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About
“A Weapon to Surpass Metal Gear” is a phrase that was said at the end of the E3 2013 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain extended trailer. The phrase is often used to describe abnormal machinery/weapons and because of it’s ambiguity, it has lead to many online discussions about what could actually surpass a metal gear. Because of it’s use in the trailer, videos of with the phrase often contain the song Sins of Our Father playing in the background.
Origin
On June 10th at E3 2013, Konami presented an extended version of the trailer was played at the Microsoft Panel. After the end of the credit sequence in the trailer, Snake is heard saying the phrase before riding off on a robot. On June 11th, the trailer was uploaded to Konami’s YouTube (shown below).
Snake: He mentioned something interesting, Cypher is pursuing new research. He claims what they’re doing in Africa is the missing piece, a weapon to surpass metal gear."
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On July 18th, 2014, YouTuber Yuyu13379 uploaded a video with the phrase as the title of their video which showed a remote controlled dildo machine powering up and driving to a woman’s car window before spinning wildly (shown below, left). The video gained 169,000 views and 3,400 likes since being uploaded. On February 2nd, 2015, YouTuber João Mostarda uploaded a video called “A /v/ to surpass Metal Gear” as a collaboration video of many Besiege contraptions (shown below, right). The video gained 333,000 views and 6,000 likes in three months.
Discussion about the phrase can be found on sites like The Metal Gear Wikia[1], Metal Gear Informer[2], IGN[3], and 4chan boards[4].
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External References
[1]Metal Gear Wikia – A Weapon to Surpass Metal Gear
[2]Metal Gear Informer – E3 2013 Trailer Discussion
[3]IGN– A Weapon to Surpass Metal Gear and V Theory
[4]4chan Archives – Posts containing A Weapon to Surpass Metal Gear