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"You're a ghost, Snake, in every sense of the word."
- Major Tom
This is Snake. No, not Solid Snake. This is Jack, also known as John,
codenamed Naked Snake, but later known and feared as... Big Boss. That's a
lot of different names! I made a
face decal for the minifig so that I could add camouflage paint to the
face (in this case, Splitter) and make the headband a bit less brightly
blue. At first I was going to make his headband green, but my brother
Ryan, who is more of an MGS expert than me, said it was still more blue
than green in the game. *shrug*
 
"You're not a Snake, and I'm not an Ocelot. We're men, with names." -
Ocelot
Long before he was a cool and reserved back-stabbing traitor in MGS1 and
2, Ocelot was a very cocky yet relatively unskilled young brat, but still
as double-crossing as ever. Sure, he acts like a nutcase, does crazy
things with his hands, and makes cat noises, but hey, he's still pretty
cool.
 
"The Cold War will end... and the world will be consumed in the fires of
war!" - Sokolov
Sokolov is the guy that the whole game revolves around, or so it seems at
first. You're there to rescue him, you fail, and you go off to rescue him
again. All of the countries are fighting over him. So it comes as a big
surprise how he comes to a bad end. Sorry about the cheap face; I thought
it looked funny. The black jacket looks nice though, doesn't it?
 
"I'm sorry to have to do this, Boss, but, given the circumstances, I'm
going to need some proof that you and he were not in collusion... Cut out
his eyes!" - Volgin
Colonel Volgin is a sadistic Russian who enjoys torturing people and
nuking his countrymen. He has scars running all over his face and
electricity running through his body. Luckily, he's a bit of a maniac, and
everyone who works with him is constantly betraying him, heh. I think this
is one of my better minifigs. The face turned out nice, and the coat with
its coattails turned out pretty good too, I think.
 
"They say the first spy in history was the snake in the bible... This time
it was I who seduced the Snake." - EVA
EVA is the spy that you have to work with in Operation Snake Eater. She's
really... free-spirited? Anyway, she keeps her jacket open at all times,
and she isn't wearing much under it. Awfully revealing for a LEGO toy, you
say? Ha! Have you seen the Jabba's Palace Slave Leia minifig? Anyway, Eva loves motorcycles too. But you
can't trust her. She is a spy, after all.
 
"The Boss? The mother of your special forces?" - Russian president
This is the Boss, leader of the Freaks... I mean, leader of the Cobras.
She trained Snake on how to fight, and she can kick his butt anytime she
wants to. One can only wonder why the government didn't clone her instead
of him... Strange, isn't it? She is seen here in her white outfit. No
open-vest decal version available, sorry. Somehow I just didn't think that
would be appropriate.
 
"We are the sons of the Boss! ... I am the Pain!" - The Pain
This is the Pain, one of the Boss's Cobras. He can control bees, using
them as weapons against you, and his face is one giant swollen bee sting.
His suit is actually more yellow than orange, but I didn't want it to be
the same color as his skin, and besides, I need to use my piles and piles of orange
Rebel Pilot torsos for something!
 
This is the Fear, another one of the Cobras. He uses a crossbow and likes
to set traps and jump around in trees. He's not really all that fearsome
for someone called the Fear. If you don't like his face; sorry. I didn't
know what head to use, and I didn't try to make him perfect, since he's
one of my least favorite characters. The only thing really cool about him
is the crossbow, because crossbows are awesome.
 
"Snake! I am the End... and I will send you to your ultimate fate." - The
End
For some reason, I thought the End was a pretty cool character. Somehow I
like the idea of a really old man being able to kick your cocky young butt
because of his elite skills in camouflage and sniping. Unfortunately, he
only uses tranquilizer darts when he fights you, but it can still take
hours to kill him. If he had been using real bullets you never would have
survived. Honestly. There's a way you can kill the end before you ever
have to face him as a boss, but what kind of jerk would do that? Deny the
old guy his final fight? The one he's been waiting for? Even Snake regrets
it if you try that route.
 
"I can see it!... I see earth!" - The Fury
The Fury was a Russian Cosmonaut, and he still wears his spacesuit. I
don't know what the text on his helmet means; but it must be kind of
annoying trying to fight with it in front of your vision all the time. The
Fury is cool; he uses fire... a jetpack and a flamethrower, to be precise,
to fight you. And fire is always cool. I think
this minifig turned out nice, with the jetpack and the flamethrower, as
well as the tube feeding it, working out perfectly. If I had been able to
find a fishbowl-shaped helmet that was trans-black, it would have been
better, but this was the best I could do.
 
"Sad... so sad..." - The Sorrow
Another one of my least favorite characters. This guy's weird. In life, he
could communicate with Ghosts, until the Boss killed him... now he IS a
ghost. He'll pop up in the strangest of places if you try going into
first-person view during the cutscenes. His head that I used here is a
Peter Parker (you know, Spider-Man?) head with no eyebrows. I think it
works fine.
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