Post by Z451 on May 22, 2014 17:23:34 GMT
Naked Snake
Big Boss (Biggu Bossu) is introduced in the original Metal Gear game as the Special Forces Unit FOXHOUND's leader and Solid Snake's commanding officer.
He initially acts as a radio contact who provides Snake with information about mission objectives, as well as weapons and equipment.
However, near the game's conclusion, after Snake destroys the titular Metal Gear weapon, Big Boss exposes himself as the Outer Heaven militia leader near the base's escape route and confronts Snake in a final battle, but is defeated.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake reveals that Big Boss had survived, and has since taken control of a fortified nation in Central Asia known as Zanzibar Land and commissions the development of the new model Metal Gear D.
Solid Snake confronts Big Boss once again while escaping from the Zanzibar Land detention camp, with the former incinerating the latter.
Big Boss's presence figures prominently in the first two Metal Gear Solid games when Solid Snake is revealed to be Big Boss's genetically-altered clone created from the secret government project, "Les Enfants Terribles" (French for "The Terrible Children") that also created Liquid Snake, the primary antagonist of Metal Gear Solid, and Solidus Snake, the main antagonist of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
The prequel Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater depicts a young incarnation of the character, under the codename Naked Snake (Neikiddo Sune-ku), as a member of the special forces unit FOX in 1964 that was founded by the CIA and Zero.
He is sent on an assignment in the Soviet Union to thwart an uprising led by the sadistic Colonel Volgin; rescue Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, a key weapons researcher; and destroy Sokolov's creation, the Shagohod, to avert a nuclear war.
Over the course of his assignment, he is forced to kill his mentor, The Boss, who staged her defection to the Soviet Union to infiltrate Volgin's inner circle, but was forced to commit to the ruse when Volgin detonates an American warhead on Soviet soil.
The understanding that he was forced to kill The Boss for political purposes does not sit well with Snake, who is awarded the title of Big Boss for his actions; a title he initially rejects, prompting him to retire from active service.
Still insisting on being referred to as "Snake", Big Boss spends the next six years wandering the globe before he is captured and detained at a defunct missile base on the fictional San Hieronymo peninsula in Colombia, and at the centre of an armed uprising led by members of the FOX unit during the events of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
He recruits defecting enemy soldiers to his cause, ending the threat and establishing Militaires Sans Frontieres (commonly abbreviated as MSF), or "Soldiers Without Borders", a mercenary force made up of expatriate soldiers.
He intends to use MSF to live out The Boss' final will, a world where soldiers are free to choose their own fights on their own terms, and not at the whim of a government.
This is tested four years later during the events of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, when MSF is approached by Paz Ortega Andrade and Ramon Gálvez Mena to investigate the appearance of an army in Costa Rica.
Given the politically-sensitive nature of the assignment, he and his business partner Kazuhira "Kaz" Miller refuse, but he is swayed when he heard a recording of The Boss's voice.
Following Kaz's advice, MSF takes over an offshore research platform in the Caribbean as their base of operations in a bid to expand the group's capabilities.
Over the course of the campaign, Snake is forced to confront his guilt over killing The Boss when it is revealed that the recording is of an artificial intelligence modelled on her thought patterns at the centre of "Project Peace Walker", an automated fail-deadly nuclear launch platform masterminded by a disgraced CIA operative intent on launching a nuclear device to prove that the theory of nuclear deterrence is flawed.
Snake finally addresses his guilt and accepts the title of "Big Boss"; however, Paz reveals herself as an agent of an entity calling itself Cipher,[N 1] and the two are forced into confrontation, with Snake prevailing.
In the aftermath of the Peace Walker incident, Snake is on a mission to rescue Chico, a child soldier involved in the events of Peace Walker, and Paz from an American black site on Cuban soil.
He disagrees with Kaz Miller over locating Paz, believing that she can be converted to MSF's cause.
Diary entries left by Paz in Peace Walker and available in Ground Zeroes imply this to be true, while a post-credits scene in Ground Zeroes has her reveal that, at the very least, she wants Big Boss to survive.
The rescue is successful, but Paz reveals that she has a bomb implanted in her body.
She sacrifices herself to save Big Boss and the occupants of the helicopter they are riding in at the time, but the concussion wave released by the explosion causes the helicopter to crash into the Caribbean Sea while MSF is destroyed by an invading paramilitary force.
These events set up the release of the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, where he will assume the new codename Punished Snake (Panisshudo Sune-ku) as he ventures into Soviet-controlled Afghanistan to seek revenge for the destruction of MSF.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots reveals that Big Boss and Zero were the founding members of the Patriots, an organisation dedicated to realising The Boss' dream, but which spiralled into a conspiracy to impose order and control over the world after Big Boss and Zero disagreed over the nature of that dream.
Big Boss' defection from the Patriots and his plotting a coup d'état against Zero, causing the events of Outer Heaven (Metal Gear) and Zanzibar Land (Metal Gear 2).
Big Boss is revealed to have survived his defeats, but is placed in an artificially induced cryogenic coma, with his genetic code used for the SOP ID recognition system, the use of which allows access to the AIs that make up the Patriots.
His body is recovered by EVA and reconstructed using parts from the bodies of both Liquid and Solidus and he awakens from his coma after the fall of the Patriots' AIs.
Following the voice casting credits, Big Boss appears before Old Snake (Solid Snake).
After revealing the truth about Zero and the Patriots, Big Boss shuts down his catatonic nemesis's life support system.
He manages to come to terms with his feelings regarding The Boss, and then reconciles with his son before dying from exposure to the FOXDIE virus implanted in Snake.
Links
Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Boss_%28Metal_Gear%29
Metal Gear Wiki> metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Boss
Giant Bomb> www.giantbomb.com/big-boss/3005-475/
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