Building a Bastard: Huey Emmerich 

It's actually funny how half of the Metal Gear series is literally Solid Snake and Otacon cleaning their fathers' mess

Never trust a man who doesn't believe in Santa

Venom didn't want the ashes of his comrades in the merciless ocean, but forced Huey to the merciless ocean. Ending up in the merciless swimming pool.

Every bit of love I have for Hal, it is reflected in my hate for Huey.

"Big Boss was able to defeat Zeke and launch Pacifica Ocean into the Pacific Ocean" God Fucking Dammit Kojima

As a person who was confined to a wheelchair for two years, I can tell you that his motivation for evil is directly tied to that. Your butt gets real itchy.

Christopher Randolph doesn't get nearly enough credit for voicing a character as likable as Otacon, and as detestable as Huey, while using almost the EXACT SAME VOICE. That is mad talent.

It makes Hal's and Solid Snake friendship shine so much brighter.

Whenever I get depressed I think about Huey and my rage fuels me forward

Snake earnestly believing in Santa is such a cute detail.

the thing that bothers me the most about huey is that he looks and sounds like otacon which unconciously gave him this base trust from me because my brain said yo this is just otacon who is a good lad. Makes me think they did this on purpose for that reason.

Literally the most dislikeable character in video game history. - He is responsible for the deaths of most of the likeable characters in Peace Walker. - He destroyed MSF. - He is a complete coward. - He constantly pleads ignorance and blames everyone else for his actions. - He used his own son as a test subject in a potentially deadly experiment and suffocated his mom for trying to protect him. - He lies about literally everything. - Kaz's Arm - When he offed himself, he tried to take his stepdaughter with him because he is just that much of a spiteful, cowardly PoS. - He made fun of Snake for believing in Santa. - He stole research and gave the most powerful metal gear ever constructed to a group of incompetent child soldiers. - He robbed us of our chance to get revenge on Skull Face. - He forced Venom to kill dozens of his own men just so he could create a WMD to sell to Cipher and in turn mocked Venom for doing so. Honestly, screw Huey man.

Ah, Huey Emmerich. The guy who ran around with only a single reverse Uno card to play, never realizing that everyone else was playing poker.

Another thing I find funny about Huey: when Strangelove told him she'd give him a chance if he "stood up by himself" she was most definitely talking about his dependace on other people's work, telling him to learn to do his own research and stop using other, better scientists as stepping stones. Huey, of course, being Huey, thought she was taking a jab at his disability. Essentially, he took light-hearted constructive criticism to heart and made it personal. The blueprint of a bastard, he was.

“Kaz, I’m feeling deja vú here” is a hilarious line shows what a missed opportunity it was to have Kiefer almost exclusively in tapes.

You could already see the seeds of Huey's shitiness in Peace Walker. This is a man who complains about having to build nuclear death robots for Hot Coldman but then immediately turns around and starts building them for Big Boss.

19:40 If Big Boss says Santa is real, Santa is fucking real

"You cant run from yourself forever" - Revolver Ocelot, beacon of strong self identity

Emmerich in MGSV is a rare example where I saw a crippled man thrown down the stairs and enjoyed it.

Boss: So Huey why’d you put Nukes on Zeke Huey: no reason Huey in TPP: Boss if it weren’t for you and your damn nukes none of this would’ve happened! Boss: 😑

The use of Christopher Randolph’s voice to give a veteran metal gear player a base amount of trust towards Huey was actually kinda brilliant, and it subverts the expectations established by Hal’s and David’s friendship later on in the series.

I still think that Venom's punishment for Huey was perfect. He sent Huey into the heartless sea, unlike his dead comrades, who he ordered to have diamonds made from their ashes instead of having been thrown into the sea.

13:16 I love how casually Venom, the usually silent protagonist, pulls Kaz aside to tell him this

Basically if he had been written by Araki he would have built all of his machines out of the bones of slaughtered dogs.

