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List of Metal Gear Solid characters - FOXHOUND

This is a list of FOXHOUND fictional characters appearing in the original Metal Gear Solid.

List of Metal Gear Solid characters - Liquid Snake

Liquid Snake is Solid Snake's Doppelgänger and archnemesis, and also the field commander of FOXHOUND and the Genome Soldiers. He is over 183cm tall, has an IQ of 180 and speaks seven languages (including Spanish, Arabic, French and Malay) fluently. He is an exact duplicate of Solid Snake in terms of appearances, with the only distinguishable feature being his darker skin tone and hairstyle (type and color). He also has a tattoo on his left arm, which resembles the Rod of Asclepius, but with a sword in its place.

Along with Snake and Solidus, he is one of the three "brothers" genetically engineered from cell samples taken from Big Boss in the Les Enfants Terribles project, and (wrongly) believes himself to be inferior to Solid Snake, as the recipient of all of Big Boss's "flawed" recessive genes. (In Metal Gear Solid's epilogue, this inferiority complex is revealed to be incorrect: Revolver Ocelot reveals that Liquid is, in fact, the stronger of the 'twin snakes' - either he was mistaken about receiving the recessive genes, or the recessive genes were in fact greater than the dominant) As a result, he holds a strong resentment towards Solid Snake and wishes to defeat him in combat and reclaim his "birthright".

Liquid was raised in the UK shortly after birth and served the Special Air Service during the Gulf War in Iraq, where he was assigned to track down and destroy mobile Scud missiles. In truth, he infiltrated the Middle East as a sleeper agent for the British SIS, but was taken prisoner by Iraqi forces and held captive as POW until 1994, when he was rescued by the U.S. Government.

Liquid joins FOXHOUND in 2000 (after Snake and Campbell had already left the unit) and becomes field commander of the unit. He leads FOXHOUND as they seize Shadow Moses Island and the Metal Gear REX, taking the DARPA Chief and ArmsTech President as hostages. He demands Big Boss' corpse in order to procure a cure for the genetic defects of the Genome Army and himself.

During the course of Snake's mission, he is confronted by Liquid on several occasions. Initially, Liquid attacks Snake from a Hind D attack helicopter, but retreats when his helicopter is crippled by Snake's missile fire from his Stinger. He survives (his parachute is visible on a tree in the Snowfield of the base) and then tricks Snake into activating REX with Kenneth Baker's PAL card by posing as Master Miller (who was dead at the time of the incident) during radio calls.

The entire final act of the Shadow Moses Island incident is a series of battles between Snake and Liquid. First, Liquid pilots the Metal Gear REX and attacks Snake, but, with the help of Gray Fox (in the guise of Cyborg Ninja), Snake destroys the Metal Gear. Then, Liquid and Snake battle bare-handed atop the ruins of the Metal Gear, attempting to fling each other from the top of the ruined mech to the ground far below. While it seems Snake is victorious in this struggle, Liquid, manning a machine-gun-armed military jeep, pursues him as he tries to escape from the self-destructing Shadow Moses facility. Ultimately, Liquid dies from the genetically-engineered FOXDIE virus, just outside the facility.

His influence does not stop with his death, however. Years later (during the events of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), he manages to take control of former ally Revolver Ocelot, via an arm transplant conducted in Lyon, France (When Ocelot (controlled by Liquid) was on top the manned Metal Gear Ray standing on Arsenal Gear, Liquid said "Why do you think I chose Ocelot as my host?" This would indicate that Liquid somehow arranged that his arm would be attached to Ocelot, and it not being Ocelot who chose the arm). Liquid's personality would often take over Ocelot's mind whenever Snake was in close proximity.

After the sinking of the tanker, Snake and Otacon stole Liquid's body from the organization and used it to make people think Solid Snake died on the tanker, which carried Metal Gear RAY. Two years after, Liquid (while controlling Ocelot) leaked existence of Arsenal Gear to Otacon.

List of Metal Gear Solid characters - Revolver Ocelot

List of Metal Gear Solid characters - Psycho Mantis

FOXHOUND

Psycho Mantis is a psychic expert for the FOXHOUND unit, who is also known as The Dream Robber. Prior to joining FOXHOUND, he worked with the KGB and the FBI. His special abilities include the psychic powers of psychokinesis and telepathy.

Psycho Mantis was born in a small Russian village before the collapse of the Soviet Union. His mother died giving birth to him, which made his father resent and hate him. He discovered his father's true emotions one day while accidentally reading his mind. He wondered if his father would kill him, and the shock of this revelation awoke his sub conscious, and inadvertently caused the deaths of everyone in the village (approx. 1,000 people). This release of psychic energy caused severe burns across his body, particularly his face.

