Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-80.160.74.19-20150930085101/@comment-93.55.187.214-20151004094043

It was retconned by the way. The Timeline at the end of TPP did it. It said that Big Boss' phantom died at Outer Heaven in 1995.

Back then there was only one Big Boss, he survived at the end of the original MG in order to come back in the sequel. He had a line at the very end of the game in which he said something like: "We well meet again, Solid Snake". Not mind blowing, a cheap plot twist but it worked for more than 20 years. Than TPP came in and Retconned it.

If we wanted to speculate we could say that the TPP timeline assumed that Solid Snake killed Venom, as everybody would likely believe that. In reality Venom did survive and said: "We will meet again, Solid Snake". But not in ZanzibarLand. That one there was the real Big Boss. Venom reappears after Big Boss and Zero die at the cemetery in 2014. Off screen he comes outta nowhere and kills Solid Snake saying: "Yes! I did it! Revenge!".