Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20140831105604

Paranoid Donkey wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote:

As for this Ishmael topic, I remain by what I've said before, Ishmael is an illusion made up by Big Boss himself due to trauma + Psycho kid. This seems to be the most logical outcome. I'd imagine that BB's brain probably reacted strangely to the overabundance of stimuli he perceived once waking up, after having nothing for 9 years.

And of course the influence of our speculated Psycho Mantis helps. Quite honestly I doubt we'll see a new theory at this late in the "game" (so to speak). Would be nice to have one as radical as "Chico is Quiet" with some compelling evidence though. I do enjoy those.

To reiterate, my money's on Ishmael being "nobody", just a hallucination by BB. As I've mentioned elsewhere, it's highly unlikely that Sutherland will be playing two roles consistently, as we know MGS doesn't do this (see: Richard Doyle as Big Boss in MGS4, with Hayter as Old Snake). Ishmael will be temporary, Sutherland won't be playing off himself for very long I can almost guarantee it. Actually, there was one instance of Metal Gear actors playing two roles consistently, at least in the Japanese version: Akio Otsuka voiced both Solid Snake and Solidus Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2 (for some reason, they gave them different actors in the English version). As far as Solid Snake and Big Boss in MGS4, from what I heard, at least with the Japanese version, that was deliberately orchestrated by Hideo Kojima to thaw the cold relationship between Akio and Chikao Otsuka (who voiced Solid Snake and Big Boss respectively).