Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-1672596-20150826021857

Kornflakes89 wrote: Weedle McHairybug wrote: 0nighthawk0 wrote: 64.33.250.214 wrote: I remain skeptical about these spoilers for several reasons. One of which, as someone pointed out on reddit, Ishmael appears to suck at CQC. In fact, he gets his ass kicked by Quiet. You do realize that Solid Snake fared similarly against Vamp while disguised as Iroquois Pliskin, right? Has it ever occurred to you that Big Boss might have just been holding back specifically to avoid drawing suspicion that he is in fact Big Boss?

Vamp took him by surprise whereas Ishmael is standing right there, they're not even the same situation and can't be compared.

So Big Boss, in an effort to keep a secret, holds himself back while trying to prevent an attempted assassination, when holding back against someone who's actively trying to kill you, especially if they're trained killers, leads to nothing but you and the person you're trying to protect getting killed? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. By your logic, Palpatine should have just used his Sith powers while on Grievous' ship even when he's in front of the Jedi because, hey, he's pretty much in danger anyhow (especially when Grievous is pretty much unaware of Palpatine's identity as Darth Sidious). After all, they're actively trying to kill him, so it shouldn't even matter if the Jedi get the hint anyhow. The Visual Dictionary even mentioned he had to hold back a lot of his powers just to avoid exposing himself at the wrong moment during that time.