Drum Can
From the Metal Gear Wiki
The Drum Can is a metal barrel used for disguise. Old Snake discovered a drum can in the Middle East, immediately after meeting Drebin, when he witnessed Johnny Sasaki getting caught defecating inside it.
The Metal Gear Solid 4 equivalent of the Cardboard Box used in previous games, Solid Snake uses it to hide from the patrolling guards, and can push it onto its side and roll into a number of guards to knock them over (although he can feel sick if he rolls too many times). In the E3 2007 gameplay demo, Snake threw up upon ousting two guards with the drum can barrel roll. It can also deflect bullets.
In Metal Gear Solid 4 Online, the Drum Can, along with the ENVG (Enhanced Night Vision Goggles), are items that can be found and later used. The Drum Can is used by and affects the online characters the sameway as the Drum Can does to Solid Snake; it can be used for a disguise, the player can push it over and roll over people, and eventually makes the player throw up.
The original use of the Drum Can can be seen in the Secret Theatre in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, however, and it is seen with Raiden "accidentally" running from Volgin with a drum can that has landed on his head.
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In a trailer of Battlefield: Bad Company, "Snake Eyes", a soldier by the name of Sweetwater claims that he saw a guy wearing an eyepatch hiding in a barrel. While the other soldiers Redford and Marlowe debate on how stupid it would be for someone to hide in a barrel "That's just as stupid as hiding in a cardboard box!" and why he would be wearing an eyepatch, a blue exclamation mark appears over the barrel with the traditional sound effect, obviously parodying Solid Snake & co. Another soldier, whose name is Haggard, then shoots the barrel with a grenade launcher and afterwords, finds the eyepatch and puts it on. At the end, he ends up bumping into Sweetwater because of the blindspot of the eyepatch.
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