List of Metal Gear Solid 2 characters
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Contents |
[edit] Philanthropy
[edit] Solid Snake
[edit] Hal Emmerich
- Further information: Otacon
[edit] FOXHOUND
[edit] Raiden
[edit] Colonel
- Further information: Roy Campbell
[edit] Rosemary
Rosemary (or Rose for short) is Raiden's girlfriend and a data analyst for the United States Army. During the Big Shell incident, she was assigned to save Raiden's mission data (the player's progress). During the mission, she provides background information about the terrorists and other individuals involved in the incident.
Jack and Rose met on April 30th, 2007 in Federal Hall just after Jack's transfer to New York military base, where they became romantically involved with each other, becoming lovers. However, Jack was unaware that Rose was actually a spy for the Patriots, who had her likeness and personality altered to reflect Jack's personal tastes. But as Rosemary continued her duties, she began harboring genuine feelings for Jack and fell in love with him. She becomes pregnant with Jack's child shortly before the events of the Big Shell incident.
In an early version of Metal Gear Solid 2, Rosemary actually died in the game. And in this version, Rosemary and Raiden never meet which would have lead the player to wonder whether she was real or just an AI construct. [1]
[edit] Dead Cell
[edit] 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 Metal Gear 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, he goes underground to avoid assassination, with the help of Revolver 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". While posing as Solid Snake, 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. When ready to fight, Solidus becomes more than just an average man. His fighting skills could quite possibly rival or even surpass those of his brother, Solid Snake. 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)[verification needed] and Kyowato (Republic Blade)[verification needed].[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. 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 eye patch. Raiden kills Solidus after their duel atop Federal Hall, by slicing into the spine of Solidus' powered exoskeleton with a High-frequency Blade.
Solidus, along with his two brothers, is seen briefly during Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops during a final prophetic vision of Ursula/Elisa depicting a grim future.
[edit] Vamp
Vamp is a member of Dead Cell (as such, he is one of the bosses of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty). He has vampire-like attributes, including a taste for blood, the ability to run across or stand on the surface of water or vertical walls, superhuman speed and agility, and the ability to shrug off what would typically be a mortal wound (for example, being shot in the head). Also, he does not seem to have acquired any of the vampire weaknesses. Besides the vampiric abilities, he is also an expert with both combat knives and throwing knives.
Originally from Romania, Vamp lost his entire family during a church bombing when he was a child and was forced to survive while being pierced on a crucifix for two days by feeding on the blood of his family, acquiring him his taste for blood.
He and Fortune have a very close friendship, being more loyal to each other than to any other member of the Sons of Liberty, even their own Dead Cell teammate Fatman. Plisken (Snake) reveals to Jack via CODEC Vamp is bisexual, having had a relationship with Fortune's late father.
During the Big Shell incident (the main event of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), Vamp rebels with the rest of Dead Cell, and leads many attacks alongside Fortune.
His dramatic opening takes place in Strut B of the Big Shell, where an Alpha division of SEAL team 10 has been dispatched to combat the terrorists. Using a series of incognito attacks, Vamp takes out a decent part of the team. His ability to read a man's every muscle movement before he makes it, allows Vamp to deflect bullets easily. In his final introductory display of skill, the vampiric menace spins his way to his last opponent in flamenco-style dance movements (his appearance is based on Spanish dancer Joaquin Cortes), for which he is popularly noted, before finally taking him out with a Ka-bar.
Vamp prevents Raiden and Emma Emmerich from disabling the GW AI, and secondly, when attempting to kidnap Emma as she attempts to go from one strut of the Big Shell to another by crossing the fence holding the oil spill inside the compound's boundaries. Both times Vamp is dispatched and apparently killed by Raiden, but not before Vamp inflicts Emma with a mortal wound. Vamp manages to survive, appearing briefly on the streets of New York City during the game's ending sequence.[2]
Vamp will return in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots as seen in a promotional flyer for the game released during E3 2005. In Metal Gear Saga Vol. 1, Hideo Kojima confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 4 will explain how Vamp managed to survive the events of Metal Gear Solid 2.
