Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots/Characters

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Guns of the Patriots is one giant Continuity Nod and has appearences by almost every major character in the series, some of which have radically changed in appearence and personality. Regardless, tropes for those characters should go in the character pages for the games they debuted in, not here. This is for characters that first appeared in Guns of the Patriots only. That includes Raiden, Revolver Ocelot, and the Patriots. For pages they all appear on, see:

Characters that debuted in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots include:

Sunny Gurlukovich

Voiced By: Kikuko Inoue (JP), Christina Puccelli (EN)

The daughter of Olga Gurlukovich. Raiden rescued her from the Patriots and dropped her off with Otacon and Solid Snake, who raised her onboard their giant airplane headquarters. Sunny is a computer programming genius, but lacks social and cooking skills due to her sheltered upbringing.

  • Child Prodigy: Sunny is a lot more adept at computer programming than most 7-year-old girls, but it's explained her brain's been experimented upon by the Patriots and her computer skills are definitely justified if you do not forget she was raised by Otacon, a brilliant robotic engineer and computer technician. He claims that she's spent her whole life online, and lacks proper social skills.
  • Has Two Daddies: With Snake and "Uncle Hal".
  • Lethal Chef: Sunny keeps cooking eggs for Otacon and Snake, but they're usually either over or undercooked, and both of them are constantly coming up with excuses to not eat them. This is somewhat out-of-character for the former Green Beret Solid Snake, given what you're expected to eat during SERE. He must be getting picky in his old age.
  • Missing Mom
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She completed FOXALIVE with the purpose of destroying the AI network of the Patriots while at the same time keeping key societal factors intact. Going by what is being shown in Rising, she really should have just destroyed the Patriots outright, as the FOXALIVE option she chose actually made things even worse than before.
  • Speech Impediment: Sunny has a slight stutter.


Drebin 893

Voiced By: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Khary Payton (EN)

A gun launderer in Metal Gear Solid 4 who replaces ID chips in guns so that they can be used by anyone, for money. He reveals at the end that he was hired by the patriots to help Snake and Rat Patrol defeat Liquid Ocelot.

  • Action Survivor
  • Arms Dealer
  • Ascended Fanboy: The Database claims he is this to legendary units such as Dead Cell, FOXHOUND, the Cobra Unit, and the Beauty and the Beast unit, which probably explains why he has a photo gallery of the Beauty and the Beast Unit inside of his Stryker, his requiring Raging Raven's Milkhor Grenade Launcher be given to him as a condition for removing its ID tag, and why he would have a Mosin Nagant sniper rifle that's modelled down to the detail after The End's sniper rifle.
  • Badass Longcoat
  • Cool Shades
  • Dark-Skinned Blond
  • Everything's Better with Monkeys: He has a pet monkey.
  • Finger-Snap Lighter: One of his many parlor tricks.
  • Honest John's Dealership: Deconstruction: He has done questionable practices, such as injecting potential customers with "transmitters" to essentially spy on them, but his sales, illegal as they may be, actually are genuine and not ripoffs of weapons, and he also makes it fairly clear that he would never betray his customers.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: During the game Drebin comes of as a rather cold pragmatist but in the epilogue it turns out he's actually a nice guy.
  • Non-Human Sidekick
  • The Starscream: Sort of: Drebin was an agent of the Patriots, but he then reveals that he wasn't upset with Otacon or Snake at all for taking the Patriots A Is offline. On the contrary, he thanked them, as it allowed him and his fellow Drebins to form their own business.
  • Soul Brotha


The Beauty and the Beast Unit

A unit composed of four insane, power-armored young women codenamed: Laughing Octopus, Crying Wolf, Raging Raven and Screaming Mantis. Ocelot's elite forces in Metal Gear Solid 4.

