History Characters / MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty

* HeroesWantRedheads

* ActorAllusion: Dolph ends up being held hostage onboard a stage. He is voiced by KevinMichaelRichardson in the English version, who also voiced Prince John in the Disney version of RobinHood, where that character had something similar to him after he ordered for Robin's execution.[[hottip:*:Richardson never voiced John in the film itself, that going to PeterUstinov. He does, however, voice him in HouseOfMouse.]]

* ActorAllusion: Dolph ends up being held hostage onboard a stage. He is voiced by KevinMichaelRichardson in the English version, who also voiced Prince John in the Disney version of RobinHood, where that character had something similar to him after he ordered for Robin's execution.[[hottip:Richardson never voiced John in the film itself, that going to PeterUstinov. He does, however, voice him in HouseOfMouse.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: 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 [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/VideoGames 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.

->Voiced By: DaisukeGori (JP), KevinMichaelRichardson (EN)

->Voiced By: YojiShinkawa (JP), GregEagles (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. [[TookALevelInBadass He seriously improves in Metal Gear Solid 4.]]

* TheOnlyOneToDefeatYou: Inverted in ''MetalGearSolid4''. When he is defeated by Raiden, he asks with ecstasy if Raiden is going to be the one to finally kill him for good.

* OnlyOneToDefeatYou: Inverted in ''MetalGearSolid4''. When he is defeated by Raiden, he asks with ecstasy if Raiden is going to be the one to finally kill him for good.

* BloodKnight: Was implied to have these tendencies in ''MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', and the VGA trailer for Rising implies that he became a full-fledged one (When told to dispatch some soldiers unaffiliated to any PMCs, Raiden basically says that its time to have some "fun.")

* ExecutiveMeddling: You might be wondering why his codename in Japanese is written in Kanji instead of Katakana like the other characters or his real name. That's because the Katakana variation of his name sounded a bit too close to "Ladin" (as in, Osama Bin Ladin," the leader of al Qaida and the mastermind behind 9/11) for people's comforts due to the game having a similar plot to the 9/11 attacks, and it being released just a few months after the 9/11 attacks.

** Ironically, he himself gains an expy in the form of Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in MetalGearSolid3.

** BadassAngster: In the fourth game.

* KnifeNut: Possibly. He was seen with a knife in the flashbacks to Liberia according to viral marketing for ''MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.

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!!Sergei Gurlukovich
->Voiced By: OsamuSaka (JP), EarlBoen (EN)

The leader of a Russian a mercenary group and Olga Gurlukovich's father. He was briefly involved in Liquid's revolt on Shadow Moses Island as being the supplier of some of the Sons of Big Boss's heavy weaponry and Liquid's Hind D. 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.

* TheGhost: Was briefly mentioned in the first ''MetalGearSolid'' as being one of Liquid's backers in his revolution, and his being the reason why Liquid had a Hind D in that game.
* GloriousMotherRussia
* LameComeback:
--> '''Ocelot''': Gurlukovich, you and your daughter will die here.
--> '''Sergei''': Damn you.
* PapaWolf / MoralityPet: 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 LameComeback line, he was not pleased with Ocelot's threat against his daughter when the latter betrayed him.
* ProperlyParanoid: 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.
* RenegadeRussian

!!Olga Gurlukovich/[[spoiler:Mr. X]]
-> Voiced by: KyokoTerase (JP), VanessaMarshall (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 [[DoubleAgent her own agenda]]. [[spoiler: She is also being used by The Patriots, who are threatening to kill her child if she doesn't allow for Raiden's mission to suceed. To this end, she disguises herself as a ninja called Mr. X and randomly calls Raiden to give him advice. She dies in the end to save Raiden and her baby.]]
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* ActionGirl: In the Tank Chapter
* ActionMom: In the Plant Chapter
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains 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 [[spoiler: to [[MamaBear ensure the survival of her child]]]].
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Which actually causes some [[CrotchGrabSexCheck awkwardness]] for the game's ''other'' androgynous platinum blond character when he's mistaken for her.
* BloodKnight / ChildSoldier: It is heavily implied that she was born and raised on the battlefield, and that she has nowhere else to go besides the Battlefield.
* DoubleAgent: Albeit a reluctant one.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She did not take having to betray and kill her Gurlukovich comrades very well at all, even though it was [[spoiler: to keep her child alive]].
* [[spoiler: HotShounenMom]]
* TheLadette
* {{Lzherusskie}}
* [[spoiler: MamaBear]]: 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 [[spoiler: kill her baby]].
* MilitaryBrat: 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.
* MysteriousInformant: [[spoiler: As Mr. X.]]
* ThePawn
* PregnantBadass: 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.
** ''[[FridgeHorror 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.
*** Maybe that's why she was such a lousy cook. Some sort of birth defect.
* [[spoiler: VasquezAlwaysDies]]
* YouKilledMyFather: She blames Snake for her father Sergei's death, but later discovers it was Ocelot's doing.

