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• Big Boss has had three English voice actors throughout the main series, with said actors being David Hayter, Richard Doyle, and Kiefer Sutherland. Big Boss has had two Japanese voice actors throughout the main series, with said actors being Akio Ōtsuka and Chikao Ōtsuka.
  • While David Hayter, the English voice actor for Solid Snake, took up the role of Naked Snake for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Hideo Kojima originally wanted him to be played Kurt Russell, the actor for Snake Plissken, who served as an inspiration for both Solid Snake and Naked Snake.
  • Chikao Ōtsuka also is the father of Akio Ōtsuka, who also happens to be the Japanese voice actor for Solid Snake. This was done intentionally as the two actors had a falling out with each other years prior, so Hideo Kojima arranged for them to work together.
  • Coincidentally Chikao Ōtsuka had played Dr. Weil in the radio drama of Mega Man Zero 4, where he said the line "Not yet, it's not over yet!", which is similar to Big Boss' "final words" of "It's not over yet" in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
• Big Boss' Chinese name, Tai Pan, is similar the name of the world's most dangerous family of snakes, the Inland Taipan.

Big Boss with his eyepatch on his left eye

• Official artwork of Big Boss for Metal Gear shows him with his eyepatch on his left eye despite his (At the time) character sprite having his eye patch on his right eye, which was later changed in every other game since.
  • Big Boss' eyepatch may be a reference to Snake Plissken from Escape from New York, similar to how Solid Snake is based off of the character. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater furthers Big Boss' connection to Snake Plissken as it is revealed that Big Boss used to go by the code name Naked Snake. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker also furthers the connections between them with Big Boss' snake-shaped scar being on his stomach like Snake Plissken's snake tattoo.
• Big Boss is stated to have been in both the SAS and the GSG 9 in the manual for Metal Gear, though this has since been retconned in future games.

Big Boss' original appearance in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

