Metal Gear Solid the Abridged Snakes

Metal Gear Solid The Abridged Snakes is an Abridged Series of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes made by LordQuadros on YouTube. Watch it here.

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Tropes used in Metal Gear Solid the Abridged Snakes include:

• A Date with Rosie Palms: Johnny Sasaki and Snake.
  • Snake's informant also names himself "Handjob".
• Anachronism Stew: During the silent film episode, Snake can't be bothered to keep his references consistence within any one time period. Liquid calls him out on it.
• Anti-Hero: According to Liquid, Snake is a Type 5 It's even lampshaded

Liquid: You, the anti-hero who crosses the line of morality so frequently and with such audacity, that it brings out the cheepest of laughs.

• Art Shift: Episode 7 is done in silent film style, due to technical difficulties on LordQuadros's part.
  • Or because it made a handy in-universe excuse to do a silent film episode that had been planned beforehand.
• Author Filibuster: The finale has Liquid and Snake debating abridging ethics. An odd case in that, while both sides have flaws in their arguments, neither side is entirely wrong, either.
• A Wizard Did It: Whenever Snake asks for explanations to certain illogicalities (such as how he can use the Codec without being heard, or how his informant knows his exact location), he just gets the answer "Magic!".
• Badass: Everything Snake does is awesome!
• Bond One-Liner: After Snake blows up Liquid's Hind.

Snake: Say hi to Dad for me. *beat* Oh, and Baker.

• Even Evil Has Standards: Revolver Ocelot does an anti-drug PSA.
• Hand Wave: The less you know why the terrorist want Big Boss's remains, the better.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Snake decides that leaving a large, perfectly good body is a waste (and expresses relief that he can give up rations) and at one point expresses a strong desire to eat Sniper Wolf for revenge.
• Ironic Echo: "Stop being a bitch and grow some stones"
• Jerkass: Snake proudly admits to being an enormous asshole (to the point where even Ocelot is disgusted by him).
• Jump Physics: "Eat me, Newton!"
• Larynx Dissonance: Naomi, and good lord, Mei Ling.

Snake: "Was that someone trying to speak English or vomiting?"

• Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: At the very end of the show Snake is disgusted by Meryl's bad grammar and he almost openly states he's going to abandon her... but she doesn't seem to notice a trap.
• Mooks: You know what, I'm just going to stop linking to the Lampshade Hanging page.

Snake: Another intruder? My God, these guards are so freaking incompetent.

• No Fourth Wall: Accentuates the source material's lack of a fourth wall Up to Eleven.
• Retraux: One of the episodes is done in the style of a silent movie.
• Shout-Out: Oh soooo many.
  • For example:

Liquid: This is no Hind boy, no Hind.

• Sound Effect Bleep: The alert sound, of course.
  • Used in the theme song ("America (F(!) Yeah!)") to great effect.
• Take That: A Mika Banhara zinger results in LordQuadros lampshading it with a titlecard reading "LQ Alienates the Viewers Part 1: A Robot Alchemic Drive Reference".