Metal Gear Saga

Characters

MGS 3

The American Philosophers
The Chinese Philosophers
The Russian Philosophers
The Boss / The Joy / The Mother of The Special Forces
Big Boss
Major Zero / Major Tom
Para-Medic
EVA / Tatyana / Big Mama
Ocelot / Revolver Ocelot / Adamska / Adam / ADAM / Shalashaska
Colonel Volgin
The Cobra Unit

MGS: PW

Dr. Strangelove
Huey Emmerich

MGS V: GZ

The Patriots
The Patriots AI / Cypher / La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo (TJ, TR, AL, GW, JD)
Solid Snake
Liquid Snake
Solidus Snake
Raiden
Benedict Kazhuhira Miller / Kaz Miller / Master Miller
Silent
Skull Face
DD / Diamond Dog

MGS V: TPP

Venom Snake

MG

Grey Fox / Frank Jaeger

MG 2 / MGS

Colonel Roy Campbell
Naomi Hunter
Meryl
Hal Emmerich
Emma Emmerich
Splinter Wolf
Mei Ling

MGS 2

Raiden / Jack The Ripper
Olga Gurlukovich
Fortune / Lady Luck
Sunny Emmerich
Rosemary
Vamp

MGS 4

Drebin 893
Liquid Ocelot
The Beauty and The Beast Corps

MGR: R

Kevin
Courtney
Boris
Samuel Rodriguez / Jetstream Sam
Monsoon
Mistral
Khamsin
Sundowner
Blade Wolf
Armstrong

Plot

The philosophers were wealthy individuals of powerful nations who controlled them.
The Boss is a female legendary war hero from the US

A boy named John was recruited by The Boss, and together they developed a fighting style named CQC.
He was code named Naked Snake.
The Boss was sent on a double-agent mission to obtain the Philosophers' Legacy from the Russians.
EVA was another female spy from the Chinese Philosophers sent for the same mission.
Colonel Volgin was in possession of the Philosophers' Legacy
He fired an American made Davy Crockett nuclear warhead at a Russian research facility.
It made it look like the Americans fired it.
Snake was ordered to kill The Boss by the US to make her a scapegoat for the explosion.
The Boss told Snake that she had a vision of a world without borders shortly before they fought.
After killing The Boss, he got the title of Big Boss by Zero, a member of the American Philosophers.

So The Boss is the boss of Big Boss.
The Boss and Zero interpreted the will of The Boss in different ways, and they started to part ways.
Afraid that Big Boss would leave, Zero decided to covertly clone Big Boss to make the perfect soldier.
The project was called Les Infantes Terribles, and EVA was chosen as the surrogate mother.

Solid Snake and Liquid Snake are the first two clones of Big Boss.
Solid Snake was the imperfect clone, and Liquid was a better clone.
Big Boss rejected both clones as he did not want this done, and he left the Patriots.
He referred to Solid as the Brother of Light and Liquid as brother of the Dark.
This made Liquid think he was the imperfect clone.
Big Boss started his own Private Military Company (PMC), named Military Sans Frontiers (MSF).

Ocelot came to see Big Boss as a legend.
Ocelot was the lost son of The Boss.

A third perfect clone of Big Boss was made, called Solidus Snake.
He became the 73rd President of the US.

Raiden was a child soldier from Liberia raised by Solidus Snake.
Solidus had killed his parents to experiment with him.
Raiden signed up for military training and became a cyborg.

Chronology of Games

• 1967: Snake Eater Operation (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater / Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater)
• 1970: San Hieronymo Incident (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops)
• 1974: Peace Walker Incident (Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker)
• 1975: Ground Zeroes Incident (Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes)
• 1984: Phantom Pain Incident (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
• 1995: Outer Heaven Uprising (Metal Gear)
• 1999: Zanzibar Lands Incident (Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake)
• 2005: Shadow Moses Incident (Metal Gear Solid / Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes)
• 2007: Tanker Incident (Metal Gear Solid 2: The Sons of Liberty)
• 2009: Big Shell Incident (Metal Gear Solid 2: The Sons of Liberty)
• 2014: Guns of The Patriots Incident (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots)
• 2020: World Marshall Incident

Timeline Brief

1918-1947: The Philosophers and The Cobra Unit
1947-1967: FOX, Virtuous MIssion and Snake Eater

• Big Boss Leaves FOX, followed by Major Zero, and XOF leader Skull face is infuriated by this.

1970-1972: The Patriots, Les Enfantes Terribles and The MSF

• The Patriots were formed by Zero, EVA, SIGINT and Big Boss to carry out the will of The Boss.
• Big Boss is put as the face of the organization.
• But Big Boss and Zero differ in the ideas of what The Boss wanted and they divert.
• Zero grows afraid of losing Big Boss.
• Zero secretly clones Big Boss to create the Les Enfantes Terribles project.
• Big Boss leaves The Patriots, EVA leaves soon after, but Ocelot remains as a spy for The Patriots.
• SIGINT and the Para-Medic stays as well, but they soon become power hungry.
• Zero renames himself and the Patriots Cipher.
• Big Boss works as a mercenary for the Colombian government.
• He is sent on a mission to ambush the Guerrilla leader Kazuhira Miller
• Miller and Big Boss becomes friends
• They create the MSF (Military Sans Frontiers) to honour the will of The Boss.

