Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-67.1.246.12-20130810173702/@comment-1672596-20140614222650

118.249.212.32 wrote: In the E3 2014 trailer, Eli has 3 Chinese characters on the back of his jacket below "never be game over". Those 3 Chinese characters "液体人" literally mean "liquid man".

So he will no doubt be Liquid Snake.

original link Kanji generally has different meanings for different contexts, so we can't be confident that's the case. And besides, if that was the translation, don't you think they would have directly translated it as such in the English trailer instead of, I don't know, translating it into something like "Never Be Game Over?"