Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5226356-20130618205352/@comment-175.159.163.39-20140221103111

78.109.189.28 wrote: It's not Chico. This Ishmael speaks fluent American English, Chico does not. This guy is bandaged, Why would Chico hide his identity? Better yet, if it was Chico WHY WOUD HE NOT JUST SAY "It's me Chico" not "Call me Ishmael"??

Futhermore, watch the trailor again and pause when BB & Ishmael are getting shot inbetween othr patients int he hallways.. Ishmael gets shot and goes down but a split second later as the camera pans round.. You see him again stood up with his back agaisnt the wall!!!! And with that, I come to the conclusion that Ishmael is a figment of BB's imagination. No offence, but I don't recommend concluding anything at this stage when so little information is available. For instance, 9 years is passed by then. It is not uncommon for a teenager to pick up fluent English without a Spanish accent.

As to the hiding identity part, well the two Ninjas in MGS 1 and 2 both hided their identities for various reasons. Fox waited until Snake reaches Octacon's lab to hint him his identity, but does it do any harm to his mission of helping Snake if he show up as Fox to begin with? Probably not. In fact Fox still calls himself Deepthroat even after Snake knows the Ninja is him (that happens when you resisted Ocelot's torture and was given a bomb in your equipments), why is it so? Kojima never explained. Olga's case is a bit different as she needed to stay undercover from even Raiden and thus went as far as leading us to think that the ninja is a man. In any case, most things will be explained for Ishmael, in TPP if not the next game.

Last but not least, trailers can be released without going along with the time sequence for advertising purpose. Hence let's just wait and see.