Top Ten Metal Gear Solid Boss Battles 7-4

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7. The End (MGS3)

Born in the early 1860s, The End is over 100 years old during the events of the game, set in 1964. He is a veteran of countless wars, and is considered to be the world's greatest sniper, as he originated all sniping techniques. He is said to never require a spotter, and can stay in the same prone sniping position without moving for days or even weeks at a time. This is partially because he is an apparent autotroph - the energy provided by the photosynthetic moss that grows inside and outside of his body lets him go long periods without food or water. The End also wears false teeth.As with the other members of the Cobra unit, his codename signifies the emotion he feels while on the battlefield. Because he is very old and incredibly close to death, he will often fall asleep during a battle. His closest companion, a parrot, will, in this case, wake him up. The parrot acts as The End's spotter. By killing it, The End finds it much more difficult to track Snake's movements. However, this makes him become more aggressive.The End is also an expert on camouflage. His uniform is a standard sniper ghillie suit, and the sniping positions he chooses conceal him well. When in a prone position, he becomes one with the area - his body temperature lowers so that it is close to that of the surrounding foliage. This makes spotting him with thermal goggles difficult. Additionally, when The End's stamina drops dangerously low, he will call forth the sun's rays and recover half his stamina quickly.He is armed with a Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle that fires tranquilizer rounds. He also uses stun grenades when Snake gets too close to him. If Snake's stamina depletes in the course of battle, a cutscene will play where Snake slowly succumbs to the effect of the tranquilizer. Snake then wakes up in the opened jail cell of Graniny Gorki.The End battles Naked Snake in a long sniper duel in an area spanning three zones--Sokrovenno South, West, and North. It is a thick forest, divided into a river, a plateau, and a clearing.Eventually, Snake defeats The End. Before he dies, he gives a speech saying thanks to the forest for giving him the strength for his 'final hunt'. Before activating his micro-bomb, he says, I can return to the forest at last and that he has no regrets.

6.Liquid Ocelot (MGS4)

