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Weedle McHairybug wrote: If this post is to be believed, and warning since this DOES contain really major spoilers, it's Big Boss himself:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=176512519&postcount=3508 I'd have preferred it if it was Decoy Octopus. Octopus was at least a master at copying people. What's so special about Medic that he has the qualifications to pretend to be Big Boss? The post claims Medic was one of Boss's best men, but we never saw that. All we saw was a random character show up at the end of GZ for a brief moment. The only reason anyone suspected him of being a body double was because he sounded like Kiefer.

Then there's the symbolism behind the name Ishmael. Kojima previously referenced biblical characters when he gave them Hebrew names. Ishmael is a major religious figure for two reasons: 1. He was the son of a major prophet. 2. He was cast out into the wildnerness by his father. That's why some of us theorized Ishmael to be a clone. How would Big Boss represent this son who is cast out? Or is Kojima going to ignore the symbolic implications, despite alluding to a biblical story with the siblings Eli (Liquid) and David (Solid)?

I remain skeptical about these spoilers for several reasons. One of which, as someone pointed out on reddit, Ishmael appears to suck at CQC.