Metal Gear/Characters Introduced in Metal Gear Solid And Sons of Liberty

Naomi Hunter
"Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (JP), Jennifer Hale (EN)"

A geneticist with a past even she's not completely sure of, Naomi was chosen to support Snake during the Shadow Moses mission to provide feedback on the Genome Soldiers. She had her own agendas, which included.

Naomi returns and redeems herself in the fourth game where she helps Old Snake deal with Liquid Ocelot and forms a close relationship with Hal and Sunny. -
 * Absolute Cleavage: in MGS4.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: She and Emma Emmerich share the same voice actress.
 * Hot Scientist
 * Intergenerational Friendship: With Sunny.
 * Inconsistent Dub: In the original English version of Metal Gear Solid, Naomi was given a vaguely British sounding accent. When the dialogue was redubbed for the GameCube remake, Naomi was given a more neutral accent which was also used for Metal Gear Solid 4. Actually, she's from Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
 * Ironic Hell: Her . The Patriots also took note of this, as they had her imprisoned for doing that action.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * TV Genius: She's a geneticist, but she still knows a lot about computers and hacking if the fourth game is to be believed...
 * What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Snake for his role in Gray Fox's situation, which also acted as one of the reasons for.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * TV Genius: She's a geneticist, but she still knows a lot about computers and hacking if the fourth game is to be believed...
 * What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Snake for his role in Gray Fox's situation, which also acted as one of the reasons for.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Snake for his role in Gray Fox's situation, which also acted as one of the reasons for.

Mei Ling
"Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Kim Mai Guest (EN)"

A girl on Snake's Mission Control, she is a teenage prodigy and tech wiz who developed the Soliton Radar and the Codec. She frequently quotes proverbs to lift Snake's spirits up. She later becomes a Naval officer in the fourth game. -
 * Action Survivor
 * The Captain: In the fourth game.
 * Chinese Girl: Though she may or may not have an accent depending on which dub you're playing.
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Mission Control
 * Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Inverted. Although she does have a legitimate, if not slightly exaggerated Chinese accent, it also goes into odds with the fact that she was actually born and raised in America.
 * Teen Genius: In the original MGS.

FOXHOUND
A special forces group formed by Big Boss following the downfall of the original FOX unit. Both Solid Snake and Gray Fox were members of this unit. After Big Boss's Face Heel Turn in the first Metal Gear, the unit's co-founder and Executive Officer Roy Campbell becomes the new Commanding Officer in Metal Gear 2. The most well-known incarnation of the team is featured in Metal Gear Solid, where FOXHOUND has turned renegade after Solid Snake and Campbell left the unit. This incarnation of the team is composed of Solid Snake's Evil Twin Liquid Snake, his Dragon Revolver Ocelot, Ax Crazy Psycho Mantis, Defrosting Ice Queen Sniper Wolf, Magical Native American Vulcan Raven, and Replicant Snatcher (but not actual Snatcher) Decoy Octopus. -
 * Animal Motifs
 * Blood Knight: Most of the FOXHOUND members, or at least Vulcan Raven and Liquid Snake, qualify as such.
 * Dysfunction Junction: Liquid's combination of Well Done Son Guyism and homicidal resentment towards his father, Wolf's tragic past and Stalker with a Crush tendencies towards people she intends to kill, Ocelot's torture fetish, Mantis' violent misanthropy... Raven comes across as the most stable of the lot (at least of the members who get in-game character development), and he's an unapologetic Blood Knight.
 * Equal Opportunity Evil: consists of an old gay or bisexual Russian gunslinger, an asexual Russian psychic, a university-educated Native Alaskan shaman/heavy weapons enthusiast, an indestructible British cloned super warrior, a female Kurdish sniper, and Decoy Octopus.
 * Five-Bad Band: See the complete Video Game Five Bad index for the full breakdown.
 * Five-Token Band: A Brit, a Russian-American, an Iraqi, a Russian, an Inuit Shaman, and a Caucasian who can make himself look like any ethnicity.

Liquid Snake
"Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (JP), Cam Clarke (EN)"

The leader of FOXHOUND and Shadow Moses Island, Liquid is the second of the "Sons of Big Boss" introduced. He has a major complex about Solid Snake, and was told for his entire life that he inherited Big Boss' recessive genes in order that Solid Snake could get the dominant ones,. Word of God says he isn't naturally blond. - "Vulcan Raven: You are a snake which was not created by Nature. You and the Boss... you are from another world... a world that I do not wish to know."
 * You Fail Biology Forever: Doesn't know very much about genetics.
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Big Bad: One of the series' most famous.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: As stated above, he wasn't originally blond, but the blond hair resulted from being under the hot sun as a POW in Iraq.
 * Blood Knight: Happily accepts it, unlike his brother.
 * Cain and Abel: To Snake.
 * Calling the Old Man Out: He hates Big Boss because he thinks Big Boss knowingly made him the inferior one during the Les Enfants Terribles project, and he implies that one of the main reasons for wanting to continue Big Boss's dream of a world of conflict is so he would further tarnish Big Boss's reputation ("Now I'll finish the work that father began. I will surpass him...I will destroy him!")
 * Child Soldier: He was raised within the British Military, and assuming what the Official Missions Handbook stated about him is canon, he may have done some mercenary work as early as Age 13.
 * Disney Villain Death: Averted so hard. At one point when fighting Snake, he fights him on top of the ruined Metal Gear REX mech, a mech that is over ten meters and to which he claimed that the fall would kill even Solid Snake. Despite being knocked off the mech, he still manages to survive and drive a Jeep, chasing Snake.
 * Engineered Public Confession: Subverted in Nastasha Romanenko's novel. He (and presumably the other terrorists) actually knew all along that they had planted a radio bug on Snake and was recording everything he and his soldiers were stating, and his codec calls, but allowed for it to happen anyways.
 * Evil Brit: Liquid was given to the British government as an infant and was raised as a national.
 * Evil Counterpart: Although he was the definite villain in the game, it was also implied to be inverted, as Psycho Mantis remarked that Solid Snake was actually worse than Liquid in his dying speech.
 * Evil Twin: Though Psycho Mantis has implied that Solid Snake may actually be the true Evil Twin. Liquid is fighting for a cause, the restoration of Outer Heaven. Snake is fighting because he, on a subconcious level, needs war to feel alive. Although he later finds other reasons to keep on living.
 * He Who Must Not Be Named: According to Campbell, Liquid's real name was highly classified to the extent that not even someone within the highest ranks of the military (such as himself) are allowed to know it.
 * Humanoid Abomination: Strongly implied to be such by Vulcan Raven:


