Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-93.40.5.79-20150815230147/@comment-1.64.176.17-20150817162623

64.33.250.214 wrote: 64.33.250.214 wrote:

If we accepted that "Kojima can add whatever details to the character he likes" and left it at that, then we'd have to leave open the possibility that Gray Fox is Punished Snake. Even though two characters might have things in common, I feel as though we shouldn't assume they are the same character. Someone said Chico was a spy, and that therefore it's possible he will become Decoy Octopus, because Octopus also spied. So the theory seems legit right? Well, if you looked back through all the games and realized nearly every character has done some sort of spying, then any one of them could have been Octopus because he's a master of disguise. The problem with Ishmael being Chico, or the Medic, or Morpho, is that we haven't seen them display any hidden talent for changing their appearance.

All those characters you mentioned, Sergei, Emma, and Huey, have only had active roles in one game (thus far). They were also more integral to the plot than Octopus. Chico has been in 2, maybe 3, games. That's a considerable amount of character development to give to one of the least popular characters in the franchise. Don't get me wrong, Decoy Octopus is an interesting character if only for the fact that he's mysterious. Yet he's nowhere near as popular as someone like Gray Fox, and he never had 2+ games of backstory.

Could Octopus be Chico? He COULD... just like Skull Face, Ishmael, Paz, and Eli COULD all be hallucinations. There's very little evidence to go by is what I'm saying. I meant to say "the problem with OCTOPUS being Chico, or the Medic, or Morpho", but I think Ishmael works too given the context.

My initial idea was actually more simple than you have said here. I am just trying to say that, even if a character has a relatively smaller role than others (such as MGS1 Octacon in comparasion to people like the Twin Snakes, Meryl, Naomi Gray Fox, etc) in one game, it doesn't mean you cannot dig deeper into his or her backstory in later games. In fact, MGS1 Johnny is an even better example, he / his grandfather was a mere comic relief in MGS1 - 3, but suddenly he played a much heavier role and received a face in MGS4. Or for Ocelot, doubt Kojima planned in 1998, to have the him being a son of Big Boss' mentor and go on to make a 6th appearance in the upcoming 2015 game.

The mentioning of Emma and Huey is just to point out that they were "additions" to Octacon's background despite him being a lesser character to begin with, so I don't see why can't Kojima applies the same to Chico, although, it's all fine with seeing him dies during GZ be it due to that chopper accident or not.

As for Octopus, given his unique background, a lot of male characters can fit in the shoes if Kojima wants to, but well, the good news is, it's only weeks to finding out the truth.