Revolver Ocelot

Revolver Ocelot
Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid designed by Yoji Shinkawa
Series	Metal Gear series
First game	Metal Gear Solid (1998)
Created by	Hideo Kojima
Designed by	Yoji Shinkawa
Voiced by (English)	Patric Zimmerman (MGS, MGS2, MGS4) Joshua Keaton (MGS3, MGS: PO)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Kōji Totani (MGS, MGS2) Ikuya Sawaki (Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Bande Dessinee) Takumi Yamazaki (MGS3, MGS: PO) Banjō Ginga (MGS4)
Motion capture	Taro Kazanawa (MGS3), Kenichi Yoshida (Gun Action), Bill Yokoyama (Gun Action)
Fictional profile
Real name	Adamska
Aliases	Shalashaska, Major Ocelot, ADAM, Liquid Ocelot
Affiliations	Former Spetsnaz with FOXHOUND (MGS), The Patriots (MGS2), triple agent --GRU/KGB/CIA-- (MGS3, MGS: PO), Outer Heaven (MGS4)

Revolver Ocelot (リボルバー・オセロット, Riborubā Oserotto^?), also known as Shalashaska (シャラシャーシカ, Sharashāshika^?), is a fictional character of the Metal Gear series. He was originally introduced as a gunslinger-themed member of FOXHOUND from the former Soviet Union in the video game Metal Gear Solid acting as one of its main antagonists. The game's ending and its sequel reveal Ocelot as an agent from The Patriots an organization that controls the United States. The prequel Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater explores the character's backstory as a young Spetsnaz Major, rivalizing the game's main protagonist Big Boss. While these games would reveal how Ocelot becomes one of the founders from the Patriots alongside Big Boss, in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots he starts a plan to destroy them upon being seemingly controlled by the mind of his late comrade Liquid Snake.

Ocelot was created by Hideo Kojima and designed by Yoji Shinkawa with the former wishing to add Western tones to a character from the franchise. Critical reception to Ocelot's character has been positive, with video game websites and magazines listing him as one of the best video games antagonists. Although Ocelot's possession by Liquid Snake has been found nonsensical by writers and Kojima himself, they praised the character's role in Metal Gear Solid 4.

Appearances

In Metal Gear Solid, Revolver Ocelot is one of the FOXHOUND terrorists involved with the hostile takeover of Shadow Moses Island, serving as the team's interrogation expert and their leader Liquid Snake's right hand man.^[1] He challenges agent Solid Snake to a gunfight in the game's first boss encounter and appears later to torture a captured Snake.^[2] He is the sole surviving FOXHOUND member by the end of the game, losing only his right hand during an encounter with the Gray Fox. After the ending credits, it is revealed that Ocelot is in league with Solidus Snake, the third surviving offspring of the Les Enfants Terribles project that created Snake and Liquid, as well as the current U.S. President.^[3]

In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Ocelot gains a new surgically attached right arm that belonged to Liquid Snake. This results in Revolver Ocelot developing a dormant personality in which Liquid's persona often takes over Ocelot's mind.^[4] He is under the employ of his old friend Sergei Gurlukovich during the introductory Tanker Chapter, but ends up betraying him and his mercenaries when he hijacks Metal Gear RAY. He then forms part of the terrorist group "Sons of Liberty" during the Plant Chapter with Solidus Snake, but ends up betraying him as well, revealing his true allegiance to the Patriots, a group a that controls the United States. Shortly afterwards, Ocelot is taken over by his Liquid persona who escapes from Solidus, intending to kill the Patriots' leaders.^[5]

Major Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, a prequel set four decades before the original Metal Gear Solid, features a young Ocelot (オセロット, Oserotto^?), whose real name is Adamska (アダムスカ, Adamusuka^?) as a GRU Major under the command of Colonel Volgin and leader of his own "Ocelot unit" within Spetsnaz. He acquires his preferences for revolvers as a result of his initial encounter with Naked Snake, who suggests that his tendency to absorb the gun's recoil with his elbow is more of a revolver technique. He is revealed to be a triple agent at the game's ending, working not only for the KGB, but also under the direct orders of the DCI (under the codename ADAM) as well. He was supposed to intercept and assist Snake, but another Philosopher's agent, EVA, got there first.^[6]

Ocelot plays a minor role in the plot of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and appears as a recruitable character in the game.^[7] In the story, he is in league with Gene and near the end of the game, he assassinates his former employer (the DCI) and reports to a new employer, an unidentified character who invites Ocelot to join his new organization, The Patriots, on the grounds that Naked Snake join as well.^[8]

In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (set five years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 2) Ocelot assumes the identity of Liquid Ocelot (リキッド・オセロット, Rikiddo Oserotto^?), with the Liquid Snake personality having seemingly taken complete control of his mind. He attempts to resurrect Outer Heaven in his conflict with the Patriots, establishing a dummy corporation that runs the five largest PMCs that exist in the game.^[9] After Ocelot hijacks one of the Patriots' systems that control the soldiers' weapons, his group engages Solid Snake's until Snake uses a virus to delete the Patriots' A.I.s.^[10] Following A.I.s' destruction, Ocelot challenges Snake to a fist fight. Although he appears to die from exhaustion after the final fight, Ocelot's death is actually caused by the new strain of FOXDIE that was injected into Snake by Drebin as revealed by Big Boss.^[11] Ocelot's possession by Liquid is also revealed to have been deliberate, made possible through self-hypnosis and nanomachines, in order to act like Liquid Snake and trick the Patriot AIs into focusing their energies on battling Liquid.^[12]

Character design

He is normally clothed in a duster, spurs and gunbelts, the traditional garb of gunslingers in spaghetti westerns, as well as a black armband on his left arm, and wields the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which he refers to as "the greatest handgun ever made" and quoting to Snake in MGS "Six bullets, more than enough to kill anything that moves" represents Ocelot's clever remarks toward his marksmanship.

