Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-1971498-20130707174225

Why use the codename "Snake" as the default name of the character you ask? Marketability. Everyone knows the name Snake, and as much as it's more fitting to call him Big Boss, using the name "Snake" works as a simple marketing tactic ofr public addressal or even merchandising.

As a side-note, although in MGR Raiden referenced the samurai and how Sam and Raiden almost seemed like one, I recall that even the creators said that their fight was more of a mish-mash between East and Western style gun duels only this time they're just swordsmen. I don't see Gray Fox being anywhere near a samurai, and the one who have been referenced as such (Raiden and Sam), have also been labeled as a combination of various ideas based on general swordsmanship.

Back to the topic, I know that the ridiculousness of the MGS universe can easily make way for some of the wildest theories, but I personally think 0nighthawk0 nailed it with his first post:

0nighthawk0 wrote: Yeah...this is a fanwank theory