Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20150626010320

0nighthawk0 wrote: I'll still say that they mistook Solidus for a normal man with the Make it Right trailers and thus picked a middle aged man to play the roll. I mean he was about 18/20 or so during that time, yet in the Make it Right trailers he looks to be well in his 30's.

But as for Ishmael, no it wouldn't make sense. Ishmael claims to have been watching Big Boss for 9 years, aka, the coma time. Meaning that he's been watching Big Boss since 1975. Solidus was born after Liquid and Solid, somewhere in late 1972/early 1973. Are you going to tell me he was an adult at 2/3 years old then? Because I highly doubt they'd let a toddler watch Big Boss.

I'm still going with the theory that Ishmael is only in Big Boss his head, considering we never see him again ever in any trailers aside from the Hospital scene, and he practically disappears there too once Big Boss meets Ocelot. I doubt he's in Big Boss's head, since there's no way he could drive out of the hospital if he was. Even ignoring the fact that imaginary people can't do physical actions such as driving, Big Boss obviously is impaired from driving thanks to one of his arms literally being a hook.

Ishmael may not be Solidus, but he most certainly ain't an imaginary friend.