Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5085906-20140619165117/@comment-1504072-20140623172852

Weedle McHairybug wrote: The Matrix films definitely had extremely dark, controversial stuff in there as well, even moreso than the Metal Gear series (namely, the so-called "heroes" are fighting for liberation that can best be described as nihilistic anarchy, even cultural Marxism, hired Cornel West for a cameo appearance among the Councillors, basically treating pretty much anything that was a minority violently revolting to be A-OK, even promoting Marxism to some extent, plus several digs towards Christianity as well as a promotion of Nietzsche, even blatantly advertising Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard and implying at one point that even the real world was as artificial as the Matrix itself. You can even read up on this here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1408419/posts), yet they couldn't put in transgenderism even if they wanted to (and believe me, they tried with the character Switch as I mentioned earlier). If the Wachowskis couldn't pull that off in the Matrix, it definitely wouldn't have worked with the Metal Gear franchise. The plot of the first Matrix was already confusing for an audience, so why throw in a character that switches genders between the real and simulated worlds and have to explain how that works? It's a relatively minor issue, not even controversial IMO, and would be distracting and unnecessary. MGSV is a relatively simple plot about revenge, and a a character undergoing a radical change due to past psychological trauma is really not that far fetched.

Having said that, I myself don't believe that this is the case, as the highly sexualized appearance of Quiet kinda undermines any meaningful point. Then again, Kojima did this with the BB Corps in MGS4, so who knows.

Also, Weedle, stay on topic. We don't need every forum topic descending into this Marxist conspiracy rubbish you keep promoting.