Big Boss: The Tragic Anti-Hero of Metal Gear

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  • @dicembre15_mat
    @dicembre15_mat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

    So i finished the video, wonderful analysis.
    To my eyes big boss (at least until Phantom pain) was Just a broken man that Lost control over his emotions After killing the only person that he loved. Really well made vid, can't wait For more

    • @patek2385
      @patek2385 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      No! That is NOT Big Boss!

    • @noofahbarnze8738
      @noofahbarnze8738 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The boss even gives warning that allies today become enemies tomorrow. In the world's eyes big boss was just another warmonger

    • @dicembre15_mat
      @dicembre15_mat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@noofahbarnze8738 yep

    • @argent-wolfman90
      @argent-wolfman90 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He definitely was a broken man. Anyone would be after that. When learning that what he believed in and fought for was a lie his whole life was turned upside down.

    • @cristianlopez_8486
      @cristianlopez_8486 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      To quote Big Boss at the end of MGS4: "Eversince the day... that I killed The Boss... I was already dead."

  • @Demigod_3scrub
    @Demigod_3scrub 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +177

    Jack saved the World twice , killed his own mentor , and they still treated him like a criminal.

    • @NobleBoss
      @NobleBoss 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      4 times
      He saved it during MGS3, PO, PW and if you count MGSV (even if its his body double)

    • @SHKDWN79
      @SHKDWN79 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@NobleBoss3

    • @freshprinceoffrance754
      @freshprinceoffrance754 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Destroying 6 different proto metal gears on the way

    • @Neethan3247
      @Neethan3247 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes well, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Yes he saved the world but he also condemned a man to death, similarly to how the American government condemned The Boss to death.

    • @matt_sa
      @matt_sa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which one?

  • @dewforpolitics
    @dewforpolitics 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +317

    The kids that Big Boss brought to Zanzibar land were never children soldiers. Not once did they ever attack Solid Snake or was forced into conflict. They were refugees. Even the kids mentioned Big Boss “hated adults” for their ugliness. Outside of that, Big Boss went off the deep end to build his “perfect world” of soldiers fighting in endless conflict to feel needed. Misinterpreting the Boss’s will and becoming bitter. But he’s still a hero to me lol 🫡 Best MGS character.

    • @ChameleoSalamander1
      @ChameleoSalamander1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      You should read his monologue in the second metag gear game with Solid Snake. He wanted to perpetuate a world of conflict to create child soldiers and feed them back into the war machine.
      "You saw those children, didn't you? Every one is a victim of a war somewhere of the world. And they'll make fine soldiers in the next war. Start a war, for its flames, create victims... Then save them, train them... And feed them back onto the battlefield. It's a perfectly logical system. In this world of ours, conflict never ends. And neither does our purpose... our raison d'etre."
      Makes Solidus look like a hero.

    • @dewforpolitics
      @dewforpolitics 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      @@ChameleoSalamander1Solidus trained children soldiers. He was no hero compared to Big Boss. Big Boss may have wanted to wait until they were of adulthood to train them, but the facts show the refugees children were not children soldiers.

    • @ChameleoSalamander1
      @ChameleoSalamander1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@dewforpolitics he was a hero by comparison to BB in his later years. Not condoning what Solidus did but his end game was to free the people from the patriot's grasp and give opportunity and liberty back to the people as the constitution intended. A far cry from perpetual warfare that BB and Liquid wanted for the world. Phantom Pain was supposed to explain BB's descent into villainy but they never really delve into it at all. It wasn't the "missing gear" they planned to link it into the later series.
      Solidus' version of Outer Heaven was a nuke over New York that would act like an EMP blast to knock it offline and out of the Patriot's control of censorship, A.I. and digital I.D.'s.

    • @artcrime2999
      @artcrime2999 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@ChameleoSalamander1 some other youtuber arugued big boss didnt use child soldiers with me in his comments smh

    • @FawstAdventures
      @FawstAdventures 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Without Naked Snake saving the world, and Big Boss saving Venom Snake, by all rights we wouldn’t even be here like 2-3 times.

  • @argent-wolfman90
    @argent-wolfman90 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    Venom Snake deserves his own video

  • @rasplez9889
    @rasplez9889 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +138

    A lot of MGS is all about perspective. To solid snake, big boss is a villain. To big boss and everyond who truly knows him, hes a man betrayed by his mentor, who's mentor was betrayed by their country, and has known nothing but death and loss from a young age. His passion to build a nation of soldiers not once but twice and failing both times would turn a man insane. To solid snake, big boss with a nuke is a man who needs to be stopped. But really when you play as him, big boss has no intention of ever launching it. Its just to keep his private army and heaven safe. Even venom, who adopts the persona of big boss, still inherits the same losses and his biggest one not only being the loss of his left forearm, but the whole parasite infestation. He literally had to shoot his own people in the quarantine platform.

