Metal Gear cover art (1987) 🔗

The cover for the original Metal Gear may be one of the most widely known and recognized examples that'll ever appear in this gallery. Series creator Hideo Kojima famously being the absolute American action and sci-fi movies freak that he is, it's not at all surprising that it is ripped straight from one of the all time greats from the 1980s, Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese in The Terminator. The character's face and pose are hardly disguised at all, although he does get a few additional tech gadgets strapped onto his combat suit, as well as a comically enlarged barrel on his gun. But my favorite part of this is that there seems to be some strange lighting situation going on over the upper half of Michael Biehn's left thumb, which the artist apparently misinterpreted, leaving Solid Snake with an unusually short digit.