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PLAYABLE CHARACTERS GRAY FOX , also known as and whose real name is , is a FOXHOUND agent and a friend of Solid Snake , introduced in '' Metal Gear ''. In '' Metal Gear '', he disappears after sending a cryptic message about a "METAL GEAR," and Solid Snake , the protagonist, must save him and learn from him about the enemy super-weapon, codenamed " Metal Gear ". In the sequel, '''', Gray Fox once again disappears, but turns out to have defected to the side of the antagonist, Big Boss . However, Gray Fox secretly assists Snake by leaving him anonymous tips over his radio. Solid Snake confronts and seemingly kills Gray Fox in a final fistfight to the death in a minefield. In the original MSX2 version, his character design was modelled after the likeness of actor Tom Berenger . In later re-releases of the game, Gray Fox was redesigned to be more in-line with Yoji Shinkawa's depiction of Fox in later games. In '' Metal Gear Solid '', a Cyborg Ninja in a powered exoskeleton and armed with a high-frequency blade (a high-tech Chokuto , which is a kind of ninja sword), confronts Solid Snake. Help comes from a mysterious ally, code-named "Deepthroat," giving Snake cryptic advice via CODEC. They both turn out to be Gray Fox, who challenges Snake to a final duel. This battle isn't to the death, however; Cyborg Ninja is later killed by Liquid Snake, piloting Metal Gear REX, after Fox destroys the vehicle's radome. Just as ''Metal Gear Solid'' eclipsed its predecessors in popularity, the Cyborg Ninja turned out to be much more of a fan favorite than Gray Fox in his original form. The Cyborg Ninja has appeared in a number of games after ''Metal Gear Solid'', either as crossover appearances in other games, or in the form of other mysterious characters in later ''Metal Gear'' games. ', set in 1970 , expands on Gray Fox's past (integrating elements of the Cyborg Ninja into it), featuring a teenage Frank Jaeger as a masked Machete -wielding member of the FOX unit code-named Null'''. Four years prior to the events of the game, Big Boss became acquainted with him as a nameless child soldier in a guerilla group in Mozambique. Big Boss took the young child and left him in a rehab centre, in which he was then taken by the CIA and used as a test subject for the Perfect Soldier project. He fights Big Boss twice during the game before joining him once he is beaten. Other characters besides Gray Fox have donned the Cyborg Ninja exoskeleton. In '''' has shown Raiden (wearing a Cyborg Ninja exoskeleton) performing acrobatic moves, which are very similar to Gray Fox's. The Cyborg Ninja suit is a hidden option in two of the "VR Mission" modes included with other ''Metal Gear'' games. In ''Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions'' (which was included in ''Metal Gear Solid: Integral'', released only in Japan, ''Metal Gear Solid: Special Missions'' which was released as an add-on pack to the original ''Metal Gear Solid'' for PlayStation and in the Windows version of ''Metal Gear Solid''), the Cyborg Ninja appears in three unlockable missions, and in '''', one of Raiden 's unlockable outfits is the Cyborg Ninja exoskeleton. Cyborg Ninja also appears in the Game Boy Advance game '' Konami Krazy Racers '', as one of several playable Konami characters. Fox's last name, Jaeger, is German for "Hunter". This fact has been played upon in several of the games. In '''' revealed the origin of this name: during his years in Mozambique, Gray Fox was known for his duplicitous "hunting": by acting as a ''frank'' boy, he would trick enemies into letting their guard down, letting him ''hunt'' them. This earned him the nickname "The Frank Hunter" by his enemies. Because the boy spoke some German, they used the German word for Hunter, Jäger (Jaeger in English spelling), giving him the name "Frank Jaeger." ROY CAMPBELL , Solid Snake's commanding officer and close friend, is introduced in '''' and returns to provide his support in '' Metal Gear Solid ''. In '''', Col. Campbell is Solid Snake 's new commanding officer. Under his supervision, Snake defeats the forces of Zanzibar Land and retrieves the OILIX formula. Colonel Campbell's speaking portrait in the MSX version is modeled after Richard Crenna . In '' Metal Gear Solid '', he comes out of retirement to command Solid Snake once again. Campbell has more of a personal stake in this mission, as his niece, Meryl Silverburgh, is held captive by the revolutionary force Snake is battling. While Campbell is initially forced to keep a number of secrets from Snake, he gradually reveals more and more of them as the story continues, until, finally, Campbell is briefly arrested. However, he is exonerated after Solid Snake