Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-12.219.243.130-20150619171033/@comment-6512-20150619184532

Weedle McHairybug wrote: 12.219.243.130 wrote: So, it appears in the new E3 trailer that Paz appears in The Phantom Pain in at least some capacity. While it seems plausible that this is just a flashback or possibly a hallucination, I have another theory I figured I'd throw out there. What if this Paz is a clone-a test subject for Les Enfantes Terribles? She was originally working for Zero, so its not impossible that he would have her DNA already and would use that as a test run of the cloning technology. There are a few flaws with that claim:

First of all, Les Enfants Terribles had several trials before bearing success with the creation of Solid and Liquid Snake (at least 11 batches if we go by the Novelization), so there wouldn't have even been a need for a Paz clone to test out LET's cloning procedures (which based on the implied amount of tests would date back to the 1960s, before even the Patriots were formed).

Second of all, Even if you do argue that it was a test run, there's the little problem with LET being cancelled in 1976, and how LET was widely reputed to be a huge failure, even before it was revealed that the purpose of the project was as insurance in case Big Boss left the Patriots.

The thing is, and here's the real kicker, all of this information could very well just not be true. It's kind of a weird thing I've noticed lately where people take things characters in fiction say at face-value without stopping to think if that character could really have all the facts. Of course, we have to essentially trust the characters words because they're essentially the voice of whoever the writer is, but let's dig a little deeper here.

Who told us the information about the failed batches before Solid, Liquid and Solidus? Well, Liquid himself did, didn't he? Did you ever stop to think how he knows this? Did you ever stop to think that one of the biggest pieces of information he gives us about LET (Solid and Liquid's stances as dominant and recessive clones) we know for a fact isn't true? Of course, we have no reason to believe Liquid is misinformed, because his is the only word we can take on it. So if Metal Gear Solid V presents is with new and different information, it's not a logical leap to assume Liquid was simply misinformed. Really Major Zero and possibly Big Boss might be the only ones who know the full scope of what Les Enfants Terribles resulted in.