Solid Snake vs Big Boss: 3-Round Battle Royale!

Originally posted by Sado22
no i meant did they "revive" him or did they re-create him? i was under the impression that he was recreated from Solidus and Liquid which is why i'm asking why he was so damn old.

From Metal Gear Wiki's topic on Big Boss:

Big Boss's body was recovered by the U.S. Government and it was discovered that he was, in fact, alive. He was injected with nanomachines to induce a sort of eternal coma. For Zero, Big Boss was an irreplaceable icon and more importantly, an irreplaceable friend. Big Boss' genome was then used to discover "soldier genes", which the US government gave to the Next Generation Special Forces via gene therapy.

To further make the world believe he had died, a grave was laid next to The Boss' grave which read: "A Hero Forever Loyal To The Flames Of War, Rests In Outer Heaven. 193X - 1999"

Although badly burned, his body was much later recovered by EVA who put him back together using pieces of his cloned sons, Liquid and Solidus. When she was finished, Big Boss looked as though he had never been burned.

i have never played Metal Gear2, hence the confusion. so Solid pretty much barbequed him in MG2 then?

He used a combination of Hair Spray and a Cigarette Lighter to roast Big Boss.

and he died?

Originally posted by Sado22
and he died?

He came close, but he survived, and was put into a nanomachine-enduced coma for the next decade and a half. EVA found him thanks to Raiden and used pieces of Liquid and Solidus to fix him up.

Unless it was FOXDIE, Big Boss sucks at dying.

oh okay. thanks for the info snafu 🙂

Big Boss was always on the border of death.
Hence him meeting The Sorrow.