defeats Liquid Snake. In '' constructed by GW, a supercomputer, and based on Raiden's perceptions and expectations of the real Col. Campbell.Otacon: "The Colonel probably isn't GW, per se. GW was most likely stimulating cortical activity in the dormant part of your brain through signal manipulation of your own nanomachines. The Colonel is in part your own creation, cobbled together from expectations and experience..." (''Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'') The AI Colonel was initially going to begin giving Raiden false information similar to what Big Boss did to Solid Snake in the original ''Metal Gear''. In '''', a young Roy Campbell appears as one of Naked Snake's ( Big Boss ) comrades in the game. When the story begins, Naked Snake finds himself imprisoned by the FOX unit in South America with Roy in the cell next to him. Roy is introduced as a captured Green Beret whose unit was wiped out in an ambush by FOX members. The two formulate an escape plan and realize that in order to stop the FOX unit's revolt, they must form their own team of specialists, leading to the foundation of FOXHOUND. A radio conversation triggered by calling Roy many times when the player is not on a mission and taking control of another character besides Snake reveals that Roy was once in the Marine Corps and that Roy and his younger brother (Matt) were in love with the same woman. Roy was dumped by the woman and Roy ended up letting his brother date her before joining the Green Berets. An aged Campbell also appeared in a trailer for ''''. In the scene, he visits Solid Snake in a cemetery via helicopter and explains his next mission objective to Snake. There are a trio of non-'' for the Game Boy Color , although this story isn't a sequel to the original ''Metal Gear Solid'', but instead a side-story. Campbell makes a few very brief cameos in ''Metal Gear Solid 3'': at the Game Over screen, where he laments the Temporal Paradox caused by the failure of Naked Snake (only when Snake makes a conflict that doesn't lead up events to all the other ''Metal Gear'' titles, such as killing Ocelot or shooting a C3 bomb). Also, he appears in the Snake vs. Monkey minigame, where he commands Solid Snake. He plays a role similar to the latter in '' Ape Escape 3 '', where Campbell commands Pipo Snake in the "Mesal Gear Solid: Snake Escape" minigame. At the end of the first trailer for '' Super Smash Bros. Brawl '', Col. Campbell initiates a Codec conversation with Solid Snake to inform him that he has been invited to the game, not knowing that Snake is in fact already doing recon on a fight involving the Nintendo characters Mario , Link , and Kirby , from within a cardboard box. OTACON , nicknamed , is an American weapons designer and computer Hacker who functions as a Q -like Sidekick to Solid Snake, usually giving him support via Codec . Otacon is first introduced in '' Metal Gear Solid '' as the designer of Metal Gear REX , and is being held captive at the outset on Shadow Moses Island. After Snake rescues him, he joins Snake's support crew and guides Snake through the process of disarming and destroying Metal Gear. He also becomes Infatuated with FOXHOUND member Sniper Wolf while in captivity and is crushed when she is later killed in battle by Solid Snake. During the cutscene where Snake reveals Metal Gear's true purpose, Otacon says nuclear weapons must be written into his genes. Genetics are a major Theme of Metal Gear Solid. He then reveals that his grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project and his father was born on August 6, 1945, the day Hiroshima was bombed. In '''', Otacon and Solid Snake form Philanthropy, an anti- Proliferation organization. Otacon supports Snake via the radio as he infiltrates a converted tanker to photograph Metal Gear RAY , and later, supports Snake and Raiden as they infiltrate the Big Shell in a bid to rescue his step sister, Emma , while attempting to destroy Arsenal Gear. Later on in the game, Emma is killed by Vamp. Lead character designer Yoji Shinkawa stated in an interview that Otacon is designed to look somewhat "tougher" than he did in ''Metal Gear Solid''. Though Otacon himself does not appear in '''' (the game being set in the 1960s), his father or grandfather (also a scientist) is mentioned in conversation between Naked Snake and Sigint and also appears in a photograph alongside Russian weapons designer Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin . Otacon also appears in '''' trailers, still supporting Solid Snake as a member of Philanthropy. In early trailers, he's remote controlling a robot reminiscent of the Metal Gear Mk. II from an earlier Hideo Kojima -directed game, '' Snatcher ''. LIQUID SNAKE is Solid Snake 's