  • Amazon Brigade
  • Animal Motifs
  • Ax Crazy
  • Being Tortured Makes You Evil: They've all been driven insane by the horrors of warfare, and undergone transformation into super soldiers in the misguided belief that fighting will ease their trauma.
    • Note that Laughing Octopus and Raging Raven are the only B&B members to suffer actual torture, though Screaming Mantis overheard other people being tortured.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Implied by Big Boss noting that the technology used to seal away his will in addition to his body was similar to the type used to pacify the B&B Corps.
  • Break the Cutie: Each and every single one of the B&B girls suffered this before becoming one.
  • Dark Action Girls
  • Fan Nickname: In-Universe, they are referred to as SNAKEHOUND due to their fascination in wanting to kill Snake.
  • Flunky Boss: Raging Raven and Cryin Wolf both have soldiers help them, while Screaming Mantis forces people to help her.
  • Four-Girl Ensemble
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: Deconstructed
  • Freudian Excuse: Every one of the Beauties.
  • Gorgeous Gorgon: The B&Bs embody this trope in both the physical sense and the mental one. The first one, Laughing Octopus, is probably the best example; after her armor falls off, she babbles and giggles some more, the camera deliberately avoiding her face... before revealing she's absolutely stunning. In the mental sense, each of the B&Bs reveals a sliver of humanity beneath their psychosis and a desire to be free of the need to kill.
  • Ink Suit Actor: The Beauty and the Beast Unit's four members were based on models. In the case of Raging Raven, the inspirational model, Yumi Kikuchi, not only lent her appearance to her creation, she even voiced her.
    • To a lesser extent, their Japanese voice actors also performed motion capture for the characters.
  • Lady Swears A Lot: See Precision-F-Strike. Although most of the characters swear in the series, only two (one in the English version) actually went as serious as dropping the F-bomb.
  • Laughing Mad: Laughing Octopus and to a far lesser extent Screaming Mantis.
  • Mind Rape: All of them are victims of mundane versions.
  • M.S. (Mind Screw) Fanservice: Hands down.
  • Powered Armor
  • Psycopathic Womanchildren: The BATB corps' minds are pretty much stuck in their childhood thanks to their emotional traumas.
  • Puzzle Boss: Laughing Octopus and Screaming Mantis.
  • Quirky Miniboss Squad: The B&Bs borrow elements from previous MGS bosses; the animal names of the FOXHOUND members, the emotions of the Cobras, and the weapons of the Dead Cell members (Fatman's explosives, Vamp's throwing knives, Fortune's railgun and Solidus' mechanical tentacles and P90). This is entirely intentional because a lot of this game is about flashing back to the past and nostalgia.
    • Laughing Octopus is pretty much what Doctor Octopus would be if he focused more on the illusory abilities of octopi (and was a hot blonde). Her tentacles and gun of choice both were used by Solidus.
    • It's no coincidence that you fight Crying Wolf in the exact same place you fought Sniper Wolf, and in the same way. Crying Wolf's even harder, though, because she's got backup support units and can kill you just by running you over.
    • Raging Raven owes most of her inspiration to The Fury, who also flew around and blew up your hiding places. Instead of being surrounded by mostly-aesthetic crows like Vulcan Raven, though, she's got dozens of copies of her wing-units surrounding her, making her fight a needle-in-a-haystack fight.
    • And finally, Screaming Mantis is a return to the mind-screw of Psycho Mantis; Instead of psychically flinging objects around, she throws a room full of people at you, since she can manipulate their bodies like puppets.
  • Shout-Out: They share the code names of the four FOXHOUND members killed in Metal Gear Solid, the weapons of the Dead Cell in Sons of Liberty and the emotions refer to the Cobra Unit from Snake Eater.
  • Spy Catsuit: Their outfits under the armor.
    • Note that originally, the Laughing Beauties were intended to be stark naked, but that would have given MGS4 an AO rating beyond a doubt, and they weren't even allowed to have their motion actors do it in the nude. Suffice to say, the Spy Catsuit was a result of this problem.
  • Tear Jerker: Oh, by the Gods, Crying Wolf really needs a hug bad.
  • Voice of the Legion: Their armored forms combine a male and female voice, but only when they're in their suits.
  • Where I Was Born and Razed
  • Women In Black
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds


Laughing Octopus

Voiced By: Haruna Aimoto (JP), Paula Tiso (EN)

A woman who was forced to kill her family by a cult and pretend to enjoy it. She attacks with giant metal tentacles and advanced camouflage.

  • Combat Tentacles
  • Laugh with Me: This is Laughing Octopus' Catch Phrase.
  • Precision F-Strike: Laughing Octopus drops the F-bomb shortly before fighting Snake, and is notably the only character in the English version of the series (and the second in the series overall, see EVA) to do so.
  • Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Laughing Octopus pulls one during her boss fight after you damage her enough. Actually, a bunch of the forms she takes mock you in one way or another; she even rips off Snake's own signature move by hiding within a cardboard box at one point.


Raging Raven

Voiced By: Yumi Kikuchi (JP), Nika Futterman (EN)

A woman who was kidnapped by soldiers as a child and beaten daily. She escaped with the help of some ravens and slaughtered her captors and the civilians they had kidnapped. Her mech allows her to fly and shoot missles.


Crying Wolf

Voiced By: Eriko Hirata (JP), Debra Wilson Skelton (EN)

A woman who accidentally smothered her baby brother when he was crying while hiding from genocidal soldiers. She went insane and murderd all the children in a refugee camp, and blamed it on a wolf she hallucinated. Her mech allows Wolf to travel very quickly, and she is an excellent sniper.

  • Cold Sniper: Deconstructed. Although she is very skilled at sniping people, she is also shown to break down in tears when doing so, making her anything but cold and emotionless.
  • Nostalgia Level: Crying Wolf is fought in the same Shadow Moses Island snowfield as Sniper Wolf.
  • Split Personality: Specifically, her Split Personality is an actual wolf.


Screaming Mantis

Voiced By: Mao Yuuki (JP), Andrea Zafra (EN)

The leader of the Beauty and the Beast Unit. As a child Screaming Mantis was locked in the basement of a torture dungeon and had to live off the polluted water and dead bodies in there, driving her insane. When Snake fights her she is possessed by the ghost of Psycho Mantis. She attacks with two puppets that can control the nanomachines inside everyone.

  • Demonic Possession: Variation: Although the ending of the battle implies that Psycho Mantis possessed her, it's not so much that Mantis's spirit actually possessed her as it was that Screaming Mantis was injected with nanomachines that contained portions of Psycho Mantis' psyche.
  • Hoist By Her Own Petard / Puzzle Boss: The means to defeat Screaming Mantis is by using the Psycho Mantis doll against her upon procuring it. Ironic that it had to be the Mantis Doll, seeing how portions of his psyche was implanted into her via nanomachines.
  • Human Shield: Screaming Mantis is fond of this; she can telekinetically float the bodies of people and control them, and will often use an entire roomful of people to block your bullets.
  • Marionette Motion: Mantis' attack.
  • People Puppets: Screaming Mantis's power.
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