Raiden (Metal Gear)

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty introduces the player to Raiden in the Plant chapter; he is introduced as a newly recruited, virtual reality-trained member of FOXHOUND with no live combat experience before his current mission.

Assisted via Codec by the Colonel (his commanding officer) and Rosemary (his girlfriend), Raiden's initial objective is to rescue several hostages from a terrorist group known as the Sons of Liberty.

Raiden is helped by mercenary Solid Snake and spy Olga Gurlukovich across his mission.

As the story progresses, Jack is revealed as a former child soldier for the Sons of Liberty leader Solidus Snake during the Liberian Civil War.

After the war's end, Raiden was given a normal life and tried to forget his past.

A clandestine organization known as The Patriots is revealed to be controlling his actions, however, with his commanding officer revealed as their computer-generated AI, and one of their spies becomes Raiden's girlfriend, and the two fall in love.

Raiden defeats Solidus after being told by the Patriots' AIs that his death would also trigger the deaths of Olga's child and Rosemary, the latter of whom was revealed to have been pregnant with Raiden's child during the mission.

He later reunites with Rosemary, and both decide to stay together to raise their unborn child.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (set five years after Metal Gear Solid 2) features Raiden as the newest Cyborg Ninja.

Disappearing after rescuing Sunny (the late Olga's daughter) from the Patriots, he searched for Big Boss's corpse for Big Mama.

The trauma of his breakup with Rosemary, coupled with the apparent miscarriage of his child, have made Raiden believe his only place is on the battlefield.

Outfitted with a cybernetic exoskeleton as a result of the Patriots' machinations, Raiden assists Old Snake (Solid Snake) in the fight against Liquid Ocelot wanting to obtain the Patriots' powers.

After several encounters with Liquid's men, Raiden stays in the ship Outer Haven to protect Snake as he shuts down the Patriots' AIs.

In an epilogue, Rosemary reveals to Raiden that their child was not miscarried; her marriage to Roy Campbell was a hoax to protect her and their son from the Patriots.

Upon hearing this news, Raiden reconciles with Rosemary.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (set four years after Metal Gear Solid 4) shows Raiden's return as the main character.

Raiden joins the private military company (PMC) Maverick Security in multiple tasks while raising money for his family.

However, they are attacked by a group of terrorists called Desperado Enforcement LLC that kill his protectee and leave Raiden near dead.

Saved by Doktor, Raiden starts working with them to fight Desperado.

His already vengeful obsession with Desperado becomes even more personal when he discovered, during a mission into Mexico, that Desperado and World Marshal Inc had been kidnapping several children, surgically removing their brains to place them into cybernetic bodies, and were planning to subject them to VR training modelled after his own training under Solidus during the Liberian Civil War.

This results in Raiden abruptly resigning from Maverick to pursue and retrieving the children's brain casings from World Marshal, having to battle his "Jack the Ripper" persona in the process.

Although Raiden is successful in defeating Desperado he learns that Steven Armstrong was using such PMCs to distract Raiden as he attempts to create a new "War on Terror".

Raiden manages to stop Armstrong's actions and decides not to return to Maverick, having his "own war to fight."

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