Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-6747658-20140613002115

I'll blame Kojima :P

Also, I've known cases were men were already gray before their twenties...hair color is a fickle thing really.

But let's assume the did make a clone, it cannot have been at Ground Zeroes because it would be an infant and that would just be too far fetched. As for Ishmael, unless the clone grew up in said hospital that Big Boss was in, I cannot see how he kept an eye in Big Boss for 9 years as said clone would have to have been there before Big Boss came in, and this still seems far fetched, again because of age.

As for us playing the clone...I could bring up age as a factor again, but let's approach it differently. Why? Why would they produce a clone of Big Boss, mutilate him and take away his eye and arm, stick shrapnel in his head and all that. Would they not want a more perfect clone like Solidus was? And if they already had Solidus as well as the Twin snakes, why would they make another clone and turn him into an aged and mutilated Big Boss?

So the cloning project stopped 4 years after the Twin Snakes are born, is this really reason to believe that we're playing a clone in either Ground Zeroes or in The Phantom Pain? Or that Ishmael, the man in question in this whole topic, is a clone? It just seems way too far fetched for that, even with Solidus appearing as middle aged man when he's in his late teens, which also a good example then. Why would said clone appear as old as Big Boss, whom is clearly older then Solidus in appearance where as Solidus looks middle aged when being in his late teens, after 1984.