- See also: List of recurring Metal Gear characters
This is a list of characters appearing in the video game Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Being a direct sequel to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, shares many of the same characters (see List of Metal Gear Solid 3 characters) in addition to introducing new ones. This article deals primarily with the new characters and returning characters involved in the game's plot.
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FOXHOUND
Naked Snake
| Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
|---|---|
| Akio Otsuka | David Hayter |
Naked Snake reprises his role as the protagonist from Snake Eater, and still goes by his old codename despite the fact he has been rewarded with the title of Big Boss. Snake is six years older at the start of the game, but memories of the mission in Grozyni Grad and the Boss are still a constant thorn in his side. He is ambushed and taken captive by his former unit FOX and finds himself imprisoned in a South American base, the reason being they believe that Snake holds the remaining half of the Philosopher's Legacy. He manages to escape only to learn that he is convicted of conspiring with the FOX unit's revolt along with his former C.O., Major Zero. To prove his innocence, Snake sets out to form his own team of specialists, forming the basis of FOXHOUND. Snake's is the only FOX unit sneaking suit that doesn't have a unique color on the right shoulder.
Roy Campbell
- Further information: Roy Campbell
| Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
|---|---|
| Toshio Furukawa | David Agranov |
Roy Campbell is the future executive officer of FOXHOUND and Solid Snake's future CO in the Metal Gear series. In Portable Ops, he is part of the Army Special Forces unit that is sent before Naked Snake to the San Hieronmymo base to neutralize the members of FOX, but is taken captive during the effort after all of his teammates are killed. He meets Snake in the cell next to him, while the two are under captivity. Roy escapes with Snake and helps him form Snake's squad. He serves as Snake's primary radio contact and in several missions, he drives a truck used to transport captured enemy soldiers. The younger version of Roy Campbell is an extreme departure from his older self as Colonel class, as he is free-spirited and when not focusing on the mission at hand, preoccupied with courting attractive women. Despite the presence of an in-game character model, Roy is the only main character who cannot be controlled by the player nor added to the player's squad in the original Portable Ops, although the player can use game modifying cheats to use his character model with any soldier. In the Portable Ops Plus expansion pack, Roy is a legitimate playable character where it's revealed that he was appearently a headhunter either before or during his military career.
FOX Unit
Gene
| Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
|---|---|
| Norio Wakamoto | Steve Blum |
Commander Gene is the charismatic commander of the FOX unit. Known under the codename of Viper, he became the unit's central member after Snake left. He is the one leading the FOX unit's revolt and is hoping to turn the San Hieronymo base into Army's Heaven, a new nation, run for and by soldiers. It is later revealed that he is the product of the Successor Project, the goal of which was to create the "ultimate battlefield commander"; The Boss was the model for the experiment, making him and Snake 'like brothers,' mirroring the relationship between Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. His reflexes are faster even than Null's, and his voice was given a special manipulative mind-altering power. Gene feigns loyalty and strength to those who follow him but secretly despises the human race in general, and exhibited qualities of deeply pathological, tyrannical behavior. During Gene's speech-making, he could swell up loyalty and powerful, trusting emotions in his soldiers, but also used it to instill fear in mobs and make riots break out, laughing cruelly as he did so. Gene also uses his gifted voice at one point to speak directly to Elisa's dark and powerful second personality, Ursula, and release her. Snake confronts Gene near the end of the game and is taunted with information regarding the nature of the Boss's defection, the deep rooted corruption within the White House and even hints at genetic engineering. Gene murders one of his followers, exemplifying his hypocritical, two-faced nature and launches Metal Gear RAXA, resulting in a fight to the death with Snake. However Snake manages to triumph, allowing Gene the revelation that Snake was indeed the true successor after all, and relinquishes the funds for Army's Heaven. His last words are reminiscent of the last words of the Boss, and he pleads with Snake to find his calling. In his career it is revealed he had been into political science outside the military (explaining the reason behind the disposition of his speeches), as well as a rather prominent medical doctor. Gene's sneaking suit's unique color isn't shown as he always has it covered with a coat similar to the ones worn by members of FOXHOUND in the original Metal Gear Solid.
