Revolver Ocelot
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Revolver Ocelot is an antagonist in the Metal Gear video game series. Introduced in the 1998 video game Metal Gear Solid and created by series creator Hideo Kojima and series artist Yoji Shinkawa, Revolver Ocelot began as a gunslinger-themed member of the rebellious FOXHOUND unit in that game, but, in later games, evolved into a recurring agent of the Patriots, an Illuminati-like group that secretly controls the United States.
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History
As Revolver Ocelot
Revolver Ocelot is introduced in Metal Gear Solid, where he is clothed in a duster, spurs and gunbelts, the traditional garb of gunslingers in Spaghetti westerns and wields a Colt Single Action Army in battle. His appearance is based on that of veteran Western film actor Lee Van Cleef.[1] In the game, he serves as Liquid Snake's right hand man. He is also a sadist who takes pleasure of torturing hostages while interrogating them. In the past, he served in the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, where he earned the name of Shalashaska. After the fall of the Soviet Union, he served OMON and then the SVR, but was unsastified with the new regime and left to work as a mercenary for hire before joining FOXHOUND.[2]
Ocelot is the first boss Solid Snake confronts in the game. The player must take advantage of his slow reloading time, while avoiding shooting Baker, who is held in a C4 boobytrap in the middle of the room. Ocelot survives the battle, but loses his right hand to Grey Fox and flees the scene. Ocelot spends most of the remainder of the game with Liquid, assisting him in his plot. Ocelot and Naomi Hunter are the only members of FOXHOUND who are still alive by the end of the story. It is revealed that Ocelot provoked Liquid into initiating the takeover and is actually under the orders of Solidus Snake, the third Snake brother and the then President of the United States. Ocelot manages to sell the MO Disk with the Metal Gear REX data (which he stole from Solid Snake) on the Black Market, leading to the proliferation of Metal Gear-like weapons.
Ocelot returns in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty with a new arm surgically attached (by a transplant surgery team in Lyon), one which originally belonged to his former boss, Liquid. During the initial Tanker chapter, he assists Col. Gurlukovich, a former CO from his GRU days, in hijacking the Marine vessel containing the Metal Gear RAY prototype. However, Ocelot betrays Gurlukovich and kills him along with Commander Dolph. But before he gets the chance to enter RAY, his new arm reacts to Solid Snake's presence, causing Liquid Snake's personality to take over Ocelot for a brief period. Ocelot regains control of his mind and then steals RAY and sinks the tanker, killing most of the Marines and terrorists before reporting back to Solidus.
In the Plant chapter, he assists Solidus Snake in his takeover of the Big Shell cleanup facility. He spends most of the Plant chapter surveilling Raiden's actions without directly confronting him. His motives are made clear near the end of the game, when it is revealed that Ocelot is a spy for an Illuminati-like group known as The Patriots. He betrays Solidus and kills Fortune, but before he gets the chance to kill Snake, Liquid's personality takes over once again. He reveals that he intentionally chose Ocelot to bear his arm and escapes with Metal Gear RAY once again. It is unknown if Ocelot regained his personality after this point.
According to an interview with character designer, Yoji Shinkawa, Ocelot was originally meant to have a mechanical arm, however Shinkawa thought the idea of him having Liquid's was a good concept to use.[3]
As Major Ocelot
Set in 1964, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater features a young Revolver Ocelot (known back then simply as Ocelot) as one of Naked Snake's (the future Big Boss) adversaries in the game. He is a young member of the GRU Spetsnaz with the rank of Major and leads his own elite Ocelot unit. During the end of the Virtuous Mission, Ocelot confronts Snake in which he wields a Makarov PM, but is quickly subdued and humiliated. Taking Snake's advice into consideration he quickly acquires his known preference for revolvers, choosing a Single Action Army revolver. He is the first actual boss Snake fights during the game, but the battle is interrupted by a swarm of hornets controlled by The Pain.
For the rest of the game, Ocelot tries to catch up with Snake in an attempt to have a rematch with him. At one point, he is even responsible for the loss of Naked Snake’s right eye. Yet, Ocelot's desire to fight and defeat Snake by himself leads him to even help him during Snake's battle with Coronel Volgin, and later, maybe as compensation, during a motorcycle chase ensues between Snake and Ocelot, while riding through a building, Snake saves Ocelot by firing an RPG at the rubble that is about to fall on him. The final battle between Snake and Ocelot occurs inside the WIG prior to the game’s ending sequence with four possible outcomes, all of them ending virtually amicably. After the ending credits, it is revealed that Ocelot is a triple agent; not only is he the KGB mole ADAM (aka Adamska), he is also working under the orders of the DCI in an attempt to recover the Philosopher’s Legacy for the American Government. It is also strongly implied that Ocelot is the biological son of The Boss and The Sorrow.[4][5]
This incarnation of Ocelot is set to appear in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
As Liquid Ocelot
Revolver Ocelot is set to return in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which continues where Sons of Liberty left off. He is still possessed by Liquid Snake's mind and now goes by the name of Liquid Ocelot. It is unknown whether Ocelot still retains his original personality at this point. He no longer wears his cowboy attire, but sports eyeglasses similar to those worn by Liquid.
It is interesting to note that Koji Totani, the original Japanese voice of Revolver Ocelot, passed away a few months before the production of the E3 Trailer, which explains why Banjo Ginga's (Liquid's) voice was used instead of Ocelot's own voice. This could also be the real reason for merging of the two characters' names and personalities into one.
Other appearances
Ocelot also appears as a boss in the Arena Mode in Metal Gear Acid 2 along with Liquid. His polygonal model is extracted directly from the original Metal Gear Solid.
In the Metal Gear Solid Drama CD series, a character with connections to Revolver Ocelot named Sergei Ivanovich plays a prominent role in the second story arc. He is introduced as a war buddy of Ocelot during his service with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. Like Ocelot, Ivanovich is a sadist and spends most of the time torturing Campbell during his captivity. Due to his connections with Ocelot, he is aware of the FOXDIE virus and wishes to produce similar biological weapons.
References
- ^ Gamerz-Edge interview with Ryan Payton.
- ^ Metal Gear Solid Classified, promotional booklet included with the Premium Package.
- ^ Yoji Shinkawa interview. Retrieved on 21 November, 2006.
- ^ EVA: "The Colonel never told me. All I heard was that his mother was supposedly shot in the gut during battle and that he was born right there, bullets whizzing past them."
Snake: "A pregnant women in the middle of a battle?"
EVA: "That's what I heard. They say that when they stitched her up, the scar was shaped like a snake."(Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater) - ^ The Boss: "Look at this scar. This is proof that I was once a mother. I gave up my body and my child for my country."(Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
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