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This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy is a U.N. recognized anti-Metal Gear organization founded by Nastasha Romanenko following the events of the original Metal Gear Solid. Its members consists of Solid Snake (the protagonist of the previous Metal Gear games), a former FOXHOUND operative, and Metal Gear REX designer Hal "Otacon" Emmerich as well as Mei Ling who makes a cameo appearance via codec if the player saves the game thirteen times during the Tanker chapter. A large amount of the startup funds for the organization were provided by Nastasha Romanenko.
In the Tanker Chapter (prologue), the player controls Snake with Otacon providing backup via Codec radio. Both characters reappear in supporting roles during the Plant Chapter.
FOXHOUND
Raiden
Raiden (also named Jack) is the surprise protagonist of the game, introduced as a rookie FOXHOUND agent during the Plant Chapter.
Colonel
The Colonel is Raiden's commanding officer, who provides support via Codec.
Rosemary
Rosemary (Rose for short) is Raiden's girlfriend and a data analyst for FOXHOUND.
Sons of Liberty
Solidus Snake
During the Shadow Moses island incident (the events of the original Metal Gear Solid), Solidus commanded Revolver Ocelot into the affair, who was supposed to obtain Metal Gear REX. Solidus hoped to use REX as a tool against the Patriots, whom he loathed. With the revelation of the REX project and the Genome Army (which went against his public stand on eugenics experiments) to the public, Solidus loses the trust of his superiors, the Patriots, and is forced to resign his presidency.
After his resignation (to the public), he goes underground to avoid assassination, with the help of Ocelot. During this period, Solidus recruits the assistance of his former unit, Dead Cell, and Olga Gurlukovich's private army, establishing the terrorist group "Sons of Liberty". He seizes the Big Shell and takes his successor, President Johnson, hostage, in an attempt to gain control of Arsenal Gear and disrupt the Patriots' control over the flow of public information.
During the Big Shell incident, Solidus confronts Raiden twice. The first time, he takes control of a Harrier II aircraft and attempts to kill Raiden at the connecting bridge between Shell 1 and Shell 2. At the end of the battle, he loses his left eye after his Harrier is struck by the last missile. The second and final time Raiden confronts Solidus is at the very end of the mission, atop Federal Hall after Arsenal Gear crashes into Manhattan. During this battle, Raiden must engage in a sword duel with Solidus, as his other weapons are lost at this point.
Solidus is equipped with a power suit that provides him with "superhuman motor skill capabilities" and increased durability. His suit has an integrated accelerator which leaves a trail of fire behind after usage and is also supplemented with tentacle-like "snake arms", which Solidus uses to grab and crush or suffocate enemies. The "snake arms" can also fire missiles. Solidus, however, is no match for his genetically superior brothers, Solid and Liquid, and is forced to rely on a powered exoskeleton to give him the strength and combat skill of his two brothers. As the rejected survivor of the "les enfantes terribles" he was used as a puppet by The Patriots as the president, known as George Sears. The suit utilizes much of the technology developed for Metal Gear RAY (most notably the artificial muscle tissue, which can be seen bulking up before combat). Solidus' main weapons are high-frequency dual blades known as Minshuto (Democracy Blade) and Kyowato (Republic Blade)[1]. He also uses what appears to be a modified FN P90 submachine gun which he uses to kill Olga. He also uses it to great effect on several RAY units which had gone 'haywire', by using the explosive armor piercing rounds to destroy their processor and camera units.
Solidus looks older than his brothers in appearance as a result of advanced cellular degeneration, which Snake would later suffer. He resembles Big Boss during his later years, which is further emphasized after he loses his left eye in battle and is forced to wear an eyepatch. Raiden presumably kills Solidus after their duel atop Federal Hall, by slicing into the spine of Solidus' powered exoskeleton with a high-frequency blade.
Solidus, in fact, survives his duel with Raiden but is left in a catatonic state. Solidus' body is recovered by Big Mama's resistance and harvested for parts in order to restore Big Boss; Solidus being a perfect clone of Big Boss. What remains of Solidus (who is believed by Solid Snake to be Big Boss) is burned during the events of Metal Gear Solid 4.
