[SFM] Last Day in Outer Heaven

Contains spoilers for MGSV.

An animated adaptation of the likewise titled Metal Gear fancomic detailing the parting exchange between Ahab and Ishmael.

Original fancomic:

Audio:

[ARCTOS]

"I see...so you...you've come to pick me up then."

"THIS IS PEQUOD ARRIVING SHORTLY AT LZ"

[GenericProtagonist]

The idea still screws with me that the last playable Snake is also the very first final boss of the entire series.

[TheBuddhaBear]

Give this Sutherland impressionist a cookie, dude is on point. Phantom Pain should have ended like this

[muggzo]

"boss.. I'm bleeding out.. I can't feel my legs anymore.. I'm dying..."

"So have you heard of ZANZIBAR LAND?"

[antekpjk]

I love that the music came out from his walkman. I overall just love that idea that he was a massive music enjoyer that was listening to music on missions, on mother base and in the helicopters.

[TehnbA]

Ahabs voice acting was on point. God damn it he really sounded like Keither there.

[ShasOSwoll]

Shame Kojima left, would love a scenario mission where you play as venom hopelessly battling solid snake in outer heaven

[Deiter]

“Contains spoilers from MGSV”

This is spoilers for behind the scenes of MG, MG2, MGS, MGS2

[CenteredPaladin]

The fact quiet came to pick venom up plays with the heart strings.

[redcarp]

God, if this played at the end of MGSV. I would’ve stood up saluting crying.

[jacksonwaters]

Venom is the best out of all of the snakes in my eyes. Not because he's the strongest or deadliest. It's because he chose to give his life for a legacy that wasn't his own. He chose to treat diamond dogs and his fellow brethren like his own when big boss didn't. He chose to fill in for the title of a legend when he would never be remembered.




Here's to you venom, a true but hidden legend.

[Gazzoosethe]

This is how the phantom pain should have ended

[jeffjohnbonesjones]

Stripped of the woman who loved him, his identity, his future, having to kill his own comrades, living a life of not his own losing evrything in the end and still fulfilling his bosses wishes to his demise, while constantly experiencing that one feeling that the players felt after the ending... ...the phantom pain.

[williammcghie]

The last mission in TPP should've been an older venom in the future, surrounded by the dead soldiers of outer heaven facing off against an impossibly scripted fight against Solid Snake.

[christianoj]

Venom definitely proved that experience, respect, and bravery is better than genes

[salsamancer]

Venom Snake, foolishly loyal to the end. He gave his life to the man who stole his future.

[streamerspective]

Ahab is going to the "real" Outer Haven with Quiet and will be extracted by Peqoud.

[MisterJohn-xzvw]

This video has more lines than the entire game.

[mrreyes]

Honestly, Solid beating Venom perfectly encapsulates the themes and ideals of MGS3. The Boss knew that soldiers were merely political tools, nothing more than expendable bodies for politicians and warmongers to toss at each other. Venom Snake _embodies_ this: even when he learned he had his past _and_ future robbed and forced to be Big Boss' phantom, he still did his best to play the role and help build a nation of soldiers, even dying at the end for the sake of soldiers without borders.

*_Solid Snake says "screw you" to that._*

Unlike Venom or even Big Boss, Solid understood the deeper meaning of The Boss' will without even knowing the woman; to pursue a world where _PEOPLE, _ not soldiers, live without boundaries. As much of a legendary soldier she was, The Boss _always_ fought and acted for peace - yes, she was a soldier, but one who gave her life in an attempt to unite the world and _AVOID_ global catastrophe. While Big Boss' and Venom Snake's goal of creating a nation for soldiers unbound by cultural limits seems admirable, they still fought to spread violence and weaponry and stole uncountable human lives, something that The Boss wouldn't approve of. Furthermore, MGS1 and MGS2's entire themes _REVOLVE_ around the ideal of being your own person; that people don't need to be defined by their genetics or the ideas shoved on them by others. Whereas Big Boss enforces that Venom now carries his legacy and persona, Solid Snake _implores_ Raiden to be his own man and determine who he should be rather than live up to someone else's legend - which is Venom dies bloody while Raiden continues to fight another day.

Solid Snake, more than any other Snake, embodies and carries on The Boss' will to a tee. While still a legendary soldier, Solid Snake nonetheless _ALWAYS_ fought to take down huge weapon advancements and secure peace for millions of civillian strangers, exactly what The Boss would've done. Venom did carry The Boss' loyalty, but he was loyal to a land of bloodshed and killing which The Boss was strongly _against, _ as opposed to Solid Snake's even greater loyalty to an ideal of peace and freedom.

Really, Solid Snake's final fights with Venom Snake and Big Boss were the final contests between who was the better soldier and the better suited to carrying The Boss' will. As we saw, Solid Snake emerged as the true snake eater, bringing The Boss' will out of merely a dream.

[Lucy_Ferrr]

BB: "So have you heard of memes?"
VS: "what"
BB: "never mind, that's not something you need to worry about"