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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"See me for what I am, okay?"-]'' ]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue (JP), Lara Cody (EN), Creator/KariWahlgren (EN, ''[=MGS2=] Digital Graphic Novel'' only)
->''"Raiden, this is real. And that's why you won't wake up."''
Raiden's girlfriend and a military data analyst who was enlisted by the Colonel as a last-minute addition. Her role is to pacify Raiden and keep him focused on coming home. Turns out she is a government plant whose real job is to 'analyze' Raiden. But sure enough, [[BecomingTheMask things got out of hand]], and her feelings for Raiden became legit.
Reappears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' as Snake's psychiatric support. She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody. Turns out the marriage was a sham, as it was just a way to protect her and her son from the Patriots until Raiden finished his mission.
In ''Metal Gear Rising'', [[PutOnABus she's living in New Zealand with her son while Raiden is working as a PMC.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's uncertain [[spoiler: for how much of the game "Rose" was actually GW. It could be from any point in the game, but its almost certain that towards the end of the game she is replaced with a GW copy of her. Even then, it's unclear whether or not Rose was even in the mission to begin with.]]
** Was their first meeting set up or did they meet by accident? It seems too convinient to be sheer coincidence, but the way Rose describes it, she doesn't sound like the persona she displays in the game, and the meeting itself wasn't really romantic.
* BecomingTheMask: Throughout ''[=MGS2=]''
* BizarreTasteInFood: According to Campbell, everyone the world over agrees that America's military rations are hands down the worst. Everyone, that is, except for Rose, who admits to liking them. It may in part be why she's such a LethalChef.
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Jack first met Rose in Manhattan. She was discussing ''King Kong'' with some tourists and was about to point them to the wrong skyscraper. Raiden took it upon himself to correct her, and the pair got into a heated debate over whether King Kong featured the Chrysler Building or the Empire State until the tourists left in disgust. This non-event later turns out to have been [[spoiler:a trap set by the Patriots. By pretending to share his taste in pop culture, Rose insinuated herself in Raiden's life without his knowing]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: She expresses a bit of jealousy when Raiden is escorting Emma.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only faked a miscarriage to protect her and Raiden's son from the Patriots]].
* DecoyDamsel: The real Rosemary is working offsite in Manhattan and is a spy for the Patriots. She survives the Arsenal crash and rendezvous with Raiden in the epilogue, with both of them promising to drop their masks.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: In her last codec call to Raiden in ''[=MGS2=]'' [[spoiler:(before a clearly hostile version of her that is likely an AI resurfaces), as she is getting cut off and the picture turns to static, her voice is slowed down and gets much deeper]]:
-->'''Rose:''' Jack! [[spoiler:I'm... I'm carrying... I'm... Pregnant... Jack... Your... Baby.]]
* TheGhost: She and Little John went to live to New Zealand while Raiden works as a PMC. She is mentioned a lot in the game, but never appears.
* GreenEyedMonster: She complains about how well Raiden seems to be getting along with Emma during the EscortMission.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Raiden.]]
* TheHeart: She spends much time fretting over Snake/Raiden's health like Mei Ling, and also has a propensity to tell anecdotes. A few reviewers have speculated that Rose is a deliberate [[spoiler:subversion of the trope since, unlike Mei Ling, her Codec chatter is both intrusive and useless. Her down-to-earth personality is a smoke screen for pushing the Colonel]]'s agenda, as he more or less admits in the Big Shell's dock. And, unlike Mei Ling, most gamers don't find Rose's diatribes to be cute or refreshing in the slightest. In [=MGS4=], she rejoins the team and fills Para-Medic's old role of quoting from the latest medical books. Also, like Para-Medic, she will chide Snake for unnecessarily killing animals (claiming it's a slippery slope to mental illness).
* HoneyTrap: Raiden first met Rose during a chance encounter in front of the Empire State Building. Rose, of course, [[spoiler:knew that Jack would be there and had been briefed on his psychological profile by the Patriots]], which enabled her to charm him.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. At the end of ''[=MSG4=]'', after waking up in a hospital, Raiden assumes she's here to break him further. She actually shows up to reveal that Roy faked their marriage in a plan to dupe the Patriots which involved her, in turn, pretending that she had a miscarriage, hence their son Little John.]]
* LethalChef: To the point where Raiden admits to Snake that he actually prefers military rations over Rose's home cooking, and has to turn off his cybernetic taste sensors just to get through the meal. Furthermore, when Colonel Campbell finally gets a break from Rose's food, he goes nuts over the taste of army rations, proclaiming it the best food ever. Snake connects the dots and actually gives him his sympathies.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only married Colonel Campbell in ''[=MSG4=]'' so the Patriots would leave her and her son alone. Once the mission is complete, she reveals that it was a sham and happily reunites with Raiden.]]
* MeaningfulName: Jack's nickname for her, "Rose", reflects both her personality and her story function; she's beautiful, but every time Raiden reaches out to her, she pricks him with thorns. It's also a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', where "Jack" and "Rose" become tragic lovers at sea.
* MeetCute: Jack and Rose's connection with the Empire State Building borrows heavily from Hollywood romances like ''Sleepless in Seattle.'' [[spoiler:It is also a fabrication. It was no accident that Rose met Jack that day, nor was her subsequent reappearance as one of Jack's co-workers at the military base]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler:In ''[=MGS2=]''.]]
* MsExposition: Rose inherits Naomi's old role of providing dossiers on everyone currently inside the Big Shell. Partly a subversion, since Rose's material is full of holes and lacking crucial information, requiring Snake to fill in the gaps.
* ProphetEyes: [[spoiler:Once the jig is up, the computerized facsimile of Rose]] flits between normal irises and blank ones. The effect is subtle enough that you won't notice it right away.
%%* StatuesqueStunner
* SympathyForTheDevil: In ''[=MGS4=]'', she expresses pity for the B&B Corps upon hearing their heartbreaking backstories, claiming that Liquid is [[BadBoss truly a heartless monster]] for putting them on the frontlines because of their psychological trauma, noting that they'll just keep getting worse until they're completely useless. Snake, who is not so sympathetic, agrees on all points, but he also points out that, since they're crazy and thus not fighting at their full effectiveness, [[SanityHasAdvantages he has the advantage]].
* TheVamp: Rosemary's real purpose during the simulation is to entice Jack with false promises of a happy life waiting for him in the city. This incentivices him to complete it without question.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:[[invoked]] Rose is allegedly based on Kojima's wife. In interviews for the series' 25th anniversary, he remarked on the irony of Rose being the most hated woman in the series, as he's often criticized for over-sexualizing his female characters and giving them unreal personalities.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"I can't say I like heights... though water's higher on my phobia list."-]'']]
->Voiced By: Creator/MariaYamamoto (JP), Creator/JenniferHale (EN)
->''"Science doesn't exist to benefit the world. Science is for the individual. For me, it is to realize my dreams."''
Hal's younger step-sister and the lead programmer for Arsenal Gear. Why she's working at the plant is anybody's guess, considering she's [[IronicFear terrified of water]]. 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 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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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"See me for what I am, okay?"-]'' ]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue (JP), Lara Cody (EN), Creator/KariWahlgren (EN, ''[=MGS2=] Digital Graphic Novel'' only)
->''"Raiden, this is real. And that's why you won't wake up."''
Raiden's girlfriend and a military data analyst who was enlisted by the Colonel as a last-minute addition. Her role is to pacify Raiden and keep him focused on coming home. Turns out she is a government plant whose real job is to 'analyze' Raiden. But sure enough, [[BecomingTheMask things got out of hand]], and her feelings for Raiden became legit.
Reappears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' as Snake's psychiatric support. She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody. Turns out the marriage was a sham, as it was just a way to protect her and her son from the Patriots until Raiden finished his mission.
In ''Metal Gear Rising'', [[PutOnABus she's living in New Zealand with her son while Raiden is working as a PMC.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's uncertain [[spoiler: for how much of the game "Rose" was actually GW. It could be from any point in the game, but its almost certain that towards the end of the game she is replaced with a GW copy of her. Even then, it's unclear whether or not Rose was even in the mission to begin with.]]
** Was their first meeting set up or did they meet by accident? It seems too convinient to be sheer coincidence, but the way Rose describes it, she doesn't sound like the persona she displays in the game, and the meeting itself wasn't really romantic.
* BecomingTheMask: Throughout ''[=MGS2=]''
* BizarreTasteInFood: According to Campbell, everyone the world over agrees that America's military rations are hands down the worst. Everyone, that is, except for Rose, who admits to liking them. It may in part be why she's such a LethalChef.
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Jack first met Rose in Manhattan. She was discussing ''King Kong'' with some tourists and was about to point them to the wrong skyscraper. Raiden took it upon himself to correct her, and the pair got into a heated debate over whether King Kong featured the Chrysler Building or the Empire State until the tourists left in disgust. This non-event later turns out to have been [[spoiler:a trap set by the Patriots. By pretending to share his taste in pop culture, Rose insinuated herself in Raiden's life without his knowing]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: She expresses a bit of jealousy when Raiden is escorting Emma.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only faked a miscarriage to protect her and Raiden's son from the Patriots]].
* DecoyDamsel: The real Rosemary is working offsite in Manhattan and is a spy for the Patriots. She survives the Arsenal crash and rendezvous with Raiden in the epilogue, with both of them promising to drop their masks.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: In her last codec call to Raiden in ''[=MGS2=]'' [[spoiler:(before a clearly hostile version of her that is likely an AI resurfaces), as she is getting cut off and the picture turns to static, her voice is slowed down and gets much deeper]]:
-->'''Rose:''' Jack! [[spoiler:I'm... I'm carrying... I'm... Pregnant... Jack... Your... Baby.]]
* TheGhost: She and Little John went to live to New Zealand while Raiden works as a PMC. She is mentioned a lot in the game, but never appears.
* GreenEyedMonster: She complains about how well Raiden seems to be getting along with Emma during the EscortMission.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Raiden.]]
* TheHeart: She spends much time fretting over Snake/Raiden's health like Mei Ling, and also has a propensity to tell anecdotes. A few reviewers have speculated that Rose is a deliberate [[spoiler:subversion of the trope since, unlike Mei Ling, her Codec chatter is both intrusive and useless. Her down-to-earth personality is a smoke screen for pushing the Colonel]]'s agenda, as he more or less admits in the Big Shell's dock. And, unlike Mei Ling, most gamers don't find Rose's diatribes to be cute or refreshing in the slightest. In [=MGS4=], she rejoins the team and fills Para-Medic's old role of quoting from the latest medical books. Also, like Para-Medic, she will chide Snake for unnecessarily killing animals (claiming it's a slippery slope to mental illness).
* HoneyTrap: Raiden first met Rose during a chance encounter in front of the Empire State Building. Rose, of course, [[spoiler:knew that Jack would be there and had been briefed on his psychological profile by the Patriots]], which enabled her to charm him.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. At the end of ''[=MSG4=]'', after waking up in a hospital, Raiden assumes she's here to break him further. She actually shows up to reveal that Roy faked their marriage in a plan to dupe the Patriots which involved her, in turn, pretending that she had a miscarriage, hence their son Little John.]]
* LethalChef: To the point where Raiden admits to Snake that he actually prefers military rations over Rose's home cooking, and has to turn off his cybernetic taste sensors just to get through the meal. Furthermore, when Colonel Campbell finally gets a break from Rose's food, he goes nuts over the taste of army rations, proclaiming it the best food ever. Snake connects the dots and actually gives him his sympathies.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only married Colonel Campbell in ''[=MSG4=]'' so the Patriots would leave her and her son alone. Once the mission is complete, she reveals that it was a sham and happily reunites with Raiden.]]
* MeaningfulName: Jack's nickname for her, "Rose", reflects both her personality and her story function; she's beautiful, but every time Raiden reaches out to her, she pricks him with thorns. It's also a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', where "Jack" and "Rose" become tragic lovers at sea.
* MeetCute: Jack and Rose's connection with the Empire State Building borrows heavily from Hollywood romances like ''Sleepless in Seattle.'' [[spoiler:It is also a fabrication. It was no accident that Rose met Jack that day, nor was her subsequent reappearance as one of Jack's co-workers at the military base]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler:In ''[=MGS2=]''.]]
* MsExposition: Rose inherits Naomi's old role of providing dossiers on everyone currently inside the Big Shell. Partly a subversion, since Rose's material is full of holes and lacking crucial information, requiring Snake to fill in the gaps.
* ProphetEyes: [[spoiler:Once the jig is up, the computerized facsimile of Rose]] flits between normal irises and blank ones. The effect is subtle enough that you won't notice it right away.
%%* StatuesqueStunner
* SympathyForTheDevil: In ''[=MGS4=]'', she expresses pity for the B&B Corps upon hearing their heartbreaking backstories, claiming that Liquid is [[BadBoss truly a heartless monster]] for putting them on the frontlines because of their psychological trauma, noting that they'll just keep getting worse until they're completely useless. Snake, who is not so sympathetic, agrees on all points, but he also points out that, since they're crazy and thus not fighting at their full effectiveness, [[SanityHasAdvantages he has the advantage]].
* TheVamp: Rosemary's real purpose during the simulation is to entice Jack with false promises of a happy life waiting for him in the city. This incentivices him to complete it without question.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:[[invoked]] Rose is allegedly based on Kojima's wife. In interviews for the series' 25th anniversary, he remarked on the irony of Rose being the most hated woman in the series, as he's often criticized for over-sexualizing his female characters and giving them unreal personalities.
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[[folder:Emma Emmerich]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"I can't say I like heights... though water's higher on my phobia list."-]'']]
->Voiced By: Creator/MariaYamamoto (JP), Creator/JenniferHale (EN)
->''"Science doesn't exist to benefit the world. Science is for the individual. For me, it is to realize my dreams."''
Hal's younger step-sister and the lead programmer for Arsenal Gear. Why she's working at the plant is anybody's guess, considering she's [[IronicFear terrified of water]]. 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 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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[[caption-width-right:340:Raiden in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty [=MGS2=]]]'']]
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->'''A.K.A.''': Jack the Ripper, Snake, Mr. Lightning Bolt
->Voiced by:
->''"Raiden, this is real. And that's why you won't wake up.
->''"I am lightning. The rain transformed."''
Reappears
As an apology to disgruntled fans, Kojima created a helpless look-a-like by the name of Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in ''Metal Gear Solid
In
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's uncertain [[spoiler: for how much of the game "Rose" was actually GW. It could be from any point in the game, but its almost certain that towards the end of the game she is replaced with a GW copy of her. Even then, it's unclear whether or not Rose was even in the mission to begin with.]]
** Was their first meeting set up or did they meet by accident? It seems too convinient to be sheer coincidence, but the way Rose describes it, she doesn't sound like the persona she displays in the game, and the meeting itself wasn't really romantic.
* BecomingTheMask: Throughout ''[=MGS2=]''
* BizarreTasteInFood: According to Campbell, everyone the world over agrees that America's military rations are hands down the worst. Everyone, that is, except for Rose, who admits to liking them. It may in part be why she's such a LethalChef.
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Jack first met Rose in Manhattan. She was discussing ''King Kong'' with some tourists and was about to point them to the wrong skyscraper. Raiden took it upon himself to correct her, and the pair got into a heated debate over whether King Kong featured the Chrysler Building or the Empire State until the tourists left in disgust. This non-event later turns out to have been [[spoiler:a trap set by the Patriots. By pretending to share his taste in pop culture, Rose insinuated herself in Raiden's life without his knowing]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: She expresses a bit of jealousy when Raiden is escorting Emma.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only faked a miscarriage to protect her and Raiden's son from the Patriots]].
* DecoyDamsel: The real Rosemary is working offsite in Manhattan and is a spy for the Patriots. She survives the Arsenal crash and rendezvous with Raiden in the epilogue, with both of them promising to drop their masks.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: In her last codec call to Raiden in ''[=MGS2=]'' [[spoiler:(before a clearly hostile version of her that is likely an AI resurfaces), as she is getting cut off and the picture turns to static, her voice is slowed down and gets much deeper]]:
-->'''Rose:''' Jack! [[spoiler:I'm... I'm carrying... I'm... Pregnant... Jack... Your... Baby.]]
* TheGhost: She and Little John went to live to New Zealand while Raiden works as a PMC. She is mentioned a lot in the game, but never appears.
* GreenEyedMonster: She complains about how well Raiden seems to be getting along with Emma during the EscortMission.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Raiden.]]
* TheHeart: She spends much time fretting over Snake/Raiden's health like Mei Ling, and also has a propensity to tell anecdotes. A few reviewers have speculated that Rose is a deliberate [[spoiler:subversion of the trope since, unlike Mei Ling, her Codec chatter is both intrusive and useless. Her down-to-earth personality is a smoke screen for pushing the Colonel]]'s agenda, as he more or less admits in the Big Shell's dock. And, unlike Mei Ling, most gamers don't find Rose's diatribes to be cute or refreshing in the slightest. In [=MGS4=], she rejoins the team and fills Para-Medic's old role of quoting from
* HoneyTrap: Raiden first met Rose during a chance encounter in front of
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. At the end of ''[=MSG4=]'', after waking up in a hospital, Raiden assumes she's here to break him further. She actually shows up to reveal that Roy faked their marriage in a plan to dupe the Patriots which involved her, in turn, pretending that she had a miscarriage, hence their son Little John.]]
* LethalChef: To the point where Raiden admits to Snake that he actually prefers military rations over Rose's home cooking, and has to turn off his cybernetic taste sensors just to get through the meal. Furthermore, when Colonel Campbell finally gets a break from Rose's food, he goes nuts over the taste of army rations, proclaiming it the best food ever. Snake connects the dots and actually gives him his sympathies.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only married Colonel Campbell in ''[=MSG4=]'' so the Patriots would leave her and her son alone. Once the mission is complete, she reveals that it was a sham and happily reunites with Raiden.]]
* MeaningfulName: Jack's nickname for her, "Rose", reflects both her personality and her story function; she's beautiful, but every time Raiden reaches out to her, she pricks him with thorns. It's also a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', where "Jack" and "Rose" become tragic lovers at sea.
* MeetCute: Jack and Rose's connection with the Empire State Building borrows heavily from Hollywood romances like ''Sleepless in Seattle.'' [[spoiler:It is also a fabrication. It was no accident that Rose met Jack that day, nor was her subsequent reappearance as one of Jack's co-workers at the military base]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler:In ''[=MGS2=]''.]]
* MsExposition: Rose inherits Naomi's old role of providing dossiers on everyone currently inside the Big Shell. Partly a subversion, since Rose's material is full of holes and lacking crucial information, requiring Snake to fill in the gaps.
* ProphetEyes: [[spoiler:Once the jig is up, the computerized facsimile of Rose]] flits between normal irises and blank ones. The effect is subtle enough that you won't notice it right away.
