This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Operation Snake Eater After the failure of the Virtuous Mission, both Zero and Snake were threatened with death by firing squad if their next mission were to fail.
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Unbeknownst to Zero at the time, however, Skull Face harbored a deep-seated hatred for both him and Jack. Earlier, Zero briefed his friend Jack on the previous attempt to rescue Sokolov, explaining that the Soviets most likely wanted him to finish a weapons system he had begun developing, capable of turning the tide of the Cold War.
He also warned Jack that if he didn't retrieve Sokolov in four hours, then they wouldn't have enough time to extract the two from Tselinoyarsk. Zero gave Jack the codename Naked Snake due to the on-site procurement and stealth aspects of the mission, and designated himself as "Major Tom" due to incorrectly remembering the successful escape tunnel's name in The Great Escape.
To ensure that the mission was a success, Major Zero had secretly deployed a covert XOF team led by Skull Face to monitor Snake's progress during the mission, although they were ordered to stay out of sight and not interfere with Snake's mission in any way. Upon Snake's arrival at Rassvet , Major Zero explained to him that he needed to deliver a message to Sokolov when he rescued him: "Sorry for being so late. Following the Virtuous Mission's failure, Zero was shocked by The Boss' defection to the Soviet Union and Sokolov's facility 's bombing as he viewed her with higher regard than even his own family, although he did later admit that she had an aura of mystery surrounding her.
He also felt that his new codename might have been a mistake so he re-watched the film roll for The Great Escape , having arranged for its delivery through the film company, and thus realized his error. There he briefed Snake on what had happened on the outside during his time in the infirmary. While the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev , had personally been willing to accept the story about The Boss' defection and had tried to de-escalate the situation surrounding the nuclear incident, he found himself in a politically precarious situation as a result, as hard-liners in the Soviet military were pushing for a nuclear reprisal attack against the Americans, and threatened to remove him if he did not comply.
To placate these hard-liners, Khrushchev needed to present official proof from the United States of their innocence regarding the explosion, if a full-scale nuclear war was to be prevented. To accomplish this, the Government had proposed the follow-up mission, Operation Snake Eater , to Zero, with the main objectives being the assassination of both The Boss and the leader of the rogue GRU faction, Colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin , and the destruction of the Shagohod , which was under Volgin's control.
In return, the Government would revoke the charges of any and all involvement in The Boss' defection against both him and Snake, under the condition that they accept. Zero also implied during this visit that he had been placed in the same situation as Snake, and that if he rejected or failed the mission, then not only would FOX be disqualified from becoming an official unit, but he and Snake may also be executed.
When it appeared that Sokolov was committing adultery on his wife and child with Tatyana in reality, she was Volgin's lover , Zero was in disbelief and tried to point out that he wasn't the kind of person to do so before Snake told him that "people change.
After Sokolov was apparently killed by Colonel Volgin , Zero decided to make the Shagohod 's destruction a top priority to honor his fallen friend. He later learned from Snake about his communicating with The Sorrow. But despite insisting that he'll believe whatever Snake had to say, he spoke to Para-Medic and voiced that he may have gone insane before Snake pointed out that he could still hear them. The mission was a success as the Cobra Unit were killed off, the Shagohod weapon was destroyed, and both Volgin and The Boss were defeated.
When Naked Snake was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the "Big Boss" codename by the President , Zero and the rest of the intel team showed up for the ceremony, and Zero tried to personally congratulate Snake, but his friend, having learned the full truth about Operation Snake Eater and The Boss' role as a double agent, was too distraught to say anything to him and eventually left FOX and America to drift across nations as a mercenary.
At some point, Zero became involved in a secret plan known as "the cleanser project" which seemingly involved using biological agents such as the vocal cord parasite to target an entire race of humans for unknown reasons.
This plan was later resurrected by Skull Face for his own destructive goals. Having come under suspicion himself, Big Boss set out to clear his and Zero's names, with radio support from Para-Medic and Sigint via a radio frequency that Zero had maintained for such an emergency.
Zero had conspired with the CIA triple spy Ocelot to bring about the incident, in order to obtain the remainder of the Philosophers' Legacy. They wished to use the Legacy to end the Philosophers ' power and reform the organization, after having watched its American branch further degenerate into squabbling factions. While Ocelot was initially unaware of his co-conspirator's identity, Gene had his suspicions, referring to "the man with the same codename as Null.
However, Big Boss and Roy Campbell were able to form a resistance movement on the peninsula, and ultimately foiled the launch attempt. Ocelot then stole the documents that the DCI had intended to save from destruction, regarding both the Philosophers' Legacy and a list of the organization's members, and provided these to Zero. After they were cleared of all charges, Zero, Para-Medic, Sigint and a senior Government official greeted Big Boss at a runway upon his return to America by plane.
There, Zero handed him documents that would allow for the creation of a new special forces unit , following his disbandment of FOX. Zero later shared with Ocelot the battle data on the Perfect Soldier Project and gave hints about genomes as bargaining chips to which Ocelot agreed to stay working together under the condition that they recruit Big Boss into their new organization: The Patriots.
Zero recruited Big Boss, Sigint, Para-Medic, Ocelot, and EVA to form the private intelligence network, Cipher - though its not clear if the name 'Cipher' had been coined at the time of the organization's creation. Using the Philosophers' Legacy as a limitless source of funding, Zero hoped to carry out what he believed to be The Boss's vision by turning Big Boss into a charismatic icon and unifying the world under a single will by controlling information.
Zero quickly put Cipher to work in using its influence to disseminate stories that would elevate Big Boss's legend and give them the icon they needed that could aid them in controlling the masses. Some of these stories were true, although some were heavily embellished, and some were outright fabrications.
