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The Venom Snake idea ties into the quote in the beginning - "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

The idea of Snake being 'venomous' - dangerous, like a nuclear bomb waiting to explode ("I'm nuclear"). And from what I've seen in the trailer... smearing ashes on his face, appearing perfectly calm at one instant while covered in blood, to screaming in anguish the next. Sparring with his soldiers turning into him forcing a soldier to stab him...

It's all depicting Big Boss as unhinged, as if he's gone off the deep end after Ground Zeroes, so consumed by vengeance and completely changed from the man he once was.

Add to that the appearance he is being given of a 'demon' - the debris embedded in his head is like a horn, and during the scene where he is covered in blood, he looks like a Japanese oni (read, demon).

Everything is fitting into place with Zero's constructed image of Big Boss as a dangerous terrorist, and it's setting the stage for what Big Boss will be seen as in the Outer Heaven Incident.