    • @KamenSentaiMetalHero
      @KamenSentaiMetalHero 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      There's also Venom's loss of his own identity due to becoming Big Boss' shadow.

    • @kikrinman1450
      @kikrinman1450 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@KamenSentaiMetalHerokinda sad when you realize its very comparable to Ocelot by the end of his life.

    • @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775
      @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@kikrinman1450 why? Because of Liquid? Ocelot himself said he was impersonating Liquid on purpose to fool the Patriots AI, and Ocelot would occasionally go back to his own self

    • @kikrinman1450
      @kikrinman1450 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rns_nickitoloko_psn5775 morseo after all of the years of deception and manipulation. It's the big joke about Ocelot that no one knows who he's working for, including himself. So it's less "who am I, where am I" and more "what have I been doing with myself this entire time"
      He dedicated his entire life to Big Boss, fulfilled his "purpose"

  • @Neethan3247
    @Neethan3247 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    Venom Snake became the leader. Jack, succumbing to hate and vengeance, vound up being not much different from Skullface. V may have had Big Boss' whole persona planted into his mind, but underneath all that, he was a medic who wanted to save as many lives as possible.

    • @liquidtruth7954
      @liquidtruth7954 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This is cipher propaganda

    • @cwill14
      @cwill14 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@liquidtruth7954Facts. We ride or die for Big Boss.

  • @anxhelovucinaj1576
    @anxhelovucinaj1576 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    8 years ago I got introduced to this franchise and loved it.
    8 years later and my love for it has grown to where I can confidently say that this series is my favorite piece of fiction ever.
    Solid snake may be my favorite character,but big boss's story is the thing that makes this story my favorite to begin with.

  • @TheVagabondGadite
    @TheVagabondGadite 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    1:04:06
    "She betrayed me, Kaz."
    You betrayed them, Boss.
    1:10:20
    I can't believe I or we didn't see it up until now. This was THE BIGGEST character difference between Big Boss and Venom Snake, staring us right in the face before it was made obvious he was a Doppelganger.

  • @jjlj2289
    @jjlj2289 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    If nothing else, he was a dictator back in Zanzibar, where he was the head of a nuclear equipped militarized state that invaded other countries at will and seeked to monopolize both the world's nuclear arsenal and the newly found energetic resources. He didn't deny any of this when speaking to Solid Snake and even boasted about finding the perfect balance of war by creating or taking advantage of war orphans for future battlefields.

    • @عليثامر-ر2ذ
      @عليثامر-ر2ذ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the purpose of him having nuclear weapons was to unite the world under one banner against him, it was a way for less fighting among the world where only 40 thousand soldiers would be at war against the entire world, he did hold the world hostage by think of it this way, solid has already gotten deep into zanzibar and proved a very worthy threat, why didnt he kill the hostages? why didnt he launch any nuclear weapons? he kidnapped the professer to simply divert the world's attention to zanzibar land so that everyone wouldnt fight but rather stand against him and his army alone, thats his point

  • @Jalezen
    @Jalezen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    kaz im sopping wet we need dryers outside of the shower units

    • @joeburch6754
      @joeburch6754 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Sorry, Boss. We're airdropping one in now

    • @CarlTheSpud
      @CarlTheSpud 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      War... war never changes.

  • @Jerrycourtney
    @Jerrycourtney 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    *_Maybe the real anti-heroes are all the friends we made along the way._*

  • @shadowsnake3867
    @shadowsnake3867 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    Big Boss went through a lot. He was molded as doing the right thing and yet he saw the corruption of his leaders. With his feelings vs his beliefs drove him nuts to the point he wanted his army influenced by Kaz. Betrayals happened that he could no longer trust anyone except for Frank and Ocelot. Then he realized towards the end he can't control everything. He was a fool. Just let the world be. He is like any influencial person they get tricked by the idea of fame and followers. They tend to get lost and hope to change the other people's perspective to aligned with their beliefs thus creating factions, group, army or cult.

    • @CarlTheSpud
      @CarlTheSpud 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@Garland846just like real life.... woah
      No sarcasm. That's a Bill and Ted woah.

    • @otacon8790
      @otacon8790 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And the most messed up thing about it? Zero did all of this just because he wanted to hang out with his old war buddy.

    • @shadowsnake3867
      @shadowsnake3867 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@otacon8790 it's because he believed on the boss so much and worshiped her. He couldn't let her go and tried to keep naked snake forever too to create all super soldiers.

