In 2018, Raiden became a member of Maverick Security Consulting, Inc., doing multiple tasks while raising money for his family. the only parts of him not synthetic were like his spinal cord, brain, and few other organs. Sometime prior to the Big Shell Incident, Jack was recruited into the supposedly reformed FOXHOUND, a special forces unit that no longer officially existed. Raiden eventually managed to reach Desperado's main base in Abkhazia, a production plant near the coast. [73] The negative reception to the character, as well as his girlfriend Rose having similarly negative reception in the same game, was also given a brief nod in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance when Solidus summons them, where he described them as an infamous duo whose mere presence was enough to destroy an entire universe and were feared and hated by the universe. His original cyborg body's durability was relatively low, as it was lacking armor, and was obsolete with limited battlefield potential as of 2018. Raiden then resigned from Maverick to pursue and retrieve the children's brain cases from World Marshal in Colorado. [deleted] 5 yr. ago. Upon wiping all of them out, Raiden was extracted and given his payment, with Miller considering meeting him again in the future. The Patriots had named him after the plane[24] and later informed Raiden that, like his namesake, he was nothing more than a weapon, a tool to be discarded once its usefulness has been outlived. This is from the Maverick teaser screenshot on the. The first officer character, Raiden's standard skin, is unlocked by S-ranking Hard Mode of the Jamais Vu mission while connected to the app, and the second character, Raiden in his White Armor, is unlocked by getting 25,000 points on Jamais Vu's Hard Mode. [15] He rarely got to see his family because of his line of work, but the few times he did see his family always put a smile on his son's face. He later revealed this to the Colonel, who was surprised, since there wasn't supposed to be anyone other than Raiden who should have infiltrated the base. Zachary. He had eventually left the Force XXI group by January 20, 2007.[9]. Sundowner then informed him that the event was the beginning of Operation Tecumseh, but elaborated no further. Before he can question this Ames suddenly dies of an apparent heart attack. The transport chopper had limited defenses, including an EMP generator that could deflect missiles, but not the drones themselves. Consumes Electrobytes stored inside enemies. Lightning Bolt" when he learnt what Raiden's name translated to. Taken aboard Arsenal, Raiden was later freed by Olga, telling him that they had needed to use him so that Snake could sneak on board. Doktor was forced to leave him due to cyborgs shooting anti-air rockets at the chopper, but he honored Raiden's sacrifice. [25] When the memories of his time as a child soldier began to resurface, he gained somewhat of a low opinion of himself, especially in comparison to Solid Snake's accomplishments. He also rescued Arsenal's AI engineer Emma Emmerich and attempted to escort her to safety, although she was later killed by Vamp despite his best efforts. Because of his status as a cyborg, his left arm also was directly connected to his cranial nerves. Overall, he possesses similar stats to Old Snake and Naked Snake. Blade Wolf scouted ahead, while he took on the police, wiping them out. Raiden is first depicted as a white-haired adult who uses a protective suit known as a "Skull Suit" (, Sukaru Stsu) for his missions in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Because of this, removing it caused serious and unpleasant side effects of undergoing temporary memory loss as well as intense flashbacks to his time as a child soldier in Liberia, due to his hippocampus being stimulated, a side effect of the left arm's holographic storage data being connected to cranial nerves to record everything around him and his senses. Now living a life in the United States, Jack joined the military where his admirable skills were at first recognized by the U.S. Army's Task Force XXI. Sam absolutely crushed Raiden in their first fight not because Sam was better naturally, but because Raiden was fighting himself. MGS4 Raiden skin information from the official site. After locating Solidus within the gap between parallel universes and learning of Solidus's plan to ensure that he and his alternate selves survive their fated defeats via interfering with the Koppelthorn Engine, he uses his abilities via the Koppelthorne Engine to seal Solid Snake into the body of a "young, blond man" and experience various surreal realities (alluding to Raiden as well as acting as a subtle nod towards Raiden replacing Snake as the main protagonist in the main story). A month later,[12] following Raiden's surgery, Rose and her son John paid him a visit, though Raiden ignored them both, believing that the child was Campbell's, who Rose had married during Raiden's estrangement from her. Raiden's surgery following the events of Liquid Ocelot's Insurrection, where he was reunited with Rose and first met Little John, took place in a hospital in Maryland.[35]. After 9/11, Raiden's name began to be written in kanji as . 