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How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™
The article traces an unusual chain of influence from a childhood incident witnessed by Stephen King to a deliberately absurd feature in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. It argues that King’s experience helped inspire The Body, which became the film Stand by Me, where Kiefer Sutherland played Ace Merrill; Sutherland later voiced Snake in the Metal Gear game and helped shape its horse-related humour.
The key detail is that Sutherland reportedly asked whether the player could make the horse, D-Horse, defecate on command, an idea ultimately included in the game. The article presents this as a playful example of how real events, books, films, actors and games can connect across decades in unexpected ways.
In short
- A childhood tragedy influenced Stephen King’s writing.
- Stand by Me connected King’s work to Kiefer Sutherland.
- Sutherland helped inspire D-Horse’s commandable defecation.
Explained simply
Stephen King has described seeing a child killed by a train when he was young, an experience often linked to his story The Body. That story was adapted as the 1986 film Stand by Me, in which Kiefer Sutherland played the bully Ace Merrill.
Years later, Sutherland voiced Snake in the videogame Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. During the game’s development, he reportedly suggested letting players make Snake’s horse, D-Horse, defecate on command. The connection shows how a real event, a book, a film and a game can become linked through the people who make them.