This caused Big Boss disquiet as he resented playing the role of Zero's icon and likely saw similarities between that and the way The Boss had been used by the American Philosophers. When Big Boss started to disagree with the organization's goal, realising he had his own interpretation of what the will of The Boss really meant, Zero feared that his friend might leave the organization so he had Dr. When Big Boss found out about the project, he was disgusted and outraged by it and, considering this to be the last straw, parted ways with Zero and left the United States,eventually forming his own private army in Colombia.
Ocelot and EVA also departed the organization out of loyalty to Big Boss, though maintained limited contact so they could keep apparently keep tabs on Zero.
EVA would later inform Big Boss via a cassette tape in , "the legacy is being put to good use During this time Zero no longer issued orders to his agents directly, instead using proxies - this was true even for Skull Face, Zero's Executive Officer XO and commander of XOF, the former covert support group for FOX which Zero had re-purposed to act as a black ops strike team for Cipher. Only one exception existed: his operative Pacifica Ocean , whom he personally met at his safe house in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan to have her make contact with Big Boss.
However, Cipher's ultimate plan was to manipulate Big Boss into participating in the project without his knowledge. The project had two major objectives, to gather data on Coldman's AI weapons and Peace Walker to identify potential uses of this technology for Cipher in the future, and to facilitate the expansion of Big Boss's private army so that it could then be co-opted to serve Cipher as it's deterrent - at this point in time Cipher did not have a complete hold over the United States, and faced significant resistance within the government via its rivalry with the US military's JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Miller had also been unaware of Cipher's plot to discredit MSF. Meanwhile, Cipher planned to use the sons as insurance against Big Boss should the time arise. Having his suspicions on who was behind the attack, Zero contacted EVA to head the operation to move his comatose friend, Miller, and an unconscious medic from Colombia to a safe hospital in Cyprus. He then devised a plan whereby the medic would be transformed into Big Boss's "Phantom" body double through hypnotherapy and plastic surgery to make him believe he was the real Big Boss so that he could act as his public face until the time came for his resurgence.
He approached Ocelot about the plan first; Ocelot, though sceptical towards co-operating with Zero and the plan itself, agreed to help implement it, and took to looking over Big Boss and his phantom later dubbed Venom Snake as they were in their respective comas.
Zero also contacted Miller, explaining that he had nothing to do with the attack, identifying Skull Face and XOF as the true culprits, and offered him economical support so he could continue building up his new PMC, Diamond Dogs , his successor to MSF, asking him to await Big Boss's return to lead the company.
He told Miller that the pass code for the event would be "V has come to". While Miller begrudgingly accepted Zero's support, he made sure to tell him that whether he had ordered the attack on MSF or not, he still held him responsible for the incident and all the friends he lost that day, and when the time came for him and Big Boss to work together again, he would see to it that once they had hunted down Skull Face, they would also come for him and the rest of Cipher.
Zero merely replied that they would not be able to find him. Ultimately, Zero learned the hard way that Skull Face had planned for years to attack him, as Skull Face wanted to free himself. As Zero spent his time in hiding and relayed orders via proxies since the cloning project, Skull Face never had an opportunity to track him down until Paz's survival was discovered. He then had her abducted, ostensibly due to her being a traitor to Cipher, to gain information on where Zero was located, as she was the only agent to have actually met Zero face-to-face.
During this time, Zero had been undergoing medical treatment secretly at 10th Avenue of Hell's Kitchen in New York City for an unknown ailment. Not long after Skull Face attacked MSF, he sent Zero a pin, a very close copy of the Winged Dagger pin that was once owned by The Boss, which was laced with a strain of parasite that would eventually reduce Zero to a vegetative state, supposedly as he recovered from The Boss' body in Russia.
During the "business call" supposed to confirm Zero received the package, Zero pricked himself while examining the pin, the wound became the vector for the parasite to enter his body; by the end of the phone call, the parasite began to take effect, leaving Zero in debilitating pain.
Although the best physicians attempted to delay the effects, Zero was resigned to his fate. As he was woefully aware that his ability to run Cipher would grow increasingly diminished with the progression of his illness, he secretly arranged for the DARPA AI developer Strangelove , who had resigned from MSF over a week before the failed inspection, and initially not been aware of DARPA's connection to Cipher, to develop for him an AI network to take over the Patriots, having already lost faith in the new generation.
However, she was eventually forced out after a "certain incident. However, Skull Face and the XOF took over Cipher's operations to more effectively carry out his plans of destroying the English language, forcing Zero to rely on his own resources to effectively hide from Skull Face.
By , he also paid Big Boss a visit in Cyprus and intended to bid him farewell and presumably bury the hatchet between them. In order to ensure his disappearance and destination was kept secret, he also orchestrated a blackout in New York City that same year that disrupted communications and transportation via two submarines, also giving a cover story.
Now, this image stands in stark contrast to what we see when we finally behold Zero at the end of MGS4. He is not a calculating strategist planning his next move. He is not a god with the fate of the world at his whim. Not anymore at least. Zero is trapped in his wheelchair, unable to move, kept alive by his medical equipment.
His human side is gone. His control is gone. He is a prisoner to the machines that surround him. This is the real Zero. The same man that once served as the point of origin, the source, is no longer capable of anything. His consciousness, his sense of good and evil, his human identity — none of those are still his. Big Boss takes a step back and observes Zero: a motionless, mentally absent body stuck to a wheelchair, with the only sounds coming from him the constant beeping and pumping of oxygen regulators.
Absorbed technology, began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late… that we had created a beast.
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