Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4913740-20130619152258/@comment-1504072-20140331071526

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Yeah, though unfortunately the way Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes, and the Phantom Pain has set things up makes it so that Big Boss would have to do a hail mary to even get back into FOXHOUND and somehow hide Outer Heaven from Cipher/the Patriots/Zero, whom by this point not only know about its existence but also even attempted to have all the international community to basically have Big Boss assassinated. It's the U.S. government that requests that Big Boss lead FOXHOUND in the 1990s, not necessarily Cipher. In Peace Walker, he's still on good terms with U.S. government officials, such as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and is still seen as a hero. Cipher may have had powerful influence over the government, but it never outright controlled all its actions all the time.