Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25230536-20140915193009/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140918100514

Paranoid Donkey wrote: They literally have the same voice actor. Medic's voice is Kiefer Sutherland, just at a lower pitch. This video will show you (excuse the overzealous title) that they are one and the same. I agree on your point about the bandages, but we'll really just have to wait and see.

I'll be happy to hear any objections afterwards, but it's pretty compelling as far as I'm concerned, in all seriousness I'd love to hear your theory. I think it highly unlikely that Ishmael, Medic and Snake would all be voiced by the same person.

I don't agree that Medic would need to be important to the entirely of Metal Gear though. The Phantom Pain is going to be a huge game, who's to say he won't just be important there? Besides, it could just be as simple as - Medic is [insert character name]'s father or something.

To be fair to you though, I don't know what to make of Ishmael at all so it's really problematic. The fact that he's also voiced by Kiefer unsettles me as to what Ishmael's role will be. I've already viewed the video you linked me too. Just because Yong made a video about it, doesn't lend it serious weight. Yong made a video saying it was possible for Quiet to be Chico, and shortly thereafter it was debunked.

Having the same VA doesn't mean the characters sound exactly the same. You said yourself the pitch is different. Medic's pitch isn't the same as Ishmael's, in my opinion. Anime and video games often use VAs to play multiple roles. That doesn't mean they're connected.

Nearly every instance where Kojima has named a character after a Bible character, that character ends up being integral to the plot. One rare exception to that rule is Jonathan from MGS4, and even then the character survived to the end. So for a MG character to have a biblical name, means they probably wont be written off once the game has concluded.