 * Implacable Man: It's insane what the guy can survive.
 * Improbable Piloting Skills: He was fully capable of piloting a Hind D in the middle of a blizzard as well as shooting down two F-16s arriving from the Galena Air Force Base, and also pilot it while operating the weapons operator seat.
 * Large Ham
 * Light Is Not Good / Dark Is Evil: Liquid referred to himself and Snake as "the brother of light" and "the brother of dark", although of whom he was specifically referring to in regards to the titles is never actually specified.
 * Master of Disguise: Strongly implied to be such, seeing how
 * Military Brat: Was the clone of Big Boss as well as raised within the British Military, as implied in Peace Walker.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: Liquid Snake figures that he might as well do what his genes tell him, since otherwise, he's nothing. Justified, in that there's little else he ever had other than war, being created for the purpose of it.
 * No Shirt, Long Jacket
 * The Pawn
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Assuming Ocelot's  portrayal of Liquid is valid, Liquid seems to qualify under this trope.
 * Psycho Prototype: Although it is heavily implied that Liquid Snake was created first, and the superior genes were used from him to create Solid Snake,.
 * Rasputinian Death: He survived having his Hind D shot down by Solid Snake, being hit with multiple Stinger missiles, being caught directly within the explosion of Metal Gear REX, surviving a four story fall from Metal Gear REX, was hit with several bullets by a turreted machine gun onboard a Jeep, was caught within a Jeep crash, and he was still ticking up until he succumbed to FOXDIE. Even then, with the last one, he lasted longer against it in the remake, initially collapsing out of agony, but then attempting to grab Snake twice before staring him down and finally passing away, in what was about a few minutes. Only his father and Vamp surpassed him.
 * Shadow Archetype
 * Super Soldier
 * Walking Shirtless Scene
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy

Revolver Ocelot
"Young Voice: Takumi Yamazaki (JP), Josh Keaton (EN)

Old Voice: Koji Totani (JP, MGS1-MGS2), Banjo Ginga (JP, MGS4), Patrick Zimmerman (EN)"

Ocelot is A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma, known for his distinctive style of shooting a Single Action Army pistol (which he loves to reload), love of cowboy movies, love of torture, and ridiculous hand gestures. He also apparently works for FOXHOUND, the Sons of Liberty, and the Patriots, but for all we know he actually has an entirely different agenda. He is a major fixture of the series, being the only character to appear in five of the six Play Station games released as of yet.

In Metal Gear Solid 3 we find out that Ocelot was originally an agent of the GRU. In MGS4 Ocelot is possessed by Liquid Snake and goes by the name Liquid Ocelot. -
 * Arc Words: "You're pretty good!"
 * Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: He loves old gunslinger imagery, and fancies himself one. His outfit at Shadow Moses reflects this.
 * Awesomeness By Analysis: He learned CQC this way.
 * Badass
 * Badass Grandpa
 * Badass Gay
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Badass Normal
 * Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: Ocelot makes the bullets go where he wants.
 * Breakout Villain: Very few people who finished the first Metal Gear Solid when it came out expected him to be anything more than Solidus Snake's lackey in the sequel.
 * But Not Too Foreign: His father is Russian and his mom is American. Both are soldiers, and he was born
 * The Chessmaster: One of the most brilliant examples you'll ever find.
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Trope Namer by way of The Last Days of Foxhound.
 * Cold-Blooded Torture: Ocelot considers torture like a sport.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Determinator: In regards to his actions in MGS3, he is this trope incarnate.
 * Double Agent
 * The Dragon: To Liquid, Solidus, and Volgin (well, in spirit with the last one) respectively in the first three games.
 * He himself receives his own dragon in Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots with Vamp.
 * Dragon Ascendant: He's the Big Bad in the fourth game.
 * Enigmatic Minion
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He tells Naked Snake that he doesn't like killing his Russian comrades during the Virtuous Mission, and pleads with Volgin not to nuke Rassvet.
 * Fake Defector: Chronic Backstabbing Disorder aside, he,.
 * Gay Cowboy: Loves revolvers, Spaghetti Westerns, and Big Boss. He was implied to also have some sort of attraction to Sniper Wolf before attempting to torture Snake, though.
 * Gayngster: More like Bi-Gangster.
 * Good Looking Privates: In MGS3
 * The Gunfighter Wannabe: Throughout MGS3, he always tries a little bit too hard to impress people with tricks like spinning and juggling revolvers, and usually gets slapped down for it.
 * Gun Twirling
 * Improbable Aiming Skills: Six men with M60A rifles, one Ocelot with a Colt Single action. Think Ocelot should have tied one hand behind his back to make it fairer?
 * In Love with Your Carnage: Ocelot's pseudo-romantic admiration for Big Boss when he hears about Big Boss managing to kill people so easily (and his firsthand experience watching Big Boss neutralize the Ocelot Unit).
 * I Was Quite a Looker
 * Large Ham
 * Manly Gay: More like Manly Bi, seeing how he implies that he might have some sort of attraction to Sniper Wolf, who is female.
 * Meaningful Titles: Ocelot uses Revolver, Major or Liquid before his Code Name.
 * "Major" isn't actually part of his codename, so much as its actually his rank.
 * Military Brat
 * Multiple Choice Past: Naomi mentioned that, according to his official case file, after the fall of the Soviet Union, he briefly worked as a member of the Russian Tax Police, OMOR, and the successor unit to the KGB, but left due to not liking the rigid rules. However, the Metal Gear Solid 4 database indicates that the case file was actually falsified to cover up his alliegance to the Patriots.
 * Also, in Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, EVA explains in a radio conversation that she was told by Volgin that Volgin apparently raised Ocelot within GRU ever since the Philosophers kidnapped him during the Battle of Normandy after his birth. However, seeing how his codename was ADAM, and thus worked with the NSA in the past before "defecting" to the Soviet Union, and was also implied to be an agent of the CIA as well, its unlikely that Volgin's account is true at all, unless Volgin meant it figuratively.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Based on Spaghetti Western actor Lee Van Cleef.
 * Noble Demon: In Snake Eater.
 * Otaku: Of spaghetti westerns.
 * Revolvers Are Just Better
 * Significant Birth Date: He was born during the Invasion of Normandy.
 * Single-Target Sexuality: To Big Boss.
 * Stalker with a Crush: To Naked Snake/Big Boss.
 * "Take That!" Kiss:
 * Trigger Happy: "There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long, silver bullet into a well greased chamber", indeed.
 * Torture Technician
 * Waistcoat of Style
 * Worthy Opponent: Constantly seeks a warrior as great as Big Boss to test his skills.
 * Young Gun: In Metal Gear Solid 3.
 * Zen Survivor
 * Waistcoat of Style
 * Worthy Opponent: Constantly seeks a warrior as great as Big Boss to test his skills.
 * Young Gun: In Metal Gear Solid 3.
 * Zen Survivor
 * Zen Survivor

Psycho Mantis
"Voiced By: Kazuyuki Sogabe (JP), Doug Stone (EN)"

FOXHOUND's psychic member, Psycho Mantis was driven insane when he went to deep into a psychopath's mind. Famous for reading the player's memory card and commenting on the games saved on it.


