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Regarding the frog, it is also becuase there is a saying in Japan that goes "if you hear a frog croak, it will rain". カエルが鳴くと雨が降る予兆 So Volgin removes the frog before it calls for rain. He appears to be quite superstitious, and for a Russian, very familiar with Japanese folklore.
My headcanon is that Volgin picked up the superstition is because he took part in the Russian invasion of Manchuria at the end of WWII and may have been in charge of processing prisoners of war. He may have learned the superstition from them and something related happened that shook him up on the matter.
So here am I, a 35 year old man born at the same day as the first Metal Gear, learning something new from a game that's almost 20 year old. Kojima is an absolute monster of a writer.
There are also water pipes on the catwalk above you can shoot to drip water on him, and if he does a lightning attack you can throw a glowing mushroom to redirect the attack (has to be thrown during the attack)
As a kid I had a hard time understanding the English in the game since I'm Brazilian, and after all these years I thought of this as a English word I couldn't figure out. You brought so many memories right now
Eu não entendiia muito também, mas no meu caso eu achava que era algo em russo rsrsrs Ainda que não compreendesse totalmente, esse na época já era o melhor jogo de todos pra mim.
it's not so much that the game failed to explain it. they're clearly using a Japanese word while " speaking Russian", that should be the dead give away to pop open the google xD
You have a point, there is very little hints in explaining Kuwabara. Just enough to make the brain tick & maybe piece it together. That aside younger me had a suspicion about Kuwabara back then but think much other than "Must be a special saying for something". & then I figured it out after researching further into Metal Gear. Still love the depth of the ideas that go into the small details of Metal Gear.
So dope how you can still find things out about metal gear after all these years. Python selkan is the king of metal gear content ⚙️⚙️⚙️ 👑👑👑. Salute 💯👍
"kuwabara kuwabara" is actually a Japanese phrase used to ward off lightning. It's funny actually, because the one time Volgin doesn't say it during a thunder storm he gets struck by lighting.
The little details in the MGS series will never cease to amaze me I've never once thought much of Volgin repeating that Great video, I love these kinds of things
They talked about Ocelot being the Boss son in a very implicit way during a non-mandatory codec call. Also, the way she slaps him really remind me of a mom punishing his own son.
@T.elegram_me_PythonSelkan we don't deal with fakes , we just eliminate them here on Pythonselkan, we're doublespeak is a well-versed subject. Prepare to be Doxed intruder. HIDEO
Strangely, I remember back in 2004 I read on the Internet that the phrase was used when seeing a ghost. It made sense because the first time Volgin says it you can go into first person view and see The Sorrow.
You can't keep escaping forever. One way or the other, sooner or later, life will find the way. Volgin was hot-headed in hot pursuit after Snake. He was so careless before the rain... and then he was on fire. He thought he was the storm that is approaching, but instead of lighting he was just a thunder. Loud, but short.
I heard about this through some fact videos/webpages years ago, but I'm glad to see that this game still cultivates enough interest in 2023 to have videos made about it's enormous number of hidden details and easter eggs. It really does reward it's players with an extreme attention to detail, perhaps not so impressive in the age of Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTAV V, but for a game made in 2004 on humble PS2 hardware, this game was vastly ahead of it's time.
I feel like the aversion to rain worsened in MGSV. Back when his powers were electric based, he was scared of lighting. Rain was a warning. When he was struck, he was lit on fire, literally frying the electricity in him. Now what he is based with fire, rain isn't a warning anymore, but an additional threat. His fears doubled up on him.
What a great video. I knew about the meaning of Kuwabara it being more or less like "Rain rain go away come back another day". But using the Tree Frog in the boss fight thats new. I do not belive I would have ever figured that out. Thanks.
A cool little detail I noticed is how the Sorrow's presence is made clear by rain approaching. Hence, the Sorrow is ensuring that Volgin's full wrath doesn't incur onto Snake.
