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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kenyuu Horiuchi]] (JP, MGS2-MGS4), [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] (JP, MGSR), [[Quinton Flynn]] (EN), }}

 

* [[Alien Blood]]: Raiden's got artificial blood by MGS4, colored white. This has an interesting effect in a later cutscene: He and Vamp mess each other up pretty badly, and since their blood is colored differently, we get to see how much is their own and how much is the other guy's splattered on them. It's this color as well in the JP version of MGRR.

* {{spoiler|[[Artificial Limbs]]: Not just his limbs, but his entire body save for his head and spine. His blood is artificial too, ever since Sons of Liberty.}}

** [[An Arm and a Leg]]: Ends up losing his left arm in a fight with Sam (alongside [[Eye Scream|another organ]]), in the MGRR prologue.

* [[Anti Hero]]: Has an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Sociopathic Hero]] side of himself, even though he tries hard to bury this aspect of himself and be a more straightforward hero. {{spoiler|Eventually gives up midway through MGRR and lets out the demons inside.}}

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Of Solid Snake.

** [[Pop Cultured Badass]]: Met Rose when they argued about which skyscraper ''[[King Kong]]'' climbed up, got the reference to ''[[Escape From New York]]'' in Snake's ''MGS2'' alias "Pliskin", and as of MGRR has a mild obsession with being a modern samurai.

** [[Sociopathic Hero]]: When "Jack The Ripper" takes control.

* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: Implied by a guard's comment to Raiden if he sees him seemingly restrained in the torture device (he claims that he "wishes that he has that"). Not that it's apparent due to [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|obvious reasons]].

* [[Bishonen]]

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Rosemary claimed that Raiden took to heavily drinking after his [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] memories as a [[Child Soldier]] returned to him.

* [[Expy]]: Weirdly [[Invoked Trope|invoked]]. {{spoiler|1=Most of MGS2 consisted of the Patriots supposedly trying to make him another Solid Snake, and for that they had to make his character and experiences match Snake's as closely as possible. However, during the Master AI's speech to Raiden, they reveal that molding him into the next Solid Snake wasn't even the true goal (they had misled Ocelot earlier), but to try to manipulate Raiden's experiences to craft him to be their viewpoint of the masses and essentially control humanity.}}

* [[Eye Scream]]: Raiden loses his left eye during his fight against Sam in beginning of MGRR.

* [[Foil]]: To Solid Snake. Snake is a gruff, grizzled, [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] ladies man, Raiden is a young, [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|idealistic]], [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] with a steady girlfriend.

* [[Flashback Nightmare]]: It is strongly implied in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' that the reason he won't allow Rosemary to sleep next to him is because he suffers from nightmares relating to his [[Child Soldier]] status from the Liberian Civil War.

* [[Glasgow Grin]]: Seems to sport this in ''Revengeance''. See [[Slasher Smile]] below.

* [[It's Not You, It's Me]]: It is heavily implied in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' that the reason why he left Rosemary prior to the game was because of his PTSD worsening.

* [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: More apparent during MGS4 and more or less during Rising.

** "MY SWORD IS A TOOL OF JUSTICE!" *80s guitar riff* "I think it's time for Jack... to LET 'ER RIP!".

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Especially in MGS4 and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. [[Shock and Awe|No pun intended]].

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: {{spoiler|"Jack the Ripper".}}

* [[Neat Freak]]: Raiden apparently has to clean up after Rose quite a bit.

* [[No Infantile Amnesia]]: Somewhat implied in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'': Raiden mentioned that he was born on a rainy day, and given that his parents had died while he was still young, its unlikely they told him.

* [[One-Man Army]] Takes down to five to over a dozen Navy Metal Gear Rays during MGS2. How many depends on the difficulty setting.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: While using Ripper Mode.

** First show during trailer for [[Platinum Games]]' build, just before Raiden dons a featureless mask reminiscent of [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty|Olga's]].

* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: His personality in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' came across as exceptionally cold and emotionless. It is strongly implied that this was the direct result of the pain he had to endure from various factors, including the {{spoiler|apparent}} miscarriage of his child, Rosemary {{spoiler|supposedly}} marrying Colonel Campbell, the worsening of his PTSD, and his forced transformation into a Cyborg Ninja.

* [[Super Powered Evil Side]] "Jack The Ripper", which he's fought hard to suppress since MGS2. We finally get to see him in MGRR.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: In MGS2.

* [[The Movie Buff]]: This was how he and Rosemary met during an argument about King Kong.

