Chapter 1 Introduction: “Just Another Day in a War Without End”: Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear

Chapter 2 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain ’s Denial of Player Expectations: The War Game that Isn’t

Chapter 3 History, Historicity, and Fiction: Pseudorealities in Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain

Chapter 4 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction and Reality: Anguish and Agony

Chapter 5 The Phantom Pain’s Opening Mission: Hospital as Slaughterhouse and an Introduction to Trauma

Chapter 6 “You Can’t Patch a Wounded Soul with a Band-Aid”: Manifestations of Trauma in the Characters of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain

Chapter 7 “Who Are You? Snake? It’s not You . . . Is It?”: Contradiction and Fragmentation at Game’s End