%%* StatuesqueStunner
* SympathyForTheDevil: In
Following ''[=MGS4=]'',
* TheVamp: Rosemary's real purpose during the simulation is to entice Jack with false promises of a happy life waiting for him in the city. This incentivices him to complete it without question.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:[[invoked]] Rose is allegedly based on Kojima's wife. In interviews for the series' 25th anniversary, he remarked on the irony of Rose being the most hated woman in the series, as he's often criticized for over-sexualizing his female characters and giving them unreal personalities.
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[[folder:Emma Emmerich]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emmamgs2_9374.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"I can't say I like heights... though water's higher on my phobia list."-]'']]
->Voiced By: Creator/MariaYamamoto (JP), Creator/JenniferHale (EN)
->''"Science doesn't exist to benefit the world. Science is for the individual. For me, it is to realize my dreams."''
Hal's younger step-sister and the lead programmer for Arsenal Gear. Why she's working at the plant is anybody's guess, considering she's [[IronicFear terrified of water]]. 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 working on developing the AI for Arsenal Gear, Emma is taken hostage by The Sons of Liberty. Hal asks
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* AffectionateNickname: Her brother nicknames her "E.E." thanks to her AlliterativeName.
* AgentMulder: Emma's explanation of what the Patriots have or could have done to information ("You know how the alphabet has twenty-six letters? Well, it could have been ''thirty.'' What if the other letters were deleted by a program?") and her "justifications" ("Have you ever seen a gene? Have you counted them yourself?") make her sound like this to the point that she can come off sounding like [[PoesLaw a parody]].
** It's worth noting that the whole censored alphabet thing makes much more sense in Japanese as they are not only missing letters, like La Li Lu Le Lo, but ''sounds'' which actually don't exist in the language (hence the absence of the corresponding characters) or, in a stunning result for the linguistic determinist camp, in the minds of the language's users. Japanese doesn't distinguish between the L-sound and the R-sound, a trait which complicates life for Japanese speakers learning Western languages; moreover, various studies have produced results suggesting that adult Japanese monoglots tend to hear the L-sound as a mispronounced R rather than as a distinct consonant of its own.\\
Contrariwise, almost any sound that isn't represented by a single letter in the English alphabet can be unambiguously represented with a di- or trigraph, e.g. "th" (which in Old English orthography actually did have its own letter) or the "our" in "courier". While this produces its own problems, such as the wide ambiguity of 'ough', what counts in this context is that there are only a very few sounds, such as the click consonants used in several African languages, which are totally unrepresentable in English speech and orthography. It would therefore have been, if not impossible, then at least highly infeasible to replace the "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" censoring of the Patriots' name with some equivalent combination of syllables that can't be rendered or correctly understood by English speakers.
** Also probably worth mentioning that she brings these up as hypothetical examples of the ''kinds'' of things Arsenal Gear could do, not necessarily as actual examples.
* AlliterativeName: '''E'''mma '''E'''mmerich. For this reason, Otacon nicknames her "E.E.".
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Emma might just be the only willing participant in the [=S3=] experiment. She only got into this line of work so she could accumulate the resources needed to crush Otacon.
* BringMyBrownPants: Emma pees herself when Raiden first finds her. Slighty averted, due to Emma already wearing black shorts.
* TheCutie: She sure is one cute girl, despite her HiddenHeartOfGold-hiding facade towards her brother. [[spoiler:That and the fact that she was never able to break the facade in time makes her death all the more tragic.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Died in Otacon's arms]].
* DamselInDistress: A very classic example of this trope.
* 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.
* EvilCounterpart: The script plays her up as a cynical and morally-lacking version of Otacon. Calling Snake with Emma in your party leads to a meeting of the minds: grassroots anti-nuke hacktivist vs. highly-paid government spook.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Towards Otacon.]]
* InsufferableGenius: She is not above mocking her rescuer's shortcomings and lack of computer savvy. Additionally, she never once expressed remorse for her role in the [=S3=] project. When confronted about it, she remarks that most people are too dumb to notice a pattern when it's staring them in the face.
** [[spoiler:Which if you haven't been paying much attention to the Plant's events, makes this an eerie piece of foreshadowing that will come back and haunt you later on.]]
* KillTheCutie: Especially jarring in that [[spoiler:it happens almost immediately after the EscortMission.]]
* LovableCoward: OK, Emma's not really cowardly, but she has so many fears (water, bugs, heights) that she comes across as this anyway.
* NotBloodSiblings: Towards Otacon, but not reciprocated. [[spoiler:After she's been shot, she reveals how she's always wished she could be "closer" to Hal and just wanted Hal to look at her "as a woman."]]
%%* PinkMeansFeminine
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Interestingly, her glasses are just for show; specifically, an homage to her step-brother.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In Codec conversations, Emma is scornful of Philanthropy's goals and thinks Otacon is little more than a small-time anarchist.
* TheStoolPigeon: Lacerated Larry type: It's strongly implied that she told the Sons of Liberty how to activate Arsenal Gear due to being under the influence of truth serum. This is another parallel to the Shadow Moses mission. (Dr. Hunter was imprisoned once Campbell found out she was a mole, whereupon he deliberated on giving her sodium pentothal.)
* SuperDrowningSkills: Played with. She used to love water and, according to Otacon, "swam like a fish." Unfortunately, after her stepdad drowned himself and nearly took her with him, she is completely terrified of water to the point where she [[SecurityCling clings]] to Raiden and lets him do all the swimming.
* {{Tsundere}}: She spends much time on the low end of the thermometer. However, she lights up when discussing her childhood with Hal, and exhibits girly flirtation with Raiden.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** 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.
** A more minor example: she's also terrified of bugs. So after the long underwater escort, seeing the path to the elevator filled with sea lice freaks her out until Raiden can clear them away (or knock her out and just drag her to the elevator).
* AgentMulder: Emma's explanation of what the Patriots have or could have done to information ("You know how the alphabet has twenty-six letters? Well, it could have been ''thirty.'' What if the other letters were deleted by a program?") and her "justifications" ("Have you ever seen a gene? Have you counted them yourself?") make her sound like this to the point that she can come off sounding like [[PoesLaw a parody]].
** It's worth noting that the whole censored alphabet thing makes much more sense in Japanese as they are not only missing letters, like La Li Lu Le Lo, but ''sounds'' which actually don't exist in the language (hence the absence of the corresponding characters) or, in a stunning result for the linguistic determinist camp, in the minds of the language's users. Japanese doesn't distinguish between the L-sound and the R-sound, a trait which complicates life for Japanese speakers learning Western languages; moreover, various studies have produced results suggesting that adult Japanese monoglots tend to hear the L-sound as a mispronounced R rather than as a distinct consonant of its own.\\
Contrariwise, almost any sound that isn't represented by a single letter in the English alphabet can be unambiguously represented with a di- or trigraph, e.g. "th" (which in Old English orthography actually did have its own letter) or the "our" in "courier". While this produces its own problems, such as the wide ambiguity of 'ough', what counts in this context is that there are only a very few sounds, such as the click consonants used in several African languages, which are totally unrepresentable in English speech and orthography. It would therefore have been, if not impossible, then at least highly infeasible to replace the "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" censoring of the Patriots' name with some equivalent combination of syllables that can't be rendered or correctly understood by English speakers.
** Also probably worth mentioning that she brings these up as hypothetical examples of the ''kinds'' of things Arsenal Gear could do, not necessarily as actual examples.
* AlliterativeName: '''E'''mma '''E'''mmerich. For this reason, Otacon nicknames her "E.E.".
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Emma might just be the only willing participant in the [=S3=] experiment. She only got into this line of work so she could accumulate the resources needed to crush Otacon.
* BringMyBrownPants: Emma pees herself when Raiden first finds her. Slighty averted, due to Emma already wearing black shorts.
* TheCutie: She sure is one cute girl, despite her HiddenHeartOfGold-hiding facade towards her brother. [[spoiler:That and the fact that she was never able to break the facade in time makes her death all the more tragic.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Died in Otacon's arms]].
* DamselInDistress: A very classic example of this trope.
* 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.
* EvilCounterpart: The script plays her up as a cynical and morally-lacking version of Otacon. Calling Snake with Emma in your party leads to a meeting of the minds: grassroots anti-nuke hacktivist vs. highly-paid government spook.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Towards Otacon.]]
* InsufferableGenius: She is not above mocking her rescuer's shortcomings and lack of computer savvy. Additionally, she never once expressed remorse for her role in the [=S3=] project. When confronted about it, she remarks that most people are too dumb to notice a pattern when it's staring them in the face.
** [[spoiler:Which if you haven't been paying much attention to the Plant's events, makes this an eerie piece of foreshadowing that will come back and haunt you later on.]]
* KillTheCutie: Especially jarring in that [[spoiler:it happens almost immediately after the EscortMission.]]
* LovableCoward: OK, Emma's not really cowardly, but she has so many fears (water, bugs, heights) that she comes across as this anyway.
* NotBloodSiblings: Towards Otacon, but not reciprocated. [[spoiler:After she's been shot, she reveals how she's always wished she could be "closer" to Hal and just wanted Hal to look at her "as a woman."]]
%%* PinkMeansFeminine
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Interestingly, her glasses are just for show; specifically, an homage to her step-brother.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In Codec conversations, Emma is scornful of Philanthropy's goals and thinks Otacon is little more than a small-time anarchist.
* TheStoolPigeon: Lacerated Larry type: It's strongly implied that she told the Sons of Liberty how to activate Arsenal Gear due to being under the influence of truth serum. This is another parallel to the Shadow Moses mission. (Dr. Hunter was imprisoned once Campbell found out she was a mole, whereupon he deliberated on giving her sodium pentothal.)
* SuperDrowningSkills: Played with. She used to love water and, according to Otacon, "swam like a fish." Unfortunately, after her stepdad drowned himself and nearly took her with him, she is completely terrified of water to the point where she [[SecurityCling clings]] to Raiden and lets him do all the swimming.
* {{Tsundere}}: She spends much time on the low end of the thermometer. However, she lights up when discussing her childhood with Hal, and exhibits girly flirtation with Raiden.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** 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.
** A more minor example: she's also terrified of bugs. So after the long underwater escort, seeing the path to the elevator filled with sea lice freaks her out until Raiden can clear them away (or knock her out and just drag her to the elevator).
to:
* AffectionateNickname: Her brother nicknames EleventhHourSuperpower: In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Raiden gains access to [[spoiler: Sam's HF Murasama]] during the final boss. [[spoiler: It can be purchased during a NewGamePlus run for use outside the final boss.]]
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: He's usually associated with HF Blades. Think of an electric turkey cutter shaped like a sword which goes ''really'' '''fast'''.
* ActionDad: [[spoiler: After the events of Liquid Ocelot's war Rose returns to visit Raiden and reveals that the son she had with her"E.E." was his.]]
* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the graphic novel, Raiden figures out on his own that [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds "Roy Campbell"]] is actually a A.I. construct, whereas in the game he had to rely on Otacon to dig into why the Colonel was acting crazy.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' graphic novel, he loses the final fight with Solidus and only survives thanks toher AlliterativeName.
[[BigDamnHeroes Snake arriving to finish him off.]] In the game, Raiden wins on his own and Snake doesn't even show up until after Solidus is already dead.
*AgentMulder: Emma's explanation AlienBlood: Raiden's artificial blood is white in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' and the Japanese version of ''Metal Gear Rising''.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Mentions that after the events of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', he tried to live a civilian life with his family, but the technology behind his artificial skin was imperfect and unnatural looking, causing him to be shunned from society and gave him a hard time finding a job.
* AnArmAndALeg: Cuts off his right arm after being pinned down by debris at Shadow Moses, and loses his other arm after saving Snake from being crushed by Outer Haven in ''Metal Gear Solid 4''. In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he loses an arm in his first battle with Samuel Rodrigues.
* AntiHero: Has AxCrazy and SociopathicHero tendencies, despite wanting to do the right thing.
* ArtificialLimbs: Has had artificial blood to improve his physical performance since ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. Since ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', his entire body save for part of his head and spine are robotic as well.
* AscendedFanboy: Starting in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. Gives a brief account of his history with Snake to his friends at Maverick Security, mentioning he was the best combat soldier Raiden had ever seen. Ends up getting teased as a Snake fanboy, though mostly out of disappointment no one else working at Maverick got to meet him.
* AudienceSurrogate: Raiden is overtly a representation of the player in ''Sons of Liberty''. He's a virtual reality "veteran" of every VR Mission based on Snake's adventures (literally a videogame player) and, at first, his personality is a complete cypher. It's no accident that the dog tags around his neck are branded with the player's [[HelloInsertNameHere input]] from the game's start. [[spoiler:The revelation of his severely DarkAndTroubledPast plays with this trope; apparently even people who don't live ordinary lives like most of the audience want to imagine themselves as heroes.]]
** Even his [[spoiler:dark and tragic backstory]] adds to the idea of audience escapism - just as the audience is using video games for escapism purposes, so is Raiden using the VR to try and escape his own past.
* AxCrazy: Subverted. ''Metal Gear Rising'' has him gradually descend into [[spoiler:his "Jack the Ripper" persona, where he outright states that he enjoys killing... yet is fully aware of how aberrant and broken he is. Not only does he embrace the Ripper to take action in part so World Marshal can't produce more like him, the Ripper even [[ReluctantPsycho laments the deaths he's caused to Boris]].]]
* BackToBackBadasses: With Snake himself outside of Outer Haven's microwave corridor. And two games before that, when facing off against the Arsenal Gear troopers.
* BadassBiker: See HeroStoleMyBike below.
* BadassBoast: Before shredding some [=FROGs=],
-->'''Raiden:''' I am lightning. The rain transformed.
* BadassFamily: Although never really brought up, from a technical standpoint of being Solidus' adopted son, this makes Raiden the nephew of both Snake and Liquid, and also the grandson of Big Boss.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Spends both the prologue and epilogue of ''Rising'' in a black suit and sunglasses. Clearing the prologue on Very Hard Mode unlocks the suit as body type.
* BadassLongcoat: His standard cyborg disguise in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' is a long black trenchcoat...
** TheCoatsAreOff: ...which he casts off while fighting Gekkos in South America.
* BadassNormal: Before he becomes a cyborg, he can still use pure skill to infiltrate Big Shell and deflect bullets with his sword. He also holds the record for the most full-size Metal Gears destroyed in one battle[[note]]The actual number varies depending on the difficulty, but he destroys between three (Very Easy) and ''twenty-five'' (Extreme) Metal Gear RAY production models, fighting them three at a time.[[/note]] and also has more full-size Metal Gears destroyed than Solid Snake[[note]] Snake "only" destroys 4: TX-55, D (which was inactive), REX, and one RAY (which was done by piloting REX). Raiden has, at minimum, destroyed 5: three mass-produced [=RAYs=], the Desperado-modified RAY, and EXCELSUS[[/note]].
** Despite all this, Raiden also functions as a {{deconstruction}} of whatthe Patriots have or it would take to become so badass. Raiden's past as a ChildSoldier has left him ''very'' badass, but also traumatized and with CombatSadomasochist BloodKnight tendencies that he has much trouble controlling. Even with his amazing combat ability, Raiden tried to ignore his past so he could have done to information ("You know how the alphabet has twenty-six letters? Well, it live a normal life in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. However, he could not escape the battlefield nor fully repress his violent tendencies; [[spoiler:even after settling down with Rose and his son, [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance once he fights against Desperado]], he denies going back to them to instead wage a one-man war on Private Military Companies.]]
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Done during the final showdown of ''Rising''. After listening to [[spoiler:Armstrong's]] MotiveRant, Raiden seems to relent, realizing he's dealing with a true believer, not a mere criminal. [[spoiler:Armstrong]] extends his hand as a gesture of goodwill... but Raiden hasn't lost his moral compass just yet.
-->'''Raiden:''' I was wrong. You're not greedy... ''[[YoureInsane you're batshit insane!]]''
* BatmanGrabsAGun: Done subtly throughout ''Metal Gear Rising''. Raiden says multiple times that he fights [[ForGreatJustice for justice]], and he sees his sword as a tool to protect people weaker than himself. However, over the course of the game, he slowly starts going back on this, being forced to [[spoiler:nearly kill a kid and unleash his psychotic Jack the Ripper persona]] to defeat his enemies. This comes to a head in the final battle [[spoiler:where he has to use Sam's sword against [[BigBad Armstrong]], proclaiming "[[LoopholeAbuse This isn't my sword!]]" and going to town on his opponent. Armstrong seems proud of him, using his dying words to congratulate him for shedding his ideals and being willing to kill.]] [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame This rocks Raiden to his core]] [[PyrrhicVictory as he realises everything he's had to give up to win.]] After all is said and done, it's clear in end that he's starting to feel like he's no different from his foes.
* BerserkButton: Don't kill, abuse or exploit children and laugh about it in Raiden's face. Just don't. Press the reminder button of his own unhappy childhood in this manner one time too many, and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Jack]] will come out to play.
* TheBerserker: In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Raiden repeatedly throws himself into situations where he ''should'' be dying. The events of/following ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' havebeen ''thirty.'' What if the other letters were deleted reduced him to little more than a shell of his human self.
-->'''Vamp:''' You, too... Immortal?\\
'''Raiden:''' No. ''I just don't fear death.''
* BigDamnHeroes: On Outer Haven, he shows up just in time to save an incapacitated Snake from being killed by aprogram?") and her "justifications" ("Have you ever seen a gene? Have you counted them yourself?") make her sound like group of Haven Troopers.
* TheBigGuy: He becomes this in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', due to his new cyborg body making him the most physically powerful and capable out of all the protagonists.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: One of the guards comments he "wishes that he had that" if he sees the naked Raiden restrained in the torture device in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''.
* BladeEnthusiast: Raiden prefers fighting with blades, to the point thatshe can come off sounding despite having a gun strapped to his leg throughout the fourth game, he never once uses it.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Seems to happen to him as a cyborg often enough. In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Raiden is shown uncontrollably vomiting blood after being critically injured in his first fight with Vamp. Upon being stabbed by [[spoiler:several FROGS inside Outer Haven]] he coughs up some blood as well.
** In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he gets his ass kicked by [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] to the point where he's coughing up blood.
* BloodKnight:
** As a {{child soldier|s}}, Raiden derived pleasure out of fighting and killing. As an adult, he tried to ignore this aspect of his personality, only to embrace it in ''Metal Gear Rising'' out of necessity.
--->'''Raiden:''' I learned young that killing enemies felt good... ''Really'' good.
** Though much more subdued in comparison, [[http://www.gamersyde.com/news_our_videos_of_metal_gear_rising-13801.jpg the big smile Raiden has on his face while cutting up Metal Gear RAY]] suggests that he lets himself fully enjoy combat against non-living foes.