• Big Boss' original appearance in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is modeled off of the Scottish actor Sean Connery. In later versions of the game, Big Boss' sprite artwork was reworked to match his appearance from Metal Gear Solid artwork.
  • Sean Connery was later referenced by Big Boss again in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, where Naked Snake notes that he couldn't help but compare himself to James Bond, who was played by Sean Connery during 1962–71, which is the timeframe Snake Eater takes place in.
• Big Boss' character sprite shows him wearing a red beret during his boss fight, which doesn't appear in both of his sprite portraits.
• The original manual for Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake stated that Big Boss lost his right eye in the late 1980's due to a combat injury, that he was nominated as FOXHOUND's international planning commander in the 1990's, and that his lust for power caused him to create Outer Heaven. All of this information would be retconned as we learn in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater that Big Boss lost his right eye in 1964 when he was being tortured by GRU and that he would found FOXHOUND in 1971, along with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots showing that Big Boss created Outer Heaven to combat Zero's Patriots.
• In Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Big Boss is compared to American-born Cuban guerrilla commander William Alexander Morgan by George Kasler, with both Big Boss and Morgan sharing similar facial features.
  • Newer versions of the manual have since removed this reference.
• Big Boss' "final words" in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake "It's not over yet" have been quoted by various villains in the series, most notably being repeatably said by Liquid Snake.
• Originally, the reason why Big Boss was able to survive Outer heaven's destruction was because he was rumored to be turned into a cyborg by Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar in the Snatcher Project, with the name of this project being a reference to Snatcher, the previous work of Hideo Kojima. The Metal Gear Solid 4 Database later confirmed that these rumors of Big Boss being a cyborg were true, however this has since been retconned in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, where it is revealed that Venom Snake was the Big Boss that died in Outer Heaven.
  • While Big Boss is no longer a cyborg in the main series, his non-canonical NES counterpart comes back as a cyborg in Snake's Revenge.
• In the Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake manual, Big Boss is said to have fought with the mercenary unit The Wild Geese, which is a reference to the novel and 1978 movie of the same name. The novel itself was named after a 17th-century Irish mercenary army known as the Flight of the Wild Geese.
• In Metal Gear Solid, Liquid Snake claimed that Big Boss had directly told him multiple times that he was inferior and that he hated him. In Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Liquid Snake simply believed Big Boss hated him but wasn't directly told if he did or not.
• In the English version of Metal Gear Solid Liquid Snake stated that Big Boss was in a coma during the time of the Les Enfants Terribles project, however in the original Japanese version of the game, Liquid states Big Boss was only sterilized due to injuries from combat. The latter account was used in the in-game book written by Nastasha Romanenko In the Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth. Despite this, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes still uses the former account of Big Boss being in a coma.
• In the manual for Metal Gear Solid, Big Boss is stated to have created FOXHOUND after being impressed with the power and efficiency of high-tech weaponry used during the Gulf War. As mentioned before, Big Boss established FOXHOUND in 1971, which was twenty years before the end of the Gulf War.
• In the Metal Gear Solid: Official Mission Handbook Big Boss had a complete different origin story than what was shown in future games. The handbook stated that Big Boss was a third generation Japanese-American who was born in Hawaii whose entire American side of his family was killed during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. As Big Boss' Japanese relatives would be locked up in internment camps, Big Boss in his teenage years would join the 442nd Infantry Regiment, gaining his first bits of combat experience while fighting in France in World War II, freeing towns from Nazi control in 1944. After returning to the United States, Big Boss would lose his patriotism to the United States due to the treatment of his Japanese side of his family. Big Boss would later participate in the Congo Crisis of 1961-1968, serving as a mercenary for France. Big Boss would later serve in wars in Asia, Africa, and the Middle/Far East, specifically choosing missions that liberated people from control and would decline missions from many governments, military organizations, and terrorist groups despite being offered a large payment. Big Boss would later become sterile due to various combat injuries and would agree to be apart of the Les Enfants Terribles project. After being defeated by Solid Snake, Big Boss would say "Even after my demise, I shall live on, in the fears and tormented minds of my hated enemies.".
• In the official website for Metal Gear Solid, Big Boss said to have been in his 70's by the time of his "death". This was later retconned in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, where he is stated to be 39 during 1974, making his year of birth 1935 and making him 64 during Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
