Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-68.207.141.23-20140915183235/@comment-68.207.141.23-20140921054906

Paranoid Donkey wrote: 68.207.141.23 wrote: Possibly. I just find it weird how the shrapnel could be that big and Big Boss still being... Well... Not in a wheelchair. Or dead. And it doesn't seem to be the same size as the shrapnel from the x-ray, as I've already stated. The size of the shrapnel not affecting Big Boss is certainly weird. I've theorised in other discussions that the shrapnel may be the cause for some of the images Big Boss sees in the hospital, with the assistance of the young Mantis perhaps. But you're right, you'd think it would probably do some serious damage. Unfortunately this is the sort of thing we'll just have to wait and see about.

However, I'm going to chalk the changing of size as either different stages of production (look at just how many different scars in different places Big Boss has on his face in many of the trailers and such) or, as I said, perhaps some sort of symbolism. It's odd, but I have every faith that Kojima will provide an explanation most of us can accept.

Even if I'm wrong about pretty much all of the above, it's obvious to see that the horn, whatever it may be, is a foreign object in Big Boss' head. Nothing remotely natural about it. Cutaneous horns aren't exactly natural. And that shrapnel would have to hit pretty far back in the brain to cause hallucinations like that.

I'm rather convinced the image of the diamond shoved in Big Boss' skull was symbolism.

And as for the scars, combat can do that to you. Especially when it's how you make a living.