Metal Gear (mecha)

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Metal Gear
Metal Gear vehicle
An illustration depicting mass-produced versions of Metal Gear REX on the battlefield.
First appearance	Metal Gear (1987)
Last appearance	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
Created by	Hideo Kojima
General characteristics
Class	Mecha

Metal Gear (Japanese: メタルギア, Hepburn: Metaru Gia) are the mecha in the Metal Gear series.^[1][2] In the series, a Metal Gear is a bipedal, nuclear weapons-equipped tank. The Metal Gears are typically autonomous nuclear launch platforms which the player must destroy to save the world and complete the game. Often, confronting the latest Metal Gear model is one of the final challenges of each game.