!!Scott Dolph
->Voiced By: DaisukeGori (JP), KevinMichaelRichardson (EN)

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

!!Raiden/Jack/[[spoiler:Jack the Ripper]]
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->Voiced by: KenyuuHoriuchi (JP, [=MGS2=]-[=MGS4=]), ToshiyukiMorikawa (JP, MGSR), QuintonFlynn (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. [[TookALevelInBadass He seriously improves in Metal Gear Solid 4.]]
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!!Rosemary
->Voiced by: KikukoInoue (JP), LaraCody (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. [[spoiler: Turns out there is - she was originally a spy for The Patriots sent to analyze Raiden, but sure enough, things got out of hand and her feelings became personal]].

Reappears in ''Guns of the Patriots'' as Snake's psychiatric support. She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody.

* [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: She expresses a bit of jealousy when Raiden is escorting Emma.
* [[spoiler: ConvenientMiscarriage: Subverted. She only faked a miscarriage to protect her and Raiden's son from The Patriots.]]
* {{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...[[{{Squee}} (snickers)]].
* HeroesWantRedheads
* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey, It's That Voice]]: A meta example. Her [[KikukoInoue Japanese voice actress]] also does The Boss and Sunny.
** Her English voice actress apparently voiced Lilah in the ''CtrlAltDel'' animated series.
* [[spoiler: HotMom]]: In the fourth game.
* LethalChef: Take Raiden's word for it.
** And Roy Campbell's word (well, more like a hint, but still).
* [[spoiler: TheMole]]
* StatuesqueStunner
* WomanInWhite: In [=MGS2=].
* YourCheatingHeart: The Colonel, in an optional Codec conversation onboard Arsenal, will imply that Rosemary was cheating on Raiden the Saturday before the mission, although [[spoiler: given what the Colonel was doing beforehand, not to mention the fact that it is implied that he is trying to "stop" Raiden,]] it is very unlikely to be true.

!!The Colonel/[[spoiler:GW]]

Raiden's commanding officer during the Big Shell incident. [[spoiler:An AI recreation of Roy Campbell.]]

* [[spoiler:ArtificialIntelligence]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: [[spoiler:Well, until he turns out to be an AI.]]
* [[spoiler:MissionControlIsOffItsMeds]]: [[spoiler:Once affected by Emma's virus.]]

!!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 [[spoiler: take control of the Arsenal Gear built under the Big Shell and uses it's nuclear payload to create an electromagnetic surge over Manhattan, destroying all it's electronics and cut it off from the Patriots]].
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* FacelessMooks: 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: AkioOhtsuka (JP), JohnCygan (EN)

In the first ''Metal Gear Solid'', Solidus shows up in TheStinger 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. He might reappear in flashbacks for ''MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', although what is certain is that he is certainly in the flashbacks in viral marketing trailers for the game.

* [[AlliterativeName Alliterative]] {{Codename}}
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type III]]. WordOfGod 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.
** BadassCape: Until it gets incinerated.
* BigBad: In the second game.
* ChildSoldier: It's implied that he led a unit of child soldiers in the Liberian Civil War during his teenage years.
* CombatTentacles: The "snake arms" on his exoskeleton suit.
* DualWielding
* EyeScream: He loses his left eye following the destruction of the Harrier.
* EyepatchOfPower: Subverted.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He was first mentioned in the Meryl Ending of ''MetalGearSolid''.
* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath: See ThePawn.]]
* KnifeNut: Possibly. He was seen with a knife in the flashbacks to Liberia according to viral marketing for ''MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
* LukeIAmYourFather: It turns out Solidus was Raiden's father, or rather, ''God''father. 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?")
* MilitaryBrat: He's a clone of Big Boss, and he also participated as a ChildSoldier (actually, not just a child soldier, but a child soldier who leads an entire army of child soldiers) in the Liberian Civil War.
* NamedWeapons: His [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana and wakizashi set]] (i.e. daishou), [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Minshuto ("Democrat") and Kyowato ("Republican")]].
** Possibly, the swords that come with the {{Powered Armor}}s in the setting are also made by Tokugawa Heavy Industries.
* [[spoiler:ThePawn: In [=MGS4=], his corpse is used as decoy for Big Boss' body. He was also an unwitting pawn in MetalGearSolid2, as it turned out that he was actually helping the Patriots without his even realizing it until Ocelot made it clear.]]
* PapaWolf: 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.
* PresidentEvil
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: Nearing the end of [=MGS2=], Solidus gives Raiden a speech about how the Patriots intended to protect their own power via massive censorship. Come [=MGS4=], and we see that Solidus' fears turned out to be quite correct.]]
* SuperSoldier
* WellIntentionedExtremist: 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.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: Despite his appearance looking like someone in his sixties or seventies, 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: YumiTouma (JP), MaulaGale (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 DeathSeeker.

