Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150830143754

42.98.59.197 wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: Yeah, and there are now screencaps that prove that Big Boss = Ishmael was indeed legit: I think the only thing left to be explained, which I don't mind to find out by myself, is howcome the medic would thought he is Big Boss simply because he got his face. I haven't watched all the gameplay footage, but from what I've read Medic went through hynotherapy like Ocelot did to become Liquid Ocelot.
 * http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1098935&page=138
 * http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1098935&page=139

Basically Kojima took twists from MGS2 and MGS4 and threw them in a blender, in order to explain a minor inconsistancy of how Big Boss survived in MG1.