 * Asexuality: Psycho Mantis has a particular distaste for the biologically universal "need for breed."
 * Ax Crazy: Of all the members of Liquid's FOXHOUND unit, Mantis was shown to be the most insane and depraved.
 * Badass Longcoat
 * The Coats Are Off
 * Compelling Voice: It is implied that this is how Psycho Mantis applies his psychic abilities to place people under mind control (as his theme "Mantis' Hymn" often plays in the background of Meryl being brainwashed by Mantis, with Naomi also referring to it as his "mind control music").
 * Crucified Hero Shot: Inverted. Some official artworks as well as a certain attack of his have him in a pose similar to that of Jesus's crucifixion, and he's a villain.
 * For the Evulz: He reveals that he joined Liquid's little coup just to kill as many people as possible.
 * Leitmotif: Mantis' Hymn
 * Meaningful Name: The "Psycho" part of his codename has two meanings: One is in reference to his psychic abilities. The other is also short for "Psychopath" or "Psychotic", referring to Mantis' evident insanity.
 * A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: One of Psycho Mantis' many problems.
 * No Fourth Wall: Probably the most obvious Fourth Wall Observer on the team, if not in the franchise.
 * Psychic Static: He wears the gasmask to keep it out.
 * Vader Breath: Naturally, he's wearing a gasmask, so the trope would apply.
 * Virtual Ghost: He is able to posses Screaming Mantis's armor after her defeat, and show off the fact that he knows jack about the PlayStation 3's controller or save system.
 * Where I Was Born and Razed
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He saw little point in the "selfish desire of passing their genes on." The (questionably canon) Official Missions Handbook seems to heighten his stance, where it claims that he actually wants to end up dying because a parasite (a byproduct of those with genuine psychic powers) was making him do bad things despite his best efforts to control it, because when he is dying, it will be gone, and then he'll at least briefly experience a peace in mind.

Sniper Wolf
"Voiced By: Naoko Nakamura (JP), Tasia Valenza (EN)"

FOXHOUND's sniper. Normally a cold woman, she nonetheless was kind to the Shadow Moses' dogs and Hal, resulting in Hal's infatuation.


 * Absolute Cleavage
 * Cold Sniper
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Femme Fatale
 * In Love with the Mark: A rather twisted version, as Sniper Wolf becomes so obsessed with her targets that they are literally all she thinks about, to the point where she's said to fall in love with them... right before she puts a bullet through them anyway.
 * Laser Sight: Uses one.
 * Loves the Sound of Screaming: Kind of. She explains during her death speech that her lullabies were gunfire, sirens, and screaming; although the context it was given since she was actually born and raised during a time where her people, the Kurds, were being exterminated in Iraq, indicates that she was most likely meaning this literally.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Sniper Wolf's hair is a very pale shade of green.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Sniper Wolf's hair is a very pale shade of green.

Vulcan Raven
"Voiced By: Yukitoshi Hori (JP), Peter Lurie (EN)"

FOXHOUND's shaman. He first fights Solid Snake in a tank, then in cold storage with a minigun.


 * Adaptation Expansion: His character is heavily expanded on in the MGS comic, him being the one who informs Liquid of the deaths of Mantis and Wolf, and giving away the secret of FOXDIE, along with some scope of Liquid's plot during his confrontation against Snake, as opposed to his simple hint in the game.
 * Ammunition Backpack: Vulcan Raven wears a massive ammo tank for his minigun on his back.
 * BFG: His eponymous 20mm M61-A1 Vulcan. In the GC version, it's said he he ripped it off one of the F-16's Liquid shot down.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: Vulcan Raven's main power is "being really, really big." This apparently allows him to use a ~600 pound-plus-ammo M61 Vulcan cannon.
 * It is implied in the game that Vulcan, being a shaman, has mystical powers as well as physical strength.
 * Gatling Good
 * Genius Bruiser: He's a giant who is more than capable of lifting and using a M 63 A 1 Vulcan cannon, yet was also educated at the University of Alaska, and shown to be somewhat of a strategist.
 * Made of Iron: He carries a Vulcan cannon, and ammo, shirtless. In the Alaskan permafrost.
 * Tank Goodness: Vulcan Raven uses a tank during his first boss fight.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene

Decoy Octopus
FOXHOUND's impersonation expert. Solid Snake and the player never actually see what he looks like ingame. Instead Snake sees him when he is impersonating, who dies shortly after.


 * Badass Longcoat
 * The Blank
 * Lost in Character
 * Master of Disguise
 * Sacrificial Lamb
 * The Unfought
 * We Hardly Knew Ye

Meryl Silverburgh
"Voiced by: Kyoko Terase (JP), Debi Mae West (EN)"

