Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5085906-20140619165117/@comment-1672596-20140623174049

Bluerock wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: 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). If the Wachowskis couldn't pull that off in the Matrix, it definitely wouldn't have worked with the Metal Gear franchise. The plot of the first Matrix was already confusing for an audience, so why throw in a character that switches genders between the real and simulated worlds and have to explain how that works? It's a relatively minor issue, not even controversial IMO, and would be distracting and unnecessary. MGSV is a relatively simple plot about revenge, and a character undergoing a radical change due to past psychological trauma is really not that far fetched.

Having said that, I myself don't believe that this is the case, as the highly sexualized appearance of Quiet kinda undermines any meaningful point. Then again, Kojima did this with the BB Corps in MGS4, so who knows.

Also, Weedle, stay on topic. We don't need every forum topic descending into this Marxist conspiracy rubbish you keep promoting. My apologies for bringing them up, though admittedly the film series was still pretty controversial regardless.

Either way, I'm doubtful Chico and Quiet are the same person. Considering that Chico had already betrayed the Soviets in Peace Walker alongside the FSLN unit under his sister Amanda's command, it wouldn't make sense for him to work with the guys whom he and his unit liberated themselves from, either as Chico or as Quiet (especially when the latter was being waterboarded by the Soviets). And besides, Quiet looks way too young to be Chico post-sex op (Chico would be in his early twenties, while Quiet is more likely to be in her late teens). And considering how the FSLN needed funding for most of its supplies and equipment, and Diamond Dogs was still recovering from the attack on Mother Base even nine years later (as implied by the new Mother Base just nearing completion when Big Boss [or a look alike] woke up and some of Ocelot's comments), assuming Chico is part of MSF/Diamond Dogs by that time, and sex change operations are pretty expensive, why would he have any way to afford it, even if he wanted it?