The official cause of death for the people of the village was found to be brain hemorrhaging and he was then taken into custody by the KGB, who found his psychic powers impressive. He was taught to control his abilities in a boarding school owned by Soviet Intelligence, along with other possibly psychic children.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mantis was drafted as a psychic profiler by the FBI. He moved to the United States and began to work immediately for the FBI. He would enter the minds of a suspected killer and uncover the truth about their crimes. He eventually delved too far into the mind of a serial killer, and the killer's thoughts infected his mind, driving him insane. This created a violent multiple personality called the parasite.

The parasite caused Mantis to go into killing rages, but he found he could use his mental abilities to control his alternate personality. This greatly reduced his psychic abilities, so after he was recruited by FOXHOUND, he let the parasite roam free in his mind, allotting him even greater psychic ability.

By this time he had taken to wearing a gas mask, partially to hide his deformed facial features, but also to prevent the thoughts of others from entering his mind involuntarily.

In the current incarnation of FOXHOUND, its members (Liquid Snake, Vulcan Raven, Revolver Ocelot, Psycho Mantis, Sniper Wolf, and Decoy Octopus) grew tired of their roles as puppets to the government, and attacked Shadow Moses Island, a nuclear disposal facility. Psycho Mantis used his powers to gather the aid of the Genome Army, a group of genetically enhanced soldiers. However, upon his death, Mantis reveals he has never had any interest in the ideals that the rest of the revolutionaries have; he, driven by the Parasite within him, just wanted "an excuse to kill as many people as he could".

During the Shadow Moses island incident, Mantis attempts to stop Solid Snake's progress, at first taking control of Meryl Silverburgh, then revealing himself. Psycho Mantis is ultimately defeated by Snake, and tells Snake of his past before revealing the route ahead in his dying moments. He remarks that it is the first time he has used his powers for good, and that it felt "nostalgic" (in the English original translation of the game, "kind of nice").

Psycho Mantis was ultimately defeated by Solid Snake. Although Mantis was put into the FoxDie program, it had no effect on him. It is believed to be due to his wearing of a mask.

When Solid Snake faces Mantis, Mantis demonstrates his psychic powers by breaking the fourth wall. In the pre-battle cut-scene, he activates the controller's rumble feature, then reads the player's memory card. Then, at the beginning of the actual battle, Mantis yells "Blackout!" and causes the screen to go completely black except for the words Hideo (a reference to the director Hideo Kojima) in green all capital text in the top right corner of the screen, much like TV or VCR on-screen-displays. Many players mistook this to be a glitch in the game, while it was supposed to trick the player into thinking that he or someone else changed the TV or VCR input, as a slight attempt to throw the player off.

In the original PlayStation game, he reads off the titles of Konami's other games (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Suikoden among others), while in the remake Twin Snakes, he reads Nintendo's games (Super Smash Bros. Melee and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, among others). In the Japanese versions, if the player has save data from Snatcher and Policenauts, they will receive a special message from Hideo Kojima.

The easiest way to defeat Psycho Mantis is for the player to remove the memory card (re-insert STRAIGHT after battle), plug the controller into the Player Two port (which prevents The Parasite from predicting Snake's battle moves) and equip both the FA-MAS and the Thermal Goggles. The FA-MAS is useful for attacking Mantis with speed and power, while the Thermal Goggles prevent him from turning invisible on Snake by detecting his body heat and making Mantis unable to hide from Snake's attacks. The battle should be a lot easier now, if not impossible to lose (on easier difficulties). Occasionally, Psycho Mantis takes control of Meryl Silverburgh, in which case the player should not shoot her, but instead throw stun grenades or punch and kick her enough to knock her out.

List of Metal Gear Solid characters - Sniper Wolf

Sniper Wolf is the sharpshooter of the FOXHOUND unit, and she goes rogue with the rest of her unit during the events of that game. She is the unit's sniper, a role in which she is exceptionally skilled. Though snipers usually work in pairs, she works alone.

She was a Kurdish member of FOXHOUND and a famed sniper capable of going without food and staying still for up to a week. She has been known to form an emotional connection with her targets before killing them with her preferred weapon, the Heckler & Koch PSG-1, and used mercury bullets to poison the victims as well.

Being Kurdish, she was treated quite poorly. At the age of five, near the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, she witnessed the death of her family and thousands of others as they died to a gas attack by Saddam Hussein's troops. She was then taken as an orphan to the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs, where she received brainwashing and training as a sniper. She was trained by a Gurkha in Nepal, who was one of the world's most accurate snipers.

In 1991, during a battle within Iraq after the Gulf War, she was able to flee to a Kurdish refugee camp, where Big Boss and the US Secretary of State was visiting. Big Boss noticed her extraordinary abilities and brought her back to the U.S., where she received deprogramming to destroy her Iraqi brainwashing, leaving only her fighting abilities with her. Extremely grateful, she thought of Big Boss as Saladin (who defeated the Crusaders in the 12th century) and followed him in whatever he did until his death by Solid Snake. At this point, Liquid Snake was able to find her and convince her to join FOXHOUND.