Hmm that’s very interesting…. In the MGS3 strategy guide under Volgin’s profile it states that kuabrawa or however you spell it., meant he was saying “the horror the horror” .so this very cool, the guide was wrong
SPOILER ALERT!!! I think I didn't know Yevgeniy Borisovich was out of control of young Psycho Mantis before Sahelanthropus fight. Another written MGSV plot analysis implies he went under moving platform by his own will; also was impressed by his moment of revelation when he was shown for a second as his live "БЕИ" form & realized Venom Snake wasn't Big Boss. Well, at least he permanently chills out on quarantine platform without any need for vengeance, right? Sort of win-win situation? `\_("/)_/` P.S. That's weird, there's some kind of spam bot with "You've won a prize" messages almost under every comment.
This level of detail is what I miss in video games. Kojima made one of the most influencial gaming master pieces and it's a shame that even he admits that he won't be able to do what he was able to at Konami. His team was just on a another level being able to fulfill his vision and give feedback.
La le lu li lo is great. I love the idea that they take the joke that English and Japanese pronounce "L" and "R" differently and intentionally name the organization something that will confuse the A.I.
On the tree frog one, in Vietnam, there’s a story about a frog asking god for rain. I’m not sure if Japan has the same or similar myth like that. Maybe the tree frog is a reference to it.
If you notice on the bridge (at the beginning of the video), Volgin is only comfortable with zapping minor electric bolts whilst it's raining because he's literally stood on a wood bridge? I always assumed it was because wood is not a very good conducter, but I now believe it is most likely a reference to the tree too, but he still says Kuwabara just in case lol! I did know about Kuwabara and the frog, but I didn't know about the type of tree! This is an awesome video! Thank you ❤️
OMG and i thought i knew every little detail about metal gear series ... yet i always find out something new every time this series is beyond amazing as always
Didn't know about the tree frog but I did my research about the word "Kuwabara" after playing MGS3. Cool details like personal superstitions adds personality to the characters.
I dead ass said "I Kno everything 🧐"........and umm I knew this but not in that detail up to MgsV. My love for Mgs is skyrocketing And if you love Metal Gear this is the spot💯
Wow. Never knew about the tree frog thing. I remember looking up Kuwabara on the internet but didn’t find anything at the time. Kojima really makes art
Great video! Fun and informative. Have you guys found any significance to the Japanese train stations that have been repeated in the games, like the part with Ocelot at the beginning of your video?
I GET IT NOW! i dont know why or how i didnt think of this before! fire IS "plasma", just a low energy variant of it, plasma can be molded, ceated, and controlled, by electricity. volgun, using his power over electricity, he can create ionized pathways in the air, and then, "zap" them with enough juice to turn the air into a plasma, which catches the air, and stuff around him on fire. and thats how volgun became the "man on fire" even though his power is the ability to control electricity.
There's a link to the Skull parasite units and the rain as well. Code Talker tells us that the parasite works by constantly shedding salts into the atmosphere in order to continue their internal processes. If the surrounding atmosphere is then made unable to accept more salts in the air, ie. if it starts raining or relative humidity gets too high, these parasites cease to function on a molecular level. In the case of the Man on Fire, when all the water from the sprinkler hits his body and the flames, the produced steam would perhaps make the atmosphere around his body unsuitable for the continued functioning of the parasites in his body that keep him "alive," or at least animated. Later on in the game you get the chance to test water out on Volgin, and you can see it does indeed stun him if you douse him with enough, which to me says his parasites are on the fritz when he gets near water. That may be a function of him being "undead" as the Man on Fire, and thus mostly made of just parasites, compared to the probably more-human less-parasite version of Volgin we saw in MGS3.
I always heard it was about a vengeful spirit that became a lightning god after being killed. I know the wiki for this phrase backs this up though I currently don't have a link to other sources. From Wikipedia In the 9th century, there was a Japanese aristocrat called Sugawara no Michizane. Sugawara Michizane, who died bearing a heavy grudge after being trapped and exiled to Kyushu, threw his fierce anger in the form of his thunderbolts as a god of lightning. In 930, Seiryoden of the court was struck by a large thunderbolt. The master of onmyo said that this misfortune was the work of the vengeful spirit of Michizane. Those who trapped Michizane trembled with fear and tried to placate the curse by dedicating a prayer to his vengeful ghost, thus leading to the construction of Kitano Shrine. The land that Michizane owned was known as Kuwabara, so people thought it would be a good idea to claim the land he/she was standing on was a part of Kuwabara, so that Michizane would be hesitant to strike his own people. People of such an era chanted "Kuwabara, Kuwabara" when they heard the rumble of thunder as a method of reminding Michizane not to strike them. This saying often appears in the literature of the Heian period, with elements such as "Tsureduregusa", a spell to cast away thunder. The very people living in Kuwabara at that time relied on the Kuwabara spell and the land of Kuwabara is said to have remained unharmed by lightning for that reason.