Events of Metal Gear: Portable Ops also happened during this time period.
1974: Peace Walker Incident

• The MSF gets a contract from Ramon Galvez Mena and Paz Ortega Andrade.
• They need assistance for defending Costa Rica, but Big Boss initially refuses.
• Hearing what seems to be the voice of The Boss in a recording, Big Boss agrees to help.
• Galvez gives Big Boss control of an offshore rig, which Big Boss names Mother Base.
• There are guerrilla fighters and AI weapons.
• Huey Emmerich developed the Peace Walker weapon.
• Paz takes control of Metal Gear ZEKE.
• Paz wanted to take it back to Cipher, and was actually their spy.
• She accuses Big Boss of having chosen the wrong path.
• After the fight, Paz falls into the ocean, presumed dead.

1976: Ground Zeros

• Kaz Miller tells Big Boss that Cipher is actually Major Zero
• He knew it all along, but kept quiet because they were indirectly assisting MSF.
• The Peace Walker incident helps the MSF expand into a global force.
• Paz Ortega was actually rescued by a fisherman who found her floating in the Carribean.
• Kaz tells Big Boss she's alive, and Big Boss plans to assassinate her
• An intelligence leak by Paz coincides with a UN inspection on Mother Base.
• This makes Kaz doubt whether Paz is truly an enemy of the MSF.
• Big Boss and Kaz decides to rescue Paz and fellow MSF member Chico.
• Chico was captured while trying to rescue Paz from a maximum security prison in Camp Omega.
• Villainous XOF leader Skull Face knows Paz is the only Cipher agent who met Zero face to face.
• Skull Face gets the location of Zero from Paz telling it will help Big Boss.
• He then puts two bombs inside Paz knowing Big Boss will come to rescue her.
• Chico tells boss Paz is dead, but he manages to deduce her location from a tape recording.
• He rescues Paz, and on the rescue chopper, Chico finds a scar on Paz's stomach.
• The onboard medic is forced to operate on her without anaesthesia.
• One bomb was removed and they thought it was all.
• They find that mother base was being attacked by XOF.
• Big Boss tries to support, and eventually escapes with Kaz and the Medic.
• Paz tells them that she has a second bomb inside her.
• She jumps out of the heli, but it's too late and the explosion causes the helicopter to collide into an enemy one.
• The damage caused is impossible to hide.
• The Media reports it as the work of money hungry private militias.
• Kaz, Big Boss and the Medic are moved to a hospital in Columbia.
• The Medic has a shrapnel stuck on to his head, impossible to safely remove by surgery.

1984: Phantom Pain

• Big Boss was moved to a hospital in Cyprus by EVA and Ocelot
• Ocelot tells Big Boss Zero wanted the Medic to act as Big Boss.
• The Medic does so going by the code name Venom Snake.
• Big Boss pretends to be his bodyguard, going by the name Ishmael.

1995: Outer Heaven Uprising

• Big Boss returns to US as commander of FOXHOUND
• Venom Snake orchestrates the Outer Heaven uprising
• He makes a scientist build the Metal Gear TX-55 by holding his daughter Ellen hostage.
• The US realizes this and calls on Big Boss's FOXHOUND unit to neutralize this threat.
• This is carried out by operation Intrude N312, carried out by Frank Jaeger, codenamed Grey Fox.
• Grey Fox discovers intel about Metal Gear, but is captured before he can relay all of it to FOXHOUND.
• In operation N313, rookie agent Solid Snake is given his first assignment
• Big Boss tells Snake the mission briefing.
• Snake completes the mission, and kills Venom Snake, believing him to be Big Boss.

1997-1999: Zanzibar Land Disturbance

• Big Boss and his army participate in a mercenary war, and the formerly autonomous USSR Zone, Zanzibar province, becomes Zanzibar Land, and Big Boss becomes the president.
• There, Big Boss recruits child soldiers from Third World nations, and they come to see Big Boss as a father figure.
• He gets Metal Gear D built do defend the place.
• The Cold War begins, and a scientist named Marv develops an alternate fuel named oil eggs.
• Marv is kidnapped and kept in Outer Heaven.
• FOXHOUND's new commander, Roy Campbell brings Solid Snake out of retirement to commence operation FO14.
• Solid Snake destroys Metal Gear D, and defeats Grey Fox in hand-to-hand combat.

2005: Shadow Moses Incident

• Snake is called into action again by Roy Campbell
• To differentiate from Liquid Snake, Solid snake gets a mullet haircut.

2006-2008: The Tanker Incident

• The Metal Gear RAY is being transported to the US on an oil tanker
• Solid Snake is tasked to prove that it exists
• The Patriots led media frames Solid Snake for the attack on the Tanker
• But Snake fakes his death using Liquid's old body and it works.

2009-2011: Big Shell Incident and The Sons of Liberty
2014: Guns of The Patriots Incident and The End of Solid Snake
2020: Events of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Organizations

The Philosophers
The Patriots
The Patriots AI / Cipher
Outer Heaven
FOX
XOF
FOXHOUND
MSF
Philanthropy
Diamond Dogs
Outer Haven
Maverick Security Consulting, Inc.
Desperado Enforcement LLC
World Marshall Inc.