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By , he also paid Big Boss a visit in Cyprus and intended to bid him farewell and presumably bury the hatchet between them. In order to ensure his disappearance and destination was kept secret, he also orchestrated a blackout in New York City that same year that disrupted communications and transportation via two submarines, also giving a cover story.

Despite this, it is implied that Miller may have been aware of Zero's ultimate fate. By the time of Skull Face's death in , Zero had fully entered his vegetative state and was relegated to life support. Years later, control of Cipher was given over fully to the AI system, called "The Patriots" - a reference to the fact that Zero's intent to unify the thought and awareness of every individual through the control of information could be considered a kind of 'patriotism'.

Unfortunately for Zero, what he had brought about had unforeseeable consequences: Namely, Big Boss, whilst his phantom dealt with the threat of Skull Face, had neglected to go into hiding and change his face, and had instead begun to build the 'true' Outer Heaven fortress nation in South Africa with the aim of launching a coup d'etat against The Patriots so that he could finally realise his dream of a world unified by perpetual conflict - the one world where soldiers would always have a place and would be able to fight for themselves, entirely free from political domination.

This ultimately resulted in the badly burned Big Boss being placed into a nanomachine -induced coma by The Patriots after his defeat in Zanzibar Land, in accordance with Zero's will as he had considered Big Boss an irreplaceable friend and had endeavoured to keep him alive by any means necessary - in a sense, their actions could be considered a replication of what Zero did after Big Boss was attacked by Skull Face, although this coma was not one they intended him to wake up from.

To make matters worse, his AIs ended up completely abandoning his will and crafted their own, and even his closest allies Donald Anderson and Dr. Clark grew corrupt after Cipher was fully absorbed by The Patriots AI system and their political power was reduced to nothing. Although they had begun to fully realise Zero's grand plan to unify the world via information control with the creation of GW and the the successful test of the S3 plan in , The Patriots would later deviate from his will after deciding the War Economy and SOP were a more effective solution to the problem of controlling humanity.

SOP would eventually have given them direct control over the actions and emotions of the entire population once it had been extended to the civilian level, effectively enslaving all human beings had it come to fruition. In , Big Boss had awakened and then discovered Zero in a persistent vegetative state kept alive solely by life support equipment.

Big Boss lamented that this man had nearly "brought the world to the brink of ruin" without even realising it. Reflecting on their past experiences, Big Boss switched off Zero's life support equipment. As Zero was struggling to breathe, Big Boss pressed his hands over Zero's chest to stop him from moving as he died, ending the dictatorship he unwittingly created and putting his former friend to peace. Zero had a prominent scar over his left eye and also believed that he had once been abducted by aliens.

Due to his SAS training, he often looked down upon the American Armed Forces' methods of conducting operations, viewing them as sloppy, such as the fact that they relied too much on prepared equipment, such as a flashlight, or that they would leave their feces on the battlefield. Zero was a huge fan of the James Bond films. Zero talked to Naked Snake about the intricacies and technological side of Bond's spy equipment and suggested that Snake be more like Bond, equipped with a "Snake shaped gun" and would get into an argument on the subject with Snake harboring a disinterest in the series and the spy genre in general.

Zero also admitted that he personally didn't approve of how Bond interacted with female spies, after supposedly deducing one of the factors in Snake's dislike for the character.

Sokolov said that Zero was a man of his word and a man of honor as he kept his promise to rescue him from the Soviet Union and apologized for being so late. In addition, Zero also was one who judged people on their merits rather than physical differences, as evidenced by his hiring Donald Anderson despite the former being banned from the workplace due to his ethnicity.

Zero had a keen eye for talent when recruiting operatives for missions, as he was responsible for recruiting several talented soldiers, mercenaries, spies and even assassins including Big Boss, Revolver Ocelot, Para-Medic, Sigint, Paz, Skull Face, and numerous others who would later become famous throughout the years.

The Major had a particular interest in recruiting oddballs, people who displayed unique combat abilities, physical features, or even mannerisms that was often considered out of the ordinary in most people's eyes.