  • @tbc1880
    @tbc1880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    40:00 the irony of this is in our world a flaw in a machine falsely detected a nuclear missle and it was the gut instinct of the humans there who decided to not listen and cause the destruction of the world.

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      especially of we let the wrong hand's get in control

    • @typeoddnamehere2362
      @typeoddnamehere2362 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If this is the story I'm thinking of, this was because the person chose to ignore it thinking (understandably) that there would be a lot more than just 1 reading if it was a legitimate nuclear attack.

  • @raymoondoetelemoondoe
    @raymoondoetelemoondoe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I just finished the video. Thank you for all the work you put into this. It is an amazing character analysis. I can't wait for more videos to come!

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      much appreciated comments like yours keep me motivated!

  • @beckeras8848
    @beckeras8848 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think he destroyed the military-industrial complex and took it down with him as a soldier and a mastermind. He is a hero for sure.

  • @lopesmorrenofim
    @lopesmorrenofim 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I’m slowly going into my anual Metal Gear phase, and I’m so glad so many good videos have been dropping the last few weeks lol
    Here’s to you ❤

    • @DackJaniels51111
      @DackJaniels51111 หลายเดือนก่อน

      9 months ago, there's another around the corner!

  • @bigboss1fan
    @bigboss1fan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    3 is just a tipping point Big Boss has always questioned forms of government even as a child and as for Chico well it makes you question The Boss’s motives even taking a 14 year old orphan who has already been traumatized and teaching him to fight rather than teach him the values of peace or even how to live off the battlefield in way Big Boss is doing what he witnesses and in PO doesn’t he take Fox to a rehab facility when they first meet don’t take it the wrong way I think The Boss is a wonderful character on her own but it doesn’t mean I don’t question her at times. I love Big Boss for his complexity, how his mind works and how he comes to the conclusions he does. Or the fact he does lies to himself at times and by extension the player either by his senses, The Boss’s passing the flowers turning red or phantom butterflies and flowers petals or repeating the cover story in 3 because the past is too painful to recall and some players believe that he doesn’t have the truth. He truly is one of the greatest characters ever written at least in my opinion

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      great take 👍

    • @agentstone4249
      @agentstone4249 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@mycardboardboxI'm thinking of joining the military but I'm afraid will I do terrible things like covering up incidents or doing something immoral

    • @anthonyf616
      @anthonyf616 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's really funny how Kojima could give so much depth to an 80s villain that started out as nothing but pure evil and bland in Metal Gear 1

    • @bigboss1fan
      @bigboss1fan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anthonyf616 that’s the fun part about his characters 😊

  • @simonblock4773
    @simonblock4773 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great work, opinion, and insight once again. You're very consistent with your channel and content, especially regarding MGS. Love it.

  • @burch10101
    @burch10101 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Love this! Feels like we are about to possibly enter into a new Golden age of metal gear! Can't wait for Delta(3) to come out and I have my hopes up 4 will get a rerelease at some point

  • @alizaidi2893
    @alizaidi2893 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    It isn't that black and white. But Big Boss essentially became the thing he hated in this game. He got angry with the world's governments for using soldiers like him and The Boss...and that is what led to MSF, Mother Base and Outer Heaven. Thing is...he used Venom as a body double, changing his face and lying to him about it. It is more than a little hypocritical. Not to mention Big Boss goes on to stockpile nukes and eventually threaten to launch them. So yea, he is a villain.

    • @Daud-ix4tm
      @Daud-ix4tm 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I agree but I doubt BB was really gonna use the nukes but just as deterrent and help unification of other nations but as you know that never happened.

    • @atharva7462
      @atharva7462 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Actually that did happen....... against him

    • @atharva7462
      @atharva7462 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He didn't lied to Venom....More like Venom knew the most about Big Boss. Venom actually felt proud becoming his ideal as seen in Truth mission

  • @NobleBoss
    @NobleBoss 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    By Big Boss's own definition of a dictator he used to describe Gene, his younger self might see his older self as a dictator.
    Granted a dictator doesnt inherently have to be bad, hell most monarchs back in the day were pretty much dicators with a permanent position of power.

  • @pappymagee6556
    @pappymagee6556 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think Big Boss never fully trusted Kaz and kept Gene’s funds to himself and used them to fund his founding of Zanzibar Land. I think it was like his ace in the hole when Venom was taken down.

  • @chasegrimmstone8647
    @chasegrimmstone8647 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Venom is as close as a hero as one can get in the MGS universe.

