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Ghost in the Shell's Real Rock Connection Isn't Metallica — It's The Police (and U2)
A stubborn fan myth says “Master of Puppets” was inspired by Ghost in the Shell. The timeline kills that in one move — and the real rock connections buried in this franchise are better than the myth ever was.
Here’s the claim, as it circulates: Metallica wrote “Master of Puppets” about the Puppet Master, the body-hopping villain of Ghost in the Shell. Puppets, puppet master, control, loss of self — the vocabulary lines up so neatly you can see why people want it to be true.