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* [[Metal Gear Solid/Characters|Metal Gear Solid]]

* [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty/Characters|Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]

* [[Metal Gear Acid (Video Game)/Characters|Metal Gear Acid]]

* [[Metal Gear Ghost Babel/Characters|Metal Gear Ghost Babel]]

 

 

== Gene ==

 

A former CIA operative that takes control the FOX unit and takes over of the San Hieronymo peninsula.

* [[Big Bad]]: For Portable Ops.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Some of his reactions during his fight against Big Boss indicate that he enjoys a challenging fight against Big Boss.

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Gene doesn't control people's minds directly so much as ''massage'' their morale. A good commander is supposed to be able to motivate his troops, after all (and the first time we see him use his [[Compelling Voice]], it's to reassure his troops). He turns this around later when Big Boss and a bunch of Big Boss's troops assault him; {{spoiler|he devastates their morale with a few well-chosen words to cause [[Paranoia Fuel|paranoia]] among them and with a single shot causes them to all start shooting ''each other''}}.

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Gene expressed a belief that humanity is good for nothing except being "violent, foolish, fragile creatures" and fighting amongst each other {{spoiler|when forcing them into a mass suicide riot}}.

* [[Super Speed]]: Fast enough to even make ''Null'' seem slow.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: It's somewhat implied that the reason why he went as far as to generate mental shielding powerful enough to prevent even Ursula from reading his mind in order to avoid her betraying him is because he didn't wish to have to kill her as a result. Basically, due to his skills, he wouldn't have to worry too much about being harmed in any way by Ursula should she betray him, as he proved by {{spoiler|stabbing her with his speed, knowing that even though she could predict his movements, she won't be able to evade his speed}}.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: He wanted to get rid of the Philosophers and free the world from their control, although his method of doing so was launching a WMD at Virgina, USA and then making it seem as though the Russians did it. He also seems to believe that having the masses essentially pour their life energies and be sapped of their free will and commit sacrifice was something The Boss would have wanted.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Gene's hair is white in appearance, though it doesn't exactly make him look pretty.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|This is the reason why Gene had his soldiers commit mass-riot suicide at the assembly plant.}}

 

== Jonathan ==

 

A Red Army soldier during the San Hieronymo Takeover. He was the first person recruited by Big Boss and Roy Campbell in Portable Ops.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: After Jonathan is kidnapped by Big Boss with the intention of recruiting him into their resistance, Jonathan, upon regaining consciousness, attempted to attack Snake, only for his punch to be blocked by him. He then restrained Roy Campbell and stole his gun and attempted to use it on Big Boss to escape, only to end up flattened on the truckbed by Big Boss's CQC skills. Unlike most examples of Combat Pragmatism, Big Boss actually compliments Jonathan on it ("Quick thinker, too. They've trained you well. You're a good soldier.").

* [[Brainwashed]]: Subverted: Jonathan is initially suspected of being brainwashed by FOX when Jonathan laughs at Roy and Snake's statements on wanting to help the Ex-Soviet Personnel be free of FOX's control over them, but he then denies it, and explains the real reason why they are serving FOX.

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]}}

* [[Vodka Drunkenski]]: An optional radio call to Para-Medic (should she be recruited) via Jonathan, any of the Soviet personnel, or, heck, any character who isn't Naked Snake, will strongly imply he and the other Soviet soldiers recruited are of this trope. It's probably justified, as they had been marooned by the Soviet government for no reason other than to have a convenient excuse about why there is a missile base in Colombia made by the Soviets when they are doing the SALT talks.

 

== Python ==

 

An old war buddy of Snake during the Vietnam War. He received a severe injury which cost him the ability to regulate his body temperature to the point that his body would burn up and was assumed dead by Snake, but his body was recovered by the U.S. government who put him through surgery and gave him a suit filled with liquid nitrogen. He was then trained by the CIA to be an "Anti-Snake" soldier. He was present at the San Hieronymo takeover where Cunningham assigned him to lead the search for Snake and Roy Campbell.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: It's fairly clear that the only reason he agreed to partake in Gene's rebellion was so he could redeem himself for his actions as the Anti-Snake.

* [[An Ice Person]]: Due to injuries suffered in Vietnam and the resultant cooling suit he was hooked up to keep him alive.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Apparently being called a "monster" by someone, especially if that someone also attempted to kill him first, is something he does not like.

* [[Badass Abnormal]]: See [[An Ice Person]].

* [[Expy]]: He's basically the Gray Fox to Big Boss's Solid Snake.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Potentially.

* [[Shout-Out]]: His head being filled with cooling joints gives a uncanny resemblance to [[Hellraiser|Pinhead]], although his ice-based powers and his overall character is more indicative of [[Batman|Mr. Freeze]].

* [[Tragic Monster]]: [[Berserk Button|Although don't expect him to be too merciful if he hears you call him a monster right after attacking him.]]

 

== Elisa/{{spoiler|Ursula}} ==

 

A young woman with psychic abilities who follows Gene in his rebellion. However, she decides to help Snake when they meet, giving him drugs to cure Campbell's malaria, and warning him about her sister, Ursula. {{spoiler|It turns out that she ''is'' Ursula, and is a split personality.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]: She appears to die when RAXA is destroyed, but shows up later where she destroys the ICBMG activation control panel with her psychic powers. However, Gene kills her immediately afterwards.}}

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|She technically does it twice, once with each personality.}}

* [[Psychic Powers]]

 

== Lt. Cunningham ==

 

The FOX unit's interrogation specialist. He joins Gene's rebellion. {{spoiler|He turns out to be working for the Pentagon, and his role was to force Gene to launch a nuclear strike at the Soviet Union, destroying the reputation of the CIA, and then destroy the base using a Davy Crockett to remove all the evidence.}}

* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: In-universe, {{spoiler|Gene expresses pity on Cunningham for dying before he could ever realize that he was simply a pawn.}}

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Kind of: He'll be either the first or the second renegade FOX member to {{spoiler|die}} (not counting {{spoiler|Elisa/Ursula, who had [[Disney Death|survived their duel]] with Naked Snake}}), depending on the player's decision on how to defeat Python.

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|He was working with the DOD to essentially commit a smear campaign against the CIA, whom they had a rivalry with.}}

** [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]]: {{spoiler|The reason why he agreed to it, as the CIA essentially cast him aside after he was forced to have his leg amputated.}}

 

== Colonel Skowronski ==

 

A Red Army colonel. He was in command of the San Heironymo Peninsula, but after Gene's rebellion his men turned on him and he was forced to go in to hiding.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: He first appears relatively early, where he is seen encountering Python and is locked in a cell and Snake shoots the lock, freeing him. Later, {{spoiler|he takes control of Metal Gear RAXA, and unleashes it against Gene and his followers. He is killed by Ursula after that.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Disney Villain Death]]}}

* [[You Monster!]]: He calls Python this after he fails to kill him because of his cooling suit. Python [[Berserk Button|even calls him out on his doing so after doing the latter action.]]

 

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