Vamp was originally designed as a woman, but when the character of Fortune was introduced, the design was changed to that of a man's, although the long black hair was retained.[3]
[edit] Fatman
Fatman (who named himself after the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki) is a member of the Dead Cell team, an anti-terrorist organization that "went rogue" and degenerated into terrorists themselves. Fatman has become obsessed with acquiring fame and being known as the "Emperor of Explosives". Along with various types of explosives, his primary weapon is a Glock 18, a fully automatic pistol.
Fatman is bald and (presumably) quite obese, and wears his thick bomb-blast suit, along with particularly strong cologne, all the time. To overcome the mobility difficulties inherent in his size and from wearing his bulky suit, Fatman also wears inline skates to move around quicker. That he does not fall and can maintain balance at high speeds indicates that he is also quite strong. Fatman takes special pride in his delicate hands, giving himself manicures in his free time. He cannot stand to not have his hands busy and, when he has nothing to do, he compulsively takes apart and reassembles his Glock over and over. Because of his mental instability, is prone to grand, paradoxical pronouncements, in the style of a mad scientist. (A sample quote: "I die here... and start my legend!" another is: "I am the greatest that humanity has to offer, and the lowest!")
Fatman was the obsessive-compulsive son of a clockmaker, and this tendency and background gave him an almost preternatural understanding of bombs. At the age of 10, he built an atomic bomb (the Fat Man model) based on designs he had downloaded from the internet. Fatman learned most of his techniques while at Indian Head from Peter Stillman. While studying there, he received special treatment and was recognized as the prodigy of bomb-making. Eventually he joined Dead Cell as a bomb disposal specialist. At some unspecified point before the Big Shell incident, he was also recruited by the Patriots as a sleeper agent.
When Dead Cell went rogue, he went with them, and turned his knowledge of explosives to the task of rigging the Big Shell up with explosives. While this was partially part of Dead Cell's plan to hold the Big Shell and Metal Gear RAY hostage, the bombs were also part of the Patriots' plan to test Raiden's progress as part of the S3 Plan. The Patriots coerced Fatman into cooperating with them by arranging for Stillman's presence at the Big Shell. Fatman wires an elaborate series of explosives throughout the structure to prove that he can out-think Stillman. Fatman has another personal interest in destroying the Big Shell; he wants to go down in history as the greatest bomber of all time.
During the Big Shell incident, Raiden disarms Fatman's explosives, then confronts and kills him atop the Strut E Helipad. His last words were: "Laugh and grow fat..."
[edit] Fortune
Fortune is a leading member of Dead Cell. Her codename refers to her seemingly supernatural ability to have bullets that come into her direction pass around her and also turn explosives into duds. She is also known as Lady Luck and has earned the title of "Queen" among her Dead Cell comrades. She is armed with a large-sized railgun during combat.
Born as Helena Dolph and later renamed Helena Dolph Jackson in the event of her marriage, was the daughter of Scott Dolph, Commandant of the Marine Corps, and wife of Colonel Jackson, founder of Dead Cell. Helena led a largely uneventful life until the sudden death of her father during the Tanker incident in 2007. A few months later, her husband, Commander Reginald Jackson [4] was convicted of mishandling federal funds and was found guilty; furthermore, Helena's mother committed suicide and Commander Jackson himself died while serving out his sentence. Helena was unable to cope with the systematic loss of each of her close relatives and miscarried her unborn child of three months, essentially losing her entire family.
Helena was informed that the man responsible for her father's death was none other than Solid Snake, the mercenary allegedly responsible for sinking the tanker. In her search for vengeance, she joined the armed forces and found out that she is impervious to bullets. Because of this mysterious power, she was deemed Lady Luck by her comrades. She was quickly assigned to her husband's former unit, Dead Cell, and was welcomed with open arms by the team, especially Vamp, who was rumored to be her father's former bisexual lover. She and Vamp would later become very close friends. She was assigned the codename of Fortune and quickly gained leader status.
