Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-26523073-20150623001037/@comment-62.151.187.110-20150825031445

64.33.250.214 wrote: While it's a nice sentiment, Ocelot hasn't been in enough games for the story to be about him. He was entirely absent until MGS1, and was absent from many of the side games (including Peace Walker and Ground Zeroes). In MGS2 and MGS4, he's not even completely himself, as he was possessed by Liquid's spirit and underwent hypnotherapy in those respective games.

You could even argue that Ocelot never followed Big Boss simply out of admiration for him, but because Boss inherited The Boss's legacy, and the spirit of the warrior that The Sorrow spoke of. Ocelot has mommy and daddy issues, and by protecting Big Boss he's also preserving their spirit. This is also why he doesn't blindly follow Boss's clones, even though they are made of the same material and have similar goals, and was willing to turn on them when he thought they were failing in their shared objectives. Big Boss's objective was to realize The Boss's ideals, so Ocelot joined forces with him out of mutual interests.

As a side note, I never noticed how big Ocelot's nose was in Phantom Pain until I saw this image. He looks like some type of angry rodent, like a Rattata from Pokemon.

Well, he said it's about Naked Snake and Ocelot between the 2 of them they appear in every single game, Naked Snake representing the "old part" and Ocelot being in the "modern part". Ocelot never followed Big Boss? EVA in MGS4 even says he idolize Big Boss and you can even see Ocelot in MGS3 being almost a cheerleader for him after his first encounter with Snake (he cheers Snake in his batte vs Volgin for example) and at the same time he tries to surpass Big Boss. Regarding Ocelot in MGS2 and MGS4 it's stated he never even was "possesed" by Liquid, he as you said went into hypnotherapy to do those things because he couldn't do it on his own (being Ocelot). Also Ocelot never knew The Joy and The Sorrow were his parents, he merely doesn't blindly follow his clones because they're not the real Big Boss and they have no idea about The Boss ideals even tho Solid Snake in MGS4 gets very close.. Note here: When somebody Idolize a person (s)he can't see anybody better that that person, it's the same applied to Ocelot