Metal Gear Solid 4 Characters

The characters of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots in LEGO minifig form.
The minifig creations and comments on this page are by my brother, Ryan C. Stebbins.

Shown above is the now-ancient-looking Solid Snake in black and blue versions of his new sneaking suit from MGS4. Since the game hasn't been released yet (as of early 2007), I had to make these customs using only the various screenshots and videos that have been released as reference. Early footage shows Snake in a bluish-colored suit, but more recent footage shows him in a black suit. So I decided to just make decals of both. Especially since it has been shown that, in the game, Snake will be able to change the color/pattern design of his suit in order to blend in with his surroundings.

I made the hairpiece on this minifig by massively customizing a "Qui-Gon Jinn" hairpiece, which involved cutting and sanding down sections of it, as well as painting it entirely white. The pistol Snake is holding is made from a cut-up rifle from the LEGO western sets, with a shaved-down LEGO cylinder on the end serving as a suppressor.

Meryl Silverburgh rejoins the MGS series in MGS4, now as a member or possible leader of the "new" FOXHOUND. Judging from game screenshots, she still has her faithful Magnum Research Desert Eagle .50AE pistol with her. Ahhh, such an utterly awesome gun. Many consider it to be rather un-tactical, but it certainly has stopping power. Anyway, I guess we'll have to wait and see if she will reprise her role as Snake's love interest... A somewhat unsettling idea considering his rapid aging that has apparently occurred.

It seems that nothing can keep Revolver Ocelot down... Or Liquid Snake, for that matter, whose mind still seems to be fused with - or, has now perhaps even taken complete control of - Ocelot's body via his transplanted arm. Pretty stupid, I know.

It took me a while to figure out a good way to make his trench coat. I guess it worked out all right, although it required quite a bit of decal-cutting. Nothing a little patience and precision can't handle, though... Basically what I did was leave the backing on the decal paper for the bottom part of the coat, so that it would hang down without getting stuck to anything. You can also accomplish this by covering the back of the decal paper with a cut-out of regular paper or something similar. I used the same technique for Otacon's coat (shown below in the last section of images).

Raiden is back, unfortunately. Now he's some kind of bizarre, kick-ass, ninja-thing that wears high-heels (no joke). I doubted that it was possible after MGS2, but it appears that in MGS4 he will be weirder, more disgusting, and more annoying than ever before. Some people really like him now though. If you do, here's your minifig.

I originally wasn't going to make any arm decals for Snake, but after I made some for Raiden I just couldn't let his minifig be more detailed than Snake's.

Shown in the above image is Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, who will once again be reprising his role as Snake's friend and ally. He's one of the few characters besides Snake that has been in all of the "Metal Gear Solid" installments of the Metal Gear series (excluding MGS3).

Shown next is Roy Campbell, former colonel and original commander of special operations unit FOXHOUND. An old friend of Snake's, it seems that Campbell will once again be helping Snake in his new mission(s).

And finally, here is Naomi Hunter, who previously "helped" Snake during his mission to Shadow Moses island in the original Metal Gear Solid.