"Dont waste the life you have left fighting" *joins smash bros*

When your father comes back and brought cigarettes

I still love that despite the fact Big Boss is dying, he still has the energy to give Snake an entire ass video essay explaining everything in Metal Gear.

I love the fact that when playing the games in chronological order, you go almost directly from this scene to Raiden suplexing a metal gear ray with rules of nature blasting in the background

Imagine seeing two old men cut another old man's life support in a random cemetery, then seeing one sit down and die.

Imagine meeting your son whose only half your age but physically in worse conditions.

That CQC hug. Who knew CQC stands for Close Quarters Comfort

For those who dont get, this is all the snakes: Naked Snake/Big Boss - He is the the one with the eye patch in this video. He is the main protagonist of MGS3, MGSPW, MGSGZ, and the villain of MG2. He is the legendary soldier, he is basically the captain of america of MG universe. Everyone love him and idolize him. Solid Snake - He is the protagonist of MG1, MG2, MGS1, MGS4, and he is one of the protagonist in MGS2. The first time they cloned Big Boss, twins were born, one of them is Solid Snake. He is 40 years old in this video, he looks old because his body entered a state of accelerated aging due to intentional genetic changes made during the cloning process. They fear that the clones maybe one day betray the USA, so they make this as security measure. Solid has less than half a year of life after this scene. Liquid Snake - he is the main villain in MGS1. Twin brother of Solid. He is Eli in MGS5. He died in MGS1. Solidus Snake - he was the third clone made, but from a differenty mother. He is the main villain in MGS2. The Patriots made Solidus as the perfect clone. He is the youngest of the clones, but he look just like Big boss from this video. The Patriot make him like this so the common people would like him, because he look just like Big Boss. He was the President of the USA in the events of MGS1. He died in the end of MGS2. The body that everyone believe that was Big boss in MGS4 act 3 is actually the body of Solidus. Venom Snake - He is the protagonist of MGS5. He was one of the best soldier from Big boss, and he was a medic. When the helicópter crash in the end of MGSGZ, they took him and zero planned and provided funds to have the medic molded into a mirror image of Big Boss, both mentally and physically. Induced hypnagogia imbued the medic with Big Boss' mind, and plastic surgery was enacted to give him Big Boss' face. When he awoke, the medic would believe he was Big Boss. He died in MG1 by the hands of Solid Snake.

Metal Gear, the game where the main character is *never* the main character, throughout the entire series.

My man big boss was so lowkey he snuck up on snake with a man on life support in tow 😭

That was the most tactical hug I’ve ever seen

"That new world is yours to live in. Not as a snake... but, as a man." That's a powerful quote right there

its hilarious that after decades of training, snake still gets his shit kicked in by the one technique he refused to learn, from the one guy who knows it.

cqc hug

Can we just acknowledge hes full on having a heart attack and yet he has the strength to not only give a 20min speech but to stand and salute The Boss. True sheer will right there

2:03 Snake: "How can you still be alive?" Big Boss: "Nanomachines, son."

What breaks my little heart is that Boss knows that Snake is a clone of him, but he still called him "son" ;^;

"Let it go, my son.." I don't think there ever was a time when he called any of them his "son". Damn

“This is good, isn’t it?” One of the greatest ending lines ever.

Fun fact : the grave that snake visiting is grave of Big Boss. the tomb stone said... ""A hero forever loyal to the flames of war rests in Outer Heaven 193X-1999"" but as the lore update in MGSV. the grave now is actually Venom's grave. since he is the "Big Boss" who died in outer heaven.

Big boss was so tough that a mutated foxdie didn't kill him instantly. He had time to make amends and even salute the boss.

*Big Boss looking at Death* "Kept you waiting, huh?"

So many people misinterpreted the Boss’ will after she died, I like how Solid Snake became her true successor without ever having met her

I find it sad that Big Boss never realised what The Boss's will actually was until the very end of his life. Not a world where soldiers are always needed, but instead a world where they arent needed to be created in the first place.

When your dad goes out to get milk and actually comes back.

**Big Boss meeting Miller in heaven** Big Boss: Kept you waiting, huh?

4:55 I love how Big Boss basically hints at the ending of MGS5. Kojima is so good at retroactively giving his lines more meaning than they had initially.

10:24 As someone who entered the franchise at MGS3, this moment hit like a sack of bricks

BOSS so manly, he does a hug via a CQC "Salute"..

