Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-28534799-20160304062951

Paz didn't explode (THEORY) SPOILERS AHEAD In the Paz subplot in The Phantom Pain, we saw that Venom Snake hallucinated that Paz survived and was brought back to mother base. He had a flashback that showed him removing the second bomb, and saw that the explosion was apparently caused by a rocket, not her. When the Paz in TPP was revealed to be a phantom, we pretty much just discarded the whole ordeal as a guilt trip. HOWEVER! In the Truth ending of The Phantom Pain, if you pay attention, you will notice that it shows Venom pulling the first bomb out, then Paz jumping out, then it for some reason flashes back to Venom Snake handing Big Boss the bomb he removed, and when it flashes backwards, the explosion has already happened. What would be the purpose in that cut back to Venom handing over the bomb if they weren't trying to conceal something? If you pay attention, you will notice that Paz is perfectly intact after the explosion [] This was not the case in Ground Zeroes.

I propose to you that Venom Snake was correct about removing the second bomb! Paz did not explode. However, she most likely still died as it was stated in one of Chico's tapes that organs such as her stomach were removed to make room for the bombs. But this is just one tape. If you will think back to Peace Walker, it stated in a tape that Kaz wrote Love Deterrence, in Japanese. But then in The Phantom Pain, they swapped the authorship over to Paz, which essentially made the version we heard in Peace Walker non-canon, as Paz's version was most likely in Spanish. They changed the canon. For those of you who have paid close attention to news in Konami, they are planning another Metal Gear Solid, and their official website has a recruitment page for it. If the next one follows Big Boss, or Venom Snake, and they wanted Paz to return, they could just change the canon and remove the part about organ removal from it, since it was just one tape that most people probably didn't listen to.

OR, maybe they just showed us that Paz did not explode to provide peace of mind for those who were depressed about her death.

There would be the issue of how Teeth got embedded into Venom's body, but that could have really belonged to anyone besides Venom and BB on the chopper. Chico died, and he probably got bashed against some things pretty damn hard.

But, as I said, they at least changed the canon in The Phantom Pain to show that Venom Snake was indeed right about Paz not exploding. But, she probably still died. That's up for you to decide. It's all up to you. Because, as TPP itself stated:

"There are no facts, only interpretations" - Friedrich Nietzsche

I also have this theory in Video form!  