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You're Pretty Good
MGS Dialogue

The Lightning in the Rain
Senator Armstrong
Big Boss
Cardboard Boxes: A perfect encapsulation of everything Metal Gear stands for. Stealth, absurdity, utility, and iconic design all rolled into one. I once saw someone describe this series as 'military surrealism,' and I think that's the best way to put it. To take a joke from literal cartoons and turn it into an integral element of your seemingly serious series, it would be like if Star Trek just had Martians show up for no reason. Like, little green aliens walking around, being just an uncommented-upon part of the world.

What a Thrill
Jetstream Sam: Everyone loves rival characters. The guy who just has the same skills as you, who looks kind of like you and has a similar personality, but twisted in some way. Vergil, Vegeta, Gary, Bass, Knuckles, Ken... I could go on, I guess, but I won't. The point is mainly that 'character who is like you, but twisted toward evil slightly, and is also handsome' will always be popular and compelling. And yeah, I DID notice that all of the other bosses are ripped apart, while Sam is merely stabbed and looks dead, so that he could return in a sequel that never happened. MGR needs a sequel, dammit. Regardless, yeah, I even like the idea of everyone being 99% robot because it's more efficient, then Sam is 99% human and can just fight them anyway because he's That Good.
Liquid Snake Explains Big Chungus: 10/10 on the voices, they only sounded off a few times, and I was listening for it. 10/10 on nailing how MGS presents information and the bizarre things it views as critical. Overall, very strong. I particularly appreciate the slight pause while the game loads cutscenes. This is more in-keeping with MGS lore and style than half the series.
Memes: I'm not sure if you mean MG memes you post online, or memes as they exist in the game as brought up by the characters. I'll just assume the latter. Yeah, this is pretty intense, sometimes Kojima really does a good job of predicting things. I remember reading in college about the original conception and meaning of memes (this was before the word meme was codified as 'silly repostable thing on the internet'), and not really caring, but Kojima really understood right away, so props to him. Oh, and yeah, "the memes, Jack." Monsoon is a character who makes the most out of the five seconds he has. Nominate him and I'll spend the whole time comparing him to Fatman or something.

You're All Diamonds
Bladewolf: A good addition. Raiden teaches him a little about humanity, Bladewolf eventually has his moment at the end where he gives you a sword that's inexplicably better than yours (oh, sorry, I forgot that it's totally explained as "it's forged from a katana so it's unbreakable lol"), and he has his little DLC where he kills... that one guy? I don't even remember that guy's name, and I remember everyone's names. Oh well. Bladewolf is fun, but he's not one of the major, memorable parts of his own game, never mind the series. I can't think of a single Bladewolf meme, whereas every other character in his game is overflowing with jokes.
Codecs in Smash: Here's why Snake works better for this than Pit: Snake is, at least nominally, a normal man from a normal world. Him interacting with wacky cartoon things is therefore inherently funny. Having Otacon analyze a magical being from a science perspective, or Campbell give dead serious advice on how to fight a turtle monster, is automatically funny. You don't need to add jokes because the setup is already the joke. It also helps that if you've played the series, you know that MGS is less serious than it seems, and that Snake actually does fit in quite well -- I'm not even sure what I'd call the most 'normal' series in the game. Compare this to Pit, who's from another wacky cartoon world and is therefore unsurprisable. Imagine if there was a TV/film crossover, right? Imagine if Bugs Bunny was commenting to Porky Pig about how strange Spongebob is. It would be mildly humorous. Then imagine if instead of Bugs Bunny, it's Dominic Toretto from Fast and Furious. It's just automatically a better setup, no matter the quality of the writing. Not getting new Codecs in Ultimate was a big disappointment, but Snake returning was such a surprise I was okay with it anyway.