Editing Metal Gear (section)

===Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots===
MGS4 is officially the "end" of the Solid timeline, as MGSV is about Big Boss's wacky misadventures in the 80's. The game is constantly criticized for basically being one long cutscene, due to the fact a lot of the game has a ''lot'' of cinematic content, than actual gameplay, to the point that MGS4 actually holds the world record for the longest cutscene in videogame history, who's finale spans a whopping 71 minutes (and reminder, this is JUST the ending).

The game follows Solid Snake, who has rapidly aged to an old man in his 60s due to being a clone, and apparently he's going to be a WMD as the FOXDIE virus injected into him back in the first ''Solid'' game is mutating into an indiscriminate bio-weapon. He's called in for one last mission by Colonel Campbell to assassinate "Liquid" Ocelot, the leader of one of the largest PMCs in the world, who has amassed too much power and is deemed a threat by world leaders. He reluctantly takes to the field again, as this is to be his final mission to end the madness he and his extended family was responsible for, before finally dying (by his hand if necessary). Along the way he's helped by just about every MG character from the previous games as one big nostalgiafest, including:

*Otacon, who's there for exposition;
*Raiden, who is now an impractically awesome near-immortal cyborg ninja;
*Dr. Naomi Hunter, who's attempting to atone for her sins;
*Colonel Campbell, who married Raiden's wife after becoming estranged to him;
*Rosemary, Raiden's wife who separated from him after a miscarriage. Acts as a psychologist to Snake;
*Vamp, who's trope as a bi-sexual vampire is ''really'' drilled into your skull here;
*Ocelot, who may or not be literally possessed by Liquid Snake's ghost (we're not kidding, this is the main reason why Ocelot became the series's big bad);
*Solidus, who's now in a coma;
*Meryl, who is now working for the US as an observer for PMCs;
*Johnny Sasaki, who somehow turned from comic relief to part-time action hero (because.....eh?);
*Mei Ling, who due to certain assets, is now a USN captain of her own ship;
*Big Boss, who finally woke up from his near-death coma;
*Eva, who's now leading an Eastern-European resistance group under the name "Big Mama";
*Sunny Gurlukovich, the daughter that Olga mentioned back in MGS2, now under the protection of Snake and Otacon.

To wrap up Kojima's decade-long fever dream: Big Mama dies attempting to save Big Boss's husk from being burned to ash, Vamp dies after being heavily wounded by Raiden and injected with a nanomachine suppressor, Naomi dies after being guilt-tripped by Vamp's death, Snake manages to upload a computer virus that finally destroys the Patriots for real (but their influence continues on) and manages to kill Ocelot for real after one of the most nostalgia-drilling fist-fights in the series. Meryl and Johnny get married, Campbell and Rose reveal that their relationship was a play to keep the Patriots thinking that Raiden's kid was Campbell's, and Snake goes to The Boss's grave to eat a bullet before he involuntarily kills everyone.

Except he doesn't: Big Boss stops him and reveals that he's not dead (obviously) and the corpse that EVA died for was actually Solidus, whose limbs were removed and transplanted onto him when he was revivified. He has a long heart-to-heart with his clone-son and reveals a lot of exposition: he and several of the MGS3 crew were founding members of the Patriots, aiming to fulfil The Boss's wishes, only for shit to go wrong and metastasize into the globe-spanning conspiracy they are today; he and Major Zero (now a comatose, crippled old man on life support) are the last surviving members in a world without a place for them. It also turns out that Drebin 893 (a shady arms dealer you've been buying weapons from throughout the game) injected Snake with a newer variant of FOXDIE, made by the Patriots to kill Big Mama, Liquid Ocelot, and Big Boss; this uprooted the old one, so Snake can live the final year or two of life he has left without fear of turning into a walking WMD.

Big Boss pulls the plug on Zero's life support, then salutes his mentor's grave as he gives Snake a few final fatherly words of wisdom before allowing himself to succumb to FOXDIE. [[Awesome|"This is good... isn't it?"]]