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Don't f-ck with this senator!
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~ Armstrong to Raiden, and ane of his most famous lines.
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Armstrong: Well done, Jack. Raiden: Your dream dies with you. Armstrong: Maybe non... You've guaranteed the status quo will go on, for a while longer at least... War... volition go along as an institution. As an industry. Men will fight for reasons they don't understand, causes they don't believe in... Just at least I'll leave a worthy successor... You, Jack. You carve your ain path, use whatever methods you run across fit... Yous don't let legal bullshit go in the way. And if it costs a few lives? So be it... Deep inside we're... kindred spirits... you... and I...
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~ Armstrong'south final monologue to Raiden, disarming him on how he can continue his vision of free volition.
Senator Steven Armstrong is the main antagonist of the 2013 video game Metallic Gear Rise: Revengeance.
He is an ambitious Colorado senator who plans to get elected as the adjacent U.S. President so he can convert the land into a social Darwinist government that he believes would allow every citizen to fight their own wars and for what they truly believe in.
He was voiced past the late Unshō Ishizuka in Japanese, who also voiced Incineroar and Heihachi Mishima and past Alastair Duncan in English, who as well voiced Vulture in the 2017 TV serial Marvel'southward Spider-Human being, Curtis Blackburn in Killer7, and Celebrimbor in Middle-World: Shadow of Mordor.
Appearance
Standing at an imposing height of 2 meters (six'vii"), Armstrong is a titan of an private, with a very well-built physique. He is a towering middle-aged, Caucasian homo with black hair with traces of white, and gray colored eyes. Armstrong's main attire appears to exist primarily comprised of vertical lined striped dark suit worn over a white shirt, also equally dark pants to match his political theme outfit. He besides dons an lapel pin on his suit in the shape of the flag of his homeland, the Usa.
When Armstrong powers upward to his nanite-empowered state, Armstrong goes through considerable physical changes. In his empowered state, Armstrong's muscular frame increases substantially to the point his shirt completely shreds off, revealing his impressive build. His torso bears many scars, due to procedure of implanting the nanomachines into his trunk. Due to the nanomachine empowering him, his trunk is riddled with energy, covering him in a powerful aura, which too adds every bit a layer of defense force.
Biography
Past
When Armstrong was young, he used to play higher football for the University of Texas, in which he excelled at the game. Years later, he afterward joined the The states Navy, which sacrificed his chance of going pro. However, although a member of the Navy, he never saw combat during his service.
He had maintained his impressive physical ability for a long time, which in 2016 was exponentially increased past a nanomachine infusion. The concrete enhancements Armstrong received from nanomachines additional his powers to unprecedented level. Around that time, Armstrong ran for election for State senator of Colorado and subsequently won. Additionally, he had also get the de facto CEO of World Marshal Inc., which was the globe's largest PMC (Private Military Company) and the largest cybernetic body office supplier. Past the time of 2018, Armstrong became a presidential nominee for the 2020 elections, and was even considered to be a "shoo in".
Political career
Former in 2016, Senator Armstrong delivered a speech to get his approval ratings up. His speech was his way of expressing his beliefs. It was likewise around this time when Armstrong met and recruited the Winds of Destruction, those being Monsoon, Sundowner and Mistral, whom the iii were leaders of Desperado Enforcement LLC., an American PMC arrangement that frequents with terrorism and insurgency. Due to this involvement with the Desperado PMSC and its activities, Armstrong'south speechwriter warned him that he would appear before a chiliad jury had his connection to the group been revealed, although he himself believed that they will not do a thing in either instance, as he believed that the people would non care due to believing that coin is the only affair that truly matters.
Recruiting Jetstream Sam
Armstrong fighting Jetstream Sam.
During all this, Armstrong was planning on recruiting a mercenary to aid further his plans. After Jetstream Sam head to the top of the roof of World Align where Armstrong was waiting, Armstrong challenges Sam to a fight. While the two were fighting, Armstrong was offering Sam a job. Nearing the end, Sam managed to slice off ane of Armstrong'due south arms, simply Armstrong apace retaliates by using his Nanomachines to plough his injury into a blade. He and so processes by stabbing Sam in his right shoulder, severely injuring Sam'due south unabridged right arm. After defeating Sam, Armstrong quickly attaching his severed hand back onto his arm, and accepted Jetstream Sam to the team, and somewhen giving Sam a new robotic arm.
