Microbombs
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Microbombs are small explosives placed on a person's body and set to explode whenever that individual dies, meant only to destroy that specific person's body. They are used to make sure that neither a person's body nor important items can be retrieved by the enemy and were primarily utilized by the Cobra Unit.
Microbombs are activated when the The Pain, The Fear, The End and The Fury are killed during the course of the storyline. It can be assumed that The Boss, being a Cobra member, also had a microbomb (this is supported by a non-canon scene in the Secret Theatre of Subsistence), but later had it removed.
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- The main way for Naked Snake to find out about microbombs is to radio Major Zero after a Cobra boss battle; if Snake has fought at least two Cobras, this will begin with Snake asking "Major, why do they keep exploding?!"
- While the microbomb is designed to destroy the body and personal effects of the Cobra using it, for gameplay reasons a stamina kill still results in that member dropping their Camouflage, save The End who drops his Mosin-Nagant tranquilizer rifle.
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