Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-6747658-20150830110104

64.33.250.214 wrote: Everybody hold your horses. It looks like Ishmael is Big Boss, and that most of the leaks were true, but the game isn't 100% completed yet.

As for Solidus, even though I was hoping to see him somewhere in the game, it's unlikely he would ever have been Venom. Namely because he hadn't lost an eye yet. Not to mention, Solidus lost the other eye.