During the Shadow Moses Island incident, she cared for the huskies that Liquid Snake intended to kill as she enjoyed their company. She was also impressed with Otacon giving his scarce food supply to the huskies, and may have developed the Lima Effect (in which the captor becomes concerned to a hostage). Otacon, possibly under Stockholm syndrome, admitted to her that he loved her just before she died from the injuries Solid Snake had inflicted on her during their battle. She requested that Snake shoot her to relieve the pain, which he did after some hesitation and protests from Otacon.

During her final monolouge to Solid Snake she wonders what her position in life is: whether she is a proud and noble Wolf or more of a scavenger like a dog. She confesses to Snake that in recent times she felt that she wasn't looking to kill people but waiting for someone to kill her. After her death Snake appears to be rather taken aback by her comments and ponders them for a while

She was apparently unaffected by the FOXDIE virus. Liquid Snake and Revolver Ocelot suspected that this may be because of the Diazepam tranquilizers she took regularly, which could have suppressed the activity of the virus.

List of Metal Gear Solid characters - Vulcan Raven

Vulcan Raven is a member of FOXHOUND who wields a giant vulcan cannon and has shaman powers. Raven was born to Alaskan Indian and Eskimo parents, though he hates the word “Eskimo” used by white men. He had a large tattoo like raven birthmark across his forehead, and so he was raised as a shaman by his people (Eskimos and Inuits worship the raven as the creator).

He graduated from the University of Alaska, and spent a few more years living in his homeland. He took part in the Eskimo-Indian Olympics, and won many “Ear Pull” contests (an event where two opponents pull each other's ear while enduring the harsh cold, intended to test both spiritual and physical strength).

One extremely cold winter, he decided to walk across the frozen Bering Sea, and managed to reach Russia. He joined the Russian Special Forces unit Vympel and met with Revolver Ocelot there. After the fall of the Soviet Union he was demoted by President Boris Yeltsin after a failed coup attempt in Moscow in 1993.

He decided that he would not stay after this, and left Russia to become a mercenary for hire. It was then that he joined Big Boss' mercenary-dispatching company, Outer Heaven. The destruction of Outer Heaven was Solid Snake's first mission, but Raven and Snake did not meet on this occasion, nor did they meet during the Zanzibar Land operation. After the death of Big Boss, he joined FOXHOUND thanks to the recommendations of Revolver Ocelot.

During his FOXHOUND years he took an M61 Vulcan cannon (a machine gun usually mounted on F-16's.) as his weapon of choice, and carried a huge barrel of ammunition on his back. He is 210 cm (nearly 6 ft. 11 in.) tall.

The most recent incarnation of FOXHOUND (Liquid Snake, Vulcan Raven, Revolver Ocelot, Psycho Mantis, Sniper Wolf and Decoy Octopus) grew tired of their roles as puppets to the government, and attacked Shadow Moses Island, a nuclear disposal facility.

During the course of the Shadow Moses island incident, Solid Snake (the player's character) encounters Vulcan Raven twice: once while Raven is piloting an M1 Abrams tank, and once inside a freezing cold warehouse. During the latter instance, Snake defeated Raven. In his final moments, Raven offered Snake a 'hint', telling him that the DARPA chief whom Snake had met had in fact been Decoy Octopus. He did not explain why or how he was killed, or why he was disguised in the first place, but declared that Snake would always follow a life of bloodshed wherever he went.

As he made this declaration, he was being eaten alive by his own ravens so that he could be "one with them."

Raven has displayed many abilities similar to magic, as he can control his ravens during the battle to attack Snake.

In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the player can find an action figure of Raven in the Tanker Chapter as Snake. This brings up a conversation with Otacon about Raven. The same figure can also be seen floating in the water during the section in the Plant Chapter where Raiden goes to the flooded section of the Shell 2 Core to rescue Emma Emmerich.

List of Metal Gear Solid characters - Decoy Octopus

Decoy Octopus is a member of FOXHOUND, and, with the rest of his unit, went rogue during the Shadow Moses island incident. He has an almost preternatural skill with disguises, as his name might imply, and is able to nearly perfectly take on the appearance and personality of his assigned target. He has cut off his own ears to help perfect his facial appearance, and if the target is dead, injects himself with the target's blood. This is how Snake saw the "DARPA Chief"'s nanomachines on his radar.

Octopus was disguised as the DARPA Chief (with the real Chief having been killed during a torture session with Ocelot). Octopus was killed by the FOXDIE virus that had been implanted on Solid Snake. The FOXDIE virus was programmed to kill the FOXHOUND members, therefore it killed him. He is by far the most mysterious member of FOXHOUND.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "FOXHOUND", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki