Herna er allt um Big Boss, snake o.f.l fyrir ykkur sem nenna að lesa Appearances
Big Boss first appeared in the original Metal Gear. While at first, Big Boss serves as the player's (Solid Snake's) commanding officer (giving orders and advice to the player through the transceiver), he eventually begins giving false advice to the player that leads to traps. It is then revealed at the end that Big Boss is actually the terrorist leader and the last boss in the game. In the MSX2 version of the game, the player receives a final threat from Big Boss after the closing credits.
In Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, it is revealed that Big Boss survived his previous confrontation with Snake and is once again the main villain. Big Boss appears only at the end of the game to confront an unarmed Snake, leading the player to improvise and create a weapon out of ordinary materials. According to his profile in the game's manual, he is 180cm tall and weighs 89kg. In the original MSX2 version of the game, he was modeled after the likeness of actor Sean Connery, a fact which would contribute to the 1960's setting of Metal Gear Solid 3.
While already dead at the beginning of the game, Big Boss' presence plays a large role in Metal Gear Solid, where his corpse becomes a terrorist's demand for genetic research. It is revealed in the game that Solid Snake and his nemesis, Liquid Snake, are actually the sons (or more precisely, genetic clones) of Big Boss himself. It is also retroactively revealed that Big Boss already told this information to Solid Snake during (if not prior) the events of Metal Gear 2.
In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (which takes place, chronologically, before any of the previous Metal Gear titles), the player takes the role of a character named Naked Snake, who is revealed at the end of the game to be a younger version of Big Boss during the Cold War.
Big Boss has been confirmed by Hideo Kojima to play a focal role in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. An illustration of what appears to be Big Boss' naked corpse (previously seen in the book, Art of Metal Gear Solid) can be seen on a promotional artwork for the upcoming game. Big Boss's role in the game is currently unknown, as not much information has been revealed.
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Motives
Big Boss was originally a loyal and faithful soldier, but after the disasterous Operation: Snake Eater, in which he was ordered to kill his old mentor, The Boss, who was actually working undercover for the United States Government, he realized that soldiers are nothing but the tools of politicians. He secretly established Outer Heaven to create a nation where soldiers would be honored as warriors, and not as pawns. He used the Metal Gear design to create a world of strife, destroying the delicate balance of detante, and throwing the world into chaos, the only world where soldiers could truly live. He passed this view on to many members of FOXHOUND, such as Grey Fox, and they opted to follow him to Zanzibar Land. In his ultimate confrontation with Solid Snake, he paraphrases The Boss's final speech to him, claiming that “the loser will be freed from the battle field, while the winner will face a life filled with battle!”
After his death, many of his mercenaries were recruited by the US Government, continuing the FOXHOUND Unit, and establishing the Next-Generation Special Forces as reserves. However, they still remained loyal to Big Boss, and captured the Shadow Moses Nuclear Disposal Facility, and the new type Metal Gear that was under development there, calling themselves “the Sons of Big Boss”. The team leader, Liquid Snake, actually a clone of Big Boss along with most of the NGSF, followed in his “father”'s legacy, and tried to establish a new Outer Heaven base. But he was foiled by Solid Snake, making this the third time he has single-handedly dismantled a fortress armed with Metal Gear.
Even so, the theme of soldiers being pawns of the Government has ostensibly remained one of the central themes of all of the Metal Gear games. Countless times, soldiers have been lied to and betrayed by their superiors. This, coupled with the sympathetic beginnings in Snake Eater, may even elevate Big Boss to the level of anti-hero, as opposed to an out and out antagonist. He is certainly one of the noblest characters in the series.
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Name
Big Boss's true name is “Jack”, though during certain scenes in Metal Gear Solid 3, he occasionally introduces himself as “John” (see Name Debate for info). His official codename in the game is “Naked Snake,” but is just referred to as “Snake” for the sake of convenience. He does not receive the rank of “Big Boss” until after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3 after completing his mission.
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Name Debate
Near the end of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake tells Ocelot that his name is “John” before engaging in a gunfight. While some believe this to be an allusion to an earlier event (at the beginning of the Virtuous Mission, Snake introduced himself to Para-Medic as “John Doe”, a commonly and purposefully ambiguous name, presumably as a joke instead of revealing his true name), others point out that “Jack” (Snake's nickname) is commonly a nickname for American men named John.
Still others make reference to the fact that Snake's dialog with Ocelot closely parallels a similar scene from Metal Gear Solid in which Solid Snake revealed his real name to be David.
In the Metal Gear Solid 3: Shedding booklet included with the Official DVD: The Extreme Box DVD set (authored by Hideo Kojima himself), Naked Snake's real name is listed as “Jack,” contradicting the information supplied to Konami's official website and other published sources stating that Jack is only a nickname.[1]
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False Names
When the original Metal Gear was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe, the instruction manual written by Konami of America makes no mention of Big Boss in it. Instead, Snake's commander is named “Commander South,” while the main villain is identified as “Vermon CaTaffy” (a play on Muammar al-Qaddafi). However, the English language script used within the actual NES game makes no mention of either, CaTaffy and South, and provides the correct name for Big Boss, while keeping his identity as the true leader of Outer Heaven a secret until the end. Konami of America was very notorious for this practice, often including information in their instruction manuals which contradicted the game designers' original intentions (the NES game Snake's Revenge also went through the same process).
Some fans of the series suggest the idea that Vernon CaTaffy was the alias used by Big Boss during his role as mercenary leader of Outer Heaven to explain the inconsistencies, but this is strictly fanon, as the name Vermon CaTaffy was never used officially outside of Konami of America's packaging and manual materials.
Internet rumors also suggest that promotional materials that were handed out by Konami at the Electronic Entertainment Expo indicated that Naked Snake's full name is Jack ‘T’ Miles. However, no such materials exist, as the rumor was started as a joke in a fansite's forum and has since been taken as fact.
In the original Metal Gear Solid, the character Sniper Wolf refers to Big Boss as Saladin during her death scene in the game. Wolf, being a Kurd herself, compares Big Boss to Saladin out of respect and admiration towards him, although the name Saladin is erroneously attributed to Big Boss as an alias used by him when no other character in the series calls him by that name.
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History
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Early Life
Big Boss's history prior to joining the armed forces and becoming a disciple of The Boss is a complete mystery. According to some sources, Big Boss was born as a third generation Japanese-American in Hawaii. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he lied about his age and joined the United States Army, and first saw action fighting in France. After the war, he remained in the military, and fought for it again in the Korean War. In 1956, Jack was involved in the Bikini Atoll testing of the first airborne detonation of a hydrogen bomb. In between the Korean and Vietnam Wars, he fought alongside the Green Berets, as well as served under The Boss. During this time, he helped her develop CQC.
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Eater of Snakes
Big Boss, circa 1964. At the time, he was known under the codename Naked Snake.In 1964, he was recruited by the fledgling FOX (Force Operation X) unit, and underwent an operation titled the Virtuous Mission, in which he was to rescue a defecting Soviet scientist named Sokolov. It was during this mission that Jack was given the codename “Naked Snake.”
However, this mission failed, due to the defection of The Boss. A week later, FOX unit and Snake were assigned Operation Snake Eater, in which the objective was to eliminate The Boss and her new Soviet ally, Colonel Volgin, as well as rescue Sokolov. It was during this mission that Snake came across the prototype designs for the Metal Gear bipedal tank from Director Granin, who was sending them to a colleague in America. This colleague was the father of Hal Emmerich, aka “Otacon,” first introduced in Metal Gear Solid.
During this mission, Snake lost his right eye to a bullet from Ocelot's SAA while enduring torture. However, he succeeded in completing the mission, and killed The Boss and Colonel Volgin. For this, he was given the title of “Big Boss” by President Johnson.
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Later Career
When direct American involvement in the Vietnam conflict started the following year, Big Boss participated in Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) along with teams of Green Berets and Army Rangers. His skills in combat earned him the “great mythological soldier” moniker. Once the conflict had ended, Big Boss took part in more than 70 missions attached to groups such as the SOG (Special Operations Group), the Wild Geese, and Delta Force. He also adopted a war orphan named Frank Jaeger (who would later become FOXHOUND member Gray Fox).
It was around this time that Big Boss was found to be sterile due to the Bikini Atoll testing he had taken part in years earlier. In 1970, the FOX unit was disbanded, and the following year, Big Boss formed his own unit, FOXHOUND, to carry on the tradition of the FOX unit. In 1972, Big Boss was found in a coma after a wild mission. The U.S. Government brought his unconscious body to a lab where his genes were extracted to make genetically enhanced soldiers. This project would be known as “Les Enfants Terribles.” Liquid Snake, Solid Snake, and Solidus Snake were produced in this program, and were known as the “Sons of Big Boss.”
