Because the portion of Denver that World Marshal was at was evacuated, there were a lot of abandoned cars, so Raiden was going to borrow a vehicle.
He also told Doktor to worry about delivering the brains, and also vowed that he'll keep his distance from what remained of World Marshal while heading to the Solis launch pad, which was fortunately also in Colorado. Blade Wolf later stated that it will depart with Raiden for Pakistan after finding a way off the chopper. After Raiden cleared the final barricade, Raiden proceeded to take a motorcycle that caught his eye coincidentally, the same one that Sam rode into Denver two years earlier , although not before leaving a "note" etched into the ground stating that he needed to return the vehicle to its owner.
Making his way to Solis via motorcycle, he re-encountered Sam. Afterwards, Raiden and Sam decided to have a duel to the death, largely to see whose view will be remembered in history. After an intense duel, Raiden managed to kill Sam by impaling him through the chest. He also realized that Sam barely possessed cybernetics. He also supplied Blade Wolf with Sam's sword, at the unmanned gear's request. Boris then reminded him that he had less than an hour to get to Solis.
Raiden and Blade Wolf then proceeded to leave for Solis. Upon arrival at Solis, Raiden and Blade Wolf met up with the check-in guard for their appointment with Sunny. However, Raiden, in the process of getting into Solis, accidentally broke the electronically locked gate, thinking it was open. After a brief exchange, Sunny then showed them the device she built. Raiden and Blade Wolf boarded, thanking Sunny. Because of the limited time, they had to undergo ignition without a countdown. Less than half an hour later, Raiden arrived at close proximity to the Shabhazabad Air Base.
After verifying with Kevin that it was the location of Operation Tecumseh, he proceeded to raid it. Sunny later informed Raiden about the gate, and informed him that she'd send an invoice requiring Raiden to pay for the repair and reinforcement costs, causing Raiden to lament that Rose would most likely "kill" him for the expenses.
Deducing that World Marshal intended to frame Desperado with the attack on the President, Raiden decided to destroy the control tower, hoping to cause enough damage to get the United States military to realize something was wrong. However, by the time he got to the control tower's vicinity, he discovered Blade Wolf's prone body. Suspecting that an ambush awaited him, he carefully scanned for any potential enemies nearby, although the ground gave way underneath him.
Senator Armstrong then stepped out of the cockpit and explained his motives regarding the fall of SOP and the ruin of the American economy. In addition, he also learned from both Boris and Armstrong himself that he currently didn't plan on assassinating the President. Instead, Armstrong had framed the jihadi rebels for attacking the base itself via Desperado and had the President rerouted back to America.
Raiden managed to defeat EXCELSUS by cutting off its front legs, throwing it onto stable ground, engaging it in battle with one of its blade arms, chopping up its head, and then impaling it with its own sword.
Raiden kills Steven Armstrong. Armstrong's nanomachines gave him the upper hand and he easily snapped Raiden's HF Sword in half with his bare hands. As Raiden was on the verge of defeat, Armstrong continued to elaborate on his full motives. Armstrong believed that America had rotted to the core, so he intended to remake America so the citizens will all fight, die, and kill for whatever they individually believed in.
He also expressed the sentiment that the weak needed purging. This prompted Raiden to stand back up and call Armstrong insane. Despite the best of his abilities, he was unable to defeat Armstrong, let alone do sufficient damage. However, Blade Wolf had gotten back up, and after playing back a message Sam recorded before his death, supplied Raiden with Sam's sword.
Raiden then reengaged Armstrong, gradually overpowering him. Eventually Raiden plunged his arm into Armstrong and ripped out his nanite-altered heart, crushing it. Though he was considered by the public to be a person who hurt a lot of people, Sunny still viewed Raiden as a hero.
Afterwards, Raiden decided against rejoining Maverick, having resolved to fight his own war, albeit against more cyborg mercenaries contracted out to kill him. He also had his face restored to a more human looking face, complete with a new cybernetic eye to replace his left eye. This codename stayed with him after the Manhattan incident until the Patriots' fall. One of Raiden's nicknames was White Devil, which was derived from a slur towards Caucasians that originated in China.
The nickname's use in this case was a reference to Caucasians Raiden's ethnicity being unusual in Liberia at the time of the Liberian Civil War. Another nickname of his was Jack the Ripper, a pseudonym for an unidentified serial killer in who was active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London. In this case, it was a reference to his skill and cruelty with a blade, a trait that was ingrained into him by Solidus. Lightning Bolt". Just prior to their final battle, Armstrong also called Raiden "Saucy Jack," which was the pen-name used by the Jack the Ripper to London police at Scotland Yard after committing his second murder and onward.
