Career Raiden's voice actor Jack . Originally, it was planned that Raiden's privates would have been exposed during combat against soldiers on Arsenal Gear after escaping the Torture Chamber, but before meeting Solid Snake, depending on how the player did. After completing Metal Gear Solid Mobile, revealed to be a VR mission, Solid Snake is declared a failed test subject and has his memories erased, and a pair of mysterious voices discuss a second test subject, "Jack", wondering if he can do better. This confuses Raiden, who had been told by Colonel Campbell that this is the case. The relief center was reluctant to put the latter into a foster family because they feared he would be too much trouble for the family. Ames also reveals that there are no ransom demands whatsoever made by Dead Cell. [63] Another update on the official site indicated that the MGS4 Raiden skin will be available for pre-order from Amazon for the Japanese release of Rising. Snake consoled Raiden but refused his request due to his incomplete blood dialysis, and urging the younger soldier not to follow the same path that his own life had taken. Several of Raiden's skills in the game have names referencing thunder and lightning. Even after he recovered, his inability to protect N'mani would haunt him. Raiden then met with Rose, and he solemnly forgave her, with the two ultimately deciding to continue their lives together. Raiden got a Resolve powerup. Removing the black duster that concealed his cyborg appearance, Raiden was able to disable the attacking Gekko using his enhanced agility and swordsmanship, employing a high-frequency blade. While escaping with Doktor, he fell off the cargo helicopter and survived largely intact, while leaving a large crater. The result was Raiden would end up having his left arm severed and having his left eye irreparably damaged, the former of which he lamented having lost once again. Afterwards, Raiden learned from Kevin the identity of the VIP: Colorado Senator Steven Armstrong, and also deduced that World Marshal, the PMC he had previously been investigated by a grand jury in 2016, was involved in Desperado's activities, and acted as their supplier of cyborg personnel. Besides Metal Gear Raiden and the Director's trailer, he also has a brief cameo near the end of the film Payback, where he ends up being run over by the Shagohod. A podcast, however, addressed this issue and stated that the game would explain why Raiden is back on the battlefield despite the implications of Metal Gear Solid 4's ending.[47]. the only parts of him not synthetic were like his spinal cord, brain, and few other organs. However, throughout his partnership with Wolf, he began to trust him, even telling him that he was free to pursue his own destiny. to which Snake retorts that the disguise "should make [Naked Snake] more popular." Tamari also explained that the cybernetic functions (including Fuel Cell energy) was based on research led by the University of Texas, and that they had Raiden lack self-repair units to emphasize his role as a "dark hero." Raiden has learned to tap into his persona when his normal, peaceful personality isn't enough to subdue an enemy and he needs to unleash his more violent personality to defeat such enemies. To cover the events of Raiden saving Sunny from the Patriots and his transformation into the cyborg ninja that we see him be in mgs4. Zachary. This codename stayed with him after the Manhattan incident until the Patriots' fall. His eye after his upgrade in 2018 occasionally turned crimson when being deployed or when about to undergo a deadly maneuver, a side effect of his eye being modified with an optical implant. Although willing to go through the sewers if it meant finding a Desperado lab, Raiden nonetheless felt uncomfortable doing so, especially after his briefing referenced the gas explosions in the Guadalajarasewers back in 1992. This is from the Maverick teaser screenshot on the. Raiden wasn't much of a sports fan, although he had admitted that the closest he'd came to actually liking a sport was basketball. His suspicions that there was another intruder were quickly confirmed, as he entered a room full of knocked out guards and caught a glimpse of the man as he ascended in an elevator. Kojima has also explicitly stated that Raiden is his favorite character in Metal Gear Solid 2, a view that was also shared by Flynn. Max LIFE The eye color was rectified in a promotional render released several months later via the online game Metal Gear Solid: Piece Walker. He also realized that Sam barely possessed cybernetics. the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.)