The niece of Roy Campbell (later revealed to be his daughter), Meryl always dreamt of being in the military and living up to her heroes in FOXHOUND, but proves to be less than competent. She later makes a comeback in MGS4, a lot more competent and tougher. -
 * Action Girl
 * Amazonian Beauty: Meryl is a lot sturdier looking by MGS4, compared to her appearance in Metal Gear Solid.
 * Cry Cute: In the ending of Act 1, after Ocelot's attempt at shutting down/hijacking the SOP system failed due to his using the wrong DNA (It Makes Sense in Context), Meryl is seen breaking down into tears due to her supressed emotions being unexpectedly released from the lockdown, strongly suggesting that, although she is certainly not a rookie anymore, she certainly hasn't gotten over her sorrow and reluctance to fire a weapon at living targets.
 * Debi Mae West: The role that made her famous.
 * Daddy's Girl: Averted, her legal father died while she was very young, and she never actually knew that her birthfather was actually her uncle until after the events of Metal Gear Solid. Even after that, Meryl ends up having an estranged, non-talking relationship with her father both because he married a brunette woman who was young enough to be his daughter by the time of Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots (not knowing that ) and from the fact that she was conceived by her uncle in an extra-marital affair with her mom that she learned from Roy Campbell. It wasn't until the ending where Meryl   that she and Campbell even start having a decent conversation.
 * Faux Action Girl: At least in the first game, though at least they admit it.
 * Heroes Want Redheads: Subverted: Meryl and Snake break up shortly after Shadow Moses.
 * Heroic Bastard: Meryl Silverburgh was conceived in an extramarital affair between her uncle, Roy Campbell, and her mother. It's also hinted that this is one of the reasons for her sore relations with her father in MGS4.
 * Hot Amazon: Her action girl status certainly seems to be a plus for Johnny.
 * Meryl Debuted In Policenauts: Not that you'd know it if you weren't Japanese.
 * Military Brat
 * Plucky Girl
 * Prison Rape: Implied at the end of Solid.
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Tsundere
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment

Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich
"Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (JP), Christopher Randolf (EN)"

An Anime fanboy (so much so that his codename is based off an anime convention) Otacon is the designer of Metal Gear Rex, though he had no idea it was going to be used to launch nukes. After learning the truth, he vows to help Snake stop Metal Gear at all costs, and really becomes an Ascended Fanboy. -
 * Actor Allusion: Not in the series itself, but in Super Smash Bros Brawl, if using the Codec when fighting Captain Falcon at Shadow Moses, Otacon and Snake will reveal that they are both fans of the character. In the Japanese version, Otacon and Captain Falcon are both voiced by Hideyuki Tanaka.
 * Adorkable
 * Ambiguously Jewish: He has the last name of Emmerich, and his personality fits this Nice Jewish Boy / Jewish and Nerdy stereotypes.
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Cartwright Curse: This man is not lucky in love. He accumulates Tear Jerkers the way Snake collects CMoAs.
 * Cute Glasses Boy
 * The Heart
 * Hollywood Nerd: An interesting case of this: in the original game, he looked very much a nerd with messy hair and a weak deposition. In Sons of Liberty, he was designed a bit tougher, and his Character Development showed through. In Guns of the Patriots, Otacon becomes a full-out Hot Scientist who.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Snake.
 * Ink Suit Actor: Kind of: He wasn't actually portrayed by series creator Hideo Kojima, but his overall design as well as certain mannerisms of Otacon in Metal Gear Solid 2 were based directly on him, if the Director's Commentary was anything to go by.
 * The Lancer/The Smart Guy: Doubles as both to Snake.
 * Likes Older Women: This is not something he would be proud of as it is a very tragic experience for him.
 * Lovable Nerd: And an effective foil against Snake's gruff hyper competence.
 * Mission Control
 * My God, What Have I Done?: The reason he joined Snake. See Not What I Signed on For below.
 * Nerds Are Sexy: Especially in the fourth game.
 * Nice Guy
 * Not What I Signed on For: He helped develop REX thinking it was a defense weapon, and out of a desire to make an actual mecha from animes. The guys who hired him conveniently left out the fact that the weapon he developed was actually a WMD.
 * Non-Action Guy
 * Otaku: It's the reason he has the nickname/codename "Otacon."
 * Occidental Otaku
 * Say My Name: Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAKKKKEEEE!!!!
 * Tender Tears: In a world filled with warriors, he is the only character in the franchise to shed these.

Johnny "Akiba" Sasaki
"Voiced by: Naoki Imamura (JP, 1st voice), Jun Fukuyama (JP, 2nd voice), Dean Scofield (EN, 1st voice), Beng Spies (EN, 2nd voice)"

Johnny first appeara in Metal Gear Solid as a guard with stomach problems whom Meryl strips and uses his clothes for her escape. His grandfather also served as a guard during the Cold War. -
 * Afraid of Needles:
 * : Once he takes off his balaclava and sunglasses.
 * But Not Too Foreign: His surname is Sakaki, but his features are obviously caucasian.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * The Fool
 * Generation Xerox: Naked Sankes meet a guard who is apparently Johnny's grandpa during MGS3. He is also named Johnny and shares the same intestinal problems and incompetence at his job.
 * The Gump: Johnny Sasaki's gimmick. By sheer coincidence, he manages to get involved in all of Snake's missions . His grandfather (also named Johnny) even met Big Boss during Operation Snake Eater.
 * Ill Boy: His perpetual diarrhea.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * It Runs in The Family: All of the male first born in his family are named Johnny. Also, his grandfather is a prison guard like him.
 * Mask Power:
 * Military Brat
 * Notice This: The "J" on his balaclava is ridiculously out of place among legions of Faceless Goons.
 * Running To The Toilet Gag: His stomach problems
 * Military Brat
 * Notice This: The "J" on his balaclava is ridiculously out of place among legions of Faceless Goons.
 * Running To The Toilet Gag: His stomach problems
 * Notice This: The "J" on his balaclava is ridiculously out of place among legions of Faceless Goons.
 * Running To The Toilet Gag: His stomach problems

Kenneth Baker
Former president of Arms Tech. -
 * Asshole Victim: Probably: The ability to have the stealth nuke on a railgun on REX to basically break retaliation theory is strongly implied to have been Baker's idea, and if the alluded to rumors of Boorda's true cause of death and the timing of the death and REX's development is anything to go by, he may have also had Boorda killed specifically because he wasn't able to get into the pentagon's black budget before Boorda.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Sacrificial Lamb
 * We Hardly Knew Ye
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He developed REX as a means to keep his company from going under as a result of SDI and his loss of the Generation X fighter plane to another stealth manufacturing company.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:

Sergei Gurlukovich
"Voiced By: Osamu Saka (JP), Earl Boen (EN)"

The leader of a Russian a mercenary group and Olga Gurlukovich's father. 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. - "Ocelot: Gurlukovich, you and your daughter will die here.
 * Glorious Mother Russia
 * Lame Comeback:

Sergei: Damn you."


