Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-208.63.90.153-20150920231336/@comment-64.33.250.214-20160205092432

Adachi Did It wrote: Bluerock wrote: I think you're reading way too much into it. He was simply made to be of a similar age to Big Boss. Being three years older is nothing radical. Agreed, what's the point of this speculation anyway? Venom being born in 1932 means what? it's just a date around Big Boss' birth. Similar age to Big Boss? You can make your custom character look in his 30s! How is that not a glaring inconsistency? If I'm reading too much into things it's because Kojima gave us a needlessly complicated character mod. This was the fear I had before Phantom Pain was released and someone on the boards claimed that we could create our own characters. The mod we ended up getting was nowhere near as inclusive as mods in other games.

My point being, if Kojima wasn't going to go HAM on customizing Medic/Venom, he should've kept things simple. He probably saw Face/Off and thought it was cool and tried copying the basic idea but didn't plan the whole thing through. That's why we have Medic being over 50 on his passport, when you can customize him to look a lot younger.