    • @kiwamicorps
      @kiwamicorps หลายเดือนก่อน

      And in the end BB used him as a decoy in MG. He took everything from him. He's definitely biggest dick in the series

  • @Konrad-zc1ve
    @Konrad-zc1ve 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    its the fifth time this month i watched this great video i love it way too much, i'm happy to have found this gem of a channel of you'rs

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thanks your appreciated

  • @enchantedboss1468
    @enchantedboss1468 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This guy doesn’t miss!, keep up the great work.

  • @ayeyoitzdexdood9292
    @ayeyoitzdexdood9292 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can anyone tell me what the little beep jingle is that plays on the intro for the video? It plays at 2:56 to 2:58

  • @SerpentineDeity
    @SerpentineDeity 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love how you are one of the few that actually understands that at least for a while Venom Snake was a better Big Boss than Big Boss. He was like a loyal dog who lost itself in the message. Probably most of the later legends of Big Boss or Saladin were actually Venom all along. The mirror shattering to me was Venom finally realizing he was used by the villain Big Boss right before Solid comes to face him. Big Boss became the spitting image of Zero by using and discarding soldiers with misinformation and in the end ensured Venom was lost to history just like The Boss.

  • @el9634
    @el9634 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This deserves way more views

  • @TH3SLEEPING
    @TH3SLEEPING 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I enjoyed the video very much! I can't wait for MGS Delta

  • @sekkuar
    @sekkuar 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Probably someone already pointed that out, but, Venom Snake wasn't really above using child soldiers.
    When we "rescue" the child soldiers from the mines, Venom remarks that one of the child "Is a natural (soldier)", stating he would train them into soldiers. It is Kaz that literally and metaphorically disarms the child, and says he'll put them into rehabilitation instead.
    Without Kaz intervention, it is likely Venom would made use of child soldiers, same as Big Boss allegedly did without Kaz by his side.

  • @BankkeyAoshi
    @BankkeyAoshi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Leader.😤💪🏾💙

  • @tigolbitties2803
    @tigolbitties2803 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    10:57 lee arvey hoswald

  • @brandonperkins176
    @brandonperkins176 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Big Boss, much like The Boss, gave his life to the world to ensure peace and balance. After fighting Solid Snake in Zanzibarland, he wanted to die alongside his mentor and being resurrected at the end of MGS4, he found redemption through his son Solid Snake/David.

  • @Glassandcandy
    @Glassandcandy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “Leader or dictator”
    Why is it implied those two things are mutually exclusive in the thumbnail? By virtue of definition all dictators are leaders, even if not all leaders are dictators.

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      In summary, while both leaders and dictators may hold positions of authority, their approaches, sources of authority, treatment of followers, goals, and levels of accountability differ significantly. Leaders typically aim to inspire and empower, while dictators seek to control and dominate. does that clear things up for you mr salty?

    • @Glassandcandy
      @Glassandcandy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mycardboardbox
      Mr.salty”
      Wow, dude, I literally just asked you an earnest question and gave a brief qualifier to describe why I asked it at all.
      But if we’re being snide and condescending- that definition you just gave for leader is completely made up and arbitrary. No established, colloquial definition of the word “leader” has ever framed it exclusively in positive qualities in a way similar to yours here. You’re essentially being smarmy over someone not understanding the parameters of a set of subjective qualifications that you made up entirely. It’s not rooted in any previously established and commonly known usage of the original word.
      It’s like if I said “the difference between a comment and a post is that, while both are sentiments shared on the internet on a topic, comments generally are well reasoned, genuine and foster honest discourse on the topic, while posts do not”
      While I could argue that that’s my own personal concept of what the term “comment” conveys, I can’t pretend like it’s not a conceptualization that is personal to myself or that it’s an interpretation of the word in common colloquial usage that is immediately recognizable even outside of any established context. I would therefor have to preface my statement to recognize this fact, not doing this would make me look pretentious and intellectually dishonest as well as a tad presumptuous. That’s basically what you just did here lmao

    • @Buglin_Burger7878
      @Buglin_Burger7878 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mycardboardbox Dictators need to inspire and empower to a degree or those under them would take them out. The more people you kick the more likely someone kicks back.
      Typically you want to empower people through something causing blind loyalty or servitude.

  • @chuckiegarcia5095
    @chuckiegarcia5095 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    love your work! can't wait for more!

  • @Sonrhing
    @Sonrhing 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dude how long big boss been in a coma in total ? 9 years after ground zero and how long after Zanzibar land ? That's devastating .

