Minor characters

This article is a list of minor characters that appear in the Metal Gear series.

Charlie
Appearances: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

Charlie was a Sikorsky HH-64 Dragoon helicopter pilot who extracted Solid Snake and Holly White from Zanzibar Land, at the conclusion of Operation Intrude F014. He was originally supposed to also pick up Dr. Kio Marv as part of the operation, but a change of plans occurred after the mission became more complicated and resulted in Dr. Marv's death. Charlie ended up running late to pick up Snake and Holly at the extraction point, which resulted in their being surrounded by Zanzibar Land forces and nearly getting killed, with him being 10 kilometers away when Snake arrived at the recovery point. He eventually managed to arrive at the last possible second and used the Dragoon's .62 machinegun turrets to wipe out the Zanzibar Land soldiers surrounding Snake and Holly. When Snake points out Charlie's tardiness, Charlie apologized and jokingly claimed that he "didn't want to disturb you two lovebirds [Snake and Holly]!"

Behind the scenes
Charlie has the same radio frequency as Your #1 Fan.

Zanzibar Land green beret soldier
A Zanzibar Land soldier with a green beret who was tasked with guarding the Maze Wood and the confinement facility.

During the Zanzibar Land Disturbance in the late 1990s, FOXHOUND member Solid Snake, acting on a tip from Kyle Schneider upon the latter's death at the former's hand, tailed this soldier to locate the confinement facility where Czech biologist Kio Marv was believed to have been held.

Behind the scenes
The soldier was necessary for advancing the game. If the player tries to go to the Maze Wood before fighting Black Ninja, they won't advance anywhere because of the trees blocking several portions of the path. Also, even if the player kills the soldier, he automatically comes back to life when the player returns to the hangar.

Children in Zanzibar Land
Appearances: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

The children in Zanzibar Land were war orphans from around the world. They were saved by Big Boss, who intended to train and put them in the battlefield. Some of the children that Solid Snake encountered give him valuable information.

Behind the scenes
The children in Zanzibar Land, as well as Big Boss's plans to train them, were omitted in the Metal Gear 2 summary of the Previous Operations section of Metal Gear Solid and its remake, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. In addition, in both the original and re-released versions of Metal Gear 2, the player is actually able to kill the children. However, the player is penalized with a loss of health if they kill a child.

John F. Kennedy
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater  (mentioned only)

The 35th president of the United States of America and the first and only Catholic President. He was also one of the few Presidents in the 20th century to not have any previous ties with the Philosophers, something the CIA used to their advantage when trying to discredit The Boss. In 1961, Kennedy authorized a CIA-sponsored operation to have Cuban Exiles try to retake Cuba from the dictator Fidel Castro in what is known as the The Bay of Pigs Invasion (the planning and preparation had taken place during the tenure of his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower). The invasion ultimately failed when Kennedy, wanting to neither commit the United States to the invasion of Cuba nor risk going to war with Castro's Soviet allies, refused to authorize air support for the rebels. The following year, Kennedy agreed to hand over Russian defector Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov to the Soviets if they would withdraw their forward-deployed IRBMs and strategic bombers from Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As a result, the Philosophers lost faith in him. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and was succeeded by Lyndon B. Johnson. Indirectly, his assassination also acted as the biggest blow against Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's power base, with GRU Colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin and his extremist faction seizing the opportunity to revolt against him.

Behind the scenes
John F. Kennedy was first mentioned in Metal Gear Solid 3, and "appeared" in archived film footage that was used for both the Virtuous Mission briefing and flashbacks.

He, or rather, his initials, were also briefly alluded to in the script included in The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2, as the identity of the AI communicating with Raiden shortly before the battle with Solidus.

Leonid Brezhnev
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (mentioned only)

Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964, following the ousting of Nikita Khrushchev, until his death in 1982. When Colonel Volgin launched the Davy Crockett at the Sokolov Design Bureau, he was one of the people who claimed that the attack was instigated by the Americans. Although the Shagohod was destroyed and his powerful ally, Colonel Volgin, killed, Brezhnev and his co-conspirator Aleksei Kosygin were still able to garner enough popularity within the Communist Party to finally oust Khrushchev, of which the Dnipropetrovs'k and Moldavian mafias, which he had close ties to, were also suspected to have been a primary cause of his rise to power. However, with the majority of the Philosophers' Legacy out of the Soviet Union's hands, Brezhnev led the country through a period of economic stagnation. In addition, he was also involved in crushing the Prague Spring in 1968. As a direct result of both his coming into power as well as the economic stagnation, resulted in him promoting the SALT talks, as well as forcing various Soviet soldiers and personnel to stay on the San Hieronymo Peninsula in order to make it seem as though they were out of control soldiers if the base was ever discovered. This Brezhnev Stagnation, followed by the massive cost of the 1979 Invasion of Afghanistan, eventually formed the catalyst that would lead to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Brezhnev died of a heart attack in 1982.