* BodyHorror: The Patriots transformed Raiden into a cyborg by ''removing his head and spine from his body from the lower jaw down'' and grafting it onto PoweredArmor.
* BoomerangBigot: In ''Metal Gear Rising'' he shows disdain for cyborgs, mercilessly killing dozens of them without a thought, despite being more machine than man himself by that point. His interactions with [[CanineCompanion Bladewolf]] help him [[CharacterDevelopment grow out of it]].
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Quotes Sam's "Ok, let's dance!" right before the battle with Armstrong. He says this while wielding Sam's sword.
* BreakThemByTalking: And how! [[spoiler:GW and the other Patriot A.I.s routinely mock him and humanity as a collective once the jig is up, and the Selection for Societal Sanity ruse is revealed. They say they chose Jack because of his similarities to Snake's background. However the real reason they chose Jack was because of his denials and delusions of heroism, they tell him that his escapism made him the perfect tool to manipulate and he is worth next to nothing to the Patriots in their grand scheme. Raiden takes this revelation pretty badly and spends the rest of the mission unable to tell fact from fiction or find something to believe in. Snake has to occasionally talk to him to break him out of his stupor.]]
* ButtMonkey: Compared to both Big Boss and Solid Snake, he gets treated ''far'' worse during isolated situations, such when doing something "morally questionable" like[[PoesLaw looking at toilets in a parody]].
woman's bathroom or cutting dudes' clothes off. He catches ''infinitely'' more shit from his support teams than either of his predecessors. In addition, any time he mentions (and starts gushing over) Solid Snake, folks are quick to point out what a total fanboy he is.
** [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Even Prime Minister N'Mani]] made fun of his name, christening him "Mr. Lightning Bolt" instead. Raiden didn't mind that much, mostly because he respected N'Mani deeply, but any time somebody else makes fun of his name in the same way, he grumbles and complains.
* ButNotTooForeign: Details about his parents' ethnicity are never disclosed, but series canon makes him a Liberian-American who was born in Liberia,[[note]]Whether Raiden was ever a Liberian ''citizen'' or if he was merely born to foreign workers in Liberia isn't specified. If he ''was'' a citizen, Liberia's strict citizenship laws mean that despite his very Caucasian appearance, he must have some recent Black African ancestry.[[/note]] fought in one of the Liberian Civil Wars as a [[ChildSoldier child]], holds U.S. citizenship, and has lived in the U.S. for most of his life. Lampshaded when his appearance is commented upon in ''Metal Gear Rising''.
-->'''Mistral:''' Liberian, yet white as snow.
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from an apparent NaiveNewcomer to an [[spoiler:ex-ChildSoldier trying to [[AwfulTruth live out a hero fantasy]] to a {{jade|ColoredGlasses}}d soldier fighting ForGreatJustice to an AxCrazy {{Ubermensch}}]]. He's a good guy all the way through, though.
* ChildSoldier: [[spoiler:Was already an infamous soldier in the Liberian Civil War known as "Jack the Ripper" before the age of 10.]]
* ChewingTheScenery: Boy does he ever in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
* ClarkKentOutfit: For his day job, Raiden wears expensive-looking suits in meetings with clients. He's always ready to spring into action, though; in the opening of ''Metal Gear Rising'', he effortlessly rips his suit off to reveal an exoskeleton underneath.
* CoatCape: In the final act of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', he wears his BadassLongcoat as such after losing his arms, holding it in place with one of Snake's flak jackets.
* CombatSadomasochist: "Jack [[spoiler:the Ripper]]" has this trait, and it is shown prominently in ''Metal Gear Rising'':
-->'''Raiden:''' '''Pain'''... ''this'' is why I fight.
** Also overlaps with ActorAllusion in that game, as his [[Creator/KenyuHoriuchi Japanese VA]] voiced ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Pain]]''.
* CombatStilettos: Raiden's cyborg bodies feature rubberized heels that allow him to grip swords and other weapons with his feet.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Raiden was taken in at a very young age by his "Godfather" Solidus after his birth parents were killed. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Solidus was the one who murdered Raiden's parents.]]
* CoolCar: In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he has a black sports car with holograms for watching the news and communication and it drives itself. [[spoiler:Sadly, it gets destroyed when the police shoot an RPG at it.]] He later states to Blade Wolf in a Codec that it was for operations only, not personal use.
* CouldntFindAPen: After commandeering a parked motorcycle in ''Metal Gear Rising'', he politely leaves a note apologising for this along with a contact number. Said note was some scrawling in the sidewalk he made with his HF Blade.
* TheCowl: The final shot of ''Metal Gear Rising'' seems to imply this is the case.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Nobody takes him very seriously in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', not even civilians. Turns out he's been fighting and killing since he was a child.
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: While fighting Haven Troopers to buy Snake time to upload FOXALIVE. Justified since he's lost ''both'' arms by then.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Is portrayed as a far more violent man after his {{cyborg}} upgrade between the second and fourth games, though this is attributed more to his memories of Liberia and [=PTSD=].
* CyberNinja: Starting in ''4'' he becomes a stealthy infiltration expert with a robotic body and a {{Vibroweapon}} katana for equipment. That said, in ''Rising'' he takes a much more blatant approach and, while he can still stealth through many potential combat encounters, many fights are unavoidable. It'sworth noting here he also starts to pick up more ''samurai'' influences, like following the bushido.
* DanceBattler: In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' and ''Metal Gear Rising'', he can breakdance while holding a sword in one of his feet to slice up everyone around him. [[RuleOfCool It's about as insane as it sounds.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Raiden had a brutal experience growing up. He was orphaned at a young age by Solidus Snake who then adopted him and raised him as a ChildSoldier.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Goes from a spy with a DarkAndTroubledPast in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' to a barely human {{cyborg}} in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' to an AxCrazy SociopathicHero in ''Metal Gear Rising''.
* DeathSeeker: Gives this attitude in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', where he tells Snake, Otacon, and Sunny that he has nothing to lose, and explicitly tells Vamp that he does not fear death.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of a lot of things in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', such as {{Naive Newcomer}}s, self-insert gratification characters, and thewhole censored alphabet thing makes much more sense player themselves. ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' proceeded to show that this did no small number on his psyche in Japanese as they are not only missing letters, like La Li Lu Le Lo, but ''sounds'' which the long-term. Then ''Metal Gear Rising'' kicks in and demonstrates that an over-the-top action game hero protagonist who has SeenItAll and gained a DeadpanSnarker streak a mile wide [[spoiler:is ''still'' a psychological mess, horrified in the long-term by all the slaughter he's committed, and utterly despises his SociopathicHero status in an attempt to find something that actually don't exist means something to himself-- and is disappointed but ultimately resolved when he realizes he's just too good at what he does anyway, even if he can direct it towards stopping far worse people.]]
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: While fighting Vamp in South America, Vamp restrains him, to which Raiden runs them ''both'' through with his sword. Vamp responds by driving the blade in even further and then ''twisting'' it.
* {{Determinator}}: Has continued fighting seemingly hopeless battles even while bleeding to death, missing both his arms, and having one of his ''eyes'' cut out. [[spoiler:In the FinalBattle of ''Metal Gear Rising'', by the time the final quicktime event set comes around, he can barely even stand up]].
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: An important element of his CharacterDevelopment is becoming more than a copy of Snake. After spending most of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' as exactly that, he starts using swordplay near the story's climax and never looks back; while Snake remains a BadassNormal spy who deals with his enemies via stealth and light, ranged weaponry like guns, Raiden would become a Cyborg Ninja who defeats his opponents with his HF blade or, if he's feeling fancy, a variety of melee weapons and explosives.
* DomesticAbuse: When Rose reminiscences about the one time she forced her way to Raiden's room, she remembers it as the "first time" he got violently angry and raised his hand against her, at least strongly implying there where other such incidents in their relationship.
* DrowningMySorrows: Rosemary claimed that Raiden took to drinking heavily after regaining his ShellShockedVeteran memories as a ChildSoldier.
* ElectronicEyes: In ''Metal Gear Rising''.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Raiden was, for all intents and purposes, a normal human in ''The Sons of Liberty''. By the time of ''The Guns of the Patriots'', he's had cybernetics upgrade his powerset to include SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, and on a few rare occasions, ShockAndAwe.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: While not made clear at first, due to the MindScrew nature of the game, Raiden is already an accomplished soldier, and a veteran of the Liberian Civil War.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', [[spoiler: it's implied that Raiden's Jack the Ripper persona is disgusted with Armstrong, at least at first]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:As "Jack The Ripper", he has an impish cackle.]]
* EvilSoundsRaspy: In ''Metal Gear Rising'', when [[spoiler:he's in "The Ripper" persona]]. Justified, as everything but his head and spine have been replaced with cybernetics, including his vocal cords. He averts this when speaking to Sunny, using a voice more similar to his ''[=MGS2=]'' one, showing he has a soft spot for her.
* EyepatchOfPower: Starts wearing a black bandana over the left side of his face after Sam cuts out his left eye during their first duel in ''Metal Gear Rising''. It's not just for appearance's sake, though: there wasn't enough time to make him another artificial eyeball and the bandana works as a compound eye that gives him equal or better vision than that of a real eye. [[spoiler:The epilogue shows that Raiden's ditched the bandana in favor of a proper artificial eye, since his behind-the-scenes war against World Marshall requires a less conspicuous look.]]
* FemaleGaze: [[WordOfGod Kojima]] admitted that Raiden was designed to appeal to women after a girl told him she didn't want to play a game starring "an old man".
* TheFettered: [[DeconstructedTrope He tries to be one in]] ''[[DeconstructedTrope Rising.]]'' He says that his sword is purely a tool of justice not to be used in anger and that he only fights cyborgs who knew what they were signing up for and Unmanned and Metal Gears designed for nothing but combat. Unfortunately, to fight Desperado's operations he has to break the law and attack World Marshal directly in Denver. It's only when he's just about there that Sam reveals that many of the cyborgs weren't exactly willing in their decision to join Desperado, many being disabled, poor, homeless or generally needing the money or enhancements just to get by, putting Raiden's massacre in a much worse light. [[spoiler:In order to continue on, he admits that he still enjoys killing, bringing back Jack the Ripper to do so. Later on, he finds that he ''agrees'' with Senator Armstrong's beliefs, but not his methods, so when Blade Wolf gives him the ID-unlocked Murasama, Raiden uses it to subvert his "tool of justice" speech [[ExactWords as it's not his sword]]. The end of the game implies he's completely given up the facade, and now fights regardless of the expectations of anybody else, or himself.]]
* FlashbackNightmare: ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' implies that he experiences vivid nightmares of his [[ChildSoldier childhood as a soldier]] in thelanguage (hence Liberian Civil War, to the absence of the corresponding characters) or, in point he fears he'll harm Rosemary if he lets her sleep next to him.
* {{Foil}}: To Solid Snake. Snake is astunning result for the linguistic determinist camp, in the minds of the language's users. Japanese gruff, grizzled, TallDarkAndHandsome ladies' man, Raiden is a young, [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic]], White Haired Pretty Boy with a steady girlfriend. ([[CharacterDevelopment At least at first]]). Snake recognizes that Raiden was groomed as his successor, which doesn't distinguish between the L-sound and the R-sound, instill him with much confidence in today's military.
-->'''Otacon:''' You know, you're atrait which complicates life for Japanese speakers learning Western languages; moreover, various studies have produced results suggesting that adult Japanese monoglots tend to hear the L-sound as a mispronounced R rather than as a distinct consonant of its own.pretty interesting guy. You're just like Snake said.\\
Contrariwise, almost any sound that isn't represented by a single letter in the English alphabet can be unambiguously represented with a di- or trigraph, e.g. "th" (which in Old English orthography actually '''Raiden:''' ''(piqued interest)'' ...What did have its own letter) or the "our" he say?\\
'''Otacon:''' That you're a weak, simple-minded, stubborn fool. Ah, don't worry, [[VitriolicBestBuds he didn't mean anything bad by it]].\\
'''Raiden:''' "Nothing bad"?! What could POSSIBLY BE WORSE THAN '''''THAT'''''?!
** This eventually leads into DivergentCharacterEvolution in"courier". regards to their combat styles. While this produces its own problems, such as both are trained in all sorts of weapons and can sneak or fight depending on the wide ambiguity circumstances, Snake prefers guns and stealth while Raiden can charge into battle with just his HF Blade and come out no worse for wear.
* ForGreatJustice: His sword is "a tool of'ough', what counts in this context is that there are only a very few sounds, such as the click consonants justice, not used in several African languages, which are totally unrepresentable in English speech and orthography. It would therefore have been, if anger"... Of course, this need not impossible, then at least highly infeasible to replace the "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" censoring of the Patriots' name with some equivalent combination of syllables apply [[ExactWords when holding somebody else's sword]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Raiden loses his shit when he discovers thatcan't be rendered or correctly understood by English speakers.
** Also probably worth mentioning that she brings these up as hypothetical examples of the ''kinds'' of things Arsenal Gear could do, not necessarily as actual examples.
* AlliterativeName: '''E'''mma '''E'''mmerich. For this reason, Otacon nicknames her "E.E.".
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Emma might just be the only willing participant in the [=S3=] experiment. She only gotDesperado and World Marshal are converting children into cyborg child soldiers and goes out of his way to save them from going through what he did. Summed up quite well in this line to Sundowner:
-->'''Raiden:''' I ''chose'' [[{{Cyborg}} this]]. They're ''kids'', you [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch son ofwork so she could accumulate the resources needed to crush Otacon.
a bitch!]]
*BringMyBrownPants: Emma pees herself when FullConversionCyborg: In between ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', Raiden first finds her. Slighty averted, due to Emma already wearing black shorts.
* TheCutie: She sureis one cute girl, despite her HiddenHeartOfGold-hiding facade towards her brother. [[spoiler:That and the fact converted into a full-body cyborg. He usually leaves his mechanical parts uncovered, with only his face looking consistently organic.
* GagPenis: There's a RunningGag thatshe was never able to break Raiden, of all people, is absurdly well endowed. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', if an alert is caused and Raiden gets back on the facade in time makes her death torture rack while naked, a soldier will come, investigate him, and be shocked and envious at the size. Later, Snake teases him about it - "Amazing how you can walk around". In ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}} Online'', Vamp, when tranquilised, will say "Raiden... is so big..." In the ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' comic book, we do actually get to see it, and it's halfway to his knees. (Flaccid. In sub-zero temperatures.)
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In the story, [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper]] Raiden ''absolutely enjoys'' killing and slashing people, and will let all his mental restrains go only to feel the delicious taste of blood. In the game, press both analog sticks with your Electrolyte reserve at maximum to engage Ripper mode and destroy all themore tragic.enemies on your screen with just a couple slashes.
* GlasgowGrin: His entire body from the lower jaw down was removed when the Patriots turned him into a cyborg, leaving disturbing smile-like lines running up his cheeks where what's left of his skull meets his cybernetics.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: [[spoiler:Jack's repressed memories as a child soldier eventually manifest as an ultra-violent split personality dubbed "The Ripper." His reversion to the Ripper persona is signaled by a blood-red BattleAura.]]
*DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Died GroinAttack: President James Johnson grabs his groin to see if he's a man or a woman in Otacon's arms]].
* DamselInDistress: A very classic example of this trope.
* EscortMission: You have to take her from''Metal Gear Solid 2''. The original game script implies 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 President was expecting Olga, assumed Raiden has to carry her.
* EvilCounterpart: The script plays her up as a cynicalwas some kind of impostor, and morally-lacking version grabbed his crotch to confirm this.
* GuestFighter: In ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'', sporting his Cyborg Ninja look. Somewhat ironic, considering Solid Snake's appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros. Brawl''.
* HandicappedBadass: Fights off dozens ofOtacon. Calling Snake cyborg Haven Troopers at the end of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' even after having both his arms ripped off earlier.
* HandyFeet: In ''[=MGS4=]'' and ''Rising'', he often wields his sword withEmma his feet.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Come ''Metal Gear Rising'', he's married to Rosemary, though she and his son live inyour party leads New Zealand to a meeting of avoid all the minds: grassroots anti-nuke hacktivist vs. highly-paid government spook.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Towards Otacon.conflict that Raiden is involved in]].
* HeroStoleMyBike: He steals a souped-up chopper bike in Denver, stopping to ''politely'' carve a note to its owner in the sidewalk. [[spoiler:[[{{Irony}} Turns out]] it was ''Sam's'' chopper, who he kills soon afterwards.]]
*InsufferableGenius: She is not above mocking her rescuer's shortcomings HeroWithBadPublicity: Has apparently become this by the end of ''Metal Gear Rising''. Going on a rampage through the city of Denver and lack butchering legions of computer savvy. Additionally, she never once expressed remorse for her role cops (dirty cops, yes, but cops nonetheless) on a mission to dismantle the biggest PrivateMilitaryContractor in the [=S3=] project. When confronted about it, she remarks that most people are too dumb world'll do that.
* HeroicResolve: A running trend at the climax of every game Raiden's been in.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', Raiden collapses from exhaustion while fighting the army of Metal Gear [=RAYs=]. With almost no time for a breather, though, he's forced into combat against Solidus -- a man said tonotice be a pattern better fighter than Snake -- and manages to win.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Raiden gets critically injured during his first duel with Vamp and gets only a bare-bones repair job before the mission to Shadow Moses. During their rematch, Raiden is pushed to the brink but narrowly manages to kill him for good, and subsequently has to escape Shadow Moses with Snake and Otacon, fending off [=FROGS=]. In the final chapter, Raiden ends up holding off more of Ocelot's soldiers without even the use of his arms.
** In ''Metal Gear Rising'', even whenit's staring them he's thoroughly outclassed by Sam in the face.
** [[spoiler:Which if you haven't been paying much attention toprologue, Raiden keeps fighting even without the Plant's events, makes this an eerie piece use of foreshadowing that will come back one hand and haunt you later on.after losing an eye. In the final boss fight, he ends up on the receiving end of multiple beatdowns strong enough to partially bury him into and ''shatter'' the main body of [[spoiler:Metal Gear Excelsus]] before finally getting a weapon strong enough to harm [[spoiler:Armstrong.]]
* KillTheCutie: Especially jarring in that [[spoiler:it happens almost immediately *** This is after he decided to turn off his pain inhibitors, though to be fair, [[CombatSadomasochist pain helps Raiden fight]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Appears to be killed in Act Four of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' when he saves Snake from being crushed by Outer Haven. Subverted when he shows up in theEscortMission.final act having only lost his remaining arm.
* HeroWorshipper: In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', he gushes to Kevin about how Solid Snake helped him leave behind his name and about how great he is.
