Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20140613130320

0nighthawk0 wrote: 65.92.102.151 wrote: Ishmael is Solidus, I can bet money on it.

Ishmael/Solidus is the medic in the helicopter at the end of GZ, as Solidus, yes, was cloned in 1973, but I think he was "accelerated" to age to the point of adulthood VERY quickly. As you can see in the helicopter (from the bits you can actually see of his face) the medic looks like a young shaved BB.

Ishmael is a bible reference, and in the trailer he even refers to BB as "Ahab" short for Abraham. Ishmael was the son of Abraham.

Both the medic and Ishmael are played by Kiefer Sutherland. This is the reason Miller says "What about him?" in the hospital when Big Boss goes into his coma. Solidus poses as Big Boss for 9 years. In this time he meets Raiden, and all kinds of shit.

How it will all play out, I have no clue, but I do know I've read into this enough to pull something together that make a bit of sense. I'll pose a very simple question then, why would Zero allow, the perfect clone of Big Boss, to be at MSF, risk death and what not, then go play around being Big Boss a while longer? And most importantly, why does he suddenly looks younger when he meets Raiden? Because if we are to believe that they are accurate with his appearance in Rising, he looks to be a middle-aged man where as Big Boss is older looking then that.

Actually, at least during the events of The Phantom Pain, Big Boss looks about the same age as in Ground Zeroes despite obviously being older than that by about nine years. I'm actually a bit surprised he didn't start looking like Big Boss of the MSX2 era.