A lot of people keep asking about Volgin's powers: It was inferred (I think) with Mantis and the other members of the Cobra unit that they were gifted from birth. There is also a belief that a battlefield exists somewhere between life and death. So powers are then amplified or make more sense to them once they experience being on the battlefield. The Cobra Unit (The Boss, The Sorrow, The Fury, The Fear and The End) also exist somewhere between life and death, as they went their separate ways but The Boss brings them back. Even though she doesn't tell Volgin or Snake, I believe the Cobra Unit always knew The Boss' missions and refused to leave her. This life and death thing is also experienced by many soldiers, a lot of soldiers say they have been led safely through unmarked minefields by soldiers that have died elsewhere. Also Mantis was experimented on and unfortunately there was a lot of experimenting on soldiers back then too. A lot of the people did also volunteer for the experiments. As Volgin was already the son of this major military figure, I suspect he may have volunteered, or maybe he was volunteered by his father. Any 'success' wouldn't have been 'documented' necessarily either. Volgin also seems to know exactly how much electricity can be contained in his body, which means he's probably tested it a lot, or he was told the numbers during the experiment. I hope this helps to understand Volgin's powers? Edit: also the human body is well known for being a good conductor. That is why electricity can be so harmful to us. Also it wasn't the thunder or lightning that he was afraid of, it was the rain that often comes with thunder and/or lightning. Water is an excellent conducter, and once Volgin was in the rain, if he discharged any electricity and he wasn't grounded (like standing on the wooden bridge) he was kind of screwed. He was also physically holding electrical wires that were still attached and physically standing on a giant metal machine. Metal is also a great conducter. He was stuck in the loop and was unable to stop the electricity, even if he did somehow stop it, there still was electricity in the machine, and water everywhere, and he fried himself. The Man on Fire was one of two things: a corpse of a man that had already been experimented on, that was then retrieved and clearly further experimented on (after what happened after the boss fight with Snake), being animated by a combination of Mantis, early nano machines (maybe?), and the virus thing what's name escapes me..? Or Snake watched Volgin as he died and Mantis being able to read minds, control AND manipulate people, used that memory of Volgin to torment Venom as The Man on Fire in mgs5, as it clearly haunted Snake, so Mantis played on that. Mantis went with The Man on Fire to mother base and was almost always there, which is why Venom believed The Man on Fire was on the base and may have tricked the others on base to see the corpse too? I could keep going, but this mgs rabbit hole knows no bounds 😂 it makes as much sense as anything else, really? We love the madness! 🤣
I remember this channel as the one with the crazy conspiracy-esque theories that no one in their right mind would ever consider real. Now I've actually learned something really cool about MGS that I didn't know. Way to go, PythonSelkan, way to go. I salut you.
I didn't know about that one. But I think it's strange that the lightning bolt kind of makes him weaker. Before that he was fine during rain, but in MGSV he is defenseless against it.
Actually it is explained in game as that's how I heard about it. There's a codec call about it. Been years since I went through all the codec calls so can't remember the location and who you call but they definitely at least explain it's a superstitious ward against lightning. Still pretty odd for a Soviet officer to know about obscure Japanese superstitions though.
In Japan the myth is the mulberry trees don't get struck by lightning. And that word is literally mulberry in Japanese. It's a good thing to say to ward off a lightning strike in a storm. The series of names ocelot says are prefectures of Japan. Specifically the ones Kojima would visit in order to get to work I believe. There is no reasonable explanation for la lu la lo other than being able to tell who is a patriot agent or not as the nanomachines wont allow their agents to speak the name "patriot".
years ago, I tried looking up what kuwabara kuwabara meants on google translate or something, and it said "the horror, the horror", which even then I felt was fitting for Volgin's personality
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Excellent video guys, thanks for the info, i didnt know at all what it means✌
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Hey @PythonSelkan Volgin should be in Street Fighter 6 or Tekken 8, don´t you think?