Sometime after the Big Shell Incident, Liquid Ocelot began a partnership with ex-Dead Cell member, Vamp. Liquid also kidnapped Naomi Hunter to help him crack a third generation version of nanomachines known as The SOP System. Liquid wanted to remove this system from his PMC Soldiers so they would be able to advance on America and destroy the Patriots. If the system was in their bodies when they advanced, the system would lock down on them and they would be unable to use their weapons.As Solid Snake drew near to Liquid in the Middle East in an attempt to eliminate him, he activated the first test for the removal of the SOP system, resulting in every soldier on the battlefield in front of him (besides Johnny Sasaki) affected by it, but all of them started to react strangely. It was later explained that although the test was a success, and the SOP was removed, the soldiers were suddenly struck with guilt over all the things they had done, and the mass amount of stress suddenly laid onto them caused them to break.Liquid headed back to his safe house in South America with Naomi, forcing her to continue her work. By the time Snake has infiltrated the research facility and found Naomi, Liquid has already left for Eastern Europe, seeking the remains of Big Boss who was being kept alive through artificial means in a lab by the Patriots.Liquid is seeking Big Boss to acquire his DNA for use in the experiment after his previous two tests, using his own and then Snake's DNA, produced less than desirable results.After a grueling battle with Raging Raven, Snake and EVA make their way to their escape boat, to find it in flames as Liquid and his guards capture them. Liquid shows his physical dominance over an aged Snake, humiliating him in combat before leaving on his own boat with Vamp and Naomi who had fled back to him. At that moment Meryl ordered the deployment of a battalion of troops to surround Liquid on land, water and air, completely outnumbering him. Liquid played his hidden card however, having seized control of The SOP System by using a reconstructed GW he recovered from Arsenal Gear's wreckage. With the weapons and vehicles of all PMCs controlled by this system, Liquid was able to prevent a single bullet being fired and the malfunction of the boats and helicopters that surrounded him. His guards then massacred the military that surrounded him and destroyed the corpse of Big Boss having obtained the DNA he needed already before leaving for Shadow Moses.Liquid intended to fire a nuclear missile at a satellite that housed the main Patriot AI, J.D., crippling the Patriots once and for all and giving him global dominance due to his control of weapons. However nuclear weapons were still controlled by the Patriots and thus Liquid headed for Shadow Moses Island to retrieve an outdated yet still functional weapon which could fire stealth nuclear missiles, namely Metal Gear REX's rail gun. After Snake killed Vamp and used a newly re-activated REX (sans rail gun) to escape the facility before it self-destructed, Liquid piloted the same RAY he stole during The Tanker Incident 7 years previously and engaged Snake in battle.Despite his Metal Gear unit being technologically superior, he was defeated and forced to board his gigantic ship, Outer Haven. Liquid then maniacally rammed the dock in an attempt to crush Snake but interference from Raiden and Mei Ling's marine fleet forced him to flee, out pacing Mei Ling's vessel by a wide margin. Liquid prepared to launch a nuclear missile at the satellite but was engaged in a large-scale sea battle by Mei Ling and her troops whilst Snake, Meryl and Johnny Sasaki boarded Outer Haven and battled their way to the control room that housed G.W. which Snake and Otacon destroyed.Liquid found Snake on top of Outer Haven, and dragged him to the tallest part of its structure where he revived Snake so that they could have one final battle. Despite beating Snake heavily, Liquid was eventually defeated and died of a new version of FOXDIE.As it turns out, Ocelot was never possessed by Liquid Snake. He used nanomachines and hypnotherapy to transplant Liquid's personality over his own. The purpose of this was to duck under the Patriot's watchful eye by assuming the identity of a dead man. This gave him enough cover to establish his PMC armies in the last five years. He chose Liquid Snake to serve as the ultimate motivator for Solid Snake, a Patriot pawn. Ocelot actually had no intentions of nuking JD or taking over the Patriots. He simply wanted them removed and a clean slate. In the end, Ocelot could not escape Liquid's need to fight his twin brother to the death.

5.Laughing Octopus (MGS4)

Laughing Octopus was born in a small seaside Scandinavian town, presumably somewhere in Sweden, known as the Devil's Village. It was there were octopus was eaten customarily. However, there was an anonymous cult that hated the village for this. During Octopus' teenage years, the cult was able to gain access to heavy weaponry, and they struck the village with a deadly overnight assault. Soon enough, the village became a war zone, ending with the cult gathering all of the surviving villagers and executing them one by one, all but Octopus. Instead, they referred to her as the Devil's Child, and forced her to torture her family and friends and then kill them herself, all the while making her laugh hysterically. Fearing death, she did so, killing her entire family. Eventually, the blood staining her skin turned from red to black, resembling the octopus' ink which they loved so.The event left her emotionally scarred, laughing with pleasure while killing her victims. Eventually, she was recruited into The Beauty and the Beast Unit, soon becoming Laughing Octopus. She apparently was informed by Liquid Ocelot that by killing Solid Snake she would be cleansed of her pain and sorrow. She was fitted with an Octocamo suit developed by DARPA and a tentacle-barren helmet, which she could use to carry herself as well as attack.Laughing Octopus was first seen in the Middle East, along with the rest of the Beauty and the Beast Unit, attacking local rebels. She displayed her impressive camouflage abilities by hiding in the shadows before striking with her deadly tentacles, killing several soldiers before being called away by Screaming Mantis.She later was stationed in South America, leading the French PMC, Pieuvre Armement, to attack the South American rebel forces. Arriving at Liquid's safe house, she and Vamp secure the area and capture several rebels and government forces. She kills all of the rebels except for one, at Vamp's request. Changing her face to match that of Snake's, she tells the survivor that Snake was the one that killed all of his comrades, which would cause the local regime to hunt him down. Using her tentacles to grab the armored van, she left with Vamp.Laughing Octopus was then stationed at the research lab where Naomi Hunter was being held. Snake eventually reached the lab and made contact with Naomi, but she was quickly escorted off of the premises by Pieuvre Armement troops and the lab was rushed by FROGS, commanded by Octopus. After Snake eliminated the FROGS, Octopus entered the lab herself, formally introducing herself to Snake before attacking him.Despite her impressive camouflaging and ambush techniques, Snake was able to defeat Octopus. Once defeated, her octopus helmet and face mask fell off, and Octopus fell to the ground. She remarked that she is an octopus, and the octopus' tentacles are beyond her control. Octopus then keels over and begins to spew what looks like octopus ink from her mouth onto the floor, all while laughing hysterically. Suddenly, Octopus seems to come to her senses and comes to terms with her PTSD, saying that she should never laugh, and that in reality she was scared of the things she was laughing at. Snake kills her and she falls to the floor, assuming the fetal position and finally bringing her to peace with herself and allowing her to silence the laughter.

