

Jack met The Boss, becoming her protégé and disciple, and she taught him extensive combat, weaponry, survival, espionage, destruction, psychology, and foreign languages. John (nicknamed Jack) was born in 1935, and joined the military in the 1950s, fighting in the Korean War. It took witnessing the Patriots create a world of war without end to make him realize his mistake. However, his interpretation of her will, which saw her as just as a soldier rather than a person, led to Big Boss wishing to plunge the world into eternal war. Big Boss' motives behind his actions stemmed from a strong guilt after learning that his killing of The Boss was the direct result of a fake defection gone awry, and then learning that her death had in fact been orchestrated from the beginning. He aided the faction (with great risk), that first attempted to kill him (The Outer Heaven resistance group) from the NATO Bombing, he was so highly regarded that Revolver Ocelot did everything to remember Big Boss. It is revealed that he wanted to create a world where soldiers are not treated like political tools, and actually valued, being The Boss' aforementioned vision. This led to the creation of Outer Heaven and FOXHOUND, which also led to the beginning of the Metal Gear series.
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While depicted heroically in Metal Gear 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear: Portable Ops, while serving under the codename Naked Snake, he begins taking darker methods throughout the events of Metal Gear: Peace Walker, and Metal Gear Solid V has him solidify his turn to darkness. In a collection of prequels, starting with Metal Gear 3: Snake Eater, and continuing with Metal Gear: Portable Ops, Metal Gear: Peace Walker and Metal Gear Solid V, Big Boss serves as the protagonist, and his slow slide into villainy is depicted. Zero's response to Big Boss' departure of his organization is still viewing Big Boss as an irreplaceable friend. Both Liquid and Solidus attempted to carry out Big Boss' will (Liquid out of being scorned, Solidus out of respect). These sons include Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Soldius Snake. Here, he lays out his motivations to create a world of perpetual warfare, but is defeated and seemingly killed by Snake.Īs revealed in Metal Gear Solid series, it is revealed that his DNA was forcefully cloned by his former CO, Major Zero. (It would later be revealed the final boss of the game was actually his "phantom", Venom Snake.) While presumed dead at the the end of the game, a post credits sequence revealed his survival, and he returns as main antagonist of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. In Metal Gear Solid 4, he was voiced by Richard Doyle, who also voiced The Fury in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.īig Boss was originally depicted in Metal Gear as the leader of FOXHOUND, and the commander of Solid Snake, before revealing he was actually also the leader of Outer Heaven, and the game's main antagonist. He was voiced by David Hayter (who also voices Solid Snake) in the prequels, excluding Metal Gear Solid V, where he was voiced and motion captured by Kiefer Sutherland (who also played David in The Lost Boys, John Merrill in Stand By Me, Freddie Lee Cobb in A Time to Kill, Bob Wolverton in Freeway, The Caller in Phonebooth, Bosco in Marmaduke, and Senator Quintas Corvus in Pompeii). He also made a guest appearance at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and is a pivotal character in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. He is the main antagonist of the original Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and later the protagonist of the prequels, from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater to Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.
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~ Big Boss in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.īig Boss is the code name given to John, a FOXHOUND agent and the central character of the Metal Gear series of video games, as well as the series' initial protagonist (chronologically). We are soldiers without borders, our purpose defined by the era we live in. We will be the deterrent for those with no other recourse. We go where we're needed, fighting not for country, not for government, but for ourselves. We have no nation, no philosophy, no ideology.
