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The Stupidity of Big Boss | Semi-Ramblomatic (Patreon)

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2025-09-18 15:02:32
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2026-06

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The Stupidity of Big Boss | Semi-Ramblomatic

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David Pogin

I've watched someone try to beat the metal gear saga before the end dies of old age. It was a four hour video, and I literally sat and watched the whole thing. So please understand how serious I am when I say I'd LOVE to see Yahtzee go over the entirety of MG. I love the games, they're some of my fondest memories. But I love them enough to know that they're so ridiculous and easy to make fun of. I'd love to see Yahtzee do that.

dirtside

Where's the ad-free version of this video? It's not in the sponsor-free YouTube playlist.

Swift Justice

The Boss is basically a gender flip of Captain America who didn't get frozen. Though mind you, the Cobra Unit of MGS3 being mysterious and vague is actually a bit of a deliberate contrast to the rest of the franchise where the bosses have their backstories and inciting tragic incidents monologued about at length. That they only have vague contextual hints as to what their background and experiences might be, and only a few have anything about them elaborated on (like The End being a hundred years old and probably actually having a plausible claim to having invented modern sniping) is probably a for once smart case of keeping characters mysterious making them much more interesting than trying to explain everything away, as the franchise overdoes in other games. Also, oddly enough, The Boss's actual ideals, goals and desires being poorly understood and misinterpreted in-story is actually kind of totally on theme, including that Big Boss serves exactly the same role later in the timeline. It's also on-theme with how their fame and prestige came at the total cost of their agency, that what they wanted wasn't allowed to matter anyway because it wasn't what the countries that consider them property wanted.

jombilywobbily

And then Kojima had to poo the bed and try to explain away their powers as being due to parasites in MGSV (I wish I were kidding, it's in one of Code Talker's tapes ... looked it up "Code Talker and His Research 1")

DNJ

That might be good, but I think it's funnier when he doesn't have a clue. He seems to have a pretty good grasp on MGS's brand of insanity.

Sam Leheny

The Boss gives me the same vibe as Alice from the Resident Evil films. As the films go on, they just become more and more about demonstrating all the different ways in which Alice is the most badass, important person who has ever lived - all despite not having much of a personality - which is a crucial detail in whatever character writing sin I think Yahtzee's zeroing in on in this video. Reminds me of that famous Star Wars character test: Can you describe the character without referring to their appearance, occupation, or their actions within the plot?

Swift Justice

Big Boss is scared of vampires and still believes in Santa Claus!

Swift Justice

A more serious answer though: It's probably very much the point that The Boss seems to have nothing left to her life besides being the perfect soldier and patriot, which led to her being treated like one- that is, a disposable asset of the US government when they found an important enough objective. (And remember the big prize of MGS3 is enough money to start the next big world-controlling conspiracy, being the leftovers from the last one) As said, she's Captain America without the ice bath and the public fame. Though I'd say her actions speak louder than her words, despite how many of the latter she has. She gave birth at the Normandy landing while fighting in it, that's someone who really has fighting as the highest priority at all times.

Sam Leheny

That's a fair point. I guess what I was after but never felt like I got was a feeling like "oh yeah, I would totally follow this person into battle" There's a weird taste I get when there's character who eeeeveryone else would die fight and die for but who at the same time lacks any charisma. But as you said, much of the point may be that Big Boss once had that plentiful charisma but by MGS3 has been hollowed out.