What is Big Boss?
{{multiple issues| {{complex|date=April 2024}} {{no sources|date=April 2024}} {{sections|date=April 2024}} {{weasel|date=April 2024}} }} '''Big Boss''' is a recurring character in the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series of [[video game]]s, who serves as a [[hero]] or [[villain]]. He used his [[gene]]s to make three [[clone]]s of himself, [[Solid Snake]], [[Liquid Snake]] and [[Solidus Snake]]. Figuratively, this makes him their father. He began as a soldier for the CIA special forces team, the FOX Unit. He later created and led a special forces team called [[FOXHOUND]]. In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3]]'', Big Boss failed to rescue a scientist named Sokolov, because his [[Mentorship|mentor]], the Boss, changes sides from the [[United States]] to the [[Soviet Union]]. It is later explained that the [[government]] ordered her to change sides because she was the only soldier Volgin would respect and trust enough to keep the Philosophers' legacy during [[World War II]]. The Boss later reunites with her former team of fellow soldiers, the Cobra Unit. She knew Big Boss, who was called Naked Snake in the game, would have to kill her as part of his mission, but she wanted to pass on her goal for him to complete. After he discovers the real reason for the Boss's death, he loses his [[patriotism]] and wants to unite the world under one government. This is so that the world's governments would not threaten to destroy each other with [[nuclear weapon]]s. The government gives him a new code name, Big Boss. He dislikes the code name, because it reminded him that it was given to him for killing the Boss. She was one of the only he really cared for. In Metal Gear 1 & 2, Big Boss attempts to use Metal Gear to destroy all world governments, but FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake (who is also one of Big Boss's clones) destroys it and stops him. [[Category:Metal Gear]] [[Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1987]] [[Category:Video game characters]]