31-08-2025, 04:48 AM
Just an FYI, this is the actual Weedle_McHairybug returning, since someone else was mistaken for me due to similar commenting structures.
As far as The Boss is concerned, while I really didn't get into the series until around the time of Brawl, I did at least feel some bit of pity for her being sold out. That said, however, after reading some comments about what her philosophy was like regarding her will, specifically what she explicitly told Snake, I felt she was NOT well-done at all (let's just say the way she was talking, she'd eagerly follow Kefka's command to poison Doma just because he ordered her to do so). And it also didn't help that she essentially helped make the Complete Monster trope on TVTropes look like a joke with her usage of the Davy Crockett late into Snake Eater under similar rationales to Volgin yet didn't qualify unlike him.
I do still respect her for at least BEING painted in a positive light regarding her patriotism in MGS3 (something that isn't exactly common with Metal Gear), even if I vastly preferred an actual showing of American patriotism rather than the kind that came across as being more Nazi or Soviet in outlook, and I did genuinely hate how Kojima disrespected The Boss in Peace Walker by not only essentially turning her into a battered wife for America, but even crudely implying her famous patriotic outlook was due to brain damage. I also didn't like how Kojima basically retconned it to her being in a coma during the Bay of Pigs invasion since it really cheapened her interaction with Snake that time (especially when it was probably one of the few instances we actually GET to see her be honest with her disciple and son figure, which is even implied by her saying "this is the first time I talked this much about myself" with a slightly relieved cry).
I personally felt MGS3 springboarding into MGS4 was preferable to MGS2, to be honest (I actually hated some of the stuff in MGS2 and preferred we didn't get much of that).
As far as The Boss is concerned, while I really didn't get into the series until around the time of Brawl, I did at least feel some bit of pity for her being sold out. That said, however, after reading some comments about what her philosophy was like regarding her will, specifically what she explicitly told Snake, I felt she was NOT well-done at all (let's just say the way she was talking, she'd eagerly follow Kefka's command to poison Doma just because he ordered her to do so). And it also didn't help that she essentially helped make the Complete Monster trope on TVTropes look like a joke with her usage of the Davy Crockett late into Snake Eater under similar rationales to Volgin yet didn't qualify unlike him.
I do still respect her for at least BEING painted in a positive light regarding her patriotism in MGS3 (something that isn't exactly common with Metal Gear), even if I vastly preferred an actual showing of American patriotism rather than the kind that came across as being more Nazi or Soviet in outlook, and I did genuinely hate how Kojima disrespected The Boss in Peace Walker by not only essentially turning her into a battered wife for America, but even crudely implying her famous patriotic outlook was due to brain damage. I also didn't like how Kojima basically retconned it to her being in a coma during the Bay of Pigs invasion since it really cheapened her interaction with Snake that time (especially when it was probably one of the few instances we actually GET to see her be honest with her disciple and son figure, which is even implied by her saying "this is the first time I talked this much about myself" with a slightly relieved cry).
I personally felt MGS3 springboarding into MGS4 was preferable to MGS2, to be honest (I actually hated some of the stuff in MGS2 and preferred we didn't get much of that).
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