Regarding the frog, it is also becuase there is a saying in Japan that goes "if you hear a frog croak, it will rain".
カエルが鳴くと雨が降る予兆
So Volgin removes the frog before it calls for rain. He appears to be quite superstitious, and for a Russian, very familiar with Japanese folklore.
My headcanon is that Volgin picked up the superstition is because he took part in the Russian invasion of Manchuria at the end of WWII and may have been in charge of processing prisoners of war. He may have learned the superstition from them and something related happened that shook him up on the matter.
SO WAIT. Is the man literally chanting rain rain go away?
Yes
Pretty much. That's why he got struck by lightning at the end. "Who's afraid of a little thunder" then zap.
@@spiranomad The ONE time he doesn't say "Kuwabara kuwabara"
Yeah but then it came back another day
Pretty much
So here am I, a 35 year old man born at the same day as the first Metal Gear, learning something new from a game that's almost 20 year old. Kojima is an absolute monster of a writer.
Could be the co-writers.
@@malik87breaker Dude disappeared for 4 and 5. So that might explain the possible quality dip
I’m 34, and I feel the same😁
31 here I am 🎉
@@Disissid19 there is a youtube video. Where they talk about, that Kojima can't hold back. lol
I never knew you can throw a tree frog at him to distract him?! This is why I love this series.
There are also water pipes on the catwalk above you can shoot to drip water on him, and if he does a lightning attack you can throw a glowing mushroom to redirect the attack (has to be thrown during the attack)
@@gourrythecrazy that's crazy haha
Now I need to try it!
That’s insane! I felt like I knew most boss secrets but didn’t know that at all.
@@gourrythecrazy there's water pipes above??
@@bottlemanic on the catwalk Ocelot is watching from
As a kid I had a hard time understanding the English in the game since I'm Brazilian, and after all these years I thought of this as a English word I couldn't figure out.
You brought so many memories right now
Eu não entendiia muito também, mas no meu caso eu achava que era algo em russo rsrsrs
Ainda que não compreendesse totalmente, esse na época já era o melhor jogo de todos pra mim.
@@Willian_Boa_Tarde pra mim ainda está no top 3 logo atrás de Shadow of Colossus e a frente de Lego Star Wars
@Gabriel Gouvêa nop, nunca, só sei do plot por conta de terceiros
Ya I knew about this. My father was stationed in japan and explained to me as a kid what it meant
for some reason i read this in David Hayter's Solid Snake voice.
@@ArtofLunatik Me too what the hell
@@ArtofLunatik 😂
it's not so much that the game failed to explain it. they're clearly using a Japanese word while " speaking Russian", that should be the dead give away to pop open the google xD
@@HopeyDiamond google wasnt as readilly available as it is today back then
You have a point, there is very little hints in explaining Kuwabara. Just enough to make the brain tick & maybe piece it together. That aside younger me had a suspicion about Kuwabara back then but think much other than "Must be a special saying for something". & then I figured it out after researching further into Metal Gear. Still love the depth of the ideas that go into the small details of Metal Gear.
So dope how you can still find things out about metal gear after all these years. Python selkan is the king of metal gear content ⚙️⚙️⚙️ 👑👑👑. Salute 💯👍
That means a lot! Thanks so much 😊🙏
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Look at me I only knew the Raikov mask and the Glow mushroom “weapon” lol
Definitely super interesting. Never did the research on the meaning of that phase but I’m glad you shared! Keep them coming!!
Glad you liked it! Many thanks 😊🙏
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His name? Kuwabara Kuwabara. His motto? Kuwabara Kuwabara.
Kuwabara "Kuwabara Kuwabara" Kuwabara
-Voiced by Kuwabara Kuwabara
@@pomponi0 😆
Look Vegeta a pokemooon. It's a kuwabara!
"kuwabara kuwabara" is actually a Japanese phrase used to ward off lightning. It's funny actually, because the one time Volgin doesn't say it during a thunder storm he gets struck by lighting.
