Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker/Characters

See also:


 * Metal Gear 1987
 * Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake
 * Metal Gear Solid
 * Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty
 * Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater
 * Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
 * Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots
 * Metal Gear Acid
 * Metal Gear Ghost Babel

Paz Ortega Andrade/
"Voiced By: Nana Mizuki (JP), Tara Strong (EN)"

A Costa Rican high school student that studied and cherished peace. She is an orphan who lost her mother and grandparents to war when she was very young. Along with Galvez, she asks Militaires Sans Frontieres to drive the Peace Sentinels out of Costa Rica, and stayed in contact with Snake during the mission. She is taken to Mother Base after the events of Chapter 4.


 * Break the Cutie:
 * Conveniently an Orphan:
 * Fate Worse Than Death:
 * Hair of Gold /
 * Known Only By Their Nickname:
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness:
 * Joshikousei
 * Mukokuseki: They're both to make her really innocent. Hell, they even give her own Image Song, and is noticeably big-eyed in the drawn cutscenes (compare to Ashley Wood's other characters)
 * Kuudere / Tsundere
 * Latin Lover: Althoug Paz/, the diaries make it clear that she is at the very least a Latino.
 * The Pollyanna
 * Scars Are Forever: She possesses scars on her arms. It's strongly implied that she got them from Hot Coldman when she was captured at the Puerto del Alba shipping facility and tortured.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Well, she didn't actually get around to, although that's only because but reading the diaries afterwards, and a few times before, you can't help but pity her for what she has to put up with.
 * Hair of Gold /
 * Known Only By Their Nickname:
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness:
 * Joshikousei
 * Mukokuseki: They're both to make her really innocent. Hell, they even give her own Image Song, and is noticeably big-eyed in the drawn cutscenes (compare to Ashley Wood's other characters)
 * Kuudere / Tsundere
 * Latin Lover: Althoug Paz/, the diaries make it clear that she is at the very least a Latino.
 * The Pollyanna
 * Scars Are Forever: She possesses scars on her arms. It's strongly implied that she got them from Hot Coldman when she was captured at the Puerto del Alba shipping facility and tortured.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Well, she didn't actually get around to, although that's only because but reading the diaries afterwards, and a few times before, you can't help but pity her for what she has to put up with.
 * Scars Are Forever: She possesses scars on her arms. It's strongly implied that she got them from Hot Coldman when she was captured at the Puerto del Alba shipping facility and tortured.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Well, she didn't actually get around to, although that's only because but reading the diaries afterwards, and a few times before, you can't help but pity her for what she has to put up with.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Well, she didn't actually get around to, although that's only because but reading the diaries afterwards, and a few times before, you can't help but pity her for what she has to put up with.

Amanda Valenciano Libre
"Voiced By: Romi Park (JP), Grey DeLisle (EN)"

The leader of a branch of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. Had to take the job after her father was killed.


 * A Mother To Her Men: She cares for her troops.
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * Dude, Where's My Respect?: Sort of: Her men do respect that she's their boss, but they insist on addressing her by first name basis instead of her rank of "Comandante"
 * Freudian Excuse: The reason she's a chain-smoker is because she survived a potentially bad infection of Malaria while she was young from a mosquito bite, and thus had a fear of mosquitoes.
 * Mama Bear: Amanda does deeply care for her younger brother Chico, and was willing to risk her life to rescue him when he was captured by the Peace Sentinels. However, she also doesn't have any qualms about killing him immediately when he was captured, rationalizing that its better for him to die than be tortured by the Peace Sentinels and then executed afterwards.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her goal is to free her native country, Nicaragua, at any cost.
 * You Killed My Father: It is implied in the game itself (and confirmed in her model viewer/strategy guide bio) that the Peace Sentinels were responsible for her father's death.

Chico Libre
"Voiced By: Kikuko Inoue (JP), Antony Del Rio (EN)"

The twelve-year-old brother of Amanda and another member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. An amateur cryptozoologist.


 * The Atoner: He joined MSF primarily to redeem himself for having to sell out his compas from torture.
 * Big Damn Heroes:
 * Child Soldier: Chico is constantly pissed at everyone treating him as a kid. Unlike most of the more tragic examples of this trope, Big Boss makes sure Chico is a volunteer, and also doesn't actually send him to go out fighting; Chico is a scout.
 * Heroic BSOD: Had a relatively minor one when Big Boss met him at the village, due to having talked under torture. He later has a much bigger one after
 * The Stool Pigeon: Lacerated Larry type: He was captured by the Peace Sentinels early into the game, and ended up revealing the locations of his comrades due to his being tortured by them. It's also implied that this happens to any FSLN member who is captured, and that most of them don't even live to see the light of day after they end up breaking from it.
 * You Killed My Father: Same as Amanda.

"Huey" Emmerich
"Voiced By: Hideyuki Tanaka (JP), Christopher Randolph (EN)"

Hal Emmerich's father and the creater of the Peace Walker. Like his son, Huey thought his machine was going to be used for a more peaceful purpose, and is upset to hear that it will not be. He is not able to walk, and instead uses a wheelchair.