 * Papa Wolf / Morality Pet: It's very clear that he does deeply care about his daughter, Olga, as well as the well-being of his grandchild. Also, as evidenced in the Lame Comeback line, he was not pleased with Ocelot's threat against his daughter when the latter betrayed him.
 * Properly Paranoid: Just before the Olga battle, he tells Olga that she should leave, and cited that part of the reason he wants her to leave was because he saw the moon "pale as death" in the storm, and suspected that the mission wasn't going to end well. He's right, but not in the way that even he anticipated, as Ocelot betrays and guns him down in cold blood.
 * Renegade Russian

Olga Gurlukovich
"Voiced by: Kyoko Terase (JP), Vanessa Marshall (EN)"

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 her own agenda. -
 * Action Girl: In the Tank Chapter
 * Action Mom: In the Plant Chapter
 * Anti-Villain: Type II: She legitimately cared for her own troops, and hated the fact that she had to betray and kill them off under Patriot orders, even though she had to do it.
 * Bifauxnen: Which actually causes some awkwardness for the game's other androgynous platinum blond character when he's mistaken for her.
 * Blood Knight / Child Soldier: It is heavily implied that she was born and raised on the battlefield, and that she has nowhere else to go besides the Battlefield.
 * Double Agent: Albeit a reluctant one.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: She did not take having to betray and kill her Gurlukovich comrades very well at all, even though it was.
 * The Ladette
 * Lzherusskie
 * : Tragically exploited by the Patriots as blackmail to ensure she does her part in keeping Raiden alive in the S3 plan. Basically, she had to kill off the unit she had considered her family, never mind her friends, just to protect Raiden because if she failed, they would.
 * Military Brat: Well, for one thing, her father is both the leader of a pro-communist mercenary group, and he also served in the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
 * Mysterious Informant:
 * The Pawn
 * Pregnant Badass: Remember Solid Snake's fight with Olga during the Tanker Chapter? Well, she was pregnant at the time by at least three months, which served as the primary reason why her father wanted her out of the operation and off the Mercenary as soon as possible.
 * Oh my god we riddled her with tranquilizer rounds. What happens to a developing fetus when her mother gets massive amounts of dope dumped into her system like that? Thank God Sunny turned out okay.
 * You Killed My Father: She blames Snake for her father Sergei's death, but later discovers it was Ocelot's doing.
 * You Killed My Father: She blames Snake for her father Sergei's death, but later discovers it was Ocelot's doing.
 * You Killed My Father: She blames Snake for her father Sergei's death, but later discovers it was Ocelot's doing.

Scott Dolph
"Voiced By: Daisuke Gori (JP), Kevin Michael Richardson (EN)"

Commander of the United States Marines Corps in charge of safeguarding Metal Gear RAY during the Tanker Incident. Also Fortune's father. -
 * 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.
 * Properly Paranoid: He anticipated that several politicians and military personnel would try to stop the project. He was right, and got killed for it.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wanted to create RAY out of a genuine belief that it would end nuclear proliferation.
 * Your Cheating Heart: It's implied that he still acted as Vamp's lover even while he was still married to his wife.

Raiden
"Voiced by: Kenyuu Horiuchi (JP, MGS2-MGS4), Toshiyuki Morikawa (JP, MGSR), Quinton Flynn (EN),"

Raiden came into existence out of Kojima's desire to show the main character Snake from a different perspective by making him not the player character, but no one got it. He got put through Hell and back, realized his entire life was a lie, was groped by the president, had to kill his father figure and be lied to by the man he admired, but gained no sympathy. As an apology to all the fans who were angered by having to play as a wimp Kojima created a helpless lookalike by the name of Ivan Raidenovich Raikov in Metal Gear Solid 3, who he put through all sorts of humiliation. He seriously improves in Metal Gear Solid 4. -
 * 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.
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Ax Crazy: Possibly is this in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, going by how he behaved in the trailer.
 * Badass: Even before the fourth game, he was one.
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Badass Longcoat: Wears one in the fourth game. A lot.
 * Bishonen
 * Child Soldier
 * Combat Stilettos: A rather odd feature of Raiden's MGS4 ninja outfit is the high heels, which he manages to make badass by holding his sword with his feet.
 * Conveniently an Orphan: Raiden's birth parents were killed while he was still a very young child, and Solidus, being his "Godfather", took him in.
 * A Day in the Limelight: Metal Gear Solid Rising is shaping up to be this for him--it may be the only game where he doesn't have to share the spotlight with Snake.
 * Determinator
 * Expy: Weirdly invoked.
 * Ironically, he himself gains an expy in the form of Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater.
 * Foil: To Solid Snake. Snake is a gruff, grizzled, Tall, Dark and Handsome ladies man, Raiden is a young, 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.
 * 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 in the fourth game.
 * Katanas Are Just Better: So much that, despite having a gun strapped to his leg throughout the fourth game, he never once uses it. (Ironically, his sword is not a katana at all, but rather a straight-bladed ninjato.)
 * Lightning Bruiser: Especially in MGS4. No pun intended.
 * Mistaken Identity: In Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater Subsistence's Secret Theatre clip "Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser", Raiden ends up travelling back in time into Groznyj Grad's prison to kill Naked Snake in his cell, only for him to just miss Snake before he escaped. Volgin then finds him and mistakes him for Raikov, and it is heavily implied that Volgin either assaulted Raiden or attempted to commit Prison Rape on him as a result.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In the fourth game, Raiden's a ninja-cyborg.
 * 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
 * The Other Darrin: Going by pre-release info, Raiden's going to be voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa in Metal Gear Solid Rising. And according to Quinton Flynn's official site and Twitter, he has yet to be approached to reprise the voice. However, the English trailer for Rising confirms that, yes, he is still going to be voiced by Flynn.
 * Similarly, in the English version of Secret Theatre film Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser, Raiden was voiced by Charlie Schlatter (in other words, Raikov) instead of Quinton Flynn either because he was unavailable or the localizers wanted to make the similarities between Raiden and Raikov more apparent.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: It is heavily implied that he suffers from PTSD as a result of his experiences as a Child Soldier, and that it worsened by Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots.
 * Shock and Awe:  I'm Lightning. The Rain Transformed..
 * And the tagline for his game is "Lightning Bolt Action".
 * Supporting Protagonist: In MGS2.
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Talking to Himself: Sort of. Raiden doesn't share any voice actors with anyone else in Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots, but his motion capture actor also portrayed Little Gray, the monkey sidekick of Drebin 893. In fact, his motion capture actor was literally the reason why Little Gray was added into the game.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: A heroic example.
 * Zen Survivor
 * Talking to Himself: Sort of. Raiden doesn't share any voice actors with anyone else in Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots, but his motion capture actor also portrayed Little Gray, the monkey sidekick of Drebin 893. In fact, his motion capture actor was literally the reason why Little Gray was added into the game.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: A heroic example.
 * Zen Survivor

Rosemary
"Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (JP), Lara Cody (EN)"

Raiden's girlfriend, who is determined to make him be a little more open with her. There may be more to her than it seems. .