Aleksei Kosygin
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (mentioned only)

A co-Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964, following the ousting of Nikita Khrushchev, until his death in 1980. Although the Shagohod was destroyed and his powerful ally, Colonel Volgin, killed, Brezhnev and his co-conspirator Leonid Brezhnev were still able to garner enough popularity within the Communist Party to finally oust Khrushchev. Kosygin died of health complications in 1980, two years before his co-conspirator.

Richard Nixon
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid novelization (as "Mr. President")

Biography
The 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) and the only person to resign from the Presidency. He was the first U.S. President that the Patriots had control over, since they were formed in early 1970s, after the FOX Unit's rebellion. Nixon was also involved in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty talks Leonid Brezhnev was promoting, which was one of the reasons the Soviet base on the San Hieronymo Peninsula was abandoned so the Soviets could go along with the deal without the United States ever knowing about the base.

Nixon resigned in 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate Scandal was exposed by an FBI agent known as Deepthroat (a codename a familiar face would use in 2005). Nixon died of a stroke in 1994.

Behind the scenes
President Nixon's presumed first appearance in the Metal Gear series is the Metal Gear Solid novelization by Raymond Benson. The novel mentions a nameless gray haired U.S. President attending a meeting with Dr. Clark and the U.S. Army General in 1972 to oversee the success of the Les Enfant Terrible project, which his predecessor Lyndon B. Johnson had started.

At the 2009 Tokyo Game Show's showing of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Hideo Kojima implied in his speech about the game that one of the events in 1974, Nixon's resignation from the Presidency, would factor into the events of the game. However, nothing relating to Nixon's resignation was identified in the final version.

Gerald Ford
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (mentioned only, as "the President")

The 38th President of the United States (1974-1977), Gerald Ford succeeded Richard Nixon when he resigned from office as a result of the Watergate Scandal. One of his first acts, and one of the most controversial, during his run as President was granting a pardon to the Nixon administration. During his first few months in office, Ford went over to Vladivostok to meet with Leonid Brezhnev for the SALT II talks, spanning from November 21 to November 24 of that year. Hot Coldman used this to his advantage when conducting the Peace Walker project, as when he activated Peace Walker, most of the White House cabinet couldn't make the decision to make a nuclear strike due to their being in Vladivostok, forcing the military chain of command to make the decision as to whether to fire a retalitory strike thanks to false data supplied by Peace Walker to NORAD. Ford died of natural causes in 2006.

Behind the scenes
He was not identified in the game itself, but the setting implied that he was Gerald Ford. In addition, although he did briefly visit Vladivostok to negotiate missile reduction, the meeting was erroneously referred to as SALT II, which was actually the name of his successor, Jimmy Carter's attempted negotiations with Russia on the matter.

EVA (NSA codebreaker)
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (mentioned only)

A former NSA codebreaker who, along with ADAM, defected to the Soviet Union in September 1960. His identity was stolen by a Chinese spy during the events of Operation Snake Eater.

Behind the scenes
ADAM and EVA's defection is based on a real life incident.

Whether EVA, like ADAM, had actually faked his defection and continued to serve America by the CIA or truly defected was never specified.

Naomi Hunter (original)
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid (mentioned only)

Dr. Naomi Hunter had gone missing in the Middle East some years prior to the Shadow Moses Incident. After her disappearance, her identity was stolen by the foster sister of Gray Fox.

Liquid Snake's Pentagon spy
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid (mentioned only)

This unnamed person worked within the U.S. Department of Defense and was also an informant for Liquid Snake. He was never seen in person but Liquid mentioned him to Solid Snake during the Shadow Moses Incident, referring to him as "a spy in the Pentagon." He told Liquid of the DIA's FOXDIE and that Dr. Naomi Hunter had made some alterations to the virus' program, though no one knew how or why. This person may also have been the one who supplied Liquid the information about Jim Houseman's plans to blow away Shadow Moses with a bunker piercing nuclear warhead after Metal Gear REX was defeated, as Liquid seemed to know about this and hint to Snake that this was what will happen prior to the fight on top of REX.