- Voiced by: Akio Ohtsuka (Japanese), John Cygan (English)
Revolver Ocelot
Revolver Ocelot, former member/double agent of FOXHOUND, is a Patriot agent deployed to carry out the S3 plan to craft Raiden into "Solid Snake". Following the events of the first Metal Gear Solid, Ocelot had an arm transplant arranged, it turns out to be the arm of Liquid Snake, who ends up possessing him. Ocelot hijacks Metal Gear RAY from the tanker, killing Marine Commandant Scott Dolph and his "ally" Sergei Gurlukovich, assassinates President Johnson, and later, under the influence of Liquid Snake, he takes off from Arsenal Gear with the same RAY prototype to hunt down the Patriots.
- Voiced by: Koji Totani (Japanese), Patric Zimmerman (English)
Olga Gurlukovich
Olga Gurlukovich appears in the Tanker chapter as a member of her father's mercenary unit and is the sole boss character in this portion of the game.[2] She takes over her father's unit after his death in the Tanker chapter, lending her team to the Sons of Liberty terrorist faction. She is shown to be at odds with Ocelot, blaming him for her father's death. She is actually an unwilling agent for the Patriots, who are holding her child hostage, and assists Raiden as a disguised Cyborg Ninja calling herself Mr. X. By doing so, she is betraying her comrades to ensure her child's safety, a realization that makes her feel guilty. She even goes so far as to say that she knows she is going to hell. After she reveals herself to Solidus, she is killed with a shot to the head. Her daughter, Sunny, who was raised by the Patriots, appears in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Sunny has a portrait of her mother hanging in the kitchen area of the Nomad.
- Voiced by: Kyoko Terase (Japanese), Vanessa Marshall (English)
Dead Cell
Dead Cell is a former special forces unit that serves as an analogue to the renegade FOXHOUND team in the original Metal Gear Solid.[3] The team is a former counter-terrorist unit (a Tiger Team) founded by President Sears, whose purpose was to launch surprise attacks against friendly unit to prepare for actual combat. Six months prior to the events of the Plant chapter, the unit goes rogue and only three members survive. Two additional members, Chinaman and Old Boy, were written for the game before being cut from the final product. These two characters are mentioned in the script as having been killed off during the team's official disbanding.[4] The name of the unit comes from Red Cell, a US military term for teams that test the effectiveness of tactics.
Vamp
Vamp is a member of Dead Cell from Romania who forms part of the Sons of Liberty terrorist group.[5] He has a taste for human blood, and is thought to be immortal, having sustained injuries that would usually kill a normal human being (such as being shot in the head). Vamp also possesses superhuman reflexes, as seen by his ability to dodge bullets. He turns out having complex nanomachines made by Dr. Naomi Hunter that heal wounds at an extremely fast rate. Raiden encounters Vamp multiple times during the course of his mission, and Vamp fatally wounds Emma Emmerich. In MGS4, Vamp is killed by Raiden after Solid Snake disables his nanomachines back on Shadow Moses island five years later.
- Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese), Phil LaMarr (English)
Fatman
Fatman, who named himself after the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, is a member of Dead Cell specializing in explosives and the first boss character in the Plant chapter (not counting Raiden's encounter with Fortune). He is an overweight bald man in a bomb blast suit who moves around with his roller skates and is armed with a Glock 18 in addition to his bombs. One of the player's early objectives in the Plant chapter is to deactivate a series of C4 bombs planted within each of the struts surrounding the Shell 1 core. The explosives are revealed to be nothing more than dummy bombs serving to activate the real bomb in basement of Strut A. A similar bomb planted in the basement of the Shell 2 Core detonates, killing Fatman's former mentor Peter Stillman in the process. As Raiden meets with him, Fatman reveals that he wishes to surpass his mentor by killing him and blowing up the Big Shell in the process. Fatman then challenges Raiden to a duel at the heliport atop Strut E. The battle involves neutralizing Fatman while trying to prevent his explosives from blowing up the place. Once the player has defeated Fatman, Fatman says that there is one more bomb, and that "it's very close by". Fatman is actually sitting on the bomb so the player has to grab him and drag him away. Because of Fatman's weight the player can only drag him for about 4 seconds. In the ending sequence of the game, Ocelot reveals that Fatman was actually an agent of The Patriots. Stillman's presence in the facility was arranged to motivate Fatman into participating.
