Several years later, while studying to be a computer engineer at the California Institute of Technology, the recently founded NASA (circa 1958) recruited her as a key staff member of the Mercury Project. After executing said task, as well as single-handedly taking down Colonel Volgin and the Cobra Unit, he was left cold, unpatriotic, an… He was sent to assassinate his former mentor and spiritual mother, The Boss, in order to prevent nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States. The Mammal Pod would later act as Strangelove's place of death, after she was locked inside the pod by Huey after an argument regarding the use of their son as a test subject. Quiet, a Cipher assassin, tries to kill him, but Big Boss is rescued by a heavily bandaged man called Ishmael. Strangelove proceeded to torture Big Boss, hoping to obtain the missing information required for the AI's completion, in regards to whether The Boss had truly defected and become a traitor to America. "[19] That same year, The Boss was also ranked as the ninth best female protagonist in gaming by the staff of GamesTM despite her role as an antagonist. The Boss, dubbed within the program as the "Mercury Lady", survived the crash but was rendered comatose for six months. The Patriot used 5.56x45mm ammuniti… The fifth boss fight with the Mist Unit, the Skulls in Metal Gear Solid 5. This is the outfit The Boss will be wearing when she appears in-game. Aside from its capabilities to discern nuclear strikes, it was also able to record and later play back audio. In addition, in the good ending, Virgil AT-9 attributes its survival from its earlier sacrifice to allow the Captain to destroy the Lord of Dust to it possessing reinforced armor, indirectly alluding to The Boss AI's reinforced shell from the climax for Peace Walker. It is also the only AI pod where a rendition of "Sing" does not play in the background when accessing it. The Boss inexplicably returns to the world in 2015. Completing the side mission simply requires that the player either interact with the AI pod itself, or otherwise interacting with the computer consoles near it. [4] In June 1944, during World War II, she led the Cobra unit to victory at the Battle of Normandy. Big Boss removing the Mammal Pod's AI memory boards in order to stop its nuclear launch. In ten … Dropped into a strange world she barely recognizes, she decides to find out what transpired in the years that have passed. Choose if you want hip weapons to be visible or not. The fact that The Boss used it one-handed was a testament to her skill. However, she also had other reasons for doing so, which was to revive The Boss' character, and discover the reasons for her defection to the Soviet Union, hoping to clear her name in the process. Subscribe! This is the head The Boss will appear with. After Big Boss entered the pod and began to remove its memory boards, Strangelove panicked and discontinued observations, noting a severe reaction in the AI's responses; all the while the AI told Big Boss to "go home," repeating similar statements made by The Boss at Tselinoyarsk. The second Sahelanthropus boss fight in Metal Gear Solid 5. The AI's reaction to his presence, similar to that observed earlier by Strangelove, had given him away. In the Metal Gear series, The Boss is a legendary American soldier, founder and leader of the Cobra unit, the biological mother of Ocelot,[3] mentor and mother figure to Naked Snake, and is known as the mother of the U.S. special forces. The Boss AI cites the names of the NOSE Railway system, something that had previously been done by, The Boss AI cites the numerical equation for Pi. However, due to cerebral compensation, Peace Walker's second AI, housed within the Reptile Pod, inherited The Boss AI's command, so the false data transmission resumed. It was designed in order to create a carbine that combined the feel and quick handling of a handgun with the force of a rifle. The Boss most likely just chose to keep going by her codename and tossed her real name like how Snake goes by Snake instead of David or Naked Snake goes by Snake or Boss instead of Jack/John. The Boss AI also appears as the image representing the Key Item "Strangelove's Memento", unlocked after completing the side mission necessitating the recovery of the AI. For a series that usually had crazy characters and boss fights, this game did not deliver. However, when she went to space, her view on war changed. Metal Gear Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Peace Walker and the AI were then transported to a U.S. missile base in Nicaragua. I'll give you ten minutes. She was eventually commissioned into Project Mercury to test the Mercury capsule and launched into space at roughly the same time as Yuri Gagarin's flight on April 12, 1961. WORST: Liquid Snake (MGS1) To his credit, Liquid’s not so much a bad fight as he is just one of the … All evidence of her role in the program was erased, including airbrushing her out of an official picture of the Mercury astronauts, of