Hi all boys, welcome back, I am La Fra and this video will be dedicated to one
some aspects of the Metal Gear Solid storyline more articulate: the character of Revolver
Ocelot. His figure is really difficult to understand, especially for who you are
recently approached the saga. Often a lot loved for its unique style, which mixes
different genres, from spying to westerns, many consider it too cryptic
and complex. So I decided to make it a video to clarify the factions
to which it belongs, the various doubles, triples and QUADRUPLI games that will put in place, but
especially on the motivations that drive him to act. This movie will complete
the analysis '' who is revolver ocelot? '', which I leave you in description, and will be divided into
two parts. I remind you not to continue absolutely the vision if you have not already completed the
saga, because I assure you that there is nothing worse than running into spoilers that
they concern him. I also emphasize that the video it is very personal and born with intent
to offer my research and knowledge, a who maybe did not understand it.
Revolver Ocelot is perhaps the most character important in the Metal Gear saga. Her
presence in chapters, direct or indirect, it is constant and often accompanied by those
that could be defined twists most beautiful in the history of videogames. in
years, Ocelot has become a sort of icon and for various reasons I find it to be one of the
better written characters. Still today though, it is very often difficult to treat and understand it,
because some events that concern him are intricate or remain hidden. Mine
purpose is therefore to retrace the his story and extrapolate the motivations that
they will move, and consequently the saga, in the 50 years of narration.
Chronologically speaking Snake Eater is the first title, the one that started
the whole Metal Gear storyline. Revolver Ocelot will make his first appearance right
in 1964 and will have a role or rather, multiple roles, really indispensable.
When we meet him for the first time, during the Virtuoso mission, Ocelot will present himself
as a very young, and self-centered, Major. At just twenty, he already had several men
under his command, which formed a unity special Spetsnaz of Volgin: the "Ocelot
Unit ". His special treatment had been the consequence of the rumors concerning his
descent: it was said in fact to be a son of a legendary Russian soldier and a female soldier
American, who had given birth in the field of battle during the d-day, in 1944. Al
side of Colonel Volgin, the young will collaborate to complete the actions it would have
had to lead the leader Khrushchev to his end, and the establishment of Brezhnev as his own
successor. He will then go to the factory abandoned by Rassvet, in August of 64,
to take the scientist Sokolov and take him in Grozny Grad, so as to allow him to complete
the Shagohod project: a primitive form of modern metal gear. Still in that place,
he would also have to welcome the US female soldier, The Boss.
However, the meeting will not be successful in as for Ocelot, he will come across unexpectedly,
for the first time in his life, in the young American Naked Snake: John.
His participation in the Volgin plan becomes clearer at the end of the chapter, when
we will hear Ocelot speak directly with Brezhnev, assuring him of the now compromised
credibility of Khrushchev and its near ascent in power.
Despite we will see him, during the mission Virtuous, kill alone and without mercy
an entire unit of rival KGB, we will find out that Ocelot actually did also part
of Khrushchev's secret police, and it was infiltrated in the ranks of Volgin to be able to
closely observe and inform the leader on his risky moves. The colonel,
for most of the game, you will question on the identity of the spy sent to steal it
the legacy of the Philosophers and obstruct it, but he will never suspect the boy, from years to
his side.
What further complicates the character
it's his membership in the CIA, the agency secret espionage America. In the now
far 1960, when the boy had only 16 years, he had in fact deserted secretly
from the Soviet Union and had begun to work for the Americans. So it will be him,
with code name ADAM, to support Naked Snake in his mission to eliminate it
Shagohod and The Boss. As we know, it will not be in those days free to act as the
Chinese spy EVA had preceded it, and it was presented in its place at the meeting with Snake,
making it too risky for him to expose himself. Despite this, on several occasions it will demonstrate
to be ready to complete his task, acting indirectly to help
Snake. It is important to stress that though the young man was looking for a revenge
for the humiliation suffered by the American, and he wanted to continually confront him,
his intention will never be that of delete it.
Ocelot will also have to support The Boss, and make sure of the success of his last one
assignment. At the end of Snake Eater, Adam will call to the director of the CIA, referring to the details
of The Boss's mission and their collaboration. He will also bring the Americans back to America
projects for the new and terrible Metal Gear. In addition to these affiliations however, Ocelot
had a final purpose, which resided in the his collaboration with his mother, The Boss,
and their belonging to the Philosophers. These last ones were a secret organization and
international that was formed at the beginning 900 and had a huge sum of
money. The Boss was the daughter of one of the gods founding members, and Ocelot had been raised
as their agent since he had been ripped, in 1944 to the mother. The reason
for which both were in Grozny Grad resided in fact precisely in the mission
which provided for the recovery of the inheritance, in the Volgin's hands, and take her to the USA. The two
so they will cooperate, making sure that the sum of money was conducted in America
thanks to Snake and EVA, the Chinese spy too interested in microfilm, fleeing instead
with a fake. The Boss just before he died in fact, he will give Snake the copy of the microfilm,
without revealing to him that Ocelot would then have them hidden on the authentic one.
Grown up always between EST and WEST, the young Ocelot will be an ambiguous character,
that will come to demonstrate on several occasions patriotism and loyalty towards both the
Russia that of the USA. Very often it will be difficult frame it and understand what it really is
his intentions or his knowledge of the events that are happening. Extremely
cold and calculating, it will not be scrupulous to complete his mission at each
cost, even having to do terrible things. Flanked by this aspect of personality
but there is certainly a more emotional side that, above all in MGS3, transpires in different
occasions and is strongly opposed to its infallible spy nature.
