Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17468962-20130906041556/@comment-50.186.50.212-20140314121447

192.160.117.141 wrote:

3. It's still strange that Ocelot and Liquid would have him killed in 2005, since he's almost certainly not a Patriot even if he does end up fighting Big Boss. It could be personal, since it's looking fairly likely that both Ocelot and Liquid will interact with Miller directly in Phantom Pain. It's also possible that it's more infighting between Big Boss fanclub members, like what happened between Gray Fox and Ocelot, and between Big Mama and Ocelot. This particular point actually raises some good examples of the "infighting" between people who were originally cronies. Gray Fox sliced off Ocelot's shooting hand to protect the very man who essentially killed him 6yrs prior. It's definitely possible for an incident to occur in which Miller and Big Boss part ways and leaving intact the original depiction of their feelings toward each other during the Zanzibarland Disturbance.

Something VERY interesting to consider -- Big Boss and Kaz have ideals and motives for MSF that are fundamentally different. In Big Boss's case, fighting is the only thing he's good at and doesn't own up to the fact he engages in war to live and breathe the anger he feels over losing the Boss; not only this, but he's found what he believes to be a legitimate excuse to do so. He puts himself in a position that allows him to be in constant defiance of the same entities that made him kill his own beloved. He builds an army that not only defies states and governments, but also subscribes to no ideology (thus exempting him from a great deal of moral responsibility). This lifestyle is further solidified after the Peace Walker Incident, when he acknowledges that the Boss "put down her gun" and felt she betrayed him in the process. This fuels his decision to continue fighting the world over his loss and anger, with the constant of conflict and "fight[ing] because we are needed" serving as convenient excuses.

Kaz, on the other hand, sees MSF as a business and foresees a future in which PMCs will be a source of great profit. Big Boss corrects him a few times during Peace Walker on why he chose to build MSF. While his profit-based motive doesn't exactly place him on a higher moral ground, Kaz simply acknowledges his ability as fighter to be a great asset and turning over a profit (as opposed to simply fighting out of anger and an inability to let go of the past (this will change in the Phantom Pain, of course)).

Ironically, Kaz's original ideals in Peace Walker are the exact same as those held by JD and the SOP system that created the dystopia in MGS4 -- a world that Big Boss despises and was happy to erase during his dying moments. The "colossal error in judgement" made by JD on Zeroe's ideals is actually the same error made by Kaz on Big Boss's ideals for MSF.