The problem is that from Metal Gear 2 to Metal Gear Solid 4, all those years Big Boss spend them in comatose state, then preserved like a trophy for Zero. The only time Big Boss could have changed was that week post-JW when Solid Snake inadvertedly saves him.

And that whole epilogue was like the glorification of a killer, which is the point I'm getting at. I don't care if he feels sorry or not. Big Boss is a bastard, but the games refuse to acknowledge him as such.

If it does, I didn't notice it, really. When does this happen?

To Ocelot's defense, he did want to bring Quiet back alive because he saw the potential in her; the potential to kill and slay more enemies. So while he's not being the twirled mustache badass we're used to see, he was facilitating Snake a way to get rid of more soldiers.

Maybe Big Boss is an evil bastard, but personally, I can't identify myself with Solid Snake even if he's a hero (something he didn't want to get known himself). He seems too cold, too calculated. Less... human. I think that is a point that devs subtly wanted to insert in the series. I'm not saying that Snake is less of a person for being a clone, but he's a government tool to make a wet work. He even said it himself.

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That's a really good way to see it, but then there's something I cannot phantom: Big Boss couldn't have all that possibly planned. He tried rescuing Paz and Chico, and he already had a Mother Base where he was a legend. You're telling me Big Boss came up with the plan when his best member entered in a comma (which no one knew how much he would be in it?), and had enough time to put everything in motion?

And there's yet another issue which I have: no one ever remembers the medic. Even when the hospital is stormed. And to add salt to the injury, Kaz doesn't seem to notice that fragment of debris in Big Boss' forehead (something he does notice when they all crash the helicopter and ask for the medic's status).

By what you're saying, Big Boss had all this coincidentally planned. Now, he already had help from Skull Face during the MGS3 events, but still goes the extra mile in being a big coincidence for the man to do it. I think everything would have been much better had the coma being fake or something and the medic agreeing to the plan from the very beginning. The way it is, it was just a plot twist for the shocking factor, nothing more. And Big Boss isn't still painted as an evil dude; just because he did something evil. Take the medic for example: he's actually a very nice guy that ends up being forced to do bad things (like wiping out the Contamination Zone) and it is shown to be the evil guy Big Boss was supposed to be all along. Big Boss still gets a free way out card. I didn't see any of his fall of grace anywhere. The only reference I have is that throughout those 9 years, Big Boss thought "yeah, fuck Mother Base I'm going to Zanzibar", but it's never shown or explained (unless it is a casette tape I missed).

Wasn't Zero who planned in having the Medic turn into Big Boss so Big Boss could safely hide away? Big Boss also went into comma but woke earlier then Venom.

Then why did Skull Face go after Zero?

The villians thing, that's kinda the point. In 2 or 3 of the games, you're put into some covert operation under the guise of it being the good and right thing to do, then it's found out that the villian's intentions were good all along. Liquid is the most one dimensional of all the villains in throughout the series, and he's also the least interesting and most boring one. I was really happy that Liquid Ocelot was actually Ocelot. He's just a way cooler character than liquid.

Because he hated him. Skull Face thought Zero's idea of using the Patriots to gain control of the world was wrong and that he had the right vision for what The Boss actually wanted.

Listen to the final tapes, it's clear Zero was the one that wanted Big Boss to live on and be safe so he used The Medic.

What?

A good vilain will make you hate him.. a very good one would make you cheer for them... so all the twists and explanations in my opinion elevates the level of the vilains.