KGB Chief Director (1960s)
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Biography
After Operation Snake Eater, Ocelot spoke with the KGB Chief Director on the phone, regarding The Boss's death and the destruction of Groznyj Grad and the Granin research facility. The Director was disappointed that the facilities had been destroyed but Ocelot insisted that they were necessary sacrifices. Ocelot then assured him that Krushchev was finished and that the KGB's time had finally arrived. Ocelot also suggested to the Director that they could use their knowledge on the events of both the Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater to blackmail America in future negotiations.

Behind the scenes
Though his name was not mentioned in Metal Gear Solid 3, the real-life KGB Director in 1964 (Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny) did indeed participate in the ousting of Krushchev. In the voice casting sheet, under the Khrushchev bio section, it was also stated that the KGB Director supplied information relating to the situation in Tselinoyarsk to Khrushchev based on information from EVA.

Admiral Boorda
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (mentioned only, as "Chief of Naval Operations")

Admiral Michael Boorda was the 25th Chief of Naval Operations. He oversaw the development of the Arsenal Ship Project, until his unexpected death in May 1996, prior to the Phase II design. The project was then cancelled, freeing up the Pentagon's Black Budget, and allowing the development of Metal Gear REX to proceed undelayed. Though the CNO's death was officially ruled as suicide, rumors to the contrary circulated at the time.

Boris Volgin
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (mentioned only)

Boris Volgin was a high-ranking officer in Stalin's Red Army, and was the father of Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin, who illegally inherited the Philosopher's Legacy during World War II from his money-laundering business, although his son would never know that Boris was the one who laundered the Legacy and had it until after Boris's demise. After Boris's death, his money-laundering business was bought out by a group known as the Assembly, and the Legacy through them was supplied to his son.

Behind the scenes
According to director Hideo Kojima's commentary on Metal Gear Solid 3, it was originally intended that Boris Volgin had been murdered by his son, explaining how the latter acquired the Philosophers' Legacy. A still image of Colonel Volgin killing his father was also to be shown in the game, during the scene in which Aleksandr Granin describes the Legacy to Naked Snake, but was ultimately cut.

In addition, according to an interview with the Metal Gear Rising development team for PSM3 magazine, Boris Volgin was included in the initial concept for the game when it was still known as Metal Gear Solid: Rising.

Julie Danziger
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (mentioned only)

The mother of Emma Emmerich. She was married to Huey Emmerich while secretly having an affair with Huey's son, Hal, which later caused Huey to commit suicide when he learned of the affair. After Huey's death, Julie moved back to England with Emma and married a businessman named Robinson, who allegedly assaulted Emma. Despite moving back, Hal and Julie remained in contact by letters, to which she also told Hal about Emma's Aquaphobia, which was severe enough to prevent Emma from even wearing a bathing suit.

Steve
Appearances: Metal Gear

The elder brother of Outer Heaven Resistance member Diane. Although a member of the resistance himself, he did not share the same enthusiasm as his younger sister and only participated out of necessity. He answered three of Solid Snake's radio calls, the first time when Snake received Diane's frequency number, and later when he fought Shotmaker and Fire Trooper. He also grew more and more annoyed whenever Snake tried to contact Diane in regards to advice to defeating certain bosses.

Drago Pettrovich Madnar double
Appearances: Metal Gear

The Drago Pettrovich Madnar double was an imposter posing as the real Dr. Madnar during Operation Intrude N313. The Outer Heaven personnel anticipated that Solid Snake would most likely attempt to track down Dr. Madnar in the second building's basement, so they replaced him with a decoy double while they transferred him to the second floor. Snake attempted to free him, thinking that he was Dr. Madnar. However, he revealed the ruse and activated a pit trap beneath him and fell to his death, hoping to take Snake with him. Snake managed to evade the trap, however.