Oh god, that birthday scene...

Here are the rules. Don't matter how old they are, if they believe Santa is real, you nod your head and smile. If they ask if Santa is real, you lay out the truth for them.

It's truly amazing how Hal and Huey are polar opposites. Hal is a scientist who wants to do good for the world, and believed REX was gonna be something to make the world a better place. When he learns the truth, he's horrified about the monster he created and blames himself. Despite not being a fighter, he does everything he can to help Snake on his mission to destroy it. He even stays behind on Shadow Moses to cover his and Meryl's escape route, despite knowing the base will be bombed and he'll die in it. He loses a lot of people he loves and cares about, but still finds strength to move on and keep fighting. He goes from being a secluded man, to being a hero of the world who brings an end to the Patriots' reign. Huey is a scientist who doesn't care at all about anything, or anyone, but himself. He builds WMDs with no regards at all for what it'll do to the world and kill so many. He even tried to create a weapon on MSF's Mother Base to sell to Cipher. He doesn't care about his loved ones at all. He didn't truly love Strangelove. He put his own child at risk by trying to make him a test pilot. He tried to kill Emma when he committed suicide. He allowed the near death of MSF and got so many people killed because of his actions. Instead of facing his consequences, he arrogantly believed it wasn't his fault. He blamed everyone else for his own actions, and believes himself to somehow be the "hero". He goes from a man who seems to want to help Big Boss, to being a remorseless monster who sees others as disposable and doesn't care what terrible weapons he makes so long as he gets some sort of profit. Usually in the MGS series, people think the real bad guy was Liquid or Zero. However, I feel the real villain in the entire MGS series is Huey. Liquid at least was born into a life he didn't want and wasn't even supposed to exist. Zero at least had good intentions and wanted to make amends with Big Boss. Huey is a man though that has nothing redeeming himself at all. He's a monster who cares only about himself, and he did nothing but cause death and destruction everywhere he went and blamed everyone else around him. He's the real villain of MGS.

Ah yes, the “Romantic” story between Huey and Strangelove.

Huey is the worst kindof coward, the one who even fools himself into thinking hes innocent.

Here's a question: Who's the biggest bastard? The dude who makes the weapons? Or the dude who makes the weapons necessary?

The lack of care I had for Huey when he was begging to keep his legs was near psychopathic.

What I expected to learn: The true depths of a despicable man's betrayals and moral failures. What I actually learned: Snake believes in Santa Claus.

cmon guys he didn't do it, it was the Diamond Dogs and that menace Venom Snake

Huey: *Shoots a man sitting on a chair eight times. Reloads the gun. Continues to shoot them until the gun runs out of ammo.* *Looks towards the Camera* Huey: "Why did Big Boss murder that man?"

I love Doktor because Doktor is basically who Huey would have been if he weren't a sociopath. Doktor felt sorry for what he did building weapons as a scientist under the Soviet Union, however he didn't have a choice unlike Huey, so when he came to the west, he IMMEDIATELY SHOWED THAT HE COULD USE HIS EXPERTISE FOR GOOD. Doktor exists in the world of Metal Gear to do two things: Help disabled people with his cyborg technology, and help Raiden destroy the shitty UG's that Desperado and other PMCs built through reverse engineering his work. By the end of Rising, he's used this to SAVE potentially THOUSANDS of orphans' lives during the World Martial Incident alone, and we don't know what he did between the fall of the berlin wall and the beginning of Rising.

“I’m innocent I tell ya?! Why won’t you believe me?”

I am convinced that is the way Christopher Randolph actually sounds when he cries.

"It seems like everyone hates Emmerich; Including God, who designed his legs."

Giving Huey the same face and voice as Otacon, a character fans have come to love and trust, was a brilliant move on Kojima's part.

sometimes i think about the post mgsv concept art of huey and hal and even as a young child, hal just looks so broken. especially compared to how bright he was with strangelove. and huey... huey did that to him. there is no end to my rage toward this man.

