Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-69.126.78.16-20130617023724/@comment-1971498-20130617033806

Given the very nature of the retcon, as half-hearted as it may have seemed for some, it still heavily emphasized how Liquid Ocelot was more of a created entity by Ocelot himself. Given his presentation the explanation shown in MGS4, there was never any evidence to suggest that Ocelot himself had been controlled by the Liquid persona against his own will. Heck who's to say that Ocelot would've been against all of Liquid's plot? Factor in how it's so similar to Big Boss and how Liquid's plot in MGS1 would've cut his work short, I highly doubt that Ocelot wouldn't have supported Liquid (why else would he risk adopting the persona of someone that he wouldn't have supported himself?)

Not to mention even as Liquid Ocelot, he was pretty aware that Old Snake had the means to take down the Patriots through the virus and he actually let him do it. If Ocelot's normal persona came back as Eva had "wished", it would've ruined his plan in tricking the Partiots, indicating that the whole Liquid Ocelot persona was still willfully planned by Ocelot. The fact that Eva seemed convinced that Ocelot had literally been possessed by Liquid more likely brings into question as to how much she was in the loop or she was merely faking that part.

That said, I feel that we should isolate Liquid's major appearances with MGS1 (I don't know who added MGSV on there). That's where he got the spotlight and it should stay that way. Liquid Ocelot may have been adopted from Liquid Snake's personality, but it doesn't change the fact that he was described as being mainly Liquid's doppelganger in the end.