Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1210805-20131221075735/@comment-1672596-20131221100052

Soul reaper wrote: Hi all. As you may have noticed, we are currently in the process of updating infobox images. The new system will make the use of tabs to include a profile image of each canonical appearance. I've been collecting images from all the games but I'm having some trouble with Portable Ops. As the only canonical PSP exclusive title, it is also the only one I have not played. This causes a few issues, the major one being that I don't know how most of the characters appeared in the game. What I do know is that Snake, Roy and the bosses all appear rendered in-game canonically. What I'm unsure of are characters such as EVA, Ocelot, Raikov and the MGS3 support team. I know Zero, Para-medic, Sigint and Ocelot are all canonically part of the PO story. I'm not so sure about EVA or Raikov. I'm also not sure if those characters role was purely shown in the motion comic cutscenes, or if they appeared in the game's 3D graphics. So, if any one could clear that up it would certainly help.

The next part is actually getting in game images. Currently Sigint, Para-medic and Null all have images in their infoboxes, but they are far from perfect. Others have been impossible to find. If anyone who owns the game is willing to help out please let me know.

Technically, Sigint, Para-Medic, Ocelot, and Zero are cutscene-only characters due to their playable status being non-canon (with Ocelot not even being made available until after you had beaten the game and are starting a new game plus playthrough). Your best bet is using the ending, which you can find on Youtube. As far as EVA, thanks to MGS4, her recruitment is non-canon, though she does nonetheless appear in-story as a flashback to Snake Eater during Cunningham's first interrogation. As far as Raikov, the only hint one way or another towards canonicity is that Raikov's recruitment, unlike the MGS3 support team (particularly Sigint and Para-Medic) or EVA and Ocelot, was actually covered in the strategy guide. While the actual recruitment of Sokolov isn't actually covered in the guide, one of the steps to recruiting him was (the spy mission about finding more spare parts on the ICBMG at the Harbor), and since he's with Snake in the ending despite getting caught by Gene, his recruitment's most likely canon.

Raikov's appearance will probably require his character icon, since an actual cutscene featuring him is lacking, post-mission radio call non-withstanding.