Fortune was one of the Dead Cell members who survived its liquidation, and six months later, on April 29th, 2009, Dead Cell was involved in the Big Shell takeover. Dead Cell confronted alleged FOXHOUND member Raiden, before finally confronting Snake personally within Arsenal Gear. Instead of killing Snake, Fortune took him prisoner and delivered him to Solidus Snake, leader of the Sons of Liberty (the terrorist group that seized the Big Shell). Shortly after, Revolver Ocelot revealed that the Big Shell takover was nothing more than a simulated version of the Shadow Moses incident and that Fortune's role in it was not coincidential. The deaths of her family members were planned by the Patriots and her invulnerability to bullets was simply the result of a machinery-projected electromagnetic force field which surrounded her body; Ocelot confirmed the latter revelation by shooting Fortune in her chest. However, Ocelot missed her heart (as Ocelot had forgotten that Fortune was born with dextrocardia) and the fatally-wounded Fortune stood up against him. When Ocelot launched missiles directed at her and the others with Metal Gear RAY, she seemingly managed to deflect them telekinetically, leading Solid Snake to believe that her powers and luck in the battlefield might not have been entirely due to the Patriots after all. Fortune then died from her gunshot wound shortly afterwards.
Fortune is, for the most part, portrayed as a tragic character in the game, due to her curse of (perceived) immortality. She feels that she is cursed to forever see her loved ones die while she is not allowed to. She becomes depressed after she accidentally kills a group of seagulls when firing her railgun on a group of SEAL Team 10 operators, and she cries and bitterly laments her fate when a bullet aimed at her is deflected and hits her dear friend Vamp in the head. Because of her desire to be rid of her fate, she searches for the soldier who can finally bring her death and she frequently cries during battle, "Please...kill me..." or other similar phrases. She does not, however, stop firing. Whenever on camera (and not in battle) her theme song is a melancholic jazz featuring a wailing saxophone. This song is titled "Fortune" and is performed by Harry Gregson Williams, who also does the majority of the game's soundtrack.
[edit] Supporting characters
[edit] Revolver Ocelot
[edit] 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. After this, Emma developed a fear of water. Afterwards, she became estranged from her stepbrother, blaming him for not saving her.
[edit] Olga Gurlukovich
Olga Gurlukovich is the daughter of Sergei Gurlukovich, and a member of his private army. She later joined the Patriots, and worked as their agent, playing an important role in the Big Shell incident of 2009.
Olga led her father's mercenaries when they captured the transport ship Discovery in his attempt to seize Metal Gear RAY in 2007. Sergei's intention at the time was to use RAY as a superweapon with which to re-establish Russia as a major world power. He boarded the ship with the help of Revolver Ocelot.
After the ship was secured, Sergei ordered her off the ship (out of concern for her unborn child), but she refused, and was subsequently confronted by Solid Snake. He subdued her, and continued on his mission of surveying the Discovery.
After this, Olga took command of her father's forces and became a renegade, joining a branch of the Russian Mafia, which was in reality controlled by the Patriots. After she gave birth, her child was taken hostage, and used as a means by which to force Olga into serving the Patriots.
Two years later, the Gurlukovich forces, under Olga, and the Dead Cell group captured the Big Shell, and held President Johnson hostage. Olga was in fact working against her own men as an agent of the Patriots, her mission being to ensure the success of Raiden, a test subject of the S3 plan. So as to accomplish her mission, she was disguised as a ninja at times, so that she could intervene without her cover being blown. Her suit bore an extreme similarity to that of Gray Fox, and she too wielded a high frequency blade, the weapon Fox had used during the Shadow Moses incident. As a possible result of the suit's enhancement, she had the ability to deflect bullets with the blade, a talent she shared with Gray Fox, Raiden and Solidus.
