Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-25366375-20141128020834

So, I got a PS4 recently, and just picked up Ground Zeroes for it yesterday. Until then I was playing on PS3. Anyways, as I was playing I was watching intently during any shot that had the Medic in it, and I don't know if it's because I was paying more attention or it had something to do with the PS4 version, but I seemed to see a lot more of his face than I otherwise had. And I begrudgingly say that the possibility of Medic being Ishmael and Ishmael being Solidus is seeming more and more possible as a result. I may be grasping at straws but from what I could see of Medic he really did look like a younger Big Boss, sans the mullet. The timing is perhaps the biggest hurdle for me, considering Ground Zeroes is in 1975. I can't overlook that.

64.33.250.214 wrote:

Taking into consideration that Ishmael's model was an early demo and may look different in the final release, what does it mean if Ishmael has green eyes? It means Ishmael is unlikely to be a hallucination, and unlikely to be Gray Fox (who had gray eyes). I actually agree with you here. As someone who was convinced for a long time that Ishmael was nothing but a hallucination (until I actually looked in to it), I'm pretty sure the theory goes that Ishmael is just an imagined form of Big Boss but with a covered face, so the difference in eye colour makes sense.

As for the Gray Fox theory, I always thought that was bogus.

64.33.250.214 wrote: A VA is a clue, but one that becomes less reliable when casting history breaks pattern like MGS has. Oh, I absolutely agree here too. A VA doesn't mean anything set in stone, but from a purely logical point of view, considering the uproar surrounding Kiefer Sutherland becoming the new Snake, why would he be cast as two characters other than Snake in the MGSV "duology"? Main characters getting double-casted as never been for anything other than clones/sons in the case of Huey and Big Boss, as far as I can recall. Or bosses having the same voice actors but that was never Snake himself being recycled.

Even specifically in the case of Medic, I hardly think they had Kiefer voice him because they were running out of time, or had too few voice actors or whatever. Matthew Mercer and Crispin Freeman voiced guards and could have been used easily, or even Robin Atkin Downes (Kaz) could have just put on another voice to voice Medic if they insisted on recycling VAs. A VA is a clue, and in this case a clue of a connection, in conjunction with what else we know about Ishmael and Medic (such as obscured faces and whatnot).