Thread:Weedle McHairybug/@comment-1191892-20200203180054/@comment-1672596-20200203184720

Maybe so, but I'm pretty sure that's not really a fourth wall break (not unless Potato Head says afterwards "and yes, I know that's my voice actor's catchphrase" or something like that.). Usually, fourth wall breaks are a bit more direct.

I'll let the Raikov/Raiden thing slide, since there was no real way to interpret it otherwise, but the other stuff definitely doesn't really work, since there's multiple ways to interpret them. Not to mention in the case of Peace Walker and the reference to San Hieronymo, considering Kojima didn't even do something like that with Snake's Revenge by having Roy Campbell say something along the lines of "Snake, this won't be like the business in Fortress Fanatic with Operation 747, this will be a real return to the black ops business for you", I'm extremely doubtful Miller's quip about San Hieronymo was meant to be a fourth wall break (and make no mistake, considering Metal Gear 2 was billed as the true sequel to Metal Gear instead of Snake's Revenge, that was a perfect opportunity to set a precedent for that line). Heck, he didn't even have the two discuss bad business with Colonel CaTaffy with Roy Campbell saying "we are NOT speaking of that again", which would have been a very direct reference to how Kojima hated the NES version of Metal Gear. Any one of those two would have set a precedent for that kind of fourth wall break, yet Kojima didn't do that. And besides, both MGS4 and even a pre-release timeline on Konami's site listed Portable Ops as having happened, so it certainly wasn't billed as ambiguously canon by any stretch.