Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-98.234.99.168-20150703054955/@comment-3986699-20150707053307

64.33.250.214 wrote: You suggest not to trust Kojima's word as cannon, and yet it's Kojima's word that decides what Snake's hair looks like.

The cover art for the original Metal Gear implied that Snake had blondish hair. It was obviously lifted from the character Kyle Reese in the original Terminator. The actor in the film had blondish-brown hair. Hair can appear in different shades, such as dark blonde which can look almost brown in color. Eli (Liquid) appears to have dark blonde hair in Phantom Pain.

In Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Snake's character sprite had yellow hair. Then in MGS1 and MGS for the Game Boy, Snake's character model had nearly black hair. So if you're going to go by what you see in the games, and not based on what Kojima or the artist Yoji Shinkawa have said, then you'd come to the conclusion that Snake had blonde hair.

Colonel Campbell explicitly said that besides skin tone, Solid was a duplicate of Liquid. If you're going to point out skin color, why wouldn't you point out hair color? He could easily have said, "Aside from hair and skin tone, you two are exact duplicates". Commenting on a twin's complexion is far more trivial in this situation by comparison.

Solid Snake's intelligence has no bearing on the conversation at hand. The point was whether other characters could confuse him with Liquid, and why would they if he was not blonde? Why even bother cutting your hair in that case? It's not like Liquid was going to dye his hair brown, because Liquid was too busy pretending to be Master Miller.

So the final product is what matters? In that case, the Big Boss we see in Phantom Pain is actually a body double. The real Big Boss is actually Sean Connery, if you go back and look his appearance in the original MG2.

If Liquid really had recessive genes, then he should have blue eyes instead of green. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, whereas green eyes are dominant. The story would lose much of it's impact if Liquid were recessive. His motivations were centered around his belief that he had all the recessive genes, and the idea that he had been lied to made him more sympathetic.

Evidently you can't comprehend what I'm saying, so I'll explain it as simple as possible. If Kojima says something that was not stated in the games, that statement he made can change at anytime, so him saying Snake is a natural blond who dyed his hair brown can easily change to Snake naturally having brown hair. It's what's shown and said in the games themselves that really matters.

The cover art is irrelevant, Snake still had dark hair in his Metal Gear gameplay sprite and his radio call image.

You're evidently color blind, maybe you shop hop on over to the Solid Snake page and actually look at his MG2 sprite, now after you looked at that, look at his boots, they use the same color for both his boots and his hair and his boots are brown, so logically one would come to the conclusion that his hair is brown as well. He also had brown hair in his MG2 radio picture, so obviously he was meant to have brown hair in that game.

And your point about that is? You do know that twins can be exact physical duplicates but still have different hair color right? And if Snake was a natural blond in MGS1, why no mention of hair dye if they were going to bring up him wanting a pair of scissors to trim his hair?

Again you cannot comprehend what I just said, my points about Solid Snakes apparent lack of intelligence was pointing out the fact that almost all of the characters are idiots, case in point, even with him having brown hair, Meryl still thought he was Liquid at first, now by your logic, Meryl shouldn't have mistook him for Liquid in the first place since he obviously has a different hair color, and voice and skin tone, therefor, Meryl is a moron.

Him looking like Sean Connery in the original version is no longer relevant as the Subsistance version of MGS3 had him looking very un-Connery like.

Yeah the whole eye color thing doesn't really mean much considering the fact that at least a few of the characters have been shown to have their eye colors changed, for example, Solid Snake, his eyes are originally blue, then later changed to gray-ish blue, and I'm pretty sure there's at least a few images of Big Boss having green-ish eyes in MGS5.

But yeah, either way, wrong again, Liquid's motivations were centered around him believing he was the inferior clone, and him being an idiot thought that recessive=inferior, which is false. There's not a single statement in the game that implies that Liquid had the dominant genes the whole time, just that he was supposed to be the superior clone with Solid being the inferior one.