Also, because of his past as a child soldier, as well as his possessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder , as a result, he also occasionally pushed away even people he cared about due to his being "afraid of the night. It was largely because of this cold nature, as well as his pushing people he knew away that resulted in Rosemary initially fearing that he was unfaithful to her.
Throughout his mission, however, being that the memories of his past began to slowly resurface, he also began to suspect that he enjoyed killing, and reluctantly informed Rosemary as much. He also held some hero worship for Solid Snake, as part of the reason for his agreeing to partake in the Big Shell Incident to take down the terrorist leader was so he'd meet the legend face-to-face, and was initially disappointed when it seemed Snake had truly died in the Tanker Incident.
Although he immensely respected Solid Snake, there were instances where it had its rough spots during the Big Shell Incident, such as when he learned that Snake and Otacon lied to him about whether they knew about the Big Shell being a great big conspiracy, as well as a remark Snake made that got him angered enough to make explosive insults about Snake, not realizing that he was in earshot, and when Snake "betrayed" Raiden at Arsenal Gear to lessen security on-board without warning him beforehand.
Prior to finding out that Pliskin was in fact Snake, he also held some respect for Pliskin in terms of mentorship and camaraderie. Nonetheless, he did end up suspicious when Rosemary seemed to be praiseworthy of Pliskin.
Raiden used to smoke cigarettes at one point in his life, but had quit by the time of the Big Shell Incident. Raiden shared some similarities with his Cyborg Ninja predecessor, Gray Fox ; both had been child soldiers who were given nicknames and to a lesser extent, formal names due to their brutality, underwent cybernetic experimentation by the Patriots, had their memories suppressed, used technologically advanced blades, and they both saved Solid Snake from a Metal Gear Fox with Metal Gear REX , and Raiden with Outer Haven.
Raiden was also similar to Gray Fox's adopted sister, Naomi, in that he was adopted by the same person who murdered his parents. Raiden was also similar to Kazuhira Miller , in that he bore unusual features regarding his country of origin.
Finally, Raiden, just like Liquid, was taken against his will by a father figure who resembled and were connected to Big Boss: Raiden was adopted by Solidus Snake , while Eli was taken in by Venom Snake the former being a clone and the latter being a body double for Big Boss.
Raiden was the only known Cyborg Ninja to have survived, and also the only one who hadn't fought Solid Snake. Raiden was skilled at cleaning up messes, as he mentioned to the Colonel regarding not leaving stuff lying around at Strut C during the Big Shell Incident. He implied that he gained the skill at cleaning up from having to clean up various messes that Rosemary left at her apartment. Raiden had some knowledge of pop culture, as his meeting with Rose occurred from an argument relating to the building the titular monster climbed in the film King Kong Rose claimed it was the Chrysler Building which Raiden pointed out was in Godzilla , and was at least familiar with the film Escape from New York , as he deduced the partial origin of Solid Snake's alias, Iroquois Pliskin, from that film.
At one point in , he told fellow Maverick member Courtney Collins that he was a huge movie buff, when she reacted with surprise that Raiden actually watched samurai films. He also knew at least some Spanish, as evidenced by his telling two Mexican pedestrians who spotted him "Adios, amigos! However, his skills at Russian were less than stellar. He also seemed to understand at least some French, as he understood Mistral's last words.
Raiden's main characteristic was his long white-blond hair. Because of the length of the hair, Emma once speculated that the hair was actually a wig and that it was a badly done wig. Similarly, his appearance also led him to being mistaken for a woman, as evidenced by James Johnson mistaking him for a female Patriot assassin before realizing his mistake by grabbing his crotch and then reacting with slight surprise that Raiden was male.
As a child, this characteristic, alongside his Caucasian appearance, had him stand apart from other Liberians, whom at that time were largely African in ethnicity.
By the time of the Guns of the Patriots Incident, Raiden had changed considerably; the trauma of his break-up with Rose and the "miscarriage" of their unborn son , combined with rigorous training and his torture at the hands of the Patriots, changed Raiden from an inexperienced rookie to a cold and virtually emotionless soldier, who seemingly doesn't care about his own life; for instance, in his fight with Vamp in South America, he freely admitted to Vamp that he didn't fear death.
Raiden's only real display of emotion occurred after the death of Big Mama; Snake told Raiden that he Snake has no future, while Raiden has a family; at this, Raiden grabbed Snake, shouting that he too has nothing, before collapsing, seizing Snake by the leg, and begging him not to leave him alone.
