Crotch grab

The Crotch Grab is a reoccurring event surrounding Raiden/Raikov. As the name implies, the act involves clutching tightly of the male genitalia, whether to verify gender, find an American secret agent, or to simply knock your enemy out in one go - all usually involving a Raiden of some variation. As a rule, all crotch grabs must be executed by males against males.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Though chronologically the first grab was done in 1960's, the first documented case was in 2009, during the Big Shell Incident, by the President of United States himself. This crotch grab was perfectly executed on a surprised Raiden. Feeling the crotch of one's manhood, a disappointed President Johnson spoke: "You're...a man!?" prior to doing this the President had said: "I'm prepared to face the consequences of [his] betrayal" - which may indicate he was a masochist yearning for dominatrix style punishment to be meted out by the feminine, cruel, leather-clad Raiden. Whatever the reason may never be explained.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Canonically, it was Big Boss who received the squeeze this time - however, for his part, he was just at the wrong place, wearing the wrong face. Dressed as Major Raikov, Colonel Volgin thought it would only be fitting to grab the crotch of the man he thought was his concubine. Colonel Volgin, now having felt an unaroused crotch (as Snake himself is obviously heterosexual), immediately uncovered Snake's identify, batter, and later proceeded to torture him.

In Subsistence, two more variations of the crotch grab are observed. One is in the online mode, Raikov, as the leader of the GRU, has a special, 1-hit knockout CQC attack: the crotch grab. The other appears during the Secret Theaters short, Snake Eraser. Raiden from the future, in his attempt to assassinate Big Boss, ends up being crotch grabbed inside a jail cell by Colonel Volgin, who then attepts to playfully rape Raiden, still thinking he's Raikov.

Future Appearence...
While Solid Snake is still heterosexual, the crotch grab will be introduced in MGS4 as a new CQC move Old Snake uses to knock out his enemies instantly as he holds them up.