Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.251.171.55-20140112133549/@comment-175.159.163.39-20140124031229

Primarch Dysley wrote:

Soul reaper wrote:

Primarch Dysley wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

CyborgROX wrote: Solid Snake can't uh... 'make love'. He is a clone of the perfect soldier, Big Boss, and in order to prevent more 'perfect soldier' clones, the people working on the Les Enfant Terrible project (Big Boss's cloning) designed the clones so that they could not pass on their genes.

I also highly doubt the Meryl ending is the canon version, since Snake is with Otacon in MGS2 and doesn't see Meryl again until MGS4.

Finally, to put an end to this ridicules thread, Solid Snake's codename has NOTHING to do with male genitals. Technically, Snake can make love, its that he can't reproduce. There is such a thing as having sex without reproducing as a result.

Uh, actually, the Meryl ending is the canon version, for a very simple reason: In the Otacon ending, Meryl died. Since Meryl was clearly alive (not to mention In the Darkness of Shadow Moses even notes her survival) its clear the Meryl ending was canon. Technically, the Otacon ending could still work. My headcanon is that Snake only THOUGHT Meryl was dead, and she manage to escape on her own. Snake reacts with surprise when he sees her in MGS4, which could be interpreted as just "wow, it's been a while!" or "You're alive!" Aside from that, it flows with how he knows that Meryl is Campbell's daughter rather than his niece, as that was only mentioned in the Otacon ending. Official statement from Kojima or not, I still think this headcanon works (Ok that was WAY off topic, but hell, maybe it deserves a thread of its own haha) Nope. MGS4's interaction between Snake and Meryl indicates that they spent some time together after the Shadow Moses Incident before Snake suddenly up and left. The only reason he was surprised is that he didn't know the person he was meeting was Meryl. Direct quote or it didn't happen I only just read this and it does take time to go back to a direct quote, but then if memory is correct, during the tanker-chapter in MGS2, Snake mentioned to Octacon via codec (I think it was an optional codec call) that he "had enough of tomboys". Of course, this does not directly point to Meryl, but the conversations between Meryl and Snake in MGS4 also fits into the context that they fell in love at least briefly. Besides, Snake's reaction in MGS4 Act 1 is surely because he didn't expect the contact to be Meryl, rather than that he is amazed Meryl being alive down the years, or else he would have called Campbell right away to "bring the news". Also, the way Octacon reacts to Meryl's appearance is much different to Vamp's reappearing at least shows that Meryl survived without hiding from them. Let's not forget, having two endings in MGS1 is so that gamers will play the game at least two more times to use the gadgets instead of for the sake of creating two endings.

As for the topic this thread is suppose to "discuss" -- like others have said, Solid Snake's code name has nothing to do with male genitals, otherwise, Liquid would have been even more angry...