"Did Zero hate me, or did he fear me?" It's sad when you find out that Zero actually just missed him in MGSV

It's litteraly impossible for a human being who finished the Metal Gear franchise to not *cry* in this scene...

Snake isn't very expressive,but you can still tell he wanted to cry throughout this whole video

“The world would be better off without snakes.” Thats the one that breaks me.

Did Zero hate me? Or did he fear me? Zero: *Literally shits his pants a second after.*

I always say that Solid Snake is the embodiment of The Boss’s will. The beautiful thing about this is that he never knew about her until the end of MGS4. Big Boss admitted at the end that after he killed The Boss he was a broken man and because of this he misinterpreted The Boss’s will by being angry and disappointed by the world’s governments view of soldiers being tools. Solid Snake knew about this and knew that it is unfair for soldiers, but he accept it. Snake always knew that soldiers will be forever tools of war, this is the reality. Knowing this, Snake was always trying to the right thing for the world to have a better future, not to change it. Big Boss on the contrary, was trying to do things his own way no matter the cost to change the world for a “better” future and look how he ended up. The Boss knew she was a tool during Operation Snake Eater. Was it fair? No. Was this the right thing to do to save or make the world better? Yes. Even if she will be remembered as the villain to the world, in her eyes and beliefs she did the right thing to prevent a Nuclear War, and achieved it. She couldn’t change the Cold War, but did the right thing to have a better future and the Cold War follow its course in history like nothing ever happened. She was not a hero, never was, never will be. The Patriots were the total opposite of what The Boss believe. The Patriots never respect the world as it is, this is why they wanted total control and this is why Solid Snake was trying his best to defeat them and never wanted nothing in return unlike his father and brothers. Big Boss - I will fight Cipher because I WANT to change the world for MY soldiers. Liquid - I will fight The Patriots because I WANT my future that was denied from me before birth. Solidus - I will fight The Patriots because I WANT to be remembered. Snake - I must fight The Patriots because it is my duty to protect what I believe in and others, even if it kills me. I’m no hero, never was, never will be. Snake knew to let the world to be as it is, doesn’t mean you won’t do nothing, but try to do the right and best thing as a soldier. Have your own morals, beliefs, honor and humility and follow it because they’re your own, not the government or organizations. Trying not to be the hero of the world. You may be a hero to the public but in reality you are just a tool. This is something that Liquid, Solidus and Big Boos never understood. They wanted to be the saviors of the world and change it. Don’t try to change the world. Respect the world and others, the world will be in constant change by itself by the Times and it will always be that way. War will continue on forever but there will be a time that you as an individual need peace. You already fought your battles, follow your orders, follow your beliefs and finished the mission. Now is time to live life not as a soldier, not as a snake, but as a man.

One of the things I'm surprised nobody talks about is Zero. I mean: Solid, Liquid, Solidus, Shadow Moses Incident, the Patriots IA, Arsenal Gear, War Economy and therefore the PMCs, FOXDIE, SOP... almost everything that happens in the story is his doing. Even the events of Rising are a consequence of his actions. The man is the main villain, was the most powerful man in the planet and he had the whole world in his hands for decades... but when we finally see him, we see a senile old man that doesn't even know where he is and needs a machine to not pee himself. It's like Ozymandias' poem...

Remember how Zero was a really optimistic guy who liked James bond movies? He is the villiam of the franchise.

Man is too talkative to die. He's been dying for 20 minutes and was able to stand up on his own. Attention: Looks like this comment thread is a wee bit famous. Congratulations to all of you who also enjoy MGS.

>kill dying old man >epic music start playing

So according to Big Boss, Ocelot was never possessed by Liquid’s right arm, he just used hypnotic suggestion to make himself think he was possessed. That actually makes more sense than being possessed by Liquid’s arm tbh

Imagine meeting your daddy for the first time ever and he spends 30mins explaining techy metaphysical shit to you when you just want another hug

"Did he really hate me...or did he fear me?" And them from MGS5, we learned the fact that Zero missed him. Shame that Big boss never learned that fact

My guys, I think Big Boss asked Solid about the taste of the cigarr, because the man just smoked it for him. Which makes this moment ever more heartwarming, since not only he left Solid with his main message to live and enjoy life, as far as his body allows him to remain on earth, but in his final moment he shares a smoke and calls back to Solid to reflect on the taste of it. The smallest thing in the gravity of the moment, to which he gravitates Solid's attention from all the nonsence that finally ended with Big Boss.