• In the alternate timeline sequel to Metal Gear, Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Big Boss would fight and would be killed by Solid Snake (Ghost Babel) in Outer Heaven. Like in the main timeline Big Boss is the father of Solid Snake, but weather Snake is a clone of Big Boss and if Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake exist in the timeline are unknown. No. 4 of the Special Stages section of Metal Gear: Ghost Babel speculated that the reason Big Boss went rouge was so he could fight Snake to the death. No. 4 also mentions that the use of TX-55 Metal Gear in Outer Heaven was Big Boss' idea, with TX-55 being intended to use a railgun to fire stealth nuclear missiles similar to Metal Gear REX from Metal Gear Solid. General Augustine Eguabon, one of the main antagonists of Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, was a former disciple of Big Boss during the Outer Heaven Uprising.
• In Hideo Kojima's "Grand Game Plan" for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Big Boss was originally supposed to have learned his combat skills from the scrapped Dead Cell member Old Boy.
• In the Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 it is revealed that during the scene where Iroquois Pliskin reveals himself to be Solid Snake that Snake's line to Solidus Snake of "Stop impersonating him!" is not referring to how Solidus is impersonating Snake but is referring to how Solidus is trying to to be like Big Boss.
• In a early tech demos of Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake's model was the same as the model used for Solid Snake when disguised as Iroquois Pliskin.
• During the scene of Naked Snake's HALO jump from Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater, he stamps out the cigar he through on the ground, which is a response to the various players who did not like when Solid Snake through his cigarette into the Hudson Bay in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
• Naked Snake's curling up and spinning during his sky dive during the HALO Jump scene from Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater is a reference to Kamen Rider.
• Naked Snake's mask from Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater is revealed in both the game's director's commentary and a radio conversation with Para-Medic to be a reference to the 1958 movie The Fly, which was done to give the game a feel of the 1960's time period it takes place in. Along with this the mask is a refence to the previous series protagonist Raiden.
• The rivalry between Naked Snake and Major Ocelot in Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater is somewhat comparable to the rivalry between Solid Snake and Liquid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, with Hideo Kojima noting how Liquid's and Ocelot's names rhymed in Japanese.
• When Para-Medic mentions Godzilla, King of the Monsters! during the radio called about the Indian Gavials in the trail version of Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake mentions how Godzilla is "Radioactive and pissed off...", which is a reference to how Snake is angry at being irradiated during the Castle Bravo tests at Bikini Atoll and how Big Boss would ultimately descend to villainy in later games.
  • Naked Snake and Godzilla also share the same actor, with Mizuho Yoshida, who played Godzilla in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack being Snake's motion capture actor in Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater.
• Hideo Kojima commented on Naked Snake's use of a high speed drone and surviving its G-Force without a pressure suit by jokingly stating that was the moment he became superhuman.
• Para-Medic's comment about Naked Snake being "a real Captain Nemo." is a reference to Naked Snake's Japanese voice actor Akio Ōtsuka providing the voice of Captain Nemo in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
• In Metal Gear Sold 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake comments on how he is unable to smell, which is a node to how the player can't use their sense of smell when playing the game.
• Naked Snake's motion capture actor, Mizuho Yoshida, did almost every scene as Snake with the exception of the CQC scene during the start of Operation Snake Eater, which was done by Motosada Mori, due to his acting looking more painful and thus more real.
• Naked Snake's vast knowledge of military equipment such as handguns and his explanation and reaction to the M1911A1 custom that EVA had given him was the result of one of the production staff members suggesting that should be similar to gun maniac at gun shops. Along with this cutscene being added, Snake receiving a spy-film gun was cut from the game because of this.
• In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, there is a radio conversation with Zero in which he and Naked Snake talk about Snake's lack of brothers, which is a reference to how the Les Enfants Terribles project would create three clones of Big Boss.
  • In the conversation, Zero notes how he and and Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov share the same name, with John and Jack being the English equivalent of Ivan. Zero would then note that in Russian folklore, that the youngest son in a family would be named Ivan and would be treated badly but would always end up more successful than his brothers. This is a reference to how Solid Snake was the only good clone of Big Boss with Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake being evil and dying as a result of their actions.
• In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the reason why Naked Snake tensed up when EVA tried to kiss him was because of his motion capture actor, Mizuho Yoshida, teasing up when filming the scene due to being nervous about his performance in an emotional scene.
• If the player puts the Konami Code on the game clear screen for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake will say "One More to Go...".
• In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, during the scene where The Boss talks about the duties of a soldier, Naked Snake will comment on how he follows the president and is ready to die for him. In real life, United States soldiers swear to protect the constitution and the country itself, not the president.
• Big Boss appears in Super Smash Bros Brawl, appearing as both Big Boss and as Naked Snake.