 * Child Prodigy: Kind of: He went to and graduated from MIT when he was in his late teens due to skipping ahead several grades.
 * Defector From Decadence: See Not What I Signed on For below.
 * Doomed by Canon: See Driven to Suicide
 * Driven to Suicide: He drowned himself (and apparently nearly took Emma with him) when he learned that his son committed adultry on his stepwife.
 * Early-Bird Cameo: In Snake Eater, he can be seen in a photo in Granin's office.
 * Genius Cripple: He spends most of his time in a wheelchair due to a malformed spine from birth (which is strongly implied to be the result of his father being in the Manhattan Project), and yet he's skilled enough to design and build several weapons and equipment.
 * Possibly as another reference to "Dr. Strangelove".
 * The Ghost: He's mentioned twice in Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The latter game also reveals he committed suicide due to Hal sleeping with his stepmother.
 * Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: If the fact that Coldman essentially used him to complete Peace Walker so he could then break his promise and launch one nuke from it didn't cause him to defect, Coldman pushing Huey (a paraplegic) down the stairs after the latter outright refused to continue to work with him certainly would have.
 * Not What I Signed on For: He cooperated with Hot Coldman and the Peace Sentinels to develop Peace Walker under the belief that, under no circumstances, would Peace Walker launch a nuke. Unfortunately, his boss had other ideas, which is namely launching a nuke to test its effectiveness in deterrence, and most likely instigate a Nuclear War. After learning this (which by that time, the frame was already complete), he pretty much quit.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Huey isn't actually his real name. It was a nickname given to him by Strangelove, derived from the disabled service droid from the film Silent Running, in a not-too-subtle insulting reference to his being handicapped.
 * Persona Non Grata: He ends up being blacklisted from the Central Heredia AI Lab's security clearance, apparently because he irritated Strangelove one time too many.
 * Significant Birth Date: Huey was born on the day of the Hiroshima bombing.

Hot Coldman
"Voiced By: Mugihito (JP), H Richard Greene (EN)"

Former CIA director and main antagonist of Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.

"Coldman: I know all about you. Tselinoyarsk? 10 years ago? Snake:	You were involved...? 'Coldman: The operation to eliminate the traitor?"
 * Ax Crazy: His idea of world peace and nuclear deterrence is
 * Bad Boss: He pushed Huey (who was a cripple) down the stairs after the latter states that he cannot participate in the project anymore when he learns that Coldman intends to use a live nuke for the test launch for Peace Walker. It is also heavily implied that Coldman also plans on killing off the Peace Sentinels once the Peace Walker tests are completed because they served their use in Strangelove's diary tapes. His stance as a bad boss was also just as bad back when he was the CIA director in 1964, where he manipulated the factors into creating a near catastrophe just to create an excuse to kill off one specific person, The Boss. It's also implied in EVA's tapes that he (if not the entire organization he was leading at that time) was also directly responsible for having The Boss's operation sabotaged by having a sleeper agent completely defect to the Soviet Union and feed NASA false information by having a large percentage of the sleeper agent's paycheck pocketed.
 * Bald of Evil
 * Big Bad: He's essentially this for Peace Walker, though it gets a bit more complicated later on.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Driven to Suicide: A notably spiteful version.
 * Establishing Character Moment: In his first scene, he pushes Huey Emmerich down a flight of stairs after a rant about how a nuke must be launched for his test to be completed.
 * The Exile: It is strongly implied that he was sent to Central America as a Station Chief after being demoted from CIA Director because the CIA was disgusted enough with that they demoted him and packed him away, especially with the implication that he attempted to basically brag about it beforehand.
 * Expy: Most of Coldman's character traits (including being responsible for a destructive and quite tragic event that sets off the game series with no remorse, not to mention being exiled for reasons relating to said destructive and tragic event) are eerily similar to that of Doctor Weil. Ironic, seeing how Naked Snake's real-life father also voiced that character.
 * Evil Laugh:
 * Kicked Upstairs
 * Lack of Empathy: His exchange when encountering Snake tells all:


 * Note that during the entire exchange, Coldman was grinning immensely and evilly.
 * Laughing Mad:
 * Manipulative Bastard: Hot Coldman was implied to have set things up
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: He mentions that The Boss, her ideals, and even heroes themselves are bankrupt, buried, and over, vowing that the only heroes afterwards will be machines.
 * Omnicidal Maniac: Hot Coldman nearly causes the destruction of the entire planet when he
 * Reassigned to Central America: Implied to be the reason why Coldman was made the CIA Station Chief of Central America shortly after losing his job as CIA Director. See The Exile or Kicked Upstairs.
 * This causes a slight Continuity Snarl since he wasn't the DCI at the end of Operation Snake Eater, a snarl that can only be resolved by assuming he was sacked after the end of the Virtuous Mission, which did set up the reason for his reassignment.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Both Akio Ohtsuka and Mugihito (the respective Japanese voice actors of Naked Snake/Big Boss and Hot Coldman) had also voiced and interacted with each other in Mega Man X 7, playing Red and Sigma.
 * Slasher Smile: In virtually every single appearance made by him.
 * The Sociopath

Ramón Gálvez Mena/
"Voiced By: Houchu Otsuka (JP), Steve Blum (EN)"

A professor who contacts MSF along with Paz, requesting they to drive the Peace Sentinels out of Costa Rica. Actually a KGB agent.


