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Kept you waiting, huh?
— Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty • 2001
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The joke is aimed at us. Snake isn't greeting a comrade, he's greeting the audience that waited three years for a sequel, in a series that loves breaking its own fourth wall. That wink made it a signature: fans heard it as Snake's pledge to show up, and it is the line other games borrow when they want him to arrive with the right swagger.
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In context
Spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyShow the scene
At the opening of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Solid Snake greets the player with this line, and the Metal Gear wiki notes the same line recurs at the start of Metal Gear Solid 3 once certain objectives are met, treating it as a subtle fourth-wall break. The sequel arrived in 2001, three years after the first game. Snake also says it in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Subspace Emissary mode, when he first becomes playable; on some discs, the voice is oddly blurred out.
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- Metal Gear wiki: Similarities between gamesNotes on recurring linesReference checked
- Metal Gear wiki: Solid SnakeSuper Smash Bros. Brawl noteReference checked
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