Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-6747658-20130412042407

There's a few things though that pretty much denounce the possibility of it being Gene.

PO saw Gene as being a charismatic leader, in fact Big Boss pretty much ended up taking some charataristics from Gene even. Gene seemed to be a respectable person really and in the end basically made amends with Big Boss and even gave the latter the needed funds to start on his own.

That being said, the XOF Commander is implied to have personally dealt with interrogating the girl he refers to towards Chico, whom is a child held in an open outside cage. That doesn't really fit how Gene was portrait in PO.