Doppelgänger and archnemesis, and also the Field Commander of FOXHOUND and the Genome Soldiers. Alongside Solid and Solidus , he is one of the three "brothers" genetically engineered from cell samples taken from Big Boss in the Les Enfants Terribles project. Liquid believes himself to be inferior to Solid, as he is under the impression that he is the recipient of Big Boss's "flawed" recessive genes, despite actually being the superior of the two brothers. Because of this belief, he harbours strong resentment towards Solid Snake, who has supposedly inherited Big Boss's dominant genes, and wishes to defeat him in combat to reclaim his "birthright". In the briefing featured in ''Metal Gear Solid'', Colonel Campbell states that Solid and Liquid are exact duplicates of one another, with the only difference being skin tone. In '' Metal Gear Solid '' Liquid serves as the game's primary antagonist. He initially poses as Snake's former survival instructor, Master Miller, and, using an elaborate plot, tricks Snake into activating Metal Gear REX. After doing this, the final act of the game involves Snake and Liquid fighting, first with Liquid piloting Metal Gear, secondly in a bare handed fist fight and, finally, a car chase before Liquid is eventually killed by the FOXDIE virus. Following his appearance in ''Metal Gear Solid'' Liquid was named the "Greatest Villain of all TIME" (PlayStation only) by IGN . In '''', Liquid possesses his former ally Revolver Ocelot , via an Arm Transplant . In the game's cutscenes, Liquid is shown to take control of Ocelot when Snake is in close proximity, first inside the cargo hold of the disguised Marine shipping freighter, second inside Shell 1's core when Raiden is with Ames and listening in on the conversation between Ocelot and Solidus, and once again later atop Arsenal Gear, where Liquid then steals the Metal Gear RAY prototype and disappears off to defeat the Patriots . In '''', Liquid Snake appears to have taken complete control of Revolver Ocelot's mind and body; the two becoming a new entity known as . Liquid once again attempts to resurrect Outer Heaven in his conflict with the Patriots, establishing a dummy corporation that runs the five largest PMCs that exist in the game. In the E3 2007 trailer, it was revealed that Liquid's goal is to seize control of SOP. REVOLVER OCELOT , also known as a and whose real name is , is a recurring antagonist in the ''Metal Gear'' series who was originally introduced as a gunslinger-themed member in '' Metal Gear Solid '' of FOXHOUND from the former Soviet Union , but evolved into an agent of an Illuminanti-like group known as The Patriots in following games. He is normally clothed in a duster, spurs and gunbelts, the traditional garb of gunslingers in Spaghetti Western s and wields dual Colt Single Action Army in battle. His appearance is based on that of veteran Western film actor Lee Van Cleef . ''Gamerz-Edge interview with Ryan Payton'' . In '' Metal Gear Solid '', he is one of the FOXHOUND terrorists involved with the hostile takeover of Shadow Moses island. He is Liquid Snake's right-hand man and one of the bosses Solid Snake confronts in the game. He is the sole surviving FOXHOUND member by the end of the game, losing only his right arm during an encounter with the Cyborg Ninja. After the ending credits, it is revealed that Ocelot is in league with "Solidus", the third surviving offspring of the Les Enfants Terribles project and the current US President in the game. He returns in '''', where he gains a new surgically attached right arm that belonged to his former boss, Liquid Snake. This results in Revolver Ocelot developing a dormant personality in which Liquid's persona takes over Ocelot's mind during certain moments. This time he is under the employ of his former CO Sergei Gurlukovich during the introductory Tanker Chapter and later forms part of the terrorist group "Sons of Liberty" during the Plant Chapter with Solidus Snake. He ends up betraying both and reveals his allegiance with The Patriots. By the end of the game, Ocelot is taken over by Liquid and escapes once again, this time with the Metal Gear RAY prototype. According to an interview with Yoji Shikawa, Ocelot was originally going to have a mechanical arm, but others thought that having Liquid's arm was a good concept. ', a prequel to the entire ''Metal Gear'' series, features a young Ocelot (having not attained the "Revolver" moniker yet) as a GRU Major under the command of Colonel Volgin and leader of his own elite unit within Spetsnaz . He acquires his preferences for revolvers as a result of his rivarly with Naked Snake (the future Big Boss). He is revealed to be a triple agent at the end of the story through a phone call , working not only for the KGB under the codename ADAM (Adamska), but under the direct orders of the DCI as well. It is heavily implied that Ocelot is the biological son of The Boss and The Sorrow ,EVA''': "The Colonel never told me. All I heard was that his mother was supposedly shot in the gut during battle and that he was born right there, bullets whizzing past them." '''Snake''': "A pregnant women in the middle of a battle?" '''EVA''': "That's what I heard. They say that when they stitched her up, the scar was shaped like a snake."