Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-81.132.233.74-20140209212727/@comment-1672596-20140209214343

1. That was apparently a mistranslation: In the remake, Liquid only stated his belief that Big Boss merely deliberately chose him to be the inferior one without making clear whether he actually interacted with his father.

2. It's... complicated, although the ones you cited as the main protagonists either didn't know they were working for Zero or the Patriots (either not even knowing of their involvement at all or otherwise thinking they were fighting against them when they were really orchestrating their plans for them), or even if they did fully know, they were pretty much forced into cooperating with them (like Campbell).

3. I'm not sure what exactly you're asking, but the disc contained dummy data (Snake had pocketed the real data and gave Raiden a fake disc in preparation of "betraying" Raiden to the Sons of Liberty), and it wouldn't even matter anyways as its heavily implied that the Patriots anticipated at least one of the factions actually retrieving their identities and left behind names of people who had in fact died at least a century prior to the events of the game.

4. It means he was playing Volgin, the KGB, and the CIA (the latter being his true loyalties, at least at that time).

5. It's never made clear, although prior to MGS4, we could assume that Ocelot may have manipulated Liquid (although based on that book, he wasn't so easily controlled). Either way, he probably managed to fake them out.

6. The chickens onboard the Nomad were named after the Les Enfants Terribles.

7. It's never actually stated, although some comments in MGS3 as well as MPO's ending implied that the CIA director that Ocelot worked for and later shot was somehow involved among those "new Philosophers" (prior to the creation of the Patriots).

Sorry if its not good enough for you, but here it all is.