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Otacon... o-ta-kon... Konota.. Konata! They're both self-professed otaku, and well, somebody back me up on this. (This implies ''nothing'' about a connection to LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya.)

The games have several fair-haired characters of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (Scott Dolph, Fortune, and Drebin), a blonde Kurd (Sniper Wolf), a couple of blond Eurasians (Kazuhira Miller, and possibly Liquid Snake if you consider Vulcan Raven's remark about Snake's Asian ancestry to be canon), and Paz is [[spoiler: pretending to be]] a blonde Latina. None of this is impossible (see the Real Life section of DarkSkinnedBlond), but fair-haired people of color seem uncommonly thick on the ground in this universe. Combined with all the blond and white-haired Europeans and white Americans, maybe someone on the creative team just has a [[AuthorAppeal blond hair fetish]]?

* One problem with this theory: According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, John Clark was born in 1944, which would make him twenty years old (i.e., the same age as Ocelot) during Operation: Snake Eater. And it's been mentioned (or at least implied) that Big Boss joined the military around 1950. Unless the U.S. has a "Child Soldier" Program that we don't know about, the numbers don't match up.

[[WMG: Hideo Kojima reads Wiki/TVTropes regularly, particularly the WMG sections]]

I assume this sounds perfectly innocent when it's ''voice-acted'', but consider the ''actual words'': Capitalize the 'a' in Otacon's last line, and consider the '--' in Snake's last line him interrupting himself (presumably to stop himself calling them "hackers on steroids") and suddenly it's NOT. SO. INNOCENT! According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, 4chan was launched in October 2003, almost two years after Metal Gear Solid 2 itself was released! So you see, clearly this means that-- hang on, there's someone at the door, I'll be back to finish this post shortly.

** I simply meant that, based on the numbers from ''Peace Walker'', Big Boss was born in 1935, or nine years before John Clark. Big Boss joined the military around 1950 (probably lying about his age), and I don't know if he saw any six-year-olds running around like the way [[TheSimpsons Abraham Simpson]] did in World War I.

Relating to the above WMG, Para-Medic eventually got into contact with Zero and were able to reunite with him. She was able to keep him company throughout his elderly years and wounds up getting a job at the nursing home Zero stayed in.

[[WMG: Sigint wasn't actually the DARPA chief, and Para-Medic wasn't responsible for the Grey Fox experiment]]

Rather those things were carried out by different people, but because of how easily misinformation can be spread around, Sigint and Para-Medic ended up being blamed for them, not helped by their involvement with the Les Enfant Terribles project, which just like Zero, they ended up feeling remorse for.

Relating to the above WMG, Para-Medic and Sigint eventually got into contact with Zero and were able to reunite with their former commander. They were able to keep him company throughout his elderly years and Para-Medic wounds up getting a job at the nursing home Zero stayed in.

Relating to the above WMG, Para-Medic and Sigint eventually got into contact with Zero and were able to reunite with their former commander. They were able to keep him company throughout his elderly years and Para-Medic wounds up
getting a job at the nursing home Zero stayed in.

[[WMG: The Dr. Clark and Donald Anderson described in MGS 4 aren't actually the Para-Medic and Sigint from Snake Eater]]

Rather, they were just [[EvilDoppelganger Evil Doppelgangers]] who stole their identities and carried out illegal acts under their names. EVA didn't know this, which is why she assumed they were the same people.

While Sigint and Para-Medic were responsible for helping Zero out with [[spoiler: creating the Patriots and the Les Enfant Terribles project]], just like Zero, they ended up feeling remorse for it. Sigint and Para-Medic retired afterwards and went into hiding, living out the rest of their lives peacefully.

Relating to the above WMG, Para-Medic and Sigint eventually got into contact with him and were able to reunite with their former commander. They were able to keep him company throughout his elderly years and Para-Medic wounds up getting a job at the nursing home Zero stayed in.

Which happened shortly after his visit with Snake in the Cyprus hospital in 1977, he just kept it a secret from everyone, retired, and went into hiding, living out a few more decades before eventually succumbing to dementia as a result of natural old age (that's why we still see him as a vegetable at the end of MGS 4). Because the parasites still left him permanently disabled, he is put in a nursing home, and because of memory loss, he ended up forgetting about Jack and [[spoiler: the Patriots]] altogether. The claim that Zero was in a coma was just a cover story.

Which happened shortly after his visit with Snake in the Cyprus hospital in 1977, he just kept it a secret from everyone, retired, and went into hiding, living out a few more decades before eventually succumbing to dementia as a result of natural old age (that's why we still see him as a vegetable at the end of MGS 4). Because the parasites still left him permanently disabled, he is put in a nursing home, and because of memory loss, he ended up forgetting about Jack and [[spoiler: the Patriots]] altogether.

While Sigint and Para-Medic were responsible for helping Zero out with [[spoiler: creating the Patriots and the Les Enfant Terribles project]], just like Zero, they ended up feeling remorse for it and attempted to fix things, only for it to ultimately fail after Skull Face's hostile take-over of [[spoiler: Cipher]]. Angry that Sigint and Para-Medic refused to work under his management and still had UndyingLoyalty to Zero, he ordered them to be killed and had them replaced by doppelgangers (the same ones who will end up doing nasty things in the future and ultimately meet a violent KarmicDeath). While Sigint and Para-Medic managed to escape, they retired afterwards and went into hiding, living out the rest of their lives peacefully.

