Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.46.22.35-20130403153709/@comment-42.98.58.215-20140126152412

-NeroZero-BR wrote: Frank Null Fox? Not a chance in hell. Not only the timeline is absuredly incorrect, but, as posted previously, Ishmael is most likely to be a hallucination from Big Boss' mind. See:

1) Ishmael and Big Boss have the same VA (Kiefer "Jack Bauer" Sutherland), which implies in a sort of projection of the survival instinct of BB.

2) Ishmael is always ahead of BB, knows exactly what to do, and is never spotted. Prettttt-ty convenient.

3) Back on the "Phantom Pain" trailer before it was oficially announced as MGS V, there's a scene where soldiers start to fire at several people on a corridor. The first one to get shot is a guy with bandages on his face; what if he's BB's friend... But, about two seconds later, when the camera follows BB's head as he turns back, during a split second we can see Ishmael hiding on another corridor on the wall. How's that? Did he respawn?

4) Grey Jaeger had not yet been rescued by BB meanwhile. It'll probably be retconned, but the timeline simply does not fit (inb4"bigbossrgreyox11!1!"theories)

On your point (1) - characters having the same voice actor does not necessarily means they are the same person. The Japanese Liquid and Zero are acted by the same person, same for Solid and Solidus. Of course, you can debate that does not happen as often in the English version, partly due to the problem of accent.

On point (2), now that's interesting you said Ishmael knows what to do. Big Boss only woke up from his coma not having much knowledge where he is or what his surroundings are like. Ishmael on the other hand -- if being a real person -- had looked after Big Boss for some time. So it's just natural that he knows the place and knows what to do. If Ishmael is only imaginative, then how does "he" gives instruction to Big Boss as to where to go? And there's a bandaged guy driving in the car crash scene right before Mantis shows up... despite he's not yet seen after that at the moment.