Directly involvement in Desperado activities
Two years later, Armstrong inspected a Desperado enquiry lab in Mexico alongside with Desperado'due south leader; Sundowner, regarding that the transportation of children's brains in cyborg head casings earlier delivering them to Globe Marshal for the Sears Program was processing as planned. However, Armstrong also instructed them to shut downwardly the facility, and move the child's brains to another facility as he had suspicion that someone else was snooping around. One of the scientists asked Armstrong what to do with the other children that were attending the Sears Program. To which, Armstrong to him to kill them, as they had elsewhere to become, no one will miss them, and he claims that he is doing a public favor. He besides plotted for Performance Tecumseh, which was a programme that would commencement a war with Pakistan under imitation pretenses while President Hamilton is visiting the state with Pakistani President Farooq Salam for a peace talk.
Confronting Raiden
Armstrong proving to be too much for Raiden.
While Raiden was in the Pakistan base to stop Armstrong'southward plans, he spotted Blade Wolf injured, presumably defeated by Armstrong. Presently after, Armstrong, along with his own Metal Gear, known as the "Metal Gear EXCELSUS", climbed out of a crater. He revealed to Raiden that, since the fall of SOPs (Sons of the Patriots) and the Patriots, America was hit with a recession, which is the reason why he needed to orchestrate a simulated flag functioning to ensure the war economic system to put America back to piece of work again. Although Armstrong was originally planning to electrocute the president, he instead, decided to accept the American base framed for being killed past Pakistani extremists, feeling that would take accomplished the same programme in general. Still, Raiden was planning to expose the truth of what happened, and so to foreclose that Armstrong confronted him with his Metal Gear.
Armstrong about to confront Raiden.
After EXCELSUS was destroyed, Armstrong proceeded to fight Raiden. His nanomachine-infused body, which enabled Armstrong with superhuman-like forcefulness and immovability, completely overwhelmed Raiden, not even flinching one time from the many hits the latter had landed on him. He fifty-fifty broke Raiden'south sword, leaving Raiden to his mercy. During the battle, he explained that his motives of wanting to remake America. He believed that America was rotten to the core, and that he wanted to reestablish America as a world where people fight for their own reasons, instead of fighting for the government. Raiden then deduced that he was not but a "greedy political leader" as he initially thought, but stated that he was completely insane due to his reference to culling the weak and having the strong be free.
However, simply when Armstrong was about to kill Raiden, an injured Bract Wolf saved him by bringing to him Samuel's sword. Angered, Armstrong kicked Blade Wolf away, although non before Blade Wolf threw the sword to Raiden.
Armstrong'southward demise.
Both Raiden and Armstrong continued to fight, until Raiden managed to stab Armstrong through the breast. Upon his defeat, Armstrong acknowledges Raiden every bit a true American, and expresses his respect for Raiden by informing him that he's "Number 1". Raiden so finishes the senator off by ripping out his nanomachine-laced stake heart and crushing it with his hand. Before he died, Armstrong commended Raiden as they were kindred spirits.
Armstrong's death caused World Align'due south funding to be crippled. But despite this, Globe Align itself all the same continued to exist, and his plan of re-orchestrating a new War on Terror managed to succeed. Raiden likewise started to slightly agree with Armstrong's claims almost people fighting wars they don't believe in, and then decided to defect and go fight his own battles in his ain ways, regardless if anybody agrees with his methods or not.
Personality
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Armstrong: All right, the truth and so. Yous're right about one thing... I do need capital. And votes. Wanna know why? "I have a dream." That i day every person in this nation will control their Own destiny. A land of the TRULY free, dammit. A nation of Activeness, not words. Ruled by STRENGTH, not committee. Where the police force changes to suit the individual, not the other fashion around. Where ability and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to recollect - to human activity - for himself! F-ck all these limp-dick lawyers and craven-shit bureaucrats. F-ck this 24/seven net spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit. F-ck "American pride." F-ck the media! F-ck all of it! America is diseased. Rotten to the cadre. In that location'due south no saving information technology. Nosotros demand to pull information technology out past the roots. Wipe the slate clean. Burn Information technology Downwardly! And from the ashes, a new America will be born! Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged, and the strongest will thrive - free to live as they see fit, they'll brand America great again! Raiden: What the hell are yous talking nearly... Armstrong: You still don't get it. I'm using war equally a business to get elected... to end war as a business! In my new America, people volition die and kill for what they BELIEVE. Not for money. Not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every human will be gratuitous to fight his own wars!
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~ Senator Armstrong's monologue on his vision for America.
