Para-Medic

Para-Medic, real name Dr. Clark, born June 22, 1936, was a member of FOX in the 1960s and later FOXHOUND. She was a doctor who served as a medical adviser to Naked Snake during the Virtuous Mission, Operation Snake Eater and the San Hieronymo Takeover, eventually joining FOXHOUND. She stayed with the unit through to her death in 2003, and was one of the founding members of The Patriots.

Biography
During both the Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater, Para-Medic told Snake about the different flora and fauna he captured/obtained, which usually ended up with Snake asking how it tasted, a fact that she found quite tiresome after a while. She was also in charge of recording Snake's mission data. After the failure of Virtuous Mission, Para-Medic was threatened to have her medical license revoked if Operation Snake Eater it turned out to be a failure. However, she told Snake that her medical license wasn't important to her, and that she volunteered to help Snake anyway.

Being a total movie fanatic, she frequently and enthusiastically talked to Snake about them. She actually convinced Snake to go see several movies that she talked about once his mission was complete: Jason and the Argonauts and A Fistful of Dollars among them. Para-Medic also had a fascination with Japanese culture. In addition, Para-Medic's obsession with horror movies and vampires led Snake to have a vampire-themed nightmare during his imprisonment in the fortress Groznyj Grad, where Snake became a vampire fighting half-breed monster named Guy Savage.

In 1970, Para-Medic went on to establish the nation's first paramedic system in Seattle, Washington.



Later, when Naked Snake, now known as Big Boss, was captured during the San Heironymo Incident he infiltrated a Red Army communications base on the Peninsula to attempt to contact Major Zero. He was able to reach Para-Medic via Codec frequency 145.73, and he inquired on what had happened with the FOX unit's rebellion. She explained that Snake and Major Zero had been blamed for the rebellion, and that any members of FOX that didn't join the rebellion under Gene's command were murdered. She also informed him that while Snake had been imprisoned by Gene, Major Zero was in a prison cell himself, courtesy of the Pentagon. She also advised him to phone SIGINT as well, as he was willing to lend a hand to his old friend from his command center at ARPAnet.

Later, Big Boss returned to the communications base to contact Para-Medic about a form of tropical malaria that his new comrade Roy Campbell had come down with. Para-Medic diagnosed him over the radio and informed Snake that he would have to infiltrate the nearest hospital in order to find the preventative drugs to save Campbell's life. With the help of Jonathan and his other new recruits, Boss was able to save Campbell.

FOXHOUND and The Patriots
Sometime after, Para-Medic was recruited to The Patriots by Zero. The organization was set up by Zero in an attempt to realize the dying dream of The Boss, who wished to see the world whole again. Under the orders of Zero, and now going by her real name of Dr. Clark, she headed the Les Enfants Terribles program to create the "Sons of Big Boss". Clark also ran the gene research program which eventually bore the GENOME Soldiers.

In 1999, immediately after Big Boss's Zanzibar Land Uprising was thwarted by Solid Snake, Dr. Clark was the scientist in charge of putting Big Boss in an artificially induced coma and reviving Gray Fox by implanting him with a cyborg exoskeleton, thus transforming him into the Cyborg Ninja.

In 2003, Dr. Clark met her end when Gray Fox, freed by his adopted sister Naomi Hunter, killed her, taking revenge for all the years of torment he had endured. Her death was plotted by both EVA & Ocelot as a plan to eliminate the members of the Patriots who were allied with Zero.

Behind-the-scenes

 * Due to the gender-neutral nature of the Japanese language, Dr. Clark was referred as a man in the English translation of Metal Gear Solid. It wasn't until the Metal Gear Solid novelization by Raymond Benson that it was revealed Dr. Clark was female. The book also revealed that she was also involved in the Les Enfants Terribles project.


 * The Metal Gear Solid 4 Database covers this inconsistency by explaining that Dr. Clark seldom exposed herself to others and left almost no data behind after her death. As a result, Naomi Hunter was convinced that Dr. Clark was a man.

Movie List
As mentioned before, Para-Medic was a huge movie fan. Here is a list of the movies that Para-Medic suggested that Big Boss see after the events of Operation Snake Eater:

Para-Medic asks Snake if he's seen a film called My Mother was a Teenage Spider Queen from Mars. When Snake replies "I can't say that I have," Para-Medic says, "Neither have I."
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 * Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
 * The Alligator People
 * The Alamo
 * The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
 * The Big Broadcast
 * A Bridge on the River Kwai
 * The Blob
 * It Came from Outer Space
 * The Creature from the Black Lagoon
 * The Curse of the Werewolf
 * Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
 * Earth vs. the Spider
 * The Fly
 * A Fistful of Dollars
 * Forbidden Planet
 * Frankenstein
 * From Russia With Love
 * The Great Escape
 * Godzilla, King of Monsters!
 * The Guns of Navarone
 * The Incredible Shrinking Man
 * Invasion of the Body Snatchers
 * Jason and the Argonauts
 * The Last War
 * The Magnificent Seven
 * North by Northwest
 * On the Beach
 * Plan 9 from Outer Space
 * The Quartermass Xperiment
 * Rebecca
 * Them!
 * The Thing from Another World
 * The War of the Worlds
 * White Zombie
 * It Came From Beneath the Sea!