It was eerie hearing otacons voice lie to me. Considering how he's more trustworthy than even any snake in the series.

Ocelot's mother pretended not to know him to protect Ocelot. Huey pretended not to know his son to save his own life, despite using him for dangerous experiments. I'm glad Ocelot got a chance to torture him.

Huey is like Rusty Venture without the charm And that is fucking saying something

The fact that such a genuine hero like Hal came from Huey never ceases to surprise me.

They did a good job at making him hatable but still made you take pity

I love the metal gear series meti does.

The way we know Huey kills himself makes me feel robbed, like he never got what he deserved.

My first playthrough of TPP: "Geez ease up on the poor guy :(" Me replaying TPP after knowing the lore: "YEAH SEND IN OCELOT WITH THE ACID SYRINGE!!"

I never really paid attention to Hal's hatred for his father when mentioned in MGS2 until Peace Walker and Ground Zeroes/Phantom Pain came out. And after seeing first hand what a jackass Huey was, it made me respect Otacon even more. Hal atoned for his sins and tried to right his wrongs. Huey would just put the blame on everyone else but himself for his screwups and just to gain sympathy because he's a two bit scientist with no original ideas himself. Plus Snake and Hal's bromance is the best, they are complete opposites, yet theres a overlap between them of not letting their lifes be dicatated by genes or predetermined destiny by the sinsof their fathers.

In a way, Hal sleeping with his stepmom is pretty much karma towards Huey. It's funny how through all horrible things he's done, his son sleeping with his wife is what destroys him

you know i din't understand why everyone hated huey,but this video with all the details gave me a much clearer picture

"I didn't even knew he were born" Also "We called him Hall" Dude can't lie for shit.

I'd love to see a video on Ocelot, i can imagine the title "The Man who Played all Sides, Ocelot"

Oh my god, EVERYONE IT'S EVERYONE'S FAVORITE CHARACTER!!!!

Always remember, NORAD has a direct hotline with Santa. This information is on a need-to-know basis.

Huey didn’t kill Skullface to stop him from being interrogated. They never were going to interrogate him. They were going to leave him to die painfully in the name of revenge, Huey killing Skullface wasn’t to rob the player of getting to kill him, it was to show how his motives were separate from everyone else’s, showing how he never was truly working with Venom, he was working against him.

Huey is literally anti-otacon. He’s like the venom snake version of Hal.

Hal's life is a case where Huey getting NTR'd is completely acceptable.

How dare Huey mock snake for believing in Santa, how fucking dare he

Christopher Randolph is such an amazing voice actor! First, he managed to make you love Otacon for the majority of the series... And then, he managed to make you hate Huey for what he did, and his nuanced tone in his voice truly reflected that!

15:17 funny that even RU-vid AI doesn't believe Huey is crying RU-vid (CC): [Laugher]

I didn’t even realize Huey was the reason the parasites mutated. Venom Snake was merciful

0:47 Damn, didn't expect to see a lakitouille video here...

Huey: I just want peace Also huey: lets literally essentially make the current beast titan(s) from aot

Funny thing is, Ocelot being the expert interrogator would've seen through ALL his lies and crocodile tears and Huey still lied right 'til his exile. Must've been tiring to put up lie after lie, especially when you have someone who's the best at detecting lies doing the asking.

that is the longest train of thought to get a name I got my name from a fictional love interest from a real-life movie with a robot that has a similar disability named after real-life fictional ducks from a show in the 80's

Great vid, quick note: He always had hydrophobia, proved in Peace Walker when calling the codec while looking at a river. This was possible foreshadowing at the time to his suicide you mentioned, but after the release of V, also his exile.

Such a strange concept that the design of a character was based on their son, effectively meaning the son gave birth to his father's design. Mind fuck.

Imagine mocking someone who still believes in Santa. Smh, bet Christmases at Outer Heaven go hard.

