Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-149.12.15.1-20140329172116/@comment-192.160.117.141-20140329214751

That "1976 - Les Enfants Terribles project is abandoned" thing is pretty weird, and probably significant. Zero's policies are all based around 1. control of information, and 2. make all of the Big Bosses. This didn't seem to have changed in the chronologically later games in the series:

1. Attempts to plant Big Boss DNA into soldiers persist during and after the Gulf War, resulting in the creation of the Genome Soldiers.

2. In 1999 the Patriots recover Big Boss's body from Zanzibar Land, and then just do nothing with it for fifteen years.

3. In 2009, the Big Shell incident was concieved partly as a way to mold a soldier's psyche into a copy of Solid Snake's.

4. Plus, it turns out that the boss AI is "JD", or "John Doe", which may actually literally be Big Boss's name (Para-medic assumed he was joking when he said it... but his first name really is John).

So, I think it's pretty doubtful that Zero just gave up on his Big Boss crush after his apparent death in 1975, at least in the long term. So what reason is there to give up on the Les Enfants Terrible project only four years after it produces the genetic heirs of Big Boss?