Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-76.102.30.110-20130715013213/@comment-1672596-20141009162852

108.93.232.168 wrote: We dont' know the full backstory of Zero, you are right he is British and served in the SAS but we know nothing of his childhood or upbringing. Besides Oh isn't exactly an English surname. A good example of this is Miller who we all presumed was American but later found out that he was half Japanese. As far the disfiguring goes, we really don't know what he truly looks like. The disfigured and burned face could be what he truly looks like and the face we know of Zero is just a mask of some sort. In regards to the torture, remember she failed at her mission during Peace Walker and Skull face was also trying to get details on Motherbase, it wasn't just the location/identity of Zero. Lastly, the sound at the end of the post credits conversation is clearly someone getting struck and not the sound of a tape recording clicking and cutting out. Actually, about Miller, he was actually part-Japanese since Metal Gear 2, though the exact extent of his Japanese heritage was changed (for starters, in Metal Gear 2, Metal Gear Solid, heck, even the MGS4 Database, he was a third-generation Japanese-American, and his grandparents immigrated from Japan 60 years before birth. In Peace Walker, however, he actually was born in Japan, but had some American heritage thanks to his mom servicing the troops as a prostitute in post-War Japan).

And I doubt Zero would be wearing a mask when he is a vegetable in MGS4, either. And the radio call log made clear that he was born in Exeter, England, and that he had at least one sister. I also should point out that technically, during that time, he already got the location of Mother Base from Chico, having beaten the information out of him, and he made clear he specifically wanted Zero's location from Paz.