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Spencer.mgs wrote: According to me Ishmael is really a hallucination. In the first trailer of Phantom Pain, we can see him shot by soldiers, and just then he is standing in a doorway next to Naked Snake. He could be Chico's ghost, or the ghost of a character we still don't know.

But something can contradict the ghost theory. In the same trailer Ishmael and Naked Snake are in a car, and Ishmael is sitting at the driver's seat. If he is a hallucination, why would he seat at the driver's seat ? Did they drive the car or just hide in it ?





Fight Club provides a perfect scene with that, in the movie the main character's co-player, is in fact a hallucination created by himself. He sees him and believes him to be real, during the movie a scene happens where supposedly said hallucination is driving the car, but because this is the hallucination and no one else but the main character can drive the car, we can conclude that it is the main character driving said car.

Another example, though I loath referencing to the series, is Call of Duty: Black Ops (the first one) throughout the game the main character is helped from time to time by some Russian, we end up learning that this Russian is a hallucination created by the character who believes he is real. Towards the end of the game you get to play one level out of two perspectives. First is the main character, at the end of the level the main character witnesses the Russian kill off someone by shooting him in the end. The second perspective is that from another person whom, at the end of the level, watches through the window how it is in truth, the main character who kills off the guy by shooting him through the head.

Suffice to say, it's not an uncommon thing, hallucinations can play so badly on the mind that the person is believing and seeing entirely different things. Things that he is doing himself but yet believes that someone else is doing them. We can apply that to Big Boss here, the minimal help from Ishmael hints at him being either a major dick, or a hallucination. Seeing him being shot in the head only to then stand in a door way, watching him catch fire after the explosion yet appearing perfectly fine and making no reference to it whatsoever.Driving the ambulance yet is not seen at all crawling out from it or escaping with Big Boss and Ocelot.