whom she was the eighth member. The Joy learned of her pregnancy during a secret mission, which resulted in her blowing her cover and being injured by enemy gunfire. Then The Philosophers kidnapped him and stitched up a snake-like scar on The Boss. Boss Fight Database 797,223 views R-03: Monsoon Easily the second most challenging boss fight in the game, be sure to keep a hearty supply of EM grenades on hand for this one. Big Boss and his Army Without Borders saw no world and no borders. Most of these lines are direct references to things The Boss herself said to Naked Snake during their encounter in Dremuchij and Rokovoj Bereg in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, although there are other statements that reference both real life and past games in the series: If the player shoots The Boss AI with rubber bullets after recovering the AI during a side mission, its sensor light will flash rainbow colors and either scream in agony, recite the names of the NOSE Railway system, recite the numbers in pi, or even give a countdown to "activate" a fail-deadly system. https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boss_AI?oldid=273022. Dr. Strangelove designed The Boss AI as part of the Peace Walker project, initiated by CIA Station Chief Hot Coldman. Installing any of the head files also installs an alternate character select icon. As revealed in a collection of prequels, John was originally a young FOX (a subdivision of the CIA) soldier and spy under the codename Naked Snake. Snake prepared to destroy the AI core, shouting that it was not The Boss, but was captured by Coldman's forces before he could do so. We are Big Boss, in the sense that we live up to his legacy and legend, becoming his phantom. The Boss (ザ・ボス, Za Bosu), also known as The Joy (ザ・ジョイ, Za Joi), is a fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear series. "[26] She was also voted as the 24th best overall character of the previous decade by Game Informer's readers in 2010. In the Metal Gear series, The Boss is a legendary American soldier, founder and leader of the Cobra unit, the biological mother of Ocelot, mentor and mother figure to Naked Snake, and is known as the mother of the U.S. special forces. 6. For Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater on the PlayStation 2, a GameFAQs Q&A question titled "I can't defeat the boss please help? The Boss' likeness was modelled on actress Charlotte Rampling. She moved to the Soviet Union with Colonel Volgin alongside the Cobra Unit. EVA reveals in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker that The Boss infiltrated a sleeper agent into the USSR's OKB-1 from 1959 to 1961 to gather more information about the Sputnik program with a little help from the Philosophers. The company Diamond Dogs is also named after a Bowie song that he wanted to have be the intro track until his team convinced him it was a bit too psychedelic and silly and didn't really fit the tone of waking up from a coma to a bunch of murder. The relatively light weight meant that the Patriot had a strong recoil, and was notoriously difficult to aim. The Boss AI's "shell" was also tightly reinforced so it could withstand an assault from a nuclear weapon, making it more durable than the other AIs of the project, and thus extremely resilient against conventional weaponry.[1]. "[20], In 2008, the staff of GameSpy placed her at the top of Metal Gear boss battles. [12], The character was very well received by media. After one final fight, Snake fights and kills The Boss who gives him the Philosophers' Legacy hidden by Volgin. [21] She was also included on IGN's 2008 lists of the Metal Gear series' top ten villains (ranked seventh)[22] as well as its top ten boss battles (ranked ninth). Following Volgin's death, The Boss reveals she is the daughter of one of the original members of the Philosophers behind the Philosophers' Legacy. - Man On Fire feels like the only true MGS boss. Following Huey's extraction, the Soviets relocated the Mammal Pod from Huey's lab to the central hangar. Snake's lieutenant Kazuhira Miller intended to investigate the pod for evidence that would implicate Huey in the attack on MSF's Mother Base nine years earlier. Quiet was just ok, but I'll excuse it since it was the first boss fight. "[14] In 2008, Chip ranked her as the 12th top "girl of gaming". Directed by Hideo Kojima. It was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in March 2014, and for Microsoft Windows in December 2014. ". In 1984, nine years after the events of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Big Boss awakens from a coma in a British hospital in Cyprus. Inside its memory banks, she made an audio record of her final words, before ultimately suffocating. You can see how Zero and Big Boss got the wrong end of the stick with their respective ideals. "[33] Ryan Bates of Game Revolution placed her first on his 2014 list of top "mean girls in gaming". Strangelove named it "Imago" to indicate the final result of the AI development