Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-98.234.99.168-20150703054955/@comment-3986699-20150706213852

64.33.250.214 wrote: 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.

Yes actually it was, regardless of how dark or light it goes, aside from MGS4, his hair was always some shade of brown. Lol at "Kojima's word is canon." if he were to say that Naked Snake went through MGS3 wearing a frilly pink tutu was canon, would you question that? I sure would.

And? He still says nothing about the hair color, when he said they were exact duplicates, he was referring to their physical features. How could he be mistaken for Liquid if they have different colored hair? Well that's simple, every single game in the series has shown that practically every single character is a complete moron, take Solid Snake for example, he knows Liquid and company knows he's coming, yet when he arrives at the docking area, he doesn't get at all suspicious of the fact that Liquid, Ocelot, Raven, Mantis and Wolf weren't there to blow him straight to hell as soon as he showed his face, he doesn't get at all suspicious of the fact that Liquid and company are practically letting him waltz around the base, he doesn't get suspicious at all to the fact that Baker told him that both he and Anderson had psychic shielding to protect from mind reading so they didn't actually get Anderson's code and to push it even further, Raven even tells him that Ocelot killed the real Anderson while interrogating him and lets not forget the fact that he doesn't get suspicious of Miller once he stops answering his phone calls during the fight with Liquid in the Hind D.

Concept art is just that, a concept, an idea, and Shinkawa's statements refer to the concept of Snake being blond, they don't matter, the final design they went with is what matters and his final design has him being brown haired.

No, Liquid had the recessive genes, Solid had the dominant genes, something people like you who keep spouting this fail to realize is that dominant=/=superior and recessive=/=inferior, Liquid had the recessive genes but was the superior one, Solid had the dominant genes but was the inferior one. And before you bring up the end credits phone call with Ocelot, all he says is that Solid was the inferior one, he never says that he didn't have the dominant genes.