One example of this would be Zero's recruitment of Skull Face, who had impressed the Major with his skills as an assassin and military tactician despite his horribly disfigured appearance. Another example would be Zero's recruitment of Paz, being impressed by her keen senses and ability to fool others using her youthful appearance, using her to infiltrate Big Boss's mercenary group MSF as way to keep tabs on him as well as to steal Metal Gear Zeke once it was completed, although she had ultimately failed her mission and was later captured by Skull Face, who used her to strike against the Major.

Of all his recruits, Zero's most complicated recruit was also his best recruit, Jack, the man who would become the legendary mercenary Big Boss. Upon meeting him, Zero knew he had chosen the right man for the Virtuous Mission, being impressed with the young man's military record as well as Jack's training underneath with his old ally, the Boss. While they had little in common, both were deeply motivated by the Boss' final words before dying, and chose to live the rest of their lives trying to rebuild the world the Boss had always striven for.

As time went on, Zero came to see Jack as the greatest soldier he ever had the pleasure of working with, surpassing even his mentor. Knowing that Jack was sterile due to his exposure to radiation, Zero took it upon himself to carry on Big Boss' legacy and decided to clone him without his knowledge, knowing that he wouldn't approve.

Big Boss was initially allied with Zero in joining the Patriots until he found out about the Les Enfants Terribles project, causing him to leave the Patriots, an act which Zero saw as unacceptable. While their relationship remained strained for many years, Zero continued to look out for Big Boss even though the later wanted nothing to do with him.

Zero even went out of his way to protect Big Boss after the attack on Mother Base, placing the comatose soldier in a British military hospital in Cyprus to protect him from Skull Face and XOF, who had gone rogue and poisoned Zero with a Parasite strain that would eventually leave him in a vegetative state.

Knowing that XOF had taken over most of Cipher's assets and operations worldwide, Zero was left with limited resources and time before he would lose his mind, and used his remaining days making sure that Big Boss was well protected, going so far as to cooperate with Ocelot in creating a body double out of one of Big Boss' most trusted soldiers who was also in a coma, subjecting the man to extensive plastic surgery and hypnotherapy to transform him into Big Boss's Phantom.

Before going back into hiding, Zero told a comatose Big Boss that the world will need him when he wakes up. One of Zero's final orders before disappearing was promoting Donald Anderson as the acting leader of what was left of Cipher, leaving him to develop the A. Zero didn't know much about technology and would use Sigint's notes when explaining what the anti-personnel sensor, motion detector, and active sonar were to Naked Snake.

On a related note, he once bought a washing machine but didn't know how to use it. After founding the Patriots to carry on The Boss' will, Zero over time became power hungry and a dictator by collecting more wealth and to gain more influence within the government.

As a result, he also had no qualms for using Big Boss as an icon and to clone him without his knowledge. After Big Boss left the Patriots, Zero felt betrayed and lost his faith and belief in everything. In addition, after going into hiding as a result of Big Boss leaving the Patriots after he found out about the Les Enfants Terribles project, Zero did not directly give orders to his agents, instead supplying them to proxies and left his whereabouts unrevealed to all except for one agent, Pacifica Ocean, and even then, she implied at one point that she occasionally got orders via proxy instead of from Zero directly, [8] indicating that Zero had become paranoid.

Paz also repeatedly implied that the penalty for defying Cipher would anger him to such an extent that the penalty would be "worse than death" although, due to Zero's more amicable interaction with her when first meeting her, it's unclear whether she meant Zero himself or the Cipher organization as a whole. His paranoia was also shown in that he initially limited what would eventually become the Patriots' AIs and limited them to information sorting specifically to avoid recreating a similar near-disaster during the Peace Walker Incident in , where The Boss AI proceeded to drown itself before it could start a nuclear war.

