twintail said:
MGS5 ending spoilers of course:
The entire twist. BB follows through with a plan to make his best solider a body double for him so that all attention would be placed on Venom and not on himself. This obviously includes BB's enemies who are all seeking to kill BB but BB is in reality just hiding. Venom doesnt know: he didnt accept to do this, but he it was forced upon him. BB stole Venom's identity away from from him. He was used as a tool to a gain that only BB gets. This highlights what a hypocrite and coward BB really is. he has decided that his men are just pawns in his own game and that they are disposable. If Venom died then BB could have still continued to hide and eventually build up his Outer Heaven base.
The legend of BB is a complete fabrication because BB does none of it (post PW). The person who's life he robbed did everything but Venom will never get that acknowledgement. He was betrayed by the man he respected most, just so that BB can continue to live while Venom was on the firing line.
Tale into account all the other stuff BB does and I think his status as a villain holds still. The whole idea that legends are not what they are works pretty well in retrospect of the series with BB dying as a 'hero'. He is the ultimate villian... he is able to have his life end on a note that he was something he wasn't. In the end, EVa dies for him. Ocelot dies for him: they were ultimately just pawns in his little game as well.
Granted, I think the MGS4 ending does indeed suck, and I wish it never happened. But I do think that what BB does to Venom is a pretty villianous thing to do. It is pretty cold-hearted.
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That's a really good way to see it, but then there's something I cannot phantom: Big Boss couldn't have all that possibly planned. He tried rescuing Paz and Chico, and he already had a Mother Base where he was a legend. You're telling me Big Boss came up with the plan when his best member entered in a comma (which no one knew how much he would be in it?), and had enough time to put everything in motion?
And there's yet another issue which I have: no one ever remembers the medic. Even when the hospital is stormed. And to add salt to the injury, Kaz doesn't seem to notice that fragment of debris in Big Boss' forehead (something he does notice when they all crash the helicopter and ask for the medic's status).
By what you're saying, Big Boss had all this coincidentally planned. Now, he already had help from Skull Face during the MGS3 events, but still goes the extra mile in being a big coincidence for the man to do it. I think everything would have been much better had the coma being fake or something and the medic agreeing to the plan from the very beginning. The way it is, it was just a plot twist for the shocking factor, nothing more. And Big Boss isn't still painted as an evil dude; just because he did something evil. Take the medic for example: he's actually a very nice guy that ends up being forced to do bad things (like wiping out the Contamination Zone) and it is shown to be the evil guy Big Boss was supposed to be all along. Big Boss still gets a free way out card. I didn't see any of his fall of grace anywhere. The only reference I have is that throughout those 9 years, Big Boss thought "yeah, fuck Mother Base I'm going to Zanzibar", but it's never shown or explained (unless it is a casette tape I missed).