The Pain

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Metal Gear Character
The Pain
Aliases	None
Real Name	Unknown
Nationality	Russian
Affiliations	Cobra Unit
Gender	Male
Voice Actor (West)	Gregg Berger
Voice Actor (East)	Hisao Egawa

The Pain has the ability to control large swarms of hornets at will. He gained this ability by allowing hornets to sting him for days on end and for months at a time, until the hornets came to believe that he was an actual hornet himself. It is also presume he angered the hornets by carrying the Queen Hornet in his backpack which is still there to the day.

Besides his hornets, The Pain is armed with a Tommy gun and grenades, and can use hornets in conjunction with these weapons. He can protect himself from gunfire and other attacks by covering himself with a thick shield of them, and can create an exact duplicate of himself, shaped out of hornets, to confuse his enemies.

He also raises special hornets called "bullet bees" inside his own body. When he removes his balaclava, the bullet bees are released from his mouth. They move at extraordinarily fast speeds, and upon contact with enemies, they burrow into their bodies and begin eating their insides until they are dead.

He is the largest of the Cobras, at well over 6'7" tall. Despite his size, he is incredibly agile, and performs backflips with ease.

His codename signifies the pain he feels while on the battlefield.

The Pain was ultimately defeated by Snake in a battle in an underground cave. He was the first Cobra to fall.