  • @WarrenMclay-nq9fx
    @WarrenMclay-nq9fx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Bravo bravo grate job again brother

  • @Demigod_3scrub
    @Demigod_3scrub 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    49:58 What a shot 📸..
    #kojimaisgod

  • @KBXband
    @KBXband 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wholeheartedly believe Portable Ops is canon because how else would he be able to feed a small army or even provide basic amenities like medical care or even the transportation to stay on the move or to get to a warzone? Exactly

  • @Gaz66d
    @Gaz66d 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have a really big theory about this and who the real bad guy of MGSV is, how once set into motion Big Boss has no choice but to become the evil big bad that the world wants him to be so that he can die and set the world free from borders.
    But in order to do that I’d have to reference a lot of material and it would take a lot to unpack it in a comment.
    I wish o could make a theory video like this… because it would definitely be a more interesting spin. Or plot twist-
    That Kaz is actually the orchestrator of everything and his “passion” for chasing down revenge is what perverts the goal that his best friend Naked Snake would have been going for and thats why he faked his own doppelgänger and had to go it alone without Kaz, and using the help of Occelot, who is for all intents and purposes an avid supporter of the real Big Boss and diametrically opposed to what Kaz ends up becoming because he’s blinded by revenge and his passionate self serving ambition to Make Motherbase Great Again! was not Big Bosses dream.
    And why Occelot continues being a triple agent doing everything he can despite interference to become the Big Bad and unite the world under tyranny of information technology and gun control and free the world with his final sacrifice at the hands of snake, big boss’ ultimate protege.
    Basically a much grander stage performance than the ruse performed by the Joy and Jack in Groznyjgrad…
    Boss had to train up her own sword to fall on it, and so too did Big Boss, but the patriots kept going, so Occelot had to take on Liquids brains and emulate his Boss by being the same pariah until the end in order to ensure GW is destroyed and the entire system is reset… or they’d just keep coming back.
    Kaz is the misguided disciple of his Boss, like how Zero and Big Boss were two disciples with misguided ideals, but the only way Big Boss could see liberation from the system was to become the military state the world would focus its nukes on, and then free them all when he’s taken down.
    Kaz wanted greatness, Boss wanted to fall from grace so the world could know peace.
    Kaz came back and dragged Boss back from the brink of death to continue living out his dream- and boss got a patsy, a stand in to fill his shoes.
    Then he found out Zero had him cloned and he had to change the plan again and make sure Snake did his job and take down both himself and the body double to finish the job.
    But then the patriots made an AI and only Occelot could carry that torch.
    See how they’re all kinda playing this long con, or leading the world to hate them just to die at the hands of their own trainee?
    I think it’s a recurrent theme

  • @Nygfan1996
    @Nygfan1996 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      you're quoting 2 face from batman lol?

  • @dicembre15_mat
    @dicembre15_mat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hey mate how are doing? Im going to Watch the video later in the day because i got some work to do now (so ill make another ci about your video as soon as i finish It) but i wanted to ask you a question:
    Im on a mgs4 foxhound rank, i maneged to do 0 alert, kills and recovery items till the frog fight before screaming mantis but i did all of that in 3 hours. In your opinion do you think Is possible to achieve the rank with This Little time remaining?

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      not so bad bud yourself, yeah most definitely you should have of plenty of time as long as you skip the cutscenes the window for the foxhound rank is like 5hr 30m so you should be good

    • @dicembre15_mat
      @dicembre15_mat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@mycardboardbox oh thank you so Much mate, i was so confused because when i searched online One guy was saying 4 hours, another One 4.30, another One 5 and so on so i decided to ask you since i trust ya :).
      Thank you again mate, Imma finish the video later in the evening, cya

  • @DanSmeed
    @DanSmeed 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My take is that you can see where Big Boss was coming from based on Operation Snake Eater. But at the end of the day, his bitterness took over. Pushing him over to the next level. Becoming a villain because he became cold and manipulative. That's why MGSV is largely misunderstood, because it Does show BB becoming a villain. By creating a decoy (who wasn't in on that) of himself, betraying Kaz and others in his unit and sacrificing civilians at the hospital - he essentially acted just as cold and manipulative as the government did in relation to Operation Snake Eater. Using and sacrificing others so that he could go off and create "The Real Outer Heaven."
    If you compare BB to Solid. I think it's safe to say that Solid is the good guy of the franchise. He had an extreme level of struggles. Was used and abused by the government and went through a lot as a soldier. Was at one point a bitter loner, but rose from that after meeting Otacon and started Philanthropy. Putting himself out there to stop the proliferation of Metal Gear technology.
    Perhaps the major difference between BB and Solid is that Solid could have been another BB. He had the legend status to build something like BB built. And he had the tech genius Otacon to make it happen through the internet and keeping them safe through his extreme level of technical know-how. In a way they did build something through Philanthropy. But that wasn't remotely close to what BB built. Instead, Solid never lost his good heart and sense of morality. He wasn't seduced by fame and power. Can't say the same about Big Boss.