Nonetheless, due to his past experiences with Snake, he was completely loyal to the legendary soldier and citing his personal views about Snake. Upon discovering the truth about Rose's "marriage" to Campbell, Raiden seemed to regain some of his old self. In addition, in large part because of his experiences during the Big Shell Incident as a test subject for the S3 Plan, as well as Snake's advice in the aftermath of the S3 Plan, he also aimed to follow through with Snake's vision of people living their own lives, also believing that doing so will fully free him from being a pawn to the Patriots' proxies.
By the time of his Maverick activities between and , his original style at Maverick was styled after issatsu tasho , killing one so others may live. As a direct result of the disastrous events in Africa, Raiden had become somewhat bloodthirsty, yet harboring a strong desire for justice. Because of his first cyborg ninja conversion, he also bore several scars near his mouth, giving his mouth an appearance similar to that of a Glasgow grin both in his human cyborg form and in his second cyborg ninja body.
Because of portions of Raiden's reconstructive surgery also included the implementation of an optical implant in Raiden's right eye, his normally blue eye occasionally glowed red. Because of his earlier failure to protect the African Prime Minister, and Desperado's involvement, he also had an extremely cold outlook regarding the cyborg members of Desperado, claiming that they were nothing more than "walking vending machines" referring to his capability of yanking specific electrolyte body parts to recharge his cyborg body after cutting them up.
He even compared himself to the reaper when mentioning that they chose death when taking the job. His outlook was significantly uncaring to the extent that even his fellow Maverick PMC members were deeply disturbed by his behavior. He also had a dry sense of humor and was somewhat sarcastic during this time as well, as he responded to Boris when he asked how it felt to be flying like a bird referring to his being carried over by the MQC flying wing to Abkhazia that it felt like "a bird strapped to a rocket.
After becoming a Cyborg Ninja, his overall strength, speed, agility, and endurance had increased to superhuman levels, allowing him to swing two Gekko with little effort by the wires and was even able to temporarily block Outer Haven.
His cyborg body appears to conduct electricity or he seems to be highly resistant to it as when he is separated from his H. F Blade the lightning seems to stop.
Raiden's cyborg body during this time appears to be pressurized in some manner, as shown during the two occasions in which he fights Vamp, when knives are propelled out of his torso, as well as when he disengages his visor. The exoskeleton can also bulk up to enhance the strength and speed of Raiden, similar to Solidus Snake's exoskeleton.
As a cyborg, he also had elevated pieces on his feet, near his heel portion. These act as grips for his HF blade, in the event that he attempted to use a break-dance-like maneuver to cut up enemies. In addition, while adopting the Cyborg Ninja outfit, he was strong enough to not only parry a modified Metal Gear RAY unmanned unit's blade, but also to lift it up by the blade and throw the RAY a great distance, as well as agile enough to springboard across several HEMP missiles towards the RAY unit, as well as jump up to the RAY unit's blade after throwing it a great distance in a small period of time.
His abilities were likewise improved after his second cyborgification, to the extent that he joked that he wouldn't need any of his eyes to take down any of Desperado's cyborgs if ambushed. Raiden was also capable of surviving falls large enough to kill any ordinary person, as evidenced by his falling down into the cityscape of Denver, although Boris implied that this was largely due to luck.
His strength was also enough for him to effortlessly pry open a gate with his bare hands. His strength, although greatly benefiting him, can also get him into big trouble, a notable instance of this was when he arrived at Solis, where he accidentally and unknowingly wrecked the front gate's electronic lock. When Sunny confronted Raiden about this via Codec, Raiden mentioned he thought the gate was simply unlocked for him.
This conversation ends with Sunny landing him with an invoice requiring him to fully pay off the restructuring and repair costs. By the time of , he became an adherent of the katsujinken "sword that gives life" and issatsu tasho "one life to save a thousand" philosophies originating in Japanese Buddhism, which justify the taking of lives in order to protect society, preserve justice, and defend the weak. He was also willing to break the law if he knew it was morally right to do so, as evidenced by his decision and motives to conduct a corporate raid on World Marshal's headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
Because of his experiences with the Patriots' AIs, he also wasn't initially trusting of sentient neuro-optical AI weapons like Blade Wolf, with Raiden being bemused that Blade Wolf, then the LQi, in his dying sentiments, could conceive of, much less desire, freedom, as well as calling out Blade Wolf for claiming that AIs never lie by claiming that the Patriots AIs did just that.
However, throughout his partnership with Wolf, he began to trust him, even telling him that he was free to pursue his own destiny. This belief was made explicit during his fight with Steven Armstrong, when accusing him of only using Operation Tecumseh to get himself elected for little reason, like the rest of the politicians, and even called him "another maggot crawling in the pile" if America had indeed "gone to shit.
