Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-66.56.44.237-20130617084327/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150621085815

Jim Logan wrote: Except that in no way can be Solid Snake.

In the original MGS1 briefing, Colonel Campbell told Solid Snake that, aside from skin tone, Liquid is an exact duplicate. He has darker skin and lighter hair from living in the desert.

177.249.112.38 wrote: Solidus is much younger than Solid and Liquid, and Solidus is caucassian not latin like Chico

Solidus was cloned to age faster. Chico is pretty white for a person of Latin descent. We can't be sure he is 100% authentic. Remember how Paz faked being Costa Rican?

0nighthawk0 wrote: I did, because Chico cannot be Solidus because Solidus is a clone of Big Boss and Chico is no such thing. It would be one gigantic retcon that just is not happening.

It's actually quite common for MGS characters to have double identities. Kojima has fooled us many times by hiding character motivations. In MGS1, we were tricked into believing that Ocelot worked for FOXHOUND. The ending revealed he was working with Solidus. In MGS2, it turned out Ocelot was working for The Patriots. In MGS3, Ocelot once again worked against his commander. It wasn't until MGS4 that we discovered Ocelot was working against The Patriots.

Chico and Amanda claiming to be Nicaraguan doesn't make it any truer than Ocelot being Russia or Paz being Costa Rican.