[8]. He handled a High Frequency Blade, operable in lethal and non-lethal mode, which allowed him to deflect frontal attacks. he shot himself. However, Rose assured him that he was no beast, but her husband. His use of a sword is also referenced by Roy Campbell upon Raiden's recruitment, stating that a new soldier joined who wields a katana. Raiden then jumped up towards the helicopter hovering overhead, which Snake and Naomi had earlier boarded, and after being helped inside, was transported away from the area by its pilot, Otacon. Tribute to Metal Gear character Raiden. After deciding not to kill Naked Snake, he went back to the events of the Zanzibar Land Disturbance (complete with MSX2 graphics) to kill Solid Snake himself, ending in similar failure, where, ironically, he is stopped by his original target, Big Boss. His strength was also enough for him to effortlessly pry open a gate with his bare hands. Upon arrival at Solis, Raiden and Blade Wolf met up with the check-in guard for their appointment with Sunny. Raiden prepares to combat Desperado cyborgs. With his custom cyborg body, his durability increased tremendously, as demonstrated in Denver, Colorado after raiding World Marshal HQ. Of the canonical main characters, Raiden is the only one who does not have any significant interaction with Revolver Ocelot, as Solid Snake and Ocelot had a massive rivalry for most of their games, Naked Snake and Ocelot were friendly rivals, and Ocelot served under Venom Snake. His parents were killed by George Sears (AKA Solidus Snake) and at a very young age Raiden was recruited into the child soldier program. It is visible on the Medicom Action Figure based on the designs by Yoji Shinkawa, and usable when playing as Raiden in Metal Gear Online. Raiden In an interview with The Gaming Liberty, Quinton Flynn admitted that under the suggestion of voice director Kris Zimmerman, he based Raiden's English voice on what a slightly older Jonny Quest would sound like. [11] On his way to the Big Shell, he also found that the oil fence had a recently-cut hole, implying that someone other than him had managed to sneak in. He also held some hero worship for Solid Snake, as part of the reason for his agreeing to partake in the Big Shell Incident to take down the terrorist leader was so he'd meet the legend face-to-face, and was initially disappointed when it seemed Snake had truly died in the Tanker Incident. He then made his way to downtown Denver to their headquarters building to rescue the brains, feeling that, even if he wasn't able to save them from becoming cyborgs, he could at least prevent them from experiencing the same childhood as he did during Liberia. Non-"Metal Gear Saga" information ends here. In reality Fatman was actually an agent of the Patriots, and the man only agreed to take part in the events of the Patriots' plans after learning he would have a chance to one-up Peter Stilman. -9. The European players' hatred of Raiden during that time was later referenced by Kojima in his commentary for Metal Gear Solid 3, when he guessed that the European players will most likely give Raikov a swift death. On April 30, 2007, Jack met Rosemary after transferring to Fort Hamilton[10] in New York City, and had an argument about King Kong. They do this by the nanomachines in Raiden's blood which they implanted before the Big Shell. Saito admitted that he used Raiden's Metal Gear Solid 4 model as a starting point, and kept most of the aspects, but had to undergo an initial brief with Shinkawa and undergo the design while under supervision from Kojima Productions regarding Raiden's face to ensure he at least retained his quasi-human look from the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4. As such most what is told to Raiden when he first arrives at the Big Shell is complete fabrication. The presence of Raiden in the game was announced to the Japanese press on the same day as the game's release in North America. So today I am here to make that story a little easi. The name was altered because in Japanese, Laden is written as , and thus sounded too similar to the name "Osama bin Laden," the then leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda, partially due to the plot heavily resembling the events of 9/11.[42]. He had eventually left the Force XXI group by January 20, 2007.[9]. After making his way through a Japanese Garden-styled room, he then proceeded to take a freight elevator to the top, although he had to fight several Desperado cyborgs and UGs before reaching the top. Raiden in Rising. Raiden shared some similarities with his Cyborg Ninja predecessor, Gray Fox; both had been child soldiers who were given nicknames (and to a lesser extent, formal names) due to their brutality, underwent cybernetic experimentation by the Patriots, had their memories suppressed, used technologically advanced blades, and they both saved Solid Snake from a Metal Gear (Fox with Metal Gear REX, and Raiden with Outer Haven). However, the story can be a little confusing at times. He then began work on retrieving Big Boss' remains from the Patriots for the Paradise Lost Army, leading to his capture. He then learned that they were subjecting the children to VR training because the real thing wasn't getting the results they needed, and also learned that there was an event that would happen that would render Raiden's efforts naught even if he saved all the children in three hours that Mach 2 would have him