Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-3060460-20141002194139

Misterbunnsy wrote: It's not like it's the first time Kojima would deliberately avoid showing characters in trailers. Does anybody need reminding of how MGS2 played out?

Gray Fox's history is a bit hard to nail down to a specific dates. It states that he killed Naomi's parents during the Rhodesian Civil War in 1979. This was during Big Boss' coma.

Then, at an unspecified time, he returns to Mozambique and endures severe torture before being rescued by Boss in the end.

Later, during the 1980s while still in Mozambique, Boss meets Frank's 'sister' Naomi, and helps bring them to the United States. So this can be at any period during the 80s following 1984, when Boss awakes from his coma. Boss and Fox also return to Africa to continue fighting in the Civil War at some point.

Chances are, while Boss is leading Diamond Dogs in the Africa segment (if the game is segmented in such a way that the story missions shift to another area later while side missions are still available in other areas), he'll run into Fox and rescue him from his torture. Later, we may even see him assist Fox and Naomi in reaching the States, as well as returning to Africa to fight.

And who knows? Maybe you'll be able to have Fox as a support buddy. If only that was confirmed... it'd poke a huge hole in the body double theory if Fox was a confirmed buddy. Hideo said Support Buddies are people who can die and not effect the plot of the game(s). If Gray Fox dies well...then that'd break the timeline so he can't be a Support Buddy.