Warning: SPOILERS for a 12-year-old game below.

Who: Master Miller/Liquid Snake (voiced by Cam Clarke)

What: Revealing that Solid Snake has been doing his dirty work the whole time

When: October 1998

Where: Metal Gear Solid

Why it's a great moment: Say what you will about his cheesy voice acting and ridiculous English accent, Liquid Snake has it where it counts: In straight-up crazy deviousness. He and his crew of deadly animal-themed misanthropes (who oddly seem to want to really kill Solid Snake and are willing to fight him to the death despite the fact he is the chief actor in their entire scheme to get Metal Gear Rex up and running) play the mullety hero for a huge sap, laying the above bombshell on him about three-quarters into the game.

It's a hell of a twist, made all the more wonderful by Liquid's melodramatic cackling, sunglass removal and shampoo-ad hair toss.

And for that, we salute him.

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