Thread:Weedle McHairybug/@comment-1191892-20200203180054/@comment-1672596-20200203201121

Evil Tim wrote: 1. Smash Brothers isn't canon. Nothing in it matters. Neither is this relevant to whether or not EXCELSIUS' very specific description is related to purist fan reactions to MGR, which it is.

2. Naw, Coldman doesn't have to have got the plans that way, remember Granin said he'd sent all his work to a friend in America and it showed Huey's portrait? 1. Maybe not, but it was made partly to promote MGS4 (at the time Smash Bros. was made, MGS4 was still in development), so it still sort of qualifies. And I can name a few Metal Gear purist fans who were NOT happy with the direction of MGSV, MGS4, and even MGS2.

2. Except Ocelot's post-credits conversation with the CIA director in MGS3 suggests that Granin died before he got a chance to send the documents to Huey due to Ocelot sending those blueprints to the CIA director instead while strongly suggesting they could use them in the future. Not to mention Huey makes it very clear in the tapes that Coldman IS the reason why he even had the documents on hand by the time of the Peace Walker incident, and then promptly used them as blackmail to force Huey into the Peace Walker project. And bear in mind, Coldman's "it's what the CIA does best: Either make sure those in the know kept their mouths shut, or otherwise stuff them somewhere where there's no one to talk to" strongly suggests they effectively exiled him to Central America to silence him from boasting about Operation Snake Eater after firing him from his job, presumably shortly after the mission's success due to the CIA director being at the award ceremony, meaning he couldn't have gotten the documents from there.