*"This is good... Isn't it?"* Could it be referring to the cigar? The life after war? The conclusion of a long running franchise? (Solid Snake) For me, its all of them. And yes, it is good.

Watch the japanese version too, the actors are actual father and son who had not been on speaking terms for years until that day

Major Zero died and still doesn't know who stole his tea and scone in 1964 lol

"How could you still be alive?" *"NANOMACHINES, S O N."*

the thing that makes this extra special is that in the Japanese voice over, the VAs for Big Boss and Solid Snake were both father and son and they were both estranged to each other, this scene was the first time they had spoken to each other in years in real life.

I tend to think the last six months of Snake's life after this consisted of him traveling to the places he always wanted to visit, trying the foods he always wanted to try, seeing a few good movies that he always wanted to watch, visiting all the people he called friends one last time, and writing down his refelctions on his life. Then, after six months of doing all that, he died peacefully in his sleep. Not as a Snake the Soldier, but as David the man.

I forgot how human the ending of this was. There was no true singular big bad in the end - just the cumulative decisions of a lot of powerful people being swept away beyond their control in a direction that was more coincidence than intended consequence.

The part where Big Boss says, "Under certain conditions, someone can be made to play a specific role," Kojima low-key foreshadowed Venom Snake without us knowing about it.

People forget just how profound this game felt in 2008. Along with GTA IV it felt like gaming was being perfected

Solid Snake: Am I going to die? Big Boss: Everyone dies. Solid Snake: *Wow, thanks Dad!*

Fucking love how Big Boss instantly disarms him without even an ounce of a struggle. Truly the world's greatest soldier.

It's been almost 15 years. And yet, everytime he gives his final salute to The Boss, I just can;t help but break down and cry. The Boss and BB really were something else. Once in a lifetime characters.

I really like how smart the MGS fan base is. You guys use a lot of big words correctly when explaining stuff.

*boss enters heaven* notices a familiar person: "Ahab?" *venom turns around* "hey Ishmael."

I think the best way to sum up MGS is with the saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Years later, and he still knows the basics of CQC. Meanwhile, Solidus: *is missing eye on the completely opposite side* "So this is Big Boss, right?" "Yeah, probably."

"This is good, isn't it?" What a great ending.

"Wait I thought I killed you" "No that was the paramedic" "but that's..." "Let it go my son"

The fact that Ocelot is so good at covert ops that he can convince himself hes a completely different person still blows my mind until this day. It could be possible that none of us have ever seen the real ocelot.

He realized this was the way to go after so many years of struggle. It all went full circle: the moment he bacame Big Boss by facing and defeating The Boss and the moment he decided to stop being Big Boss and instead regaining himself as a human being. Masterful.

It's June 17th 2008, 3am...I'm 17 years old...i just finished the game...i got goosebumps, tears in my eyes...and never thought, that i would never feel so much emotions for a videogame series like Metal Gear. Thank you for the ride!

That little CQC to the hug was enough for me to know that really is the legendary big boss.

Big Boss: "they've never been able to completely turn one person into another" Venom Snake: Am I a joke to you?

Quite a stark contrast to the last thing Big Boss told him when they met in Zanzibar. That whoever dies is freed from the battlefield and the victor must remain on the battlefield and live as a warrior. Now he's pretty much saying that the fighting is over. They don't have to be warriors, they don't have to remain on the battlefield.

This is how you end a video game by rapping up plot threats, character arcs, and most of all have a satisfying conclusion that hits you in the heart. The Metal Gear Solid Franchise earns to be not only be one of the greatest video games ever made but the greatest creations in human history.

On the meta level, Kojima specifically choose the actual father of JP Solid Snake to voice JP Big Boss. Even more meta is that they both have a rocky relationship at the time so both the mocap and voicework in this scene is much more powerful than usual.

Big Boss' speech here is about Kojima ranting about the never-ending sequels and his wish in ending the Metal Gear saga with this.

"Let it go, my son" ....almost had a tear drop in my eye.

I always thought the "This is good, isn't it" was a reference to a last smoke from his cigar. But i saw different now... after all wars they fought, even between them, only in the end they find peace each other and share a one true moment like father and son.

Close Quarter Cuddles (CQC)

When Snake lights boss's cigar, I shed tears. For the first time, he finds respect for his estranged father, who was once his enemy. That moment righ t there makes this whole scene for me

That little CQC sequence at the start is the only time that Snake was hugged by is father.