The complexity of Huey's lies is truly commendable. It takes quite a lot of investigation to completely know Huey is full of lies. Personally, that scene where he condemns Boss's actions to kill the sick soldiers was enough for me to throw him to the sharks.

Venom won't toss the ashes of his men to the heartless sea. He will for Huey.

I just can't believe that Big Boss, or his body double, just let him go after everything that he's done.

My first Metal Gear game is MGS GZ, then TPP. First time I've encountered Huey I thought he was just eccentric, then the story continued and I realized he's a man who tried to do too much, said too many lies, and blamed everyone but himself for his misfortunes. He was a good villain in TPP, despite him looking like the sanest person on Mother Base.

I only played The Phantom Pain, I thought Huey was being treated unfairly, when he was actually just a backstabbing bastard the whole game

Huey is this series’s biggest monster, even the other villains were either misguided thinking they were doing good, or used by others with no choice. Huey is a snake in a rats body.

Jeez I give it to hal for still being able to be such a nice guy and friend since his father was on a whole other level of evil.

At first I thought that Huey and Hal “Otacon” were the same people, so I felt betrayed for a bit until realizing that Huey is actually the father of Hal. When I played the mission of rescuing Huey, I thought he was Hal and was confused about why Venom went on to ‘rescue’ him that way (by putting a bag over his head and deactivating his legs while also not treating him as nice). Turned out he was deemed a traitor to DD. I was confused and thought to myself, “Otacon would never do that”. I’m thankful for the comment section for helping me realize that Huey isn’t the Otacon we know and love.

"Building a bastard: Melon" , I hope one of this day Meti will cover him too

I remember first hearing the story and being like "christ!" then I saw huey and was like 'how did he drown himself?" then 5 "ooohhhh" then it all came together

I think what makes Huey even more pathetic is that even Strangelove viewed him as nothing more than a tool, using him to pass on the Boss’s will and memes. She says in her final moments in the AI Pod that she believed that the father of her child wouldn’t matter, and to pour salt on the well-deserved wounds, referred to Hal as being the child of the Boss and herself

Just reading his name in the thumbnail made me clench my fists in a rush of rage.

This is probably the one character who was itching for a Building a Bastard video

Huey grievances: - Made deals with XOF during the fall of MSF - Put Hal inside Sahelanthropus' cockpit - Trapped Strangelove inside the AI pod - Leaked radiation into the Diamond Dogs quarantine facility - Drowned himself and tried to drown his daughter *- Doesn't believe in Santa Claus*

When a man is raised on a steady diet of denied prospects, legacy, and lies, then that is all that man will be. For it is all he knows and all he can be. Do not pity the fool though. For truth is never far from reach, and always available to anyone suffering under ignorance's twisted visage. You need only grasp the first rung and climb.

I started with MGSV, having only the most basic understanding of MGS’s story. I know and understand it now, but back then, it was mostly just memes and summaries. So going into it, I thought Huey was going to be like Hal. “Wait, his name is Emmerich? Is that Huey’s dad? Holy crap, that’s so cool! They’re even voiced by the same guy. I’m pretty sure that’s to show how similar they are.” Now, I didn’t know about the events surrounding Huey and the death of Hal. So as I continued playing the game, I was thinking “Well, yeah, he helped with the fall of Mother Base, but he’s Emmerich! He’s not a bad guy!” And then I kept listening to the cassette tapes. “Um...Huey, that’s not a good excuse.” “Wait, why would you do that? And you lied about that other thing?” “Wait, YOU DID WHAT?!” Eventually I just was thinking “What pathetic crap is this coward gonna spout this time?” But there was always this feeling. This feeling of “Was my hate justified?” And when I learned about Hal’s full backstory, I knew it was.

8:47 "But Big Boss was able to defeat ZEKE and launch Pacifica Ocean into the Pacifica _Ocean."_ Okay, that made me laugh. However, that's not technically accurate; MSF's Mother Base was off the east coast of Costa Rica in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific Ocean.