Reappears in Guns of the Patriots as Snake's psychiatric support. She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody. -
 * Becoming the Mask
 * Gainaxing: While having Codec-conversations with Rosemary in Guns Of The Patriots, give your controller a few nice hard shakes and watch what happens on the screen...(snickers).
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Hey, It's That Voice: A meta example. Her Japanese voice actress also does The Boss and Sunny.
 * Her English voice actress apparently voiced Lilah in the Ctrl+Alt+Del animated series.
 * : In the fourth game.
 * Lethal Chef: Take Raiden's word for it.
 * And Roy Campbell's word (well, more like a hint, but still).
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * Woman in White: In MGS2.
 * Your Cheating Heart: The Colonel, in an optional Codec conversation onboard Arsenal, will imply that Rosemary was cheating on Raiden the Saturday before the mission, although given what the Colonel was doing beforehand, not to mention the fact that it is implied that he is trying to "stop" Raiden, its very unlikely to be true.
 * Your Cheating Heart: The Colonel, in an optional Codec conversation onboard Arsenal, will imply that Rosemary was cheating on Raiden the Saturday before the mission, although given what the Colonel was doing beforehand, not to mention the fact that it is implied that he is trying to "stop" Raiden, its very unlikely to be true.

The Colonel/
Raiden's commanding officer during the Big Shell incident. -

The Sons of Libery
A combination of two groups: The remnants of Sergei Gurlukovich's mercenary group (and Revolver Ocelot), and the rogue anti-terrorist group Dead Cell, made up of Fortune, Vamp, and Fatman, and led by Solidus Snake. The combined group took over the Big Shell decontamination plant, held everyone inside hostage (including the United States president) and was also believed to have also demanded a ransom. In reality the group never actually demanded a ransom in the first place, and in fact planned to.


 * Faceless Mooks: All of the soldiers of the Sons of Liberty, barring the top leaders, wear balaclavas. Justified, as those were the Gurlukovich Mercenaries, who often wore balaclavas to mask their identities and thus make it more difficult to trace.

Solidus Snake
"Voiced by: Akio Ohtsuka (JP), John Cygan (EN)"

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. -
 * Alliterative Code Name
 * Anti-Villain: Type III. Word of God stated that Solidus was intended to be of this trope.
 * Badass: He took out three Metal gear RAYs with just a submachine gun! That is cool.
 * Big Bad: In the second game.
 * Child Soldier: It's implied that he led a unit of child soldiers in the Liberian Civil War during his teenage years.
 * Dual-Wielding
 * Eyepatch of Power: Subverted.
 * Early-Bird Cameo: He was first mentioned in the Meryl Ending of Metal Gear Solid.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father: It turns out Solidus was Raiden's father, or rather, Godfather. Unlike other uses of the trope, it was even foreshadowed earlier when Solidus and Raiden first meet face to face ("Where do I know him from?")
 * 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 katana and wakizashi set (i.e. daishou), Minshuto ("Democrat") and Kyowato ("Republican").
 * Possibly, the swords that come with the Powered Armors in the setting are also made by Tokugawa Heavy Industries.
 * 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.
 * President Evil
 * Properly Paranoid:
 * Super Soldier
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to free America founded nature from the threat of the Patriots controlling nature, as well as having a personal motive of wanting to be remembered somehow, as he isn't able to pass on his genes due to his clone nature. However, in order to do this, he had to organize a terrorist organization in order to do so.
 * Younger Than He Looks: Despite his appearance looking like someone in his eighties, he's actually in his thirties. He implies that his appearance was the result of genetic engineering done by the Patriots.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to free America founded nature from the threat of the Patriots controlling nature, as well as having a personal motive of wanting to be remembered somehow, as he isn't able to pass on his genes due to his clone nature. However, in order to do this, he had to organize a terrorist organization in order to do so.
 * Younger Than He Looks: Despite his appearance looking like someone in his eighties, he's actually in his thirties. He implies that his appearance was the result of genetic engineering done by the Patriots.

Helena Dolph Jackson/Fortune
"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. -
 * BFG: Her weapon is a large and somewhat impractical railgun (but when you're impervious to bullets and explosives, I guess you can use any weapon you want).
 * 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.
 * Broken Bird
 * Dark-Skinned Blond
 * Death Seeker: "KILL ME NOW!"
 * Determined Widow
 * Deus Angst Machina
 * Hopeless Boss Fight: You fight her once and the time spent fighting her is trying to avoid being hit by her railgun blasts until the colonel calls you.
 * Leotard of Power
 * Military Brat: Her father is Scott Dolph, the commandant of the marine corps killed in the tanker chapter.
 * 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.
 * Wave Motion Gun: See BFG.
 * 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
 * You Killed My Father

Vamp
"Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP, MGS2), Shinya Tsukamoto (JP, MGS4), Phil LaMarr (EN)"