Raiden also displayed signs of mental and emotional instability and a dissociative identity around the time he started his missions involving Desperado. During the fight with Sam in Colorado, he ends up losing control of his inner nature and his suppressed "Jack the Ripper" persona, resulting in their respective moral alignments becoming blurred. Indeed, while under this persona, he frequently breaks out into manic laughter when killing his enemies; he also emits a crimson aura, and keeps the blood of his enemies on his sword.
He also speculated that, in addition to his training under Solidus Snake, he may have had this maniacal relish for killing in his very blood. Raiden has learned to tap into his persona when his normal, peaceful personality isn't enough to subdue an enemy and he needs to unleash his more violent personality to defeat such enemies.
Raiden wasn't much of a sports fan, although he had admitted that the closest he'd came to actually liking a sport was basketball. Due to his harsh childhood, training from Solidus and the Army's virtual training, his mental state and capacity were well suited to combat operations behind enemy lines. He was calm under pressure, adaptive, and somewhat critical. This training and conditioning also put penalties on some of his social capabilities and mental stability.
He was adept with a variety of weapons, from small arms to surface-to-air missiles. His training with Solidus suggested some emphasis in melee combat, and particularly in bladed weapons, as demonstrated by his defeat of Solidus in a sword fight during the Big Shell Incident.
Raiden also showed great endurance and perseverance, as evidenced by his taking down multiple RAYs aboard Arsenal Gear, before becoming too exhausted to continue fighting. After becoming a cyborg, Raiden possessed incredible superhuman strength, speed, and endurance. His strength enabled him to lift a tremendous amount of weight, evidently ranging to several thousand tons. Prime examples include swinging Gekko around in a circle by his legs, and momentarily stopping Outer Haven , an Arsenal Gear class submarine with his body.
His body had similar design to that of a Gekko, as his feet could be used as hands, allowing him to grip and grab hold of objects and edges in a similar manner to an ape or bat. He could stretch out his legs as if they were arms to in this fashion as well, all without any strain or discomfort of any kind.
This allowed him to operate at high efficiency even when he lost both his arms at the shoulders. He also could grip, hold, and even throw objects with inhuman ease and precision in his mouth. This allowed him to wield his sword between his teeth, throw and jam his blade into a wall exactly in front of Snake to stop him, and fend off against several FROG soldiers without his arms.
He also was skilled at being attuned with nature, also known as scouting, which he gave Solid Snake pointers in it when contacting him about in South America. Raiden's superhuman durability makes him virtually indestructible due to the parts of his body made entirely out of steel and artificial muscle fibers.
Because of his durability, Raiden, at times, had to resort to self mutilation in order to get his missions done, such as stabbing himself with his own blade to subdue Vamp and slicing his own arm off to free himself from fallen debris so he could save Snake. In addition, his durability was such that he claimed that he was immune to the effects of microwave emitters. Due to his cyborg body's design, he could sometimes generate electricity. He demonstrated such an ability when preventing a group of Haven Troopers from reaching an immobilized Snake.
Raiden demonstrated lightning-like powers, conducting electricity all over his body with which he struck down several of the would-be attackers after he turned on the ceiling sprinklers, allowing him to create electric bolts in the air until the water stopped. Raiden's superhuman speed enabled him to run extremely fast for great distances.
He can run at speeds faster than sound, and can swing his sword faster than the human eye can see, such as when he toppled several storage containers while protecting N'mani. Raiden was also capable of running fast enough to scale walls without falling. His original cyborg body's durability was relatively low, as it was lacking armor, and was obsolete with limited battlefield potential as of With his custom cyborg body, his durability increased tremendously, as demonstrated in Denver, Colorado after raiding World Marshal HQ.
While escaping with Doktor, he fell off the cargo helicopter and survived largely intact, while leaving a large crater. Because of his status as a cyborg, his left arm also was directly connected to his cranial nerves. Because of this, removing it caused serious and unpleasant side effects of undergoing temporary memory loss as well as intense flashbacks to his time as a child soldier in Liberia, due to his hippocampus being stimulated, a side effect of the left arm's holographic storage data being connected to cranial nerves to record everything around him and his senses.
His eye after his upgrade in occasionally turned crimson when being deployed or when about to undergo a deadly maneuver, a side effect of his eye being modified with an optical implant.
He did possess optical implants to a slightly lesser degree prior to the upgrade, which displayed things in a HUD. After becoming an cyborg, Raiden implied that he would drown if he attempted to swim due to his immense weight. More than that he can raise over ton in extreme energy, and punching on steel. During his childhood in Liberia, Jack, on his tenth birthday, was ordered by Solidus Snake to decapitate ten captured Liberian terrorists responsible for killing Americans each one representing a year in his life at the time as the latter's "birthday present" for the former.