The Boss's sleeper agent
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (mentioned only)

The Boss's sleeper agent was a formerly CIA-employed sleeper agent that America placed in the Soviet Union. Due to The Boss's efforts in trying to prevent a nuclear war by communicating and negotiating to Moscow insurgents, America planted him within the OKB-1 design bureau, where he sent massive amounts of technical data to NASA about various Soviet projects for them to sabotage or destroy. By 1960, however, most of his paycheck was cut out by the CIA and pocketed. Seeing that the decreased amount was not enough for him to risk his life over, he defected completely to the Soviet Union. In addition, he also attempted to send forged documents about the Sputnik V, although The Boss noticed an inconsistency in the document, namely the fact that there was a strange tube within the Sputnik V design plans. Two years later, The Boss found out that The Sorrow was the one who turned her sleeper agent against her, although The Sorrow did not know that she was the one who planted the spy.

Jennifer's brother
Appearances: Metal Gear

He was among the soldiers captured at the onset of the Outer Heaven Uprising, held in a prison constantly monitored by Outer Heaven security. His sister Jennifer infiltrated the Outer Heaven fortress by posing as a member of the medical staff in an attempt to rescue him. At some point, he and two other prisoners of war ended up under Dirty Duck's watch, to which they ended up being used as human shields by the latter. He tells Solid Snake how to escape Outer Heaven after he is rescued from Dirty Duck.

Big Shell environmental conservation group VIP
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (mentioned only)

A VIP supposedly belonging to a major conservation group involved with the offshore decontamination facility Big Shell. The Colonel told Raiden that the VIP was held hostage while on an inspection tour during the Sons of Liberty's armed takeover of the facility in 2009. However, Richard Ames later revealed that the inspection tour was to check Arsenal Gear's progress. It's likely that the VIP never existed.

Representative of the Secretary of Defense
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

The representative of the Secretary of Defense was called in to decide on whether to retaliate against Russia after ballistic trajectory data arrived at NORAD making it seem as though Russia was going to nuke the United States. As the President and most of his staff were out of the United States for the SALT II talks at Vladivostok, he, some of the members of the war room, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were forced to make the decision themselves. However, when Big Boss called the Chairman to explain that the missile data was actually faked data leaked by the CIA station chief of Central America, and attempted to give proof of his identity, the representative was reluctant to believe Big Boss, trying to tell the Chairman that it's a trick. However, he did not realize that the story was actually true due to the Chairman being the Army Chief of Staff in the event Big Boss referred to. When the Chairman attempted to abort the nuclear strike, the representative held him at gunpoint, and he and the other members of the war room ended up mutinying until Peace Walker sacrificed herself.

Behind the scenes
He was voiced by the late Takeshi Aono in the Japanese version, the voice actor for Roy Campbell. The character's voice actor in the English version is not credited.

Negotiator
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (mentioned only)

A negotiator was a person Big Boss knew that was able to help government officials in regards to matters when the Militaires Sans Frontieres was not willing to take their job, such as things more political in nature. Big Boss suggested to Galvez that he tell the Costa Rican government in San Jose that Big Boss can provide them with this negotiator to deal with the issue of the mysterious paramilitary group invading Costa Rica after Galvez tried to claim that the government had its hands tied at its back, when trying to refuse the mission.

Kazuhira Miller's mother
The mother of Kazuhira Miller. She originally lived in Tokyo, but she lost her parents during World War II on March 10, 1945, when America bombed Tokyo with 381,300 cluster bombs, leaving a third of Tokyo in ruin due to most houses in Japan being made of wood at the time. She then went to live with her cousin in Yokosuka for the remaining period of the war. After America won by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she, in her mid-teens, as well as her cousin had to survive the post war period after American soldiers occupied the town the only way they knew how, by servicing the troops. Because of her job, this resulted in her sleeping with a GHQ officer under the command of General Whitney named Colonel Miller. She was treated like a wife to Miller, with a picture of them being taken and then received money from Miller before he ceases contact with her when he left for his homeland, America. Their son was born after he left, and she named him Kazuhira because she viewed him as her hope of peace in post-war Japan. As a consequence of his father leaving Japan before he was born, he was also considered to not be a Japanese citizen due to his father being unknown in the family register. She then used the money Miller left her to open a shop selling cigarettes for American soldiers stationed in Japan. Later on, STDs she received due to her job left her ill and slowly losing her memory, resulting in her retiring to her sickbed as well as Kazuhira running the shop for her. Eventually, her son left for college in America so he'd meet his father without her permission. Four years later, he returned to Japan, and because of her STDs ravaging her mind so much, she forgot who Kazuhira was. She was eventually given hospital payments by her son while the latter joined the JSDF until she died three years later.

