Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-98.234.99.168-20150703054955/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150705210015

Kornflakes89 wrote:

No we actually don't know that for a fact, Solid has always been shown with brown hair, the only thing that's ever shown him with any other hair color is concept art that was made before the final designs in MGS1 and 2 and the MGS1 briefing tapes which really don't mean much since none of them show the actual color of anything, in the briefings Snakes skin is shown to be a lot darker than it actually is, so who says that his hair in the briefing was shown a different color the same way? Furthermore, if all the briefings are watched and you get the special ending to them, he asks for scissors to trim his hair, but doesn't ask for any hair dye, if his hair actually was blond during the briefings, wouldn't that have been something worth mentioning?

Kojima saying Liquid's hair was bleached blond from living in the desert doesn't really mean much, he could say that Naked Snake went through MGS3 wearing a frilly pink tutu if he wanted to, doesn't really make it so, now if that was actually stated in one of the games it would be a different story since then it's practically cemented into it, but things Kojima says outside of the games can always change.

Furthermore, we know for a fact that Liquid had the recessive genes, blond hair is a recessive trait, so him being a natural blond would make more sense than his hair being bleached by the sun. Solid's hair wasn't always the same color. If you compare models of Solid in MGS1, Twin Snakes, and the Tanker chapter of MGS2, you will see that his hair was darker than when he appeared as Iroquois Pliskin. His eye color as Pliskin was green too, but it was later retconned to blue because of Snake Eater and Twin Snakes. Protest all you want, but Kojima's word is canon. It's his character, and if he wants to say child Solid had blonde hair he can do so.

You have to go by what Colonel Campbell said in the briefing. He said that aside from skin tone, Solid was an exact duplicate of Liquid. If that bit of dialogue was different in the Japanese translation, then it might change the validity of that statement. After Solid asks for scissors he also tells Naomi he's going to clean himself up, and says "I don't want to be mistaken for the leader of the terrorists". How could he have been confused with Liquid if his hair was a different color? Concept art for Pliskin and statements by Shinkawa provide evidence that Kojima was possibly going to make Solid a natural blonde.

Furthermore, Liquid didn't have the recessive genes, it was Solid who had them. Meaning Solid should've had the blonde hair. Much of the claims made about the cloning process at the time of MGS1 were inconsitent and not completely grounded in reality.