength and ability than the person he’s impersonating. If Big Boss needed someone to take his place, Venom does more than a hell of a job at doing so.

amazing video, can’t believe i didn’t find it sooner. good job!

This video was very interesting well done. So happy to see people keeping metal gear alive with great content like this.

I think that Big Boss is the superior fighter, but Venom is a better Big Boss, more mild, kind, and more benevolent.

I feel so heartwrenched whenever a sad OST pops up, all those memories man...

It's Venom. He's really a soldier's soldier. He isn't nearly as charismatic as Big Boss, who is largely a better political figure, but he is a better leader of men. I think that's why they took on the roles they did. Venom was meant to fight while Big Boss built his nation and handled the political nuances. One is the brain, and the other is the muscle.

If there really was a process to experience Big Boss's memories while in an induced coma, and pick up most of his skills, I would totally sign up for it. Awesome video. Liked and subscribed

Editing and information was superb. Great job. You deserve to know that 💯

The title question is odd being as though every snake is a wannabe of big boss

"Soldier", in the definition The Boss gave, would be a political tool. Someone carrying out the mission to the end with no regard for their own will. She specifically called Jack, a fighter rather than a soldier. Jack would never die being loyal to others that he will keep fighting. This is seen from the many times he himself turns his back on others for the sake of himself. Venom on the other hand fits The Boss' definition to the letter. Although unwilling he does discover for himself what he truly is and he accepted the fact and continues in his "role" because he's loyal to Big Boss and will not bring his own will into things.

This content is insane! Makes me want to replay the entire series again

I agreed with everything except your assessment of the positive/negative state of there minds. Venom was clearly more compassionate in overall more situations that what BB was; especially given the evidence that he was primarily a medic as his main skill; whereas BB was more vicious an ready to kill. An as for the evidence that Venom was more evil because of the infection on motherbase both would have done the same. As they soldiers were suffering to death slowly. Both would have ended there suffering. An using Hueys word means jack all shit! Huey was guttertrash human who was always looking out for #1 and was always looking for a leg up on others around him just to survive! He was an abusive minded man. Hell, look what he does later to Emma, an her mother for example, or what he did to Hals mom... nuff said on Huey. Also, the bit on Liquid from MGS1 cant be considered as 100% canonical now. As it may have been retconned with PP, as it is a later produced title. An at that time Kojima was trying to stretch out the franchise.

Keep those vids coming guys! Love the content you upload. Just wish you had more MGS games on the way to analyze.

Venom +1. I don't think Venom had any issue about being used like he was in the end. He was proud to serve from the beginning IMO. Just doing his duty for the boss....something no other character has done unequivocally. No, he isn't BB technically, but V still scores mad points for his sacrifice. Remember...He stepped into the blast even before the transformation

This was awesome. Thank you for the video,the patience was worth it.

Don't understand how you guys don't work for Konami yet. You breath the essence of MGS with you editing style, and outside of members of team Kojima are some of the most indoctrinated to the lore.

I clicked on the video expecting a normal comparison, but I really liked how it was more of laying the facts on you for you to decide yourself. Not to mention the incredible quality.