After Raiden was held aboard Arsenal Gear, Olga revealed herself to him, setting him free, and telling him of the S3 plan. Raiden escaped and was confronted by Solidus Snake. At this point, Olga revealed her true identity to all, including Solidus, determined to help Raiden, since his death would mean the murder of her child by the Patriots. After admitting her wrongs and imploring that Raiden survive for the sake of her innocent child, Solidus then killed Olga by shooting her directly in the forehead with his FN P90.
At the end of the game, Snake promised Raiden that he would find Olga's child as long as Raiden keeps himself alive. Until the fourth installment of the series, it remains inconclusive whether or not Snake does find Olga's child.
- Japanese voice actor: Kyoko Terase
- English voice actor: Vanessa Marshall
[edit] Minor characters
[edit] 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 Island incident. He was the one who ordered Naomi Hunter to inject Solid Snake with FOXDIE. 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 Revolver Ocelot's affiliation with the Patriots. He is killed by the Patriots as a result of a calculated malfunction in his pacemaker caused by his nanomachines, after being confronted by Ocelot.
[edit] Scott Dolph
General Scott Dolph is the Commandant of the Marine Corps in 2000 prior to the Tanker Incident and the father of Helena Dolph Jackson (Dead Cell member Fortune) and lover of Dead Cell member, Vamp. After the Shadow Moses Island incident, Dolph oversaw the development of an anti-Metal Gear prototype known as Metal Gear RAY in order to control the proliferation of Metal Gear-type weapons developed by foreign countries (a result of Revolver Ocelot selling the Metal Gear REX data on the black market).
The development of Metal Gear RAY went against the Patriots' own plans with Arsenal Gear (designed by the U.S. Navy). While Dolph and his crew was transporting Metal Gear RAY in a disguised old tanker for field testing, the Patriots had their trusted man Ocelot hijack the ship with the Gurlukovich Mercenaries and steal the RAY prototype. During the standoff between Dolph's and Gurlukovich's men, Ocelot reveals his true objective and his allegiance to the Patriots. Dolph ends up being killed by Ocelot along with Gurlukovich.
[edit] Sergei Gurlukovich
Colonel Sergei Gurlukovich is the leader of the Russian mercenary group (the Gurlukovich Mercenaries) that seeks to hijack Metal Gear RAY during the Tanker Incident, and is also the father of Olga Gurlukovich.
Gurlukovich was raised in Chelyabinsk-70 (now known as Snezhinsk). During the Cold War, he served as a commander in Spetsnaz and an operative of GRU, where he became acquainted with Revolver Ocelot. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he established his band of mercenaries from numerous unemployed Russian soldiers and became involved in numerous regional conflicts, seeking to rebuild his homeland.
Prior to the Shadow Moses Island incident, he sold a Hind D (as a "down payment" for the Metal Gear REX data) to FOXHOUND leader Liquid Snake and attempted to join his coup d'etat. However, Solid Snake thwarted Liquid and his men before Gurlukovich had the chance to join him.
During the Tanker incident, his men seize the oil tanker in Manhattan in an attempt to steal the Metal Gear RAY housed within it. His daughter, Olga, joins him in the assault along with Revolver Ocelot. Gurlukovich voices his concern about his daughter's involvement in the operation, who is 3 months pregnant. Ultimately, Gurlukovich is killed by Ocelot along with Commander Dolph, who reveals his true intentions during the standoff.
[edit] James Johnson
President James Johnson is the 44th President of the United States. He comes from a political background himself, as one of his parents previously worked as a senator. Johnson serves as Vice-President during George Sears' (Solidus Snake) administration and was appointed President by the Patriots after George Sears' supposed resignation in 2005 and "won" the election in 2008.
