The Importance of Psycho Mantis 

No joke, right after the in-video pause, I had some new jersey number call my phone and immediately hang up. Despite the fact it was 100% impossible Meti could have done that, I half expected to hear Psycho Mantis or some sort of code when I called the number back. Meta narratives get to me way too easily.

Him commenting on what you’ve played and messing with the console is one of my favorite moments in any video game

Psycho Mantis: Now i'm gonna read all of your folders Snake! Psycho Mantis: Ohh some kinky stuff heh- what the... eyeball licking? 10000 year old vampires? Snake: I can explain.

I went to see a work-from-home psychic the other day. I arrived at her house and knocked on the door. She asked "Who is it?" So I turned around and went home.

Age 11 I woke up crying because of a nightmare about psycho mantis with my grandmother rocking me back and forward saying it was only a dream sweetheart. The words "good care....just like that" have always given me chills to this day. R.I.P gran , I miss you.❤️

In MGS4 when you fight mantis. When you assign the controller to a different player other than 1, an automatic codec call comes on with snake muttering "I...can't...move..."

"You have been playing Super Mario Sunshine" *Johnny looks to his left*

*Psycho Mantis searching thru my YT history* : I see you too enjoy watching Meti NTBG videos

Psycho Mantis? Metal Gear? The Patriots? The La Le Lu Lei Lo? Crabs?

"You like to play Castlevania, don't you?" I will admit, I got scared shitless when he said that.

Psycho Mantis reading my internet history: "Get some help man. Nah but for real tho get some help man."

I hope that with the release of MGS1 on GoG, PC players will finally get to experience the dread of Psycho Mantis reading your games' library. "I see you like... nekopara"

"Changing controller won't help you defeats boss" **laughing gas mask**

"Compared to you, I'm not so bad." Daaaaaamn I still remember hearing that as a kid and thinking "Holy shit, what did Snake do??" lmao

There needs to be more "Psycho Mantis" type characters. The kind that forces the developers and players to get clever with the technology they interact with, or using metadata to create moments where the player thinks for a moment, no matter how brief, that the game is actually real.

But was he able to pass on his Memes, the DNA of the soul? Also, he despised everyone for wanting to pass on their genes. He was sending everyone to horny jail

"You like watching Shimoneta: A Boring World Where The Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist, don't you?"

It's ironic to think that the sorrow a medium slash psychic killed volgin by frying him with a bolt of electricity but kid psychomantis another psychic brought volgin back to life by reanimating him

I like how upset he gets when he discovers the controller can’t vibrate

It's crazy to think that the salanthrupus being controlled by kid psycho mantis was the final boss in mgs5 instead of skullface

Whenever Psycho Mantis gets mentioned seriously I can't imagine anything but Dunkey.

"starting first by changing the channel on the tv-" *Ad break* That was majestically timed.

...and then every indie game designer recreated psycho mantis in their game.

Other than blowing the minds of every 90s gamer yeah I'd say he's pretty important to gaming as a whole

"I see you've intentionally mispronounced 'Cyprus' as a part of some convoluted plan to implant a desire to watch Shimoneta into every creature with eyes to see it!"

"Radius of Big Boss' hatred" fucking killed me XD

I remember being a kid fighting psycho mantis. I must of died 30 times before I was told to put the controller in the second slot. Shit was epic!

Still creepy that a psychic can read your memory card

Psycho Mantis has always been SICK and acting as a metanarrative tool for storytelling. MGS is always great about that--see MGS2. Hell, even MGR has a good amount of metanarrative aspects to it through its analysis of how Raiden's real motivation is violence and how he enjoys it. This acts as a great parallel to how players play games to enjoy the gameplay and how many games are centered around violence or killing, despite how journalists and gamers may convince themselves otherwise. Enjoying or being wired to violence isn't a bad thing in and of itself though. People who are typically use it to be a productive member of society via military service, sports, or other hobbies.

Whoa whoa, hold up. How can both the ending where Meryl dies and the ending where she lives both be canon? I know this is a game made by Kojima, but I'm going to need an explanation for that one.

"I've never used my psychic powers to help someone." [cuts to excising vocal chord parasites from Eli in a way not even the best scientists Diamond Dogs had could do] Just a friendly reminder that retcons are fine and not every writer is flawless, as long as you enjoy the ride... But it's still funny to catch contradictions.

Y'know, if psycho mantis just met an asexual person, he'd probably not be as evil

For his "Third child" phase there is also the scene with Shanbani where he can be seen to be wearing Shanbanis necklace

I got an ad and thought that it was just part of the video

Oh hell yeah! This'll be great

The Flair Guy cameo at 14:14 took me for a hell of a ride, very nice

Psycho Mantis going over my YT feed: "I see, you enjoy watching vtubers...a little too much."

"no matter who he went through it always came to the same sickening result, and this only built upon his inner hatred of the world" sounds like when i try to meet new people

When i first played mgs5 and saw psycho mantis during the hospital raid i let a loud yes! In excitement.. He's one of my favorites characters.

They really have to port Metal Gear to the switch so a new generation of gamers, myself included, can experience the mind fuck that is his boss fight.

Gotta say, his kid self in MGSV was pretty cute. I really wanted to feel his hair

The fight kind of reminds me of the Telence T. D'arby fight in Jojo with the mind reading and having to changing controller ports.

Him reading out my hands felt like the original dox

I hope someone will translate the binary code from the beginning and the middle of the video and look up that link

Mantis didn't pass on his genes. He passed on his *memes*. Monsoon approves

wasted a minuto inputting the link for Doki Doki Literature Club! OST - Your Reality (Credits)

On PlayStation: "oh, looks like I found some more USA supersoldier projects, that more powerful than the metal gears: gears, specifically Adam and Eve and their child": guilty gear On GameCube: "oh boy, despair, a whole of despair, not only that, but one of your games was inspired by Cthulhu mythos"

even after all these years , i still get goose bumps , i love these games so much , im glad the creators know how awesome their work is , psycho mantis blew my mind , exactly how he was supposed to

Thanks monika! Have a good day too!

One of the most unforgettable boss fights I’ve ever faced

so much information at once i gotta rewatch and really understand im too drunk for this right now but its amazing thank you

As crazy as it was when psycho mantis read my mind, Eternal Darkness got me better with “Please insert disk 2”

Everyone knows that the most successful execution of trying to scare the audience that Hideo has ever done was to show Olgas' armpits

Ok so very neat thing! (At least in my eyes) Most of the lore from the MGS guidebook is completely outdated, but a part of Mantis's extra lore got worked back in by Phantom Pain: The "fact" his powers are parasitic.* This parasitic nature might help explain why Mantis is so much weaker in his MGS appearance. Basically, guidebook lore stated that personalities he parasitized stacked onto each other and came out while he's parasiting someone else. So he literally is "like the men he met as a child" during his time with Foxhound. But since he compartmentalized his parasitic nature as it's own personality after he killed his father**, while back with Eli it takes over again. The guidebook describes that the two personalities joined Foxhound for competing reasons- "the parasite" wanted to kill, while Mantis himself only wanted his own death. This odd bit of old lore might be the key to explaining why he's so much weaker during MGS- he's trying to hold back so Snake can kill him, because he doesn't just want peace from everyone else's mind- he wants peace from his own. *The guidebook posited this as the reason for the "Mantis" name, but as Mantids aren't parasitic I've got to doubt that. But the parasite label already isn't correct (it would be more accurately described as mutualism, given that while he feeds off a person they gain access to his powers- but that's pedantic.) **Given when this split happened, it could be inferred that the fire that consumed him and his village wasn't just a fearful psychic blast- again, while parasited his powers belong to whoever is the stronger willed, potentially meaning the blast damaged himself as well as killing his village because his powers were contested between himself and his father's will.

Monika showing up was hilarious I'm digging the metal gear videos for sure !

Will ya do the sorrow? That dudes a mystery to me.

Mantis will always be one of my favorite characters.

You’re a cautious man, and quite skilled. You don’t save much. Still don’t believe me? I’ll read further into your mind: You seem to enjoy role playing games. I see you like action games. You’ve played a couple Konami games. ...You like Castlevania don’t you?

"A bit sad" he fuckin got ANGY

The fact that mantis was silence in 5 Damn

Big boss was so angry he caused another guy to explode

I don't he realized the url he put in at 7:19 is effectively useless due to the font

The first time I played the Mantis fight his channel change actually worked on me- I panicked from the load noise, accidentally pulling the box out of the TV plug. I didn't know what happened so I manually changed the channel, thinking that's what happened. Whoops.

"You like meeeen!" "You can see into my mind?!" "No." "Fuck."

The third child being psycho mantis never crossed my mind while I played V, but it makes so much sense now having learned that

Thank you Monica, very cool

Oh boi! Another mgs vid!

I clicked my screen you check the time and I saw a big pause icon pop up. Nice

This is one of the coolest metal gear videos I’ve seen in a looong time just one question: Why do you say Cyprus like that

Psycho Mantis? Meti? You’re that bad guy…

Psychomantis also appeared in Resident Evil: Revelations. lol

Imagine if metal gear solid releases on steam and psyco mantis says "i see you like to play among us"

The boss battle with psycho mantis drove me insane I still have not recovered

Dude I just finished doki doki like a week ago. I had to rewatch the video to make sure I wasn’t crazy.

With all the details in the game and story its funny that there is no more about such a magical gasmask since it doesnt cover his entire head/skull and is still capable of keeping out interference.. does it have a invisible aura shield ?

that surprise appearance of Dough Walker really caught me off guard

That alliteration. You're pretty good.

You like to play Castlevania, don't you?

That was a wild ass alliteration in the beginning

Very cleaver the mind games you did pauisng the video and stuff

I’ll never forget how Phycho Mantis told me to put my controller on the floor and then moved it with the vibrator.

hey Flair Guy was in this video!

I Finally understand his mgsV's Beginning

Could we maybe se some in depth vids on.. Berserk perhaps? I just hopped on that train in these past few weeks.

Still remember when he read my mind and moved my controller, i was young at the time and was scared completely shitless how this guy KNEW i played castlevania.

Is meti going to make a video about doki doki literature club?

Does anyone know what media that Mantis Character at 2:32 comes from?

What scene is this taken from at 6:45?

Entirely unrelated, but it's cool that there's a youtube channel that talks about my 3 favourite things -- JoJo, Castlevania, and Metal Gear.

whats the video he links in the codec scene? it doesnt load

Yknow Meti, I actually typed in the watch links you hid, and I was let down.

At 7:16, did anyone know where that RU-vid link led to?

At 11:08 was that a editing mistake or a Easter egg?

Kaoru was the 5th child though. The 3rd child was shinji.

say the video isn't available anymore

7:21 Anyone figure out what this link was for? Says video doesn't exist

have you checked out Futurasound Productions' videos on MGS? I think you'd enjoy his analysis of Metal Gear and learn some details that aren't outwardly present even on multiple viewings. I think his analysis helps especially when Metal Gear purposefully lies to Big Boss and the player by extension.

please do a video on otacon and huey

7:20 Not sure where this one is linking, I keep getting 'video unavailable'

Wait wasn't the Third Child in NGE Shinji?