[59] Raiden defeats Solidus after the Patriots' AIs tell him his death would also trigger those of Olga's child and Rosemary, the latter of whom is revealed to have been pregnant with Raiden's child during the mission. This suggestion was made due to the fact that he and Zimmerman had previously worked together on The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, in which he was Jonny's second voice actor. [148][149] Raiden finding conviction with his inner past persona during Revengeance was noted to go with the ideas of enjoying the hack and slash mechanics provided the developers as Raiden has kill enemies while also being able to face properly all of enemies who share values with him during cutscenes. As such, the model is not intended to fully represent Raiden's physical characteristics, as supported by lines of dialogue from various soldiers, in regards to the presence and size of his genitalia. Matsuyama wanted Raiden to have as strong a role in the game as in Metal Gear Solid 2, leading him to become its main character. After the Colonel claimed that Rose was being held hostage, Raiden began to fear that Rose didn't exist either, and that all his memories of her might have been falsified. [20] Director Mineshi Kimura wanted Raiden to be able to move the way he did in the Metal Gear Solid 4 trailers, wanting to show "the stealth of the sword, and the strength of not even losing to the gun, and the fear and power you have with this blade". ParentsSolidus Snake (adoptive father)Rosemary (wife)John (son) [4] 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. This eventually culminated in Rose entering his room without his permission, which was devoid of any personal objects save for a bed and a desk. [16] 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. [63] The trauma of his breakup with Rosemary and the apparent miscarriage of his child have made Raiden believe he belongs on the battlefield. After The Patriots' fall, Raiden met up with the African country's prime minister N'mani, which the latter jokingly called him "Mr. Raiden's sword is not included. Raiden and Snake were able to join forces to take down Dead Cell and upload a virus into GW, Arsenal's AI. [32] could understand the character's pain; despite becoming a cyborg, Raiden still acts like a human. Designed by 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. SNS He was then seemingly betrayed by Snake and was subsequently captured by Olga Gurlukovich. Nonetheless, he managed to buy enough time for the train to pass through the tunnel before Sam could kill him. Raiden's use of the outfit, identified as a Mariachi outfit, was later explained in the MGRR Mastiff boot camp trailer at Santa Monica, where it was stated that Raiden bought the outfit in a mistaken impression that it would help him blend in with the populace while undergoing his mission into Mexico. Caucasian [137] Raiden's interactions with veteran Solid Snake identify the former as "a Metal Gear fan". [41] However, performing certain actions will allow the player to briefly glimpse this choice of design. After George told him to not worry about him and just save the children and stop the scientist, Raiden decided to act. 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. He later made his way, with his emotional state being volatile, to the immediate premises of World Marshal HQ, but was beaten down just outside of the front door, with Sam and Monsoon greeting him and informing him about it being peoples' natures to kill and be violent. The final color model was unveiled on the Metal Gear Solid Facebook page at 5:58 PM on August 9, 2012. Metal Gear Solid: Rising was based on a concept known as "zan-datsu", literally "cut and take. Shinkawa was surprised by the way he illustrated Raiden. [47] During development of Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Flynn was not informed about the work despite Raiden being in the trailer. This codename stayed with him after the Manhattan incident until Patriots' fall. MGR After becoming a Cyborg Ninja, his overall strength, speed, agility, and endurance had increased to superhuman levels, allowing him to swing two Gekko with little effort by the wires and was even able to temporarily block Outer Haven. 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. Raiden then intended to upload the FOXALIVE virus into Outer Haven's on-board AI in Snake's place, since his cyborg body was immune to the microwave defenses ahead of them, but an emboldened Snake convinced him otherwise. Raiden then met with Snake, who gave him most of his equipment back, along with Olga's high-frequency blade. Raiden was forced to confront the PMC's modified Metal Gear RAY while Sundowner made his escape, which he fought three times due to its persistence and eventually culminated in Raiden running his HF Blade down its spine. As a prisoner, the Patriots used Raiden as a test subject for experiments in exoskeletal enhancement surgery, during which he had his head and spine excised from his body from his lower jaw down and subsequently grafted into an enhanced synthetic body. He then made his way to the balcony to access the rooftops via an elevator, as the highways were blocked off by the police. He was again redesigned for both the cancelled game Metal Gear Solid: Rising and its reboot Revengeance to portray a darker side of his character. The figure's silhouette and the figure brandishing a sword implied that the figure was Raiden. [11] Due to negative response to Raiden's role in the game, Kojima said in retrospective that the team failed to properly show the character. Blue (occasionally glowed red) Although Raiden appeared in several preview trailers in his scuba gear, his presence was not emphasized. After completing all the Special Mission stages in the previously released Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, a mysterious person named No. After traversing the rooftops, he then was instructed by Blade Wolf to access an abandoned rail system dating back to the 19th century. Instead, he decided to hold the Haven Troopers off and buy Snake enough time to reach the AI and upload the virus. [86] Raiden is playable in the video games PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Super Bomberman R using his Metal Gear Rising design. On March 4, Kojima compared Raiden's characterization to that of action film series hero John Rambo, citing that both characters fight despite being peaceful in nature.