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Well Kojima originally wanted it to be about Gray Fox and not Raiden, the idea was scrapped cause the staff liked Raiden more. The original idea with Raiden was indeed scrapped too, giving us MGR:R as it is, but they did specifically say they would explain his past and not that it would be in a prequel or DLC addition. Further more, the live-action trailers suggest they're attaching him to a cyborg body, but it's not really clear if it's his MGR:R body or his MGS4 body.

@Archnite256

Actually, Riaden supposedly got his cyborg body after rescuing Sunny from the Patriots, he was later supposedly caught by the Patriots and experimendted on ala Gray Fox (I have to wonder now if Frank was also just a head in that exoskeleton of his...I mean he got pretty much blown up)

The human body at the end of MGS4 also bothered me, watching it the first time I thought he was a full human again and going all wtf until I saw those distinctive lines on his cheeks where his former metal jaw had been. But I still wonder how the hell they explain a humonoid looking body that BLEEDS BLOOD, that's seriously my biggest issue with it, even with his later bodies he still bleeds as if he's human.

Realistically, he'd only need a liver, heart and lungs to keep his head living and those can be stored in his torso. By all means he should be more robotic in terms of arms and legs (At least Ocelot's arm was shown to be metalic when he finally took off his coat for the last fight)

In all honesty, Raiden's cyborg body (any of them all) is a big mystery and wtf factor for me, there's so many questions around it in my opinion that really were never explained like they should have been....and why did he only have one eye? They showed the other was cybernetic so why not pop him a new one? Gah, Konami, explain!