Metal Gear Solid is Konami's stealth series created by Hideo Kojima, with the PlayStation game in 1998 making Solid Snake's sneaking missions widely known. Avoiding detection, holding up guards, and quietly neutralising them have always been core to its gameplay, rather than loud combat. Clips of those moves were widely shared in gameplay videos, montages and meme edits, so this takedown audio became shorthand for any perfectly timed stealth moment online, even outside the games themselves.