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. Raiden concept artwork for Metal Gear Solid 2. In stark contrast to Raiden's lack of CQC skills in the 2005 Director's Trailer for MGS4 included on Subsistence, he is shown in this game to have an S2 rank in CQC, the highest rank. In 2014, Raiden reappeared in South America, revealing himself to Solid Snake by Codec to warn him of an enemy PMC ambush. Raiden does not appear in the main story, but he is briefly referenced by his real name, Jack, in the special ending after the player managed to complete 40 VR missions, where he was being trained with various VR missions relating to Solid Snake's exploits in the Galuade Incident, presumably to make Raiden more powerful than Snake was during Galuade's fall. Raiden later met Peter Stillman, although their meeting occurred awkwardly when Raiden mistook the latter for a bomber at work and held him up, and was tasked alongside Pliskin to freeze the detonators of C4 to ensure they at least weren't an immediate threat. The giant portrait of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance protagonist Raiden in England has been replaced after seven years.. READ MORE: The curious case of Konami, 'PT' and the Streisand Effect . Shinkawa, when explaining his motives for creating Black Raiden, mentioned that he wanted to create a dark hero, different from his design from Metal Gear Solid 4. Instead, Kiefer Sutherland's voice clips of Big Boss were re-used for Raiden's interrogation of enemy soldiers, although slightly modified to sound more "mechanical.". Raiden is actually a pretty good dad considering his situation. "Ivan," the first name of Raikov, is the Russian equivalent of "John," for which "Jack" is often used as a nickname in English. Eventually, Jack grew to love Rose deeply, but his harsh experiences had left him melancholic and emotionally distant, and he constantly shut her out of his problems. While escaping with Doktor, he fell off the cargo helicopter and survived largely intact, while leaving a large crater. B Afterwards, he ended up reaching the floor containing the server room, although he had to fight body doubles of both Mistral and Monsoon before confronting Sundowner at the room. In the original game plan of Metal Gear Solid 2, Raiden was to have had false memories of his father, in which he was apparently killed in a hunting accident. Afterwards, he then navigated his way through an abandoned district that was heavily armed with various cyborgs and UGs, including mass-produced versions of Blade Wolf's LQ-84i form, the Fenrirs. Now apparently working for Colonel Campell who was acting as his support during his infiltration of the Big Shell, Jack was given his official codename - Raiden - after it was revealed that the leader of the terrorist laying the Big Shell to seige was using the codename Solid Snake. A Play Arts Kai figurine of Raiden based on his appearance in Metal Gear Rising is in the works. Raiden and Sundowner then encountered each other, with the latter also referring to him as "Jack." 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. Eventually, he settles for "cybernetic private military security soldier" as his last chance at a job where he was met with implied success. 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. He handled a High Frequency Blade, operable in lethal and non-lethal mode, which allowed him to deflect frontal attacks. Hideo Kojima personally requested the development of Raiden as a means to develop Snake from a third-person perspective. Armstrong's nanomachines gave him the upper hand and he easily snapped Raiden's HF Sword in half with his bare hands. [17] During the procedure, they also had to replace memory units in his nervous system, and he was also losing a lot of blood due to his earlier wounds, forcing the doctors to put a clamp on him, which also resulted in Raiden flashing back to his time as a child soldier in Liberia, where he was injected with something. In the same trailer, each of the skins is shown fighting against enemies in a similar manner to how they fought in at least one scene from their original appearances. Prior to finding out that Pliskin was in fact Snake, he also held some respect for Pliskin in terms of mentorship and camaraderie. Afterwards, he was deployed to Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, on an MQ-133C flying wing on loan to Maverick, where he was then launched when nearing insertion by a rocket platform, in order to quell a military coup that resulted in the Abkhazian president and most of his cabinet being killed. Lightning Bolt," in reference to his original code name. Jack and other surviving members of the Small Boy Unit then underwent extensive amounts of counseling before becoming at least outwardly stable. The eye color was rectified in a promotional render released several months later via the online game Metal Gear Solid: Piece Walker. Whilst playing as this character, Raiden's actions are limited. Raiden appears as the playable main character in Metal Gear Rising, set four years after the events of MGS4. Raiden also shares many similarities to Eli (Liquid Snake) during the events of MGSV as a Caucasian soldier who commanded other child soldiers in African countries (Raiden in Liberia and Liquid in Angolia). Raiden was confirmed to make a reappearance in Metal Gear Solid 4 during its development. After the immediate threat had passed, due to the actions of Otacon's Metal Gear Mk. Throughout his mission, however, being that the memories of his past began to slowly resurface, he also began to suspect that he enjoyed killing, and reluctantly informed Rosemary as much. [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. According to Kojima, he planned for the story to be about Gray Fox, although he allowed his staff to use Raiden instead. Raiden The original render of Raiden from the game's reveal at E3 2009 showed him with a brown eye and a pale complexion. Their battle eventually resulted in Vamp standing at Raiden's back and locking him in his grip. 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. Now fully trained in VR, Jack, now codenamed Snake, was recruited into FOXHOUND and ordered on his first official mission to stop some terrorists who had infiltrated the offshore oil clearance plant, Big Shell. Armstrong believed that America had rotted to the core, so he intended to remake America so the citizens will all fight, die, and kill for whatever they individually believed in. He also insisted that he keep his pain inhibitors off as he needed it. It's interesting to note that whilst playing as this character, Raiden shares the same face as Frank Jaeger in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Olga, under the guise of Deepthroat, told Raiden of the location of the hostages. Pressing on, Raiden made his way to rendezvous with Snake, and was eventually contacted by Rose. One of Raiden's nicknames was White Devil. 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