- Voiced by: Kozo Shioya (Japanese), Barry Dennen (English)
Fortune
Fortune, whose real name is Helena Dolph Jackson, is the leading member of Dead Cell and a member of the "Sons of Liberty". She is an African-American woman with blond hair and wears a dark leotard and trenchcoat, while her weapon is a railgun. Fortune's theme song is a saxophone solo titled "Fortune" on the soundtrack. Her codename comes from her nearly-miraculous ability to have bullets pass by her without hitting her. She confronts Raiden once in the game; the player is unable to actually defeat her in battle and must avoid her attacks while waiting for an elevator to arrive. Her true motive is to seek revenge against Solid Snake, whom she believes was responsible for her father's death. Near the end of the game, she learns it was actually Ocelot who killed her father, but is shot in the chest before she can attack: Ocelot reveals that her immunity to bullets was simply the result of an electromagnetic force field surrounding her body, also later revealing that her heart is on the right side of her body, not the left like most other people. Before dying, she manages to deflect RAY's missiles, protecting Raiden, Snake and Solidus, causing Snake to remark "she is Lady Luck" and proving that perhaps she does have an underlying supernatural ability.
- Voiced by: Yumi Tōma (Japanese), Maura Gale (English)
Supporting characters
Liquid Snake
Liquid Snake, the antagonist of the original Metal Gear Solid, appears in the game as a dormant personality possessing Revolver Ocelot as a result of an arm transplant. Liquid claims to have planned the events of the first game (including his death) from the beginning just to take on the Patriots. He even helped Otacon and Snake just to reach as far as taking over Ocelot and in control of RAY.
- Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (Japanese), Cam Clarke (English)
Emma Emmerich
Emma Emmerich Danziger (nicknamed "E.E.") is an AI programmer and the stepsister of Hal Emmerich. She is in charge of developing the AI that controls Arsenal Gear. When Emma was a child, her mother, Julie Danziger, married the father of Hal Emmerich. Emma and Hal became very close as children, and they would often play house, in which they were a married couple. When Hal was an adolescent, he was seduced by his stepmother (Emma's mother). Upon learning this, Hal's father committed suicide by drowning himself in the family's swimming pool, and accidentally dragged Emma into the water in the process. She survived, but not without injury. Emma expected Hal to save her, but he wasn't aware that this was happening (due to his relationship with his mother). After this, Emma developed a fear of water and became estranged from her stepbrother, blaming him for leaving the family after his father's death. She is escorted to the Shell 1 Core computer room by Raiden to download a virus into GW, but is ambushed by Vamp on the oil fence. Raiden snipes Vamp, but before falling into the sea, Vamp fatally stabs Emma in the back. She later dies in the computer room. She is named after the character Dr. E.E. Danziger from the novel Time and Again. It's revealed through conversations between her and Raiden and later between her and her brother before she dies that she has strong romantic feelings towards Hal and wished for him to see her as a woman and not his sister.
- Voiced by: Maria Yamamoto (Japanese), Jennifer Hale (English)
Richard Ames
Colonel Richard Ames is a Secret Service agent and an operative for the Patriots who is taken hostage during the Big Shell incident. He previously served the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he met Nastasha Romanenko. He was married to Nastasha for a while, but the two ended up in divorce.
He worked with his ex-wife in California from behind-the-scenes during the Shadow Moses incident. He was the one who ordered Naomi Hunter to inject Solid Snake with FOXDIE and he was also Naomi's lover for a short time. At the end of the mission, he places Houseman under arrest (after Houseman ordered an air strike over the disposal facility) and provides Nastasha with a disk containing data about FOXDIE.
Years later, during the Big Shell incident, he is placed as a spy by the Patriots when the facility is taken over by Sons of Liberty. He was sent to monitor President Johnson's allegiance with the terrorists, but is taken captive among other hostages in the Shell 1 Core. Ames meets Raiden (in disguise as a Gurlukovich soldier) and provides him with information about the terrorist activity and the President's role. However, he is unaware of his "role" in the S3 Plan and Ocelot's affiliation with the Patriots. Because he betrayed the Patriots by giving Nastasha the disk containing data about FOXDIE and letting her escape, he is killed. The Patriots had infected his pacemaker with controllable nanomachines. The appearance of his sudden death is remniscient of Decoy Octopus' death by FOXDIE, directly referencing another part of the S3 Plan.
