Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-146.90.86.5-20150917130942/@comment-1971498-20150919182830

Nuhr wrote: I don't think we should be comparing Metal Gear characters to Bayonetta.

Strangelove was killed because Kojima wanted to make Huey an evil character. He simply wanted to make the relationship between Big Boss / Venom and Huey different from Solid & Otacon who end up being good friends simply because it's more interesting that way.

And Paz was simply killed because Kojima loves doing twists. Hell I love Paz' death, it's one of my favourite scenes in the series, and that means a lot.

Except that using their deaths based on the tired trope to further the angst and drive behind the male character's motivations is very tired trope that works at the expense of the female characters.

There's a difference in writing well-meaning deaths and one that subjects them to horrible fates while specifically using their deaths to give more development to male characters.

Again, these ideas aren't inherently bad, rather it's the fact that those two female characters from PW suffered this fate unlike the male characters which got off better, making it really jarring in retrospect.