Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-65.31.134.55-20130328025957/@comment-107.10.76.72-20150224045907

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

121.223.0.76 wrote: To anyone asking why wasn't the "horn" removed, I read that it was shrapnel from a helicopter explosion (If anyone else has played Ground Zeroes). My theory is that due to where the shrapnel was embedded (obviously deep in his head, and probably very close to his brain) a surgical removal would have been too risky in the sense that it could have killed him. With Big Boss in a coma, no one would make the decision that could potentially kill the greatest living soldier. Hence the reason we see it "growing", I think that as his head is healing, the shrapnel is gradually being pushed out of his head. This could possibly explain the reason he has no "horn" in the end of MGS4. Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. I'm not so sure if that was from the helicopter crash alluded to in Ground Zeroes, especially when the scene where he falls into a coma clearly doesn't show a shrapnel in his head. the shrapnel is done during the surgery it is probably to help with the deep wound on his head, perhaps something got inside his skull during the explosion and the only neccessarry thing to do is patch it with shrapnel the second solution is perhaps the shrapnal got in during that explosion and can't be taken out except on it's own due time so they won't be risking snakes life on a brain surgery and that's how snake gets hallucination seeing that guy helping him during a fire outbreak in the hospital in the trailer