Around the time Emma Emmerich's worm cluster was starting to affect GW, after the Colonel insinuated that Rosemary had cheated on Raiden with another man the Saturday before the mission, Raiden privately angrily denied it to be the case, but then started to doubt whether he knew her as well as he did.
Raiden's surgery following the events of Liquid Ocelot's Insurrection, where he was reunited with Rose and first met Little John, took place in a hospital in Maryland. Of the canonical main characters, Raiden is the only one who does not have any significant interaction with Revolver Ocelot, as Solid Snake and Ocelot had a massive rivalry for most of their games, Naked Snake and Ocelot were friendly rivals, and Ocelot served under Venom Snake.
Konami kept his starring role a secret right up until the game's release in North America, even going so far as to have his Japanese voice actor swear to secrecy about the role his character would play until the game's release and replacing Raiden with Snake in teaser trailers and other preview materials although he did appear in a few trailers, in his scuba gear, his presence was not as emphasized as the other characters.
Hideo Kojima personally requested the development of Raiden as a means to develop Snake from a third-person perspective. In the original script, Raiden's voice was also to have been replaced by Snake's prior to his unmasking, should the Plant Chapter have been played through first.
The presence of Raiden in the game was announced to the Japanese press on the same day as the game's release in North America. Early concepts for Raiden originally depicted him with dark hair, whereas Rose would have been depicted as a blonde, although the hair colors were switched around by the final version. The script included in The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 indicated that Raiden's hair color was changed prior to the script's finalization, [35] while Rose retained the original blonde hair by the time the script was finalized.
In addition, "Raiden" was initially supposed to be his real name, with his full name being "Raiden Brannigan," during development. In addition, the very first concept for Raiden designed by Yoji Shinkawa was similar to the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man, crawling across walls, and was significantly deranged in personality, even licking bird poop.
However, this ended up being rejected by Kojima, [37] although a similar design would be used for the character The Fear. According to Shinkawa in the featurette The Making of Metal Gear Solid 2 , the primary reason why Raiden is designed as a bishonen a "pretty boy" is because a fan letter stated that the addresser in question did not want to "play a story with an old man. The twist that Raiden was not Snake was admitted by Kojima to have been inspired by the plot twist of Terminator 2: Judgment Day where the titular character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger was not a villain in that movie.
Raiden holding the high-frequency blade. The sword is longer and more curved than its appearance in the final version. Depending on whether the player trains to swim in the Deep Sea Dock or not, Raiden's response to the Colonel when given the order to swim through the flooded Shell 2 Core will be different.
If the player failed to do so, he will mention that underwater operations wasn't covered in VR training. In the original game plan of Metal Gear Solid 2 , Raiden was to have had false memories of his father, in which he was apparently killed in a hunting accident. Raiden's "father" would also have resembled Solidus. In the novelization, Fortune's reference to Raiden's time as a child soldier in Liberia was further emphasized, where Raiden thought to himself "Fires of hell.
Could she mean Liberia? The civil war? How could she know about that? Raiden's naked CG character model used during the initial infiltration of Arsenal Gear actually possesses no genitalia. It can be assumed that the developers chose not to model the character in such detail given that the player would not notice this feature under normal circumstances. As such, the model is not intended to fully represent Raiden's physical characteristics, as supported by lines of dialogue from various soldiers, in regards to the presence and size of his genitalia.
In the Metal Gear Solid 2 novelization, the narration mentioned that Rose had once compared Raiden's androgynous looks to that of a young David Bowie, [33] referring to the British singer and actor whose distinctive appearance was his androgynous features, responsible for songs such as "Space Oddity" and "Diamond Dogs", and was also noted as the actor who portrayed the Goblin King Jareth in the film Labyrinth.
The Metal Gear series had frequently referenced works of Bowie. Originally, it was planned that Raiden's privates would have been exposed during combat against soldiers on Arsenal Gear after escaping the Torture Chamber, but before meeting Solid Snake, depending on how the player did.
It would have resulted in an instant game over. However, this concept ended up being cut in the final version. F Blade. Also when the player equips the night vision goggles or thermal goggles , the visor is shut taking on the full appearance.
Whilst playing as this character, Raiden's actions are limited. In one of the Alternative Missions, Raiden's dead body must be examined in order to identify and photograph his killer from a selection of characters in the torture facility of Arsenal Gear. The deceased Raiden is clutching his groin, indicating that the killer is President Johnson, referencing the latter's actions in the main Sons of Liberty story line.