* {{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.
* [[spoiler:BizarreHumanBiology: She was born with her heart on the '''right''' side, due to ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus situs inversus]]''. It briefly prolongs her life expectancy when Revolver Ocelot decides to off her with a shot to the heart, while ''forgetting'' that little fact.]]
* BrokenBird
* DarkSkinnedBlond
* DeathSeeker: "KILL ME NOW!"
* DeterminedWidow
* DeusAngstMachina
* HopelessBossFight: 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.
* LeotardOfPower
* MilitaryBrat: Her father is Scott Dolph, the commandant of the marine corps killed in the tanker chapter.
* ThePawn: The Patriots used her for their own goals.
* ShesGotLegs: Just about every scene she's in introduces her with the camera slowly panning up those long legs of hers.
* WaveMotionGun: See {{BFG}}.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: 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.
* YouKilledMyFather

!!Vamp
->Voiced by: RyotaroOkiayu (JP, [=MGS2=]), ShinyaTsukamoto (JP, [=MGS4=]), PhilLaMarr (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 WorthyOpponent who can finally finish him - Raiden.

* AxCrazy: 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 AxCrazy BATB unit (like when he [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan threw a knife at Laughing Octopus specifically to stop her from slaughtering too many of the rebel soldiers]]).
* BadassLongcoat
* BadassLonghair
* BloodLust
* BeardOfEvil
* CarpetOfVirility: Vamp has a ''lot'' more chest hair in ''MetalGearSolid4'' than he did in ''MetalGearSolid2.'' This is probably why he's switched to wearing dog tags to count how many people he's killed today.
** WordOfGod says that the dog tags belong to the fallen members of [[MetalGearSolid2 Dead Cell]].
* CombatSadomasochist: Vamp ''really'' loves hurting people. Especially Raiden. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZvIvDHy9vo 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.
* CompellingVoice: 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.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: He lost his entire family in a Romanian church bombing that he himself was also a victim to.
* DanceBattler: Flamenco with knives.
* DeathSeeker: In the fourth game.
* DepravedBisexual: He sleeps with Scott, may be sleeping with Fortune and [[FoeYay may want Raiden too.]] He also does most of what he does in a sexually suggestive manner.
* TheDragon: 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.
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Vamp was not too pleased when learning about Fatman's attempt at bombing the Big Shell afterwards.
* EvilSoundsDeep
* FoeYay: Quite a lot of this with Raiden.
* FreudianExcuse: 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.
* GetBackHereBoss
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: 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.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: Due to the Patriots giving him an experimental strain of nanobots]], although Naomi implies that he had a rapid healing ability even beforehand, albeit to a significantly lesser degree.
* IcyBlueEyes: In the second game.
* ImplacableMan: Even more so than Liquid.
* KnifeNut: Heck, he even is capable of parrying bullets with his knives.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: 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 [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/VideoGames 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.
* LecherousLicking: Towards Raiden.
* LickingTheBlade: He does this in the 4th game, often with [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything 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.
* LightningBruiser
* MadeOfIron: Vamp can consistently take an incredible amount of punishment thanks to his natural [[HealingFactor healing ability]], [[spoiler:even without his nanomachines]].
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Subverted: Similar to Kuja from FinalFantasyIX, 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.
* NoShirtLongJacket
* [[spoiler: {{Nanomachines}}: The reason for his apparent immortality.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: 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 BadassLongcoat when he isn't shirtless, has a BeardOfEvil, this could go on for paragraphs.
* OnlySaneMan: In comparison to his boss, Liquid Ocelot, whom he questions his plans somewhat, and the B&B Corps, who are so AxCrazy 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 [[spoiler: his running on water as well as straight up high walls is apparently due to wearing special footwear. Gets back into familiar territory with his {{Healing Factor}}; while nanomachines enhance it and allow him to revive from mortal wounds in seconds without a scratch, it's stated that he always had this trait to a lesser degree.]]
* OverlyLongTongue
* PsychoForHire
* RecurringBoss
* ShadowPin: Can immobilize you by hitting your shadow with a knife. But he only does this in the second game. [[spoiler: Shooting out the lights in the room will prevent this.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has red eyes in the fourth game for some reason.
* TheCoatsAreOff
* TheVamp: 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).
* WalkingShirtlessScene
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 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.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: 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: KozoShioya (JP), BarryDennen (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}}
* AnnoyingLaugh
* AxCrazy
* BaldOfEvil: The game's script implies that the reason for his baldness is from severe burns.
* CallingCard: Fatman has two in two different mediums. The first, from MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty, has him placing trace amounts of cologne on the C4 he uses to blow up targets. The second, from TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND, is leaving behind a smoking rubble of the location he was at.
* CardCarryingVillain: 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.
* DeceptiveDisciple
* DoubleAgent
* EvilLaugh
* EvillyAffable: Compared to the other [[RomanticPlotTumor characters]], it's actually quite refreshing to meet someone who wouldn't feel out of place in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.
* FatBastard
* FatIdiot: Inverted. Although he is shown as severely insane, his backstory indicates that he was also quite intelligent, at least in regards to bomb-making.
* GeniusBruiser: 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.
* [[AxesAtSchool 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.
* IHaveYourWife: Inverted: The Patriots got him to cooperate by offering to let him kill Stillman in exchange for participating in the S3 Plan.
* JerkAss
* LaughingMad
* LightningBruiser: 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.
* MadBomber: Vamp even refers to him by that specific name.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: 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.
* ParentalNeglect: 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.
* PsychopathicManchild: 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.
* TheMole: Was planted by the Patriots to test Raiden's capabilities in exchange for gaining the chance of killing his mentor Peter Stillman (Although Ocelot's explanation during TheReveal implies that he was closer to a WildCard).
* UnFavorite: Presumably the reason why he desired fame and was not controllable: he was [[ParentalNeglect 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.
* VillainousGlutton: "Laugh and grow fat!"
* WildCard: Is strongly implied to be this: Ocelot mentioned during TheReveal that even the Patriots had a lot of trouble getting him to cooperate in the S3 Plan, with the proposed murder of Peter Stillman being implied to be the only reason they successfully managed to get him to cooperate.

