The Metal Gear Solid series of video games has a recurring character known as Grey Fox or the " Cyborg Ninja " who is a person wearing a cybernetic exoskeleton ( either worn as a suit or grafted directly to the character's body ) and wielding a high-frequency blade.

The cyborg ninja suit has been donned by multiple characters, most recently by the character Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

This was the case with the overseas versions of Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Rogue Galaxy, which contained additional features ( such as new difficulty settings for Metal Gear Solid ), resulting in re-released versions of those respective games in Japan ( Final Fantasy VII International, Metal Gear Solid: Integral and Rogue Galaxy: Director's Cut ).

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

All of the added content from the Japanese and European versions of those games were included in the expanded editions titled Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

Examples are the Matthew Reilly books Temple and Hell Island, the James Rollins books Sandstorm, Map of Bones, The Judas Strain, The Doomsday Key and Black Order, and the video game series Metal Gear Solid, as well as the video games Infamous, Vanquish, and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

" Popular videogame director Hideo Kojima has referred to the movie frequently as an influence on his work, in particular the Metal Gear series.

In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Snake actually uses the alias " Pliskin " to hide his real identity during the game.

* Frank Jaeger, the Cyborg Ninja from the Metal Gear videogame series

* Gene therapy is a crucial plot element in the video game Metal Gear Solid, where it has been used to illegally enhance the battle capabilities of soldiers within the US military, and their Next Generation Special Forces units.

Metal Gear D in the Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake cover illustration by Yoshiyuki Takani.

Iconic Metal Gears of the series include the Metal Gear D in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear REX in Metal Gear Solid, and Metal Gear RAY in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

* Final Fantasy VII is considered a " killer app " that the original PlayStation had along with Metal Gear Solid.

* Jin: Metal drums, along with bells and gongs

Having relocated permanently to Southern California and acrimoniously parted ways with Warner Bros., Holdsworth signed to Enigma for the 1985 release of Metal Fatigue ( along with the aforementioned I. O. U. reissue ).

The overarching theme of the Metal Gear Solid series is that of the " gene, meme, scene, sense and peace " and how people are affected by these factors according to the game's producer Kojima — Metal Gear Solid deals with genetics and the moral implications of genetic engineering, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty deals with how identity can be affected by the philosophies of one's society ( a ' meme ') and the effects of censorship on society, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater deals with how the time and place one lives in ( a ' scene ') affects their identity and how politics change along with the times, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots deals with the ' sense ' that people die, things move on and times change, and that life should not be defined by fighting.

For decades, South Riverdale was home to light industry, particularly along Eastern Ave. south of Queen St. Metal processing and tanning were notable industries which, along with other industrial activity, left Leslieville and South Riverdale with a legacy of contaminated land.

His North American name, Dr. Robotnik, was misspelled as " Dr. Robotonic ") has built the Death Egg II, along with Metal Sonic.

He now plays a custom white Warrior model with black bevels, and a Gun Metal Grey Warrior, along with a white Randy Rhoads guitar.

While a previously developed Metal Gear sequel titled Snake's Revenge ( a non-canonical installment produced without Kojima's involvement ) was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America during the same year, Metal Gear 2 itself did not have an official English version until its inclusion as a bonus game ( along with the original Metal Gear ) in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence for PlayStation 2 in, almost 16 years after its original Japanese release.

Also assisting him on-site are Holly White ( spelled " Horry " in the MSX2 version ), a CIA agent posing as a journalist ; Natasha Marcova ( Gustava Heffner in later versions ), an StB agent and Dr. Marv's bodyguard ; and Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar, the Metal Gear designer from the first game, who was captured along with Dr. Marv.

2004 saw the band hit the European roads again on the ‘ Beheaded Europe with Prejudice Tour ’ along Belgian Death Metal band Prejudice.

They went on to feature at the annual Metal for the Brain festival in 1995 and 1996, losing Pentecost along the way.

In August 2009, the band put the second Myspace demo " The Eclipse " online and along with Exceptional Remedy they went straight to No. 1 and No. 2 on Triple J Unearthed Metal charts.

In September 1993 Gamma Ray, along with Rage, Helicon and Conception, embarked on the Melodic Metal Strikes Back tour.

Kai Hansen and Henjo Richter also participated in Tobias Sammet's project Avantasia, on both The Metal Opera and The Metal Opera Part II, along with various other musicians including Hansen's former bandmates from Helloween, Markus Grosskopf and Michael Kiske.

Metal acetylides can be coupled with primary alkyl halides.

Metal samples from large grained alloys may be simple to fabricate, particularly from wire samples, with hand-electropolishing techniques giving good results.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

The Chinese had a somewhat different series of elements, namely Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood, which were understood as different types of energy in a state of constant interaction and flux with one another, rather than the Western notion of different kinds of material.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Metal consoles were developed to hold Chinese tom-toms, with swing out stands for snare drums and cymbals.

* The MESFET ( Metal – Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor ) substitutes the p-n junction of the JFET with a Schottky barrier ; used in GaAs and other III-V semiconductor materials.

Gothic fashion is often confused with Heavy Metal fashion and Emo fashion: outsiders often mistake fans of heavy metal for goth, particularly those who wear black trench coats or wear " corpse paint " ( a term associated with the black metal music scene ).

The level of detail is often quite exquisite, and while more expensive than the typical plastic soldier, is much easier to work with and modify than White Metal or Pewter figures.

Metal carbonyls are complexes that are formed with the neutral ligand CO.

In 2005, Motörhead won their first Grammy in the Best Metal Performance category with their cover of Metallica's " Whiplash ".

Metal Storm has developed a new type of machine gun, with rates of fire up to 1. 62 million rounds per minute.

Metal finds begin with a few copper items in Period IIB.

Most base metals ( copper, lead, zinc, nickel ) are traded internationally on the London Metal Exchange, with smaller stockpiles and metals exchanges monitored by the COMEX and NYMEX exchanges in the United States and the Shanghai Futures Exchange in China.

; Metal laminates: Although a number of companies had experimented with all-aluminum skis in the 1940s, none of these proved practical.

In 1980, Dolenz produced and directed the sitcom Metal Mickey, featuring a large metallic robot with the catch-phrase " boogie boogie.

Metal utensils are typically made out of bronze or brass, the nobility version of silver and decorated with jewels.

In the early 70s, Queen helped spur the heavy metal genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence ; the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in addition, they fused the music genre with a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed.

Numan signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 1980s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm ( 1988 ) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly despite two hit singles.