In the making of the character, Kojima wanted to add Western tones to a character resulting in Ocelot's appearance.^[13] His appearance is based on that of veteran Western film actor Lee Van Cleef.^[14] For Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Yoji Shinkawa originally intended to give Ocelot a cybernetic arm in place of the one Gray Fox took from him. However, this idea was not used as the staff intended to have Ocelot use the arm of Liquid Snake.^[15] While Kojima recalls fans finding ridiculous the idea of Liquid Snake's arm possessing Ocelot's mind following Sons of Liberty, he stated he would answer the reason behind it in Guns of the Patriots.^[13]

Reception

The character of Revolver Ocelot has received positive response by video game publications based on his role as an antagonist. He is one of the only characters to appear in every major Metal Gear Solid game (but not in the original Metal Gear games) besides Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and is thus considered "one of the only characters to have a major role in all five Metal Gear Solid titles."^[16] Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine called Revolver Ocelot underrated in comparison to Final Fantasy VII antagonist Sephiroth, stating "...Ocelot is just a persistent, sneaky, and cool villain. Heck, just watch the MGS3 trailer and you'll see that he was a badass even in the 60's."^[17] Ocelot was ranked number 28 on IGN's "Top 100 Video Game Villains" list.^[18] Additionally, Ocelot was in lists of best Metal Gear villains. He was seventh in IGN's "Top 10 Metal Gear Solid Boss Battles" based on his battle from Metal Gear Solid and second on the "Top 10 Metal Gear Villains".^[19][20] GameSpot listed him as one the twenty best Metal Gear bosses calling him one of the most important characters from the story alongside Solid Snake and Big Boss.^[21] G4's Filter placed him at number ten in their top ten video game villains list.^[22] The torture he makes in Metal Gear Solid was listed as one of the best moments from the game due to how Ocelot toys with Snake and how difficult is to pass it besides how significant is the outcome for the rest of the game.^[23] In response to his role in Metal Gear Solid 3, GameSpy called Ocelot one of the "series mainstay", hoping he would become an entertaining opponent.^[24]

Ocelot's change to his alter-ego persona of Liquid Snake was commented by GameSpy writers as one of the most non-sensical events from the Metal Gear series. Mixed critics was given to such change by GameSpy who also praised his action scenes at the start of Metal Gear Solid 2 and joked about Ocelot's sudden change of accent.^[25] UGO Networks stated that in the first game Ocelot's motives for his actions were unknown until being revealed to be with the Patriots in Metal Gear Solid 2. Because of being born from the medium The Sorrow, it was speculated that Ocelot could communicate with dead people which ended in Liquid Snake taking possession of his body.^[26] Edge magazine stated of his Liquid Ocelot appearance "Kojima has forged a superb villain, far more complete than in MGS2."^[27] In a game guide by GamePro, the final fight against Liquid Ocelot was mentioned to become "epic" as the third shift phases, while in the final one, it was commented he was easy to defeat as he became "a punching bag."^[28] Furthermore, UGO's K. Thor Jensen listed such fight as the seventh best cutscene ever owing to the fighting styles employed and the interaction between the two fighters.^[29] On the other hand, 1UP.com listed such fight in their article "The 13 Most Dumbass Boss Battles" for its simple style in comparison to other more challenging bosses from Metal Gear Solid 3 and its excessive length for a hand-to-hand fight between two old people.^[30] An IGN article from October 2009 titled "Big Boss of the Day: Liquid Ocelot" focused on Ocelot's appearances across the franchise.^[31] 1UP listed the scenes from the games in which he controls the PMC's weapons to attack the protagonists and his imitation of Liquid Snake's death from Metal Gear Solid as one of the most surprising moments in the game.^[32] Moreover, he was also listed by IGN as one of the fictional characters who required his own spin-off.^[33]

References

v t e Metal Gear series Main games Metal Gear Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes 2: Sons of Liberty 3: Snake Eater Portable Ops 4: Guns of the Patriots Peace Walker Spin-off games Snake's Revenge Ghost Babel Acid Acid 2 Acid Mobile Mobile Online Touch Arcade Rising: Revengeance Creators Hideo Kojima Shuyo Murata Yoji Shinkawa Motosada Mori Shinta Nojiri Mineshi Kimura Characters Solid Snake Big Boss Gray Fox Revolver Ocelot Raiden Related articles Metal Gear (weapon) List of media HD Collection Kojima Productions Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy (fan film) Super Smash Bros. Brawl Book:Metal Gear series  · Category:Metal Gear  · Portal:Video games