  • @DHell-n8i
    @DHell-n8i 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Big boss isn't necessarily a dictator nor a war criminal, he's just happen to be the victim of betrayal and dishonesty.
    Everything big boss did was to serve and do the right thing not help out megalomaniacs who used Pentagons black budget to create weapons of mass destruction of which they lost to the soviet union, Big Boss was lied to and he wanted to escape Foxhound after they worshipped big boss as the greatest soldier to ever live even wanting to clone him.. that's when big boss supposedly dived into villainy, but we really don't know how big boss was during his time in outerheaven, we just know he created a phantom in order to escape Zero, the sad part there was never a war in phantom pain, the real war was always in the background, Big boss versus Zero.
    Yet in the eyes of his soldiers and comrades John is a hero to them, no matter what he did, he gave them a home and a purpose such thing is a gift which is zanzibar and yes those may be child soldiers and John might be boasting about but if you think about it sounds a lot like old Snake who likes to boast about things and impress others.. secretly he's a goofball with no intent of harming others. he thought his idea was genius and really it turned out to be the smartest on but despite that he gave the lost children a home and purpose evil would do the absolute opposite.

  • @FirithPanda
    @FirithPanda 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Remember: Outer Heaven was ran by Venom, those kid soldiers were HIS refugees. Big Boss used child soldiers.

  • @itsmejinxfromleagueolegendsrea
    @itsmejinxfromleagueolegendsrea 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish I got into the series way earlier. I'm still catching up with all the lore, I gotta find a way to play po and PW. I've only been able to play mgs1 and V

  • @TouchdownTamagotchi
    @TouchdownTamagotchi 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Big Boss was betrayed by pretty much everyone around him essentially so he acted and made adjustments accordingly.

  • @Hell_O7
    @Hell_O7 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Congrats on 1k likes

  • @Imperial.Soldier
    @Imperial.Soldier 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love this Channel reminds me of Python selkan

  • @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775
    @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Second time watching a video of this channel and twice he says the boss is the apprentice. SHE'S NOT THE APPRENTICE, SHE'S THE MASTER

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      timestamp it? just to let you know when i say "the boss" i could also be referring to big boss, jack, john, naked, snake because some people simply just refer to him as just "boss", so if you cant read between the lines that that's your problem not mine doesn't take a genius to work out does it , just really a sad bit of criticism on your end

    • @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775
      @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​​​@@mycardboardbox between 4:38 and 4:49. You said that "big boss would question.....something that his disciple, "The Boss" would understand" but The Boss ain't the disciple, she's the Master. There's absolutely no need to read between the lines because you're not using secondary codenames or nicknames, you're using the primary ones.

    • @MacInTheBox
      @MacInTheBox 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Calm down Skippy. You go make a 90 minute video and get it all right.
      He also mispronounces a ton of words but I'm sure he'll get better over time.

    • @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775
      @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MacInTheBox sure, it's something to consider...i agree but you don't reply to a comment saying the person who comments failed to "read between the lines" when there wasn't anything to read and that is their problem

  • @Blizzard91
    @Blizzard91 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video.

  • @Wigger248
    @Wigger248 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

  • @ayeyoitzdexdood9292
    @ayeyoitzdexdood9292 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Also love this video subbing

  • @nashtheneet
    @nashtheneet 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The only true evil forces in the series are Volgin and the Patroit AI's, everyone else had a good reason to do what they were doing and/or were misguided.

  • @OldBaldWookiee
    @OldBaldWookiee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ive been a metal gear fan since i was a child and the story of the entire franchise is still so confusing to me .

  • @xXstevieOo
    @xXstevieOo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    this hits differently after watching the tucker X Putin interview

    • @AKK5I
      @AKK5I 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait why

  • @Forget1987
    @Forget1987 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just enough funds that's all we need to make peace

  • @rohanpinnock-tl4sy
    @rohanpinnock-tl4sy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Big boss is the goat

  • @SavedSnake
    @SavedSnake 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THANK YOU.

  • @Konrad-zc1ve
    @Konrad-zc1ve 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    big boss will always be a hero despite what he may have done in the past
    and for those who says "not my boss, venom is the true boss", i want to tell to them that he is their boss by proxy since venom was loyal to big boss until the end

  • @kazookid6504
    @kazookid6504 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe the REAL Big Boss was the friends we made along the way

  • @scottjones845
    @scottjones845 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn....great video!
    I wanna play Peacewalker again.
    And Phantom Pain again...
    I can't do this I've got Final Fantasy's to play this was not okay. Halp!

