Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-1971498-20130422164724

Zelda4dinner wrote: It's interesting that we keep coming back to the mention of "bringing a character back from the dead". I admit, I felt Paz must surely have been dead after the end of Peace Walker, and I believe that she was the person whom Kojima was refferring to. That aside, if Cipher wanted to bring a character back from the dead, I can't imagine how they might have done it. In no other Metal Gear game has this been done, even with nanomachine technology. Even if it were possible for them to bring a character back from the dead, I don't think they would bring back a member of the Philosophers unless they needed something from them that wasn't included in the Legacy. The Patriots meant to bury the Philosophers and all memory of them, and supplant them. To that end, it wouldn't make sense for them to bring a member back from the dead unless they needed something not included in the Legacy.

See I wouldn't doubt against that if it weren't for the fact that The Boss's father seemed to be the one to instill the idealistic notions that The Boss first possessed. So far I'm leaning on the idea of the XOF commander either being Zadornov, or The Boss's father (the latter of which I'd prefer to see when I think about the possibilities and implications this could hold against Big Boss).