The Metal Gear Solid series has 🐼been home to two very well known and respected fictional characters in Solid Snake and Big Boss, ꧅who carried the series for decades, although they met their chronological ends in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
The character of Raiden was placed for a time as the successor for the form꧅er protagonists, but things haven’t panned out that way, with one of the reasons being the fact that Raiden has a whole lot of memes at his expense. Fans just can’t shake the idea out of their heads now that Raiden is someone they like to make fun of, so we’re here now with 10 memes th☂at remind you why this meme-making tradition began in the first place.
10 ♚ Uh...What? 🔴
When you look at Raiden, you think of a person who’s been converted into a living war machine. This belief is backed up when you see Raiden going up against huge weap😼ons of destruction and putting them down easily due to his arsenal of weaponry.
And yet, Raiden’s favored weapon is a sword, which seems really redundant seeing as the guy has weapons that can be used in long-range as well, making ♛a sword pretty much useless. So✃ why does he keep using it?
9 T🧸hink Of His Feelings
At first glance, you’d think Raiden was a really cool character considering his appearance being that of a cyborg, but his uneven dialogue and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:series itself not making much sense, in general, led to many memes at his expense.
Sin꧋ce then, it’s been difficult placing Raiden as someone who can be taken seriously, and this mꦓeme pokes fun at Konami’s attempts at making people think of Raiden as cool again by pretending to implore upon fans to stop using memes to take the mickey out of him.
8 Burn!
During one point of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, R🌌aiden starts wasting time rather than focusing on the mission, this is when Bladewolf appears to tell him not to get distracted from the job. Raiden then lays on a layer of sarcasm as a retort but this isn’t welcomed by Bladewoܫlf.
It is then that Raiden gets verbally burned when Bladewolf reveals he unders💦tands the concept of hum༒or, but that Raiden wasn’t a funny guy. The last panel in this meme perfectly reflects the feelings of embarrassment Raiden surely felt at that sick burn.
7 The Cyborg W✅♛ith A Mouth
There were in the X-Men film series, but Deadpool’s arrival was the one that brought back definite interest. In around the same vein, it was the reveal of Raiden as𝐆 the protagonist of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance that ensured fans would be interested.
With 168ꦗ澳洲幸运5开奖网:Solid Snake and Big Boss out of commission by that point, fans needed a favorite character to take up the mantle as the lead character in a follow-up, and they wer𒀰e glad to haveꦜ Raiden in the role. It seems the Metal Gear series haꩵs its own mouthy breakout character much like Deadpooꩵl is.
6 ꧃ We've All Been There
The younger fanbase might n🎐ot remꦫember this feeling, but those of us who got the game when it was fresh out certainly remember feeling robbed when it turned out that Solid Snake, the overall series protagonist, wasn’t the main character of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
It turned out that Raiden was🏅 the secret protagonist and Snake was put out of the game after the opening chapter. Many kids had blown their allowance to purchase this game, and all of them had the same feeling Bad Luck Brian had when they found out Raiden was as good as it got.
5 No Budgeඣt For The Eye
Coming back to the discussion over Raiden’s cybernetic implants, there’s another issue with the fact that he seems to have had everything replaced, only for the eye that was cut off to remain the same e🐬xact way.
What was the point of fitting this man with so many weapons and enhancements if they couldn’t give him a new eye? After all, we saw technology in the Metal Gear series that seemed to be on the brink of magic, so it makes no sense why Raiden was left blind in that one eye. Maybe they were g𒉰oing fo🌜r the Big Boss look?
4 🍃 💛 Metal Gear Called It First
During a bizarre monologue during the game, the dialogue stated that religion and other things that form part of people’s lives are a myth and that memes were the DNA of the soul. In a way, this claim wꦓasn’t wrong.
The funny thing is that a meme has been created to back up this quote, as the creator of this picture used the ℱquote to communicate that their habits on the internet have to do with watching memes. Oddly enough, Metal Gear cal𝓰led it first how people value memes more tha🌺n free will.
3 No-One Takes You🌞 Seriously
We’ve coveꦡred the part where nobody took Raiden as a threat anymore due to the presence of memes at his expense, and now here’s another meme that pokes fun at Raiden attemptin⛦g to sound cool.
In one of the scenes from Revengeance, Raiden used this quote to illustrate how he would f♊ight for those too weak to do it themselves; however, the meme turns it around on Raiden by inferꦗring that nobody even in the Metal Gear universe thinks of Raiden as someoneဣ they should fear.
2 Biology Logic 🌟 🎀
From what we know, Raiden got his arm and his eye cut o🐭ff, leading to him getting cybernetic replacements for them; however, he somehow also showed up with a new lower jaw as well...for some reason.
One might have been inclined to believe that the lower jaw was gone as well, only for Raiden to later reveal that there was an intact jaw underneath the cybernetic one. It appears as if the lower jaw was totally unneces🍸sary and was placed just to look cool.
1 That Titꦐle 🐠We're Still Confused About
More than a few peopl🔯e laughed at the reveal of the tit♐le for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as it was clearly ꦦoverdone. The original name ✨had been Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which at least 🌸was in line with the usual style of the series.
The new title made it confusing as to what the “rising” part signified and if it meant we’d 𝔉be getting more games under the “rising” banner; there was also confusion over the “revengeance” aspect, as simply getting plain old vengeance or revenge meant pretty much the same.