Senator Armstrong Is A Warped War Hawk 

*THE MEMES*

Damn, loses a hand and stabs the guy with his stump. This dude is awesome

So you’re telling me this is the man that forged the Rings of Power?

Not 100% sure why, but I just really like the cutscene between Armstrong and Monsoon talking about the cherry blossoms. I guess it’s just fun seeing characters have a standard conversation.

Nice bit of foreshadowing at 1:54 to 2:15 on Armstrong's true beliefs if you pay attention. He's not gloating. His tone makes it clear he finds the realities and apathy involved disgusting. It's hard trying to make the world any better when people don't want to think too hard about things. You know, Armstrong is like the anti-Wilson Fisk/Kingpin. There's this speech Fisk gives in one of the comics to Spider-Man: _"They, "society," hate you because they don't want your help. You remind them of how weak-willed and sheep-like and unspecial they are. How gleeful they are, deep down, to be ordinary. They don't want heroes. They don't want special people around them. Because if there are special people and they aren't one of them- well, who wants that? Who wants a constant reminder that they aren't even trying to be special? See, the difference between you and I is that you really are just a child. You benefit from the wide-eyed optimism of youth. I do envy that, somewhat. But... like many of your decisions in life... it's just naive. And I don't envy that harsh cold slap of reality that will come your way soon enough. But I guess it's inevitable. People don't want to be special. I do think that. It is my philosophy. They- _*_people want to be told what to do and how to live_*_ and they want _*_men like me_*_ to tell them. They want to go to work and do as little as they can possibly get away with, and they want a big cookie at the end of the day for doing it. And they want _*_men like me_*_ to give it to them."_ Armstrong knows humans are apathetic, lazy and have a major Tall Poppy Syndrome. However, rather than just take advantage, accept having no principles and gloat in that, he wants to use their apathy to undo the whole system. You know what, seeing a crossover where Armstrong is a Marvel Villain would be awesome. Especially when dealing with things like the Mutants or the Civil War over Super Registration/Sokovia Accords. The Avengers and X-Men wouldn't known what the hell to make of him: a bad guy who fights for dominion and chaos a la Apocalypse, but would side up with them against the likes of SHIELD, HYDRA, Sentinels and the human governments because they're just cowards afraid of change. Imagine an alliance between him and Dr. Doom. He'd also make an awesome villain for Hulk and Black Panther. Heck, imagine Armstrong vs. Thanos. Thanos: When I'm done, half of humanity will still exist, and etc.... Armstrong: You get omnipotence all you wanna do is kill half everything to avoid overpopulation?! What a fucking pussy!!

"Check the internet lately?" deserved to be a boomer meme

9:16 it’s so surreal to hear Armstrong talk when he’s not screaming holy shit

"Saucy jack" refers to a letter sent to Scotland Yard supposedly signed by Jack the Ripper

I am so jealous of British/Scottish actors being able to play so many different roles so easily. The best we Americans can do is stereotypical European at best... with some exceptions of course.

Can’t believe it took me this long to figure out his powers are from the guy from full metal alchemist

Probably the single greatest villain of all-time, and he’s only on screen for a few minutes.

Ya know, if not for the "harvesting orphan brains" thing, I'd actually want Armstrong to win. 🤔

5:00 So they make this super American neocon libertarian warhark character then they have him do a sumo lake stomp the most Japanese thing LMFAO Platinum Games

More video game villains please! Andrew Ryan definitely deserves one.

“Well if it’s Sussy Jack!” *has mental breakdown*

1:11 At least now we know Soldier's social media tag

20:50 on pause

Where in the game does that cutscene with armstrong talking monsoon about nature play?

A big problem with his idea is that, it would leave America vulnerable to other countries and it would possibly be attacked by one of the other countries then America would be gone.

FOR THE MEMES!

Since when do you records games?

NANOMACHINES SON!!

Well, this guy is definitely a Republican

Is this what the Japanese thinks of America???

20:55

This game was made as a joke

“The memes”

The beauty of Armstrong is that the game sets him up to be a classic neocon warhawk but in the middle of the final battle he reveals his true intentions where to subvert the entire war for money thing so he could collapse the US and rebuilt it anew. He reveals he hated the wars for profit and Americans dying for congressmen and senators so much he's willing to burn America down so he can rebuild it, so that those kinds of wars never happen again. Yes, his methods where extreme and Raiden had every right to stop him, his plans where going to killing hundreds of thousands of US citizens in the ensuing collapse. But you can't say his actions weren't done out of pure patriotism and his own ideals, truly what he believed in. Sons of the Patriots can eat their hearts out, he was more of a patriot than any of them.

