The most popular Stealth-Based Game series going, Metal Gear is known in part for extremely talky characters that have a tendency to philosophize under heavy fire. Oh, and just about all of them suffer from huge psychological issues.
Warning: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS AHEAD. Many will be marked, but some, especially on this page, will be unmarked.
Characters are listed on the characters page for the game they debuted in. Please do not list a character again on a second page if they make a reappearance, even if their personality is really different. There are two exceptions: Solid Snake in his Snake's Revenge, Ac!d, and Ghost Babel appearances since he's from an alternate continuity and Big Boss, Liquid Snake, Psycho Mantis, and Volgin in The Phantom Pain because of their drastic changes in character and identity throughout the course of that game.
Index by page:
Main protagonistsMain series (original canon)note- Metal Gear
- Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Senator Armstrong *Unmarked Spoilers*
- Metal Gear Solid V (Ground Zeroes & The Phantom Pain)
Index by character:
- Roy Campbell
- Master Miller
- Holly White
- Dr. Kio Marv
- Natasha Marcova/Gustava Heffner
- Dr. Pettrovich Madnar
- Big Boss
- Gray Fox
- Running Man
- Red Blaster
- Ultravox/Four Horseman
- Predator/Jungle Evil
- Night Sight/Night Fright
- Black Color/Black Ninja (Kyle Schneider)
- Roy Campbell
- Master Miller
- Naomi Hunter
- Mei Ling
- Nastasha Romanenko
- Meryl Silverburgh
- Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich
- Cyborg Ninja (Gray Fox)
- Kenneth Baker
- Donald Anderson (Sigint)
- Rosemary
- The Colonel
- Emma Emmerich
- Peter Stillman
- Iroquois Pliskin (Solid Snake)
- Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich
- Naked Snake (Big Boss)
- Colonel Volgin
- Major Ocelot (Revolver Ocelot)
- The Cobra Unit
- Old Snake (Solid Snake)
- Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich
- Rosemary
- Rat Patrol Team 01
- Raiden
- Drebin
- Roy Campbell
- Snake (Big Boss)
- Kazuhira Miller
- Amanda Valenciano Libre
- Paz Ortega Andrade
- Chico Libre
- "Huey" Emmerich
- Cecile Cosima Caminades
- Dr. Strangelove
- Hot Coldman
- Ramón Gálvez Mena
- Cipher (The Patriots)
- Venom Snake (Big Boss)
- Skull Face
- Quiet
- "The Man on Fire" (Colonel Volgin)
- Eli (Liquid Snake)
- Tretij Rebenok (Psycho Mantis)
- Cipher (The Patriots)
- Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov
- Kevin Washington
- Courtney Collins
- Wilhelm "Doktor" Voigt
- Sunny Emmerich
- IF Prototype LQ-84i "Blade Wolf"