(''Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'')'''The Boss''': "Look at this scar. This is proof that I was once a mother. I gave up my body and my child for my country."(''Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'') a fact which Kojima later confirmed in interviews. Ocelot plays a minor, but prominent role in the plot of ''''. He is in league with Gene and near the end of the game, he assassinates his former employer, the DCI. His true employer is referred only as "the man with the same codename as Null". He is set to return in '' Metal Gear Solid 4 '', presumably as the game's antagonist. Liquid Snake and Revolver Ocelot have now merged into one entity known as Liquid Ocelot, and he no longer wears his full cowboy attire, now sports eyeglasses instead. Kōji Totani, the original Japanese voice of Ocelot, died during the production of the game, and Banjo Ginga (the voice of Liquid Snake) will take over the full role. However, the English dub will use Patric Zimmerman 's (Ocelot's established English voice actor) voice for Liquid Ocelot rather than Cam Clarke (Liquid Snake's voice). Kojima Productions Report 52 RAIDEN See Also: Raiden (Metal Gear) MERYL SILVERBURGH is introduced as the niece of Solid Snake 's commander, Roy Campbell , in '' Metal Gear Solid '', where she serves as the rookie sidekick and love interest of Snake . During the events of the game, she get assigned to Shadow Moses, but refuses to join the rebellion led by Liquid Snake and is imprisoned. Snake rescues her first from her cell and then from Psycho Mantis 's mind control, but she is later shot and captured by Sniper Wolf . Her ultimate fate depends on the ending of the game; if Solid Snake gives in under Ocelot's Torture , she dies later in the game. In this ending, Campbell reveals that Meryl is actually his daughter, conceived from an affair between Roy and his sister-in-law, his deceased brother's wife. If Snake resists, she escapes Shadow Moses with Snake, after being subjected to torture and "things even worse than that". The ending where Meryl survives is Canonical , as evident in Nastasha Romanenko's autobiography titled ''In the Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth'', and Meryl's appearance in preview trailers of ''Metal Gear Solid 4''. She later appears in both volumes of the Japan-only ''Metal Gear Solid Drama CD'' audio drama and in one of the "Snake Tales" short stories included with '''', as the leader of a newly-reinstated FOXHOUND unit.''Show Maybe'', promotional pamphlet distributed by Kojima Productions during E3. Meryl is based on a '' Policenauts '' character of the same name, who is also a former member of FOXHOUND. Further likening the connection between the two games, Meryl's partner in the game is named Dave, which happens to be Solid Snake's unspoken given name as revealed in the end of ''Metal Gear Solid''. The orange vest Meryl wears in the end of ''Metal Gear Solid'' is also the same one as the one worn by Dave in ''Policenauts''. In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Meryl is also seen wearing a bullet-shaped earring similar to her ''Policenauts'' counterpart. MEI LING is the data analyst in charge of saving Solid Snake 's (and by extension, the player's) mission data in '' Metal Gear Solid ''. She is the one who invented Snake's wireless communication equipment, the Codec , as well the Soliton Radar, which detects the positions and field of vision of nearby enemy soldiers. Every time Snake saves his data, Mei Ling provides him with advice through Chinese proverbs (as well as quotations from Western authors). In the game it is revealed that she loved fighter jets in movies she saw as a child and dreamed of becoming a jet pilot. However, However because of her bad eyesight, she instead specialized in BDA (battle damage assessment). Unfortunately, there was no such thing as a pilot who only did BDAs, and by the time she found out about that, she was already an expert in her field. Snake shows surprise towards her after she reveals this prompting her to comment that he could tell she was wearing contacts over CODEC
