Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.182.10.8-20140416035309/@comment-189.122.6.110-20140423025047

This is my take. After Snake Eater, Big Boss lost hope in his country for what they did to The Boss. He then founded The Patriots some time after, in his mind, to ensure that no soldier would ever be forced to loose his life or place in society for a country that'd betray them. However, as he saw Zero heading towards another direction, of Peace through Control, he left them and started MSF. But time wore him down, and the only thing left in him was the will to fight. To prove that he would not be betrayed and killed like The Boss. That, added to his enmity with Zero, he slowly started carving down a path to villany. He started seeing war as the only thing left to fight for, and tried to shove it down the world's throat. Paraphrasing his words "You start a flame, save people from it, train them and feed them to the flame again", he recruited children, developed nuclear weapons, in order to make sure nor Zero nor the worlds top countries would have it their way. He distorted The Boss'es words in order to make peace with the fact he was responsible for the increasing slaughter in Third World countries and that he had taken part in the creation of other monster, Zero. Between both men, I don't think there's good or bad. They worsened each other, to the point their original intentions were as relevant as The Boss (they weren't). One sought peace through control and the other, war through freedom, and they were both responsible for the creation of the war economy and the mess that the world turned into. So, I think he was a villain. But, from what we've played with him, he just hasn't snapped into the crazed murdering, child recruitng shell of a man he is in MG 1 and 2.