The little details in the MGS series will never cease to amaze me
I've never once thought much of Volgin repeating that
Great video, I love these kinds of things
Did you notice that "Tree Frog" is the part of Snake Eater Theme Song
i dont thing it failed, it just didnt want to explain. the game didnt even say ocelot was boss' son, we had to figure it out by connecting the dots.
They talked about Ocelot being the Boss son in a very implicit way during a non-mandatory codec call. Also, the way she slaps him really remind me of a mom punishing his own son.
The intro gives you a hint some day you'll go through the rain, some day you'll feed on a tree frog and both help you against volgin
Thanks, guys the meaning of that phrase has haunted me for year's I tried looking it up but never got answers. It's why the brothers are the best.
Glad to hear you finally found your answer! 🐍 Many thanks for the kind support 😊🙏
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@T.elegram_me_PythonSelkan we don't deal with fakes , we just eliminate them here on Pythonselkan, we're doublespeak is a well-versed subject.
Prepare to be Doxed intruder. HIDEO
Strangely, I remember back in 2004 I read on the Internet that the phrase was used when seeing a ghost. It made sense because the first time Volgin says it you can go into first person view and see The Sorrow.
I'll keep note of that bit with the tree frog for Volgin. That's kinda neat.
You can't keep escaping forever. One way or the other, sooner or later, life will find the way.
Volgin was hot-headed in hot pursuit after Snake. He was so careless before the rain... and then he was on fire.
He thought he was the storm that is approaching, but instead of lighting he was just a thunder. Loud, but short.
I heard about this through some fact videos/webpages years ago, but I'm glad to see that this game still cultivates enough interest in 2023 to have videos made about it's enormous number of hidden details and easter eggs. It really does reward it's players with an extreme attention to detail, perhaps not so impressive in the age of Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTAV V, but for a game made in 2004 on humble PS2 hardware, this game was vastly ahead of it's time.
I feel like the aversion to rain worsened in MGSV. Back when his powers were electric based, he was scared of lighting. Rain was a warning. When he was struck, he was lit on fire, literally frying the electricity in him. Now what he is based with fire, rain isn't a warning anymore, but an additional threat. His fears doubled up on him.
Been a fan of this series for well over a decade and learn new stuff ALL THE TIME! I'm convinced we'll never know the complete secrets to these games.
What a great video. I knew about the meaning of Kuwabara it being more or less like "Rain rain go away come back another day". But using the Tree Frog in the boss fight thats new. I do not belive I would have ever figured that out. Thanks.
Someday you'll feed on a tree frog it's the ordeal and trial to survive *FOR THE DAY WE SEE NEW LIGHT!!!*
I would like to have a moment of silence for Mission J. Frog :(
A cool little detail I noticed is how the Sorrow's presence is made clear by rain approaching. Hence, the Sorrow is ensuring that Volgin's full wrath doesn't incur onto Snake.
Hit by lightning bolt the ONLY time he didn't say Kuwabara
There isn't a video game Hideo hasn't touched that doesn't have some form of poetry tied into it
so its the rain ...i thought it was a word to keep away ghosts, considering every time he said it The Sorrow was also there
3:32 they were also "shocked"
I really like your content. Never heard of the tree frog interactions with volgin! I hope you help us decipher the next Death Stranding !
Did you know you can CQC him?
Hmm that’s very interesting…. In the MGS3 strategy guide under Volgin’s profile it states that kuabrawa or however you spell it., meant he was saying “the horror the horror” .so this very cool, the guide was wrong
SPOILER ALERT!!!
I think I didn't know Yevgeniy Borisovich was out of control of young Psycho Mantis before Sahelanthropus fight. Another written MGSV plot analysis implies he went under moving platform by his own will; also was impressed by his moment of revelation when he was shown for a second as his live "БЕИ" form & realized Venom Snake wasn't Big Boss.
Well, at least he permanently chills out on quarantine platform without any need for vengeance, right? Sort of win-win situation? `\_("/)_/`
P.S. That's weird, there's some kind of spam bot with "You've won a prize" messages almost under every comment.
Bots like those have been popping up for some time now. They impersonate every UA-camr, even small ones.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v and yt doesn’t care
@@__TK___ Bots are really hard to handle, from what I've heard regarding TF2's own bot problem.