* HiddenDepths:
** When you first meet him in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', he appears to be a [[NaiveNewcomer gullible rookie]] with no real world combat experience. He eventually turns out to be a highly trained ex-ChildSoldier with even bigger issues than Solid Snake himself.
** A Codec call in ''Rising'' reveals that, after his run-in with the AI Colonel, he's done research on the nature of AI and whether they can actually think for themselves.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: He declares himself a ninja, and others refer to him as such, though he admits to following bushido, the code of the samurai, and let's face it, a cybernetic body isn't all that stealthy.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Once his Ripper persona comes out, hardened nihilistic terrorist Monsoon becomes unnerved and has a full-blown VillainousBreakdown if the player performs well enough in the ensuing boss fight.
* HotBlooded: Becomes this in ''Revengeance'' and takes it up a notch when "[[SuperPoweredEvilSide Jack]]" lets it rip.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake:
** Whenever he appears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', you can be certain of two things - 1) Raiden will do something awesome; 2) Raiden will get his ass kicked even worse than he did the last time he turned up. It gets to the point that Raiden loses both arms, and the plans to storm Outer Haven are made without involving him in either the planning ''or'' the actual plan, specifically ''because'' he's in such bad shape by that point; and then he ''somehow'' still turns up to help Snake, resorting to using his mouth & feet to wield his sword due to losing both arms.
** During the final battle against [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] in ''Metal Gear Rising'', the buildup to the actual boss fight involves Raiden getting beat literally into the pavement multiple times. [[HeroicResolve Not that it slows him down once he gets a fighting chance.]]
*LovableCoward: OK, HumiliationConga: In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', he suffers a relapse in his PTSD, then his wife Rosemary has an apparent miscarriage, then she leaves him for Colonel Campbell, and then the Patriots remove 90% of his body to turn him into a cyborg. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, he gets a more human cyborg body, and the miscarriage and divorce turn out to be a ploy to protect his son from the Patriots]].
* IcyBlueEyes: Icy and piercing.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: It is heavily implied in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' that the reason why he and Rosemary split up was because of his PTSD worsening. [[spoiler:Subverted in that Rosemary ''actually'' left in order to be protected by Roy Campbell, and returned to Raiden once the danger had passed]].
* InSeriesNickname: Known by multiple codenames and nicknames, including Raiden, Jack [[spoiler:the Ripper]], the White Devil, and Mr. Lightning Bolt.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Spent his childhood being abused and conditioned into a killing machine by Solidus. He's been extremely cynical when it comes to war and trusting others ever since.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His Japanese styled high frequency blades cut through armored enemies resistant to gun and rocket fire like butter.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Has shades of it ''2'', what with his awkwardness and getting flustered when Snake points out his "book". All the stuff he went through with Snake just made him admire the man more in ''Metal Gear Rising'', to the point he even gets called a fanboy in a codec conversation there.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: After being pinned to the ground by debris at Shadow Moses, Raiden cuts off his own right arm to save Snake from being crushed by Liquid Ocelot's Outer Haven.
* LightningBruiser: [[ShockAndAwe No pun intended.]] After becoming a {{cyborg}}, he is both incredibly agile and strong enough to flip dozens of mobile tanks.
* [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]]: Treats Sunny like she was his own kid, and does his best to treat her with all the kindness in the world.
* MasterSwordsman: Highly proficient with blades and knives.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Raiden's response to Sam cutting his arm off in ''Metal Gear Rising'''s prologue is merely an annoyed "Not again," while he shows little reaction to [[EyeScream having his left eye sliced out completely.]] Though this is most likely because of his pain suppressing nanomachines, and he bleeds out not half a minute after.
* MeaningfulName: ''InUniverse example'', as [[spoiler:the Patriots]] note. His codename of Raiden comes from the Japanese name for one of its interceptors. The U.S name for this interceptor? ''Jack''.[[note]]The same class of fighter included REX and RAY as names as well[[/note]] His nickname of "Jack [[spoiler:the Ripper]]" is because of [[spoiler:his proficiency with blades and extreme brutality.]]
* MistakenIdentity:
** In the ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence]]'''s short ''Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser'', Volgin mistakes him for his Russian look-a-like Raikov, and tries to sexually assault Raiden.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', President James Johnson mistakes Raiden for Olga Gurlukovich due to his [[AmbiguousGender androgynous looks]].
* TheMovieBuff: In a roundabout sort of way, it was his love of movies that led to his and Rose's relationship.
* MrFanservice: The widely-known naked mission comes to mind...
* MultiMeleeMaster: In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he can use a good variety of melee weapons.
** '''High-Frequency Blade''': A [[VibroWeapon high-frequency]] ninja sword, and Raiden's primary weapon. Short-range, but powerful and fast.
** '''L'Étranger''': A pole-arm [[VisualPun (arm-pole?)]] researched after his battle with Mistral. A sort of double-ended spear that has very wide reach and versatile, if long, attacks.
** '''Dystopia''': A sai, charged with magnetic force, that Raiden researches after his battle with Monsoon. He can anchor it to an enemy and magnetically pull himself to them for an attack. If the weapon's magnetic force is charged up further, it can disrupt cyborgs and prevent them from moving.
** '''Bloodlust''': A pair of extremely heavy high-frequency blades, connected like a giant pair of scissors, that Raiden researches after fighting Sundowner. ''Exceedingly'' strong, but just as slow.
** [[spoiler:'''Murasama''': Jetstream Sam's high-frequency blade, made from a samurai sword forged by the legendary weaponsmith Muramasa. The conversion from an actual katana makes the blade's cutting power stronger than other HF Blades. Raiden gains it during the fight against Senator Armstrong, using it to replace his broken sword, and can use it in a new playthrough as his primary weapon.]]
* TheMusketeer: Just before the final assault on Arsenal Gear at the end of ''[=MGS2=]'', Snake gives him a sword. The player can switch between this or guns at any time, though the sword is required for the final battle against Solidus. In ''[=MGS4=]'', he is shown with a holstered pistol, though never uses it, preferring edged weapons.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Averted. He identifies as an American citizen, but he doesn't see himself as American. Nor does he consider himself a citizen of the world either, preferring instead to "be his own man."
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Jack ''[[spoiler:the Ripper]]''".
* NiceGuy: When he's off duty, he's laid-back, genuinely nice and a FriendToAllChildren.
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: By ''Metal Gear Rising'', he is a samurai ninja cyborg secret-agent, though he's not as heavily into the espionage by that time. He's also described as a "scout" in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' in reference to his training with knives and tracking.
* NoodleIncident: The Area 51 incident that turned Raiden into a Cyborg Ninja. It is constantly alluded to throughout ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' and ''Metal Gear Rising'', with Big Mama and Boris Popov both being involved in said incident, but the actual events has never been shown on-screen. The canceled version of ''Metal Gear Solid: Rising'' was intended to be based on said events.
* NominalHero: Not usually, as he tries his best to stick to his moral code despite any sort of instilled thoughts that go against them, [[spoiler:but Jack the Ripper is a dangerous entity that can and will decimate all of his enemies sadistically; the only reason Raiden has to unleash him is because he had no other way to deal with Monsoon than to admit he truly does enjoy killing. Luckily, the Ripper is restrained enough that he bares no harm to any civilians or allies when he comes out.]]
* NotAfraidToDie: His PreAssKickingOneLiner to Vamp before their fight in South America says it all.
* NotSoStoic: Though he remains calm and collected throughout ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', he has a minor breakdown in the briefing before the Shadow Moses mission, collapsing to the ground and begging Snake not to leave him alone while [[SecurityCling clinging to his ankle]].
* OhCrap: Says exactly that when he encounters Fortune directly and she finds his hiding spot.
* OhNoNotAgain: His reaction to getting his left arm sliced off by Sam in ''Rising'', after having already lost both arms during the events of ''[=MGS4=]''.
-->'''Raiden:''' [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Shit! Not again...]]
* OnlySaneMan: He really thinks he's this in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', at least at first. [[spoiler:And given that he's the only one at the receiving end of the insane GambitPileup that is the game's plot, he's probably right.]]
* OneManArmy: Has taken out entire commando units, tank battalions, and metal gear detachments on his own.
* PaintItBlack: Raiden's upgraded exoskeleton is sharp-edged and black, like his mood.
* PapaWolf: Having become a father, and given a chance to give an innocent boy the love and happy childhood that he never had, Raiden has sworn that ''no'' child will ''ever'' be made to endure what Solidus put him through. Hence, it is a suicidally stupid idea to abuse, harm, kill, and exploit children and ''gloat'' about it in Raiden's face. The black-hearted mercenary-doctor in Chapter 2 of ''Metal Gear Rising'' found this out the ''hard'' way.
* PaperThinDisguise: Raiden's idea of blending in while in Mexico is wearing a mariachi uniform he bought from a souvenir stand over his still clearly visible cyborg body.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Gets a moment with Snake during the NotSoStoic moment mentioned above:
-->'''Raiden:''' [[HatesBeingAlone I have always been alone...]] ''[[HatesBeingAlone Always!]]'' Don't leave me here... alone...
* PopCulturedBadass: Met his wife arguing over which building ''Film/KingKong'' climbed up, gets the reference to ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' in Snake's ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' alias "Pliskin", and has an obsession with the depiction of samurai in Japanese pop culture.
* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Twice. His UnwillingRoboticization before ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' involved losing his lower jaw, which was replaced with an artificial jaw and gave him a rather unsettling GlasgowGrin. His new body at the end of the game gives him a more realistic jaw that restores his good looks, but at the cost of externalizing his combat capabilities into a suit of PoweredArmor. When ''that'' body gets trashed at the beginning of ''Rising'', Raiden gets a new body that is much more combat-ready - but gives him ''another'' fake jaw that pronounces his GlasgowGrin even further.
* PoweredArmor: Raiden uses one of these at the beginning of ''Rising'', to augment the more humanlike body he received at the very end of ''4.'' It doesn't last long, however, as the body gets greatly damaged and he receives a more combat-oriented body with built-in armor.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: His AxCrazy [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper]] persona finds killing deeply amusing.
-->'''Raiden:''' That nickname you ''love'' so much... wanna know how I got it? Actually... why don't I give you a ''demonstration''?
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Pulls this off in desperation against Armstrong, twice. The first round [[NoSell does absolutely nothing]]. The second round, he has a bit more luck: he manages to make Armstrong ''flinch'' and knock him back a foot or two, but that's about it.
* RedBaron: While most of the time he is referred to by his codename ''Raiden'', he is much better known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jack the Ripper]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: After re-upgrading his cyborg body in ''Rising'', his eye glows red whenever he activates one of his body's deadlier functions.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Samuel observes that Raiden's fighting style is lacking something -- namely, a thirst for violence. It isn't until Raiden embraces his inner sociopath that he stands a chance against the truly ruthless Desperado. Subverted in that Raiden's life of perpetual abuse, violence, and mind-shattering post-traumatic stress is not shown as something that's "cool," but ''tragic''.
* ReluctantPsycho: In ''Rising''. [[spoiler:While Raiden embraces his [[AxCrazy Ripper]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide side]], it's solely out of necessity; he's well aware of how broken and unstable he is, and is ''not'' happy about it]].
* ReversibleRoboticizing: He was forcibly turned into a cyborg sometime after the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' losing 90% of his original body. By the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' we see him in a human body [[SubvertedTrope but it's really just cybernetic body meant to look as human-like as possible]].
* TheRival: Vamp. They have three fights across ''Sons of Liberty'' and ''Guns of the Patriots,'' each more brutal than the last.
* ScannableMan: Raiden gets a big barcode on his forehead once he becomes a cyborg.
** During the sequence in ''2'' where [[spoiler:Raiden is stripped of his clothing and gear]], he is seen to possess barcode tattoos all over his body.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: His reasons for taking on World Marshal to stop them from harvesting kids' brains and turning them into cyborg soldiers.
-->''"Being legal doesn't make it right!"''
* SelfDeprecation: Makes fun of the Creator/HideoKojima ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'' poster in Emma'snot really cowardly, but she has so many fears (water, bugs, heights) that she comes across as this anyway.
* NotBloodSiblings: Towards Otacon, but not reciprocated. [[spoiler:After she's been shot, she reveals how she's always wished she could be "closer" to Hal and just wanted Hal to look at her "asoffice during a woman."]]
%%* PinkMeansFeminine
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Interestingly, her glasses are just for show; specifically, an homage to her step-brother.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: InCodec conversations, Emma call with Rosemary in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''.
* ShellShockedVeteran: It isscornful of Philanthropy's goals and thinks Otacon is little more than a small-time anarchist.
* TheStoolPigeon: Lacerated Larry type: It's stronglyheavily implied that she told he suffers from PTSD as a result of his experiences as a ChildSoldier, and that it worsened by ''Metal Gear Solid 4''.
** StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Dealing with the fact he still feels more at home on the battlefield than in civilian life is a major plot thread in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
* ShockAndAwe: The tagline for ''Metal Gear Rising'' is "Lightning Bolt Action", as electricity constantly courses through Raiden's cyborg body and high frequency blades during gameplay.
* ShoutOut: Raiden's white artificial blood is a reference to the white blooded androids in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Back when he still had one, Raiden's body was hooked up intravenously to a custom sneaking suit, dubbed the "Skull Suit." The headgear and chestplate resembled an actual skull and ribcage.
* SlasherSmile: Starts making big toothy grins after going completely AxCrazy in ''Metal Gear Rising'', which is only made creepier by his black skull shaped lower jaw.
* SoLastSeason: Goes from a well-equipped spy in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' to a LightningBruiser {{cyborg}} in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' and ''Metal Gear Rising''.
* SpringCleaningFever: Raiden states he became a bit of a neat-freak after having to clean up after his messy girlfriend Rosemary on several occasions.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: What his [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper persona]] is treated as in ''Rising''. Despite this [[spoiler:the worst he does to his support team is snark on them occasionally. Raiden still maintains control over who he directs his anger at, and despite his development is still motivated to save others. Not only that but he can turn it on or off like a lightswitch, meaning he is still capable of having a decent conversation with other people.]]
* SuperMode: As the above states, [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper can be brought out at Raiden's will if his fuel gauge is full, heavily increasing his combat capabilities.]]
* SuperStrength: No other way to describe what he can do once he becomes a CyberNinja. In ''Guns of the Patriots'' he can fling around the tank-sized Gekko's by their cables as if they were toys, and his new and improved one in ''Rising'' can fling Metal Gears through the air and do a One Armed Shoulder Throw with Metal Gear EXCELSUS, which is the size of a large apartment complex. It's ludicrous and amazingly satisfying.
* SupportingProtagonist: Though you play as Raiden in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', Solid Snake is the actual focus of the events in that game.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. The Patriots [[spoiler:engineered the Big Shell incident to see if they could use information control to make Raiden a copy of Snake, and by extension use information manipulation to control humanity.]]
** Raiden's history as a child soldier, relationship with Solidus, and later transformation into a {{cyborg}} makes him extremely similar to Frank Jaeger[=/=]Gray Fox.
** He has his own copy, Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, walking around in ''Metal Gear Solid 3''. No relation.
* ThatManIsDead: Uses a variation of this StockPhrase in ''Metal Gear Solid 4''.
-->'''Raiden:''' I am Raiden. Jack is no more.
** [[spoiler:Subverted with his Superpowered Evil Side in ''Rising'', which ecstatically identifies himself as not just Jack, but Jack the Ripper.]]
--->'''Monsoon:''' What are you saying?\\
'''Raiden:''' [[spoiler:I'm saying... '''[[AxCrazy JACK IS BACK!]]''']]
* ThousandYardStare: At the end of ''Rising'' after [[spoiler:killing Armstrong, the one person in the world who truly understood Raiden and his ideals. The epilogue with Raiden going rogue to fight for his own cause implies that Armstrong's death was TheLastStraw for him.]]
* ThreePointLanding: One of his Zandatsu animations in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
* TookALevelInBadass: While never much of a wimp, he was about Snake's equal in combat in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' due to his training as a child soldier and VR missions. Come ''4'', he's ''much'' more powerful, able to beat Vamp in physical combat where Snake needed guns. By the end of ''Metal Gear Rising'', it's unlikely there is a single person who could match him in pure combat prowess, to the point he can take on machines of nuclear war on his own.
* TraumaCongaLine: ''Metal Gear Rising'' forces him to make exceptions and loopholes to get away with acts that defy his moral code in the name of stopping Desperado, like [[spoiler:unleashing Jack the Ripper and using Sam's sword to fight Armstrong instead of his own.]] His gradual slipping from his beliefs wrack his mind horribly, to the point that [[spoiler:Armstrong]]'s last words, that Raiden will continue his [[TheSocialDarwinist ideals]] after his demise, appear to make him entirely forego his moral code entirely to [[TheCowl just deliver justice]] [[TheUnfettered without any obstruction]].
* {{Tritagonist}}: Of the whole series, since he has the third most playable appearances only after Solid Snake and Big Boss.
* TrojanPrisoner: Invoked. [[spoiler:In order to reduce security around Arsenal Gear, Solid Snake and Mr. X[=/=]Olga Gurlukovich knock out Raiden and hand him over to Solidus, then proceed to sneak in and free him to help defeat the Sons of Libertyhow once and for all]].
* {{Tykebomb}}: Solidus trained him toactivate Arsenal Gear due to being under be a killer during the influence of truth serum. Liberian Civil War. This is another parallel to still affects him even as an adult, although he pushes any violent or sadistic thoughts aside [[spoiler:by manifesting it into "Jack the Ripper"]] for the sake of following his ideals and beliefs.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Snake, especially in ''[=MGS4=]''. In the briefing before the Shadow Mosesmission. (Dr. Hunter was imprisoned once Campbell found out she was a mole, whereupon mission, he deliberated on giving her sodium pentothal.)
* SuperDrowningSkills: Played with. She usedstates outright that he has nothing left to love water and, according to Otacon, "swam like a fish." Unfortunately, after her stepdad drowned himself live for except for following Snake and nearly took her with him, she is completely terrified of water his vision for freedom for themselves, and goes so far as to cut his own arm off to save him from being crushed by Outer Haven.
* UnskilledButStrong: During thepoint climax of Revengeance's Metal Gear Excelsus fight, where she [[SecurityCling clings]] to Raiden he's rather clumsy in his swordplay. Justified because [[spoiler: he's wielding a giant sword the size of a skyscraper]].
* UnstoppableRage: Pretty much anytime the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Ripper]] is involved. He goes on a rampage andlets him do will destroy and murderously rage until he's had his fill.
* UnwittingPawn: Big time in ''Sons of Liberty'', wherein he's deceived, manipulated and outright used by almost every other major character, both good and bad.