Although Raiden himself is not actually playable in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance 's Snake Tales stories, he is briefly alluded to indirectly in one of the stories, External Gazer. After locating Solidus within the gap between parallel universes and learning of Solidus's plan to ensure that he and his alternate selves survive their fated defeats via interfering with the Koppelthorn Engine , he uses his abilities via the Koppelthorne Engine to seal Solid Snake into the body of a "young, blond man" and experience various surreal realities alluding to Raiden as well as acting as a subtle nod towards Raiden replacing Snake as the main protagonist in the main story.
The negative reception towards Raiden and Rose was also alluded to regarding Raiden and Rose's VR avatars in the same story line, in the scene where Solidus is forced to summon their avatars, where it was stated their misdeeds earned them "the combined hate of the entire universe" as well as the ability to "destroy a world" simply by there mere presence, and thus they were infamous in countless universes.
Metal Gear Solid 3 makes use of Raiden's character as well as his appearance. Selecting the option "I like MGS2! The mask was created primarily as an excuse to allow people who liked Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2 to technically play as him, owing to his popularity in Japan.
Additionally, the oxygen mask that Snake wears during the HALO jump bears an intentional resemblance to the diving mask that Raiden wears in the opening of Metal Gear Solid 2. Likewise, the reasons for his creation, as well as the fan controversy that ensued, were also given subtle references in the game via two radio conversations, both involving the character Major Zero.
The first conversation, gained when calling Zero while wearing the mask during the Virtuous Mission, will have Zero comment that he, "for some reason, doesn't like it," in response to Naked Snake's reason that wearing the mask seemed "nostalgic.
Later in the game, Major Raikov , who bears an intentional resemblance to Raiden must be neutralized and his uniform stolen in order to infiltrate the west wing of Groznyj Grad. Raiden himself makes a cameo appearance as a poster in the locker that Naked Snake places Raikov inside upon stripping him of his uniform, as a subtle reference to their similar physical appearances.
Some of Raikov's interrogation quotes are also direct references to things Raiden said at various points in Metal Gear Solid 2. The trailer depicts them fighting over who will be the main character of Metal Gear Solid 4.
Snake wins the fight easily due to Raiden having terrible CQC skills, sitting in the "Main Character" chair, signalling a chime. But just as Snake leaves and before the credits roll, Raiden is seen eyeing up the chair, and as the screen fades to black, the same chime is heard. However, Raiden is not a playable character in Metal Gear Solid 4. Raiden has a major role in one of the Secret Theater shorts made by Kojima Productions for their website, and included in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.
Entitled Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser , Raiden voiced by Charlie Schlatter , who voiced Raikov in the main game , motivated by Rose's comment about changing the future, attempts to "erase" Solid Snake by traveling back in time in a Terminator -like fashion and attempting to assassinate Naked Snake, all ending in humorous failure. One of his failures also had him encountering Colonel Volgin in the prison, referring to his similar appearance to Raikov. After deciding not to kill Naked Snake, he went back to the events of the Zanzibar Land Disturbance complete with MSX2 graphics to kill Solid Snake himself, ending in similar failure, where, ironically, he is stopped by his original target, Big Boss.
In the ending, he accepts that he can't change the past, although he does hope to get a starring role in another Metal Gear game which he does. Besides Metal Gear Raiden and the Director's trailer, he also has a brief cameo near the end of the film Payback , where he ends up being run over by the Shagohod. According to Kojima, he and the other Metal Gear staff personally liked Raiden, but they effectively made him the "clown" of the Secret Theater films largely because they realize most of the fans outside Japan did not like him.
Raiden does not appear in the main story, but he is briefly referenced by his real name, Jack, in the special ending after the player managed to complete 40 VR missions, where he was being trained with various VR missions relating to Solid Snake 's exploits in the Galuade Incident , presumably to make Raiden more powerful than Snake was during Galuade 's fall.
Because Ghost Babel was developed and released prior to Metal Gear Solid 2 , this technically was Raiden's first appearance in the series. After completing Metal Gear Solid Mobile , revealed to be a VR mission, Solid Snake is declared a failed test subject and has his memories erased, and a pair of mysterious voices discuss a second test subject, "Jack", wondering if he can do better. He is not able to use his acrobatic kick from Metal Gear Solid 2 , due to most of the character models exempting Cunningham reusing Naked Snake's unarmed combat stances, and instead is able only to ram at opponents like any other soldier, and like the Arsenal Tengu, he is equipped with a blade so he only has three free item slots, but an advantage in comparison to the Tengu ops is that Raiden perform unending combos with his blade which gives him the chance not to get discovered while slashing enemies.
His use of a sword is also referenced by Roy Campbell upon Raiden's recruitment, stating that a new soldier joined who wields a katana. He shares this career with his look-alike, Raikov.
