Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5085906-20140619165117/@comment-1672596-20140623164645

Mr. Grave wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote:  I'm doubtful sex change would actually work in the Metal Gear games, even something as dark as The Phantom Pain. Don't forget, The Matrix (the first one) was particularly dark, even with the darker sequels, yet a plot point regarding one of the characters, Switch, being a girl in the Matrix when "she" was a male in the real world was cut from the final version because it was deemed too confusing to the audiences (as if most of the Matrix movies weren't confusing enough as it is). This plot point was apparently made because Lana Wachowski, then known as Larry Wachowski, was just beginning his transgender transformation into a woman. If the Matrix couldn't pull that off, I'm extremely doubtful The Phantom Pain will. I believe it would work, as a matter of fact. Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 hinted controversial themes such as sexual orientation and child slavery, and that was 10 to 12 years ago. Now that it's 2014, we're past the time when something as ridiculous as a fully clothed sex scene received so much heat. Of all the brutal, bizarre stuff Kojima's filling into this installment, a transgender wouldn have very little impact. 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).