During a visit to the Big Shell, he is seemingly taken hostage by Solidus Snake and his terrorist group, the Sons of Liberty. The terrorists keep him alive in order to use his vital signs as an input code for Arsenal Gear. However, Johnson was actually cooperating with Solidus in the terrorist act, but turned against him when Solidus revealed his true intentions of destroying the Patriots. Johnson does not wish to destroy the Patriots, as he considers them essential to the nation, and was merely using the terrorist act as a leverage to join them and acquire the same power.
He escapes with SEAL Team 10 in the Shell 1 Core, but is recaptured by Fortune and Vamp. Afterwards, he is relocated in an isolated room in the Shell 2 Core. There, he meets Raiden, whom he believes to be a Patriots assassin, but actually claims to be a FOXHOUND operative (despite the fact the FOXHOUND was disbanded after Shadow Moses). From there, he realizes that the whole incident and his betrayal has been planned right from the start by the Patriots as part of the S3 Plan. He reveals the truth about Arsenal Gear and the Patriots to Raiden before being assassinated by Revolver Ocelot.
- Japanese voice actor: Yuzuru Fujimoto
- English voice actor: Paul Lukather
[edit] Peter Stillman
Peter Stillman is the bomb disposal expert that helps Raiden and Pliskin during the Big Shell incident. Regarded as one of the experienced experts of bomb disposal, Stillman has helped to defuse dozens of terrorist bombs during his career. In 2004, Stillman was called in to defuse a terrorist bomb in a famous church. During the disposal, Stillman accidentally triggered the bomb. The church was obliterated along with a nearby playground. Even with all his experience, Stillman couldn't stop the bomb. Unable to face the public and families of the people who were lost in the explosion, he faked being injured by the blast and said he lost a leg in the explosion, making everyone believe his leg was prosthetic.
Peter then retired from bomb disposal and became a lecturer at NAVSCHOLEOD, Indian Head. Stillman also worked as a consultant to the NYPD Bomb Squad. During this time, Stillman met and taught his best student, Fatman. Never having had a son, Stillman taught Fatman everything he knew, including demolition information and the like. This would prove to be a deadly mistake in the future.
In 2009, Stillman was coaxed out of retirement and sent in with SEAL Team 10 during the Big Shell incident to deal with a number of bombs placed by Fatman. After the team was attacked, Stillman took refuge in Strut C - Dining Hall. This is where he met Raiden and Pliskin. He supplied the two with coolant and a sensor to detect and defuse Fatman's bombs. He then locked himself in a storage room and gave directions to Raiden and Pliskin over codec. During the two's mission to dispose the bombs, Stillman became uneasy at the seemingly amateurish placement of Fatman's bombs, saying that their locations were all wrong if Fatman had wanted to destroy the Big Shell. During his spare time, Stillman constructed a sensor to detect any bombs without Fatman's scent just in case the bombs were a decoy. He then asked Pliskin to take a look at the bottom of Shell 2's Strut H in case bombs were planted there. He reported back to Peter that he was right and the other bombs were decoys.
Stillman decided to go to Shell 2 Core and dismantle the last bomb by himself, revealing to Raiden and Pliskin that he never lost his leg during the bomb accident years before. However, Fatman had surpassed Stillman in his skills and set a trap for Stillman. An unscented, proximity bomb was set and Peter walked right into it. The bomb then went off, taking Stillman and a huge portion of Shell 2 with it.
His corpse is later found in the submerged portion of Shell 2 Core, where it surprises Raiden as he opens a hatch.
[edit] References
- ^ Names taken from Metal Gear Acid card.
- ^ Official Metal Gear Solid 2 Secrets page.
- ^ Fun TV. Making of The Hollywood Game [DVD]. Europe: Konami.
- ^ Commander Jackson's given name is revealed in the North American Metal Gear Solid 2 Official Strategy Guide by BradyGames, although it is debated whether the name is canonical, due to the fact that no Japanese source has ever used this name.
|
Solid Snake • Big Boss • Raiden • Revolver Ocelot • Other recurring characters • Metal Gears |
