[SFM] Last Day in Outer Heaven

"I see...so you...you've come to pick me up then." "THIS IS PEQUOD ARRIVING SHORTLY AT LZ"

The idea still screws with me that the last playable Snake is also the very first final boss of the entire series.

The fact quiet came to pick venom up plays with the heart strings.

I love that the music came out from his walkman. I overall just love that idea that he was a massive music enjoyer that was listening to music on missions, on mother base and in the helicopters.

Give this Sutherland impressionist a cookie, dude is on point. Phantom Pain should have ended like this

Ahabs voice acting was on point. God damn it he really sounded like Keither there.

God, if this played at the end of MGSV. I would’ve stood up saluting crying.

The last mission in TPP should've been an older venom in the future, surrounded by the dead soldiers of outer heaven facing off against an impossibly scripted fight against Solid Snake.

Shame Kojima left, would love a scenario mission where you play as venom hopelessly battling solid snake in outer heaven

“Contains spoilers from MGSV” This is spoilers for behind the scenes of MG,MG2,MGS,MGS2

"boss.. I'm bleeding out.. I can't feel my legs anymore.. I'm dying..." "So have you heard of ZANZIBAR LAND?"

Ahab is going to the "real" Outer Haven with Quiet and will be extracted by Peqoud.

Venom definitely proved that experience, respect, and bravery is better than genes

Stripped of the woman who loved him, his identity, his future, having to kill his own comrades, living a life of not his own losing evrything in the end and still fulfilling his bosses wishes to his demise, while constantly experiencing that one feeling that the players felt after the ending... ...the phantom pain.

This video has more lines than the entire game.

Honestly, Solid beating Venom perfectly encapsulates the themes and ideals of MGS3. The Boss knew that soldiers were merely political tools, nothing more than expendable bodies for politicians and warmongers to toss at each other. Venom Snake embodies this: even when he learned he had his past and future robbed and forced to be Big Boss' phantom, he still did his best to play the role and help build a nation of soldiers, even dying at the end for the sake of soldiers without borders. Solid Snake says "screw you" to that. Unlike Venom or even Big Boss, Solid understood the deeper meaning of The Boss' will without even knowing the woman; to pursue a world where PEOPLE, not soldiers, live without boundaries. As much of a legendary soldier she was, The Boss always fought and acted for peace - yes, she was a soldier, but one who gave her life in an attempt to unite the world and AVOID global catastrophe. While Big Boss' and Venom Snake's goal of creating a nation for soldiers unbound by cultural limits seems admirable, they still fought to spread violence and weaponry and stole uncountable human lives, something that The Boss wouldn't approve of. Furthermore, MGS1 and MGS2's entire themes REVOLVE around the ideal of being your own person; that people don't need to be defined by their genetics or the ideas shoved on them by others. Whereas Big Boss enforces that Venom now carries his legacy and persona, Solid Snake implores Raiden to be his own man and determine who he should be rather than live up to someone else's legend - which is Venom dies bloody while Raiden continues to fight another day. Solid Snake, more than any other Snake, embodies and carries on The Boss' will to a tee. While still a legendary soldier, Solid Snake nonetheless ALWAYS fought to take down huge weapon advancements and secure peace for millions of civillian strangers, exactly what The Boss would've done. Venom did carry The Boss' loyalty, but he was loyal to a land of bloodshed and killing which The Boss was strongly against, as opposed to Solid Snake's even greater loyalty to an ideal of peace and freedom. Really, Solid Snake's final fights with Venom Snake and Big Boss were the final contests between who was the better soldier and the better suited to carrying The Boss' will. As we saw, Solid Snake emerged as the true snake eater, bringing The Boss' will out of merely a dream.

This is how the phantom pain should have ended

Venom is the best out of all of the snakes in my eyes. Not because he's the strongest or deadliest. It's because he chose to give his life for a legacy that wasn't his own. He chose to treat diamond dogs and his fellow brethren like his own when big boss didn't. He chose to fill in for the title of a legend when he would never be remembered. Here's to you venom, a true but hidden legend.

BB: "So have you heard of memes?" VS: "what" BB: "never mind, that's not something you need to worry about"

Venom Snake is my favourite Snake, out of all the Snakes he's pretty much the perfect soldier, out of all the Snakes there's Big Boss the Warrior, Solidus the philosopher of the Snakes, Liquid the revolutionary with the inferiority complex (who is also an amazing pilot, leader, and Soldier as well), and Solid Snake who comes close to being the perfect soldier but even he himself breaks away from the US government and military and forms his own group with Otacon. Venom "Punished" Snake is the perfect soldier among all the Snakes, and probably embodies The Bosses ideology that Soldiers are tools. Except Venom isn't a tool of a country or ideology, instead he follows the orders of Big Boss himself, Big Boss ordered Venom to take his place and he did exactly what he was told with no complaints. It was his mission to be Big Bosses phantom and he didn't care about his lost identity and while sure he did get angry momentarily when he shattered the mirror he quickly says "ok Boss" in his head and smirks. And while he was defeated by Solid Snake in Outer Heaven I doubt he regretted his choices in his final moments before the explosion, I can fully believe that Venom Snake truly would die for Big Boss the way Big Boss himself once stated he'd die for his country, like on here he wasn’t angry or even sad he did his duty as Big Bosses Phantom and #1 Soldier. And besides all that Venom Snake was himself an amazing Snake, he was a father to his men, when Morale is low he corrects their behaviour by showing the Soldier who pulled a knife what it meant to draw a weapon on an ally, and in the end instead of tossing them off the rig, or throwing them in the Brig he tells them their CQC is sloppy and he'd give them a one on two lesson. He ignores his mission and takes in Child Soldiers and teaches them things beyond warfare and treats then as equals, and was kind enough to take in Quiet despite the fact she'd just tried to kill him. The man exuded the same aura as Big Boss, he was a man his men would die for, even after everyone learns his identity as Big Bosses phantom no one treats him with any less respect. And the fact that Venom prior to the explosion was a soldier so skilled and respected by Big Boss that he named him his personal Medic, someone who could be trusted to keep Big Boss alive if he were ever injured on the battlefield, and Big Boss himself would even say that Venom was "always the best man we had" imagine being so skilled that Big Boss himself would compliment you in that way, not to mention he was trusted with the knowledge that Paz was alive. Honestly I could go on forever because I just love Venom Snake that goddamn much, he’s my favourite Snake and was a true Leader, and an excellent Soldier.