 * Dirty Communists: He's a KGB Agent. In case you're wondering why this is unspoilered, that's because his affiliation to the KGB was revealed in quite literally his first appearance (albeit in flashback in the intro mission).
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * Obviously Evil: He reveals he's working for the KGB... in the first cutscene.
 * Rocket Punch:
 * Red Right Hand: His red prosthetic hand. This also acted as the reason as to how Big Boss deduced he was in fact a KGB Agent from the get-go. It has cigarette lighters in the fingertips.
 * Smug Snake
 * Unwitting Pawn / Double Agent: choice of words imply that he

Cecile Cosima Caminades
"Voiced By: Yu Kobayashi (JP), Catherine Taber (EN)"

An ornithologist from France that was visiting Costa Rica when she was kidnapped by the Peace Sentinals. She escaped and was found by Big Boss, who took her back to Outer Heaven.


 * Everyone Looks Sexier If French / Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Cecile looks stunning as a blond parisenne, enough for Miller to attempt to flirt with her on multiple occasions. It backfires though.
 * Foreshadowing: Cecile tells Miller that although the tape was hers, she wasn't Paz's friend, and in fact never even met her.
 * Genius Ditz: She is skilled at birdwatching and ornithology, but other than that... she's not too bright. Paz even privately remarked to herself that Cecile was a ditz when she asked her if she was attracted to Big Boss.
 * Ink Suit Actor: Sort of, although not voiced by her, Cecile's design was literally based on the real life Cecile Caminandes, who is the foreign relations manager for Konami Paris.
 * Voice Changeling: She's perfectly capable of mimicking various bird sounds, as well as sounds of a pig, a monkey, and even a rabbit. She cites that her altering her voice was actually part of her job as an ornithologist.
 * Write Who You Know: Cecile is a real woman; the communications manager for Konami France. Her name and appearance are based on the real woman, though a few years seem to have been shaved off.

Dr. Strangelove
"Voiced By: Yumi Kikuchi (JP), Vanessa Marshall (EN)"

The scientist developing the AI for the Peace Walker. A misanthropist.


 * Anti-Villain: She who only worked with the Peace Sentinels so she'd have a chance to.
 * Heel Face Turn: And she joins MSF after the Peace Sentinels are stopped, and possibly even sometime beforehand if her letting Snake keep the ID card that he stole is anything to go by.
 * Bi the Way / Depraved Bisexual:
 * Covert Pervert: Unlike most examples, she really doesn't let it known until well after the main game is over - and that's if you bother to listen to tape files. Paz has no idea she's getting fondled by her.
 * Does Not Like Men: Dr. Strangelove doesn't even bother to hide it. It's not impossible for her to respect or be attracted to a man, but in general, they really aren't her thing. Then again, most women don't measure up to her criteria either; there's only been one woman she's really loved.
 * Driven to Suicide: Subverted: She did consider committing suicide or at the very least embracing death after the Peace Walker project was completed, but she changed her mind after
 * Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain reveals she didn't kill herself
 * Evil Albino: It's not so much as "evil" as "has her own motives for working with evil".
 * Heroic Albino:
 * Evil Brit: Subverted, Strangelove just has her own reasons for serving evil.
 * Evil Genius: To Coldman's Big Bad (Well, maybe not so on "Evil").
 * Otacon, I Might Be Your Mother: It's never confirmed, but the scene in the second ending where has led some people to speculate that Strangelove at the very least married Huey, if not gave birth to Otacon/Hal Emmerich. The fact that Nastasha Romanenko's book also made it clear that Hal had some British relatives seemed to support it.
 * Confirmed by the time of
 * I Am Very British
 * Lipstick Lesbian: Though her attire is definitely masculine.
 * Misplaced Accent: Strangelove was born and raised in Manchester, but has a posh U.S. Southern accent (performed by an American voice actress).
 * My God, What Have I Done?: MGSV reveals this was her dying reaction to.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Strangelove's nickname, despite sharing the same name as the title of a certain film, is derived from her evident sexuality, and was used in a rather insulting manner.
 * Oddly, despite understanding the insult, she considers it a form of compliment.
 * Persona Non Grata: When Strangelove requested to join MSF to Big Boss via Kazuhira Miller, Miller stated that she was unable to return to England for reasons that, despite Miller telling Big Boss that she'll explain why, we never actually find out.
 * Persona Non Grata: When Strangelove requested to join MSF to Big Boss via Kazuhira Miller, Miller stated that she was unable to return to England for reasons that, despite Miller telling Big Boss that she'll explain why, we never actually find out.