MGS V: Secret recording Zero visits Snake

[@soknheith3259]

To the end of his days, Big Boss was thinking Zero hates him and fears him. But Zero actually considered him a friend. That's one hell of a character development, Kojima. What a genius guy.

[@hyzenthlay-xk9vw]

and after Big Boss woke up in MGS4, Zero is no longer able to understand him because of Skull Face's attack. in the end, they both couldn't know their true mind each other...

[@Rodrigo_As]

@@hyzenthlay-xk9vw Truly sad

[@onemanarmysswampparty]

Kojima didn't even write the series he took the credit you ass wipe

[@soknheith3259]

@@onemanarmysswampparty yes, you did! That's why you angry lmfao

[@onemanarmysswampparty]

@@soknheith3259 I did? What do you mean bro is your brain working bro you got extra chromosomes or something cause your reply is low iq af

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

This makes the scene in MGS4 with Big Boss and comatose Zero all the more sad. Both men's misinterpretation of an ideal tore them apart with a lifetime of war...and each didn't know until it was too late that the other actually regretted it...old men...full of regret... dying alone.

[@Garrus1995]

Big Boss didn’t die alone. His son was there with him when he went.

[@muhammadadlanrizaudin1697]

@@Garrus1995 his clone..not his son

[@Garrus1995]

@@muhammadadlanrizaudin1697 Oh, well now we're just splitting hairs.

[@leon4000]

@@muhammadadlanrizaudin1697 Does it matter at that point?

[@Guchi2772]

They technically died together

[@wingadept8793]

Wake up soon old friend. Time is running short... Zero's final words to Big Boss

[@Kenshiro3rd]

That awkward moment when you realize that all of Phantom Pain is basically Zero’s last gift & apology to Big Boss…

[@nathanjackson7797]

What u said 💯

[@andrewkruzienski770]

How so?

[@unknownguyindo4356]

​@@andrewkruzienski770The hospital where Venom Snake and Big Boss stayed was actually hidden by Zero pulling some strings behind the scene before XOF can discover them. You think that in a 9 year coma nobody from Government agencies with a lot of resources can find them?

[@androidmanboygaming4609]

This truly breaks my heart

[@TheUberSuperNova]

+Eldon Van Dyke Yeah just proves Zero never hated BB infact he probably loved him in a sense :/

[@maxfrankow1238]

Big Boss never knew how much Zero loved him…😢

[@CausticPainkiller]

"wake up soon, old friend..."

[@kensmith2285]

Crazy. It's amazing how this revelation really makes you feel pity for both Big Boss and zero

[@LazorJunkieninja]

This was so sad. Big boss spent almost his whole life, right up until the moment of his death wondering if Zero truly hated him, but if he had just heard this tape he would have understood they were still brothers. For me this is a perfect note for the saga of big boss to finish on, even if the latter half of Venoms story did not survive the Konami cut.

[@thatguywhosayshi7021]

3:41 **Talks about how he visited someone in the hospital after multiple of his limbs were broken and was left for dead by his Mentor and Mother-Figure who had defected to the USSR** “Ah, the good old days”

[@pj1343]

Hearing him reminisce about the days after the Virtuous Mission made me tear up a bit.

[@watcherman222]

Not to mention Zero telling Snake that if he fails Operation Snake Eater, both of them will end up on the firing squad.

[@youngfox2186]

I love how Zero calls Big Boss by his given name, giving a great sense of familiarity.

[@fakename2553]

You can here the pain in his voice

[@RaxusPrime29]

Dam Zero wasnt a bad guy but was made out to be the ultimate villain. Feel sorry for him. Guy was sentenced to such a painful existence just because of Skull Face

[@SteelBallRun1890]

I mean, he was still a bad guy. He used the Philosopher's Legacy to basically fund himself a secret ruler behind the scenes and became more corrupt and used Big Boss' image to gain influence, it's why BB left the Patriots in the first place. What wasn't his fault, was the actions of the AI Patriots that sent the world into complete disorder after his comatose.

[@annedrieck7316]

@@SteelBallRun1890 the patriots ai that misinterpetertrtert the bosess will

[@BLACULA-Skeewoah]

@@annedrieck7316 the patriots ai was programmed by sigint, designed by zero's misinterpretation of the boss' will....

[@Lansone31]

@@BLACULA-Skeewoah It was Huey's fault there, if he didn't kill Stranglove the ais would have had empathy for humans, a project she failed to complete. Probably with those ai Zero would have really managed to unite the world as The Boss wanted and maybe even make it a better place, without proxy wars and other. The problem is that, The Boss didn't want a dictator who ruled the world, but she wanted the world to decide for itself. Something that both Big Boss and Zero have never understood.

[@matasa7463]

@@Lansone31 Well, Big Boss understood it in the end. "Leave the world like we found it." He brought it back to nothing once again so it could go forward as it should.

[@g-dub5272]

I’ll never forget my mind being blown when I found out Zero was the leader of the Patriots lol

[@yaspermcglott3403]

When was it actually revealed?

[@g-dub5272]

@@yaspermcglott3403 MGS 4: Guns of the Patriots on PS3

[@yaspermcglott3403]

@@g-dub5272 thx man, I didn't watch that one yet, and I though it was said somewhere in mgs3 and I missed it

[@mr.monkey354]

@@yaspermcglott3403 mgs3 does imply he created the patriots with his passcode

[@PalozachSSJ]

This makes the scene where big boss hugs zero when he gave him a mercy death in mgs4 even more heartbreaking

[@1nc0rr1g1bl3]

That moment when you thought Zero had hatred for Big Boss. Thank god I heard these...

[@21stCenturyNabokov]

Did Zero really hate me? Or... Did he fear me? It's too late to ask him now. -Big Boss in MGS4 Sucks that BB never got to know the fact that Zero still cared about him

[@Saladin420]

2020 and these tapes hitting hard

[@MIC2077]

2024 does it still go hard?

[@rionsteiner2397]

​@@MIC2077yup

[@BasedAlarak]

​@@MIC2077YEAH BECAUSE ITS BEEN 9 YEARS (commented on December 5, 2024)

[@chinoejio]

Zero loved this guy...Big Boss had not a clue...sad

[@rachelcobb2209]

Big boss did visit zero, he released him from the pain of the chair. In the end the two buried the hatchet.

[@EhCanadianGamer]

*JACK...Can you hear me?* 5:54

[@omkarshinde1628]

Raiden?

[@RipperofRippers]

As someone named jack, this really hit me. Thought someone was actually calling me....

[@KENSHIROez3260]

@@omkarshinde1628 Big Boss and Raiden share the same name

[@waynepayne864]

@@KENSHIROez3260 well thats confusing

[@walterwishmaster4375]

Imagine if this played at the beginning of mgs4 somehow

[@fletchersykes1660]

To think, all this mess was down to miscommunication. Let thos be a lesson for us all to COMMUNICATE with the people around us to a level of full understanding and to also not harbour feelings that woukd be better expressed. Let's not keep those around us waiting, huh...before it's too late.

[@speedking7224]

Zero and big boss's feud is in a way similar to our own normal lives. How many lives are torn apart just because of miscommunication ....

[@JesusRuiz-gb4is]

​@@speedking7224is it also there views on what the boss's will was big boss thought only of soldiers who will call a place home that he build on that foundation where zero wanted peace no matter the cost both lost sight of that will and in the end both failed themselves and the boss all the while neither of them got to have a proper conversation until it was too late such a sad state of affairs

[@mr.monkey354]

if only The Boss directly said "look, all I want is a world of peace, without war and government control." then everything would be solved.

[@Useryoutube02847]

It’s sad that zero sounded like he care about big boss happiness regardless of being abandoned by him and made him upset about making clone out of him. I feel like when zero starting to declining, it was time to get thing right but long years has passed and big boss will never know except feeling pity for zero.

[@enaig07]

If big boss and zero, with all the tech and intel they have, couldve kept in touch through out the timeline, the whole mgs story line will be totally different haha.

[@BLACULA-Skeewoah]

If my mother had wheels she'd be a bicycle....

[@onemuststand7353]

It was a near impossibility. Zero kept pushing his ideals behind Big Boss's back which in turn kept making Big Boss distrust Zero.

[@tomcruz3774]

I did not expect to cry this much

[@1nc0rr1g1bl3]

I just felt disappointment and sorrow...

[@neb2901]

This just makes me think more and more that Kaz actually contacted Skullface to get to Boss. I always found it weird how he survived when Skullface sent to capture him. Tom protected us from beginning to end.

[@Itoldajokeonce]

I looked up this audio because one thing still bothers me. If Venom had his plastic surgery performed right before the attack at the hospital, and we can clearly see in the “Truth” version that the nurse and the doctor are discussing the procedure, why does zero at 1:16 ask the doctor at in this hospital “which one is he?”

[@kazhuriamiller9648]

Mega Dan maybe both of their faces were covered with bandages

[@EhCanadianGamer]

He's talking about *Phantoms* a *MENTAL COPY* :/ *THE MAN YOU KNEW DIED...HE DIED PROTECTING YOU...AND BY BECOMING YOU....HE PROTECTS YOU AGAIN* All we can do is carry the torch....this series is LITERAL TRUTH

[@cognition5133]

Bruh the guy said two years.. seven years before the attack

[@conmane3341]

@Sarincrow Now we got it that why The Patriots plan was not went as it should Because lack of the overseer to watch over it

[@AtheismF7W]

@@conmane3341 Not just that. It's also because Dr. Strangelove died before implementing things like "compassion" and "empathy" into the AI she developed which would evolve into the future AI of Sons of Liberty and Guns of the Patriots.

[@rerolol]

it's almost christmas and this message still hurts me a lot.

[@javelin6831]

So Zero wanted to make up with Big Boss? What's going on here?

[@FOXCYBORGNINJA]

Javelin After Zero and Ocelot succeeded in taking the legacy During the formation of the patroits. Zero began using own status as a high level CIA agent and big boss status as the legendary soldier in conjunction with the philosophers legacy to acquire more power. How ever in the pursuit of power Zero began to become corrupt with absolute power and somewhere around this time Big boss fell in to his first coma. I like to think that since Big boss was such an important friend and most importantly last link of the Boss by extension. He decided to have a part of big boss survive though a child. Then Big boss woke up around the time the project was having failures and Big boss found out about it had the wrong idea and told Zero to go hell and that he hated him and what he became. So in retaliation Zero had the clones repurposed to be super soldiers since Big Boss was alive and awake from his coma. Big boss to me was always the voice of reason to Zero and now that Big boss left Zero,Zero went off the deep end of the moral compass. But even though Zero went of the deep end of the moral compass he still regarded Big Boss as a friend and that one day he would return and take his rightful place by his side. Around the time of peace walker Paz began her infiltration of MSF and gaining the trust of everybody. She was ordered by Zero to hijack Zeke and threaten Big Boss to return or otherwise Zeke would fire a nuke. But I think Zero was bluffing with the whole launch a nuke and make MSF an enemy of the world in zeros eyes Big Boss would absolutely return to the patroits. So in short Zero never hated Big boss he was a irreplaceable friend and he would never hurt him.

[@dbstop9194]

This recording took place in 1977.

[@gjtrue]

It's heartbreaking Big Boss wouldn't awake for another 7 years. By then Zero was in his vegetative state and hidden by the Patriots.

[@bluesyrupgc4224]

@@gjtrue and even after 30 years later, Big Boss still didn’t know the truth, and he kept wondering if Zero hated or feared him even before his death.

[@Onlooker_J]

Zero's last visit to Snake. Snake killed Zero in 2018. the END

[@Cracknutter22]

2014*

[@1nc0rr1g1bl3]

MGS4 was set in 2014 bruh.

[@andrewlawton562]

2018 is the year where the events of metal gear rising take place

[@RoccocoVs]

Comments like this is what started MGS2

[@blindsportslover]

"A tombstone chiseled into the code of a machine. That is all I leave to mark my existence." Foreshadowing of MGS4 from a chronological perspective? Hmmmm.

[@jogabilidadeinsana1416]

Im playing MGS 3 for the first time.. but I had already finished almost oh the metal gear franchise leaving only the 3 & 4.. when I run into this in 5 the feeling was different, I knew that was special, but not that much.. and playing MGS 3 know I can understand Zero, and start liking him more. "Do you remember the fist time I visited you in a hospital?" This line hits different when you know what he is talking about.

[@MarkArandjus]

This stuff is better and more meaningful content than any mine-clearing side op or D-Walker research tree. Wish this was more of a focus.

[@bennett4789]

i love the mine clearing side ops lol

[@seanviray9653]

Real men, man to man talk

[@chagui5253]

wow, that was actualy extremly sad

[@JohnWillsJr]

Jesus christ that hit me really hard 😭

[@markjefferson9805]

it's 2021 and i just found out this, oh god,i feel wrong

[@warriorsofegyptgaming291]

Who cut the onions 😢

[@jddi1527]

I feel sad.

[@nightshadecataclysm]

for how long zero was been in the vegetative state?

[@juanlaise1059]

If we believe Zero when he says that soon he will not be able to remember Jack and assume that this conversation is years before he wakes up, it's likely that Zero has been a vegetable for 30 years.

[@fiacradoyle7474]

About 35yrs by mgs4

[@1nc0rr1g1bl3]

I think 28 but I might be wrong. Guy was old as time himself.

[@gjtrue]

This visit from Zero was in 1977 (notice the doctor says it's been 2 years since the Snakes comas) and they say by 1984 when the main events takes place, Zero's already a vegetable. So by the events of MGS4, that's about 30 years at least he's been in that state...