stop it in time, and would have reignited 9-11 style warfare. As he made sure the calculations based on the GPS data were correct, he deduced that Desperado had beaten him to it. On November 2012, it was unveiled that people who pre-ordered Metal Gear Rising would get an exclusive code that allowed Raiden to use a custom cyborg body modeled after the exoskeleton used by Gray Fox. The giant portrait of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance protagonist Raiden in England has been replaced after seven years. Raiden later met up with Iroquois Pliskin, a Lieutenant Junior Grade with the U.S. Navy SEALs, who had saved Raiden from being ambushed by Vamp. Because Ghost Babel was developed and released prior to Metal Gear Solid 2, this technically was Raiden's first appearance in the series. One of his failures also had him encountering Colonel Volgin in the prison, referring to his similar appearance to Raikov. He then revealed that he knew Sam from three prior wars. [4] Jack was subsequently raised as a child soldier and later fought in the country's Civil War in 1989. He managed to wipe out 8 confirmed Body-Snatcher soldiers at the base and prepared to undergo extraction procedures at the base's heliport, but an unexpected siege of reinforcements of the Body-Snatchers forced the chopper to retreat into the air, with Raiden fighting off all remaining Body-Snatchers until all were confirmed to be eliminated, with the chopper using its searchlight to identify where the Body Snatchers were. Raiden was the only known Cyborg Ninja to have survived, and also the only one who hadn't fought Solid Snake. [56] However, for the European versions, the White armor, Inferno Armor, and Commando Armor is included as a free download in the European collector's edition from Zavvi,[57] the GAME pre-order,[58] and pre-orders from other retailers,[59] respectively, and in America, the Inferno and White Armor was included with Metal Gear Rising if pre-ordered from Amazon.com. The sword is longer and more curved than its appearance in the final version. He has. Sam is entirely sure of his cause. Shortly after Snake defeated the PMC commander Laughing Octopus, Raiden contacted him again to provide help in tracking down Naomi Hunter, using his knowledge of scouting. [5] Raiden was originally supposed to get a completely new cybernetic eye to replace the one he lost, but Doktor was unable to create it before the surgery, so he had to wear a makeshift eye-patch for a while. He also decided to have Doktor arrive with a transport chopper when he was inside the World Marshal headquarters building so they could carry out all of the cyborg heads. During the attack on Outer Haven, he also appeared amidst several lightning strikes that killed several FROGS. After successfully escaping, Raiden went on to assist Solid Snake during the Guns of the Patriots Incident. Unbenknownst to Jack FOXHOUND had been long since disbanded, and this was yet another deception by the Patriots. In 2014, Raiden reappeared in South America, revealing himself to Solid Snake by Codec to warn him of an enemy PMC ambush. She admitted to him that she was actually a Patriot spy sent to keep tabs on him, though she insisted that she had genuinely fallen in love with him. After hijacking the drone by impaling his sword in its brain, he told Doktor to turn the chopper around (as it was being tailed by the other drone), which he then did, with Raiden then proceeding to cut down the other drone just as it was passing by him via his sword. Although Raiden was quite popular with the Japanese fandom as a result of his appearance, which Shinkawa noted resembled the stereotypical manga hero,[70] the international fandom had a negative reception regarding the character, with some, such as writer James Newman, even comparing him to the Star Wars prequeltrilogy character Jar Jar Binks in terms of poor reception. According to the creators, they were specifically tasked with creating the episode by Hideo Kojima himself. He later stumbled upon a blood cryogenics chamber, and deduced with Doktor that this was what allowed them to preserve the brains for transport, and presumably the rest of the bodies that weren't needed. After becoming a cyborg, Raiden possessed incredible superhuman strength, speed, and endurance. As Raiden was one of the few people who could expose the truth, Armstrong decided to kill Raiden with EXCELSUS. Rose and Raiden's son are safe in New Zealand. It was during his rescue of Sunny that he met the former Soviet soldier Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov, who was the war buddy of Sunny's grandfather, Sergei Gurlukovich, who aided him out of the realization that the Patriots were a threat to the world, not just America. He also speculated that Solidus' role in his life may have been the reason why the Patriots selected him for the S3 Plan. However, at some point, the story was shifted to taking place years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4. 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