Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.251.171.55-20140112133549/@comment-5414293-20140121033841

Weedle McHairybug wrote: CyborgROX wrote: Solid Snake can't uh... 'make love'. He is a clone of the perfect soldier, Big Boss, and in order to prevent more 'perfect soldier' clones, the people working on the Les Enfant Terrible project (Big Boss's cloning) designed the clones so that they could not pass on their genes.

I also highly doubt the Meryl ending is the canon version, since Snake is with Otacon in MGS2 and doesn't see Meryl again until MGS4.

Finally, to put an end to this ridicules thread, Solid Snake's codename has NOTHING to do with male genitals. Technically, Snake can make love, its that he can't reproduce. There is such a thing as having sex without reproducing as a result.

Uh, actually, the Meryl ending is the canon version, for a very simple reason: In the Otacon ending, Meryl died. Since Meryl was clearly alive (not to mention In the Darkness of Shadow Moses even notes her survival) its clear the Meryl ending was canon. Technically, the Otacon ending could still work. My headcanon is that Snake only THOUGHT Meryl was dead, and she manage to escape on her own. Snake reacts with surprise when he sees her in MGS4, which could be interpreted as just "wow, it's been a while!" or "You're alive!" Aside from that, it flows with how he knows that Meryl is Campbell's daughter rather than his niece, as that was only mentioned in the Otacon ending. Official statement from Kojima or not, I still think this headcanon works (Ok that was WAY off topic, but hell, maybe it deserves a thread of its own haha)