process for the Peace Walker Project. After having memory boards removed, it will then say "the lonely fox chases the one-eyed hound," alluding to the feud between Zero and Big Boss. Similar to the late stages of Chapter 4 of Peace Walker, in both encounters with it, the AI pod will recite The Boss' final speech to Naked Snake. If enough boards are removed by this point, it will say it in a slightly glitched voice. Hot? [Spoilers … Although her unborn child was saved from the bullet, The Joy entered a coma for three months before regaining consciousness. The whole mission is later revealed to be a coverup by the United States so that The Boss would steal Volgin's treasure and give it to Snake but then die at his hands to avoid a conflict between America and the Soviet Union.[6][7]. The Mammal Pod was then transported by helicopter to a mine base for the final assembly and testing of Peace Walker. Eli, fire man, and skulls don't count. The one who survives will inherit the title of Boss. The sneaking suit and kabuki face paint stand out too much, use the snow camo and snow face paint instead (or, if you don't have them, the lab coat and the oyama paint). Strangelove deduced that the legendary U.S. soldier, The Boss, would be an ideal model on which to base the AI, as she could think of no other person that met the required standards, in her mind. Afterwards, Strangelove, who bore a grudge against Big Boss for his part in The Boss' death, led the mercenary into the lab where The Boss AI was located, and goaded him into trying to deactivate it. Dr. Strangelove designed The Boss AI as part of the Peace Walker project, initiated by CIA Station Chief Hot Coldman. It was then shipped to the USSR and brought back online. Hideo Kojima has revealed one idea surrounding Metal Gear Solid 5 was a game based on The Boss and the Cobras from the landing of Normandy. The Boss AI says "Shall we walk through the rainy plain of Spain?" Similar to the Colonel (AI) in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, The Boss AI quotes various dialogue to the protagonist as its memory boards are removed, in both Chapter 2 and Chapter 4. You can also choose between two arm styles to replace the bionic arm, if you wish. Ocelot was conceived in late 1943 by The Joy and The Sorrow, an American and Russian soldier, respectively, of the Allied Forces' Cobra Unit. Strangelove's Memento uses The Boss AI as the image representing the item. [24] In 2012, 1UP.com editor Bob Mackey wrote about the final fight against her that "the confrontation takes place in what could be the most beautiful video game environment of all time, regardless of the PS2's relatively low horsepower. As such, she longed for a world that would be united in which people would respect each other as human beings, as opposed to remaining in constant conflict. In 1964, a U.S. government operative codenamed "Snake" must infiltrate mountainous Soviet territory to rescue a scientist building a weapon of terrible power. Anyways, the thing is, the game doesn’t tell you who the baby is. One world, surrounded by one border. Owing to its role in the event of a nuclear war, its shell was also reinforced to such an extent that it was impregnable to anything short of a nuclear bomb. [28] PlayStation Official Magazine included her on the lists of PlayStation's six meanest mothers in 2011,[29] and listed the MGS3's final battle against her among the ten most emotional moments in PlayStation history in 2012. Subscribe! Although Strangelove was the one who had created the Mammal Pod, she was unaware of the AI's override code, which was known only to Coldman.[2]. MGS5 S-Rank Walkthrough in 1080p 60fps PS4 Best Quality Gameplay, Skulls Boss fight in MGS5Subscribe for more Metal Gear Solid V! We inherit his memes, just as raiden aka jack inherited Solidus and armstrongs. In Chapter 4, the Boss AI will say, "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," which is a reference to an English pangram used to test keyboarding and typewriting skills. Strangelo… Huey advised Snake to ignore it, dismissing it as "just a machine." Metal Gear Solid V. Big Boss regained consciousness in 1984, and decided to go along with Zero's plan to use the MSF medic as a decoy, knowing his … The Boss AI, officially designated BS-Imago, and often referred to as the Mammal Pod, was an AI incorporated into the Peace Walker unmanned weapon, created in the early 1970s. I am a dedicated member of the "Walter Sullivan Is Bad-Ass" group!! [5] Throughout the game, Naked Snake repeatedly encounters The Boss to kill her as ordered by his superiors. In June 1944, during World War II, she led the Cobra unit to victory at the Battle of Normandy. "[25] In 2013, PLAY ranked The Boss as the eighth top character in the series, calling her "one of the most important and influential characters in the Metal Gear timeline. The AI also transmitted the false data on to NORAD, after Coldman activated Peace Walker on his deathbed. 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