Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-98.234.99.168-20150703054955/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150707025325

Kornflakes89 wrote:

Yes actually it was, regardless of how dark or light it goes, aside from MGS4, his hair was always some shade of brown. Lol at "Kojima's word is canon." if he were to say that Naked Snake went through MGS3 wearing a frilly pink tutu was canon, would you question that? I sure would.

And? He still says nothing about the hair color, when he said they were exact duplicates, he was referring to their physical features. How could he be mistaken for Liquid if they have different colored hair? Well that's simple, every single game in the series has shown that practically every single character is a complete moron, take Solid Snake for example, he knows Liquid and company knows he's coming, yet when he arrives at the docking area, he doesn't get at all suspicious of the fact that Liquid, Ocelot, Raven, Mantis and Wolf weren't there to blow him straight to hell as soon as he showed his face, he doesn't get at all suspicious of the fact that Liquid and company are practically letting him waltz around the base, he doesn't get suspicious at all to the fact that Baker told him that both he and Anderson had psychic shielding to protect from mind reading so they didn't actually get Anderson's code and to push it even further, Raven even tells him that Ocelot killed the real Anderson while interrogating him and lets not forget the fact that he doesn't get suspicious of Miller once he stops answering his phone calls during the fight with Liquid in the Hind D.

Concept art is just that, a concept, an idea, and Shinkawa's statements refer to the concept of Snake being blond, they don't matter, the final design they went with is what matters and his final design has him being brown haired.

No, Liquid had the recessive genes, Solid had the dominant genes, something people like you who keep spouting this fail to realize is that dominant=/=superior and recessive=/=inferior, Liquid had the recessive genes but was the superior one, Solid had the dominant genes but was the inferior one. And before you bring up the end credits phone call with Ocelot, all he says is that Solid was the inferior one, he never says that he didn't have the dominant genes. You suggest not to trust Kojima's word as cannon, and yet it's Kojima's word that decides what Snake's hair looks like.

The cover art for the original Metal Gear implied that Snake had blondish hair. It was obviously lifted from the character Kyle Reese in the original Terminator. The actor in the film had blondish-brown hair. Hair can appear in different shades, such as dark blonde which can look almost brown in color. Eli (Liquid) appears to have dark blonde hair in Phantom Pain.

In Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Snake's character sprite had yellow hair. Then in MGS1 and MGS for the Game Boy, Snake's character model had nearly black hair. So if you're going to go by what you see in the games, and not based on what Kojima or the artist Yoji Shinkawa have said, then you'd come to the conclusion that Snake had blonde hair.

Colonel Campbell explicitly said that besides skin tone, Solid was a duplicate of Liquid. If you're going to point out skin color, why wouldn't you point out hair color? He could easily have said, "Aside from hair and skin tone, you two are exact duplicates". Commenting on a twin's complexion is far more trivial in this situation by comparison.

Solid Snake's intelligence has no bearing on the conversation at hand. The point was whether other characters could confuse him with Liquid, and why would they if he was not blonde? Why even bother cutting your hair in that case? It's not like Liquid was going to dye his hair brown, because Liquid was too busy pretending to be Master Miller.

So the final product is what matters? In that case, the Big Boss we see in Phantom Pain is actually a body double. The real Big Boss is actually Sean Connery, if you go back and look his appearance in the original MG2.

If Liquid really had recessive genes, then he should have blue eyes instead of green. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, whereas green eyes are dominant. The story would lose much of it's impact if Liquid were recessive. His motivations were centered around his belief that he had all the recessive genes, and the idea that he had been lied to made him more sympathetic.