Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-2112031-20150912221027

175.159.163.39 wrote: That’s right, as I said earlier, Kojima can opt to explain the supernatural abilities (like he did with Vamp) but it is also fine if he chose not to dig into details (such as how Liquid made it out of the Hind D alive and then survived another fall from atop MG Rex) and personally I do not mind if super natural abilities remains unexplained, because after all, supernatural things are not explainable by scientific methods anyway. By extension, it really is not a must to have a body double just to have him die in MG1 in place of the real Big Boss. If Liquid, a clone of Big Boss, can cheat death so many times, why not also the father even at an old age?

As to the character of Venom, I think he is redundant (although I give Kojima a bare pass for the way he used to sneak the medic in as Snake). It feels like Kojima needed to complete the circle by having the reputation (i.e. the messianic status mentioned by EVA in MGS4) of Big Boss tarnished in-game, but he doesn’t want Naked Snake, who has let go of The Boss' death, to be the bad guy either, so the solution is to fit Venom into the play to do the wet work. But as some others said here, Kojima should have provided a more in depth explanation than mere hypnotherapy without elaborating how memories and even battle skills were transferred to Venom in the process. Right now, Kojima is simply saying that any male soldiers can be shaped as Big Boss given the right circumstances, which is a repeat of MGS2.



Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Medic stated to be one of (if not the) best trained soldiers MSF had to offer? Not necessarily in-game, but I do recall reading it somewhere. His battle skills could be reasonably explained by him being trained by Big Boss himself and being apparently one of the best soldiers.

As for his memories, he obviously doesn't really possess all of Big Boss' memories (i.e. he can't speak Russian), so it's probably him subconsciously remembering Mother Base and Big Boss and the hypnotheraphy, over time, allowed him to become Big Boss by affirmation.

Every time he remembered something from his real memories, the hypnotherapy would make him remember it slightly differently, in a way that would keep him convinced that he's actually Big Boss, congnitive dissonance would prevent him from learning the truth until he had to.