Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Paingets so close to closing the circle between the prequels following Big Boss and the originalMetal Gear. The former takes place in 1984, while the first game in the series is set in 1995. A lot happens in the eleven year interim which is vital to understanding the whole franchise.
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The once legendary IP is dormant, but with the way the gaming medium works there is always a chance it could rise up once again with either aremakeor a brand new title further exploring the lore. If it did, perhaps it could further explore one of the following plot details below.
10Kingdom Of Flies
Eli’s Kingdom of Flies is reduced to a passing mention in the ending crawl describing world events from the following thirty years instead of a full-fledged mission as originally intended.
After escaping Mother Base with Sahelanthropus and the otherkids, Eli forms a small colony with the other children on an island.Venom Snakechases the boy and discovers the island to be infected with the vocal cord parasite. He orders a napalm strike to eliminate the deadly parasite, leaving Eli behind to die. However, Eli is saved by Psycho Mantis at the last possible moment.
9Liquid Joins The SAS
After his wild childhood endeavors, Liquid Snake joins the SAS, or the Special Air Service. In the fiction he is the youngest person to ever join its ranks. During the Gulf War he was taken as prisoner, but rescued in 1994.
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His hatred towards Big Boss inMetal Gear Solidis more understandable after playing throughThe Phantom Pain.Ironically, Venom Snake was not his true biological father.
8Frank Jaeger And Gustava Heffner
Frank Jaeger’s change of allegiance inMetal Gear 2: Solid Snakegoes back to his relationship with Czech figure skater Gustava Heffner. Thecouplefell in love during the 1988 Olympic Games and tried to settle down out west.
Unfortunately, her attempt at asylum was denied, forcing her to return to her home country in disgrace. After this tragic separation, Frank Jaeger, later known as Grey Fox, grew disillusioned with world politics.
7Huey Emmerich Remarries
]Huey makes it back to land after Venom Snake exiles him on a raft for his grotesque transgressions. He reunites with his son, Hal Emmerich, and eventually remarries.
This woman had her own child whom players will remember as Emma Emmerich fromMetal Gear Solid 2. The tragedy which ripped the family apart would not transpire until after 1995, however.
6Naomi Meets Big Boss
By all accounts, Frank Jaeger orphans Naomi Hunter some time in the late ’70s. However, the enigmatic character would not meet Big Boss until sometime in the ’80s in Mozambique.
The leader of Outer Heaven helped her and Frank move to the United States, where Grey Fox continued to take care of her out of guilt for murdering her parents.
5Sniper Wolf Meets Big Boss
Sniper Wolf was born into conflict in Iraqi Kurdistan and knew nothing else in her early years. During her death speech inMetal Gear Solid, she describes growing up fearing for her life and regularly losing family members before Big Boss saved her some time in the mid-1980s.
Her disdain for the rest of the world came from their reluctance to stop the fighting in her home region.
4Ocelot Becomes A Mercenary
Sometime afterMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painand dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early ’90s, RevolverOcelotleaves Mother Base and becomes a mercenary.
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He also strengthened his relationship with Sergei Gurlukovich, feigning his desire to see Russia restore its former power, something which would only come to light inMetal Gear Solid 2. The mysterious gunslinger was playing the long game all this time, always helping Big Boss from the shadows.
3Raiden Becomes A Child Soldier
Raiden was just a child when the First Liberian Civil War broke out in 1989. At around six years old his parents were killed and he was trained by Solidus Snake to be a child soldier.
During his time fighting, he witnessed and took part in countless atrocities, most of which are too sickening to put into writing. Shortly after the war ended in 1997, Raiden fell into the Patriots' hands.
2Miller Becomes A Survival Trainer
The end ofMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painsees Miller and Ocelot agree to coexist despite their differing loyalties between the two big bosses.
Sometime beforeMetal Gear, Miller leaves Mother Base and becomes a survival trainer, eventually meeting and training Solid Snake. His part assisting Snake inMetal Gear 2makes more sense, since he has a clear reason for wanting to put Big Boss in the ground after feeling betrayed.
1Complete Nuclear Disarmament
This one is kind of a part of the main game, but is only accessible on thePC version.Never the less, it is vital information connectingThe Phantom Painto the 1987 franchise debut.
Outer Heaven is such a threat inMetal Gearbecause it has nuclear weapons and the rest of the world has gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction. Knowing this also goes along way towards understanding the difference inMetal Gear’s1990s versus the real world’s 1990s.
