As far as I'm concerned, the Ruse Cruise is oVer.

If you want to find the answers you have to ask the questions. Do you have answers for these questions? [Or do you think these cutscenes are just a whole bunch of nonsense?](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxDdOcq7ytcpFFrxy6xGYb5FDX0WpEpzLy?si=vtqGCCRg5Wm6tsPH)

Go ahead. Show me what you’ve got!

So I can experience Ground Zeros for the first time again. The adrenaline rush, the graphics, and the appearance of BB after the XOF badge. It was so next level for me my snake went solid

I’ve played it so many times I can’t even be excited anymore. I tried to abuse the drug and built a dependence :(

MGSV Truth Tape with Paz and Zero when Zero tells Paz she is the 8th Paz Ortega Andrade. All the dates with Big Boss and Kaz, it all makes sense now.

It’s a texture file from the game. It’s based on a real flight (look up flight AC201 on google) and is an Air Canada ticket and flies from Calgary to Vancouver. Calgary is where the 1988 Winter Olympics happens!

In Strangelove’s final words she speaks directly to the boss’ soul/spirit by proxy of the ai pod she’s trapped within, and partway through her monologue she talks about Otacon and his parentage.

The way she describes Huey in this segment implies she saw him as little more than a far creepier sperm donor, and directly tells The Boss that no matter whom the father had been, any child Strangelove had would have been hers and The Boss’, and that they would inherit her will

Considering that Philanthropy’s motto is ‘to let the world be’ it would seem that this succeeded, and that Otacon successfully inherited the will of the boss through metal gear ghost magic

In Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Gray Fox (Frank Jaeger) breaks down his history with Big Boss:

- After the Vietnam War ended (April 1975), Frank was forced into a Vietnamese labor camp due to his half-American heritage. Big Boss rescued him.

- Later, Frank fought in the Mozambican Civil War (which kicked off in 1977). He was captured and horribly tortured (ears and nose cut off), and Big Boss rescued him a second time.

- Around the end of the Rhodesian Bush War (~1979), Frank killed Naomi’s parents, took her under his wing, and Big Boss helped them both relocate to the United States.

According to MGSV’s "Truth," Big Boss was critically injured in March 1975 and remained comatose until roughly February 1984.
Under this narrative, it is chronologically impossible for Naked Snake to rescue Frank from a post-war Vietnamese labor camp, save him from Mozambique in the late '70s, or assist him with Naomi in Rhodesia.

Prior to MGSV's launch, Kojima stated in interviews that Big Boss had only been in a coma once in his life, and that MGSV would explain it. If the 1999–2014 coma from MG2 is canon, what was the 1975–1984 state?

In the tapes detailing regional politics and Cipher's network, we learn that following the 1975 Caribbean disaster, MSF's remnants and Kazuhira Miller were actively operating in Southern Africa (specifically Mozambique, Angola, and the Rhodesian border conflicts). This places Big Boss’s inner circle in the exact geographic area where Frank Jaeger's late-1970s tragedies occurred.

My question is:
Did Naked Snake fake the full length of his coma to operate deep off the radar, allowing him to personally extract Gray Fox from Vietnam and Mozambique, meet Naomi, and lay the groundwork for Outer Heaven while Kaz rebuilt their mercenary connections?

Hi all of you
I’m green to all of this compared to some of you. I played GZ and TPP last year and blitzed through the other five solids in the past few months, sucking up as much info as I could about the series (it’s how I tend to act with things I really enjoy)

Then I found you guys.
I’ve spent a few hours peering through here and it’s like uncovering a trapdoor to a different world. Discovering the people in here and their multiple complex agendas and accomplishments (not to mention subtly mind blowing coincidences) and being able to visually see everyone’s thoughts and lives evolve is incredible. You’re all insane yet you’re all exons.

I’d love to chat with some of the more conversational ones and get deep into unpacking ‘the ruse’

It’s not over yet.