MSF Drill Instructor
The Militaires Sans Frontières drill instructor is a member of the MSF who runs the various drills during MSF's training regimen. As expected of a drill sergeant, he is loud, quick, and sharp with the trainees, sometimes sarcastically suggesting that the trainees kill themselves immediately if they stand around like an idiot in front of the enemy to drive the point home about the essentials of changing positions. Despite this, as well as the various MSF members' abandoning their countries, the drill instructor has a surprisingly high amount of patriotism, as he possesses a tattoo of a heart with the words "Love of country" on his left arm. When on duty for drill instructing the MSF members during their training regimen, he wears the standard MSF Jungle Fatigues uniform. When off-duty, he is seen wearing a t-shirt that says "Army."

Eastern Bloc Despot
Appearances: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (mentioned only)

The unnamed Eastern Bloc Despot was rumored to have used Big Boss as a guinea pig in Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar's Snatcher project. He provided Big Boss with cybernetic body parts to compensate for the injuries he received in Outer Heaven.

Behind the scenes
The Eastern Bloc Despot was only mentioned by George Kasler in an optional radio call to Solid Snake in regards to a rumor as to how Big Boss survived. It is unknown whether he did indeed resuscitate Big Boss, or even if the Eastern Bloc Despot actually existed. However, the Metal Gear Solid 4 Database does mention the project in question.

Navy Captain
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

The unnamed Navy Captain had the nuclear football handcuffed to his wrist when President Johnson visited the Big Shell. He was later killed by Vamp who slit his throat. Fortune then took the Captain's nuclear football.

Puerto del Alba radioman
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

A radioman under the employ of the CIA Peace Sentinels who was stationed at the Puerto del Alba supply facility. The radioman reported to a soldier who was manning the docks about having managed to break a prisoner regarding Target 500, and also was told that the "spears" were loaded onto the cargo and were prepared to be delivered, having cleared point bravo. Naked Snake, having overheard the exchange after stumbling on the beaten prisoner while infiltrating the supply facility, promptly attacked the radioman and restrained him after he hung up. Interrogating the radioman by stun rod-point, Naked Snake learned from him that the cargo was headed to a facility within the Irazu mountain region, although Snake punched the radioman into a box filled with film badges after being distracted by the sound of Chrysalis taking off, having been programmed to find Target 500 earlier, and was then shocked by Snake by the stun rod into unconsciousness. Because they couldn't risk either his waking up and thus alerting the Peace Sentinels, or someone within the Peace Sentinels discovering his unconscious body and thus alerting the group to their presence, members of Naked Snake's private military group, the Militaires Sans Frontieres, brought him out of the facility and fultoned him out while he was still knocked out. He then joined the MSF.

Behind the scenes
Because of Peace Walker reusing character designs in gameplay, his appearance in Extra Ops 010 resembled that of the regular CIA mercenaries (the ones in orange jackets) instead of the design given when Naked Snake encountered him in the cutscene at the end of the Tutorial/Opening mission. Likewise, as the place he was working in was not a playable area, he was placed below the balcony near a wall.

Max Smithson
Appearances: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Max Smithson was the editor of Megasurprises magazine. He allegedly sent an optical disc to Gary McGolden, one of the writers of the magazine, although his editors note revealed that, although what Gary McGolden said for most of the book was true, he wasn't the one who sent the disc to him.

Doctor
Appearances: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance viral videos.



An unnamed doctor treated Raiden's injuries and replaced his eye after his fight with Sam. He also during this time replaced some of Raiden's memory cores that were damaged during the fight. Since he was giving some commands for the other doctors during the emergency treatment, he was presumably the head doctor of the operation.

Behind the scenes
The doctor first appeared in the "Arm trailer" for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

African soldier (Army of the Devil)
Appearances: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance viral videos.



An unnamed African soldier was a member of the Army of the Devil led by then-teenaged Solidus Snake. He told Raiden (then known as Jack) shortly after his injection that from now on, he will follow them. Later on, he helped restrain Raiden when forcing him to watch violent war footage under Solidus' command. Afterwards, the soldier participated as an interrogator towards another soldier regarding an information leak that gave away their strength to the enemy. He then proceeded to threaten the soldier with death to both him and his family if he didn't respond, while also implying that he'll rape his wife before killing her before he let Solidus use the soldier as a demonstration for throat slitting. Given his presence alongside Solidus, he was likely to be one of the high-ranking members of the Army of the Devil.