 

The leader of a Russian a mercenary group and Olga Gurlukovich's father. He was briefly involved in Liquid's revolt on Shadow Moses Island as being the supplier of some of the Sons of Big Boss's heavy weaponry and Liquid's Hind D. Sergei worked with Revolver Ocelot in the hopes of stealing Metal Gear RAY to restor power to Russia, but was stabbed in the back by Ocelot and killed.

* [[The Ghost]]: Was briefly mentioned in the first ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' as being one of Liquid's backers in his revolution, and his being the reason why Liquid had a Hind D in that game.

* [[Glorious Mother Russia]]

{{quote|'''Ocelot''': Gurlukovich, you and your daughter will die here.

'''Sergei''': Damn you. }}

 

A Russian mercenary whom Snake first encounters aboard the Tanker, Olga is a tough cookie. She has been raised all her life to be strong, both out of necessity and because her father was a colonel for a Russian private army. She is seen again in the Plant, having inherited her father's unit after the old man died. She may or may not be having [[Double Agent|her own agenda]]. {{spoiler|She is also being used by The Patriots, who are threatening to kill her child if she doesn't allow for Raiden's mission to suceed. To this end, she disguises herself as a ninja called Mr. X and randomly calls Raiden to give him advice. She dies in the end to save Raiden and her baby.}}

* [[Action Girl]]: In the Tank Chapter

* [[Action Mom]]: In the Plant Chapter

* [[Scars Are Forever]]/[[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Olga possessed a long scar across her face, above her right eye to below her left eye (this is made more apparent in artwork of her, being barely visible in the game itself). Presumably, she got the scar during combat.

* {{spoiler|[[Vasquez Always Dies]]}}

 

 

{{quote|Voiced By: [[Daisuke Gori]] (JP), [[Kevin Michael Richardson]] (EN)}}

 

* [[Bi the Way]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]: The reason he wasn't willing to allow Fortune, his daughter, to join the military was because he didn't want her to experience the harsh possibility of a nuclear war.

 

Reappears in ''Guns of the Patriots'' as Snake's psychiatric support. She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody.

* {{spoiler|[[Becoming the Mask]]}}

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She expresses a bit of jealousy when Raiden is escorting Emma.

 

Raiden's commanding officer during the Big Shell incident. {{spoiler|An AI recreation of Roy Campbell.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Artificial Intelligence]]}}

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: {{spoiler|Well, until he turns out to be an AI.}}

 

In the first ''Metal Gear Solid'', Solidus shows up in [[The Stinger]] at the end of the game in the role of the U.S. President, and is a major character in the second game. He's the third of Big Boss' clones, a former agent of the Patriots, and Raiden's adopted father. He was once the 43rd President under the alias of George Sears, but was forced to resign from office after Metal Gear REX and the Genome Project soldiers, as well as the events of the Shadow Moses Incident and his involvement in the Sons of Big Boss's actions, were exposed to the public. The Patriots pinned him as the scapegoat, as he'd before advocated against genetic engineering, and becomes a terrorist with the group The Sons of Liberty. He might reappear in flashbacks for ''[[Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance]]'', although what is certain is that he is certainly in the flashbacks in viral marketing trailers for the game.

* [[Alliterative Name|Alliterative]] [[Code Name]]

* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type III]]. [[Word of God]] stated that Solidus was intended to be of this trope.

* [[Military Brat]]: He's a clone of Big Boss, and he also participated as a [[Child Soldier]] (actually, not just a child soldier, but a child soldier who leads an entire army of child soldiers) in the Liberian Civil War.

* [[Named Weapons]]: His [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana and wakizashi set]] (i.e. daishou), [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Minshuto ("Democrat") and Kyowato ("Republican")]].

* {{spoiler|1=[[The Pawn]]: In MGS4, his corpse is used as decoy for Big Boss' body. He was also an unwitting pawn in [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]], as it turned out that he was actually helping the Patriots without his even realizing it until Ocelot made it clear.}}

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Let's just say that he did not take it well when he learned that the Patriots had wiped Raiden's memory, and probably took him from him.

 

 

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yumi Touma]] (JP), [[Maula Gale]] (EN)}}

 

The second-in-command of Dead Cell, with the miraculous ability to avoid death. She incorrectly believes that Solid Snake is responsible for the death of her father Dolph. A bit of a [[Death Seeker]].

** In a way, it's also due to her "powers" that she's even capable of using it, going by Rosemary's statements in a CODEC call.

* {{spoiler|[[Bizarre Human Biology]]: She was born with her heart on the '''right''' side, due to ''[[wikipedia:Situs inversus|situs inversus]]''. It briefly prolongs her life expectancy when Revolver Ocelot decides to off her with a shot to the heart, while ''forgetting'' that little fact.}}

* [[The Pawn]]: The Patriots used her for their own goals.

