Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-92.9.1.137-20140423063322

Before I read through all this above, I'd have said the bandaged man was an MSF soldier that survived the heli crash (poss even from another helicopter as they seem to be about to crash into another when the screen goes white in the ground zeroes ending).

After analysis and the Kiefer voice match with change in pitch Yong’s vid (they could always drop Ismael down a pitch by release) I'm gonna have to agree with the medic theory as I think there is further reasons why it could fit. The idea bandages mean his injuries must be fresh are overlooking the fact he may have been severely injured in the crash as well such that he shared a spell in a coma and I reckon they’d wait to do reconstructive surgery or final plastic surgery on the patient’s reawakening specially if they maybe could not identify or find out what his face looked previously. His bandages, and actions seeming to adjust a stiff shoulder in the video would suggest he’s still recovering but maybe not recent damage but instead from his own coma effects. But how could he have watched over BB for 9 years then? I’d say it’s kind of a dramatic way of saying he’s been with him at least in the same hospital (guessing it could be a military hospital or brain injury unit) for those 9 years with him, only actively watching him the time he has been awake while undergoing possibly multiple facial surgeries, counselling, physiotherapy as a sense of duty (9 years is a long time to wait otherwise) as waking from his own coma as big boss is the last of his life before his coma. Then there is the fact he is a medic and has the knowledge to administer a syringe of digoxin (I know this wouldn’t actually be helpful and BB would probs maybe be better with a syringe of adrenaline as a pick me up but I see this as fudge by the writer who wanted to reference FOX through a medicine derived from foxglove). Also, when they pronounce BB has entered a coma and Kaz says ‘what about him?’ about he other survivor, the one who remains silent in the clip. So, what about him? (as in ‘is he in a coma as well… or just unconscious… or soon to be).

Or he could be a new character, a long stay patient in a military hospital that recognised the wreck in the bed at Big Boss and took it upon himself to guard him for 9 years as best he could. All manner of soldiers have been inspired by BB’s presence. A PTSD suffering disfigured soldier might have found purpose in guarding the king of soldiers and might explain his cryptic ‘call me Ismael’ type intro as him maybe being a little nuts himself and disconnected from his identity.

Really don't merit the decoy octopus theory much as he's a pretty throwaway character considering the nature of his death in MGS2, more a demonstration of the foxdie. Plus, calling him the most enigmatic character IMHO is more to do with his absence of expansion into the rest of franchise which makes me think of him as intended as one use. A bit of a red shirt made interesting by his absent history, i.e. lack of identity, character, even facial identity. I mean his page on this wiki is negligible. Damn, I've released too much about my feelings of how I think that guys lame... kinda interesting idea... more a minor device for plot.

Mantis is returning in the game, or just heavily referenced, because Kojima has not kept no secret that he is his favourite villian. And why not cause he really made MGS an imprint on my childhood.

I also think the brain shrapnel is gonna figure pretty heavy in a darkening of BB's intent. Brain injury can really change up your personality up, reduce control, remove limits on extreme behaviour etc. etc. and BB has all ready been through so much testing trial of fire @%&* but kept some ideals at least a piece but to have what he built wiped away, his family of soldiers slaughtered, his body maimed (an arm means a lot to a man who refuses to give up the fight) and also finding out he's been powerless for 9 years to stop the advance of the people that did it to him. All that and a piece of matter in his brain looking like a horn, he's gonna get suitably demonic, this BB is probs not gonna be able to be the type to look himself in the mirror, knows he's not whole, out only for revenge.

Sorry, when I start writing I tend not to know how to stop.

Hey, maybe he’s an idol of BB’s that watched over him and later was part of a project through surgical alteration of his face and voice to look like and fill BB’s void supported by a party that had been waiting and wanted Big Boss to return… Hurmm…

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