4.Gray Fox (MGS1)

After the death of Big Boss and the downfall of Zanzibar Land, Fox's body was recovered on-site by a clean-up crew. He was taken by FOXHOUND's chief medic at the time, Dr. Clark, and became a guinea pig for Clark's gene-therapy project. In order to improve his mobility, an experimental exoskeleton was grafted directly onto his body. Aside from improved agility and strength, the suit also allowed Fox to 'cloak' at will, using a new form of stealth technology. In 2000, Fox's foster sister, now going under the alias of Naomi Hunter, joined FOXHOUND as Dr. Clark's assistant. She helped Fox escape his containment, and summarily covered up his actions when he killed Dr. Clark in 2003, reporting it as a laboratory accidentIn 2005, during the Shadow Moses Incident, Fox infiltrated the island in search of Solid Snake, who was on a mission to neutralize the now-corrupt FOXHOUND unit led by Liquid Snake. He first made contact with Snake after releasing Armstech President Kenneth Baker from captivity and attacking Revolver Ocelot, severing Ocelot's right forearm. Later, after taking out a large group of genome soldiers, Fox confronted Snake once again in the laboratory of Hal Emmerich, demanding that they fight to the death. At first, Snake did not recognize the man in the exo-skeleton, but after engaging him in hand-to-hand combat, Fox's identity was revealed. After a time, Snake began to prevail in the battle but before its ultimate conclusion was reached, Fox cried out in pain (presumably due to feedback from the experimental exoskeleton) and fled the laboratory. Fox later helped Snake in his mission by transmitting anonymous messages regarding dangers to Snake under the alias of Deepthroat (much as he did during Snake's Zanzibar Land mission).When Snake is drawn into battle with Metal Gear REX, Gray Fox manages to damage it further by attacking REX's radome, interfering with the sealed cockpit's sensory input. As Liquid fought to locate Fox and Snake with REX's damaged sensors, Fox revealed to Snake that many years ago, he had been the one who had killed Naomi's parents in Rhodesia but he was unable to bring himself to kill Naomi, who had been too young at the time to remember the incident. Fox begged Snake to tell her the truth. Following this exchange, Fox leapt from his hiding spot and again attacked Metal Gear REX, eventually destroying the Radome completely, and forcing Liquid to open the cockpit up.This made the tank vulnerable to well placed Stinger missiles.During a second assault on REX, Fox was severely injured when one of his arms was sliced off by the tank's laser. He was then pinned against a wall by REX before being released to fall to the ground. As Fox lay on the hanger floor, Liquid tried to kill off Fox once and for all by crushing him under one of Metal Gear's massive legs, however Fox's grafted exoskeleton meant that this first attempt failed. With REX's second stomp however, the only man to ever achieve the Fox codename was no more. His last words were directed towards Snake,

"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... the ONLY thing I was good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in. Snake!...Farewell."

After escaping the Shadow Moses compound, Snake contacted Naomi, informing her that Fox's last message had been that he would always love her. He did not inform her of Fox's final confession.

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