What's the lore behind the weirdness of Metal Slug?

For that gif alone
A hermit Carb mutated in ms3 form fallen radioactive missiles on stage 1 island that's infested with mutated crabs and inscests
enlarging him makeing his home in a destroyed rebel army supet tank

That tank in the. gif , Metal slug attack shows a undestoryed version

Metal slug attack is mostly garbage
As they kep adding to it

Only conpect art you'll find other lore
Think some is translated but here's a collection
<https://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/msmia/>

>What's the lore behind the weirdness of Metal Slug?
It's Japanese-made.

>>11862067
this
it's born from some kind of post-nuclear cultural trauma like godzilla/kaiju monsters

>>11861980 (OP)
It's not a serious game.

>>11862094
I wonder what kinda place they'd be had we used all six and nuked Tokyo and killed the imperial family too?

>>11861980 (OP)
It (did) take place in the future.

I thought it was aliens from Mars?

>>11861980 (OP)
I've been told that giant enemy crabs are very historically true to ancient battles that took place in Japan.

>>11861980 (OP)
Idk about the lore, but the aesthetics are heavily inspired by Hayao Miyazakis Daydream Data Notes, a manga/collection of essays.

when I was a kid I used to draw porn of Allan o'neil raping Eri and tarma

>>11862339
The one meme that never ceases to die, and always arises in the least likely of places.

>>11861980 (OP)
That's easy, Miyazaki.

>>11862019
>A hermit Carb
can you introduce us? is he nice?

>>11861980 (OP)
It's called being creative

>>11862772
Nnnooo.. they must've been high xD

>>11862773
japan did have legal shrooms until the 2000s, you can still get them if you know where to go and what to ask for. seekrit club

>>11862094
>post-nuclear cultural trauma
God fucking dammit
>be Japan
>invade every country in the Pacific
>murder millions of civilians, including through fucked up human experiments
>rape countless women
>execute POWs
>show cruelty the world hadn't seen since the Assyrian Empire
>America decides to drop two (2) bombs
>NOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN WE ARE SO TRAUMA DESU

>>11861980 (OP)
It's supposed to be memorable and wacky so you keep wanting more and spending your quarters. Not everything has to have lE dEePeSt LoRe

>>11862202
You wouldn't have had /vr/ as a board in any meaningful sense.

>>11862859
Why not? We could've been posting about Speccy games all day.

>>11862815
Civilians aren't military.