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Big Boss is a fictional character from the Metal Gear series of games.

Metal Gear Character
Big Boss
Aliases	Naked Snake, Jack, Saladin, "One Eyed Uncle" (to Zanzibar Land orphans)
Real Name	Unknown (See below)
Nationality	United States
Affiliations	CIA, then FOXHOUND
Gender	Male
Voice Actor (West)	David Hayter
Voice Actor (East)	Akio Otsuka

[edit] History

Big Boss' history prior to joining the armed forces and becoming a disciple of The Boss is a complete mystery. According to some sources, Big Boss was born as a third generation Japanese-American. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he lied about his age and joined the United States Army, and first saw action fighting in France. After the war, he remained in the military, and fought for it again in the Korean War. In 1956, Jack was involved in the Bikini Atoll testing of the first airborne detonation of a hydrogen bomb. In between the Korean and Vietnam Wars, he fought alongside the Green Berets, as well as served under his mentor The Boss. He also helped her develop CQC during this time. In 1964, he was recruited by the fledgling FOX (Force Operations X) unit, and underwent an operation titled Virtuous Mission, in which he was to rescue Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov,a defecting Soviet scientist. It was during this mission that Jack was given the codename "Naked Snake".

However, this mission failed, due to the defection of Snake's mentor, The Boss. A week later, FOX unit and Snake were assigned Operation Snake Eater, in which the objective was to eliminate The Boss, the Cobra Unit and her new Soviet ally Colonel Yevgeniy Borisovich Volgin, as well as rescue Sokolov again. It was during this mission that Snake came across the prototype designs for Metal Gear, invented by another Russian scientist called Granin,who felt jealous of Sokolov's promotion, since Colonel Volgin decided to cancel the funding of Granins project, the developement of a two-legged walking tank, "a kind of Metal Gear", in order to advance research on Sokolovs Shagohod.

During this mission, Snake lost his right eye while enduring torture. However, he succeeded in completing the mission, destroyed the Shagohod and killed his mentor The Boss and Colonel Volgin. For this, he was given the title of "Big Boss" by President Johnson. When direct American involvement in the Vietnam conflict started the following year, Big Boss participated in Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) along with teams of Green Berets and Army Rangers. His skills in combat earned him the "great mythological soldier" moniker. Once the Vietnam conflict had ended, Big Boss took part in more than 70 missions attached to groups such as the SOG (Special Operations Group), the Wild Geese, and Delta Force.

It was around this time that Big Boss was found to be sterile due to the Bikini Atoll testing he had taken part in years earlier. In 1970, the FOX unit was disbanded, and the following year, Big Boss formed his own unit, FOXHOUND, to carry on its tradition. In 1972, Big Boss was found in a coma after a wild mission. The U.S. Government brought his unconscious body to a lab where his genes were extracted to make genetically enhanced soldiers. This project would be known as "Les Enfants Terribles". Liquid Snake, Solid Snake, and Solidus Snake were produced in this program, and were known as the "Sons of Big Boss".

In the nineties, Big Boss used the exorbitant amount of money he had collected over the years to create the fortress nation Outer Heaven. However, Solid Snake disbanded the nation, and defeated Big Boss in one-on-one combat. Big Boss escaped, and took control of another nation known as Zanzibar Land (not to be confused with 'Zanzibar'). Solid Snake again faced Big Boss in battle, and killed him. Big Boss' corpse was recovered by the U.S. Government, and his genome was used to discover "soldier genes", which the US government gave to the Next Generation Special Forces via gene therapy.

Big Boss's actions, even though considered evil and traitorous, were meant to accomplish the dream of his mentor, The Boss, of having the world "Unified" again.