Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1504072-20140812224612

64.33.250.214 wrote: "This is Kojima" isn't an answer so much as it is a reminder that he can do whatever he pleases. That means retcons... Kojima said in an interview that Phantom Pain will contain retcons. Going by what we currently know, we know that Solidus's accelerated aging worked differently than it did for Solid and Liquid. Solidus was the last clone, and yet he looked exactly like old Big Boss from MG1-MG2 during MGS2. Solid's aging hadn't yet kicked in then.

Solidus was only in his 20s when he became President. The legal limit for a US President is 35, and most US Presidents are older than that. That was nearly 10 years before MGS2. When Solidus was a teenager, he was working for the CIA and leading child soldiers. Do you think the CIA would hire someone who looked like a child? Or would children take orders to kill from someone who wasn't physically imposing to them? This doesn't prove it, but suggests the accelerated aging could have started much earlier for Solidus.

Dolly was a sheep. Science hasn't yet cloned a human (that we know of), because cloning humans is much more complicated. No clone will ever be truly genetically identical. You can clone identical genes, but those genes will change dramatically when a clone is exposed to different environments. That means appearance, voice, and IQ wont remain completely the same as the person whose DNA was copied.

Did you know when Dolly was cloned, she was already 6 years old? That makes it possible for Solidus to have been older from the day he was cloned.

Genes only change through mutation. Environmental factors do influence physical traits, but do not alter genes themselves (unless it's actually a mutagen). Anyway, a teenager can be intimidating to a much younger child, and one would want a clone of Big Boss to have normal emotional and mental development, which an accelerated childhood would likely cause consequences for.

As for Dolly, her genome (genetic information) was six years old, but that wouldn't make her physically that age. You're probably referring to the possible inheritance of genetic defects, which her "mother" may have developed during her own lifetime.

Also, just a helpful tip, you can delete any extraneous text when quoting previous posts to avoid lengthy replies.