Why are the Metal Gear villains so awesome.. yet so stupid?

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bugrimmar said:

I have a few beefs with the villains that I'd just like to share over here.

2.) Liquid Snake - i get why he didn't kill Solid Snake all that time, coz he was needed to input the detonation codes. But why did Mantis, Wolf, and Raven, along with the hundreds of Genome Soldiers, have to get in his way and die? Why did they all have to put Snake in traps that *could* have killed him, and therefore eliminated their chances of launching the nuke? Were they just sacrificing themselves, coz they knew that they weren't allowed to kill Snake, or were they just plain stupid?

 

Maybe this is a theory why things happened the way it happened(SPOILERS!!):

They could kill Solid Snake all along. They didn't need him to input the detonation codes, they just needed the 'key card' that Solid Snake was carrying. So in the whole game they tried to kill Solid Snake, to get the 'key card', but they didn't succeed. In the end they decided to clear the way to let Solid Snake put in the detonation codes himself.

Besides, in the end the whole 'Shadow Moses Incident' was just a test, organized by The Patriots' and 'watched over' by Revolver Ocelot.