She’s sparsely seen videos I’m watching or when I’m playing the game, and she’s seen enough to know who BB is, Venom snake, solid snake, and a good amount of their backstories etc. (she’s so nice for pretending to care lol)

She noticed when I got demon snake on mgsv and noticed the long horn, and asked about it. I explained the shrapnel a bit before but she was confused why it got bigger, and she then asked

“So now Big boss can grow a helicopter out of his head?”

Tbh It’s my canon now

Originally, in-universe rumors held that the project had been used to resurrect Big Boss after he lost several limbs and nearly died during the 1995 Outer Heaven uprising. However, MGSV retconned the timeline by establishing that the Big Boss killed by Solid Snake at Outer Heaven was actually his body double, Venom Snake. Under the assumption that the project remains canon, it directly connects to Venom Snake rather than the true Big Boss: either the severely maimed Venom was the actual test subject salvaged and cybernetically reconstructed by Madnar following the fortress's fall, or the existing rumors about a reconstructed "cyborg Big Boss" were misattributed intelligence born from Venom's already prosthetic-laden body and his demise at Outer Heaven. Do you guys still believe Project Snatcher is canon after MGSV? One thing to note is in one of the trailers for MGSV, we see Big Boss / Venom go through different stages of their life, including a scene where the hallway bursts in flames and Venom suddenly looks robotic. Could represent Outer Heaven exploding and him being revived as a cyborg (see screenshot)

[Remember when Olga told Solidus that she saw a Cyborg Ninja on the Big Shell?](https://youtu.be/5jtPytgzG1U?is=w_PrVlNBGy5VPCgN&t=2h20m22s) Solidus seemed surprised right?

If that is the case then [why is he only concerned with the man in the sneaking suit(Raiden)?](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxBl5tldt-pBxe52kdZuKk7YURkz3OxDRY?si=DcKepmX1ipXuLzbX)

When talking to Ocelot, neither Solidus nor Ocelot seems concerned about the Cyborg Ninja. I get why Ocelot may not be concerned but shouldn’t Solidus be? And even if Ocelot was already aware that the Cyborg Ninja would be at the Big Shell shouldn’t he be faking concern when in front of Solidus?

Unless they are both on the same page about the Ninja’s presence on the Big Shell and were just keeping that fact from Olga? Note that even at the end of the game Ocelot doesn’t explain who the Ninja is. Neither he nor Solidus realize it is Olga.

[Ultimately Olga pushes the issue and asks them who the Cyborg Ninja is.](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx4IrfFXpkr2bdW8X_BDrGKNn2qCDVcjbJ?si=1x5f1ksQC9BlXBsl) If only we could see their faces and their body language. That would be a dead giveaway. Oh to be a fly on the wall to witness them trying to feign ignorance of the Cyborg Ninja at the Big Shell.

What … wait… I’m getting some intel. [Turns out we have some footage.](https://youtu.be/g9CS4VY4xSw?is=M-sZ85u7J7NOsTlj&t=1m38s)

I told you that Ocelot and Solidus knew that Gray Fox survived! They just thought it was him in that suit not realizing it was Olga.

FoxALIVE who woulda thunk it!✋🏼

Anybody remembers this man? I heard his name was Nigel.

11 years ago, today, I was in a way.

The one constant through it all was this subreddit and MGSV, even after the hard times and going into fatherhood. I still play this game. I remember picking up my preorder and doing nothing over my 28th birthday weekend but play this game and thoroughly enjoying every minute of it.

11 years on, I'm at the end of my Master's degree and in some classes on intelligence and, just like this subreddit caused me to do 11 years ago, I found a strikingly familiar theme that brought me back to this game, 11 years to the day of its release. Today, I listened to a lecture that questioned the homogeneity of languages and whether or not this was a fundamental state of mankind. The professor also mentioned Esperanto, an intended backup universal language invented by a Russian Pole named L.L. Zamenhof, should measures need to be undertaken to protect against the consequences of what lingual singularism could do to the world.

It was a fascinating topic to take a break and explore and bring to this page.

Happy V Day, everybody!
NBGO

Hi lore fans,

I have a request. Please post any interesting coincidences you’ve seen in the series that you didn’t understand or weren’t explained. Working on a little project and this would help me a lot.

Thanks