Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-67.1.246.12-20130810173702/@comment-1504072-20140616122752

Weedle McHairybug wrote: The line DID suggest that Liquid was told of this from someone OTHER than Big Boss, especially compared to the MGS1 original's script where he explicitly stated Big Boss told him he was the inferior one. And it also doesn't help that his bio in the Official Missions Handbook as well as the MGS4 novelization mentioned that he only learned about his being a LET survivor and his supposed inferiority AFTER he took command of FOXHOUND. No, not really. The differences between the original and revised English dialogue are a result of different translations, the latter to more resemble the original Japanese, rather than to "correct" it as a lot of people seem to assume. It's also been widely demonstrated that Kojima doesn't adhere to the writings of authors other than himself, so plot points brought up by strategy guides and novelized works is unlikely to have any bearing on Kojima's story.