* [[She's Got Legs]]: Just about every scene she's in introduces her with the camera slowly panning up those long legs of hers.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Vamp and Fortune want to destroy Manhattan (which was also against Solidus' supposed goals) as their revenge against the Patriots for their involvement in the destruction of Dead Cell's unit, and presumably for framing Dead Cell for terrorist actions that the Patriots orchestrated. Not to mention the pain they endured from the deaths of Scott Dolph and Colonel Jackson. Unfortunately, they ended up being used by them anyways.

* [[You Killed My Father]]

 

== Vamp ==

 

In the fourth game, he begins to look for a [[Worthy Opponent]] who can finally finish him - Raiden.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Enjoys knives, blood, and stabbing people a little too much.

** It's significantly downplayed in MGS4, however, where he questions some of Liquid Ocelot's plans, and was shown to be the only one capable of controlling the definitively [[Ax Crazy]] BATB unit (like when he [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|threw a knife at Laughing Octopus specifically to stop her from slaughtering too many of the rebel soldiers]]).

* [[Beard of Evil]]

* [[Carpet of Virility]]: Vamp has a ''lot'' more chest hair in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' than he did in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]].'' This is probably why he's switched to wearing dog tags to count how many people he's killed today.

* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: Vamp ''really'' loves hurting people. Especially Raiden. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZvIvDHy9vo Just watch this fight scene.]

** Likewise, Vamp also ''really'' enjoys being hurt himself in the same scene. Note what he said to Raiden when Raiden delivered the final blow.

 

An obese man on roller-skates. Fatman is a bomb-making expert that revels in blowing things up. Fatman places several explosives around Big Shell that Raiden has to defuse.

* [[Acrofatic]]

* [[Annoying Laugh]]

 

Allegedly as a member of the secret service under official records, Richard is actually a DIA/Patriot agent going undercover, presumably to assassinate President Johnson for "betraying" the Patriots. Of course, he ends up being an unwitting pawn himself and dies from his nanomachines getting shut down in a similar fashion to FOXDIE.

* [[Jerkass]]: In the beginning of the novel, he is shown to be somewhat unpleasant: He forced Nastasha Romanenko into participating in the Shadow Moses Incident, and was also implied to have forced Roy Campbell into participating in the incident as well.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Initially believed to be what happened to him in the novel, ends up happening for real during the Big Shell Incident.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: When playing the game without reading Nastasha's novel first, it initially seems like they did this for this trope only.

 

 

 

{{quote|Voiced By: [[Yuzuru Fujimoto]] (JP), [[Paul Lukather]] (EN)}}

 

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* [[Crotch Grab Sex Check]]: How he makes sure Raiden is a man.

 

 

== The Patriots ==

A nebulous, possibly ancient conspiracy introduced in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. They secretly manipulate American politics and media, and use the "GW" AI to censor and control information flow. The events of the Big Shell incident are a test to extend this control to human thought with Raiden as the test subject. The Patriots themselves may or may not be: A group of twelve people who have been dead for 100 years, a sentient white house, or sentient internet memes. ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' reveals the truth behind The Patriots: {{spoiler|1=they were founded by Big Boss, Major Zero, Ocelot, Eva, Sigint, and Para-medic some time after Portable Ops, and perpetuated by five AIs: GW, TJ, AL, TR, and JD. (the first four being named after the initials of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore and the latter one meaning "John Doe")}}. They later reappeared in Peace Walker, this time under the alias of Cipher.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: If {{spoiler|Paz's diary tapes}} are anything to go by, the Patriots, under the alias of Cipher, adopted her when she was an orphan, and they apparently threatened her with a fate far worse than death if she failed or disobeyed her mission. Then there's their creation of the Sons of Big Boss, which is borderline sexual abuse considering that they created the children without Big Boss's consent.

* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|They were actually formed in the 1970s and only used the real [[Ancient Conspiracy]], The Philosophers, as a cover story.}}

* [[Bigger Bad]]: [[Word of God]] stated that the reason why the Patriots were created was so Solidus would not be shown as the absolute bad guy.

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: It was heavily implied that the Patriots were the true villains in Metal Gear Solid 2 and the overall series, and that they actually won in the end of [MGS2]. Arguably, they also won in Metal Gear 2, when Solid Snake defeated Big Boss.

* [[Genocide Backfire]]: Subverted. They deliberately spared only a few members of Dead Cell when they liquidated it specifically to have them try to get revenge on them just to further manipulate them for the S3 Plan. It worked.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Named]]: Not that anyone with nanomachines is actually capable of saying their name, anyways, thanks to those nanomachines being programmed to force the person to say and hear "La Li Lu Le Lo."

** {{spoiler|[[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: EVA and Para-Medic respectively.}}

 

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