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93.55.185.3 wrote: I remember Kojima saying something like Big Boss has been in coma just once in his whole life and TPP will have explained how is this the truth. You know people, after playing TPP it still makes me believe that Big Boss felt in coma, I guess, three times.

1- 1972 ca. = Les Enfantes Terribles project. Zero got BB's genes where the latter was in a coma

2- 1975 = After the events of GZ and the destruction of Caribbean Mother Base. He eventually woke up in 1984 I think. A bunch of weeks before Venom Snake.

3- 1999 = Nanomachines-induced coma after Solid Snake kicks his ass in Zanzibar Land. We will see Big Boss again in 2014.

Did I miss something? Some explanation in TPP, retcons or shit like that... The 1972 coma exists only in the English translation of MGS1; the original Japanese just has him with unspecified combat injuries. It's all explained in the Les Enfants Terribles article. So in Kojima's mind, there had been only one coma by the time of The Phantom Pain.