Cyborg commander

"Hmm, I don't remember that one. It mustn't be that important." This article is about a subject from outside Hideo Kojima's core "Metal Gear Saga." Its canonicity within the continuity is disputed, therefore reader discretion is advised.[?]

In 2018, 30 cyborgs became commanders within Desperado Enforcement LLC. and World Marshal Inc. Prior to joining and/or the fall of SOP and the dwindling of the war economy in 2014, they had been experimented on by the Patriots, the results of which supplied them with sensitive Patriot-related data installed in prosthetic left hands. In 2018, Raiden, as part of fulfilling his end of the bargain in exchange for having Doktor supply him with his new cybernetic body after he sustained injuries in a failed mission in Africa, encountered these cyborgs and amputated their arms for Doktor to analyze.

Facial profile	ID	Age	Bloodtype	Ethnicity	Serial number
	Stephen	24	B	Caucasian	573 52201 2617
	James	29	A	Caucasian	573 52202 2617
	Abraham	44	B	Caucasian	573 52203 2617
	Benjamin	37	O	African-American	573 52204 2617
	William	22	A	Caucasian	573 52205 2617
	Franklin	31	A	Caucasian	573 52206 2617
	Thomas	23	AB	Caucasian	573 52207 2617
	Zachary	21	A	Caucasian	573 52208 2617
	Harry	30	O	Caucasian	573 52209 2617
	Lyndon	28	O	Caucasian	573 52210 2617
	Ulysses	23	B	Caucasian	573 52211 2617
	Richard	26	A	Asian	573 52212 2617
	George	31	O	Caucasian	573 52213 2617
	Rutherford	25	A	Caucasian	573 52214 2617
	Dwight	33	A	Caucasian	573 52215 2617
	Martin	28	AB	Caucasian	573 52216 2617
	Herbert	30	B	Caucasian	573 52217 2617
	Theodore	24	A	Caucasian	573 52218 2617
	Donald	34	O	Caucasian	573 52219 2617
	Gerald	31	B	Caucasian	573 52220 2617
	Millard	28	A	African-American	573 52221 2617
	Warren	23	A	Caucasian	573 52222 2617
	David	35	A	Caucasian	573 52223 2617
	Barack	38	O	African-American	573 52224 2617
	Ronald	26	A	Caucasian	573 52225 2617
	Chester	36	B	Caucasian	573 52226 2617
	Andrew	39	B	Caucasian	573 52227 2617
	Frank	32	A	Caucasian	573 52228 2617
	John	29	O	Caucasian	573 52229 2617
	Adam	41	A	Caucasian	573 52230 2617

Behind the scenes

The commanders are a group of characters in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance that the player needs to encounter to complete 100% of the game. Their identifying marks are a pulsing diamond in AR mode, as well as a green left forearm that required cutting off while in blade mode. These soldiers acts as the game's equivalent to the dog tag-wearing soldiers in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and collecting each of them will result in Raiden getting wigs (both infinity wigs require beating Normal difficulty and collecting 10 Arms for Infinity Wig A, and 20 Arms for Infinity Wig B, while the Blade Mode Wig required beating Hard difficulty with all arms collected), as well as supplying Raiden with the Armor Breaker if all arms are collected.

The data on the arms, when viewing them under the collectibles menu (under identification) shows their identification, serial number, age, and blood. Also, their facial profile, and on the collectibles menu are in slots 23-52. With the exception of Stephen, the first cyborg commander, found near the bridge gate, all of the cyborg commanders, once they have their arms retrieved, will appear as regular soldiers.

During the "Make it Right" viral marketing for Metal Gear Rising, Raiden's first body's left arm had similar functions to the cyborg commanders' left arm, including storing several amounts of classified data relating to the Patriots, leading to the implication that the cyborg commanders may have been mass-productions of the process Raiden became as a cyborg by the Patriots.

Most of the cyborg commanders have the same names as U.S. Presidents. Others also share the same names with founding Patriot members Zero, Donald Anderson and Revolver Ocelot.

With the exception of Stephen, none of the cyborgs are directly stated to be commanders. However, the Piggyback Guide stated that all of the cyborgs with collectible left hands held high ranks.