However, on the downside, he possesses less stamina and health points which makes him vulnerable when he is surrounded by enemies. Overall, he possesses similar stats to Old Snake and Naked Snake. Raiden was confirmed to make a reappearance in Metal Gear Solid 4 during its development. In an interview with 1UP, called Saving Private Raiden, Kojima elaborated that he's not a playable character, and also stated that it was the actual Raiden and not someone who looks like Raiden.
In addition, he also assured them that when the player play the game, they'll like Raiden a lot more than in Metal Gear Solid 2. Raiden's never-used sidearm in Metal Gear Solid 4 is the classic Mk Raiden was mentioned to have gained information from GW relating to Big Boss's location, which explained how the Paradise Lost Army managed to locate and steal his body. Whether his possessing the information had anything to do with his cerebral network of nanomachines acting as a backup system for GW or not was never explained.
The figure's silhouette and the figure brandishing a sword implied that the figure was Raiden. Similarly, some concept artworks for Raiden himself also had him wearing an outfit superficially resembling his Skull Suit with a face mask covering all but his upper face, as well as his carrying a then-infantile Sunny.
There were also concept artworks showing him carrying a vat, presumably containing white blood, as well as concept art of his arm exploding and his mangled body as a result of being crushed by Arsenal Gear, and an alternate take on his saving Snake from the Haven Troopers in Act 5 where he was shown lots of cybernetic guts coming out and an exposed human spine instead of simply wearing the duster in the final version.
Raiden the White-blooded Scout, could fall from any height without damage and jump on ledges that would normally require a boost, and had no nanomachines. He handled a High Frequency Blade, operable in lethal and non-lethal mode, which allowed him to deflect frontal attacks. His other unique weapons are the Mk. When his Visor was closed, he could see all traps in the map.
Instead of the usual CQC three-hit combo, he instead started a spin kick which continued as long as the user kept tapping R1. When pressing the jump back button, Raiden did backwards handstands instead of jumping backwards Raiden could get shot during these back handstands.
He was also equipped with CQC 2 and a throat-slitting ability, along with a running ability higher than Runner 3. The only downside was that, as he did not possess nanomachines at all, he was incapable of performing an SOP link.
If tranquilized, he'd sometimes say "Rose This could be seen after taking a large fall. He did a similar pose in Metal Gear Solid 4 itself during Act 2, shortly after defeating several Gekko. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is the second game in which Raiden is the primary player character, although this time the player takes control of Raiden in his Cyborg Ninja appearance. According to Kojima, he planned for the story to be about Gray Fox , although he allowed his staff to use Raiden instead.
Kojima also admitted that he would have taken on a directing role instead of a producing role if Fox was the main character. The story for the game, when it was titled Metal Gear Solid: Rising , was originally going to cover the events that occur between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 , and would have focused on how Raiden became the character he is during the Guns of the Patriots Incident.
However, at some point, the story was shifted to taking place years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4. The decision to move the time period was met with a large degree of controversy, as several fans felt that it cheapened the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4 , in particular Raiden's final scene.
A podcast, however, addressed this issue and stated that the game would explain why Raiden is back on the battlefield despite the implications of Metal Gear Solid 4 's ending. Raiden's Japanese voice actor during this game was originally planned to be Toshiyuki Morikawa instead of his regular voice actor, Kenyu Horiuchi.
Similarly, Quinton Flynn , around the same time, mentioned that he wasn't approached to reprise his role in Metal Gear Solid: Rising , [47] implying that Raiden would have a different voice actor in the English version as well, although Flynn ultimately did reprise the role when the game was revamped into Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Raiden's original render, alongside the updated version, demonstrating his appearance in Metal Gear Rising. The game employs a more action-based style of game-play based around a concept called "zan-datsu" "cut and take" , although stealth elements of the previous games are still present. It's easier to read in the dark than figure out where this 5'11" cm tall meowing soldier's motivations lie.
He was born on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, That means he was 63 when he sank the tanker and 65 during the Big Shell Incident. The unintended actor, but the supposed goal of the S3 plan Solidus Snake reveals to Raiden in the depths of Arsenal Gear.
While that story turns out to be a lie, it does little to diminish Snake's influence on the story. He's may claim he's not a hero, but he towers over the plot like a mythological figure. Raiden wants to be him, Solidus pretends to be him and he gums up the Patriots and Ocelot's plot with his unexpected appearance. His presence is much larger than even his just-over5'11" cm stature might imply. Like his sibling Solidus Snake, he was born in , so he was 35 when that tanker sank and 37 during the Big Shell Incident.
Rosemary was born sometime in the late s, so she was probably around her mids during MGS2. Other than that, we know little about Rosemary. We, along with Raiden, don't even know if she was exactly real. In the final moments of the game, an AI version of Rose reveals the Patriots' true plans to Raiden, which leaves Raiden lost as to which Rose was the real one.
