Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-175.159.163.39-20140130040450

Just went over some history for the discussion of Gray Fox above, so he was a member of the FRELIMO group that was founded in 1962 to fight for the independence of Mozambique, and the war came to a close in Sep 1974 (you can find these all on Wikipedia). Details listed in this Wiki on Fox said that, he met Big Boss in 1966 and was said to be a child soldier (to which the flashback of Big Boss shows a child figure of somewhat 10 yrs of age. The Wiki then goes on to say that Fox eventually ended up in Vietnam and was again saved by Big Boss, which takes place after 1970. Now if you refer to footnote 5 of the page, you will notice inconsistancy here, in that Fox, in MG2SS, stated that he first met Big Boss in Vietnam. But that aside, it should be clear that Fox is in the middle of his teenage in 1970, by extension, he would be in his late-20s during TPP. Note also that he later joined RENAMO to fight the Mozambique civil war that lasted from 1977 to 1992, and was captured at one point, and had his face disfigured before being saved again by Big Boss. So if we put these together, it is unlikely that Fox is Ishmael, given it is Ishmael the disfigured who is saving Big Boss when he wakes up in 1984. Of course, the door is still open for which Ishmael fits into Fox and is disfigured again but I'd say it is quite a forced way of telling the story even for MGS.

Putting these aside, the confirmed story established that Naomi met Big Boss in the 1980s in Mozambique, before they (Big Boss and Frank) goes back to the battle so I won't be suprised if we see a cameo from these two in TPP should it touches on Africa.