A Romanian who has a penchant for knives and a taste for blood, Vamp is apparently immortal. He was once involved with Commander Scott Dolph before becoming close with Dolph's daughter Helena/Fortune. 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 threw a knife at Laughing Octopus specifically to stop her from slaughtering too many of the rebel soldiers).
 * Blood Lust
 * 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.
 * Word of God says that the dog tags belong to the fallen members of Dead Cell.
 * Combat Sadomasochist: Vamp really loves hurting people. Especially Raiden. 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.
 * Compelling Voice: This is apparently how Vamp manages to "pin" his opponent's shadow to the ground and get them stuck. He uses a hypnotic voice and then uses the light on the blade to amplify it.
 * Conveniently an Orphan: He lost his entire family in a Romanian church bombing that he himself was also a victim to.
 * Dance Battler: Flamenco with knives.
 * Death Seeker: In the fourth game.
 * Depraved Bisexual: He sleeps with Fortune and her father and may want Raiden too. He also does most of what he does in a sexually suggestive manner.
 * The Dragon: Acted as the second-in-command to Helena Scott Dolph and to Liquid Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4, respectively.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Vamp was not too pleased when learning about Fatman's attempt at bombing the Big Shell afterwards.
 * Evil Sounds Deep
 * Foe Yay: Quite a lot of this with Raiden.
 * Freudian Excuse: The reason for Vamp's desire for drinking blood is because that's literally what he had to drink from his family members just to survive is predicament of being impaled by a cross for three days after a church he attended in Romania was bombed. Had it also been included, his fear of the crucifix would also have stemmed from the same event.
 * Get Back Here Boss
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: When Laughing Octopus was enjoying herself too much when killing the Rebel soldiers, Vamp threw a knife at Laughing Octopus to get herself to stop, and told her to let one live.
 * Healing Factor:, although Naomi implies that he had a rapid healing ability even beforehand, albeit to a significantly lesser degree.
 * Icy Blue Eyes: In the second game.
 * Implacable Man: Even more so than Liquid.
 * Knife Nut: Heck, he even is capable of parrying bullets with his knives.
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After the bombing of a Romanian church during his childhood, he was orphaned as a result of the destruction, and was also impaled by a crucifix that was knocked down during the destruction. It is also what caused him to feast on human blood, as he needed it to survive for three whole days, and was also implied to be his first "death." This was also originally intended to also have a major role in the story, with the traumatic experience actually causing him to develop the stereotypical vampire fear of the cross.
 * Lecherous Licking: Towards Raiden.
 * Licking the Blade: He does this in the 4th game, often with Raiden's white blood on the knife, to the point where you wonder if the game is making fun of his tendency to do this.
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Made of Iron: Vamp can consistently take an incredible amount of punishment thanks to his natural healing ability,.
 * Minor Injury Overreaction: Subverted: Similar to Kuja from Final Fantasy IX, Vamp managed to dodge all of Raiden's gunfire, but ended up being grazed on the cheek. He actually is impressed with Raiden for inflicting the cut, as he notes that he has the ability to predict people's actions by their muscles, but Raiden's are "different" (referring to the Skull Suit's pressure against his vital organs), and notes that this will be as much of a promising battle as Ocelot mentioned.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: His design is modeled on flamenco dancer Joaquin Cortes.
 * No Shirt, Long Jacket
 * Obviously Evil: Come on, he's a very pale guy with an eastern European accent, loves to lick blood from his knife, has red eyes in the fourth game, wears a Badass Longcoat when he isn't shirtless, has a Beard of Evil, this could go on for paragraphs.
 * Only Sane Man: In comparison to his boss, Liquid Ocelot, whom he questions his plans somewhat, and the B&B Corps, who are so Ax Crazy that the only way to prevent them from getting out of hand is to throw a knife at them, Vamp seems to be the closest thing to a sane member of Outer Heaven that they could have.
 * Our Vampires Are Different: Vamp apparently only drinks blood due to a neurosis, and
 * Overly Long Tongue
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Recurring Boss
 * Shadow Pin: Can immobilize you by hitting your shadow with a knife. But he only does this in the second game.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has red eyes in the fourth game for some reason.
 * The Coats Are Off
 * The Vamp: Despite his codename being "Vamp", its subverted, as it is hinted that he did genuinely love Marine Commandant General Scott Dolph (if he hadn't and played the trope straight, then Helena/Fortune, Scott's daughter, certainly would not have even been friends with him, never mind possible lovers).
 * What Could Have Been: Vamp was originally supposed to be envisioned as a woman, but for some reason, his gender was changed in development. Also, he was originally supposed to be, similar to a real life Vampire, afraid of the crucifix, although it was mostly due to the trauma he experienced when the church he was attending in Romania was bombed with him and his family in it, where he actually was impaled by one.
 * 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 their unit and presumably their framing them 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.
 * What Could Have Been: Vamp was originally supposed to be envisioned as a woman, but for some reason, his gender was changed in development. Also, he was originally supposed to be, similar to a real life Vampire, afraid of the crucifix, although it was mostly due to the trauma he experienced when the church he was attending in Romania was bombed with him and his family in it, where he actually was impaled by one.
 * 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 their unit and presumably their framing them 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.

Fatman
"Voiced by: Kozo Shioya (JP), Barry Dennen (EN)"

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
 * Ax Crazy
 * Bald of Evil: The game's script implies that the reason for his baldness is from severe burns.
 * Calling Card: Fatman has two in two different mediums. The first, from Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty, has him placing trace amounts of cologne on the C4 he uses to blow up targets. The second, from The Last Days of Foxhound, is leaving behind a smoking rubble of the location he was at.
 * Card-Carrying Villain: If his introductory statement is anything to go by, he apparently takes pride in being the lowest humanity has to offer even moreso than being the greatest humanity has to offer.
 * Deceptive Disciple
 * Double Agent
 * Evil Laugh
 * Evilly Affable: Compared to the other characters, it's actually quite refreshing to meet someone who wouldn't feel out of place in Team Fortress 2.
 * Fat Bastard
 * Fat Idiot: Inverted. Although he is shown as severely insane, his backstory indicates that he was also quite intelligent, at least in regards to bomb-making.
 * Genius Bruiser: Aside from his weight, and thus large size, it was also stated in his backstory that he managed to build an atomic bomb at age 10, simply from the use of a guidebook, and his high marks under Stillman's training were unprecedented.
 * Guns at School: It is heavily implied in a Codec conversation that this happened with Fatman, as Stillman mentions that although he desired fame due to being hated at his own high school, the only thing he ever amounted to before being transferred to Indian Head was occassionally bringing a gun into school.
 * Jerkass
 * Laughing Mad
 * Lightning Bruiser: For a guy who is extraordinarily overweight, and has his overall weight made even heavier with his bomb blast suit (complete with a cooling vest), a laminated ballistic protector covering most of his head, and a protective plate for his spine (which, overall, would add about 50 kilograms to his body), he is surprisingly very good at rollerblading, something that the Colonel Lampshaded by stating that the amount of added weight that Fatman has should render him incapable of rollerblading.
 * Mad Bomber: Vamp even refers to him by that specific name.
 * Not in This For Your Revolution: The only reason he agreed to act as an agent to the Patriots and participate in the S3 Plan as a test for Raiden's skills was for the opportunity to kill off his mentor Peter Stillman, and otherwise did not actually care one bit for the Patriot's plans.
 * Parental Neglect: While he was very young, he was pretty much neglected by both his own parents, and often hung around at his father's clock shop.
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Going by how he's behaving when meeting up with Raiden, as well as saying "It's time to start the party!" in a clownish tone, he seems to be both insane and almost childish.
 * The Mole: Was planted by the Patriots to test Raiden's capabilities in exchange for gaining the chance of killing his mentor Peter Stillman.
 * Unfavorite: Presumably the reason why he desired fame and was not controllable: he was neglected by his parents while he was very young, and even though he built an atomic bomb at age 10 from a guidebook, and was well known in the bomb trade for this, he was hated and shunned at his own school.
 * Villainous Glutton: "Laugh and grow fat!"

