Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25230536-20140915193009/@comment-25366375-20140918103234

64.33.250.214 wrote: Paranoid Donkey wrote: They literally have the same voice actor. Medic's voice is Kiefer Sutherland, just at a lower pitch. This video will show you (excuse the overzealous title) that they are one and the same. I agree on your point about the bandages, but we'll really just have to wait and see.

I'll be happy to hear any objections afterwards, but it's pretty compelling as far as I'm concerned, in all seriousness I'd love to hear your theory. I think it highly unlikely that Ishmael, Medic and Snake would all be voiced by the same person.

I don't agree that Medic would need to be important to the entirely of Metal Gear though. The Phantom Pain is going to be a huge game, who's to say he won't just be important there? Besides, it could just be as simple as - Medic is [insert character name]'s father or something.

To be fair to you though, I don't know what to make of Ishmael at all so it's really problematic. The fact that he's also voiced by Kiefer unsettles me as to what Ishmael's role will be. I've already viewed the video you linked me too. Just because Yong made a video about it, doesn't lend it serious weight. Yong made a video saying it was possible for Quiet to be Chico, and shortly thereafter it was debunked.

Having the same VA doesn't mean the characters sound exactly the same. You said yourself the pitch is different. Medic's pitch isn't the same as Ishmael's, in my opinion. Anime and video games often use VAs to play multiple roles. That doesn't mean they're connected.

Nearly every instance where Kojima has named a character after a Bible character, that character ends up being integral to the plot. One rare exception to that rule is Jonathan from MGS4, and even then the character survived to the end. So for a MG character to have a biblical name, means they probably wont be written off once the game has concluded.

No, of course not, but what it does mean is that the two characters undeniably have the same voice actor. The significance of this is that there have been no other instances (to my knowledge) of Hayter voicing a meaningless side character as well as Snake, especially not in the same scene. Sure, you can point to Richard Doyle doing The Fury and Big Boss, but they weren't even in the same game, much less the same scene. And as for Yong's Chico = Quiet video, not once did he say it was the case, just analyising evidence in a theory, and right now the only evidence we have to Ishmael's true identity is what you saw in that video--Medic's face mysteriously being obscured (which can be nothing other than deliberate) and Medic sharing a voice actor with Snake.

Never did I say they sounded exactly the same, just that they shared a voice actor. They're not the same pitch, no. Again, I never said that they were. Yes, I'm also aware of the fact that anime and games often recycle voice actors, but rarely is it the voice of the main character. And, if it is, they rarely have the main character talking to the character also voiced by them. This is why Big Boss was voiced by Richard Doyle in Metal Gear Solid 4, so David Hayter wasn't talking to himself. All I'm saying here is, the MGS series doesn't have a history of recycling the big voice actors that way.

I'm not disagreeing that Ishmael is most likely important to the plot, but again, I fail to see why his reach needs to extend further than The Phantom Pain. And once again, I'm more than happy to hear your suggestions about what importance Ishmael has in the grand scheme of things, I'm just working on what little connections I can make here based on the minescule evidence. If Ismael isn't the Medic, then what's your suggestion? Quite honestly I'd like to know. If he is important to the franchise as you claim, I'd like to know who you suspect him of being. It's also important to note that this is just what I believe based on what I've seen, and by no means am I saying "Ishmael is the Medic beyond a shadow of a doubt". It's all well and good to say that I'm wrong (as I very probably am and will happily eat my words if so) but 1) It makes for interesting discussion and 2) I don't see any other working theories out there at the moment with anywhere near the small amount of credibility this one has.