Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-1672596-20130408112421

Soul reaper wrote: A few things, someone up above said that his suit is similar to Ocelot's and used that as evidence for him being Russian. Ocelot's suit was based on a common design used in Old Westerns. It certainly was never meant to be a Russian design.

Now, the whole "100 years old" statement was never said to apply to the XOF Commander. In the GDC presentation they were showing off the 3D scanning and showed an example of an actor. They said they would apply makeup to it but they couldn't show the final product yet because it was important to the story. They even suggested that it was an unannounced character. So while it may be the XOF Commander, they didn't even imply it.

As for the idea of it being Gene, it does raise an interesting thought. The whole "From FOX two phantoms were born" tagline was initially shown backwards, showing X0F. Perhaps implying that one phantom from F0X is the X0F commander. That said, I really hope it isn't Gene. I hate Gene as a character and would go as far as saying he's the worst idea for a character in the series. I doubt the XOF commander is Gene. Last I checked, Gene did not get burned. Heck, his corpse was completely safe inside the lauch control room. Plus, he seemed to accept his death. His voice actor is also different as well. Probably the closest guy to fulfilling this description would either be Cunningham (as he most certainly would have been burned from the destruction of his flying platform) or Python (who, again, gets burned if he overheats). Neither of which are quite likely, though, as Cunningham would also have been shattered and suffer far more than just burn wounds, and Python made it explicitly clear that he'd die if he overheated, no questions asked.