Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-1504072-20150724171756

Weedle McHairybug wrote: @Bluerock: I mentioned that MGS4 effectively treated Big Boss as being a good guy because they effectively were stating that he is one. If they wanted him to be bad, they would have treated him in the game, like what the games treated the Patriots, Volgin, Coldman, and the like, and for out of series games, how Kefka, Albert Wesker, and Dr. Weil were depicted (ie, framed in the absolute worst light possible, no redeemable actions or sympathy-inducing moments, a complete monster through and through). At best, MGS4 portrayed Big Boss as a lesser of two evils when compared with the Patriots, but if you saw him as a "good guy," then that's your opinion. This kind of simplistic thinking led to ridiculous ideas such as Big Boss being "the true hero of the series."