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whadu · Level 49: GameShark **Posts:** 37006 **Timestamp:** Mon May 26, 08 2:42 PM

Gray Fox ("Grey Fox" in the MSX2 games) first appears in the original Metal Gear as a high-ranking agent of FOXHOUND (the "Fox" codename being the highest commemoration within the unit) who goes missing during a mission prior to the events of the game, his last transmission being a cryptic message simply saying "Metal Gear". Solid Snake's initial objective in the game is to rescue Gray Fox, who reveals the true nature of Metal Gear to the player.

Fox returns in the sequel, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, having left FOXHOUND and defected to Zanzibar Land to join Big Boss' side. Fox pilots the new Metal Gear model, Metal Gear D, and confronts Snake a few times, while secretly assisting him as an anonymous informant. Snake destroys Metal Gear D and ends up being challenged by Fox to a fistfight in the middle of a minefield. Fox's past is fleshed out in this game and his civilian identity is revealed to be Frank Jaeger (フランク・イェーガー, Furanku Iēgā?, "Frank Yeager" in the MSX2 version). His face portrait in the MSX2 version was modeled after actor Tom Berenger.

In Metal Gear Solid, a Cyborg Ninja (サイボーグ忍者, Saibōgu Ninja?) in a powered exoskeleton and armed with a high-frequency blade (a Chokuto), confronts Solid Snake. Help comes from a mysterious ally, code-named "Deepthroat," giving Snake cryptic advice via CODEC. They both turn out to be Gray Fox, who challenges Snake to a final duel. This battle isn't to death, however; the Cyborg Ninja is later killed by Liquid Snake, piloting Metal Gear REX, after Fox destroys the vehicle's radome.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, set in 1970, expands on Gray Fox's past (integrating elements of the Cyborg Ninja into it), featuring a teenage Frank Jaeger as a masked machete-wielding member of the FOX unit code-named Null (ヌル, Nuru?). Four years prior to the events of the game, Naked Snake became acquainted with him as a nameless child soldier in a guerrilla group in Mozambique. Naked Snake took the young child and left him in a rehab center, in which he was then taken by the CIA and used as a test subject for the Perfect Soldier project. He fights Naked Snake twice during the game before joining him once he is defeated.

While Fox is killed in Metal Gear Solid, the Cyborg Ninja identity is succeeded by Olga Gurlukovich in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Raiden in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Outside the Metal Gear canon, the Cyborg Ninja appears as a hidden character in the VR Missions expansion of the original Metal Gear Solid, and as an alternate outfit for Raiden in the extra missions mode in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance. The Ninja has also appeared outside the Metal Gear series: as a race car driver in Konami Krazy Racers and as an "assist trophy" in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Illustration of the Cyborg Ninja from Metal Gear Solid by Yoji Shinkawa.

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