If Metal Gear Solid were a poem, Punished Venom Snake would be the Golden Key to understand it. We, as Raiden, were trained to fight, to infiltrate. We are the kids taught by simulations. As Punished Venom Snake, we put those skills to test; we are the kids fighting proxy wars that are not ours to fight. After years of brainwashing, we materialise in the world of MGS to take on the mantle of Big Boss and do the things he wouldn’t have the capability of doing; because of his already established character. This is why Naked acted in such a coward way: betraying indirectly and abandoning his fellow men. Jack is an enlarged legend, inflated by the skills we allowed him to have while animating him. But even that has a limit. Without us - the anima and genius of Big Boss - there is no START GAME, there are no operations or infiltrations. Zero noticed after creating Big Boss that, at some point, Jack himself wouldn’t be enough because he can’t break his own logic and personality to do what was needed for the plan (the creation of a New World, the breeding of a new generation of soldiers, the control of information; all which needed the public to be distracted during the 1980’s in order for Zero to pull his strings AND the overcoming of his only failed calculation: Skull Face) to succeed. Zero wouldn’t let Jack’s limitations/the horrible things Jack was supposed to do stain the legend he had revealed. I say revealed because Zero noticed the legend (Big Boss, but in this sense, the genius which oriented him) already existed; it just needed to be triggered/prompted into motion; which Zero did with Operation Snake Eater. Again, Jack would have his limitations at one point. That’s why Venom is blank: he’s built exclusively to be a vessel for us (the actual legend in the form of strength, speed and fury; the genius) to animate; a mean to unleash all of our power. Venom NEEDS to be anyone of us while replicating Boss, but with enough room for the differences pointed out in the video between [Venom] and [Naked] AND between [Player] and [Venom]; the small touches to his personality, which is, in the end, ours. Venom was the toughest because he didn’t have genes, nor special powers or moral qualms. Hell, he had less limbs than most characters. Venom’s limitations are ultimately what made him furiously mighty; he is a blank vessel for our will in its purest form. Venom adapts to do what others won’t, and that is why he’s cursed and punished. Venom is our genius animated, and we are savage geniuses, doing whatever we need. That is why we are lectured by Emmerich for killing our men; not just because we killed DD’s men, but because we killed EVERYONE in MGS. Everyone is a part of the game, of the construct that acts as our reality, and while Jack wouldn’t kill them; we would, given the chance. And we did so in the opportunities we had and in times of need. And we’d do it again if we had the chance. Jack noticed it in 1974, when he foolishly thought he could rid himself of and ultimately defeat Major Oh. He knew he couldn’t push much further without more of the strength his anima provided, for he wasn’t the same soldier anymore; and he knew he wasn’t the adequate vessel, for what he had to do was never within his reach, such as murdering someone who got inside his head, like Paz. He did murder the Boss, but that was already the last droplet needed to show Jack how weak and wicked he truly were. With that in mind, Jack thought he was outsmarting Zero by, later on in 1984, doing what Zero had already planned for him: the creation of his phantom, his boogey-man. The war criminal, the legend of the battlefield. The blank soldier, of the blank force; as ghostly as Cypher; as legendary as himself. The one which would actually carry the legacy on both ends, as a hero and a demon; while the Jack hid in the shadows, scheming. But it all has a price. Because of all we did in previous MGS and specially in MGSV, Venom is punished. Venom is tossed into the worst combat zones in the 1980’s, our own personal Hell. We are paying for the legend, and for our sins, because there is no Father without the player; so the sins the Father commits are the player’s too. That is why the punishment (the game and its challenges; the grinding; the awkward return of characters we hold dear) feels so alien; that is why we have phantom pain, a delayed, bleak version of the past (MGS series), the past that comes to nail down the future’s (MGS IV) coffin: we are being punished and blamed solely for the sins Jack used our strength to commit, and then got away from, because Zero protects him. Little did they knew it would all come down to 0, in 2014. We are being punished by Zero, because we animated Jack, Zero’s legend; we did everything needed, and now we’re no longer needed. We are the first piece of the domino that sets Zero’s plan in motion, we are the cause of all the misfortune and war; and we are the last domino to fall (MGSV). Because of the sins we, as Venom, the demon, committed, and the strength we showed, Venom had to be forgotten; the genius of the legend had to be overshadowed by the legend, otherwise it would grow out of proportion, like a cancer, and disrupt the narrative. Venom himself can only live as long as Zero allows him to; but we won’t scatter his sorrow to the heartless sea. Just like he won’t with his men. Zero (Hideo Kojima) had the game rigged from the start. Still, we fight. In Afghanistan, in Congo. We fight for Venom is Legion, and we are many. We fight, for we are Diamond Dogs.

Wow. Glad this came up in my suggestions! Never thought about looking up this comparison of the two after beating phantom pain.

😍 omg i love your work guys i have been waiting for so long to see videos analysis or anything from you for mgs keep going guys 👌

Big Boss for sure without big boss, Venom wouldn't of been created. i hope they come out with a new metal gear with the story begins with ocelot leaves big boss after the hospital finds grey fox and naomi saves them finds sniper wolf and have it end with leading up to Metal Gear 1

Also Great Job on the video please keep up the great work and never stop making these videos i can watch them over and over and not ever get bored with them.

Ahhh flashbacks to the good ol' days when you were fighting with YongYea, bad mistake that lmao. Good to see you still have phenomenal content. I always appreciate your take on the lore, whether people like the takes, or do like the takes.

This is such an excellently put together video oh my god, it feels like a military file tape or a documentary, such a good atmosphere

I wonder if The Boss was modeled after young David Bowie.

