Quote: “This is the greatest handgun ever made. The Colt Single Action Army. Six bullets…More than enough to kill anything that moves. Now I’ll show you why they call me…Revolver.”
Ocelot is my favorite video game villain. Dude is so good in each game of the Metal Gear Solid series. He plays a different role in each one, but somehow he manages to make it all work, which is to be expected because he’s the greatest double/triple/quadruple agent ever. Ocelot knows how to perform any role, and that’s part of the thing that makes him so compelling. Even up until the very end of Metal Gear Solid 4, you’re still not entirely sure about the guy, what he’s really up to and what he really wants. It seems like just when you’ve maybe got him figured out, he throws out a new twist and makes you question what you thought you knew about him all over again. Ocelot also seems to have an active hand in manipulating many of the major events of the series into going the way he wants them to go, which is very impressive.
In Metal Gear Solid 1, Revolver Ocelot seems like Liquid Snake’s right hand man (LOL get it?) and little else. He’s the first boss fight of the game, too, which tends to make you think he’s not really that important in the grand scheme of things. Plus, he gets owned by Gray Fox after the boss fight, which also seems to lower your overall opinion of him. By the way, how many times does the first boss in a game/series turn out to be the primary antagonist? Seriously, I’m asking you. I’m not sure, but I don’t think it happens that often! But Ocelot’s still a cool dude in MGS1. He has that awesome speech before you fight him, which is one of my favorite quotes in the series. He also has that neat fourth wall breaking moment during the torture session where he’s all like, “Don’t even think about using auto-fire or I’ll know,” but that’s apparently just a bluff because most people I’ve heard who’ve tried it got away with it. Then Ocelot throws the haymaker plot twist in the post-credits conversation where he reveals that Solid Snake was the inferior clone and that he was really working for the president, who’s the third clone, all along, and you’re all like, “Wait, what just happened?”
In Metal Gear Solid 2, Ocelot shows up to betray everyone even harder. He just seems to own faces whenever he’s on screen unless Solid Snake is around. But I love how calmly he manages to be in every scene as he casually explains how he was never on their side from the start and then he just as casually shoots them with his revolver as they try to kill him first. I love the scene where Ocelot shoots Fortune after the game’s built her up as some sort of supernatural witch who can’t even be hit, much less killed, and you’re just standing in awe of the guy for being able to hit her. Ocelot’s just one cool customer throughout MGS2 unless Liquid’s trying to take over. Although admittedly, I am kind of confused on the how Liquid possession thing. Was that a real deal in MGS2, but then Ocelot got the idea to keep up the charade in MGS4 because he thought it would be the best way to accomplish his goal without the Patriots thinking he had betrayed them or whatever? After MGS2, Ocelot replaces Liquid’s arm with a prosthetic because he apparently was worried he’d go insane, so maybe it was real there (and the fact that his father is a spirit medium provides an explanation of how it was possible, at least, even if MGS4 never touches on this possibility) and he got the bright idea to keep it going to achieve his goal. If so, it only adds to his overall brilliance, but again, I’m not entirely sure on the details there.
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