[@andrewlawton562]

Around when skull face was killed I am assuming but it should have been during 1984

[@bradleys8649]

So what actually happened to these tapes? i don't remember if it was explained why these tapes were "lost" which Big Boss never got to listen

[@soychidoese]

I think this was meant for the player

[@bradleys8649]

@@soychidoese I mean yes literally but in terms of story i don't think they explained it, Unless i missed something?

[@Kenshiro3rd]

I always assumed they were lost/stolen…

[@halfling49]

Most likely lost, yeah. Even with Skull Face out of the picture, it'd most likely put a kibosh on the plans for the 'real' Big Boss to be anywhere near Kaz or Venom Snake at the height of Diamond Dogs' infamy. They've all got a 'role to play,' after all, so I'm assuming that up until the Outer Heaven incident Big Boss had not interacted at all with his double.

[@trixy8669]

Big Boss only enters into one coma and that's in 1999 after Solid Snake defeats him at Zanzibar. Dr. Clark put him in a coma. He then wakes up in 2014. Zero visits him but it's not in 1977, it's actually in 2001. Zero can't recognize BB and Venom because one was burned and the other was blown to shit. They both would've been in rough shape. You can even hear a helicopter and electric doors like on the Big Shell. They're out in the middle of the damn ocean. Definitely not in Cyprus or Colombia. Venom is brainwashed and programmed into Big Boss in the 80's. Solid Snake defeats Venom in 1995 and blows Venom up. As Venom lay dying, he's drifting in and out of hypnogogic sleep. He thinks its 1984 and relives his experiences as Big Boss. This is what the player experiences. That's the game. Venom's programming, memory, and brain damage from the Nato bombing at Outer Heaven blur Venom's perception. As Ocelot says, Venom died for Big Boss and is on a journey to Hell. Venom's subconscious tries to tell him this through hallucinating Paz. Paz too thinks its a different time, 1975. She ignores whatever doesn't fit her internal timeline. Venom is blocking out fighting Solid Snake and being blown up because it's too traumatic and the brain damage he suffered has altered his personality. He was programmed as Big Boss to begin with so as his personality begins to break apart due to trauma pieces of his identity as Medic comes through periodically. That's why sometimes he looks in the mirror and sees Big Boss and other times he sees himself. The shrapnel in his body is from Solid Snake blowing him to shit. In truth Venom is without limbs and periodically feels pain in them. This pain is probably reframed in his mind as the memories of fighting. Just like dipping someone's hand in water and having them urinate as they sleep. Venom's experience is solely in his mind. His body, movements, hallucinations, and even fantasies are only in his mind. Just as he feels pain from limbs that aren't there, so too he experiences the shock, horror, and trauma from a life he never lived. That's the true phantom pain.

[@wraith58]

So everything we went through in TPP was in Venom Snake's mind? Was it all just a hallucination?

[@bvq330]

@@wraith58 No. I'm not sure what this guy's talking about.

[@wraith58]

​@@bvq330 If what they said was true, it would be the biggest plot twist in the history of the game.

[@jh5088]

It wasn't zeros fault and ocelot is the true aire to big boss damn...... ! Naked NO Im talking about about Voyevoda Son......Adam aka Ocelot!

[@TheInfiniteNine]

Who is zero talking to in the beginning? Is that supposed to be ocelot but at a younger age since this seems to be about 2 years after the attack on mother base in 1975. Definitely sounds older than ocelot in 1964 during operation snake eater and definitely not as old as he is during the phantom pain in 1984. It's my guess that its ocelot.

[@miladtalakoob5304]

I think we can safely assume that he is indeed Ocelot, since Zero says something along the line of "I've left the ocelot to keep guard for you"

[@theunknownuser9609]

It's the doctor from the first cutscene of Mission 46. The one that says "He's stabilized. But we took too long. He's in a coma"

[@TheInfiniteNine]

@@theunknownuser9609 good catch

[@jhonrock2386]

Question: In that "Skull Face and Zero" it is pretty clear that Skull Face poisoned Zero, but, what was the point of it? From what I could understand from the "Paz and Zero" record, he was already dying of something.

