Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-94.6.148.229-20150406215139

I don't want to guess who convinced the most people that Ishmael was a hallucination, but the narrative of the first VGA trailer was already leading people in December 2012 to question what was real and what was a dream/hallucination. It's understandable to see how that went from an explanation of the unnatural visuals (fire demons) to an explanation of why two characters are voiced by the same actor..

One thing often cited as evidence of Ishmael being a hallucination is that Snake isn't carried or helped to walk by Ishmael, but I've never seen an explanation of why that would be impossible to hallucinate. We already see him driving a car,while he imagines he's in the passenger seat, so why couldn't he walk along imagining that he's being carried?