* VillainKiller: In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', he kills [[MadBomber Fatman]] and [[BigBad Solidus Snake]]. ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' adds to Raiden's body count as he kills every member of Desperado all theswimming.
way up to their leader [[spoiler:Armstrong]].
*{{Tsundere}}: She spends VocalEvolution: Both in Japanese and English, much time on more noticeable though in the low end of the thermometer. However, she lights up when discussing her childhood latter. Raiden's initial voice was youthful to highlight his inexperience, with Hal, and exhibits girly flirtation with Raiden.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** Her step-father's drowning death left her withQuinton Flynn giving him a crippling fear of water at an early high pitch to hammer down his age. Naturally, by By the time you reach her, Raiden became a cyborg ninja, his voice became deeper and gained a growl. ''Rising'', and in the hallways leading second digital graphic novel based on ''Sons of Liberty'', saw Raiden adopt the growl but with a more neutral pitch to balance his performances in ''2'' and ''4''.
* WellTrainedButInexperienced: It's noted that Raiden, the new protagonist, has mostly only been trained by virtual reality simulations. Snake (who said simulations were based on the personal experience of) far outclasses him. [[spoiler: In a twist, the whole game turns out to have been a plot by The Patriots to recreate the events of thearea she's kept are completely flooded.
** A more minor example: she's also terrified of bugs. So after the long underwater escort, seeing the path to the elevator filled with sea lice freaks her out untilprevious games, using Raiden can clear them away (or knock her out as an UnwittingPawn to produce enough data to create a simulation which averts this trope.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Whenever the [[spoiler:Ripper persona is released]].
* WideEyedIdealist: In ''Metal Gear Solid 2''.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Colonel's offhand remark about how the B.D.U. that Raiden has to disguise himself with seemed to be a better fit for Rosemary implied that the B.D.U. was actually meant for a woman.
* WolverineWannabe: Raiden is an anti-heroic LivingWeapon given cybernetic enhancements andjust drag her uses an AbsurdlySharpBlade capable of cutting through anything. Like Wolverine, he also possesses LaserGuidedAmnesia and an innate BerserkMode mindset that makes him even more dangerous. ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' even chose to pit him and Wolverine against each other.
* WorldsStrongestMan: As of his last appearance, there is likely not a single person in theelevator).world who surpasses him in terms of sheer, destructive power. He has destroyed multiple HumongousMecha, held his own against an elite commando unit ''with no arms'' and is the only person who has proved to be a WorthyOpponent to both [[OneManArmy Jetstream Sam]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Senator Armstrong]].
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: He's usually associated with HF Blades. Think of an electric turkey cutter shaped like a sword which goes ''really'' '''fast'''.
* ActionDad: [[spoiler: After the events of Liquid Ocelot's war Rose returns to visit Raiden and reveals that the son she had with her
* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the graphic novel, Raiden figures out on his own that [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds "Roy Campbell"]] is actually a A.I. construct, whereas in the game he had to rely on Otacon to dig into why the Colonel was acting crazy.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' graphic novel, he loses the final fight with Solidus and only survives thanks to
*
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Mentions that after the events of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', he tried to live a civilian life with his family, but the technology behind his artificial skin was imperfect and unnatural looking, causing him to be shunned from society and gave him a hard time finding a job.
* AnArmAndALeg: Cuts off his right arm after being pinned down by debris at Shadow Moses, and loses his other arm after saving Snake from being crushed by Outer Haven in ''Metal Gear Solid 4''. In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he loses an arm in his first battle with Samuel Rodrigues.
* AntiHero: Has AxCrazy and SociopathicHero tendencies, despite wanting to do the right thing.
* ArtificialLimbs: Has had artificial blood to improve his physical performance since ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. Since ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', his entire body save for part of his head and spine are robotic as well.
* AscendedFanboy: Starting in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. Gives a brief account of his history with Snake to his friends at Maverick Security, mentioning he was the best combat soldier Raiden had ever seen. Ends up getting teased as a Snake fanboy, though mostly out of disappointment no one else working at Maverick got to meet him.
* AudienceSurrogate: Raiden is overtly a representation of the player in ''Sons of Liberty''. He's a virtual reality "veteran" of every VR Mission based on Snake's adventures (literally a videogame player) and, at first, his personality is a complete cypher. It's no accident that the dog tags around his neck are branded with the player's [[HelloInsertNameHere input]] from the game's start. [[spoiler:The revelation of his severely DarkAndTroubledPast plays with this trope; apparently even people who don't live ordinary lives like most of the audience want to imagine themselves as heroes.]]
** Even his [[spoiler:dark and tragic backstory]] adds to the idea of audience escapism - just as the audience is using video games for escapism purposes, so is Raiden using the VR to try and escape his own past.
* AxCrazy: Subverted. ''Metal Gear Rising'' has him gradually descend into [[spoiler:his "Jack the Ripper" persona, where he outright states that he enjoys killing... yet is fully aware of how aberrant and broken he is. Not only does he embrace the Ripper to take action in part so World Marshal can't produce more like him, the Ripper even [[ReluctantPsycho laments the deaths he's caused to Boris]].]]
* BackToBackBadasses: With Snake himself outside of Outer Haven's microwave corridor. And two games before that, when facing off against the Arsenal Gear troopers.
* BadassBiker: See HeroStoleMyBike below.
* BadassBoast: Before shredding some [=FROGs=],
-->'''Raiden:''' I am lightning. The rain transformed.
* BadassFamily: Although never really brought up, from a technical standpoint of being Solidus' adopted son, this makes Raiden the nephew of both Snake and Liquid, and also the grandson of Big Boss.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Spends both the prologue and epilogue of ''Rising'' in a black suit and sunglasses. Clearing the prologue on Very Hard Mode unlocks the suit as body type.
* BadassLongcoat: His standard cyborg disguise in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' is a long black trenchcoat...
** TheCoatsAreOff: ...which he casts off while fighting Gekkos in South America.
* BadassNormal: Before he becomes a cyborg, he can still use pure skill to infiltrate Big Shell and deflect bullets with his sword. He also holds the record for the most full-size Metal Gears destroyed in one battle[[note]]The actual number varies depending on the difficulty, but he destroys between three (Very Easy) and ''twenty-five'' (Extreme) Metal Gear RAY production models, fighting them three at a time.[[/note]] and also has more full-size Metal Gears destroyed than Solid Snake[[note]] Snake "only" destroys 4: TX-55, D (which was inactive), REX, and one RAY (which was done by piloting REX). Raiden has, at minimum, destroyed 5: three mass-produced [=RAYs=], the Desperado-modified RAY, and EXCELSUS[[/note]].
** Despite all this, Raiden also functions as a {{deconstruction}} of what
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Done during the final showdown of ''Rising''. After listening to [[spoiler:Armstrong's]] MotiveRant, Raiden seems to relent, realizing he's dealing with a true believer, not a mere criminal. [[spoiler:Armstrong]] extends his hand as a gesture of goodwill... but Raiden hasn't lost his moral compass just yet.
-->'''Raiden:''' I was wrong. You're not greedy... ''[[YoureInsane you're batshit insane!]]''
* BatmanGrabsAGun: Done subtly throughout ''Metal Gear Rising''. Raiden says multiple times that he fights [[ForGreatJustice for justice]], and he sees his sword as a tool to protect people weaker than himself. However, over the course of the game, he slowly starts going back on this, being forced to [[spoiler:nearly kill a kid and unleash his psychotic Jack the Ripper persona]] to defeat his enemies. This comes to a head in the final battle [[spoiler:where he has to use Sam's sword against [[BigBad Armstrong]], proclaiming "[[LoopholeAbuse This isn't my sword!]]" and going to town on his opponent. Armstrong seems proud of him, using his dying words to congratulate him for shedding his ideals and being willing to kill.]] [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame This rocks Raiden to his core]] [[PyrrhicVictory as he realises everything he's had to give up to win.]] After all is said and done, it's clear in end that he's starting to feel like he's no different from his foes.
* BerserkButton: Don't kill, abuse or exploit children and laugh about it in Raiden's face. Just don't. Press the reminder button of his own unhappy childhood in this manner one time too many, and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Jack]] will come out to play.
* TheBerserker: In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Raiden repeatedly throws himself into situations where he ''should'' be dying. The events of/following ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' have
-->'''Vamp:''' You, too... Immortal?\\
'''Raiden:''' No. ''I just don't fear death.''
* BigDamnHeroes: On Outer Haven, he shows up just in time to save an incapacitated Snake from being killed by a
* TheBigGuy: He becomes this in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', due to his new cyborg body making him the most physically powerful and capable out of all the protagonists.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: One of the guards comments he "wishes that he had that" if he sees the naked Raiden restrained in the torture device in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''.
* BladeEnthusiast: Raiden prefers fighting with blades, to the point that
* BloodFromTheMouth: Seems to happen to him as a cyborg often enough. In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Raiden is shown uncontrollably vomiting blood after being critically injured in his first fight with Vamp. Upon being stabbed by [[spoiler:several FROGS inside Outer Haven]] he coughs up some blood as well.
** In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he gets his ass kicked by [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] to the point where he's coughing up blood.
* BloodKnight:
** As a {{child soldier|s}}, Raiden derived pleasure out of fighting and killing. As an adult, he tried to ignore this aspect of his personality, only to embrace it in ''Metal Gear Rising'' out of necessity.
--->'''Raiden:''' I learned young that killing enemies felt good... ''Really'' good.
** Though much more subdued in comparison, [[http://www.gamersyde.com/news_our_videos_of_metal_gear_rising-13801.jpg the big smile Raiden has on his face while cutting up Metal Gear RAY]] suggests that he lets himself fully enjoy combat against non-living foes.
* BodyHorror: The Patriots transformed Raiden into a cyborg by ''removing his head and spine from his body from the lower jaw down'' and grafting it onto PoweredArmor.
* BoomerangBigot: In ''Metal Gear Rising'' he shows disdain for cyborgs, mercilessly killing dozens of them without a thought, despite being more machine than man himself by that point. His interactions with [[CanineCompanion Bladewolf]] help him [[CharacterDevelopment grow out of it]].
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Quotes Sam's "Ok, let's dance!" right before the battle with Armstrong. He says this while wielding Sam's sword.
* BreakThemByTalking: And how! [[spoiler:GW and the other Patriot A.I.s routinely mock him and humanity as a collective once the jig is up, and the Selection for Societal Sanity ruse is revealed. They say they chose Jack because of his similarities to Snake's background. However the real reason they chose Jack was because of his denials and delusions of heroism, they tell him that his escapism made him the perfect tool to manipulate and he is worth next to nothing to the Patriots in their grand scheme. Raiden takes this revelation pretty badly and spends the rest of the mission unable to tell fact from fiction or find something to believe in. Snake has to occasionally talk to him to break him out of his stupor.]]
* ButtMonkey: Compared to both Big Boss and Solid Snake, he gets treated ''far'' worse during isolated situations, such when doing something "morally questionable" like
** [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Even Prime Minister N'Mani]] made fun of his name, christening him "Mr. Lightning Bolt" instead. Raiden didn't mind that much, mostly because he respected N'Mani deeply, but any time somebody else makes fun of his name in the same way, he grumbles and complains.
* ButNotTooForeign: Details about his parents' ethnicity are never disclosed, but series canon makes him a Liberian-American who was born in Liberia,[[note]]Whether Raiden was ever a Liberian ''citizen'' or if he was merely born to foreign workers in Liberia isn't specified. If he ''was'' a citizen, Liberia's strict citizenship laws mean that despite his very Caucasian appearance, he must have some recent Black African ancestry.[[/note]] fought in one of the Liberian Civil Wars as a [[ChildSoldier child]], holds U.S. citizenship, and has lived in the U.S. for most of his life. Lampshaded when his appearance is commented upon in ''Metal Gear Rising''.
-->'''Mistral:''' Liberian, yet white as snow.
* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from an apparent NaiveNewcomer to an [[spoiler:ex-ChildSoldier trying to [[AwfulTruth live out a hero fantasy]] to a {{jade|ColoredGlasses}}d soldier fighting ForGreatJustice to an AxCrazy {{Ubermensch}}]]. He's a good guy all the way through, though.
* ChildSoldier: [[spoiler:Was already an infamous soldier in the Liberian Civil War known as "Jack the Ripper" before the age of 10.]]
* ChewingTheScenery: Boy does he ever in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
* ClarkKentOutfit: For his day job, Raiden wears expensive-looking suits in meetings with clients. He's always ready to spring into action, though; in the opening of ''Metal Gear Rising'', he effortlessly rips his suit off to reveal an exoskeleton underneath.
* CoatCape: In the final act of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', he wears his BadassLongcoat as such after losing his arms, holding it in place with one of Snake's flak jackets.
* CombatSadomasochist: "Jack [[spoiler:the Ripper]]" has this trait, and it is shown prominently in ''Metal Gear Rising'':
-->'''Raiden:''' '''Pain'''... ''this'' is why I fight.
** Also overlaps with ActorAllusion in that game, as his [[Creator/KenyuHoriuchi Japanese VA]] voiced ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Pain]]''.
* CombatStilettos: Raiden's cyborg bodies feature rubberized heels that allow him to grip swords and other weapons with his feet.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Raiden was taken in at a very young age by his "Godfather" Solidus after his birth parents were killed. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Solidus was the one who murdered Raiden's parents.]]
* CoolCar: In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he has a black sports car with holograms for watching the news and communication and it drives itself. [[spoiler:Sadly, it gets destroyed when the police shoot an RPG at it.]] He later states to Blade Wolf in a Codec that it was for operations only, not personal use.
* CouldntFindAPen: After commandeering a parked motorcycle in ''Metal Gear Rising'', he politely leaves a note apologising for this along with a contact number. Said note was some scrawling in the sidewalk he made with his HF Blade.
* TheCowl: The final shot of ''Metal Gear Rising'' seems to imply this is the case.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Nobody takes him very seriously in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', not even civilians. Turns out he's been fighting and killing since he was a child.
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: While fighting Haven Troopers to buy Snake time to upload FOXALIVE. Justified since he's lost ''both'' arms by then.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Is portrayed as a far more violent man after his {{cyborg}} upgrade between the second and fourth games, though this is attributed more to his memories of Liberia and [=PTSD=].
* CyberNinja: Starting in ''4'' he becomes a stealthy infiltration expert with a robotic body and a {{Vibroweapon}} katana for equipment. That said, in ''Rising'' he takes a much more blatant approach and, while he can still stealth through many potential combat encounters, many fights are unavoidable. It's
* DanceBattler: In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' and ''Metal Gear Rising'', he can breakdance while holding a sword in one of his feet to slice up everyone around him. [[RuleOfCool It's about as insane as it sounds.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Raiden had a brutal experience growing up. He was orphaned at a young age by Solidus Snake who then adopted him and raised him as a ChildSoldier.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Goes from a spy with a DarkAndTroubledPast in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' to a barely human {{cyborg}} in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' to an AxCrazy SociopathicHero in ''Metal Gear Rising''.
* DeathSeeker: Gives this attitude in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', where he tells Snake, Otacon, and Sunny that he has nothing to lose, and explicitly tells Vamp that he does not fear death.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of a lot of things in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', such as {{Naive Newcomer}}s, self-insert gratification characters, and the
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: While fighting Vamp in South America, Vamp restrains him, to which Raiden runs them ''both'' through with his sword. Vamp responds by driving the blade in even further and then ''twisting'' it.
* {{Determinator}}: Has continued fighting seemingly hopeless battles even while bleeding to death, missing both his arms, and having one of his ''eyes'' cut out. [[spoiler:In the FinalBattle of ''Metal Gear Rising'', by the time the final quicktime event set comes around, he can barely even stand up]].
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: An important element of his CharacterDevelopment is becoming more than a copy of Snake. After spending most of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' as exactly that, he starts using swordplay near the story's climax and never looks back; while Snake remains a BadassNormal spy who deals with his enemies via stealth and light, ranged weaponry like guns, Raiden would become a Cyborg Ninja who defeats his opponents with his HF blade or, if he's feeling fancy, a variety of melee weapons and explosives.
* DomesticAbuse: When Rose reminiscences about the one time she forced her way to Raiden's room, she remembers it as the "first time" he got violently angry and raised his hand against her, at least strongly implying there where other such incidents in their relationship.
* DrowningMySorrows: Rosemary claimed that Raiden took to drinking heavily after regaining his ShellShockedVeteran memories as a ChildSoldier.
* ElectronicEyes: In ''Metal Gear Rising''.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Raiden was, for all intents and purposes, a normal human in ''The Sons of Liberty''. By the time of ''The Guns of the Patriots'', he's had cybernetics upgrade his powerset to include SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, NighInvulnerability, and on a few rare occasions, ShockAndAwe.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: While not made clear at first, due to the MindScrew nature of the game, Raiden is already an accomplished soldier, and a veteran of the Liberian Civil War.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', [[spoiler: it's implied that Raiden's Jack the Ripper persona is disgusted with Armstrong, at least at first]].
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:As "Jack The Ripper", he has an impish cackle.]]
* EvilSoundsRaspy: In ''Metal Gear Rising'', when [[spoiler:he's in "The Ripper" persona]]. Justified, as everything but his head and spine have been replaced with cybernetics, including his vocal cords. He averts this when speaking to Sunny, using a voice more similar to his ''[=MGS2=]'' one, showing he has a soft spot for her.
* EyepatchOfPower: Starts wearing a black bandana over the left side of his face after Sam cuts out his left eye during their first duel in ''Metal Gear Rising''. It's not just for appearance's sake, though: there wasn't enough time to make him another artificial eyeball and the bandana works as a compound eye that gives him equal or better vision than that of a real eye. [[spoiler:The epilogue shows that Raiden's ditched the bandana in favor of a proper artificial eye, since his behind-the-scenes war against World Marshall requires a less conspicuous look.]]
* FemaleGaze: [[WordOfGod Kojima]] admitted that Raiden was designed to appeal to women after a girl told him she didn't want to play a game starring "an old man".
* TheFettered: [[DeconstructedTrope He tries to be one in]] ''[[DeconstructedTrope Rising.]]'' He says that his sword is purely a tool of justice not to be used in anger and that he only fights cyborgs who knew what they were signing up for and Unmanned and Metal Gears designed for nothing but combat. Unfortunately, to fight Desperado's operations he has to break the law and attack World Marshal directly in Denver. It's only when he's just about there that Sam reveals that many of the cyborgs weren't exactly willing in their decision to join Desperado, many being disabled, poor, homeless or generally needing the money or enhancements just to get by, putting Raiden's massacre in a much worse light. [[spoiler:In order to continue on, he admits that he still enjoys killing, bringing back Jack the Ripper to do so. Later on, he finds that he ''agrees'' with Senator Armstrong's beliefs, but not his methods, so when Blade Wolf gives him the ID-unlocked Murasama, Raiden uses it to subvert his "tool of justice" speech [[ExactWords as it's not his sword]]. The end of the game implies he's completely given up the facade, and now fights regardless of the expectations of anybody else, or himself.]]
