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Misterbunnsy wrote: I might have to eat my words here, as Kojima tweeted that Campbell would not appear in any more Metal Gear games in respect to his late voice actor. Unless Kojima meant that Campbell as he appears from MGS1 onward would not appear is unclear. But the way I see it, Campbell can't really return?

Yeah, I'm going to take that with a grain of salt, really. He had no qualms replacing Gray Fox, Ocelot, and Decoy Octopus's voice actors in the Digital Graphic Novel (all of whom had died by the time of the DGN, BTW). At least with MGS4, Ocelot's replacement could be excused regarding his technically being "possessed" by Liquid Snake. And although it is said that the Japanese kill off characters out of respect for deceased actors instead of replacing them, I'm not sure how true that is, especially seeing how in Pokemon, they replaced Giovanni's voice actor when he died, despite it going against policy, that as well as their retaining Master Roshi in Dragonball despite his voice actor dying during the Buu Saga.