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Metal Gear and the Death of Big Boss
Big Boss, circa 1999.
Big Boss, post-mortem. His corpse was used by the government for gene therapy experiments.
In the 1990s, Big Boss used the exorbitant amount of money he had collected over the years (possibly even a part of the Philosophers' Legacy) to covertly create the fortress nation Outer Heaven, an organization opposed to the Western Powers (and, by proxy, the Patriots who controlled them), all the while ostensibly remaining the commander of the U.S.'s elite FOXHOUND unit. Big Boss also funded the development of the first Metal Gear prototype, called Metal Gear TX-55. It was a weapon system designed to give Outer Heaven military supremacy over the West.
When FOXHOUND was commissioned by the U.S. to infiltrate Outer Heaven and destroy Metal Gear, Big Boss first sent in his most trusted soldier, Gray Fox; once Gray Fox was captured, Big Boss sent in Solid Snake, at that time FOXHOUND's greenest, least experienced member. Big Boss figured that there was no way that a rookie like Solid Snake could fulfill such a mission, but his efforts would delay further action by the West and buy Big Boss enough time to complete Metal Gear's development.
However, much to Big Boss's surprise, Solid Snake succeeded in disbanding Outer Heaven, recovering the Metal Gear research data, and destroying Metal Gear itself. Faced with the failure of his plans, Big Boss confronted Solid Snake in the heart of Outer Heaven, and revealed his identity as Outer Heaven's mastermind. After Big Boss activated the base's self-destruct countdown, the two of them engaged in one-on-one combat, with Big Boss dodging between crates and firing at Snake with a machine gun. Even in his advanced age, Big Boss proved fast and dangerous, but Solid Snake eventually managed to defeat him.
In reality, Big Boss managed to escape Outer Heaven. Years later, he took control of another nation known as Zanzibar Land. Recruiting war orphans from across the Third World and raising them as soldiers, Big Boss hoped to create a nation dedicated to the ideals of warfare and battle. Big Boss also recruited Gray Fox to his cause. To ensure Zanzibar Land's success, Big Boss once again commissioned the creation of a more advanced Metal Gear prototype, known as Metal Gear D. This time, Dr. Petrovich Madnar (the scientist who was forced to developed the original TX-55 model in Outer Heaven) developed the new model on his own free will, after being institutionalized into an asylum in the US. It is rumored that Dr. Petrovich also provided Big Boss with cybernetic body parts due to his injuries in Outer Heaven.
Solid Snake once again managed to infilitrate the enemy nation and destroy Metal Gear. Snake eventually defeated Fox in unarmed combat and, bruised and unarmed, was once again confronted by a machine gun-wielding Big Boss. Having spent his entire life on the battlefield, Big Boss could not conceive of a world without war, and attacked Snake in one final battle. Snake managed to cobble together a makeshift flamethrower using a can of hair spray and a cigarette lighter and used it to incinerate Big Boss. And thus the “world's greatest soldier” died an ignoble death, as many would consider it, burnt to a crisp by a can of hair spray.
Big Boss's corpse was recovered by the U.S. Government, and his genome was used to discover “soldier genes”, which the US government gave to the Next Generation Special Forces via gene therapy.
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Miscellaneous
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Big Boss in Snake's Revenge
Big Boss also appears as the second-to-last boss in the western sequel to the original Metal Gear, Snake's Revenge. He guards the final fortress where Metal Gear is located. At first, he fights with a machine gun just as he did in the original Metal Gear. After being shot several times, Big Boss reveals that he survived his injuries from Outer Heaven through surgeries that turned him into a cyborg; he then transforms into a 12-foot tall RoboCop-like robot, and proceeds to chase Solid Snake around while spitting fireballs at him.
While Snake's Revenge is non-canonical, it should be noted that the final battles against Big Boss in Snake's Revenge and Metal Gear 2 are quite similar. In both games, Big Boss can use doors to chase the player around from one screen to another. The only difference between the two games' sequences is that Big Boss doesn't transform into a cyborg in the canonical sequel, Metal Gear 2.
In Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, when the player calls George Kessler during the final battle, he mentions a rumor about Big Boss receiving cybernetic “snatcher” organs from Dr. Petrovich after losing his limbs, right ear and right eye (which was already missing in the original game) in battle. While some fans interpret this as a jab directed at Snake's Revenge, it's a reference to Kojima's previous game, Snatcher. Dr. Petrovich appears in Snatcher as the founder of the snatcher project.
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See also
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
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