168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Solid Snake is the sole playable protagonist of the first three Metal Gear entries. In Metal Gear Solid 2 you control him for the beginning before Raiden takes charge. However, his father, Big Boss, is the playable c🎃haracter for Metal Gear Solid 3, Portable Ops, Peace Walker, and Ground Zeroes.

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We're tempted to include 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Phantom Pain, but there is a narrative reason why this is inaccurate. Our point is, Big Boss turns out to be one of the most important characters in the franchise. Despite this, there are some few ke🎶y details regarding both the lore and the character's creation many fa꧑ns do not know.

10 🐓 Kojima Wanted Kurt Russell Toꦬ Play Him

Metal Gear Solid 3 Naked Snake and Eva During Shagohod Battle

David Hayter plays Big Boss in most of the games except for Metal Gear Solid 4, Ground Zeroes, and the Phantom Pain. We suppose it is logical for the same voice actor to play a son and a father🐭 generations apart. However, if Kojima had his wish, would have played Naked Snake in168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Metal Gear Solid 3. Imagine a world where the legendary actor plays one of gaming's most iconic fac♑es.

9 He Is Modeled After Sean Connery In Metal Gear 2 ꩲ

metal gear 2 faces
metal gear 2 faces

Metal Gear 2 uses actors' and historical figures' likenesses for many of the characters' faces. Solid Snake is modeled after Mel Gibson, for example. The team picked an interesting choice for Big Boss. The original James Bond, Sean Connery, is the face of Big Boss in the second mainline entry. These faces were all changed in subsequent re-releases. Since the game d♊id not release in the west until 2005's Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, U.S. gamers never got to see this version.

8 His Eyepatch Was Once On The Other Eye ꧃

Big boss msx instruction manua
Big boss msx instruction manua

Losing an eye is a huge disadvantage for a soldier. It impairs one's peripheral vision and depth perception. It did little to🐼 impede Big Boss's exemplary skill, however, since he still managed to become a legend.

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Oddly enough, the original MSX instruction manual art for the debut entry shows the eyepatch covering his left eye instead of his right. One has to wonder if the artist made a 🐼mistake, he originally lost his left eye, or if the image somehow became flipped during the process of putting the art into the manual.

7 He Was  A Cyboꦡrg In A Non-Canon Game

Snake's revenge big boss fight
Snake's revenge big boss fight

In between the first two mainline games, a western developer made an NES game called Snake's Revenge. Without 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hideo Kojima's involvement, the game is obviously non-canon. It is a good thing, too, because some wild things happen. Big Boss was turned into a cyborg and transforms into a more robotic form to fight snake. To be fair, people becoming cyborgs is not such a wild idea for the Metal Gear Solid franchise. Almost all the entries have a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:cyborg ninja of some sort. 

6 ꩵ In America He Was In A Coma, In Japan He Was Sterile

Metal Gear Solid Screenshot Of Liquid Snake Standing Before Rex

In Metal Gear Solid, 🤪Liquid Snake says Big Boss was in a coma during the Les Enfants Terribles project. However, the same line in Japan simply says he was incapable of having children in a natural way. We doubt the former is canon, considering he was in a coma from 1975 to 1984. With the project having happened in 1972, 🌊we doubt he was also in a coma during this time period too.

5 You Don't Fight Him In The Original M🍒etal Gear

Metal Gear big boss fight

Big Boss is the final battle in the original Metal Gear from 1987. However, it is not the same Big Boss who was once Naked Snake and killed his mentor, the Boss. This one is the 168澳洲幸🗹运5开奖网:one players control in the Phantom Pain.

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As detail🌼ed in 2015's The Phantom Pain, an MSF nurse was transformed into the legend while the real Big Boss fought his shadow war against the Patriots. It is a good thing Solid Snake does not bring this up during their final conversation in Metal Gear Solid 4;🌱 it definitely could have gotten awkward.

4 He Never𝕴 Tells Solid Snake That He's 🐬His Father

When fans go back to the original two games, either on the original hardware or through the re-releases, they are probably expecting a big dramatic moment where Big Boss tells Snake the truth. However, such a moment never actually occurs. Big Boss dies those two times and never reveals Snake's lineage. Only the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:1998 PS1 classic Metal Gear Solid reveals that💟 Snake found out sometime in the past. We can let this retcon or inconsistency slide.

3 ൲ He Has Had Several Different Biographies Throughout The Years ♉

Metal Gear Solid 3 Screenshot Of Naked Snake

Uꦇp until Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the character remained quite an enigma. Other than his part in the first two games, details about his background were scarce. Because of this, several different sources reported described different upbringings. The Metal Gear Solid strategy guide says he was born in Hawaii and had a Japanese-American background. The MSX instruction manual says he served in the SAS. All of the above mentioned details are now considered non-canon

2 🔴He Is Scared Of Bats And Vampires

Metal gear solid 3 radio
Metal gear solid 3 radio

One would expect a soldier like Big Boss to be completely devoid of fear. However, a radio conversation in Met🦩al Gear Solid 3 reveals his two big phobias; bats and vampires. He tells Para-Medic ☂that even mentioning either of those things gives him nightmares. He definitely runs into bats while in the jungle, but he should have no worries about encountering vampires. He probably would not have been good friend with Vamp from MGS2, however.

1 He Was Born In 1🍃935

Peace Walker Big Boss
Peace Walker Big Boss

In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the 2010 PSP game, it is revealed that he was 29 at the time of Snake Eater in 1964. This would mean he was born in 1935, making him 79 years old 1�🐎�68澳洲幸运5开奖网:by the time he dies in Metal Gear Solid 4, which takes place in 2014. With the nine years between Ground Zeroes and the Phantom Pain and the fifteen years between Metal Gear 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4, the character spent💃 almost a third of his life in a com🅺a.

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