Behind the scenes
The African soldier first appeared in the "Arm" trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance in a flashback to when Solidus ordered a physician to inject Jack, who was then a child, with a syringe containing an unknown substance.

Physician (Army of the Devil)
An unnamed physician was a member of the Army of the Devil led by then-teenaged Solidus Snake. Going by his comment immediately before the procedure, he is a fan of soldiers. After Jack was brought in to the area that the Army of the Devil was stationed at, he was ordered by Solidus to inject Raiden with a syringe (It's also implied that the physician does this frequently). Solidus also warned the physician that if Jack was to be permanently harmed as a result of the procedure, he will kill him, to which the physician vowed that Jack will survive the procedure before commencing it. Afterwards, he helped restrain Jack when forcing him to watch violent war footage under Solidus' command.

Behind the scenes
The physician first appeared in the "Arm" trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance in a flashback to when Solidus ordered him to inject Jack, who was then a child, with a syringe containing an unknown substance.

Interrogated soldier


An unnamed soldier that was interrogated was presumably a member of the Army of the Devil. At some point, the Army of the Devil's activities ended up being anticipated by the enemy, causing this soldier to be interrogated. The soldier was married and had a family, to which one of his fellow soldiers used to threaten him to talk, citing that he'll kill his family in addition to him if he doesn't talk, as well as strongly implying that he'll rape his wife before killing her. The soldier was later killed by Solidus Snake by slitting his throat as a demonstration to Jack regarding what knives can do and how "noble" they are compared to guns.

Behind the scenes
Although the soldier appeared briefly in the teaser trailer for the Metal Gear Rising teaser site during the countdown, he didn't appear in the flashback segments on the actual site until the final entry, "Sword."

Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Ernesto Guevara, better known as Che Guevara, was a well known revolutionary in Central America, being involved in the Socialist Revolution in Cuba, and was also considered by many, including French philosopher Sartre, to be the "world's most complete human being" and a "hombre nuevo" (Spanish for "new man"). He later attempted to commence another revolution in Bolivia, although he ended up killed by various Bolivians who were also believed to have ties with the CIA. Several people in the MSF, as well as the Sandinista group in Costa Rica, held him in high regard, and KGB agent Vladimir Zadornov intended to mold the MSF commander, Big Boss, into the next Che Guevara, including gunning him down at age 39 in order to inspire more revolutions.

Behind the scenes
Che Guevara was frequently mentioned in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. According to a Japanese interview with Kojima, the latter stated that he was inspired to insert Guevara into the game and make him a major plot point in large part due to seeing the first part of the 2008 biopic Che. It is to be noted that some fans found controversy in Kojima's decision to have some of the characters praising him, as Guevara in history had also declared an intention of using any nukes that remained in Cuba to wipe out anyone who disagreed with his pro-Socialist beliefs, specifically New York and the heartland of the U.S., which directly contradicted Kojima's anti-nuke message for the entire series.

Miller's assassin
An assassin was dispatched to assassinate Miller, and presumably succeeded. The assassin's identity is unknown, although Liquid's posing as Miller three days later implies that Liquid was somehow involved in the hit.

Unconfirmed history
When the assassin was dispatched to kill Miller, the assassin managed to cross treacherous terrain without a vehicle, evade the surveillance cameras before cutting the security system's power, silence one of the huskies mid-howl, and then leak seuvofloraine gas into Miller's house. Miller managed to deduce that a breakin occurred and prepared himself to attack the intruder, but was outsmarted by the poison gas, succumbing to it despite his best attempts to get to his ice cave to don protective gear.

Behind the scenes
In the novelization for Metal Gear Solid, the assassin's method of assassinating Miller was elaborated on in the third chapter. Miller's comment about the asssassin having similar skills to Solid Snake in order to pull it off likewise implied that the assassin was either Liquid Snake, a Genome Soldier, or Revolver Ocelot.

George
Appearance: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

George was a runaway that Raiden briefly becomes acquainted with during his mission in Mexico. He spoke with a Guyanese accent and frequently used the word "Skunt."