Did you get your prize already?
kuwabara is also used to ward off spirits, and The Sorrow is often nearby when he says it in MGS3
an everytime hes around it rains
If you're a YuYuHakusho fan, you're pretty familiar with that kind of meaning
This level of detail is what I miss in video games.
Kojima made one of the most influencial gaming master pieces and it's a shame that even he admits that he won't be able to do what he was able to at Konami. His team was just on a another level being able to fulfill his vision and give feedback.
La le lu li lo is great. I love the idea that they take the joke that English and Japanese pronounce "L" and "R" differently and intentionally name the organization something that will confuse the A.I.
I knew this stuff, I thought I learned it from a conversation in-game, but maybe I didn't.
Still learning stuff about these games after all these years.
On the tree frog one, in Vietnam, there’s a story about a frog asking god for rain. I’m not sure if Japan has the same or similar myth like that.
Maybe the tree frog is a reference to it.
If you notice on the bridge (at the beginning of the video), Volgin is only comfortable with zapping minor electric bolts whilst it's raining because he's literally stood on a wood bridge? I always assumed it was because wood is not a very good conducter, but I now believe it is most likely a reference to the tree too, but he still says Kuwabara just in case lol!
I did know about Kuwabara and the frog, but I didn't know about the type of tree! This is an awesome video! Thank you ❤️
OMG and i thought i knew every little detail about metal gear series ... yet i always find out something new every time this series is beyond amazing as always
This is why metal gear solid 3 is the best game ever. I keep learning new shit even 20 years after release.
My biggest takeaway from this video is that I forgot how badass the music of this game is and I need to play it again
Cool man.. i didn't knew this with the frog..it's such a old game by now and there is still so many to discover
Great job i always enjoyed Volgin as an antagonist and this just adds a great layer to him thats kinda funny in a way
There's a lot things mg3 didn't explain. Usually they cut bits for time which give more context.
Never knew this easter egg about the tree frog thank you!
That's a really cool fact. I played the game really often but I never reserch what Kuwabara means. Thanks for explaining 😎
Never knew about this fact about the name Kuwabara, Neat.
Thank you for this. As one of the biggest metal gear fans, to know something new is always such a great welcome.
Didn't know about the tree frog but I did my research about the word "Kuwabara" after playing MGS3. Cool details like personal superstitions adds personality to the characters.
Maybe Volgan was just a big fan of YuYu Hakasho 🤔
I always thought it was a reference to YuYu Hakusho. Two decades later, and Kojima-sama is still surprising me.
even after so many years, there are still so many details in mgs3 that i can find
I was wondering about this for so long, thanks!!
"Obscure Japanese mythology reference!"
I’ve beaten this game probably 100 times or more. And never knew this
This is vitamin for me! I love your videos, greetings from Honduras!
GG soldier
Thanks so much! 😊🙏
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I dead ass said "I Kno everything 🧐"........and umm I knew this but not in that detail up to MgsV.
My love for Mgs is skyrocketing
And if you love Metal Gear this is the spot💯
Dude I’m jumping right now out of happiness lol. A mgs 3 video of pythonselkan? Missed it
Another fun fact about the Volgin fight: you can throw Glowing Mushrooms at him and they absorb some of his lightning attacks for a short period
I was literally thinking about this yesterday as I replayed the games...
Get out of my walls!
@PythonSelkan you the hero of all of us metal gear fans. Thank you for your commitment to our community and keeping the metal gear saga alive ❤️
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Wow. Never knew about the tree frog thing. I remember looking up Kuwabara on the internet but didn’t find anything at the time. Kojima really makes art
If you wear the mask, he will begin to shack, unable to fight you. But then he does more damage if you do this
It's also said that Frogs or Toads bring the rain,which is why he panics if he sees one during the fight.
Great video! Fun and informative. Have you guys found any significance to the Japanese train stations that have been repeated in the games, like the part with Ocelot at the beginning of your video?