Only a very careful eye of an expert player, he will succeed in MGS3 to seize the
small details, expressions and Adam's attitudes in some of the scenes
more significant and important than the title, that will leave for a few moments
his real intentions. For this reason, often for the players
it is difficult to decide whether to place Ocelot among the heroes of history, or villain. But
as often happens in the saga, the truth it's in the middle.
One of the clearest aspects of the character it is certainly about his relationship with Big
Boss: 1964 will mark for him a fact profound change, which unexpectedly
it will tie it to the figure of Snake. met in that year, he had secretly supported
his actions without giving up trying to hinder it, to test it and
test its capabilities. The soldier was revealed to be an excellent fighter and the
young was strongly attracted to the his figure: presented as the classic
apparently infallible American soldier, Ocelot had seen him in those days come
less to his image of an ideal hero, ed he had found a figure in him to put in
far more than mere admiration. If up at that moment, therefore, his aspiration was
it was only that of following the will of the mother and replenish the Philosophers, and to lead
an unscrupulous agent existence later 1964 Ocelot will begin to act with the only one
purpose of approaching Snake, and then becoming his ally. For this reason I find a lot
Nice and reliable scene of Portable Ops who sees him, in 1970, kill the director
of the CIA and recover the legacy that few years before he had delivered himself to the
USA to be able to use it in creation of a new organization. How we will listen
in the final phone call with Zero, Ocelot i he would have made that capital available
for the formation of the Patriots only if Big Boss had participated in their side.
In 1970, Together with EVA, Sigint and Para-Medic, the three will thus establish the small organization.
All the components would work together for the construction of the will that The Boss
he had wanted to express before death: bring east and west together. Despite Ocelot it was
was certainly enchanted by the dream of the mother, her ideology will be influenced
enormously from Big Boss. In 1972, when the Patriots will disintegrate, Ocelot will remain
officially alongside Zero, but will continue to support John, probably informing him
secretly on the moves of his now adversary. The Russian in fact, just like Big Boss,
he saw Outer heaven the perfect realization of the united world that The Boss had long dreamed of.
The Ground Zeroes incident sanctioned the separation
definitive between Ocelot and Zero. Despite us players had known him in the first
chapters like '' the agent of the Patriots ", one could ironically affirm that the
1975 will be the last year in which Ocelot will be faithful to them. His removal
definitive will be due to the belief that behind the attack that had brought Big
Boss at the coma there was just Zero. We know that Ocelot will return to work for him in
that year, but only and exclusively, like he himself will keep on spelling out, to help
and protect Snake. At that time the soldier will be kept in the military hospital of
Cyprus and Ocelot will take part in the plan Zero that provided for the safety of the
structure and the creation of his Phantom. For nine years then Ocelot will remain vigilant
on Snake: now an independent agent, he was also continuing to work for the
Russian police, maintaining its coverage and turning away the looks from the Big sleeper
Boss. It will be in those years that Ocelot will approach to the head of the Spetznaz Gurlukovich, with the
which will tighten a future important alliance. He will also work in Afghanistan, starting
inside the gulag, his career from torturer. The actions that will take place in those
years will leave an indelible mark on the his story, and thanks to his ability to
torturer and sadism that he will employ in the interrogators will soon be known in
all the territory like Shalashaska.
In the meantime, he will continue to take care of the
security of the hospital in Cyprus, waiting John's awakening, and will work for the
creation of Venom Snake, making available his knowledge of hypnosis and
manipulation of memory. It is therefore obvious that his participation in 1984 to the Diamond
Dogs and the remaining alongside Venom Snake it will be a choice dictated by loyalty to
Big Boss and from being able to keep him informed on the actions of his alter ego. To interpret
his role at his best, Ocelot will decide to cars undergo bipensiero practice:
a sort of hypnosis that would allow him to be convinced of the authenticity of Venom
Snake, while maintaining a partial knowledge of reality. In some moments of lucidity
in fact, Ocelot will contact the real Big Boss to inform you of relevant developments
to the DD and to Cipher. It is immediately clear, from the early hours of play
of MGSV, like the Ocelot portrayed in this chapter is very different from what we had
known in the other titles. I find it's right its link with Big Boss's ideology
the point that is most misunderstood and that has pushed many players to remain confused
from his personality in MGSV and his alliance with Snake. The substantial difference
is in the writing of the character, who renounces to the characteristic theatricality that had it
always distinguished, to leave the place to a more balanced and realistic character,
who wants to emphasize sentimental motivations and ideological that had pushed him into the
saga. As far as the choice may be questionable, the purpose of this characterization
it is certainly to help us understand better what is a really complex character.
Contrary to what one could think indeed, Adam in TPP was working
openly solely to help Big Boss in the realization of his dream. We'll find out
in fact that his loyalty and affection in the John's comparisons are not the only one
motivation that at the time pushed him. Inside of of the '' cassette truth '' by The Phantom
Pain, we can listen to some dialogues that they help us to understand ideology better
that Adam had now developed and consolidated.
In him, as well as
in Big Boss, the strong desire had grown to eliminate the threat the Patriots were facing
gradually becoming. Furthermore the dream of Big Boss to create Outer Heaven, a world
free and in which the soldiers could have living according to their nature, it was from him
now widely shared. It will be in fact in 1984 that Ocelot will decide
to start building a plan to bring the Patriots, or rather, what they had become
after their dissolution, to their destruction, purpose that will carry on until 2014, the year of his death.
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