Frank Jaeger, alias Null/Gray Fox/The Ninja

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(from left) Roy Campbell, Naked Snake/Big Boss, Null

His name is Frank Jaeger, but he is known by three names.

Null, the machete-wielding commando of the FOX unit.

Gray Fox, the second-in-command of the elite FOXHOUND unit.

The Ninja, a cyborg ninja hounding Solid Snake on Shadow Moses Island.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, set in 1970, expands on Gray Fox's past (integrating elements of the Cyborg Ninja into it), featuring a teenage Frank Jaeger as a masked machete-wielding member of the FOX unit code-named Null. Four years prior to the events of the game, Big Boss became acquainted with him as a nameless child soldier in a guerilla group in Mozambique. Big Boss took the young child and left him in a rehab centre, in which he was then taken by the CIA and used as a test subject for the Perfect Soldier project. He fights Big Boss twice during the game before joining him once he is beaten.

In Metal Gear, he disappears after sending a cryptic message about a "METAL GEAR," and Solid Snake, the protagonist, must save him and learn from him about the enemy super-weapon, codenamed "Metal Gear".

In the sequel, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Gray Fox once again disappears, but turns out to have defected to the side of the antagonist, Big Boss. However, Gray Fox secretly assists Snake by leaving him anonymous tips over his radio. Solid Snake confronts and seemingly kills Gray Fox in a final fistfight to the death in a minefield. In the original MSX2 version, his character design was modelled after the likeness of actor Tom Berenger. In later re-releases of the game, Gray Fox was redesigned to be more in-line with Yoji Shinkawa's depiction of Fox in later games.

In Metal Gear Solid, a Cyborg Ninja in a powered exoskeleton and armed with a high-frequency blade (a high-tech Chokuto, which is a kind of ninja sword), confronts Solid Snake. Help comes from a mysterious ally, code-named "Deepthroat," giving Snake cryptic advice via CODEC. They both turn out to be Gray Fox, who challenges Snake to a final duel. This battle isn't to the death, however; Cyborg Ninja is later killed by Liquid Snake, piloting Metal Gear REX, after Fox destroys the vehicle's radome.

Just as Metal Gear Solid eclipsed its predecessors in popularity, the Cyborg Ninja turned out to be much more of a fan favorite than Gray Fox in his original form. The Cyborg Ninja has appeared in a number of games after Metal Gear Solid, either as crossover appearances in other games, or in the form of other mysterious characters in later Metal Gear games.

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