The Sorrow

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Metal Gear Character
The Sorrow
Aliases	None
Real Name	Unknown
Nationality	United States
Affiliations	Cobra Unit
Gender	Male
Voice Actor (West)	David Thomas
Voice Actor (East)	Yukitoshi Hori

Although he has no actual combat abilities, The Sorrow is gifted with the powers of a medium. He is able to summon the dead and assume their combat abilities by bringing their spirits into himself. Communicating with dead soldiers also gives him several advantages during a battle, such as learning of enemy positions.

Like the other Cobras, his codename reflects the emotion he brings to the battlefield. The Sorrow he brings by sharing the dead with all those that live.

The Boss and The Sorrow fought together as part of the Cobra Unit during World War II and participated in the Allied landing at Normandy in 1944. The two had a child together (Revolver Ocelot), who was taken from them by the Philosophers. After the War, he worked for the Soviet Union and was ultimately killed by The Boss during a covert mission in 1962.

In the game, set in 1964, The Sorrow appears as a ghost. Several times, he is seen crying blood. Whenever he does, rain falls from the sky.

During an apparent nightmare, The Sorrow forces Snake to walk down a seemingly endless river. So Snake will "feel the sorrow of those whose lives he ended," he makes him encounter the ghost of every single person killed during the game (depending on the player, this can be anywhere from less than ten to in the hundreds). The ghosts of fallen Cobra Unit members also appear.