is a fictional character in the '', Fox becomes the main antagonist against Snake, as he leads Zanzibar Land's mercenary force and pilots the revised Metal Gear D. However, he is more popularly known for his portrayal as the genetically-enhanced "Cyborg Ninja" in ''
Metal Gear Solid ''.
His voice was provided by '') performing the role. His face in the original
MSX2 version of ''Metal Gear 2'' was modeled after the likeness of actor
Tom Berenger .
- Codename: Gray Fox
- Real name: Frank Jaeger (sometimes romanized as Frank Yeager)
- Sex: Male
- Aliases: Deepthroat, Cyborg Ninja
- Ethnicity: German-Vietnamese
- Height: 179cm (normal), 181cm (cyborg)
- Weight: 85kg (normal), 90kg (cyborg)
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Born as Frank Jaeger to German-American and Vietnamese parents, Frank's parents died during the
Vietnam War while he was still a child. As a result, he was discriminated due to his half-Caucasian heritage and was forced to work hard labor for the war effort. However, he was shortly taken into custody by
Big Boss and became his foster son.
After Frank became an adult, he joined the armed forces and participated as a soldier for the
Renamo during the Mozambican Civil War. During one of his missions, he was captured by
Frelimo soldiers and had his ears and nose cut off during a torture session. He was rescued a few days later by Big Boss. It was around this time that Frank adopted an orphaned girl named
Naomi in
Rhodesia and cared for her as an older brother. He adopted Naomi out of personal guilt for killing her parents during war, but Naomi was unaware of this.
During the
1988 Winter Olympic Games in
Calgary , while living under the alias of "Frank Hunter", Frank became romantically involved with
Czech figure skating champion,
Gustava Heffner . The two tried to elope together, but Czech and American authorities denied her immigration rights and she was sent back to her country after being stripped of competition rights. Following this incident, Frank developed a great deal of resentment for his superiors.
During the ), Fox was rescued by newly-recruited FOXHOUND member,
Solid Snake and provided Snake with all the known facts about Metal Gear which was revealed to be the codename of the nuclear weapon being developed - a bipedal nuclear-equipped tank. Together, they successfully destroyed the Metal Gear prototype under development in Outer Heaven.
However, shortly after the destruction of Metal Gear, it was revealed that Big Boss himself was secretly the commander of Outer Heaven's forces all along. After the destruction of Outer Heaven, Fox deserted the FOXHOUND unit and disappeared along with Big Boss (who was believed to had been killed during his battle with Snake). Around this time, Fox followed his foster father and helped in the formation of
Zanzibar Land by becoming an active participant of the "War of Mercenaries". After his success in the war, he was assigned as commander of Zanzibar Land's Mercenary Force.
In agent and Marv's bodyguard), when he destroyed the bridge. Later, Snake successfully destroyed Metal Gear D and confronted Fox barehanded in a minefield. Snake won the battle and escaped the facility, leaving a presumed dead Gray Fox behind.
After the death of Big Boss and the downfall of Zanzibar Land, Fox's body was recovered on-site by a clean-up crew. He was taken by FOXHOUND's chief medic at the time, Dr. Clark, and became a guinea pig for Clark's gene-therapy project. In order to improve his mobility, an experimental exoskeleton resembling a ninja suit was grafted directly onto his body. Aside from improved agility and strength, the suit also allowed Fox to 'cloak' at will, using a new form of stealth technology which rendered the wearer near invisible to the naked eye (the stealth technology could not however, fool advanced sensory devices such as thermal goggles). In
2003 , Fox's foster sister, now going under the alias of
Naomi Hunter , joined FOXHOUND as Dr. Clark's assistant. She helped Fox escape his containment, and covered up his actions when he killed Dr. Clark, reporting it as a laboratory accident.