Emma Emmerich
"Voiced By: Maria Yamamoto (JP), Jennifer Hale (EN)"

Hal's younger step-sister. When they were young Hal and Emma had a very close relationship, which was ruined when.

As a young woman, Emma is taken hostage by The Sons of Liberty. Hal asks Raiden to rescue her.


 * Conspiracy Theorist: Emma's explanation of what the Patriots have or could have done to information ("You know how the alphabet has twenty-six letters? Well, it could have been thirty. What if the other letters were deleted by a program?") and her "justifications" ("Have you ever seen a gene? Have you counted them yourself?") make her sound like this to the point that she can come off sounding like a parody.
 * It’s worth notating the whole censored alphabet thing makes much more sense in Japanese as they are missing letters, like La Li Lu Le Lo.
 * Distressed Damsel: A very classic example of this trope.
 * Escort Mission: You have to take her from the Shell 2 core to the Shell 1 core. She can't walk very well due to her being injected with something to keep her from running away, so Raiden has to carry her.
 * : Especially jarring in that it happens almost immediately after the Escort Mission.
 * Meganekko
 * Why Did It Have To Be Water? Her step-father's drowning death left her with a crippling fear of water at an early age. Naturally, by the time you reach her, the hallways leading in and out of the area she's kept are completely flooded.

Richard Ames
"Voiced by: Masaharu Sato (JP), Peter Renaday (EN)"

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.
 * Love Redeems: It is heavily implied via Nastasha Romanenko's novel, In the Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth, that the reason why he ended up not only letting her live from the Shadow Moses Incident, but also supplying evidence against his superiors, the Patriots, to ensure they don't hurt her was because he was starting to fall for Nastasha Romanenko again.
 * Redemption Equals Death: Initially believed to be what happened to him in the novel, ends up happening for real during the Big Shell Incident.
 * Unwitting Pawn: Ultimately turned out to be this, and killed for this, along with other reasons.
 * You Have Failed Me: After reading In The Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth, it becomes especially apparent that one of the reasons why he was killed off by the Patriots (by causing his pacemaker nanomachines to malfunction) also dealt with this, since he was directly responsible for supplying Nastasha Romanenko with the evidence that led to the publishing of the book in the first place, in addition to the more obvious reasons.
 * 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.

Peter Stillman
"Voiced By: Yoji Shinkawa (JP), Greg Eagles (EN)"

A bomb disposal expert and Fatman's mentor. Stillman helps Raiden and Plissken defuse several of his student's bombs, then dies trying to defuse one himself.


 * Cool Old Guy
 * Fallen Hero: Not to the extent that he turned evil, but after, he mainly attempted to deflect his evident panic attack by faking his leg being lost, although it did him more harm than good before he
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * My Greatest Failure:
 * My Greatest Second Chance:
 * Redemption Equals Death:
 * Redemption Equals Death:

President James Johnson
"Voiced By: Yuzuru Fujimoto (JP), Paul Lukather (EN)"

The 44th president of the United States, but really a puppet of the Patriots. Raiden is tasked with rescuing him.


 * Crotch Grab Sex Check: How he makes sure Raiden is a man.
 * Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: He defected to Son's of Liberty because he wanted more power, as he was essentially used as a puppet for the Patriots.
 * Puppet King: See Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Patriots have Ocelot kill him.

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:. They later reappeared in Peace Walker, this time under the alias of Cipher. -
 * Abusive Parents: If  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.
 * 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.
 * The Chessmasters: Obviously, as they instigated the events of Metal Gear Solid 2, and were also heavily implied to have had a hand in instigating the events of Metal Gear Solid in Nastasha Romanenko's book.
 * 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.
 * I Have Your Wife:
 * New Media Are Evil:
 * Not Me This Time: Inverted: the populace (and President Johnson, more specifically), believed that the entirety of the Shadow Moses Incident was not done under their orders (as in, the development of FOXDIE and REX was not under their protocols), and was Solidus who instigated it. However, several things in the game (including In The Darkness Of Shadow Mose: The Unofficial Truth by Nastasha Romanenko), as well as various things within the game itself heavily implies that the Patriots did indeed have a very large involvement in the Shadow Moses Incident, even if it did ultimately go out of their control.
 * Omniscient Council of Vagueness
 * Playing with Syringes:
 * The Scottish Trope: The Patriots have programmed everybody's Nanomachines with the same blindspot: whenever you try to say, "The Patriots," your vocal cords actually produce, "The La-li-lu-le-lo." If you have nanomachines in you, you Cannot Spit It Out. ("La-li-lu-le-lo" can be seen as the Japanese equivalent to "X-Y-Z".)
 * Villains With Good Publicity: Sort of. It's not so much that they have good publicity to the people so much as they are so unknown to the people that, even if they didn't like what was happening, they couldn't pin it on the Patriots as they don't know they even exist.
 * Playing with Syringes:
 * The Scottish Trope: The Patriots have programmed everybody's Nanomachines with the same blindspot: whenever you try to say, "The Patriots," your vocal cords actually produce, "The La-li-lu-le-lo." If you have nanomachines in you, you Cannot Spit It Out. ("La-li-lu-le-lo" can be seen as the Japanese equivalent to "X-Y-Z".)
 * Villains With Good Publicity: Sort of. It's not so much that they have good publicity to the people so much as they are so unknown to the people that, even if they didn't like what was happening, they couldn't pin it on the Patriots as they don't know they even exist.
 * The Scottish Trope: The Patriots have programmed everybody's Nanomachines with the same blindspot: whenever you try to say, "The Patriots," your vocal cords actually produce, "The La-li-lu-le-lo." If you have nanomachines in you, you Cannot Spit It Out. ("La-li-lu-le-lo" can be seen as the Japanese equivalent to "X-Y-Z".)
 * Villains With Good Publicity: Sort of. It's not so much that they have good publicity to the people so much as they are so unknown to the people that, even if they didn't like what was happening, they couldn't pin it on the Patriots as they don't know they even exist.