Back in late December, Joakim Mogren, the CEO of Moby Dick Studios,
released an alternative version of The Phantom Pain trailer. Although
the visuals are unchanged, you will notice the music and sounds have
been replaced by something new. Check out the new trailer below before
we begin to analyze.
As we can all see, or should I say hear, the only difference from this
alternative trailer and the original is the audio. However, some new
theory's have come about after the release of this new trailer. One of
the most interesting of these is that the protagonist could quite
possibly be Liquid. That's right, Liquid may very well be the character
you see in the trailer. Let me explain how this might be possible.
Many of us have come to believe that Liquid lost his right arm rather
than his left because Ocelot wears Liquids right arm. However, Ocelot
only pretended to be Liquid, so it is possible Liquid may have lost his
left arm at some point.
Something else that could lead us to believe that the character seen is
Liquid is the UK flag. Liquid was raised in Great Britain and worked as
an agent there for a while.
Another key point in the trailer that backs up this theory is the car
crash scene. Anyone who has played, and completed, Metal Gear Solid 1
will know the game leads to a car chase which ends in a car crash for
Liquid. With that being said, this scene may be a reference to the
ending of Metal Gear Solid 1. It does seem as if Liquid dies after the
car crash, but there is the possibility of him being in a coma. His body
was recovered by the government at some point.
Personally, I believe this assumption is very unlikely to be true, but
there is always that possibility. Let's go on to some other things I'd
like to point out that I may not have in the
first post on the original trailer.
The white petals seen when the character is awakening from his coma
could very easily prove that he is Big Boss considering the same white
petals were seen in Metal Gear Solid 3 when he is ordered to kill The
Boss.
One last thing that I wanted to point out about the CEO's name is that
the beginning of his first name, Joakim, sounds like the word joke. We
already know that the letters of his name rearranged spell out Kojima,
but maybe the choice of arrangement for the fake name sounding like
"joke" wasn't just a coincidence. Just a small something I noticed and
thought I would share with you.
With all of that being said, what do you guys think? Maybe some theories
were over-thought and just don't fit the Metal Gear Solid story.
Regardless of which assumptions are true, I'm ready to see more visuals
or clues for The Phantom Pain.
This work?