* FlashbackNightmare: ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' implies that he experiences vivid nightmares of his [[ChildSoldier childhood as a soldier]] in the
* {{Foil}}: To Solid Snake. Snake is a
-->'''Otacon:''' You know, you're a
'''Otacon:''' That you're a weak, simple-minded, stubborn fool. Ah, don't worry, [[VitriolicBestBuds he didn't mean anything bad by it]].\\
'''Raiden:''' "Nothing bad"?! What could POSSIBLY BE WORSE THAN '''''THAT'''''?!
** This eventually leads into DivergentCharacterEvolution in
* ForGreatJustice: His sword is "a tool of
* FriendToAllChildren: Raiden loses his shit when he discovers that
** Also probably worth mentioning that she brings these up as hypothetical examples of the ''kinds'' of things Arsenal Gear could do, not necessarily as actual examples.
* AlliterativeName: '''E'''mma '''E'''mmerich. For this reason, Otacon nicknames her "E.E.".
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Emma might just be the only willing participant in the [=S3=] experiment. She only got
-->'''Raiden:''' I ''chose'' [[{{Cyborg}} this]]. They're ''kids'', you [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch son of
*
* TheCutie: She sure
* GagPenis: There's a RunningGag that
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In the story, [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper]] Raiden ''absolutely enjoys'' killing and slashing people, and will let all his mental restrains go only to feel the delicious taste of blood. In the game, press both analog sticks with your Electrolyte reserve at maximum to engage Ripper mode and destroy all the
* GlasgowGrin: His entire body from the lower jaw down was removed when the Patriots turned him into a cyborg, leaving disturbing smile-like lines running up his cheeks where what's left of his skull meets his cybernetics.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: [[spoiler:Jack's repressed memories as a child soldier eventually manifest as an ultra-violent split personality dubbed "The Ripper." His reversion to the Ripper persona is signaled by a blood-red BattleAura.]]
*
* DamselInDistress: A very classic example of this trope.
* EscortMission: You have to take her from
* EvilCounterpart: The script plays her up as a cynical
* GuestFighter: In ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'', sporting his Cyborg Ninja look. Somewhat ironic, considering Solid Snake's appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros. Brawl''.
* HandicappedBadass: Fights off dozens of
* HandyFeet: In ''[=MGS4=]'' and ''Rising'', he often wields his sword with
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Come ''Metal Gear Rising'', he's married to Rosemary, though she and his son live in
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Towards Otacon.
* HeroStoleMyBike: He steals a souped-up chopper bike in Denver, stopping to ''politely'' carve a note to its owner in the sidewalk. [[spoiler:[[{{Irony}} Turns out]] it was ''Sam's'' chopper, who he kills soon afterwards.]]
*
* HeroicResolve: A running trend at the climax of every game Raiden's been in.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', Raiden collapses from exhaustion while fighting the army of Metal Gear [=RAYs=]. With almost no time for a breather, though, he's forced into combat against Solidus -- a man said to
** In ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', Raiden gets critically injured during his first duel with Vamp and gets only a bare-bones repair job before the mission to Shadow Moses. During their rematch, Raiden is pushed to the brink but narrowly manages to kill him for good, and subsequently has to escape Shadow Moses with Snake and Otacon, fending off [=FROGS=]. In the final chapter, Raiden ends up holding off more of Ocelot's soldiers without even the use of his arms.
** In ''Metal Gear Rising'', even when
** [[spoiler:Which if you haven't been paying much attention to
* HeroicSacrifice: Appears to be killed in Act Four of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' when he saves Snake from being crushed by Outer Haven. Subverted when he shows up in the
* HeroWorshipper: In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', he gushes to Kevin about how Solid Snake helped him leave behind his name and about how great he is.
* HiddenDepths:
** When you first meet him in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', he appears to be a [[NaiveNewcomer gullible rookie]] with no real world combat experience. He eventually turns out to be a highly trained ex-ChildSoldier with even bigger issues than Solid Snake himself.
** A Codec call in ''Rising'' reveals that, after his run-in with the AI Colonel, he's done research on the nature of AI and whether they can actually think for themselves.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: He declares himself a ninja, and others refer to him as such, though he admits to following bushido, the code of the samurai, and let's face it, a cybernetic body isn't all that stealthy.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Once his Ripper persona comes out, hardened nihilistic terrorist Monsoon becomes unnerved and has a full-blown VillainousBreakdown if the player performs well enough in the ensuing boss fight.
* HotBlooded: Becomes this in ''Revengeance'' and takes it up a notch when "[[SuperPoweredEvilSide Jack]]" lets it rip.
* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake:
** Whenever he appears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', you can be certain of two things - 1) Raiden will do something awesome; 2) Raiden will get his ass kicked even worse than he did the last time he turned up. It gets to the point that Raiden loses both arms, and the plans to storm Outer Haven are made without involving him in either the planning ''or'' the actual plan, specifically ''because'' he's in such bad shape by that point; and then he ''somehow'' still turns up to help Snake, resorting to using his mouth & feet to wield his sword due to losing both arms.
** During the final battle against [[spoiler:Senator Armstrong]] in ''Metal Gear Rising'', the buildup to the actual boss fight involves Raiden getting beat literally into the pavement multiple times. [[HeroicResolve Not that it slows him down once he gets a fighting chance.]]
*
* IcyBlueEyes: Icy and piercing.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: It is heavily implied in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' that the reason why he and Rosemary split up was because of his PTSD worsening. [[spoiler:Subverted in that Rosemary ''actually'' left in order to be protected by Roy Campbell, and returned to Raiden once the danger had passed]].
* InSeriesNickname: Known by multiple codenames and nicknames, including Raiden, Jack [[spoiler:the Ripper]], the White Devil, and Mr. Lightning Bolt.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Spent his childhood being abused and conditioned into a killing machine by Solidus. He's been extremely cynical when it comes to war and trusting others ever since.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His Japanese styled high frequency blades cut through armored enemies resistant to gun and rocket fire like butter.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Has shades of it ''2'', what with his awkwardness and getting flustered when Snake points out his "book". All the stuff he went through with Snake just made him admire the man more in ''Metal Gear Rising'', to the point he even gets called a fanboy in a codec conversation there.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: After being pinned to the ground by debris at Shadow Moses, Raiden cuts off his own right arm to save Snake from being crushed by Liquid Ocelot's Outer Haven.
* LightningBruiser: [[ShockAndAwe No pun intended.]] After becoming a {{cyborg}}, he is both incredibly agile and strong enough to flip dozens of mobile tanks.
* [[LikeASonToMe Like a Daughter to Me]]: Treats Sunny like she was his own kid, and does his best to treat her with all the kindness in the world.
* MasterSwordsman: Highly proficient with blades and knives.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Raiden's response to Sam cutting his arm off in ''Metal Gear Rising'''s prologue is merely an annoyed "Not again," while he shows little reaction to [[EyeScream having his left eye sliced out completely.]] Though this is most likely because of his pain suppressing nanomachines, and he bleeds out not half a minute after.
* MeaningfulName: ''InUniverse example'', as [[spoiler:the Patriots]] note. His codename of Raiden comes from the Japanese name for one of its interceptors. The U.S name for this interceptor? ''Jack''.[[note]]The same class of fighter included REX and RAY as names as well[[/note]] His nickname of "Jack [[spoiler:the Ripper]]" is because of [[spoiler:his proficiency with blades and extreme brutality.]]
* MistakenIdentity:
** In the ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence]]'''s short ''Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser'', Volgin mistakes him for his Russian look-a-like Raikov, and tries to sexually assault Raiden.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', President James Johnson mistakes Raiden for Olga Gurlukovich due to his [[AmbiguousGender androgynous looks]].
* TheMovieBuff: In a roundabout sort of way, it was his love of movies that led to his and Rose's relationship.
* MrFanservice: The widely-known naked mission comes to mind...
* MultiMeleeMaster: In ''Metal Gear Rising'', he can use a good variety of melee weapons.
** '''High-Frequency Blade''': A [[VibroWeapon high-frequency]] ninja sword, and Raiden's primary weapon. Short-range, but powerful and fast.
** '''L'Étranger''': A pole-arm [[VisualPun (arm-pole?)]] researched after his battle with Mistral. A sort of double-ended spear that has very wide reach and versatile, if long, attacks.
** '''Dystopia''': A sai, charged with magnetic force, that Raiden researches after his battle with Monsoon. He can anchor it to an enemy and magnetically pull himself to them for an attack. If the weapon's magnetic force is charged up further, it can disrupt cyborgs and prevent them from moving.
** '''Bloodlust''': A pair of extremely heavy high-frequency blades, connected like a giant pair of scissors, that Raiden researches after fighting Sundowner. ''Exceedingly'' strong, but just as slow.
** [[spoiler:'''Murasama''': Jetstream Sam's high-frequency blade, made from a samurai sword forged by the legendary weaponsmith Muramasa. The conversion from an actual katana makes the blade's cutting power stronger than other HF Blades. Raiden gains it during the fight against Senator Armstrong, using it to replace his broken sword, and can use it in a new playthrough as his primary weapon.]]
* TheMusketeer: Just before the final assault on Arsenal Gear at the end of ''[=MGS2=]'', Snake gives him a sword. The player can switch between this or guns at any time, though the sword is required for the final battle against Solidus. In ''[=MGS4=]'', he is shown with a holstered pistol, though never uses it, preferring edged weapons.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Averted. He identifies as an American citizen, but he doesn't see himself as American. Nor does he consider himself a citizen of the world either, preferring instead to "be his own man."
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Jack ''[[spoiler:the Ripper]]''".
* NiceGuy: When he's off duty, he's laid-back, genuinely nice and a FriendToAllChildren.
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: By ''Metal Gear Rising'', he is a samurai ninja cyborg secret-agent, though he's not as heavily into the espionage by that time. He's also described as a "scout" in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' in reference to his training with knives and tracking.
* NoodleIncident: The Area 51 incident that turned Raiden into a Cyborg Ninja. It is constantly alluded to throughout ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' and ''Metal Gear Rising'', with Big Mama and Boris Popov both being involved in said incident, but the actual events has never been shown on-screen. The canceled version of ''Metal Gear Solid: Rising'' was intended to be based on said events.
* NominalHero: Not usually, as he tries his best to stick to his moral code despite any sort of instilled thoughts that go against them, [[spoiler:but Jack the Ripper is a dangerous entity that can and will decimate all of his enemies sadistically; the only reason Raiden has to unleash him is because he had no other way to deal with Monsoon than to admit he truly does enjoy killing. Luckily, the Ripper is restrained enough that he bares no harm to any civilians or allies when he comes out.]]
* NotAfraidToDie: His PreAssKickingOneLiner to Vamp before their fight in South America says it all.
* NotSoStoic: Though he remains calm and collected throughout ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', he has a minor breakdown in the briefing before the Shadow Moses mission, collapsing to the ground and begging Snake not to leave him alone while [[SecurityCling clinging to his ankle]].
* OhCrap: Says exactly that when he encounters Fortune directly and she finds his hiding spot.
* OhNoNotAgain: His reaction to getting his left arm sliced off by Sam in ''Rising'', after having already lost both arms during the events of ''[=MGS4=]''.
-->'''Raiden:''' [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Shit! Not again...]]
* OnlySaneMan: He really thinks he's this in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', at least at first. [[spoiler:And given that he's the only one at the receiving end of the insane GambitPileup that is the game's plot, he's probably right.]]
* OneManArmy: Has taken out entire commando units, tank battalions, and metal gear detachments on his own.
* PaintItBlack: Raiden's upgraded exoskeleton is sharp-edged and black, like his mood.
* PapaWolf: Having become a father, and given a chance to give an innocent boy the love and happy childhood that he never had, Raiden has sworn that ''no'' child will ''ever'' be made to endure what Solidus put him through. Hence, it is a suicidally stupid idea to abuse, harm, kill, and exploit children and ''gloat'' about it in Raiden's face. The black-hearted mercenary-doctor in Chapter 2 of ''Metal Gear Rising'' found this out the ''hard'' way.
* PaperThinDisguise: Raiden's idea of blending in while in Mexico is wearing a mariachi uniform he bought from a souvenir stand over his still clearly visible cyborg body.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Gets a moment with Snake during the NotSoStoic moment mentioned above:
-->'''Raiden:''' [[HatesBeingAlone I have always been alone...]] ''[[HatesBeingAlone Always!]]'' Don't leave me here... alone...
* PopCulturedBadass: Met his wife arguing over which building ''Film/KingKong'' climbed up, gets the reference to ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' in Snake's ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' alias "Pliskin", and has an obsession with the depiction of samurai in Japanese pop culture.
* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Twice. His UnwillingRoboticization before ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' involved losing his lower jaw, which was replaced with an artificial jaw and gave him a rather unsettling GlasgowGrin. His new body at the end of the game gives him a more realistic jaw that restores his good looks, but at the cost of externalizing his combat capabilities into a suit of PoweredArmor. When ''that'' body gets trashed at the beginning of ''Rising'', Raiden gets a new body that is much more combat-ready - but gives him ''another'' fake jaw that pronounces his GlasgowGrin even further.
* PoweredArmor: Raiden uses one of these at the beginning of ''Rising'', to augment the more humanlike body he received at the very end of ''4.'' It doesn't last long, however, as the body gets greatly damaged and he receives a more combat-oriented body with built-in armor.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: His AxCrazy [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper]] persona finds killing deeply amusing.
-->'''Raiden:''' That nickname you ''love'' so much... wanna know how I got it? Actually... why don't I give you a ''demonstration''?
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Pulls this off in desperation against Armstrong, twice. The first round [[NoSell does absolutely nothing]]. The second round, he has a bit more luck: he manages to make Armstrong ''flinch'' and knock him back a foot or two, but that's about it.
* RedBaron: While most of the time he is referred to by his codename ''Raiden'', he is much better known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jack the Ripper]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: After re-upgrading his cyborg body in ''Rising'', his eye glows red whenever he activates one of his body's deadlier functions.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Samuel observes that Raiden's fighting style is lacking something -- namely, a thirst for violence. It isn't until Raiden embraces his inner sociopath that he stands a chance against the truly ruthless Desperado. Subverted in that Raiden's life of perpetual abuse, violence, and mind-shattering post-traumatic stress is not shown as something that's "cool," but ''tragic''.
* ReluctantPsycho: In ''Rising''. [[spoiler:While Raiden embraces his [[AxCrazy Ripper]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide side]], it's solely out of necessity; he's well aware of how broken and unstable he is, and is ''not'' happy about it]].
* ReversibleRoboticizing: He was forcibly turned into a cyborg sometime after the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' losing 90% of his original body. By the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' we see him in a human body [[SubvertedTrope but it's really just cybernetic body meant to look as human-like as possible]].
* TheRival: Vamp. They have three fights across ''Sons of Liberty'' and ''Guns of the Patriots,'' each more brutal than the last.
* ScannableMan: Raiden gets a big barcode on his forehead once he becomes a cyborg.
** During the sequence in ''2'' where [[spoiler:Raiden is stripped of his clothing and gear]], he is seen to possess barcode tattoos all over his body.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: His reasons for taking on World Marshal to stop them from harvesting kids' brains and turning them into cyborg soldiers.
-->''"Being legal doesn't make it right!"''
* SelfDeprecation: Makes fun of the Creator/HideoKojima ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'' poster in Emma's
* NotBloodSiblings: Towards Otacon, but not reciprocated. [[spoiler:After she's been shot, she reveals how she's always wished she could be "closer" to Hal and just wanted Hal to look at her "as
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* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Interestingly, her glasses are just for show; specifically, an homage to her step-brother.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In
* ShellShockedVeteran: It is
* TheStoolPigeon: Lacerated Larry type: It's strongly
** StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Dealing with the fact he still feels more at home on the battlefield than in civilian life is a major plot thread in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
* ShockAndAwe: The tagline for ''Metal Gear Rising'' is "Lightning Bolt Action", as electricity constantly courses through Raiden's cyborg body and high frequency blades during gameplay.
* ShoutOut: Raiden's white artificial blood is a reference to the white blooded androids in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Back when he still had one, Raiden's body was hooked up intravenously to a custom sneaking suit, dubbed the "Skull Suit." The headgear and chestplate resembled an actual skull and ribcage.
* SlasherSmile: Starts making big toothy grins after going completely AxCrazy in ''Metal Gear Rising'', which is only made creepier by his black skull shaped lower jaw.
* SoLastSeason: Goes from a well-equipped spy in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' to a LightningBruiser {{cyborg}} in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' and ''Metal Gear Rising''.
* SpringCleaningFever: Raiden states he became a bit of a neat-freak after having to clean up after his messy girlfriend Rosemary on several occasions.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: What his [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper persona]] is treated as in ''Rising''. Despite this [[spoiler:the worst he does to his support team is snark on them occasionally. Raiden still maintains control over who he directs his anger at, and despite his development is still motivated to save others. Not only that but he can turn it on or off like a lightswitch, meaning he is still capable of having a decent conversation with other people.]]
* SuperMode: As the above states, [[spoiler:Jack the Ripper can be brought out at Raiden's will if his fuel gauge is full, heavily increasing his combat capabilities.]]
* SuperStrength: No other way to describe what he can do once he becomes a CyberNinja. In ''Guns of the Patriots'' he can fling around the tank-sized Gekko's by their cables as if they were toys, and his new and improved one in ''Rising'' can fling Metal Gears through the air and do a One Armed Shoulder Throw with Metal Gear EXCELSUS, which is the size of a large apartment complex. It's ludicrous and amazingly satisfying.
* SupportingProtagonist: Though you play as Raiden in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'', Solid Snake is the actual focus of the events in that game.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Metal Gear Solid 2''. The Patriots [[spoiler:engineered the Big Shell incident to see if they could use information control to make Raiden a copy of Snake, and by extension use information manipulation to control humanity.]]
** Raiden's history as a child soldier, relationship with Solidus, and later transformation into a {{cyborg}} makes him extremely similar to Frank Jaeger[=/=]Gray Fox.
** He has his own copy, Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, walking around in ''Metal Gear Solid 3''. No relation.
* ThatManIsDead: Uses a variation of this StockPhrase in ''Metal Gear Solid 4''.
-->'''Raiden:''' I am Raiden. Jack is no more.
** [[spoiler:Subverted with his Superpowered Evil Side in ''Rising'', which ecstatically identifies himself as not just Jack, but Jack the Ripper.]]