[62]. Concept artwork for Liquid Ocelot included sketches where Ocelot was ambushed by a mysterious figure, and the figure manages to cut Ocelot's right forearm off, à la Metal Gear Solid. [5] His outfit—the Skull Suit—was difficult to design until the staff decided on a "bonelike" concept. [76] Raiden appears in a series of comical scenes in an early promotional trailer for Guns of the Patriots, in which he fights for control of the franchise with Solid Snake. He eventually met up with the African country's prime minister N'mani, where the latter congratulated him on Maverick's contribution in the rebuilding of the country. [125] GamePro called Raiden's encounter with Vamp in this game one of the "most memorable cinematics" of the series because of his change of fighting style from his debut as he "redeems his girlish image",[104] while IGN listed it as the 80th best moment in video-game history for similar reasons. MGS4 Raiden skin information from the official site. After finding a Dwarf Gekko and having it locate a mainframe system to access, he had the files forwarded to Doktor. However, he also had to endure some physical abuse by Olga to ensure her cover was remained intact. [116] IGN wrote that fans of Metal Gear Solid 4 would enjoy the game more because Raiden can replicate his moves from that game's cutscenes in gameplay. He later learned from Courtney that the agents couldn't find George. "The game's original producer, Shigenobu Matsuyama, explained in a Konami press conference that the "take" part revolved around Raiden literally taking power from enemies, a concept shown in the trailer as Raiden absorbed the power from a robotic soldier's intestinal battery. 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. Raiden then recollects the abuse and threats at gunpoint during childhood before he, "next thing he knows," got off on slicing foes to shreds. The story for the game, when it was titled Metal Gear Solid: Rising, was originally going to cover the events that occur between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4, and would have focused on how Raiden became the character he is during the Guns of the Patriots Incident. His first missions for Maverick had him working with Kevin Washington, where they were hired by the Carabinieri to track down three Albanian mafiosos that fled Italy for Montenegro, with orders to retrieve them. [15] Because his real name still painfully reminded him of his past, he still went exclusively by the name of Raiden. Social Ops Black Raiden bonus giveaway advert for Edion Corporation. 's odd behavior, Raiden had Snake's partner Otacon investigate, who eventually learned that the Colonel was actually an AI construct of GW, partially based on the manipulation of Raiden's memories. literally means "thunder and lightning" or "thunder god" in Japanese. Following the end of the war economy, Raiden attempted to return to a normal, civilian life with his wife and son. Deducing that World Marshal intended to frame Desperado with the attack on the President, Raiden decided to destroy the control tower, hoping to cause enough damage to get the United States military to realize something was wrong. Raiden has a major role in one of the Secret Theater shorts made by Kojima Productions for their website, and included in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. [70][71] In Europe, the negative reception towards Raiden was even more pronounced, largely because of not only the plot twist, and the lengthy delays in releasing Metal Gear Solid 2, but also because several gaming magazines spoiled the twist in their coverage, which left the players being unable to avoid it. According to the creators, they were specifically tasked with creating the episode by Hideo Kojima himself. 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. Raiden was also capable of running fast enough to scale walls without falling. He did possess optical implants to a slightly lesser degree prior to the upgrade, which displayed things in a HUD.[31]. He also read the French novel L'Étranger. Eventually taken to the United States after Solidus abandoned him, Jack recovered from and repressed his years of trauma, and was taken in by the Patriots, who used him as a soldier and had him participat… During the fight with Sam in Colorado, he ends up losing control of his inner nature and his suppressed "Jack the Ripper" persona, resulting in their respective moral alignments becoming blurred. However, when Dolzaev refused, Raiden deduced from his reply that he was actually intending to blow himself up near a power pylon as his final act, but was unable to stop him in time. The actors also liked the inclusion of Raiden's sidekick, LQ-84i (later renamed Bladewolf), as they believe that ninjas like Raiden obligatory need dogs as allies. In the artwork for Rising and Revengeance, Raiden had a navy-blue bandage over his left eye as a makeshift eye-patch. Raiden holding the high-frequency blade. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LegendaryPeelzLike and subscribe, folks! Originally, to defeat Solidus, Raiden must cut off both his mechanical snake-like arms, then he must attack Solidus' back and sever the back bone vertebra connection, rendering Solidus no longer mobile. He compared Raiden to the controversial Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks. Raiden then reengaged Armstrong, gradually overpowering him. [33] Inaba felt honored to work in Revengeance due to how he was able to see a more mature version of the character to the point of wishing for a sequel.[34]. [120][118], PLAY editor Nick Jones listed the scene in which Raiden is nude as his fourth-favorite moment of the franchise, calling it the "one of the funniest moments in gaming history". 声優 は 堀内賢雄 、英語版の声優はクイントン・フリンで、『 サブシスタンス 』に収録された「メタルギアライデン」では チャーリー・シュラッター が担当した。. However, his skills at Russian were less than stellar. Jack and other surviving members of the Small Boy Unit then underwent extensive amounts of counseling before becoming at least outwardly stable. [31] Writer Etsu Tamari wanted to portray Raiden as a more mature person who wishes to take Snake's footsteps. Born After successfully escaping, Raiden went on to assist Solid Snake during the Guns of the Patriots Incident. 50 The AI instructed Raiden to kill Solidus, which he had no choice but to do so, for his own sake and for the sake of Olga's daughter and Rose/their unborn child. Raiden was also capable of surviving falls large enough to kill any ordinary person, as evidenced by his falling down into the cityscape of Denver, although Boris implied that this was largely due to luck. The twist that Raiden was not Snake was admitted by Kojima to have been inspired by the plot twist of Terminator 2: Judgment Day where the titular character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger was not a villain in that movie.[39]. American Liberian[1] However, this ended up being rejected by Kojima,[37] although a similar design would be used for the character The Fear. Entitled Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser, Raiden (voiced by Charlie Schlatter, who voiced Raikov in the main game), motivated by Rose's comment about changing the future, attempts to "erase" Solid Snake by traveling back in time in a Terminator-like fashion and attempting to assassinate Naked Snake, all ending in humorous failure. One of his failures also had him encountering Colonel Volgin in the prison, referring to his similar appearance to Raikov. Raiden the White-blooded Scout, could fall from any height without damage and jump on ledges that would normally require a boost, and had no nanomachines. He then learned that most of the kids have likely had the brains removed and sent to a facility in America, and also noticed that Sundowner and another VIP, whom Kevin recognized, inspecting the facility in the video files. During his youth, in the turbulent period that was the First Liberian Civil War, Jack was adopted by Solidus Snake, who named him and became his godfather after he killed the former's parents. Senator Armstrong then stepped out of the cockpit and explained his motives regarding the fall of SOP and the ruin of the American economy. Eye color The deceased Raiden is clutching his groin, indicating that the killer is President Johnson, referencing the latter's actions in the main Sons of Liberty story line. As a result, Flynn kept low hopes in regards to the idea of being cast. On another, Jack witnessed Solidus demonstrate to him that blades were a "noble weapon" compared to guns, by slitting another soldier's throat in front of him.[4]. In addition, he also assured them that when the player play the game, they'll like Raiden a lot more than in Metal Gear Solid 2. When Raiden kills Solidus he cuts the rope on Federal Hall National Memorial's flagpole, causing an American flag to cover his enemy's body. He then reminded Raiden that the cyborgs, adults as they may be, had in fact felt forced to participate due to costs to gain cybernetics to even have a livelihood and not beg on the streets, even in America. However, all of this drama was a ruse by the Patriots to gain more control over Jack's life, with Rosemary acting as a spy. With each of them having inflicted serious injuries to the other, their battle ended when Vamp succumbed to his wounds and collapsed to the ground. [10] Raiden's appearance in the game was announced to the Japanese press on the day of the game's release in North America. Raiden's naked CG character model (used during the initial infiltration of Arsenal Gear) actually possesses no genitalia. Voiced by (Japanese) There were also many other offers prior to the game's release that could give players different pre-order content. He later rescued a Guyanese boy named George who had escaped from the facility. Following his debut in Metal Gear Solid 2, Raiden was met with a mixed reception from fans of the series. Because of the limited time, they had to undergo ignition without a countdown. Previously a child soldier under Solidus Snake, Raiden was later selected by the Patriots to test the S3 Plan at the Big Shell, as a new recruit to the reformed FOXHOUND unit. Concept art of Raiden shown at "The Art of Yoji Shinkawa" exhibit at the Konami Style store in 2011. The mask was created primarily as an excuse to allow people who liked Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2 to technically play as him, owing to his popularity in Japan. 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