  • @tylerchambers8436
    @tylerchambers8436 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cool!

  • @nathanstruble2177
    @nathanstruble2177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bro how you called TheVoiceBox when you pronounce words like that??

  • @danielcharnock8975
    @danielcharnock8975 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    David hayter should have voiced this game

  • @Ripper65189
    @Ripper65189 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Depends on what “big boss” we are talking about because venom was the hero or at least anti hero while naked snake was the villain. But that’s what I think idk

    • @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775
      @rns_nickitoloko_psn5775 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      there's no villains in Metal Gear, just different worldviews, except maybe for Coldman and Skull Face

  • @StressW
    @StressW 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great analysis video but i disagree with the part about Venom being fundamentally different than BB.
    Venom was all for allowing the child soldiers to continue being soldiers since they already knew how to use guns and whatnot, Kaz was the one who was adamantly opposed and wanted them to have a chance at a normal life. Venom isn't canonically choosing to disarm the nukes. It's player dependent, and he can easily choose to add and develop more nukes on Mother base instead.
    Venom was created to be an exact mental copy of BB and with surgury his physical copy as well. The only part of him that was not BB was his DNA. So, it stands to believe that all of the decisions Venom makes during this time are similar to what BB's choices would have been. Only when the hypnotherapy started to wear off and the Medic's memories and personality started resurfacing did anything start to differ.
    The final "Truth" cutscene at the end of the game is highly suggestive and can be interpreted in many ways. I, however, subscribe to the idea that when Medic first learns the truth, he is happy that BB would trust him enough to carry his legacy, hence the smile. However then it follows a timeskip and is during Solid Snake's infiltration of Outer Heaven, and Venom learns the mission parameters of Operation Intrude N313 that he finally comes to understand that he is being used as an expendable pawn and accepts his fate begrudgingly, i.e. punching the mirror. But he was still choosing to die for BB even if he was used.
    The main difference between their personalities is Big Boss learned the truth immediately after waking from his coma and Venom was fed a lie for presumably years.
    I do however like the theory that some of Venom's memories were altered so that he would trust Kaz again unlike BB after the Peace Walker reveal. Because learning about Kaz was a main reason of BB's disillusionment with his original ideal.

  • @Flemdragon
    @Flemdragon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank god I just got mgs3 again and all that I want 4 but ima play 5 again too lol.

  • @selfRule_channel
    @selfRule_channel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My opinion: LEADER.

  • @Bootleg.Banana
    @Bootleg.Banana 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hey! No disrespect but I think you need a less muffled mic

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      well if thats the case buy me one then lol

  • @r3gret2079
    @r3gret2079 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hate to be that guy 🤓"but akchully" he got his start in the Virtuous Mission, after which came Operation Snake Eater. Lol I'm sorry...
    Edit: Portable Ops will always be canon imo.

  • @shin-oni4223
    @shin-oni4223 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was he really the villain like they say

  • @drkinferno72
    @drkinferno72 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Big boss did nothing wrong

    • @cwill14
      @cwill14 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We stand and salute for Big Boss in this household.

  • @isolirionband7300
    @isolirionband7300 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Big Boss forever a leader. i wrote a song and an album called Outer Heaven in his Honour.

  • @juniorBigBoss745
    @juniorBigBoss745 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Não existe vácuo de poder ele fez o que precisava pra mudar a realidade dele e de outros soldados
    Não foi perfeito, não foi " heroico " não foi um arquétipo de Jesus
    Ele foi o que o universo de metal gear exigia e lutou como podia .
    Bons e maus ???
    Isso é muito marvel
    Se ele agisse diferente teria sido igual a Boss usada e abusada
    Como no final do filme
    Cavaleiro das trevas o Gordon fala
    Ele é o que Gothan precisa mas não do jeito que ela quer
    Não, ele é além disso
    Por que ele aguenta.

  • @kamerondonaldson5976
    @kamerondonaldson5976 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    why not both leader and dictator? the truth is that people get old and stop being practical in the field. and it's not as though any other politician gives a shit about job security for the armed forces. that people remain puppets of a state in the war economy is beside the point.

  • @HPLovecats
    @HPLovecats 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    big boss was no hero. he was a monster who was just like the other patriots

    • @Mr.Kingen
      @Mr.Kingen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Big Boss could not see beyond the life of a soldier, he had nothing else. That is why he is so cold hearted, he knows nothing but authority, fighting and death.