Thanks for the video bros! I just can't decide. All I know is that I miss anything new MGS related. Have a nice weekend. 👍

I Love your videos man, they fill the sense of emptiness in this now Metal Gear-less world

Jack, Big Boss, is just the best man. He is hated by many and that is the genius behind Hideo. He is hated by us just like the boss, on of America's heroes, is hated by the public because they have been given a made up story. Big Boss was shown to us as a bad guy that made this or that, but i genuinely think if people go and watch the ending of MGS4, you ll see how much of a good person he is and what he did for others.

Venom snake at the end of V, definitely. Boss and Big Boss are fantastic warriors but they also had this bond with their soldiers (the cobras, foxhound, MSF) that pushed them to the next level. Big Boss loses that when he starts betraying his allies for his own goals. He snubbed the president for using Boss, but treats Kaz and Venom just the same. Actual combat wise they have similar enough feats but Venom is only an A+ iirc statistically. Which is more badass, our hero defeats the bad guy and it's revealed he's the heir to the throne of badassery, or the hero defeats the bad guy and it turns out he was just some nobody who fought and trained and did it anyway because the "chosen one" was a proper cunt.

Great way to start my day! Thanks

Big Boss was the better fighter, Venom was the better soldier. Venom never forgot to look after his men, refused to use child soldiers and fought to end the fighting. In a gun fight, Venom is the man I would want by my side.

this video....kept us waiting.

I’m so glad I watched this. There was some stuff I certainly missed the deeper points of 😊

Funnily enough Venoms feats throughout the game were more impressive than Naked Snake’s in MGS 3. The Big Boss legend was started by naked, but was truly built up into a mythological hero by Venom. He did all that with a bionic arm, shrapnel stuck in his brain, a blinded eye, and way more emotional baggage and PTSD than big boss.

It's one thing to carry the whole world on your shoulders, it's another to carry the world that wasn't even yours to begin with.

Venom Snake changed my life 🙌🏾🙏🏾

You are the best guys. I've bee following your works since your first theoris about Gray Fox = Venon Snake. All yours videos are the best. Thank you kindly. You make me excited every time you make an analysis about my childhoods hero. Thank. I vote for Venon Snake as most skilled soldier.

A like and subscribed well done soldier! I enjoyed every second of it

Despite Venom being so badass and powerful, it all came from Big Boss' knowledge, experience, and memories. Being the best soldier in MSF wouldn't be enough to do what he had to with Diamond Dogs and Cipher. Venom Snake needed Naked Snake to become "Big Boss". Solid Snake's will made him surpass everything, even his own dying body in MGS4. But his CQC training and physical abilities also came from Naked Snake. Revolver Ocelot thought of Solidus Snake as a physical copy of Big Boss but it's in Solid Snake that he really saw his old friend. Naked Snake is the one, the one Zero tried to copy many times. Venom, Solid, Solidus, and Liquid all became powerful in their own way thanks to something they got from Naked Snake. Naked Snake is the ultimate soldier.

I’d say Big Boss. Him being trained directly by the Boss, but also the experience he gained after snake eater during his “legendary hero” days give him the edge in my eyes. Venom is close though

wow man! This si so great content, I started with MSGV and this helped me to understood it way more better. Thank you!

Isn't it interesting how in the last MGS4 boss fight, Liquid has a devastating cross? It's a nice little detail that connects MGS4 and MGSV:TPP. The Liquid "psyche" having been hit by Venom's bionic arm, Ocelot seeing it work first hand, then when Liquid Ocelot goes on to fight Old Snake, he has that similar bionic arm punch. Also, notice that Venom broke Liquid's right arm, the same side that Liquid Ocelot has a bio-prosthetic arm on. A series of homages crossing games and timelines.

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11:12 Ocelot: hey!, be careful with that arm!, it might be of use later!

both are amazing but there's something extra special about venom, his loyalty inspires!!

Venom was so good he convinced everyone that he was Big Boss.

Venom is infinitely better because he can move when aiming in first person mode

Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Solidus Snake had the benefit of being actual clones of Big Boss, inheriting his genes. Venom snake doesn't even have that as he isn't an flesh and blood clone like they are and yet he still became so formidable just by merely becoming Big Boss instead literally being born to be like him. I find that alone to be impressive and something just so special about Venom.

Thank you for this amazing video 😊🙏

Wow. Gentlemen, I loved it, my pick is Solid Snake, there would be no solid without Big, and The Phantom would have lived on, but along came a Solid Snake to re-Write the past, a soldier who had no future, and experiment gone rouge. loved this video too the good times, my friends cheers. thanks for keeping me up on the wall of fame, means a ton to me.