Cunningham
| Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
|---|---|
| Daisuke Gouri | Noah Nelson |
Lt. Cunningham is a large man of African descent and a member of FOX, as well as a former CIA lieutenant. He has an artificial leg which replaces the one he lost in battle. Was formerly known under the codename of Boa when he first enrolled in FOX. He is the one who brought Snake into San Hieronymo. While he feigns loyalty to Gene, he is actually working under direct orders from the Pentagon. His objective was to force Gene to deploy Metal Gear and launch a nuclear strike over the Soviet Union (and thus, tarnishing the CIA's reputation as an efficient organization). He attempts to gain Snake's cooperation, but Snake refuses to take part of the Pentagon's plot and attacks Cunningham. Cunningham fights Snake in a flying hovercraft armed with a Gatling Gun. After Cunningham is defeated, he attempts to blow the base with a Soviet-made Davy Crockett, but his hovercraft is badly damaged during the battle with Snake, causing it to explode, killing Cunningham. He shares his surname and a similar face appearance with the Benson Cunningham character from Snatcher, probably as a reference to this Hideo Kojima's game, although their clothing and roles are drastically different between themselves. In his career he is revealed to be an arms specialist (in FOX presumably) and a quarterback. He also has a unique set of animations during gameplay. All other characters use all of Snake's animations while Cunningham has unique run and sneak animations. His movement sounds are also unique because of his leg. Cunningham's unique sneaking suit color is yellow.
Null
- Further information: Gray Fox
| Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
|---|---|
| Jun Fukuyama | Larc Spies |
Null is a ninja-like member of FOX who originally met Snake in 1966, at Mozambique as a child soldier. He is the result of an experimental Super Soldier program created by the Philosophers, which apparently ended in failure. Null was the only recorded success, and as most men would go mad in minutes from the extreme training, he was thought to be a lost number- explaining how he received his codename. Trained by the CIA to be the "Perfect Soldier", he carries out his objectives without any hesitation, feelings, doubts or memories- his only purpose is "to complete the mission." When he is not fighting, he is kept inside a coffin-shaped sensory deprivation water tank, intended for resetting his memories so as to prevent him from turning against Gene. It is eventually revealed that Null is a teenage Frank Jaeger, the character who would later join FOXHOUND under the codename Gray Fox. Naturally, as a child soldier, he had no career before even becoming what he is at this point in the series. Null's unique color is blood red.
Python
| Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
|---|---|
| Yusaka Yara | Dwight Schultz |
Python is a twisted, depraved character who is obsessed with Snake and matches him in terms of raw skill and soldiering instinct. He acts as the field operative, scout and assassin for the FOX unit and was promoted to Snake's position after Snake's retirement. He and Snake fought in Vietnam War together, and was considered by Snake to be the one person he could ever count on in combat. However sometime during one of the secret missions he was sent on, Python was severely injured, losing him the ability to regulate his body temperature. Left alone, he would overheat to the point where his body would "literally burn itself up", presumably to the point of death. This resulted in the need for drastic surgery, and a fitting with a specially designed cooling suit filled with liquid nitrogen, complete with metal shunts installed in his skull to relieve himself of excess heat. Python is able to freeze objects that are close to him by flushing the liquid nitrogen inside his suit out into the environment, though by doing so he loses some of the cooling agent, making him comment on how the temperature seems to be constantly increasing. He is also a superb marksman, especially with assault rifles and due to the nature of his suit, Snake is unable to perform CQC on him. Unlike other bosses, there are two different outcomes to the player's battle with Python depending on whether he is defeated lethally or by stamina-drain. If defeated by stamina drain he survives and joins Snake's squad as a unique and powerful character. Most likely prior to his service in the military, he was a quarterback and a scout according to his in-game career stats. Python's unique color is light blue. Python resembles horror film villain Pinhead from the Hellraiser series due to the pins protruding from his head, and he also bears strange red markings on the back of his neck, roughly resembling a barcode.