Armstrong is shown to be an extremely nationalistic, patriotic and libertarian individual. He shows this past expressing the desire to "reclaim the American dream" by instigating another American Revolution after Liquid Ocelot's insurrection and the Patriots' actions that weakened America. His intense patriotism was fully demonstrated while he was fighting Raiden, by declaring that if Raiden was non for the United states and his goals, he was effectively against it. He as well told Raiden to experience the wrath of the USA, and saying that Samuel desired Raiden's death.
Despite his patriotism, Armstrong held groovy resentment towards the "current" America; criticizing the war economic system, the mass media, equally well as the notion of "American pride", and it became his motivation to enact the revival of the "War on Terror" in hopes of using war equally a business concern to get elected as the side by side U.S. President, thereby granting him enough power so that he would be able to end war as a business in its entirety. He was also shown to be extremely cynical in regards to his views of people and especially his electorate, stating that people wouldn't intendance if a bad act happened or if there was information control as long as at that place's coin involved or if information technology'southward at to the lowest degree given a adept spin, such as effective scapegoating. He believed this could be achieved if he could turn anybody into a cyborg, even innocent children (much to Raiden's chagrin).
Because of his power both in politics and combat thanks to his nanomachines and his influence as senator, Armstrong is highly arrogant and he held a sarcastic attitude along with belief to the notion "might makes right" to the kicking. In this regard, he viewed those who were "stiff" every bit the ones deserving of dictating the laws of society, and that the "weak" should exist purged so every bit to create a perfect globe. His airs also occasionally leads him to practice advised and reckless things, such as deliberately provoking Raiden by sending Blade Wolf away as soon as the wolf-like robot sends the Cyborg Ninja Sam'due south Muramasa.
Powers and Abilities
Armstrong demonstrating his nanomachine enhanced torso.
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Raiden: Why won't you die?! Armstrong: Nanomachines, son. They harden in response to physical trauma. You can't injure me, Jack.
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~ Armstrong revealing and explaining the true nature of his powers.
Even before his nanotech infusion, Steven Armstrong was considered to be quite strong - something he caused from his days as a college brawl player and as a sailor in the Us Navy. He was also very skilled in hand-to-mitt gainsay, though it would seem that he preferred a much more than brawl-like style of fighting. Subsequently his nanotech infusion however, Armstrong's forcefulness grew to immense superhuman levels past orders of magnitude. His nanomachines, which were regulated by his artificial heart, granted him far more than power than anyone could imagine.
Self-Nanite Manipulation: With his blood existence primed with specialized nanotechnology, his already impressive abilities were amplified to an extreme superhuman degree, surpassing any enhanced, mystical and even superhuman beings ever shown in the Metal Gear series. He activates his nanomachines with a unique motion sequence, his beingness a pseudo-sumo stomp, afterwards this sequence, he charged his nanomachines by arresting energy from vehicles including: Metal Gears, Hammerheads, APCs and other sources of energy, and enters his nanite-empowered immense superhuman state. Furthermore, he can ability upwards to an fifty-fifty stronger country, where he reach his noon level of power.
Armstrong throws a punch with a force that rivals a Nuclear Detonation.
Superhuman strength: Empowered by his nanomachines, Armstrong reaches an unprecedented level of superhuman strength that virtually surpasses all superhuman beings to date. His punches alone are able to generate powerful stupor-waves, able to comport, lift and exert millions of tons of strength (e.k lifting giant Metal Gears or crusade the basis to rupture). In his first empowered state, he effortlessly overpower other individuals who were superhuman to brainstorm, such equally Jetstream Sam and Raiden. Armstrong casually overpowers Sam with little endeavor, going as far equally severing the Brazilian Samurai's correct arm, despite Sam'southward superhuman durability. In the finale of Metallic Gear Rise: Revengeance, he once more effortlessly overpowered Raiden and even broke his HF Bract with his bare hands (Doktor stating it defies mod physics). Most impressively, Armstrong threw a punch into Raiden with such force, it completely destroyed the remains of the Metal Gear EXCELSUS, creating a big crater, a feat which rivals nuclear warheads. Afterward on, when Raiden obtains Sam'due south superior Murasama Blade and activated his ripper mode to match and ultimately defeating him, Armstrong in his total powered state still show to be superior in strength, equally fifty-fifty a single blow could show fatal for Raiden.
Armstrong casually no-sold Raiden's barrage of superhuman strikes.