--->'''Monsoon:''' What are you saying?\\
'''Raiden:''' [[spoiler:I'm saying... '''[[AxCrazy JACK IS BACK!]]''']]
* ThousandYardStare: At the end of ''Rising'' after [[spoiler:killing Armstrong, the one person in the world who truly understood Raiden and his ideals. The epilogue with Raiden going rogue to fight for his own cause implies that Armstrong's death was TheLastStraw for him.]]
* ThreePointLanding: One of his Zandatsu animations in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
* TookALevelInBadass: While never much of a wimp, he was about Snake's equal in combat in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' due to his training as a child soldier and VR missions. Come ''4'', he's ''much'' more powerful, able to beat Vamp in physical combat where Snake needed guns. By the end of ''Metal Gear Rising'', it's unlikely there is a single person who could match him in pure combat prowess, to the point he can take on machines of nuclear war on his own.
* TraumaCongaLine: ''Metal Gear Rising'' forces him to make exceptions and loopholes to get away with acts that defy his moral code in the name of stopping Desperado, like [[spoiler:unleashing Jack the Ripper and using Sam's sword to fight Armstrong instead of his own.]] His gradual slipping from his beliefs wrack his mind horribly, to the point that [[spoiler:Armstrong]]'s last words, that Raiden will continue his [[TheSocialDarwinist ideals]] after his demise, appear to make him entirely forego his moral code entirely to [[TheCowl just deliver justice]] [[TheUnfettered without any obstruction]].
* {{Tritagonist}}: Of the whole series, since he has the third most playable appearances only after Solid Snake and Big Boss.
* TrojanPrisoner: Invoked. [[spoiler:In order to reduce security around Arsenal Gear, Solid Snake and Mr. X[=/=]Olga Gurlukovich knock out Raiden and hand him over to Solidus, then proceed to sneak in and free him to help defeat the Sons of Liberty
* {{Tykebomb}}: Solidus trained him to
* UndyingLoyalty: To Snake, especially in ''[=MGS4=]''. In the briefing before the Shadow Moses
* SuperDrowningSkills: Played with. She used
* UnskilledButStrong: During the
* UnstoppableRage: Pretty much anytime the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Ripper]] is involved. He goes on a rampage and
* UnwittingPawn: Big time in ''Sons of Liberty'', wherein he's deceived, manipulated and outright used by almost every other major character, both good and bad.
* VillainKiller: In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', he kills [[MadBomber Fatman]] and [[BigBad Solidus Snake]]. ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' adds to Raiden's body count as he kills every member of Desperado all the
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** Her step-father's drowning death left her with
* WellTrainedButInexperienced: It's noted that Raiden, the new protagonist, has mostly only been trained by virtual reality simulations. Snake (who said simulations were based on the personal experience of) far outclasses him. [[spoiler: In a twist, the whole game turns out to have been a plot by The Patriots to recreate the events of the
** A more minor example: she's also terrified of bugs. So after the long underwater escort, seeing the path to the elevator filled with sea lice freaks her out until
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Whenever the [[spoiler:Ripper persona is released]].
* WideEyedIdealist: In ''Metal Gear Solid 2''.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Colonel's offhand remark about how the B.D.U. that Raiden has to disguise himself with seemed to be a better fit for Rosemary implied that the B.D.U. was actually meant for a woman.
* WolverineWannabe: Raiden is an anti-heroic LivingWeapon given cybernetic enhancements and
* WorldsStrongestMan: As of his last appearance, there is likely not a single person in the
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->Voiced By: Creator/ShozoIizuka (JP), Greg Eagles (EN)
->''"His crimes are also mine -- one of omission, and arrogance. No one should teach the skills I taught him without a clear conscience."''
A bomb disposal expert and Fatman's mentor. Stillman helps Raiden and Plisken defuse several of his student's bombs, and then dies trying to defuse one himself.
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->''"His crimes are also mine -- one of omission, and arrogance. No one should teach the skills I taught him without a clear conscience."''
A bomb disposal expert and Fatman's mentor. Stillman helps Raiden and Plisken defuse several of his student's bombs, and then dies trying to defuse one himself.
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->''"Raiden, this is real. And that's why you won't wake up."''
Raiden's girlfriend and a military data analyst who was enlisted by the Colonel as a last-minute addition. Her role is to pacify Raiden and keep him focused on coming home. Turns out she is a government plant whose real job is to 'analyze' Raiden. But sure enough, [[BecomingTheMask things got out of hand]], and her feelings for Raiden became legit.
Reappears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' as Snake's psychiatric support. She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody. Turns out the marriage was a sham, as it was just a way to protect her and her son from the Patriots until Raiden finished his mission.
In ''Metal Gear Rising'', [[PutOnABus she's living in New Zealand with her son while Raiden is working as a PMC.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's uncertain [[spoiler: for how much of the game "Rose" was actually GW. It could be from any point in the game, but its almost certain that towards the end of the game she is replaced with a GW copy of her. Even then, it's unclear whether or not Rose was even in the mission to begin with.]]
** Was their first meeting set up or did they meet by accident? It seems too convinient to be sheer coincidence, but the way Rose describes it, she doesn't sound like the persona she displays in the game, and the meeting itself wasn't really romantic.
* BecomingTheMask: Throughout ''[=MGS2=]''
* BizarreTasteInFood: According to Campbell, everyone the world over agrees that America's military rations are hands down the worst. Everyone, that is, except for Rose, who admits to liking them. It may in part be why she's such a LethalChef.
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Jack first met Rose in Manhattan. She was discussing ''King Kong'' with some tourists and was about to point them to the wrong skyscraper. Raiden took it upon himself to correct her, and the pair got into a heated debate over whether King Kong featured the Chrysler Building or the Empire State until the tourists left in disgust. This non-event later turns out to have been [[spoiler:a trap set by the Patriots. By pretending to share his taste in pop culture, Rose insinuated herself in Raiden's life without his knowing]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: She expresses a bit of jealousy when Raiden is escorting Emma.
* ConvenientMiscarriage: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only faked a miscarriage to protect her and Raiden's son from the Patriots]].
* DecoyDamsel: The real Rosemary is working offsite in Manhattan and is a spy for the Patriots. She survives the Arsenal crash and rendezvous with Raiden in the epilogue, with both of them promising to drop their masks.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: In her last codec call to Raiden in ''[=MGS2=]'' [[spoiler:(before a clearly hostile version of her that is likely an AI resurfaces), as she is getting cut off and the picture turns to static, her voice is slowed down and gets much deeper]]:
-->'''Rose:''' Jack! [[spoiler:I'm... I'm carrying... I'm... Pregnant... Jack... Your... Baby.]]
* TheGhost: She and Little John went to live to New Zealand while Raiden works as a PMC. She is mentioned a lot in the game, but never appears.
* GreenEyedMonster: She complains about how well Raiden seems to be getting along with Emma during the EscortMission.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Raiden.]]
* TheHeart: She spends much time fretting over Snake/Raiden's health like Mei Ling, and also has a propensity to tell anecdotes. A few reviewers have speculated that Rose is a deliberate [[spoiler:subversion of the trope since, unlike Mei Ling, her Codec chatter is both intrusive and useless. Her down-to-earth personality is a smoke screen for pushing the Colonel]]'s agenda, as he more or less admits in the Big Shell's dock. And, unlike Mei Ling, most gamers don't find Rose's diatribes to be cute or refreshing in the slightest. In [=MGS4=], she rejoins the team and fills Para-Medic's old role of quoting from the latest medical books. Also, like Para-Medic, she will chide Snake for unnecessarily killing animals (claiming it's a slippery slope to mental illness).
* HoneyTrap: Raiden first met Rose during a chance encounter in front of the Empire State Building. Rose, of course, [[spoiler:knew that Jack would be there and had been briefed on his psychological profile by the Patriots]], which enabled her to charm him.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. At the end of ''[=MSG4=]'', after waking up in a hospital, Raiden assumes she's here to break him further. She actually shows up to reveal that Roy faked their marriage in a plan to dupe the Patriots which involved her, in turn, pretending that she had a miscarriage, hence their son Little John.]]
* LethalChef: To the point where Raiden admits to Snake that he actually prefers military rations over Rose's home cooking, and has to turn off his cybernetic taste sensors just to get through the meal. Furthermore, when Colonel Campbell finally gets a break from Rose's food, he goes nuts over the taste of army rations, proclaiming it the best food ever. Snake connects the dots and actually gives him his sympathies.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only married Colonel Campbell in ''[=MSG4=]'' so the Patriots would leave her and her son alone. Once the mission is complete, she reveals that it was a sham and happily reunites with Raiden.]]
* MeaningfulName: Jack's nickname for her, "Rose", reflects both her personality and her story function; she's beautiful, but every time Raiden reaches out to her, she pricks him with thorns. It's also a reference to the movie ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', where "Jack" and "Rose" become tragic lovers at sea.
* MeetCute: Jack and Rose's connection with the Empire State Building borrows heavily from Hollywood romances like ''Sleepless in Seattle.'' [[spoiler:It is also a fabrication. It was no accident that Rose met Jack that day, nor was her subsequent reappearance as one of Jack's co-workers at the military base]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler:In ''[=MGS2=]''.]]
* MsExposition: Rose inherits Naomi's old role of providing dossiers on everyone currently inside the Big Shell. Partly a subversion, since Rose's material is full of holes and lacking crucial information, requiring Snake to fill in the gaps.
* ProphetEyes: [[spoiler:Once the jig is up, the computerized facsimile of Rose]] flits between normal irises and blank ones. The effect is subtle enough that you won't notice it right away.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: In ''[=MGS4=]'', she expresses pity for the B&B Corps upon hearing their heartbreaking backstories, claiming that Liquid is [[BadBoss truly a heartless monster]] for putting them on the frontlines because of their psychological trauma, noting that they'll just keep getting worse until they're completely useless. Snake, who is not so sympathetic, agrees on all points, but he also points out that, since they're crazy and thus not fighting at their full effectiveness, [[SanityHasAdvantages he has the advantage]].
* TheVamp: Rosemary's real purpose during the simulation is to entice Jack with false promises of a happy life waiting for him in the city. This incentivices him to complete it without question.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:[[invoked]] Rose is allegedly based on Kojima's wife. In interviews for the series' 25th anniversary, he remarked on the irony of Rose being the most hated woman in the series, as he's often criticized for over-sexualizing his female characters and giving them unreal personalities.
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As a young woman working on developing the AI for Arsenal Gear, Emma is taken hostage by The Sons of Liberty. Hal asks Raiden
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* AffectionateNickname: Her brother nicknames her "E.E." thanks to her AlliterativeName.
* AgentMulder: Emma's explanation of what the Patriots have or could have done to information ("You know how the alphabet has twenty-six letters? Well, it could have been ''thirty.'' What if the other letters were deleted by a program?") and her "justifications" ("Have you ever seen a gene? Have you counted them yourself?") make her sound like this to the point that she can come off sounding like [[PoesLaw a parody]].
** It's worth noting that the whole censored alphabet thing makes much more sense in Japanese as they are not only missing letters, like La Li Lu Le Lo, but ''sounds'' which actually don't exist in the language (hence the absence of the corresponding characters) or, in a stunning result for the linguistic determinist camp, in the minds of the language's users. Japanese doesn't distinguish between the L-sound and the R-sound, a trait which complicates life for Japanese speakers learning Western languages; moreover, various studies have produced results suggesting that adult Japanese monoglots tend to hear the L-sound as a mispronounced R rather than as a distinct consonant of its own.\\
Contrariwise, almost any sound that isn't represented by a single letter in the English alphabet can be unambiguously represented with a di- or trigraph, e.g. "th" (which in Old English orthography actually did have its own letter) or the "our" in "courier". While this produces its own problems, such as the wide ambiguity of 'ough', what counts in this context is that there are only a very few sounds, such as the click consonants used in several African languages, which are totally unrepresentable in English speech and orthography. It would therefore have been, if not impossible, then at least highly infeasible to replace the "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" censoring of the Patriots' name with some equivalent combination of syllables that can't be rendered or correctly understood by English speakers.
** Also probably worth mentioning that she brings these up as hypothetical examples of the ''kinds'' of things Arsenal Gear could do, not necessarily as actual examples.
* AlliterativeName: '''E'''mma '''E'''mmerich. For this reason, Otacon nicknames her "E.E.".
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Emma might just be the only willing participant in the [=S3=] experiment. She only got into this line of work so she could accumulate the resources needed to crush Otacon.
* BringMyBrownPants: Emma pees herself when Raiden first finds her. Slighty averted, due to Emma already wearing black shorts.
* TheCutie: She sure is one cute girl, despite her HiddenHeartOfGold-hiding facade towards her brother. [[spoiler:That and the fact that she was never able to break the facade in time makes her death all the more tragic.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Died in Otacon's arms]].
* DamselInDistress: A very classic example of this trope.
* 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.
* EvilCounterpart: The script plays her up as a cynical and morally-lacking version of Otacon. Calling Snake with Emma in your party leads to a meeting of the minds: grassroots anti-nuke hacktivist vs. highly-paid government spook.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Towards Otacon.]]
* InsufferableGenius: She is not above mocking her rescuer's shortcomings and lack of computer savvy. Additionally, she never once expressed remorse for her role in the [=S3=] project. When confronted about it, she remarks that most people are too dumb to notice a pattern when it's staring them in the face.
** [[spoiler:Which if you haven't been paying much attention to the Plant's events, makes this an eerie piece of foreshadowing that will come back and haunt you later on.]]
* KillTheCutie: Especially jarring in that [[spoiler:it happens almost immediately after the EscortMission.]]
* LovableCoward: OK, Emma's not really cowardly, but she has so many fears (water, bugs, heights) that she comes across as this anyway.
* NotBloodSiblings: Towards Otacon, but not reciprocated. [[spoiler:After she's been shot, she reveals how she's always wished she could be "closer" to Hal and just wanted Hal to look at her "as a woman."]]
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* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Interestingly, her glasses are just for show; specifically, an homage to her step-brother.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In Codec conversations, Emma is scornful of Philanthropy's goals and thinks Otacon is little more than a small-time anarchist.
* TheStoolPigeon: Lacerated Larry type: It's strongly implied that she told the Sons of Liberty how to activate Arsenal Gear due to being under the influence of truth serum. This is another parallel to the Shadow Moses mission. (Dr. Hunter was imprisoned once Campbell found out she was a mole, whereupon he deliberated on giving her sodium pentothal.)
* SuperDrowningSkills: Played with. She used to love water and, according to Otacon, "swam like a fish." Unfortunately, after her stepdad drowned himself and nearly took her with him, she is completely terrified of water to the point where she [[SecurityCling clings]] to Raiden and lets him do all the swimming.
* {{Tsundere}}: She spends much time on the low end of the thermometer. However, she lights up when discussing her childhood with Hal, and exhibits girly flirtation with Raiden.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** 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.
** A more minor example: she's also terrified of bugs. So after the long underwater escort, seeing the path to the elevator filled with sea lice freaks her out until Raiden can clear them away (or knock her out and just drag her to the elevator).
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[[folder:Peter Stillman]]
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->Voiced By: Creator/ShozoIizuka (JP), Greg Eagles (EN)
->''"His crimes are also mine -- one of omission, and arrogance. No one should teach the skills I taught him without a clear conscience."''
A bomb disposal expert and Fatman's mentor. Stillman helps Raiden and Plisken defuse several of his student's bombs, and then dies trying to defuse one himself.
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* AgentMulder: Emma's explanation of what the Patriots have or could have done to information ("You know how the alphabet has twenty-six letters? Well, it could have been ''thirty.'' What if the other letters were deleted by a program?") and her "justifications" ("Have you ever seen a gene? Have you counted them yourself?") make her sound like this to the point that she can come off sounding like [[PoesLaw a parody]].
** It's worth noting that the whole censored alphabet thing makes much more sense in Japanese as they are not only missing letters, like La Li Lu Le Lo, but ''sounds'' which actually don't exist in the language (hence the absence of the corresponding characters) or, in a stunning result for the linguistic determinist camp, in the minds of the language's users. Japanese doesn't distinguish between the L-sound and the R-sound, a trait which complicates life for Japanese speakers learning Western languages; moreover, various studies have produced results suggesting that adult Japanese monoglots tend to hear the L-sound as a mispronounced R rather than as a distinct consonant of its own.\\
Contrariwise, almost any sound that isn't represented by a single letter in the English alphabet can be unambiguously represented with a di- or trigraph, e.g. "th" (which in Old English orthography actually did have its own letter) or the "our" in "courier". While this produces its own problems, such as the wide ambiguity of 'ough', what counts in this context is that there are only a very few sounds, such as the click consonants used in several African languages, which are totally unrepresentable in English speech and orthography. It would therefore have been, if not impossible, then at least highly infeasible to replace the "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" censoring of the Patriots' name with some equivalent combination of syllables that can't be rendered or correctly understood by English speakers.
** Also probably worth mentioning that she brings these up as hypothetical examples of the ''kinds'' of things Arsenal Gear could do, not necessarily as actual examples.
* AlliterativeName: '''E'''mma '''E'''mmerich. For this reason, Otacon nicknames her "E.E.".
* BetterLivingThroughEvil: Emma might just be the only willing participant in the [=S3=] experiment. She only got into this line of work so she could accumulate the resources needed to crush Otacon.
* BringMyBrownPants: Emma pees herself when Raiden first finds her. Slighty averted, due to Emma already wearing black shorts.
* TheCutie: She sure is one cute girl, despite her HiddenHeartOfGold-hiding facade towards her brother. [[spoiler:That and the fact that she was never able to break the facade in time makes her death all the more tragic.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Died in Otacon's arms]].
* DamselInDistress: A very classic example of this trope.
* 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.
* EvilCounterpart: The script plays her up as a cynical and morally-lacking version of Otacon. Calling Snake with Emma in your party leads to a meeting of the minds: grassroots anti-nuke hacktivist vs. highly-paid government spook.
%%* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Towards Otacon.]]
* InsufferableGenius: She is not above mocking her rescuer's shortcomings and lack of computer savvy. Additionally, she never once expressed remorse for her role in the [=S3=] project. When confronted about it, she remarks that most people are too dumb to notice a pattern when it's staring them in the face.
** [[spoiler:Which if you haven't been paying much attention to the Plant's events, makes this an eerie piece of foreshadowing that will come back and haunt you later on.]]
* KillTheCutie: Especially jarring in that [[spoiler:it happens almost immediately after the EscortMission.]]
* LovableCoward: OK, Emma's not really cowardly, but she has so many fears (water, bugs, heights) that she comes across as this anyway.
* NotBloodSiblings: Towards Otacon, but not reciprocated. [[spoiler:After she's been shot, she reveals how she's always wished she could be "closer" to Hal and just wanted Hal to look at her "as a woman."]]