Incredible video...as always

15:31 I like how u put both of them it just looks dope with both of them side by side

A masterpiece... As usual ... Thank you

Great video as Always

Venom has gone through pretty much the same experience as Big Boss alright, but what makes him better in my eyes is his physical abilities. First, he doesn’t have the body of Big Boss, meaning his size/weight/muscle mass differs from Big Boss. Explaining why his CQC is more agressive. Second, you can see the difference in speed between GZ and TPP (well at least I have the impression of). Venom runs faster, hits harder and faster. I also noticed a difference in volume when bones are cracked (I never touched my volume settings). Venom is also more ruthless in his methods, if it saves millions, he won’t hesitate in killing his own men, even if he’ll regret it for the rest of his life, the diamond as a reminder. Venom is also probably younger than Big Boss, so we can say he can catch his breath more easily. The only weakness Venom has is his horn, we’ve seen the effects of a little shock in episode 51, but a harder strike can result in permanent brain damage. My money still goes to Venom anyway. Whoever he is, he’s always my C.O.

Great video imo it’s big boss, keep up the great work!

"I don't care who you are, you will always be big boss" -some random solder I saved in the battel field.

Venom rocks, I'd pick him surely, guy has a brutal CQC.

If you think about it. Big Boss was trained by The Boss, who was the best soldier the world had ever seen. Whom then defeated The Boss herself. Yet Venom was a nobody medic, who believed he was Big Boss - and yet fought, killed, sneaked and strategized in a manner superior to Big Boss himself (as far as the games showed). All under the belief he was Big Boss, thus gaining that combat experience afterwards and thus surpassing Big Boss. In my opinion. I love Big Boss, but what Venom accomplished in the world of MGS, is truly legendary in itself. Hence why “we are both Big Boss”.

Very amazing video but sadly I started my Metal Gear journey with Phantom Pain so I feel Venom as my first Snake.

Great video! The lore is still so rich... I miss this franchise.

The likes of Venom is why Outer Heaven is created. Best video out there regarding Venom and BB.

Happy to see you guys! Always quality content 😉 I think I'll vote for Venom! Hope you'll do a DS analysis 😋

I just realised, "Mother of Special Forces" and "Militaries Sans Frontiers" are both MSF

I kinda wonder how exactly they were able to give Venom the memories and experiences of Big Boss. I know they said some kind of hypnotism but how the heck do you implant memories?

Damn.. the intro is the best thing I've watched in a looong time

we all know that solid snake is the ultimate soldier. He beat Venom Snake, He beat Big Boss, He beat Frank Jaeger (Gray Fox) who was the best soldier in Big Boss Foxhound Unit, He beat Liquid who was the one with the dominant genes of Big Boss and He defeated ocelot the greatest antagonist and co-protagonist of the entire saga.

IMO, I like Venom Snake better. He's one of the best soldiers that MSF and Big Boss had, his skills are on par with Big Boss himself, maybe even more so now that he's been brainwashed to be Big Boss. I also like that Venom still has his former selves, making him slightly different than Big Boss in terms of personality. While Big Boss was more ruthless, Venom was more compassionate like how he saved the kids in Africa, giving them another shot at life, just not behind a gun. Also during Huey's trial, Venom could have just put a bullet between Huey's eyes much to the joy of Kaz and older MSF guys but he didn't. Instead, he sends Huey away from Mother Base. The real Big Boss at this point would have just ended Huey because it was Huey who was the cause of MSF's destruction. Venom also felt guilt when he wasn't able to save Paz which traumatized him and led him to see the hallucination of Paz being alive, only to discover he was hallucinating this. Venom didn't go straight into becoming the demon he will eventually be. If players choose a more passive playthrough, you can see Venom slightly fighting the urge to kill everything. It is as if he is at odds with himself. His former self vs the Big Boss persona that has been implanted within his mind. And if players decide to choose to destroy nuclear weapons instead of making them, there'll be some dialogue that Venom says, talking to either Big Boss or The Boss herself. In the dialogue, Venom says that one day soldiers are not needed, no hands to pull the trigger almost contradicting the real Big Boss's goal of building a nation of soldiers and that Venom needed to drive away the demon within him, the Big Boss persona, and build a better future. In my opinion, since Venom shared all the memories of Big Boss, naturally, he would remember The Boss and her will. Venom interprets her will differently than Big Boss, choosing to build a future where soldiers and nukes are no longer needed. This moment short as it may show that there is a slight difference between Venom and Big Boss. Again, this is all interpretation and it's up to the players on how they interpret Venom Snake as a character.