My co-workers being ass Me: *it's ok, at least he's not Huey*

"sahelantropus was his most desructive machine" that thing took me under 20 seconds to destroy

One recording I love from MGSV is Ocelot’s interrogation after Eli stole the metal gear, where he mimics the AI from MGS2 (or vice versa): “We’re not smothering the world, you are.” “The real world isn’t making you suffer, it’s the other way around.” Huey is a prime example of what the Ai is talking about, and sadly I think we hate Huey a lot because of the Jungian psychology of the shadow, when we dislike someone a lot or maybe a case they subconsciously were identifying negative traits they share, and the fact is many of us are like this where we don’t take responsibility for our actions. I think Huey’s last recording were he’s calling us all hypocrites but then saying he’s also alone is likely a huge mirror to the player and Diamond Dogs and it’s the first time he admits his faults but pointing out he is just like us wanting to believe in legends like Big Boss, he even says “Snake is like this too isn’t he...”. He even points to DD saying he’s a wolf not a dog, something the player is willing to accept and everyone gets strangely defensive over if you point it out, Hell i felt insulted when he said it I was saying “you crossed the line Huey no one insults DD like that!”. Though I do like the trial outcome as it shows wisdom from Venom that likely even Big Boss wouldn’t show, so far Venom is willing to accept blame for actions despite their justification; killing his MSF soldiers even if they were infected was still murder in his own eyes (eye), he continues to feel guilt for Paz as I believe he thought he should of been able to find the second bomb but even then sees himself as nothing more than causing her unnecessary suffering; I think a subtle moment in all of this was when in the “retcon flashback” we all accepted at first, Big Boss was the one that suspected the second bomb, the medic even in a disillusion doesn’t want to give himself credit for saving her. Venom stabs himself to prove a point to his men when they fight each other and take out knives to potentially kill the other, essentially saying through actions “you take a knife out on another soldier you stab me in my heart.”.

Huey isna reference to the Kubrick's De Strangelove character. Him being crippled is also an symbol for his (as well as dr strangelove's) impotence as well as his cowardice. He is also the kind of scientist who The Unabomber described. Their main motivation isn't the benefit of other people, but surrogate activity in which their inventoins give them a sense of power and purpose. Huey looks for this and pathologically tells lies and narrate things differently in which he is indeed seen in anyway less of a man.

15:17 Huey Cries Subtitles: Laughter

can I just take a moment to say how awesome the camera work is in MGSV cutscenes? the slight shakiness, the angles, focusing, and general operation really feels like some guy is documenting the whole thing and sets the game apart well

the thing that gets you about Huey is that he looks, sounds and even in some cases acts like Otacon (his son) who is a genuinely good and even heroic guy and a longstanding staple character of the series that the player trusts and likes. Huey, unlike his son, however, is a deeply unsympathetic sociopathic bastard. Kojima definitely did that on purpose, to make the player unconsciously overlay their positive feelings about Hal onto his father, who doesn't deserve them.

He is Shou Tucker in Mecha setting.....

The fact it took me a solid minute to realise how huey drowns in a pool until I realised “oh right, no legs”

Dude also clearly had a love for weapons of destruction as well, despite his words, when I first played Peace Walker, during the Pupa battle, I recall him actually getting very excited at how fast it was capable of moving, even complementing himself over it, Huey is the ultimate sociopathic narcissist, but he knows what most would think of "his" creations and hides behind disgust of them, truly the biggest bastard in the series

So, at the rate this is going, when can expect a Quiet video?

Jeez Kiefer Sutherland makes such a good Big Boss voice I could literally listen to him all day

Such a great video. I've watched it like 10 times over the last few months for some reason

Virgin Huey who steals work and doesn’t believe in Santa vs Chad Otacon who builds metal gears because he loves anime robots