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In
2005 , during the Shadow Moses Incident, Fox infiltrated the island in search of Solid Snake, who was on a mission to neutralize the now-corrupt FOXHOUND unit led by
Liquid Snake . He first made contact with Snake after releasing Armstech President
Kenneth Baker from captivity and attacking
Revolver Ocelot , severing Ocelot's right forearm. Later, after taking out a large group of genome soldiers, Fox confronted Snake once again in the laboratory of
Hal Emmerich , demanding that they fight to the death. At first, Snake did not recognize the man in the ninja suit, but after engaging him in hand-to-hand combat, Fox's identity was revealed. After a time, Snake began to prevail in the battle but before its ultimate conclusion was reached, Fox cried out in pain (presumably due to his body trying to reject the exoskeleton, as Fox was subjected to gene therapy experiments to accept the suit) and fled the laboratory. Fox later helped Snake in his mission by transmitting anonymous messages regarding dangers to Snake under the alias of Deepthroat. When Snake was fighting against
Metal Gear REX , Fox provided support by attacking Rex's radome with a laser canon attached to his arm, interfering with the sealed cockpit's sensory input.
As Liquid fought to locate Fox and Snake with Rex's damaged sensors, Fox revealed to Snake that many years ago, he had been the one who had killed Naomi's parents in Rhodesia; however he had been unable to bring himself to kill Naomi, who had been too young at the time to remember the incident. Fox begged Snake to tell her the truth. Following this exchange, Fox leapt from his hiding spot and again attacked Metal Gear Rex.
However, Fox was severely injured during the second assault (one of his arms was sliced off by the tank's laser) and was pinned against a wall by Rex. Whilst pinned against the hangar wall Liquid shouted from the cockpit, "in the middle east, we don't hunt foxes, we hunt jackals, instead of foxhounds we use royal harriers" to which Fox cried out, "a cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal!" and with his last sum of strength, Fox charged his laser canon and fired several powerful blasts at Rex's radome, finally destroying it. This, in turn forced Liquid to open the cockpit of Metal Gear. Fox was then dragged from his ledge, and dropped down to ground of the hangar. As Fox lay on the hangar floor, Liquid tried to finish him off, once and for all by crushing him under one of Metal Gear's massive legs. However, Fox's grafted exoskeleton meant that this first attempt failed, but with Rex's second stomp, the only man to ever achieve the codename, "Fox" was no more. His last words were directed towards Snake:
"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... the ONLY THING I was good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in. Snake- Farewell"
After escaping the Shadow Moses compound, Snake contacted Naomi. He informed her of Fox's last message, to forget about him, and to go on with her own life, and that he would always love her. He did not inform her of Fox's final confession.
Gray Fox's exoskeleton enhanced not only his strength, but his agility, speed, reaction time, durability; seemingly any physical attribute beyond the capabilities of 'normal' humans. The exoskeleton also includes optic camouflage (the same technology invented by ArmsTech) which can render the wearer almost invisible to the human eye at will, though the device cannot dissipate body heat, making the wearer visible when viewed via thermal imaging systems. Along with that, Fox sports a
Chokuto -like high-frequency vibrosword, capable of deflecting bullets and slicing through apparently any material with little resistance. When he confronts
Metal Gear REX , Gray Fox's right arm is attached to an extremely powerful
Directed Energy Weapon (a laser arm cannon), seemingly to within an order of magnitude at least as powerful as a
Stinger Missile launcher.
In '''', Fox was playable as the Ninja in three brief VR Missions known as the "Ninja Missions". In these missions, the play controls were modified in order to allow the player full access to all of the Ninja's techniques and arsenal (including his stealth camo, but sacrificing LIFE in doing so). Unfortunately for fans of the character, these missions only covered 1% of the entire lineup of VR Missions (despite being one of the game's main selling points). The missions (all taking place in the same storehouse) consist of destroying straw targets, killing several Genome Soldiers and assasinating Snake (who is dressed as a Genome Soldier).
While Gray Fox doesn't appear in '''', another Cyborg Ninja character called Mr. X (Who was in actuality, Olga Gurlukovich) appears in a ninja suit that resembles Fox's exoskeleton. In the Japanese version, Kaneto Shiozawa's voice (who passed away shortly before the game's release) was used for Mr. X.
In ''''. As Ninja Raiden, the only weapon available to the player is the H.F. Blade.
In the
Game Boy Advance game, ''
Konami Krazy Racers '', the Ninja was one of several playable
Konami characters.