Nigh-invulnerability: The most prominent attributes of the nanomachines; they harden different parts of his skin in response to whatsoever and all types of physical trauma, with the side-event of turning the afflicted areas black, with some splotches of red on the outer edges. His skin, equally a effect of the hardening, renders Armstrong nigh indestructible, existence able to withstand any sorts of penalization, such as HF Blades having no effect on him, to even casually shrugging off the complete destruction of the EXCELSUS, which explosion was rivalling the power of nuclear warheads. Fifty-fifty Raiden or Sam, powerful enhanced cyborgs who could easily annihilate mountain size Metal Gears, was unable to do any serious or permanent harm. Fifty-fifty without the nanomachines hardening his skin, Armstrong is notwithstanding incredibly resilient enough to tank numerous powerful blows from Raiden in his Ripper Mode land.
Nanite Relocation: Through the use of nanite relocation, Armstrong can harden the skin on certain areas of his trunk to further enhance his resilience to physical trauma and heave his already impressive superhuman strength. This method even prevents him from bleeding out by hardening upward the injured area. When Sam severed Armstrong's arm, he used this to forestall the haemorrhage and create a makeshift blade which was strong enough to pierce through Sam'southward cybernetic armor.
Regenerative Healing: Senator Armstrong can use his nanite relocation ability to heal all harm done to his physiology and even fully reattach severed body parts. Senator Armstrong can even use his nanite relocation to encompass upward wounded areas to prevent himself from loosing as well much claret. He did this when Sam Rodriguez severed off his arm.
Energy Manipulation: Steven Armstrong'south main power is allowing him to blot and store energy within his nano-tech primed body. He is too shown that he tin can levitate and throw vehicles as he is arresting their energy. The energy in him can be redirected and be used to generate assurance of fiery energy, peppery shockwaves and even trigger ground explosions. He tin can fifty-fifty apply this free energy to perform impressive dashes of superhuman speed from varied distances. Using it as a propelling strength to increase the strength backside his charging strikes.
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Idiot. You lot're non ending our plan, y'all're expanding information technology.
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~ Senator Armstrong to Raiden.
Master Tactician: Armstrong is a genius level planner as he secretly operated Desperado and Earth Marshal from behind the scenes without leaving any evidence of his connexion them for authorities to detect out. He also incited a war with Pakistan under false pretenses that the president was virtually assassinated while visiting the land for a peace talk. When Raiden tried to terminate him, he used the opportunity to frame the situation as a terrorist attack on an American base to rally the American people to state of war.
Master Politician: Senator Steven Armstrong is a highly skilled political who earned himself a seat on the senate and became the Senator of Colorado. He used his knowledge of politics and economics as well as the Patriots and their war economy to guarantee his election into the Presidency of the Usa.
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Played college ball ya know. Try University of Texas. Coulda gone pro if I hadn't joined the Navy. I'thousand not one of those beltway pansies. I could break the president in ii with my blank hands!
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~ Senator Armstrong to Raiden.
Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: While combating Raiden, Senator Armstrong has bragged nigh his combat prowess from his Navy service. Armstrong combines his nanite manipulation abilities with gainsay techniques from boxing, wrestling, and fifty-fifty football game moves similar shoulder tackles and punting kicks. He was able to fight Jetstream Sam, only winning when he improvised his nano machine infused arm injury into a blade. He later fought Raiden, holding the border until Raiden got Sam's sword and exploited his weak signal.
Piloting Skills: Armstrong was able to pilot Metal Gear EXCELSUS most likely owing to his Navy experience.
Immense Resource: Given his status as a Senator as well as his noesis of the Patriot's activities, Senator Armstrong has gained a vast variety of financial assets and commodities which he can use at his disposal. He has been using his fortune to fund Desperado Enforcement LLC, Private Military Company with specialized enhanced soldiers and the latest military technology.
Quotes
Trivia
Armstrong is oftentimes considered by many to exist the most powerful graphic symbol in the Metal Gear series as he casually overpowered Raiden and rag doll him throughout much of the fight, with the latter but able to barely defeat him when he was blood lusted (ripper manner) and with the help of Jetstream's HF Murasama blade.
The moment Armstrong is most to blot his nanomachines, he does a Sumo pose. Steven too performs a diversity of wrestling moves during his fight with Raiden.
Armstrong's line "Nanomachines, son", has go i of the most popular cyberspace memes in recent history.
Armstrong briefly yells "Brand America great again!". This phrase had already been used in connection to Donald Trump by his entrada adviser equally early as 2011, and is a modification of a slogan used past Ronald Reagan in the fourscore's.
Armstrong himself also directly references Star Wars in the Metal Gear EXCELSUS boss fight, with some of his dialogue. Firstly, is his line: "Impressive, Jack. Most impressive", which references this line by Darth Vader. Secondly, his line "Don't get too cocky, child", references one of Han Solo's lines.
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