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Big Boss was the commander of the military group FOXHOUND as well as the leader of both Outer Heaven and, three years later, another enemy base.
Biography[]
Operation Intrude N313[]
Big Boss served as Solid Snake's commanding officer during Operation Intrude N313. He gave Snake some pointers regarding how to get through various areas. However, he secretly intended for Snake to bring back misinformation to the East and West and fail in his mission, due to him also being the leader of Outer Heaven. However, he underestimated Snake and after the Supercomputer controlling the Metal Gear was destroyed, he confronted Snake in the soon to self-destruct facility, admitting his role in Outer Heaven, in a grueling battle before seemingly perishing at Snake's hands. He ultimately survived, although with severe enough injuries to force him to acquire extensive cybernetic parts. This led him to desire revenge against his former subordinate.
Operation 747[]
Three years later, Big Boss took control of an enemy base in an unidentified nation, continuing mass production of various Metal Gear 1s, which he also had shipped to various belligerent countries against the United States, and even ordered for the development of a new Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, and planned to launch its nuclear payload across the world, starting with Tokyo, Moscow, and New York City. Because the cybernetics as well as his command room acted as an extensive life support system, he also was incapable of leaving his command room without risk of getting killed.
The cyborg Big Boss attacks Snake.
Big Boss anticipated that Solid Snake would be sent to stop him, and intended to exact revenge on Snake for the injuries he sustained in Outer Heaven. He eventually discovered the mole Jennifer among his staff and had her imprisoned, and also had Nick Myer, a FOXHOUND agent under Snake's command, killed, although not before the latter deduced his weakness. Big Boss eventually encountered Snake in his command room, and the two entered a duel. After taking some damage, his cybernetic body morphed into a gargantuan figure, with Big Boss gloating that he had no weakpoints. Snake, recalling information from Myer[1] and a conversation that he heard by using a hidden microphone,[2] lured Big Boss from his command room and placed mines at his feet, killing his former commanding officer for good.
Behind the scenes[]
Big Boss in Snake's Revenge.
This incarnation of Big Boss is the main antagonist of both the Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge games that were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. However, due to Konami's localization standards at the time, the English packaging and manuals replaced Big Boss's roles as the player character's commanding officer, the main antagonist of the first game, and the main antagonist of the second game, with Commander South, Colonel Vermon CaTaffy, and Higharolla Kockamamie, respectively. Canonically, the antagonists of Metal Gear and its sequel Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake are Big Boss's phantom and Big Boss, respectively.
Elements of this character, in particular Big Boss taking control of an enemy nation and his potentially being turned into a cyborg, were later used for his canonical appearance in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
The first phase of the battle simply uses the standard boss BGM, simply titled "Boss". The second phase has a unique boss theme called "Big Boss".
Unlike the MSX2 game, Big Boss does not leave a final radio call after being defeated, due to the omission of various dialogue in the NES port.
Big Boss's final form in Snake's Revenge bears a striking resemblance to RoboCop.
In the 1988 gamebook, while he does not appear due to his being deceased, he was alluded to by the main antagonist when encountering Solid Snake, where similar to his depiction in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Big Boss had created Outer Heaven under the orders of the United Nations, and also implied that, similar to The Boss in Snake Eater, he deliberately let himself be killed by Solid Snake under their orders due to the UN being fearful of Metal Gear's capabilities.[3]
Notes and references[]
- ^ Snake's Revenge, Ultra Games (1990)
Nick Myer: A life support is in Big Boss's room. Lead him out, then attack. Uh... - ^ Snake's Revenge, Ultra Games (1990)
???: The commander's [Big Boss's] only weakness are the soles of his feet. - ^ Metal Gear gamebook, Konami Game Book Series 2 (1988)
Antagonist:「ククク、けなげじゃのう、ソリッド・スネイク君。ま、キミはあの腐ったブタどもに操られる犬とはいえ、メタルギアの真の威力を見ぬいているからな。見所はある」// Solid Snake:「きっさまぁ、何が目的だ！」// Antagonist:「目的か……。フフ、私はメタルギアが真の威力を発揮するのを見たいだけだよ。２年前、国連のブタどもは、メタルギアを廃棄するため、アウター・ヘブンにあの行動を命令した。狂信的な世界征服をしているように見せかけろとな」// Solid Snake:「ウ、ウソだ！ あの人は、本当におかしくなっていたんだ！！」// Antagonist:「まだまだ青いな。アウターヘブンのボスは途中ですべてを知ったが、軍人として、命令に最後まで従っただけだ。その彼を、”正義の御旗”を掲げたキミたちが倒し、『メタルギアは危険すぎる！』というレッテルが貼られてしまったのだ。ペトロビッチと国連のブタどもは、核兵器の前例を見て、制御しきれなくなりそうなメタルギアの能力におびえたんだよ。その結果、我々開発者は”無能”と言われ、あたら若い命や有能な人物が無為に殺されたというわけだ」// Solid Snake:「オレは……オレは認めんぞ！」(Translation: Antagonist: “Heh heh heh, how noble of you, Solid Snake. Well, even though you're just a dog controlled by those rotten pigs, you do see the true power of Metal Gear. You have your merits.” // Solid Snake: “You bastard! What the hell do you think you're doing?!” // Antagonist: "Purpose, huh... Huh. I just want to see Metal Gear unleash its true power. Two years ago, those UN pigs ordered that operation on Outer Heaven to scrap Metal Gear. They told us to make it look like we were fanatically trying to conquer the world." // Solid Snake: “No, no way! That person really had lost their mind!!” // Antagonist: You're still green. The boss of Outer Heaven knew everything all along, but as a soldier, he simply obeyed orders to the end. It was you lot, waving the banner of “justice,” who took him down, resulting in Metal Gear being branded as “far too dangerous!” Petrovich and those UN pigs saw the precedent of nuclear weapons and were terrified by Metal Gear's potential—feared it might become uncontrollable. As a result, we developers were branded ‘incompetent,’ and countless young lives and capable individuals were needlessly sacrificed." // Solid Snake: “I... I won't accept it!”