![]() Jack and the other members of the Small Boy Unit were forced to kill POWs and civilians. Warning: The following information is from outside Hideo Kojima's core "Metal Gear Saga." Its canonicity within the continuity is disputed, therefore reader discretion is advised. He and other children were shown Hollywood action films daily for "image training," and were given food mixed with gunpowder to make them more controllable. Jack was subsequently raised as a child soldier and later fought in the country's Civil War in 1989. During his youth, in the turbulent period that was the First Liberian Civil War, Jack was adopted by Solidus Snake, who named him and became his godfather after he killed the former's parents. 10.3 Metal Gear Solid: Rising / Metal Gear Rising.6.7 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.6.5 Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus.6.1 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.1.7.5 Corporate Raid at World Marshal HQ.1.7.4 Infiltrating the Mexican research facility.1.7.3 Foiling the coup d'état in Abkhazia.Raiden then resigned from Maverick to pursue and retrieve the children's brain cases from World Marshal in Colorado. had kidnapped several children, surgically removed their brains to place into cybernetic bodies, and were planning to subject them to VR training modeled after his own. Raiden's vengeful obsession with Desperado became personal when he discovered during a mission in Mexico that Desperado and World Marshal Inc. Fortunately, he was saved by the scientist Wilhelm Voigt and worked with Maverick to fight Desperado. However, during an escort mission in Africa they were attacked by Desperado Enforcement LLC., who killed Raiden's protectee, N'mani, and left Raiden for dead. After successfully escaping, Raiden went on to assist Solid Snake during the Guns of the Patriots Incident.īy 2018, Raiden had become a member of Maverick Security Consulting, Inc., doing multiple tasks while raising money for his family. He later worked alongside the Paradise Lost Army in their anti-Patriot activities, but was captured and forced to undergo heavy cybernetic experimentation. Previously a child soldier under Solidus Snake, Raiden was later selected by the Patriots to test the S3 Plan at the Big Shell, as a new recruit to the reformed FOXHOUND unit. Raiden ( 雷電, Raiden ?), real name Jack, also known as Jack the Ripper, White Devil, and Snake, was a Liberian-American mercenary and former special forces soldier. IDW's comics showed how with just a few panels, Metal Gear Solid 2's most jarring twists could not just feel realistic, but strengthen the journey of the story's hero and villain." I’ll pick my own name.and my own life.I'll find something worth passing on" ―Raiden ![]() Metal Gear Solid is beloved because of, not in spite of, its twisting, untrustworthy lore, but that can come at the cost of some moments falling by the wayside. However, that's fixed in the Metal Gear Solid: Sons of the Patriots IDW comic book adaptation by writer Alex Garner and artist Ashley Wood.Ĭonsidering the game plays around with what’s real and what isn’t, having these scenes play out with clear, concrete depictions of the past helps to clarify what actually happened before the events of the game, and they stick in the mind since fans actually see them happen in detail and in the same art style as the larger story (the game does have a few hand-drawn images to sell its backstory, but they lack detail and only serve to enhance the sense of unreality.) Given Raiden's later journey - as charted in Metal Gear Solid 4 and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance- give him new ownership of his 'Jack the Ripper' past, it's especially important that fans actually feel some connection to this part of his history. This is intentional, but it means that some details the franchise wants fans to believe don't truly land. This is especially the case in a game where it's eventually revealed several major figures are unreliable narrators, blurring the lines of what's even meant to seem true. This is a perfect example of the old storytelling axiom of "show, don’t tell." If the audience doesn’t actually see the events in question play out, their impact is lessened. These twists also lack the impact to make them feel real, as many are delivered via CODEC conversations scenes where characters explain what happened previously through talking head-style exposition. These video game plot twists are ultimately ridiculous, made even more so by Metal Gear Solid's character designs - one can hardly imagine Solidus Snake taking the podium for his State of the Union address with two gigantic tentacles jutting out from his shoulders. Related: Metal Gear Solid Subtly Confirmed the Fate of Two Cut Bosses
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