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

[ShadowSoldier]

bugrimmar said:

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

1.) Metal Gear REX - was supposed to be "the most powerful weapon ever made", but it gets destroyed by one man and a portable missile launcher. How much does it cost to make a REX, and how much does it cost to make a stinger missile launcher? I guess, with this example, we better manufacture stinger missiles instead of this big hulking piece of crap.

Solid Snake is Just That Awesome

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?

The whole reason why the bosses tried to set up traps and potentially kill Snake are for different reasons.
Ocelot- Wanted to test the mettle of The man who beat Big Boss and with the same codename as Liquid.
Sniper Wolf and Psycho Mantis- Were to capture to see if Snake had any information or a way on how to arm Metal Gear Rex.
Raven- For His own reasons again if you listen after the Tank fight Raven says that the Raven on his head craves for Snakes blood.

3.) Big Boss - he ordered Snake to infiltrate Outer Heaven and Zanzibar, only to reveal himself as the bad guy in the end, that he was using Snake for his motives.. same as Liquid, had hundreds of bad guys and comrades die in his way, and gets all his plans foiled in the end. Weird strategy.

Big Boss underestimated his own Genes. He thought that a Rookie despite the fact it was his own son, would have been killed during the early stages of Outer Heaven. After seeing all of his men and comrades fall to Solid Snake's hands he decided if you want something done do it yourself.

4.) The End - everytime you lose to this guy, he just grabs your lifeless carcass and throws you in a woodshed. Then you can keep fighting him again and again until you kill him. Isn't his job supposed to be stopping Snake?

The end wanted to see the same potential in Snake that the Boss saw. That was suppose to be his last fight and if it was anyone it would be the son of the boss who would be the one to put him down for good.

5.) Sniper Wolf - i get that perhaps, she went rogue, and wanted to kill Snake due to her obsession with the wolf and it's prey thing. But she had two opportunities where Snake was completely oblivious of her presence, but she didn't bother to shoot him properly. Instead, the first time, she shoots the girl, when Snake was perfectly visible. Second time, she shoots him in the leg. Idiotic woman.

Once again Sniper Wolf's objective was to capture Snake for information during the first encounter. Best way to get a prey into your trap is to have a nice piece of bait which was Meryl's purpose. Get him so riled up that he makes a mistake like not watching out for a trap. The second time Wolf is trying to enter a duel that would more then likely end in her death. As she was waiting for someone to kill her.

6.) Metal Gear RAY - another piece of crap. Raiden takes his portable missile launcher and slaughters nine of these in a row. Amazing.. and this guy isn't even a "legendary hero". 

Blame GW and what a virus can do to an intelligent system. I assure you if Ocelot was piloting RAY Raiden wouldn't have made it past MGS2

Hope that helps