* ''WMG/MetalGearSolidV''

Which happened shortly after his visit with Snake in the Cyprus hospital in 1977, he just kept it a secret from everyone, retired, and went into hiding, living out a few more decades before eventually succumbing to dementia as a result of natural old age (that's why we still see him as a vegetable at the end of MGS 4). Because the parasites still left him permanently disabled, he is put in a nursing home, and because of memory loss, he ended up forgetting about Jack and the Patriots altogether.

While Sigint and Para-Medic were responsible for helping Zero out with creating [[spoiler: the Patriots and the Les Enfant Terribles project]], just like Zero, they ended up feeling remorse for it and attempted to fix things, only for it to ultimately fail after Skull Face's hostile take-over of [[spoiler: Cipher]]. Angry that Sigint and Para-Medic refused to work under his management and still had UndyingLoyalty to Zero, he ordered them to be killed and had them replaced by doppelgangers (the same ones who will end up doing nasty things in the future and ultimately meet a violent KarmicDeath). While Sigint and Para-Medic managed to escape, they retired afterwards and went into hiding, living out the rest of their lives peacefully.

While Sigint and Para-Medic were responsible for helping Zero out with creating out the Patriots and the Les Enfant Terribles project, just like Zero, they ended up feeling remorse for it and attempted to fix things, only for it to ultimately fail after Skull Face's hostile take-over of Cipher. Angry that Sigint and Para-Medic refused to work under his management and still had UndyingLoyalty to Zero, he ordered them to be killed and had them replaced by doppelgangers (the same ones who will end up doing nasty things in the future and ultimately meet a violent KarmicDeath). While Sigint and Para-Medic managed to escape, they retired afterwards and went into hiding, living out the rest of their lives peacefully.

[[WMG: The Dr. Clark and Donald Anderson described in MGS4 aren't actually the Para-Medic and Sigint from Snake Eater]]

Which happened shortly after his visit with Snake in the Cyprus hospital in 1977, he just kept it a secret from everyone, retired, and went into hiding, living out a few more decades before eventually succumbing to dementia as a result of natural old age (that's why we still see him as a vegetable at the end of MGS4). Because the parasites still left him permanently disabled, he is put in a nursing home, and because of memory loss, he ended up forgetting about Jack and the Patriots altogether.

As MGSV proved he is every bit as tough and powerful as [[spoiler: Real Big Boss]] so there is a very good chance he didn't die, just went into hiding after he found out it was [[spoiler: the real Big Boss who tried to have him killed by Solid, now that by the time of revengence, Solid Snake is presumed to be dead whats to stop Venom from starting up again?]]

* He's [[spoiler:an imperfect clone, along with Liquid Snake, like the ''StarWars'' clone troopers; in contrast, Solidus Snake would be the 'true' clone, like Boba Fett]].

*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint So the box is Hideo's wife's vagina?]]

[[WMG:Ocelot's entire adult life has been a Main/LongCon against the Patriots]]

In [=MGS4=], Otacon says that the name 'Metal Gear' is applied to a walking tank relevant in terms of the tactical nuclear map (hence why the non-nuke carrying RAY and MkII were still Metal Gears), and [=MGS2=] makes it clear that Philanthropy was allowed and encouraged to exist by the Patriots, presumably for controlling the wild Metal Gear proliferation that Ocelot had been forced to start under the guise of working for Solidus. Basically, Solid Snake ''himself'' is a 'walking tank', relevant in terms of the tactical nuclear map. "Metal Gear Solid" could therefore be an in-universe description of him, and it's just like Kojima to do something like that, isn't it?

What better way to bring the series full circles than to flesh out Snake's origin story? It might even be set in Iraq during The Gulf War when Snake [[ContinuityNod infiltrated Iraq with a couple of Green Berets]], when Snake would have been only 18 at most and therefore at his greenest. He'll probably be depicted as being in a stark contrast with his future self, being much more idealistic, patriotic, and more reluctant to use lethal force (expect a CallForward to his scolding of Meryl from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', "You hesitate for ''one second'' and it's over.")

[[WMG: The bosses in VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake had [[DeadManSwitch microbombs]] much like the Cobra Unit.]]

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If the info from the [[http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_Wiki Metal Gear Wiki]] is accurate (since I haven't played all the games yet, I don't know for sure), then Big Boss' real full name is John Doe. This is also the real name of gentleman assassin [[Main/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Shelly de Killer]]. From this, we can conclude that Big Boss, in fact, does ''not'' die [[spoiler:at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4]], but instead manages to stubbornly cling to life for at least until early 2017, during which time he became the third professional assassin to use the de Killer name.

With ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' bridging the gap between ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'', the bridge will likewise be gapped between ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' and ''MetalGear2SolidSnake''.

* WMG/MetalGearSolid
* WMG/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty
* WMG/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater
* WMG/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots
* WMG/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker
* WMG/MetalGearSolidV
* WMG/MetalGearRisingRevengeance
* WMG/MetalGearSurvive
* WMG/MetalGearAcid

* WMG/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker

* WMG/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain