Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.52.61.188-20130415085048/@comment-5085906-20130709180023

Damn, I must have missed that.

But either way, I think Kojima can deal with this without having to retcon a major part of the franchise. Say, Ocelot, who was tied with Cipher and Kaz, who was also revealed to be doing business with Cipher, handed Big Boss to Zero some point after Big Boss gets out of the nin years coma. Zero, still considering Big Boss as a legend and overpowered by his growing reputation forces him somehow to work for him, assuming it likely would be something like brainwashing or whatnot. In the meanwhile, Ocelot and Kaz secretly aid in the rising of Outer Heaven and manage to keep Big Boss' persona awake.

That's just an assumption, an example showing you that there can be a lot of ways to deal with this plot point without having to retcon. Knowing Kojima, he's probably going to take the long way around and do something even more complicated.