"Forget about us, live for yourself" kojima's last message to us all.

When he said "I'm not here to fight", that is really deep considering he knew by meeting snake he would die. So he actually decided to meet his son knowing it would be the end.

Mgs 1 story = make you awe Mgs 2 story = epic plot twist Mgs 3 story = perfect story Mgs 4 story = tying all loose ends from previous story by doing each of them justice

What an ending. I always come back to rewatch this scene every now and then. I love it to death.

Hard to believe this is in the same universe as monsoon, jet stream Sam, and sundowner

All I can hear is " I give my liiiiife, not for honor, but for youuuuu..."

Let it go, my son. The fact that the Japanese VAs were father and son gives this much more meaning.

"I've never thought of you as a son, but I've always respected you as a soldier, and as a man. If you had been in my place back then, maybe you wouldn't had made the same mistakes I did" Always gets me. And at 25:19 how Solid sees Boss going 'the world would be better without snakes' while looking completely remorseful and vulnerable and lighting up his last stogie for him. FUCKING TEARS

25:32 , right here, this exact moment, is where tears flood into my eyes because of my relationship with my own father. Having been through tough upbringing and being a witness to close family drama, I can relate to Snake hating his "father" Big Boss, for all the things that have happened in the past. Despite all the negatives though, he... and I, manage to let go of our anger, our grief and misery for a little while to acknowledge the mutual respect between the 2. Snake respects Big Boss in the end after everything that has happened and I can't help myself seeing me in Snake and my own father in Big Boss. Life gives you harsh lessons from time to time and people react differently in extreme circumstances. Funny part, my father resembles Snake with that moustache so much. Same with the hairstyle. MGS4 will haunt me forever when I lay my father to rest in the future.

Big Boss looks pretty much like my old father which has passed away, he used to watch me playing in the ps1 era. I miss him so much. So many memories...Rest in peace and eternity Boss

"Ever since I killed the boss with my own hands, I was already dead" that part always got me.

Richard doyle knocked it out of the fucking park. In 2009 when I finished this game I wept. Best game ever with the best story line ever came to an amazing close.

Every words from Big Boss actually gave me a heavy heart and brought tears to my eyes. It may have been a video game but I learned a lot from this scene alone. There is alot we really don't know about this world.

It breaks my heart how he salutes her grave. The look in his face and the whole context of his life and actions scream "I did it all for you."

"Or should I call you BROTHER?" "What? LIQUIDDDDDD"

The man fought fox die's attack at the age of 79 and was able to hold out for more than 20 minutes What a baddas

“In certain conditions one can almost be made to become someone else” Ok Big Boss Venom says hello

MGS 4 was way ahead of it's time.

I took theatre in high school, and our final was to perform a monologue in front of our class. Pulling from plays dating from Shakespeare to Williams, the monologues we performed generally ranged from three minutes to eight minutes. And it’s why I so greatly appreciate monologues like this so much. That their writers can keep the audience entranced on one person talking for twenty or thirty minutes. The Snake Eater Epilogue, Briefing Tape: The Boss, Naked Son, and Free Churro are god tier monologues that display such phenomenal writing talent. It’s such a raw and in depth look at a person and philosophy to hear them talk for upwards of ten minutes. I’ll never get tired of listening to these, quoting them, and spending entire evenings listening to people talk.

"There can only be one Big Boss." This is how it all ends for the MGS. No more secrets, no more wars, and no more loops. Everything is full circled and perfectly balanced.

Growing up with MGS3 and seeing all those flashbacks in the cementery literally makes me cry

If video games had an Oscar category, this scene alone would have won.

_“Did Zero hate me? Or did he fear me?”_ Neither. He very much missed his friend, and most importantly, did everything he could to keep Big Boss safe, no matter where he was. It wasn’t until they both were in their final moments that they finally reconciled, but it was too late; Zero was a corpse at this point, and there was not enough time for Zero and *_Snake_* to speak with each other one last time. If only Zero had made the smart move not to reveal his location to Paz, he could’ve retired peacefully, and he probably would have reconnected with Big Boss in one way or another. But that’s my own personal take. You could agree or disagree.

What a brilliant ending. All sorts of details that add humanity to the entire ordeal. Big boss holding zero as he notices him suffering especially gets me.

I like how him saying that it’s the third time basically not only ties in the the MSX games we’re fully cannon, but that he truly saw Venom Snake and himself as one and the same.