[@hardyhardyha5767]

I don't think he was dying in the Paz tape, but just having bad health issues. If you think about it, it makes sense he'd already be suffering from medical problems regardless of being poisoned. He's one of the biggest players in world politics because of his position in the Patriots. That also makes him a massive target for assassination plots. Paranoia would have to be wearing his mental health down. Nearly all of his closest allies and friends have either abandoned him or are dead, including Snake who he considered his best friend. So he doesn't really have anyone important in his life. He's constantly moving around from shelter to shelter to evade any possible pursuers, meaning not only does he not have a steady home to build connections, but he'd probably be suffering fatigue on a regular basis from so much moving. This has also probably caused further damage to his mental and physical health. All of this coupled with the fact he's now an old man and not as naturally healthy as he once was, it's not too hard to believe his body is giving him a hard time.

[@Kenshiro3rd]

The point was to strip him of his core by stripping him of his language, the same way he did Skullface... to imprison him in a body unable to think, speak, or understand ANYTHING, because the language/program it used to process everything was deleted.

[@tommya10]

danm this hit me

[@TheAziMax]

Who Major Zero send to Africa??

[@IAmTehEllie]

+TheAziMax skullface. the man who attacked him

[@TheAziMax]

Humm thanks! When I heard this Cassete Tape I don't understand that, but now makes sense. Thanks for the info mate!

[@reconnaissanc3]

+TheAziMax Zero came to visit snake while he was in a coma. After skullface betrayal he knew he had not much time, he came to talk with his last true friend. He never hated bb thats why he secured everything, he arranged his security and ocelot as a guard all the charade with phantom snake. Thats why this is V the venom snake. The firs like V has awaken was that doppler was awake and everything was in motion. After that zero diped to cipher witch evolved to lalulelo Guns of patriots

[@doktor3196]

I didn't like MGS5 that much in terms of lore contribution except for this one tape.

[@JaviRichtofen7thst]

0:29 anyone know who that is? and who voices him?

[@DoctorDudePhD]

I recognize the voice as one of the surgeons from the trailer and from The Man Who Sold The World mission. Don't know who voices him though.

[@themcknox]

Who was Zero talking to here other than Big Boss?

[@Jarock316]

Ocelot.

[@themcknox]

@@Jarock316 nah, thats not Troy Baker..

[@MrHatman26]

Probably a doctor.

[@RomZruleTeHworld]

There was a theory that this was not before the events of MGSV but actually happened after the events of Solid snake

[@s0m3onesomewhere]

You mean after MGS 1? I believe at that period of time Zero was like a vegetable and couldn't do nothing, even talk. But if you have a video or topic on reddit or somewhere else it would be interesting to read/watch.

[@Souleater564]

Nah wrong

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

that theory makes no sense.

[@Lucas-hd3rv]

So how can ahab be listening to it?

[@Kenshiro3rd]

No. This tape directly contradicts that theory… referencing the fact that he had just sent Skullface to Africa, and moved BB & V to Cyprus. That happened WELL before the events of MG1, much less MG2.

[@ahabsuffer5044]

How old zero at the time?

[@johnm4102]

He would be 66-68 years at this time

[@666EDMUNDO]

How can I find/get this tape?

[@adriantorres5938]

You need to beat the game

[@1nc0rr1g1bl3]

I believe by finishing it.

[@ShiivGaming]

:((((

[@jakepitts6282]

#TimeWinters

[@nimbus503]

Is zero talking to the actual big boss or venom snake?

[@g.t.nlastwish8410]

Major Zero is talking to Naked Snake the real big boss

[@thomasmorris8102]

Where is zero?

[@joepearson6644]

It doesn't sound like zero not one bit

[@_Nilrem_]

Not the same VA from MGS3. In fact, he refused to return, as Konami didn't agree to his payment terms.

[@ThumbSipper]

Ok, this is cute and all, but... who exactly is recording this? And how did Venom even get the tape?

[@theunknownuser9609]

Same answer as to why the hell the characters in game tell Snake about what buttons to press like if they knew it's a videogame. Same answer as to how the characters in Codec know what the playable character is seeing even though the Codec it's just audio. It's for the player.

[@ThumbSipper]

@@theunknownuser9609 lame...

[@theunknownuser9609]

@@ThumbSipper Just move on with your life hater.

[@ThumbSipper]

@@theunknownuser9609 what? It's a cop out answer that doesn't actually explain anything 😂. I'm a mgs fan but you don't have to be to realise that to put a tape (an in universe prop) of the most secretive man on the planet in a different character's pocket with no explanation other then "nah, just roll with it" is poor storytelling, and I'm not being a blind hater for pointing it out. You are being an uncritical fanboy for taking it personally tough, so I would suggest you move on with your life...

[@thomasmorris8102]

What is zero?

[@sakarinieminen3205]

A number that indicates nothing, written as 0

[@alexlemus2559]

Never happen this game lore don't make sense I think your in vr by solid or frank