Ursula & Elisa
Ursula and Elisa (both characters voiced by Tara Strong and Saori Goto) are twin teenage sisters with ESP abilities (including precognition) who were survivors of a nuclear explosion in the Ural Mountains. They were taken by a lab in East Germany, in which they were subjected to power-amplifying experiments. The sisters were then adopted by Gene, with Ursula (the more powerful of the two) becoming a member of the FOX unit and a loyal follower of Gene, while Elisa became a researcher who watches over Null. Elisa helps out Snake during the mission, until it is revealed that Elisa and Ursula are not really sisters, but dual personalities of the same person. Ursula/Elisa later inhabits Metal Gear RAXA and fights Snake, using her powerful psychokinesis to allow the Metal Gear to move and act in a natural manner, as if it weren't a machine at all. She survives the battle and turns against Gene when he threatens to launch a nuclear missile, but Gene overpowers her and stabs her to death. While dying, she predicts that Naked Snake will build his own Metal Gear and after that, one of Snake's sons will "bring the world to ruin", while another would save it (foreshadowing the future events from Metal Gear to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots). The personification of Elisa has the dominant knowledge of a chemist and a doctor, while the personification of Ursula has the dominant knowledge of a nutritionist according to both their in-game career stats. Ursula is the only FOX member that doesn't wear a sneaking suit, but she does have a unique color on her left arm, which is black.
Supporting characters
"Ghost"
- Further information: Sokolov
Ghost (v.b. Brian Cummings and Naoki Tatsuta) is a mysterious radio contact who reveals the existence of Metal Gear to Snake. Later it is revealed that he is actually Sokolov, who survived the events of Snake Eater and was commissioned to develop Metal Gear.
Ocelot
Ocelot (v.b. Joshua Keaton and Takumi Yamazaki) plays a very brief but important role in the story. He is Gene's telephone contact and near the end of the game, he assassinates the successor to his former employer from Snake Eater, the DCI. Ocelot can be recruited into Snake's unit during gameplay by contacting a specific frequency number near the end of the game. After contacting him, he will appear as part of the player's team during the next playthrough. This does not affect the plot in any way.
Skowronski
Skowronski (v.b. Nick Jameson and Tetsu Inada) is a loyal colonel of the Red Army and a former fighter pilot. He is the commander of the San Hieronmymo base. After Gene starts his rebellion, Skowronski's men turn on him. After Skowronski tries to kill Python but fails due to Python's armor, Python locks him up in the cell. Snake finds him and frees him after his drunken rant. Later on, he tries to kill Gene by shooting at him with a minigun while he is operating Metal Gear. Elisa (while she is "Ursula") then throws Skowronski from the cockpit to his death by using her telekinetic powers
Jonathan
A member of the Red Army, Jonathan is notable for being the first character who joins Snake's squad (no matter which soldier you capture from any of the available bases at the time). He helps Snake during the mission after being convinced by Snake and Roy that Gene would threaten his fellow Russian countrymen. Even though he is dressed like a regular enemy soldier, he is considered a unique character by the game due to his small role in the plot. He cannot be killed under normal circumstances and is the only character besides Snake that cannot be sent to Cyber-Survival mode. He is killed off in the storyline when he saves Snake by taking two bullets for him and thus removed from the player's team.
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| Creators | Hideo Kojima · Shuyo Murata · Yoji Shinkawa · Motosada Mori · Shinta Nojiri |
| Main series | Metal Gear · Metal Gear 2 · Metal Gear Solid (Integral · Twin Snakes) · Metal Gear Solid 2 (Substance) · Metal Gear Solid 3 (Subsistence) · Portable Ops (Plus) · Metal Gear Solid 4 |
| Spin-offs | Snake's Revenge · Metal Gear: Ghost Babel · Metal Gear Acid · Metal Gear Acid 2 · Metal Gear Online · Metal Gear Solid Mobile |
| Major characters | Solid Snake · Raiden · Big Boss |
| Characters by game | Classic series · MGS · MGS2 · MGS3 · Portable Ops · Acid |
| Universe | FOXHOUND · Metal Gear |