In '''', Mei Ling becomes part of Philanthropy, an anti-Metal Gear organization. She assists Snake and Otacon from behind-the-scenes, attempting to steal equipment from the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Centre . If the player saves their game 13 times during the Tanker Chapter, Mei Ling will make a (voice-over only) cameo in which she corrects Otacon on one of his proverbs. In addition to the first two ''MGS games'', Mei Ling has also appeared in various spin-offs of the series. She is a focal character in the Japanese only ''Metal Gear Solid Drama CD'', where she infiltrates the '', Mei Ling "appears" (in narration only) in the Snake Tale "External Gazer", where she seems to be quite aggressive in personality, and reads tabloids. Houko Kuwashima (the Japanese voice of Mei Ling) confirmed in an interview conducted in ''Hidechan! Radio'', that her character will indeed return in '''', although she has yet to be seen in any of the released preview materials so far.1 MASTER MILLER , better known as , is a minor character that has appeared in two different ''Metal Gear'' games. Miller made his first appearance as a FOXHOUND drill instructor in '''', where he is one of Solid Snake 's initial radio contacts along with Campbell and Kasler . In the game, he provides psychological advice and survival tips, as well as hints and ideas to overcome certain obstacles. Miller reappears in '' Metal Gear Solid '' once again as one of Snake's radio support. His character design is a radical change from his looks in the MSX2 version of ''Metal Gear 2''. Whereas the original Miller had a distinctively Asian appearance, the new Miller is White -looking, with blond hair and sunglasses (Miller's appearance was changed in the 2004 Mobile Phone version of ''Metal Gear 2'' and the later PlayStation 2 version to reflect his new look in ''Metal Gear Solid''). The character appearing in this game is not the real Miller at all, but a disguised Liquid Snake . He tricks Snake into activating Metal Gear REX , before Campbell reveals that the real Miller was murdered in his home three days prior to the Shadow Moses island takeover. JOHNNY SASAKI is a recurring joke character in the series who usually appears as an incompetent enemy soldier. He serves as a Comic Relief , as he is a coward and suffers from diarrhea, hence his name "Johnny", referring to the toilet, who ends up in embarrassing situations. He was named after Hideki Sasaki, the character model designer of the ''Metal Gear Solid'' series. His presence in an otherwise serious dramatic environment is consistent with Hideo Kojima's idiosyncratic, somewhat bizarre style of direction. He first appears as an enemy guard in ''''. In an early version of the ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' story, his full name is revealed to be and originally had a minor role in the story of which he would end up being killed off. His grandfather (who suffers from '', who is significantly more friendly (even to the point where he tells Naked Snake that he doesn't want any part in the Cold War and even shows a photograph of his family and gives Snake his "cigarettes", although he didn't know they were actually knockout gas "cigarettes"). In his blog, Kojima commented it was possible that Johnny might appear in ''Metal Gear Solid 4''. KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS - HIDEOBLOG English (WEDNESDAY, 4 JANUARY 2006 entry) THE PATRIOTS , also known as the and are a secret group, revealed in '''', that control the United States Of America . They are dedicated to creating a New World Order through acts of Blackmail and manipulation on an untold scale, unknown to most of the world. Such an example is the Y2K Bug invented by the Patriots in the run up to the new Millennium. This was a cover up to install monitoring software on every computer in America. The Patriots' first appearance in the series is in ''Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'', and their origins are further revealed in '''', Colonel Campbell says to Snake that The Patriots are involved in the uprising of Liquid Ocelot. In the ending conversation of '''', Snake is asking Otacon if he found the data on The Patriots. Otacon then reveals that one of the members is one of the biggest contributors to Philanthropy. Along with this fact, he mentions that all twelve members of the Wisemen's Committee have been dead for about 100 years. This Plot Twist was possibly explained in ''Snake Eater'' when The Boss says that the original members of the Wisemen's Committee died in the 1930s. Since the plant chapter of ''Sons of Liberty'' occurred in 2009, then the last member of the Committee died 70-79 years ago, which could (at a stretch) be rounded up to one hundred years. OTHER RECURRING CHARACTERS
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