Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-7719032-20130402081433

The guy looks like someone who suffered severe burns all over his body, if the condition of his neck is anything to go by. In fact, the neck looks even worse than the face. The way the dogs were viciously barking and growling at him and the rats scurrying away from him make me think that he could potentially be the "character brought back from the dead".

A few other things to notice:

1. The suit is very similar to Revolver Ocelot's suit and longcoat in MGS, as well as Zardonov's suit in PW. Could the character potentially be Russian?

2. The man has an excellent command presence and a very confident step. He is almost certainly a career military man, as opposed to a G-man or mad scientist.

3. He mentions the fact that the girl "didn't suffer long". One wonders if he was the person handling the interrogation.

4. Compared to both the regular grunts at Camp Omega, the man towers above them. He's also significantly taller than all of his personal bodyguard, and if the tightness of his longcoat across his back is any indication, he seems to have the vestiges of a powerful physiqe.

Also, did anyone get the feeling that the rainstorm was a little nod toward Volgin? What with the over the top thunder and lightning.

These observations coupled with Volgin's heavy presence in the MGSV/Phantom Pain trailers seems to indicate a link between Volgin and the mysterious scarred man. I mean, we have three trailers explicitly showing Big Boss's hallucination of Volgin, and the gameplay trailer even includes several thematic links to the GZ trailer when the Volgin appirition appears (the longcoat, the burning/deformation of Volgin's features, and the sprinkler system "extinguishing" him).

I'm not saying that the XOF Commander is Volgin, but currently, the evidence is suggesting that. The other two possibilites are:

1. The scarred man has no direct connection with any previously established villians.

or

2. He is pretending to be a ressurected Volgin.