I GET IT NOW! i dont know why or how i didnt think of this before!
fire IS "plasma", just a low energy variant of it, plasma can be molded, ceated, and controlled, by electricity.
volgun, using his power over electricity, he can create ionized pathways in the air, and then, "zap" them with enough juice to turn the air into a plasma, which catches the air, and stuff around him on fire. and thats how volgun became the "man on fire" even though his power is the ability to control electricity.
There's a link to the Skull parasite units and the rain as well. Code Talker tells us that the parasite works by constantly shedding salts into the atmosphere in order to continue their internal processes. If the surrounding atmosphere is then made unable to accept more salts in the air, ie. if it starts raining or relative humidity gets too high, these parasites cease to function on a molecular level. In the case of the Man on Fire, when all the water from the sprinkler hits his body and the flames, the produced steam would perhaps make the atmosphere around his body unsuitable for the continued functioning of the parasites in his body that keep him "alive," or at least animated. Later on in the game you get the chance to test water out on Volgin, and you can see it does indeed stun him if you douse him with enough, which to me says his parasites are on the fritz when he gets near water. That may be a function of him being "undead" as the Man on Fire, and thus mostly made of just parasites, compared to the probably more-human less-parasite version of Volgin we saw in MGS3.
love to see you guys still uploading after all this time
2023 the year of metal gear
That adds context to the opening song "Snake eater".
- some day you go through the rain
- someday you feed on a tree frog
How did you capture this footage? It looks amazing!
As an American, I always wondered about the whole kuwabara thing, thnx
I always heard it was about a vengeful spirit that became a lightning god after being killed. I know the wiki for this phrase backs this up though I currently don't have a link to other sources.
From Wikipedia
In the 9th century, there was a Japanese aristocrat called Sugawara no Michizane. Sugawara Michizane, who died bearing a heavy grudge after being trapped and exiled to Kyushu, threw his fierce anger in the form of his thunderbolts as a god of lightning. In 930, Seiryoden of the court was struck by a large thunderbolt. The master of onmyo said that this misfortune was the work of the vengeful spirit of Michizane. Those who trapped Michizane trembled with fear and tried to placate the curse by dedicating a prayer to his vengeful ghost, thus leading to the construction of Kitano Shrine.
The land that Michizane owned was known as Kuwabara, so people thought it would be a good idea to claim the land he/she was standing on was a part of Kuwabara, so that Michizane would be hesitant to strike his own people. People of such an era chanted "Kuwabara, Kuwabara" when they heard the rumble of thunder as a method of reminding Michizane not to strike them. This saying often appears in the literature of the Heian period, with elements such as "Tsureduregusa", a spell to cast away thunder. The very people living in Kuwabara at that time relied on the Kuwabara spell and the land of Kuwabara is said to have remained unharmed by lightning for that reason.
A Mulberry is a tree.
Kuwabara is a MAN.
We all have to die when our time comes, but if we do our duty, we don’t got regrets!
Every time Volgin said kuwabara it always reminded me of the anime Yu Yu Hakusho.
I remember knowing about it from urusei yatsura manga.
Thank you Python I never knew this. I always wondered what it meant when he always said that word "kuwabara kuwabara". Keep up the great content.
"who is afraid of a little thunder"
you apparently
Great video once again.
We need a MGS3 remake
I thought this was going to be about how there was absolutely no explanation _why_ Volgin's body carries an electrical charge of 10 million volts.
A lot of people keep asking about Volgin's powers:
It was inferred (I think) with Mantis and the other members of the Cobra unit that they were gifted from birth.
There is also a belief that a battlefield exists somewhere between life and death. So powers are then amplified or make more sense to them once they experience being on the battlefield.
The Cobra Unit (The Boss, The Sorrow, The Fury, The Fear and The End) also exist somewhere between life and death, as they went their separate ways but The Boss brings them back. Even though she doesn't tell Volgin or Snake, I believe the Cobra Unit always knew The Boss' missions and refused to leave her.
This life and death thing is also experienced by many soldiers, a lot of soldiers say they have been led safely through unmarked minefields by soldiers that have died elsewhere.
Also Mantis was experimented on and unfortunately there was a lot of experimenting on soldiers back then too. A lot of the people did also volunteer for the experiments. As Volgin was already the son of this major military figure, I suspect he may have volunteered, or maybe he was volunteered by his father. Any 'success' wouldn't have been 'documented' necessarily either.
