Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-42.98.55.215-20140419093415

Bluerock wrote:

1.64.177.162 wrote: Funnily enough, I questioned this exact issue here, but never found a satisfactory explanation. Out of curiosity I perused the Mantis page history and found the first edit regarding burn injuries originating in 2008, but with no source mentioned. It might be one of those occasions where something has been assumed for so long that no one has really looked closely at it. Certainly something has happened to Mantis's face (stitches, no nose), but nothing that I can recall which indicates burns. After all, arsonists don't always caught up in the fires that they start. Yes, it seems some information on this Wikia still does not have citation to the source. Not just on Psycho Mantis' page, take Sniper Wolf's for instance, the page mentioned a specific event in the year 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war of which she witnessed her family and friends' death at gassing and then goes on to say which group of people taught her sniping. Honestly - unless I truely missed out such source in the past 10+ years of "Metal-Gearing" - I never heard of any mention of this in-game nor see it on any official source. All that is said in the game (shortly before her death) was that she was a Kurd grew up in the battle field, losing friends and family during the war and eventually met Big Boss, etc, etc.

Occasionally we see people accusing Kojima of retconning the story when it is either they themselves being careless with the details in the game or they have looked at other unofficial information (including info on this Wikia) and take that as official.

So far the only recton I can think of -- other than the original MG and MG2SS -- is Dr. Clark and Sunny's gender, which in a sense is more of a "lost in translation" issue than recton (since the Japanese version shows no such problem).

Anyway focusing back on the subject of discussion, unless Konami gives away more details, I believe there's very little we can add to regarding Ishmael before the release of the game.