Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-12.219.243.130-20150619171033/@comment-1672596-20150619171805

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.

And as far as hallucination, considering Ocelot was present with Snake when they surveyed the scar on her gut, and possibly the bit where Snake waves his hand across her face during a check-up, that being a hallucination is extremely unlikely (since Ocelot clearly saw her as well).

And I doubt it is a flashback either, since Big Boss has the same glove on as he does during The Phantom Pain, meaning it's clearly present day.

Really, I wish the E3 trailer DIDN'T show that scene, since I really hoped Ground Zeroes would be Paz's swan song, her time to go out in a blaze of glory and basically redeem herself for her bad characterization in Peace Walker.