Volgin also seems to know exactly how much electricity can be contained in his body, which means he's probably tested it a lot, or he was told the numbers during the experiment.
I hope this helps to understand Volgin's powers?
Edit: also the human body is well known for being a good conductor. That is why electricity can be so harmful to us. Also it wasn't the thunder or lightning that he was afraid of, it was the rain that often comes with thunder and/or lightning. Water is an excellent conducter, and once Volgin was in the rain, if he discharged any electricity and he wasn't grounded (like standing on the wooden bridge) he was kind of screwed. He was also physically holding electrical wires that were still attached and physically standing on a giant metal machine. Metal is also a great conducter. He was stuck in the loop and was unable to stop the electricity, even if he did somehow stop it, there still was electricity in the machine, and water everywhere, and he fried himself.
The Man on Fire was one of two things:
a corpse of a man that had already been experimented on, that was then retrieved and clearly further experimented on (after what happened after the boss fight with Snake), being animated by a combination of Mantis, early nano machines (maybe?), and the virus thing what's name escapes me..?
Or
Snake watched Volgin as he died and Mantis being able to read minds, control AND manipulate people, used that memory of Volgin to torment Venom as The Man on Fire in mgs5, as it clearly haunted Snake, so Mantis played on that. Mantis went with The Man on Fire to mother base and was almost always there, which is why Venom believed The Man on Fire was on the base and may have tricked the others on base to see the corpse too?
I could keep going, but this mgs rabbit hole knows no bounds 😂 it makes as much sense as anything else, really? We love the madness! 🤣
It's not a failure that they didn't explain it, some things are intended to be mysterious
Slightly related, if you throw a glowing mushroom during the first fight against volgin, his electricity will go towards it instead of you.
All these years I thought he just lost a friend/oved one named Kuwabara, and the rain reminded him. I assumed it was a way to give him some humanity.
I knew about the Kuwabara thing, but the tree frog thing actually caught me off guard
19 years I’ve being playing this game, and I had no idea about the frog 🐸
I may hate that they brought Volgin back for MGSV, but I do love how they kept his character consistent
Whats that music at the end? From metal gear 3?
I remember this channel as the one with the crazy conspiracy-esque theories that no one in their right mind would ever consider real.
Now I've actually learned something really cool about MGS that I didn't know. Way to go, PythonSelkan, way to go. I salut you.
Interesting video and i never knew about throwing the tree frog at Volgin makes him do that. Also i missed the "flaw"?
What is the song that plays at the end of the video [credits]? By the way, another great video, guys!!! 😍😍😍
It is "Afghanistan is a big place" from Metal Gear Solid V
So amazing that even after 7 years no new metal gear you still manage to make mgs content
2018’s Metal Gear Survive: “Am I a joke to you?”
@@craygroup _YES._
Wow. They just keep coming these hidden gems.
I didn't know about that one. But I think it's strange that the lightning bolt kind of makes him weaker. Before that he was fine during rain, but in MGSV he is defenseless against it.
Kuwabara kuwabara, I wondered if there was a link with the manga yuyu hakusho. There wasn't.
Actually it is explained in game as that's how I heard about it. There's a codec call about it. Been years since I went through all the codec calls so can't remember the location and who you call but they definitely at least explain it's a superstitious ward against lightning.
Still pretty odd for a Soviet officer to know about obscure Japanese superstitions though.
I knew about this way back when MGS3 first came out, but I'm glad to see the knowledge being passed along.
In Japan the myth is the mulberry trees don't get struck by lightning. And that word is literally mulberry in Japanese. It's a good thing to say to ward off a lightning strike in a storm. The series of names ocelot says are prefectures of Japan. Specifically the ones Kojima would visit in order to get to work I believe. There is no reasonable explanation for la lu la lo other than being able to tell who is a patriot agent or not as the nanomachines wont allow their agents to speak the name "patriot".
It's kind of common sense to know this in Japan. Not surprised it's not known in the West
years ago, I tried looking up what kuwabara kuwabara meants on google translate or something, and it said "the horror, the horror", which even then I felt was fitting for Volgin's personality