THE MEMES

The fact that he actually looked so happy to think he had gotten through to Raiden, because he probably saw Raiden as a kindred spirit even before he said it at the end, and was so mad that was not true speaks volumes. In a way Armstrong is to Raiden what Boss was to Naked Snake. And who knows had this series continued maybe Raiden would've become Armstrong's successors in a way. Not using the same methods/mindset but going out of his way to end war with whatever methods he saw fit.

Alastair Duncan has some amazing range, it still amazes me he was Curtis Blackburn in Killer7. That dude would make another excellent video subject.

Is anyone gonna talk about how invincible his glasses are? They never fall off or break. Wish I was that lucky

I love how you hear cheering after Armstrong kicks Raiden like a soccer ball like he scored a goal 🤣🤣🤣 "Don't fuck with this Senator!"

I like how he doesn't kill any fighter he fights, but tries to make them join him. He could've killed raiden the moment he stepped foot on his machine, but he didn't.

Oh this is going to be epic. i'm looking forward to game villains. and a hell of a choice to start with

I love how mad Armstrong is at trees. "One fucking week". Yet he likes Raiden and enjoys talking and fighting him. He's Angry at pink trees but not at a man who wants to murder him. A true war hawk.

N A N O M A C H I N E S S O N

Remeber when we thought Senator Armstrong speeches were just satire of America, now it's pretty scary hearing just how real Armstrong's philospy become.

480p, this was uploaded in 2018. Too bad nano machines can't fix that resolution

19:57 is sorta wholesome

Badass till the very last Moment.

YESSSSSS!!!! I love Senator Armstrong so much! Could we possibly see Deathshead from Wolfenstein: The New Order in a video?

They're just trees dude.

1:43 The *M E M E S*

2:26 Imagine a world free of cancel culture, where no one can call me out for my outlandish claims, a world WHERE I CAN SAY THE N-WORD!

After GoW, I can never disassociate Mimir from this man lol

You should do guys like Revolver Ocelot or Solidus Snake.

T H E M E M E S

The memes...

And hes suppose to be the villian, right?

Integrated Nanomachines may now be my most favorite Sci-if augmentation. It leaves no visible physical evidence of your upgrade and, in Metal gear Solid, can heal a cut of limb. Imagine if Tony Stark took a page out of Armstrong's book, and did the same. He already did it when implanting sensors to communicate to his armor. This would be a natural, tho extremes, evolution of that concept.

Yo where the helicopters and APCs that armstrong explodes come from.. Did he teamkill?

The perfect anti villain.

DON'T FUCK WITH THIS SENATOR

1:44 Raiden knew all too well

Armstrong was right.

The fact that their is so much to unpack from this dude who gets less than half an hour of screen time especially with Monsoon who gets like 7 minutes of screen time

this senator has my vote!

Dude, could Senator Armstrong be evil Morty's original Rick?

Why does Senator Armstrong look like Jim Cornette?

Senator Armstrong was goated with the swaus.

Can you do madara uchiha (English dub)

Master Xehanort is a Cunning Chessmaster

Y'know If I Didn't Know Better I would have suspected that Senator Armstrong was some kind of...antihero? Maybe...I guess, sort of?

So SMT chaos alignment pretty much?

DAMN NEOCON

There was a THICC moment here.

Armstrong is right.

THE MEMES JACK!

2:16 "That's a great argument, Senator, but why don't you back it up with a source?" "MY SOURCE IS THAT I MADE IT THE FUCK UP!"

"America's wanted this war for years!" Looking at the goings on in Ukraine in 2022, it feels pretty similar

Did he actually say “memes”?

THE MEMES

19:57 through to the part where he throws him that's me and my friends playing video games together

22:36 Masochism, Son. It hardens in response to physical trauma.

2022 armstrong was right all along god protect us from idiocy of Biden

THE MEMES

17:48

The memes got me

is this the actual text?

WELL IF IT ISNT SUSSY JACK??????????????

The absolute stupidity of this game is reaching its peak here in this scene...so embarrassing and not worthy of the name Metal Gear