Ironically, Skull Face's actions against Zero and later Strangelove's death at the hands of Huey ultimately resulted in the Patriots' AI network's ban on thinking for itself being removed and thus, ultimately proving Zero's concerns about them possessing independent thought to be very sound in the future due to Donald Anderson, being promoted to the de-facto leader of the Patriots in Zero's place, being forced to implement broad instructions and programming them to learn for themselves due to Strangelove dying before she could implement traits such as compassion into the Patriots AIs' network.

In , regarding Zero's actions, Big Boss wondered if Zero hated or feared him. He didn't care about Skull Face attacking him with vocal parasites, but never forgave him for putting Big Boss in a coma. It also refers to a ghost, which Zero claimed was also fitting for a sneaking mission.

Zero also referred to himself and the Patriots as "Cipher" which means "empty" and the number zero. This became fitting after Zero lost his beliefs and faith in everything when he became an empty shell of his former self. Zero's real name, David Oh, was first given in a voice casting sheet for Metal Gear Solid 3 , which was leaked prior to E3 Aside from sharing a first name they also share a similar age, military background and philosophy regarding the effectiveness of small military special forces units.

This could be a nod to the song, as it was originally selected as the ending theme for Metal Gear Solid 3 as it references space exploration. However, as the game ultimately departed from this theme, it was replaced by Starsailor's " Way to Fall.

If the player ends up dying three times during The Sorrow battle and continuing, Zero will call and tell the player to use the Revival Pill at the Game Over screen. Two radio conversations, relating to the Raikov Mask and the completed Raikov disguise, will have Major Zero commenting regarding the mask's "nostalgic" feeling that he "for some reason doesn't like it" and that Naked Snake's wearing of the Raikov disguise "is starting to irritate [Zero] already," referring to the negative fan controversy regarding the character Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Although Zero is imprisoned during the events of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops , he can still be recruited as a secret character. Zero's true involvement in the game is briefly hinted at during Gene's conversation with Ocelot in a cutscene, where he identifies Ocelot's co-conspirator as "the man with the same codename as 'Null.

Prior to the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots , some fans had speculated that Zero was the " deviously cunning strategist " that Gene had mentioned in Portable Ops. Upon first viewing, the game's dialogue does not immediately make clear that this strategist and "the man with the same codename as Null" Zero are two distinct characters. However, later games reveal that Zero had continued to admire and idolize The Boss, causing opinion to shift towards Hot Coldman being the strategist, after he was revealed to be the planner of Operation Snake Eater in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Metal Gear Solid 4 was the first game to reveal that Zero had founded the Patriots, which had earlier been implied in the ending of Portable Ops via Ocelot's call to him. Although he was responsible for most of the events of the game, he does not make a direct physical appearance until the game's epilogue, Naked Son , where Big Boss proceeded to kill Zero via deactivating his life support systems in front of Snake after explaining his role in the whole thing, in order to "return Zero back to nothing.

According to the Artbook for the game, it was Kojima's request to have Zero be in a wheelchair, which had been considered a simple order. Through the decades long battle in the lore everybody gets their hands a little bloody, but the ten characters below all go too far. The sick thing is, most of the characters enjoy and revel in their dark acts. War turns some people into monsters. His character is significantly expanded upon in future entries, becoming a key figure in the plot.

Sometimes he is on your side, but regardless of allegiance he is always a sadistic man who takes pleasure in torturing people. He is even responsible for Big Boss losing his eye, though the character seems to have forgiven him for this.

Major Zero starts out as what appears to be a replacement for Roy Campbell in the prequel, Metal Gear Solid 3, but he eventually becomes one of the series' main antagonists.

While he never directly gets his hands dirty, he is almost solely responsible for everything bad that happens in the series. The overarching conflict of the series involves his desire to create the Patriots and fulfill the Boss's vision, which results in a lot of bloodshed. You might be calling this list crazy for including Para-Medic. How can the sweet medical professional and cinephile who saves your progress in MGS3 be an evil person? Fans will recall how she was the one who brought Frank Jaeger back from the brink of death and put him in his new cyborg ninja body under the name Dr.

Clark, prolonging his pain. We never find out what turned her into a mad scientist. Perhaps she just strongly believed in Major Zero's vision.