Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-65.31.134.55-20130328025957/@comment-6747658-20130410202457

151.227.70.0 wrote: I have a strange feeling that we may end up playing as a clone of Big Boss, and players won't find out until the end of the game.... Oh please, please do not start the "It's a clone" theory here, it is one of the most ridiculous theories people are sprouting lately, it's horrible on the MGS5 board on GameFaqs where practically any unknown character (Ishmael, XOF Commander, Big Boss in the end of the MGS5:TPP reveal trailer) is suddenly a clone.

This is impossible, the three clones (Solid, Liquid and Solidus) were all born in 1972 with Solidus being born later then the Twin Snakes and via a different mother. By the time TPP plays it is 1984 which means the clones are 12 year old. This is too young for them to have been affected yet by the accelerated aging that is written in their genes.

Now you could try to argue that this clone has faster accelerated again like Solidus, who's accelerated again may have kicked in during his twenies already. But that is simply not possible as that is not how accelerated aging works. Accelerated aging works in the sense that it ages your body in terms of appearance (becoming visibly older, wrinkly, things like that) but that doesn't mean the body matures, if you know anything about Werner's Syndrom, you'll see that children diagnosed with it, are pretty much elderly children, they have not grown in height or matured their bodies like that, only that they visible look older and weak.

So no, it is not possible for a 12 year old clone, to look like an aged Big Boss and looking like he's in his late 40's/early 50's.