Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.192.64.32-20130901061132/@comment-4913740-20140404142100

211.30.134.168 wrote:

Just one thing annoys me - it seems the Metal Gear world is a very small one. What the hell are the odds of a scientist named Emmerich being involved with Big Boss and then years later the guy's son Otacon becoming best friends with the clone of Big Boss? the odds of that really happening are next to none, so much so it is stupefying Huey Emmerich makes Metal Gears. That means he has some sort of brains, he's intelligent. His son has brains too. He would raise his son to use his intelligence in a fitting way, which would lead Otacon to helping to build Metal Gear REX. He could've even helped build it because he knew his father had worked on something similar!

Then Big Boss. In the beginning, Big Boss is a hero. In fact, even though he will be doing some pretty horrible and bad things in The Phantom Pain, his motive is still to destroy Cipher, which would free the world from Zero's control -  a pretty noble goal. His clone was raised and trained to be like Big Boss in that sense - fighting for a just, noble cause, saving the world. After seeing how Metal Gear is used to force the world's superpowers to submit to the enemy, Snake wants to stop the Metal Gear threat from endangering the world.

So really, it's not all that unbelievable that Snake, who is sent to Shadow Moses simply to stop the 'Sons of Big Boss' (Liquid and the Genome soldiers) meets with Otacon, who worked on Metal Gear REX, was caught in the takeover of Shadow Moses, and was then rescued by Snake. Therein lies the first experience between the two: Snake saving Otacon's life. After realising what his creation could be used for, Otacon then resolves himself to destroy his own creation and to make sure it can't be used for evil.

So it's also not all that unbelievable and unlikely then that these two work together for much time after that to destroy Metal Gears, stop the bad guy's, save the day. Just because Otacon's father worked with Big Boss' father, doesn't make it impossible for what happens in Metal Gear to happen. Really, with all the strange, supernatural and insane stuff that happens in the Metal Gear world, it's weird that you would nitpick about something like this.