Naked Snake's trophy.

• • Naked Snake has a trophy, where he is shirtless and coved in bandages, likely showing his appearance from his escape from Groznyj Grad. His prophecy description states the following:

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As a member of the special-forces unit FOX, Naked Snake assassinated The Boss and ruined the Shagohod, a Soviet nuclear weapon. Years later, he was used to plant the seeds of Les Enfants Terribles, a project designed to create cloned super soldiers. The three Snakes - Liquid, Solid, and Solidus - were thus born. He would then embrace his name, Big Boss, and duel Solid Snake.

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• • Artwork from Metal Gear Solid and its remake Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, is used for a sticker of Big Boss, which gives the user an increase by 30 in Trophy drops.
  • Artwork from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is used for his Naked Snake sticker, which grants the user some of the highest flinch resistance in the game, only being beaten by The Boss sticker.
  • The appearance of Solid Snake is a mixture of both Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Naked Snake from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, with Smash Bros Snake having Naked Snake's facial hair.

Solid Snake's brawl costumes.

• • Various costumes of Solid Snake reference the uniforms used by Naked Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
  • During a Codec conversation about Toon Link, Solid Snake mentions how like Link, there have been multiple Snakes, which includes Big Boss.
  • During a Codec conversation about Marth, Solid Snake mentions how knows what being betrayed feels like, referring to how Big Boss betrayed FOXHOUND in Metal Gear.
• In the novelization of Metal Gear Solid, Big Boss appears in Solid Snake's mind after Psycho Mantis enters it, creating the illusion of Big Boss begging for Snake to input the detonation codes for Metal Gear REX or otherwise he will be killed by the Sons of Big Boss.
• In the Virtue Range from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the targets are named John Doe, a previous alias of Big Boss.
• During the battle against Liquid Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Old Snake's health bar is changed to Naked Snake during the third phase of the fight, along with the Snake Eater theme being played in the background.
• In the Project Itoh novelization of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Big Boss does not wear his eye patch during the scene where he meets with Old Snake at the grave yard, where as in the game, he does wear it.
• Metal Gear Online 2 features various references to Big Boss despite not being playable in the game. Items like the STABO Harness, Combat Boots and supporters, and the leather gloves resemble the ones used by Big Boss during his missions as Naked Snake, which can also be colored to look more like the one's used by naked Snake. Big Boss's eye patch and Crocodile Cap can also be used in their original colors, with the Crocodile Cap being stated to have been used by Naked Snake in the past.
• During the radio conversation with Kaz after Big Boss' escape from the prison area in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Big Boss can be heard coughing due to the torture he withstood. According to Big Boss' English voice actor, David Hayter, he had to force himself to throw up during the recording in order to come up with Big Boss' coughs.
• During an optional conversation with Huey Emmerich in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Huey asks Big Boss if he had ever fought with a clone of himself to which he replies "I wouldn't want to do that, no telling who'd survive.", which is a nod to how Solid Snake defeated Big Boss in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
• Big Boss possess the most bios in the android/iOS game Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops, having separate bios for his Virtuous Mission, Operation Snake Eater, and Peace Walker Incident appearances.

Big Boss with gray hair

• In the initial trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Big Boss seemingly appears to have gray hair, however this was confirmed by Hideo Kojima to be due to a lighting error. This can be scene in the gameplay demo for the game where Big Boss usually has brown hair, appearing gray in a few circumstances.
• In the Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes companion app, if the player does a no kill run on the main game and connects it to the app, they will unlock Naked Snake as an officer type character for the app.
• Big Boss' fake named used in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Ishmael, is a reference to the narrator of the same name from the book, Moby Dick. Along with this, Big Boss says the line "And call me Ishmael", a reference to the opening lines of Moby Dick being "Call me Ishmael". Along with this Big Boss refers to Venom Snake as Ahab, a reference to Captain Ahab, which also serves as a nod to how Venom Snake is now taking the role of "captain" as he becomes the new Big Boss.
  • Moby Dick is also referenced in the original trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which stated that the game was just called The Phantom Pain being developed by Moby Dick Studio being later being revealed to be a Metal Gear game. The game itself also references the whale Moby Dick, as a flaming whale is featured in the first mission of the game.
• Imagery of Big Boss was used on a Developers Sans Frontières website for the purpose of recruiting game developers for the new Metal Gear game. The entry gate for the site used an image of Big Boss that displayed him as an Uncle Sam war recruitment poster like manner, where Big Boss was pointing at the viewer with words below him reading: "BIG BOSS wants YOU! THE "NEXT" MGS DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT BORDERS GDC 2012 Booth #1914". The second picture of Big Boss was in a "classified" manila folder, showing him wearing a poncho with a the Diamond Dogs logo on it while standing next to an actual dog. This image of Big Boss is know known to be Venom Snake, having his bionic arm and shrapnel injuries visible in the artwork
• Revolver Ocelot referenced the knowledge he learned from Big Boss during Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain while watching a Diamond Dog soldier's automatic gun jam after using it like a revolver during training, where Revolver Ocelot tells him that he shouldn't try to dampen the recoil unless he's using a revolver and that the gun's engravings give him no tactical advantage in battle. Revolver Ocelot even quotes Big Boss by saying "That was some fancy shooting. Pretty good".
• While Big Boss only appears in Metal Gear Survive in a flashback, his Jungle Fatigues are an unlockable item the player can wear. Big Boss' time as Naked Snake is also referenced in some text for the Event Episode "The Encounter: Begin 1964 Event!".
• As a part of the crossover between Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, male players of the latter game can receive a Big Boss outfit in a special quest.
• In Little Big Planet 3, Big Boss's Ground Zeroes appearance is used for a DLC costume that can be worn by Sack Boy.
• Big Boss has been referenced a few times in the Mega Man series, such as in the Archie Comics Mega Man series where Roll wears a costume of Naked Snake for Halloween. Roll also quotes Naked Snake by saying "Commencing Operation... Snake Eater!", which is what Snake said when starting said mission.
• Big Boss' original Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake appearance makes a cameo in the end credits for I Wanna Be the Guy, where he is shown in a group of portraits showing off the pervious "guys".
• Naked Snake is a playable character in Super Bomberman R.