%%* PinkMeansFeminine
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Interestingly, her glasses are just for show; specifically, an homage to her step-brother.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In Codec conversations, Emma is scornful of Philanthropy's goals and thinks Otacon is little more than a small-time anarchist.
* TheStoolPigeon: Lacerated Larry type: It's strongly implied that she told the Sons of Liberty how to activate Arsenal Gear due to being under the influence of truth serum. This is another parallel to the Shadow Moses mission. (Dr. Hunter was imprisoned once Campbell found out she was a mole, whereupon he deliberated on giving her sodium pentothal.)
* SuperDrowningSkills: Played with. She used to love water and, according to Otacon, "swam like a fish." Unfortunately, after her stepdad drowned himself and nearly took her with him, she is completely terrified of water to the point where she [[SecurityCling clings]] to Raiden and lets him do all the swimming.
* {{Tsundere}}: She spends much time on the low end of the thermometer. However, she lights up when discussing her childhood with Hal, and exhibits girly flirtation with Raiden.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
** 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.
** A more minor example: she's also terrified of bugs. So after the long underwater escort, seeing the path to the elevator filled with sea lice freaks her out until Raiden can clear them away (or knock her out and just drag her to the elevator).
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[[folder:Peter Stillman]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-"Don't let the fear get to you. When you give into the fear, the darkness comes."-]'']]
->Voiced By: Creator/ShozoIizuka (JP), Greg Eagles (EN)
->''"His crimes are also mine -- one of omission, and arrogance. No one should teach the skills I taught him without a clear conscience."''
A bomb disposal expert and Fatman's mentor. Stillman helps Raiden and Plisken defuse several of his student's bombs, and then dies trying to defuse one himself.
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* CoolShip: Arsenal Gear is a giant size battleship and the largest of all Metal Gears. In ''Guns of Patriot'', the Outer Heaven battleship that Liquid Ocelot stole is model after Arsenal.
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* CoolShip: Arsenal Gear is a giant size battleship and the largest of all Metal Gears. In ''Guns of Patriot'', the Outer Heaven battleship that Liquid Ocelot stole is model modeled after Arsenal.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: You know that oil decontamination facility you have been exploring for most of the game? It is actually housing a giant ship.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: You know that oil decontamination facility you have been exploring for most of the game? It is actually housing a giant ship.submersible ship underneath it below the waves, which is highlighted with its murky shadow whilst the Big Shell facility sinks.
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* PetTheDog: For what it was worth, he gave Raiden an HF Blade before their fight. Solidus had every intent of winning, but he did give Raiden a fighting chance against him when he could have killed him the easy way. [[spoiler: Naturally this bites him in the ass.]]
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* PetTheDog: PetTheDog:
** For what it was worth, he gave Raiden an HF Blade before their fight. Solidus had every intent of winning, but he did give Raiden a fighting chance against him when he could have killed him the easy way. [[spoiler: Naturally this bites him in the ass.]]]]
** Despite his ruthlessness and cruelty, in the final act of the game he DOES tell Fortune to get out of the way when she's in danger. Something the game cleverly has Snake do in the very same scene, telling allies and enemies alike to get down. Hinting that Solidus has a similar capacity as his brother to care about others, albeit much less so.
** Partly due to the script, and partly due to John Cygan's voice acting, his final speech to Raiden can be seen as this. Solidus seems to be making a genuine attempt to impart some greater knowledge to his son. Something Raiden himself takes to heart, admitting that Solidus did teach him some good lessons.
** For what it was worth, he gave Raiden an HF Blade before their fight. Solidus had every intent of winning, but he did give Raiden a fighting chance against him when he could have killed him the easy way. [[spoiler: Naturally this bites him in the ass.
** Despite his ruthlessness and cruelty, in the final act of the game he DOES tell Fortune to get out of the way when she's in danger. Something the game cleverly has Snake do in the very same scene, telling allies and enemies alike to get down. Hinting that Solidus has a similar capacity as his brother to care about others, albeit much less so.
** Partly due to the script, and partly due to John Cygan's voice acting, his final speech to Raiden can be seen as this. Solidus seems to be making a genuine attempt to impart some greater knowledge to his son. Something Raiden himself takes to heart, admitting that Solidus did teach him some good lessons.
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* AbusiveParents: As revealed in ''Peace Walker'', [[spoiler:Paz's diary tapes]] show the Patriots[=/=]Cipher adopted her when she was an orphan, and threatened her with FateWorseThanDeath if she abandoned or failed her missions. Then there's the sons of Big Boss, who all turned into sociopaths and killers thanks to the way the Patriots had them raised.
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* AbusiveParents: As revealed in ''Peace Walker'', [[spoiler:Paz's diary tapes]] show the Patriots[=/=]Cipher adopted her when she was an orphan, and threatened her with FateWorseThanDeath if she abandoned or failed her missions. Then there's the sons of Big Boss, who all turned into sociopaths and killers thanks to the way the Patriots had them raised. And that's not even getting into how their predecessor organization, The Philosophers, abducted children from birth and trained them into becoming their agents.
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** In ''Metal Gear'' and ''Metal Gear 2'', Solid Snake stops both of Big Boss' attempts to go to war with the organization, essentially assuring that they control the entire planet by the 21st century.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid'', Snake stops Liquid's own attempt to go to war with the Patriots. [[spoiler:Though Sigint and Para-medic are both killed thanks to Ocelot and Gray Fox]].
** In ''Metal Gear Solid'', Snake stops Liquid's own attempt to go to war with the Patriots. [[spoiler:Though Sigint and Para-medic are both killed thanks to Ocelot and Gray Fox]].
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** In Retroactively in ''Metal Gear'' and ''Metal Gear 2'', 2'' - Solid Snake stops both of Big Boss' attempts to go to war with the organization, essentially assuring that they control the entire planet by the 21st century.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid'', Snake stops Liquid's own attempt to go to war with the Patriots. [[spoiler:ThoughSigint Sigint/Donald Anderson and Para-medic Para-Medic/Dr. Clark are both killed thanks to Ocelot and Gray Fox]].
** In ''Metal Gear Solid'', Snake stops Liquid's own attempt to go to war with the Patriots. [[spoiler:Though
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While the [=AIs=] and the members that have been dead for a century were first introduced in ''Sons of Liberty'', it's eventually revealed that three member of the modern Patriots were the previously-unseen Dr. Clark (who turned out to be Para-Medic), the DARPA Chief (previously known as Sigint), and none other than Big Boss himself. Out of the remaining two members, EVA was introduced in ''Snake Eater'' as an agent of the Patriots' predecessor organization, while Zero is a more roundabout example; despite also being introduced in ''Snake Eater'', his status as the leader of the Patriots isn't revealed until ''Guns of the Patriots''.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: There is only a handful of things which the Patriots didn't predict, and most of them worked to their advantage anyway. The two notable exceptions are [[spoiler: Ocelot rebuilding GW for his own purposes and faking his possesion by Liquid and secretly manipulating events to ensure Patriot's demise. By thinking that they were dealing with [[BigBadWannabe Liquid Snake]] they underestimated their opponent and ended up OutGambitted by the true [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] himself]].
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* DidntSeeThatComing: There is only a handful of things which the Patriots didn't predict, and most of them worked to their advantage anyway. The two notable exceptions are [[spoiler: Ocelot [[spoiler:Ocelot rebuilding GW for his own purposes and faking his possesion possession by Liquid and Liquid, both examples of him secretly manipulating events to ensure Patriot's the Patriots' demise. By thinking that they were dealing with [[BigBadWannabe Liquid Snake]] they underestimated their opponent and ended up OutGambitted by the true [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] himself]].
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* MeetTheNewBoss: With the Genome Soliders put permanently on ice, Olga's unit is the closest analog to Outer Heaven the modern world has--At least, until ''Metal Gear Rising''. Ocelot claims he went out of his way to find circus freaks on par with FOXHOUND; It's no accident that they're the ones who help seize the Tanker & Plant. (Note that with the imprisonment of Colonel Jackson and the decimation of his unit, Dead Cell has four members to Liquid Snake's six--five if you count Olga Gulukovich; as a result, no one member can be said to be an exact copy of Liquid's henchmen.)
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* MeetTheNewBoss: With the Genome Soliders put permanently on ice, Olga's unit is the closest analog to Outer Heaven the modern world has--At least, until ''Metal Gear Rising''. Ocelot claims he went out of his way to find circus freaks on par with FOXHOUND; It's no accident that they're the ones who help seize the Tanker & Plant. (Note that with the imprisonment of Colonel Jackson and the decimation of his unit, Dead Cell has four members to Liquid Snake's six--five if you count Olga Gulukovich; Gurlukovich; as a result, no one member can be said to be an exact copy of Liquid's henchmen.)
* TheUnfettered: While he does intend to destroy the Patriots and free the world of their grasp, he's also very remorseless about the extreme methods he uses to get there.
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* 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]].
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* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:At the end of the day, Olga could hardly be called a bad person when considering [[AncientConspiracy the true nature of the Patriots]] and [[IHaveYourWife how they blackmailed her into working with them by holding her child hostage]].]]
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* CoolGuns: Fatman carries a fully-automatic Glock 18, and is quite handy with it.
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An [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness introduced in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' that secretly control United States politics and media. They created the Big Shell incident to see if their new "GW" AI information manipulation system could extend their control to human thought as well, with Raiden as the test subject. The end of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' suggests that they are a group of twelve people who have been dead for 100 years, or possibly a [[InstantAIJustAddWater sentient meme]]]] [[AnthropomorphicPersonification representing the will of the United States. ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', however, [[RetCon reveals the truth behind the group]]: they were founded by Major Zero, Ocelot, Big Boss, EVA, Sigint, and Para-Medic some time after ''Portable Ops'', with the group splitting into two factions ultimately with one led by Zero and the other by Big Boss. It was later perpetuated by five [=AIs=]: GW, TJ, AL, TR, and JD. ("Washington", "Jefferson", "Lincoln", "Roosevelt", and "John Doe"). They also play a role in Big Boss' story, under the alias of Cipher at the time.
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An [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness introduced in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' that secretly control United States politics and media. They created the Big Shell incident to see if their new "GW" AI information manipulation system could extend their control to human thought as well, with Raiden as the test subject. The end of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' suggests that they are a group of twelve people who have been dead for 100 years, or possibly a [[InstantAIJustAddWater sentient meme]]]] meme]] [[AnthropomorphicPersonification representing the will of the United States. States]]. ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', however, [[RetCon [[{{Retcon}} reveals the truth behind the group]]: they were founded by Major Zero, Ocelot, Big Boss, EVA, Sigint, and Para-Medic some time after ''Portable Ops'', with the group splitting into two factions ultimately with one led by Zero and the other by Big Boss. It was later perpetuated by five [=AIs=]: GW, TJ, AL, TR, and JD. ("Washington", "Jefferson", "Lincoln", "Roosevelt", and "John Doe"). They also play a role in Big Boss' story, under the alias of Cipher at the time.
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* InterserviceRivalry: After the U.S. Army blew its wad with Metal Gear Rex, other branches of the military began to feud over it. Dolph is currently in a race with the Navy to see who will oversee deployment of the next-generation Metal Gears. As it turns out, the Navy (really the Patriots) pinches RAY and tailors it to their own purposes.
** It's odd that the Marines would be competing with the Navy for war assets since the Marines actually belong to the Department of the Navy. In a real life scenario, the Navy and Marines would share access to a Metal Gear.
** It's odd that the Marines would be competing with the Navy for war assets since the Marines actually belong to the Department of the Navy. In a real life scenario, the Navy and Marines would share access to a Metal Gear.
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* InterserviceRivalry: After the U.S. Army blew its wad with Metal Gear Rex, other branches of the military began to feud over it. Dolph is currently in a race with the Navy to see who will oversee deployment of the next-generation Metal Gears. As it turns out, the Navy (really the Patriots) pinches RAY and tailors it to their own purposes.
**purposes. It's odd that the Marines would be competing with the Navy for war assets since the Marines actually belong to the Department of the Navy. In a real life scenario, the Navy and Marines would share access to a Metal Gear.
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Raiden's girlfriend and a military data analyst who was enlisted by the Colonel as a last-minute addition. Her role is to pacify Raiden and keep him focused on coming home. [[spoiler:Turns out she is a government plant whose real job is to 'analyze' Raiden. But sure enough, [[BecomingTheMask things got out of hand]], and her feelings for Raiden became legit.]]
Reappears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' as Snake's psychiatric support. [[spoiler:She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody. Turns out the marriage was a sham, as it was just a way to protect her and her son from the Patriots until Raiden finished his mission]].
Reappears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' as Snake's psychiatric support. [[spoiler:She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody. Turns out the marriage was a sham, as it was just a way to protect her and her son from the Patriots until Raiden finished his mission]].
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Raiden's girlfriend and a military data analyst who was enlisted by the Colonel as a last-minute addition. Her role is to pacify Raiden and keep him focused on coming home. [[spoiler:Turns Turns out she is a government plant whose real job is to 'analyze' Raiden. But sure enough, [[BecomingTheMask things got out of hand]], and her feelings for Raiden became legit.]]
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Reappears in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' as Snake's psychiatric support.[[spoiler:She's She's married to Colonel Campbell, to the disgust of everybody. Turns out the marriage was a sham, as it was just a way to protect her and her son from the Patriots until Raiden finished his mission]].
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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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As a young woman [[spoiler:working working on developing the AI for Arsenal Gear]], Gear, Emma is taken hostage by The Sons of Liberty. Hal asks Raiden to rescue her.
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An [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness introduced in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' that secretly control United States politics and media. They created the Big Shell incident to see if their new "GW" AI information manipulation system could extend their control to human thought as well, with Raiden as the test subject. The end of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' suggests that [[spoiler:they are a group of twelve people who have been dead for 100 years, or possibly a [[InstantAIJustAddWater sentient meme]]]] [[AnthropomorphicPersonification representing the will of the United States]]. ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', however, [[RetCon reveals the truth behind the group]]: [[spoiler:they were founded by Major Zero, Ocelot, Big Boss, EVA, Sigint, and Para-Medic some time after ''Portable Ops'', with the group splitting into two factions ultimately with one led by Zero and the other by Big Boss. It was later perpetuated by five [=AIs=]: GW, TJ, AL, TR, and JD. ("Washington", "Jefferson", "Lincoln", "Roosevelt", and "John Doe")]]. They also play a role in Big Boss' story, under the alias of Cipher at the time.
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An [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness introduced in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' that secretly control United States politics and media. They created the Big Shell incident to see if their new "GW" AI information manipulation system could extend their control to human thought as well, with Raiden as the test subject. The end of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' suggests that [[spoiler:they they are a group of twelve people who have been dead for 100 years, or possibly a [[InstantAIJustAddWater sentient meme]]]] [[AnthropomorphicPersonification representing the will of the United States]]. States. ''Metal Gear Solid 4'', however, [[RetCon reveals the truth behind the group]]: [[spoiler:they they were founded by Major Zero, Ocelot, Big Boss, EVA, Sigint, and Para-Medic some time after ''Portable Ops'', with the group splitting into two factions ultimately with one led by Zero and the other by Big Boss. It was later perpetuated by five [=AIs=]: GW, TJ, AL, TR, and JD. ("Washington", "Jefferson", "Lincoln", "Roosevelt", and "John Doe")]].Doe"). They also play a role in Big Boss' story, under the alias of Cipher at the time.
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After the Big Shell incident, [[spoiler:Liquid Ocelot manages to get his hands on GW's remains and rebuilds it to gain access to the Patriot's AI network and take control of the [=SOP=] system, with his ultimate goal being to replace JD by GW.]]
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After the Big Shell incident, [[spoiler:Liquid Liquid Ocelot manages to get his hands on GW's remains and rebuilds it to gain access to the Patriot's AI network and take control of the [=SOP=] system, with his ultimate goal being to replace JD by GW.]]
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After having Liquid Snake's arm grafted onto his [[AnArmAndALeg right stump]], Revolver Ocelot was apparently possessed by the spirit of the former character. Surviving the events of ''Sons of Liberty'', he took over several [=PMC=]s and formed his own version of Outer Heaven. [[spoiler:However, Big Boss at the end of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' reveals that this merger wasn't real, though external materials and WordOfGod have stated that Oceleot ''was'' possessed by Liquid but removed the arm and recreated his "possession" because "Liquid" would be less unpredictable and easier for Ocelot to control.]]
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After having Liquid Snake's arm grafted onto his [[AnArmAndALeg right stump]], Revolver Ocelot was apparently possessed by the spirit of the former character. Surviving the events of ''Sons of Liberty'', he took over several [=PMC=]s and formed his own version of Outer Heaven. [[spoiler:However, However, Big Boss at the end of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' reveals that this merger wasn't real, though external materials and WordOfGod have stated that Oceleot ''was'' possessed by Liquid but removed the arm and recreated his "possession" because "Liquid" would be less unpredictable and easier for Ocelot to control.]]
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* TwoferTokenMinority: He's African-American and, if rumors are to be believed, bisexual.
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* HiddenDepths: In a rare situation, when using the Nikita missile to blow the generator in his room he may randomly ''backflip'' with agile grace out of the way instead of simply running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Amusingly, this same animation is used to try to evade the player's camera in a Photograph Mode VR Mission.
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* CarpetOfVirility: Vamp has a ''lot'' more chest hair in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' than he did in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. WordOfGod says that he's always had that much chest hair, and Konami couldn't manage to get a good render of the chest hair with the [=PS2=]'s hardware.
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* CarpetOfVirility: Vamp has a ''lot'' more chest hair in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' than he did in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. WordOfGod says that he's always had that much chest hair, and Konami couldn't manage to get a good render of the chest hair with the [=PS2=]'s hardware.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Inverted in ''VideoGame/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.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Inverted in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''.''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''. When he is defeated by Raiden, he asks with ecstasy if Raiden is going to be the one to finally kill him for good.
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* DistressedDamsel: A very classic example of this trope.
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* DistressedDamsel: DamselInDistress: A very classic example of this trope.
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* ConsummateLiar: Does an excellent job of deceiving Raiden (and the unspoiled) player for most of the game. Even when Raiden starts getting clued into his true identity (after President Johnson informs him of the Patriots and gives Raiden instructions on how to outright attack GW) he keeps his cool, promises to look into the matter, and ''actually orders Raiden to follow the President's instructions.''
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* ConsummateLiar: Does an excellent job of deceiving Raiden (and the unspoiled) player unspoiled player) for most of the game. Even when Raiden starts getting clued into his true identity (after President Johnson informs him of the Patriots and gives Raiden instructions on how to outright attack GW) he keeps his cool, promises to look into the matter, and ''actually orders Raiden to follow the President's instructions.''