Was she ever a part of the infiltration or was it an AI the whole time? Was she ever in danger? Is she pregnant? Is that actually her in the final moments?
MGS2 gives no clear answer to these and many other questions. Colonel Campbell is barely over 6 feet cm tall and was born sometime between and He was probably around his later 60s. In the game's final act, it's revealed that Raiden has been speaking to a computer AI -- the GW program -- the whole time. This facsimile was created specifically for the player and Raiden to trust by default. We all knew Campbell from the previous games and wanted to trust him, exactly like Raiden wanted to.
In reality, this Colonel was a well-crafted program, and probably only a couple of feet tall, hidden away in whatever server housed him and the rest of GW. At 5'10", Raiden is shorter than his hero Solid Snake. After helping a man named N'Mani secure the future of his country, Raiden's assignment goes horribly wrong when multiple cyborg assassins appear with a copy of Metal Gear RAY and attack N'Mani's convoy.
Despite Raiden's best efforts, N'Mani is killed and Raiden himself is left for dead while the main attackers manage to escape, forcing Doktor Voigt to create a new cyborg body and sword for Raiden.
After recovering from his injuries, Raiden decides to get revenge on "Jetstream" Sam and all of his comrades in the "Winds of Destruction," cutting a path through cities around the world like Abkhazia, Guadalajara, and Denver. However, as he seeks vengeance, he discovers that he does not use his sword to "defend the weak" as he repeatedly claims throughout the story, but simply for the thrill of killing his enemies as his "Jack the Ripper" persona re-emerges. After this revelation, he quits his job and finishes destroying the Winds of Destruction, then zips over to an Air Force base in Pakistan to take down their leader.
After arriving at the nearly abandoned base, he destroys the latest Metal Gear model and then kills the architect of "Operation Tecumseh" in a one-on-one showdown, preserving an uneasy peace in the world. His presence is explained only as a mysterious time-traveller from the future. Upon successful completion, a voice clip of one of his comrades from Rising can be heard cheering him on before he boards the chopper. Despite appearing in his cyborg ninja outfit, Raiden does not carry his sword with him, instead using the same equipment as Big Boss.
Early footage of Sons of Liberty shown at video game trade shows exclusively featured Solid Snake, the protagonist of the first game. After the first chapter of the game concludes, players were surprised that the chapter ends with the supposed death of Solid Snake, with the player then finding themselves in control of Raiden, rather than Snake.
Raiden was never shown in trailer videos. Many fans reacted negatively to the introduction of this new character, or, in truth, any player character at all who wasn't Snake. The series creator and director, Hideo Kojima , addressed fan concerns about Raiden with a parody video announcing Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
In the machinima-style video, Raiden and Solid Snake vie for the lead spot in the upcoming game. 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. Overview Raiden is one of the lead characters from the Metal Gear franchise particularly the Solid series and Rising of stealth action games. Controversy Early footage of Sons of Liberty shown at video game trade shows exclusively featured Solid Snake, the protagonist of the first game.
In the later half of Metal Gear Solid 4 , there are various references to this, notably his dialogue referencing lightning when he makes his appearance right before Snake enters the microwave corridor. He also mentions that he was born on a rainy day, believing that gave him bad luck from the very beginning of his life, with Snake replying that Raiden had it all wrong and that he was "the lightning in that rain".
The Allied codename for the plane was "Jack". Raiden is the only Cyborg Ninja out of the entire series to have survived the game they appeared in, and also the only one to not fight Solid Snake. Raiden's white hair represents "purity," representing his role as the then-new main character and his apparent stance as a rookie at Metal Gear Solid 2's start.
Konami kept Raiden's starring role in Metal Gear Solid 2 a secret right up until the game's release in North America, even going so far as to replace Raiden with Snake in teaser trailers and other preview materials although Raiden did appear in a few preview trailers in his scuba gear, his presence was not as emphasized as the other characters.
The presence of Raiden in the game was only openly admitted to the Japanese press on the same day as the game's release in North America. At the time of Metal Gear Solid 2 's release, Raiden was disliked by many fans of the series due largely to his apparently "whiny" personality and effeminate appearance, as well as acting as the protagonist over Snake. However, Hideo Kojima has stated in interviews that he was mainly put in for new fans of the series so that he could ask questions that a veteran like Solid Snake wouldn't ask, and to make Snake seem more impressive as a character.
Kojima has also explicitly stated that Raiden is his favorite character in Metal Gear Solid 2. Metal Gear Solid 3 makes use of Raiden's character as well as his appearance.
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