History Characters / MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty

[[center:[-[[Characters/MetalGear Main Character Index]] | Characters/MetalGear1 ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidSnake Solid Snake]] | [[Characters/MetalGearBigBoss Big Boss / Naked Snake]]) | [[Characters/MetalGear2SolidSnake Metal Gear 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSolidFOXHOUND FOXHOUND]]) | '''Sons of Liberty''' ([[Characters/MetalGearRaiden Raiden]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Snake Eater]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Guns of the Patriots]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]] | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]] | [[Characters/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]] ([[Characters/MetalGearSenatorArmstrong Senator Armstrong]]) | [[Characters/MetalGearSolidV The Phantom Pain]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid Acid]] | [[Characters/MetalGearAcid2 Acid 2]] | [[Characters/MetalGearGhostBabel Ghost Babel]] | [[Characters/SnakesRevenge Snake's Revenge]]-]]]

* 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.

* HiddenInPlainSight: You know that oil decontamination facility you have been exploring for most of the game? It is actually housing a giant ship.

* 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.]]

* 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.

** 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]].

* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler:Big Boss]] reveals in ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' that, for all their intelligence and power, the Patriots can only repeat patterns over and over, a weakness that [[spoiler:Ocelot]] exploits to destroy them

* 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]].

* 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.)

* 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]].

* CoolGuns: Fatman carries a fully-automatic Glock 18, and is quite handy with it.

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.

* 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.

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]].

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.

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.

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.]]

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.]]

* 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.

* 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.

* DistressedDamsel: A very classic example of this trope.

* 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.''