Colonel Vermon CaTaffy
Appearances: Metal Gear manual (NES version), Snake's Revenge manual

Colonel Verman CaTaffy was originally a tranquil shepherd boy, who grew up on the remote banks of the Sam Sam River in outer Mongolia with his 27 sisters. However, he became fascinated with, and turned to, terrorism at a very young age, and eventually became  the leader of Outer Heaven, a small nation in South Africa, after years of pillaging innocent people across the globe. Upon becoming the leader of Outer Heaven, CaTaffy imposed a sole-leader tyranny (himself being the leader) and acted as a radical dictator, where he ruled with bombs and bullets. Within a few months, he removed democracy, and instituted a global terrorist group by forcing various villagers into acting as his mercenaries. Not content with his method of running things, he also created Metal Gear to unleash new waves of terror across the globe. He also developed five strongholds within Outer Heaven, which he left to his most loyal soldiers to guard. FOXHOUND eventually dispatched Solid Snake to stop Metal Gear as well as his threat against the world. After Solid Snake halted CaTaffy's plans, CaTaffy, having lost what little of his sanity he had, murdered two of Snake's comrades, and then went into hiding with Higharolla Kockamenie, and likewise supplied him with Metal Gear.

Behind the scenes
Colonel Vermon CaTaffy character referenced in the instruction manual for the NES version of Metal Gear, who is identified as the game's antagonist. It should be noted that the character of Vermon CaTaffy is only mentioned in the manual and does not actually appear in the game (where the leader of Outer Heaven is revealed to be Big Boss at the end), nor was CaTaffy mentioned in the Japanese manual for the Famicom version, as he is a product of the game's localization. It is believed that his name is a parody of former Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. In the English manual, he was also mentioned to have kept trained killer scorpions at Desert 2, even though the original game implies that those were actually wild scorpions. CaTaffy is mentioned again in Snake's Revenge on the back of the game's package, where he is the one donated Metal Gear to the game's new antagonist, Higharolla Kockamamie, and was allegedly responsible for the deaths of two of Snake's friends. The manual and game doesn't clarify who these friends were. Other than the manuals for Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge, the only other time CaTaffy was given a mention was in the Worlds of Power novelization, which was based on the localized NES manuals.

Commander South
Appearances: Metal Gear manual (NES version)

Commander South was the leader of FOXHOUND, as well as the commanding officer of Solid Snake during the mission to stop Outer Heaven terrorist dictator, Colonel Vermon CaTaffy, and his secret weapon Metal Gear. He frequently contacted Solid Snake regarding his mission.

Behind the scenes
Commander South was a character referenced in the instruction manual for the NES version of Metal Gear. He is identified as the commander of FOXHOUND and Solid Snake's commanding officer, a role served by Big Boss in the actual game. Like Vermon CaTaffy, he is a creation of the game's English localization and was never mentioned in the Japanese manual. His name is believed to be a play on Oliver North. Besides the manual, Commander South was mentioned in only one other source, the Worlds of Power novelization, which was based on the localized NES manuals.

Higharolla Kockamamie
Appearances: Snake's Revenge manual

Higharolla Kockamamie is a terrorist from the country of Teristan and the eight-times recipient of the "Merciless Man of the Year," as well as the "world's premiere bad guy," his stronghold Fortress Fanatic is located at the outskirts of Ishkabibil. He acquired Metal Gear from Colonel Vermon CaTaffy, after the latter sought asylum with him in the aftermath of Solid Snake stopping his plans, and in part because they were both "'Rolla Radicals." He commands several soldiers utilizing Uzi machine guns.

Behind the scenes
Higharolla Kockamamie is a character mentioned in the instruction manual of the NES game Snake's Revenge. Like Vermon CaTaffy, Kockamamie is not mentioned in the game at all and the ultimate antagonist is a cybernetic version of Big Boss. While Snake's Revenge was never released in Japan, the game was developed by a Japanese staff, so it can be assumed that Kockamamie was a creation of the game's localization, much like CaTaffy. His name is believed to be a play on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.

Solid Snake's companions
Appearances: Metal Gear (NES version)

In the NES version of Metal Gear, Snake performs an air insertion by skydiving and parachuting into the jungle with three other soldiers, who disappear after landing.

Twin Shot


Appearances: Metal Gear (NES version)

In the NES version of Metal Gear, Twin Shot are a pair of gunners that Snake faced on the rooftop of Building No. 1. Snake dispatched them with a grenade launcher.

Behind the scenes
Twin Shot replaced the Hind D that was present in the MSX2 version.

Trained Killer Scorpions
Appearances: Metal Gear (NES manual)

Colonel CaTaffy trained various scorpions to attack anyone who dared attempt to cross his territories.