!!Emma Emmerich
->Voiced By: MariaYamamoto (JP), JenniferHale (EN)

Hal's younger step-sister. When they were young Hal and Emma had a very close relationship, which was ruined when [[spoiler: Hal was seduced by Emma's mother. Hal's father found out and tried to drown himself, but accidentally pulled Emma in too, and Hal couldn't hear Emma screaming because he was with Emma's mother]].

As a young woman [[spoiler: working on developing the AI for Arsenal Gear]], Emma is taken hostage by The Sons of Liberty. Hal asks Raiden to rescue her.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: 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 [[AppealToIgnorance "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 [[PoesLaw 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.
* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight]]
* DistressedDamsel: A very classic example of this trope. [[spoiler: She does not make it alive...]]
* EscortMission: 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.
* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]: Especially jarring in that it happens almost immediately after the EscortMission.
* {{Meganekko}}
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes 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: MasaharuSato (JP), PeterRenaday (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.
* LoveRedeems: 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.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Initially believed to be what happened to him in the novel, ends up happening for real during the Big Shell Incident.
* UnwittingPawn: Ultimately turned out to be this, and killed for this, [[YouHaveFailedMe along with other reasons]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: 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 [[UnwittingPawn more]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness obvious reasons]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: 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: YojiShinkawa (JP), GregEagles (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.
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* CoolOldGuy
* FallenHero: Not to the extent that he turned evil, but after [[spoiler:he failed to disarm a bomb at a church]], 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 [[spoiler:atoned for his sins at the Big Shell.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:See MyGreatestSecondChance and RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:He panicked when attempting to disarm a bomb at a church, which blew up and left several victims, including children. He also had to hide the fact that he lost his cool: See ObfuscatingDisability below for more details.]]
** MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler:His participating in the Big Shell, and ultimately his death.]]
* [[spoiler: ObfuscatingDisability: Peter faked his disability to avoid facing the families of the victims of a bomb he was unable to defuse.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:He ends up redeeming himself for his failure by willingly staying near the bomb at Shell H after his attempts at disarming it failed, and he got trapped in its microwave proximity sensor.]]

!!President James Johnson
->Voiced By: YuzuruFujimoto (JP), PaulLukather (EN)

The 44th president of the United States, but really a puppet of the Patriots. Raiden is tasked with rescuing him.
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* CrotchGrabSexCheck: How he makes sure Raiden is a man.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: He defected to Son's of Liberty because he wanted more power, as he was essentially used as a puppet for the Patriots.
* PuppetKing: See MistreatmentInducedBetrayal
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: 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: [[spoiler: they were founded by Big Boss, Major Zero, Ocelot, Eva, Sigint, and Para-medic some time after Portable Ops, and perpetuated by five [=AIs=]: GW, TJ, AL, TR, and JD. (the first four being named after the initials of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore and the latter one meaning "John Doe")]]. They later reappeared in Peace Walker, this time under the alias of Cipher.

** [[spoiler: TomboyAndGirlyGirl: EVA and Para-Medic respectively.]]

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