Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20140628125014

Misterbunnsy wrote: For god's sake. These theories are so ridiculous.

The first twin clones (Solid and Liquid) were born in 1972. Solidus came sometime later (though when exactly is not clear)

His accelerated aging allowed him to appear in his late thirties / early forties when he was only about mid twenties. There is no physical way for a child to be accelerated in aging to appear to be a man. Solidus would be three at the oldest by Ground Zeroes (that's if he was born in '72, shortly after the first clones) and it would not be possible for him to keep watch for someone over 9 years.

The only way it could be Solidus is if Kojima retcons a heap of information. Well, Solidus DID appear middle aged when he was at the very least in his late teens.

That being said, it's doubtful that he is Solidus. He already has a name, one that isn't even biblical anyways (George). On that note, I'm still doubtful Eli is intended to be Liquid. Even with the Kanji in the Japanese version, I find it odd that the English version would use another, more wordy phrase than use "Liquid Man" (and really, "Never Be Game Over" is indeed twice as wordy as "Liquid Man"). And if it was to avoid spoilers, frankly they shouldn't have used "Liquid Man" at all, whether in the Japanese version or not.

And besides, Kojima has had a history of exposing major characters as being related to if not directly the same as characters who appeared in the series before (as evidenced by his confirmation that Kazuhira Miller is the same as Master Miller in MG2 and MGS, that Ocelot in MGS3 is indeed a younger version of Ocelot from MGS1 and MGS2, that Huey is indeed "who we think he is" regarding a relation to Otacon, and, heck, he even confirmed that Naked Snake was indeed the same guy as Big Boss, or at least strongly implied it in an interview and confirmed it with the leaked voice document for MGS3). If Eli was intended to be Liquid, I'm pretty sure he would have pointed it out, if not flat out, then probably like how he "confirmed" that Huey was Otacon's father (not a direct explicit confirmation, but strongly implied). We're pretty close to release (as evidenced by even the official site giving out pre-orders for the game), yet he still hasn't said anything that either directly confirmed or otherwise strongly implied Eli's connection to Liquid.