Metal Gear Solid 4

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Originally Posted by Peanut

I just thought of something...odd. Maybe someone can somehow explain this to me.

Spoiler:

At the end of MGS4, Big Boss talks about how Eva and Ocelot "rebuild" him using pieces of Solidus and Liquid. Aside from the fact that there's something like 6 years between Big Boss' death and Liquid's death, in which time Big Boss is somehow kept alive, there's another thing that irks me. Revolver Ocelot grafts Liquid's arm on to himself, which would be fine, as it explains how Liquid's body ended up with the Patriots, and thus how it's used to rebuild Big Boss. The problem actually springs up in MGS2. When the tanker sinks, and Snake is thought to be dead, a body is pulled from the harbor, a body who's DNA is said to match that of Solid Snake. I do believe that body is supposed to be Liquid's. So...how does that work?

Edit: Actually, I think I figured it out...

I guess the Patriots were the ones to take Liquid's body out of the harbor? I don't know how they could possibly use it for anything after being dead for that long, but who knows.

Spoiler:

Yes, that's pretty much how it supposedly went.

What I don't get though is why Ocelot underwent the hypotherapy and got the Liquid nanomachines. Couldn't he just have faked it after removing the arm? Seeing as the only Patriots alive were Zero, Ocelot and Eva (Big Boss too, I suppose, but he is presumed dead). With Zero being a vegetable and Ocelot and Eva being Big Boss supporters, they could have ended this mess much sooner. Not to mention much more easily, if everyone properly teamed up with Snake.

And what about the list of the Patriots in MGS2? That was the whole reason why Snake and Otacon were there.

::edit::
Wow, I just realised that Sigint was the person Ocelot killed in MGS1. I wonder what happened to Paramedic.