  • @blackvolume3500
    @blackvolume3500 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Kiefer Sutherland = Big Boss
    David Hayter = Solid Snake

    • @elliottpereda5724
      @elliottpereda5724 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      BOOM! 😎👊🏻

    • @KaitouKaiju
      @KaitouKaiju 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hayter is boss Kiefer is medic

  • @kasubarukun22
    @kasubarukun22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just remember, everything is surreal when you, as an an individual, arent involved.
    I get it, you dont want to get involved with Russia, neither did my grandfather. But he had to.
    Glory to those who died defending freedom in the Balkans.

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      and your point is ? so what about your grandfather but mine to had to fight the world war and died of mustard gas after retuning home defending his country' from a piece of crap called hitler , some wars are fought for good reason to fight for liberty's and freedoms, just like ww1 and ww2, i have nothing but respect for those fallen men who fought for are freedom back in a time where war was a means to an end and for a good cause, but you would be a mindless fool to believe corruption in politics dont determine a false war behind greed and false agendas for those in power to gain wealth, and time has proven that including Vietnam, enemies are created for us, we dont get to choose, the young fight the wars and the old and foolish squabble put the world at risk, ( potential nuclear destruction ) and by todays standards people have become more peaceful and wish to live amongst each other, facts are anybody decant doesn't want a war but has to except its part of the human condition, my loyalties and my beliefs are my own just as yours one i dont care to express, sadly to many people are easily manipulated into been pawns, by a government that starts wars and never fights them treats its population like trash , i dont take sides with anyone i defend my own, facts are just like the boss mentions politics change with the times its fickle, Russia and usa used to be on good terms and now there not

    • @kasubarukun22
      @kasubarukun22 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@mycardboardbox the point being, we are all victims to history, i hope everything goes well in this world so we can dwell into mgs world again.
      Ps. Thank you for the story, i appreciate it.

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@kasubarukun22 as do i, one can only hope

  • @bryanporras7028
    @bryanporras7028 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im 995 Like guys we can break 1K!!

  • @SanyaBane
    @SanyaBane 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:20 you film this in 2024 and yet you do not mention Ukraine, cities of which is bombed by rusia on daily basis. Shame.

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      coming from a perfectley programmed dork with a anime pfp why am i not surprised, 😂 😂

    • @SanyaBane
      @SanyaBane 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mycardboardbox thanks for proofing you are not a human

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@SanyaBane dude, go cry somewhere else and stop moaning about Ukraine, your a perfect example of a pathetically easily influenced person, you buy into everything the media tells you because your easily minapulated, you should be kissing my toes, our pathetic country the "uk" had funded your land massively to fight and go to war, and yet losers like yourself aren't on the frontline fighting it 😂 😂 you are a definition of a joke, a virtue signaling lgbt follower need i say anymore?, you blindly follow your goverment and media properganda without questioning the corruptions' of nations because you are fast asleep in your arragonce, enjoy your proxy war funded by the west, you country was once weapon free, tbh i dont care about what goes ON in politics and other counties ive got my own to worry about, i couldn't care less what you do, in fact i PITY you, because your a typical cliché of todays satanic evil society, so begone you demon, there is no right and wrong in war and no side is in the right, its called propaganda, govementsm elites, dont care about peasants like you OR me, FACT, instead of posting soldier's heads decapitated beeen eating by cats do somthing positive for the world, you freak

    • @SanyaBane
      @SanyaBane 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@mycardboardbox amount of cope in this single comment is remarkable.
      Quite fun how brainless people which eats shit called "rusian propaganda" about "proxy war" and nonsene like that, consider themselves as smart people.
      Well, "useful idiot" term was not made from nothing.

    • @aliceDarts
      @aliceDarts 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Your comment makes no sense... why should he mention real life situations when he makes an essay of a fictional video game character? Did you know that there are other wars to stand with than the Ukraine vs Russia (which has been bolstered with propaganda from the politicians and social media). You are obviously young... try to do a little more research in the grand picture than doing research on the single thing. And try to stay away from social media when you do your research... that will definitely muddle your opinion further.

  • @cosmicsage911
    @cosmicsage911 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Venom snake is not big boss

  • @wigymbertdieujuste4769
    @wigymbertdieujuste4769 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    lol! “The enemy of your enemy can be…come a valuable Ally” 😂😂 you said it wrong.

    • @mycardboardbox
      @mycardboardbox  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      na there is no way of saying it wrong bruh

  • @kamikaseiken5774
    @kamikaseiken5774 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ah the CIA u mean

  • @lucasgaudio3720
    @lucasgaudio3720 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro, he has done things that would make Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner blush. He is such an asshole, no matter how many of his sins have been transferred to Venom, he is still the worst. He did not desserve a nice sendoff in mgs 4. And this is all GOOOD for the games, he was good and then turned evil, adding a redemption he did not deserve was terrible.