Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-8245466-20130510155352

I feel like my speculations as to who the X0F commander is have been all over the place and become highly improbable. That being said, I'm going back to one of my original theories which isn't that far fetched and maintains canon without having to revise or expand upon it much. When I first seen the X0F commander, one person instantly came to mind.

You have to admit, he looks exactly like Psycho Mantis. Now we know it's impossible for this to be so, in addition to being too young we clearly see Mantis in the Phantom Pain trailer and he looks nothing like the X0F commander. But it's never been said that Mantis killed his father, only that he burned down his village to bury his past. It's assumed that everyone died, but has never been explicitly stated. Shortly after the fire, he was taken in by the KGB. Now I propose one of two theories: either the X0F commander is Mantis' father and he was a KGB agent, which explains how he could survive and also why he appears as the leader of X0F, or, that after Mantis was taken in by the KGB, and during an excercise to learn to control his powers he accidentally burned the X0F commander.

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