- Voiced by: Masaharu Sato (Japanese), Peter Renaday (English)
Scott Dolph
General Scott Dolph is the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the father of Helena Dolph Jackson (Fortune) and the former lover of Vamp. In the Tanker chapter, he is in charge of the transporting the Metal Gear RAY prototype to its testing site and gives a speech to his troops in the cargo holds, unaware that the ship is being hijacked. He is killed by Ocelot, who hijacks Metal Gear RAY, and his death serves as the root of Fortune's sorrow. His character is named after Scott Dolph, who served as Hideo Kojima's personal English translator during the production of the game.
- Voiced by: Daisuke Gōri (Japanese), Kevin Michael Richardson (English)
Sergei Gurlukovich
Colonel Sergei Gurlukovich, who is first mentioned by name in the original Metal Gear Solid, a former C.O. of Revolver Ocelot and Olga's father (and by relation, Sunny's grandfather). He is the leader of the Russian mercenaries who seized the ship during the Tanker chapter for the purpose of hijacking Metal Gear RAY and establishing a new Soviet state. In a turn of events, he and most of his group end up being betrayed and killed by Ocelot, who is a member of the Patriots and wants RAY for their cause.
- Voiced by: Osamu Saka (Japanese), Earl Boen (English)
James Johnson
President James Johnson is the current President of the United States in Metal Gear Solid 2, he has been President for at least four years by the time of Metal Gear Solid 2, he is the primary hostage Raiden is sent to rescue in the Plant chapter. After a series of ordeals, Raiden finally meets the President in the Shell 2 Core. The President reveals that he was actually a willing accomplice in the terrorist act, his vital signs being the input codes to activate Arsenal Gear (the new version of Metal Gear housed in the Big Shell), but was imprisoned after a conflict of interest with Solidus Snake (he wanted power, whereas Solidus preferred rebelling altogether). He reveals the truth about Arsenal Gear and Solidus Snake to Raiden, and learns that he was manipulated to revolt by the Patriots as part of the S3 Plan.
He sends Raiden to find programmer Emma Emmerich inside the Arsenal Gear building and to prevent the launch of Arsenal Gear and gives Raiden the necessary presidential authorisation to stop Arsenal Gear. Johnson orders Raiden to kill him, as without President Johnson's vital signs then a nuclear strike cannot go ahead and authority transfers to the Vice President eliminating the terrorist threat. Johnson tried to have Raiden kill him, but Raiden refused to, so Johnson tried to steal Raiden's gun and commit suicide, however Raiden prevented the President from doing so.
Ocelot then arrived and fatally shot the President in the heart, in his dying words he ordered Raiden to find Emmerich and stop Arsenal Gear once and for all. Johnson then died, his sacrifice having saved millions of innocent lives and preventing a nuclear holocaust.
- Voiced by: Yuzuru Fujimoto (Japanese), Paul Lukather (English)
Peter Stillman
Peter Stillman is a former NYPD bomb disposal expert working for the Bund Patrol who infiltrates the Big Shell facility with SEAL Team 10. He is the former mentor of Fatman, one of the Dead Cell terrorists, who has planted bombs within each of the struts in the entire Big Shell facility. He provides Raiden and Pliskin with the tools needed to track down and deactivate each of the explosives, while providing support to the player via the codec. He eventually learns that the explosives Fatman planted were decoys used to activate the real bombs set to destroy the foundation of Shell 1 and Shell 2. Stillman (after revealing that his leg injury was a hoax) races to the basement of Strut H, only to be caught in Fatman's trap: the bomb being equipped with a proximity sensor, detonates, killing Stillman and floods the basement. Later, while exploring the flooded basement, the player can find Stillman's body floating around.
He shares his name with a character in Paul Auster's book, "City of Glass," which is a part of The New York Trilogy. Whether there is a correlation is unknown, but Hideo Kojima, the game's producer, does have a tendency to use names from other sources, such as Snake Pliskin from the movie "Escape from New York."
- Voiced by: Shōzō Iizuka (Japanese), Greg Eagles (English)
References
- ^ Names taken from Metal Gear Acid card.
- ^ "Snakes and Gears: A Metal Gear Overview," Game Informer 182 (June 2008): 108.
- ^ "Snakes and Gears: A Metal Gear Overview," Game Informer 182 (June 2008): 106.
- ^ Metal Gear Solid 2 Grand Game Plan Translation.
- ^ "Snakes and Gears: A Metal Gear Overview," Game Informer 182 (June 2008): 107.
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