Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-98.195.91.136-20140702030413/@comment-1672596-20140702033825

98.195.91.136 wrote: Skull Face is Hungarian, which Hungary was a soviet satelite state so it could make sense that he worked for the soviet military in the 60's.

The scars on his body are from surviving the explosion of Groznyj Grad. when you knocked him out and put him in a locker he was very close to the explosion of the Hangar. Which could of left Raikov's body burned and scared.

Skull Face's goal is to get revenge on Snake and Major Zero. Who are responsible for damaging his body and killing his lover, Colonel Volgin There are a few problems with that theory, however:

1. His tapes made clear that he got his burns from the bombing of a secret weapons factory, especially when rapeseed oil scalded him, and the timing as well as his briefly speaking Hungarian suggests it was during the Oil Wars in World War II. Even if we are to assume otherwise, Groznyj Grad was destroyed by a Davy Crockett nuclear warhead fired by The Boss, not an air raid.

2. Raikov was in his twenties around the time of Snake Eater, and it's pretty obvious that he looked whole and not deformed during that time. Not to mention he would at best be an infant around the time of the event Skull Face alluded to, while Skull Face was at least five years old, if not somewhat older by the time of that event (he was pretty clearly a prepubescent child by that time).