Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-70.184.16.184-20140912222249/@comment-25878688-20150901023939

I just know the bandana will be some form of unlockable, but storywise I think it's better we don't have it.

You see, the bandana is the symbol of the Boss and her will. Big Boss was the true inheritor of the Boss's will, which is why he kept wearing the bandana. MGSV represents the moment Big Boss fell to the dark side and lost his way, he diverged from the Boss's will; he has become unworthy of the bandana. This is why Solid Snake now wears the bandana in his half of the saga: without anyone realizing he became next in the line of succession for the Boss's will, he has become the holy wearer of the bandana as he is the only one of the Snake family and the only of the Boss's indirect "descendants" to truly understand her without ever even knowing she existed. So yeah, this is why I think it is simply RIGHT that Big Boss not wear the bandana in MGSV.