Behind the scenes
The Trained Killer Scorpions were an invention of the English manual for the NES version of Metal Gear. They represented the scorpions encountered at Desert 2, which in the original MSX2 version were implied to have been wild scorpions.

Soldiers of Fortune
Appearances: Metal Gear (NES manual)

The Soldiers of Fortune were the standard henchmen of Colonel CaTaffy in Outer Heaven, acting as his peons in his global terrorist network, as well as guards of his facilities.

Behind the scenes
The Soldiers of Fortune were an invention of the English manual for the NES version of Metal Gear. They represented the footsoldiers at Outer Heaven.

Checkpoint Charlie
Appearances: Metal Gear (NES manual)

Checkpoint Charlie was one of Colonel CaTaffy's henchmen in Outer Heaven. He was in charge of overseeing who was allowed entry into the various bases in Outer Heaven.

Behind the scenes
Checkpoint Charlie was an invention of the English manual for the NES version of Metal Gear. He represented the guards supplying the checkpoint to Building Two.

B.A. Dozer
Appearances: Metal Gear (NES manual)

B.A. Dozer was one of Colonel CaTaffy's henchmen in Outer Heaven. He frequently slept on the job.

Behind the scenes
B.A. Dozer was an invention of the English manual for the NES version of Metal Gear. He represented the various guards who fell asleep on duty that the player occasionally encounters.

Corporal Watchman
Appearances: Metal Gear (NES manual)

Corporal Watchman was one of Colonel CaTaffy's henchmen in Outer Heaven. He frequently guarded the various buildings at Outer Heaven until his shift was over.

Behind the scenes
Corporal Watchman was an invention of the English manual for the NES version of Metal Gear. He represented the various guards who stood near an important location (such as the elevator of Building 1) until a shift change.

The Electrocutioner
Appearances: Metal Gear (NES manual)

The Electrocutioner was one of Colonel CaTaffy's henchmen in Outer Heaven. He wore a Hawaiian shirt, and activated the electric floors.

Behind the scenes
The Electrocutioner was an invention of the English manual for the NES version of Metal Gear. He represented the guards in the game who occasionally ran to the switchboards and activated electric floors when an alert was raised, to deter Snake's progress.

FOXHOUND helicopter pilot
Appearances: Snake's Revenge

An unnamed helicopter pilot was involved in Solid Snake's mission in the non-canon sequel, Snake's Revenge. He was first seen deploying FOXHOUND agents Solid Snake, Nick Myer, and John Turner into their entry point in the Jungle near Fortress Fanatic, knowing the route to get there. After the infiltration was completed, he called Snake supplying the outline of the mission before telling Snake to contact his comrades in the mission for more details. After Snake sank an enemy tanker containing mass-produced versions of Metal Gear VRC, the helicopter pilot picked him up before Snake sank with the ship. The helicopter pilot informed him that there was a more powerful Metal Gear being developed in the area, and that Nick Myer went missing in addition to John Turner. After Snake defeated the leader of Fortress Fanatic, Big Boss, and learned about Metal Gear 2 being activated, the helicopter pilot opened fire on the reinforced door to the bunker containing Metal Gear 2, after Solid Snake marked it with a smoke bomb.

No. 4
A mysterious person who gave instructions via Codec in the VR Special Stages missions. Upon completing the missions, No. 4 will also congratulate the player, and refer to him/her as "Jack," implying that No. 4 worked for the Patriots, and that the VR Special Stages were actually a means to train Raiden to become better than Snake as an insurance policy should he turn against them.

Captain O'Brien
O'Brien was a United States Navy Captain. He attempted to use Vamp, a Dead Cell member who was tasked by Colonel Jackson to make the public wrongfully believe that Jackson was framed, in an agenda to tame Vamp and Dead Cell. He lied to Snake about Scott Dolph's prison being "watertight" in order to keep the illusion. He also ordered Vamp, as a test to his loyalty, to kill Dolph. However, he met his demise when threatening Vamp that he'll further frame Dead Cell if he doesn't comply.

In his single appearance in Snake Tales, O'Brien's character model reuses that of the Navy Captain from the Plant chapter of Metal Gear Solid 2. In addition, depending on how much time the player takes to find him, O'Brien will either die after telling Snake that Dolph's prison is "watertight," or live long enough to inform Snake that Vamp is being deceived as well.