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. Although Raiden was quite popular with the Japanese fandom as a result of his appearance, which Shinkawa noted resembled the stereotypical manga hero,[70] the international fandom had a negative reception regarding the character, with some, such as writer James Newman, even comparing him to the Star Wars prequeltrilogy character Jar Jar Binks in terms of poor reception. Afterwards, he left to wander the Earth. However, he also had to endure some physical abuse by Olga to ensure her cover was remained intact. He later found the kids, but was then forced by the head researcher to delay rescuing the children (who were being exposed to concentrated doses of chloroform) by holding George at gunpoint. Solidus then destroyed them out of frustration. 32. Upon the realization of the figure's identity, Raiden angrily demands to know where "he" is to the figure. 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. Shortly thereafter, Raiden himself collapsed from the injuries afflicted by Vamp, urging Snake to find Big Mama in Eastern Europe. Boris then reminded him that he had less than an hour to get to Solis. A His strength enabled him to lift a tremendous amount of weight, evidently ranging to several thousand tons. Raiden and Snake, with RAY in the background. He handled a High Frequency Blade, operable in lethal and non-lethal mode, which allowed him to deflect frontal attacks. He then killed Sundowner after having a Slider crash into his Hammerhead late into the duel. 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. A Raiden and Sundowner then encountered each other, with the latter also referring to him as "Jack." The "Arm" trailer[18] also implies that he received an optical implant. Metal Gear Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. At this time, Raiden had his original cyborg body upgraded, outfitting it with a more natural jaw using artificial skin, and replacing its outdated organic polymer muscle fiber with modern carbon nanotube muscle fiber. 500 In exchange for his services, MSF also promised to supply him with patches from the XOF as payment. The Metal Gear franchise is an undisputed classic. He implied that he gained the skill at cleaning up from having to clean up various messes that Rosemary left at her apartment. Raiden shared some similarities with his Cyborg Ninja predecessor, Gray Fox; both had been child soldiers who were given nicknames (and to a lesser extent, formal names) due to their brutality, underwent cybernetic experimentation by the Patriots, had their memories suppressed, used technologically advanced blades, and they both saved Solid Snake from a Metal Gear (Fox with Metal Gear REX, and Raiden with Outer Haven). Shinkawa, when explaining his motives for creating Black Raiden, mentioned that he wanted to create a dark hero, different from his design from Metal Gear Solid 4. MGS4 Raiden skin information from the official site. 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. With an exhausted Snake about to be crushed by Liquid's Outer Haven, Raiden placed himself in the warship's path of destruction through the small pier, holding back its immense bulk with his enhanced strength, and giving Snake time to clear the area. [73], Make It Right - "Arm" - METAL GEAR RISING, VIDEO DATA ACCESS FILE #01000001: Raiden's "arm surgery. If tranquilized, he'd sometimes say "Rose". Specifically, he was modified to allow for him to utilize mid-range attacks via throwing grenades, allowing him to carry an increased supply of various grenade types; and the Command armor, colored yellow-green and possessing a traditional fighting system. Now apparently working for Colonel Campell who was acting as his support during his infiltration of the Big Shell, Jack was given his official codename - Raiden - after it was revealed that the leader of the terrorist laying the Big Shell to seige was using the codename Solid Snake. However, as it was abandoned, he also had to navigate the UG-infested area while in the dark. After traversing the rooftops, he then was instructed by Blade Wolf to access an abandoned rail system dating back to the 19th century. Afterwards, he had a fistfight with Armstrong, who had used EXCELSUS' wires to activate his nanomachines. Along with this, his jump has increased distance. Sometime after this Raiden was moved to the United States where he was secretely injected with a large amount of nanomachines by the Patriots. At one point in Chapter R-02, Raiden asks Courtney how a certain food (Napolitanos) tasted, before dismissing the question and deciding that he can't "capture" anything down in the sewers, nor does he really need to anyway. ", Make It Right - "Sword" - METAL GEAR RISING. After a brief exchange, Sunny then showed them the device she built. His eye after his upgrade in 2018 occasionally turned crimson when being deployed or when about to undergo a deadly maneuver, a side effect of his eye being modified with an optical implant. This is especially evident in the "Make it Right" viral trailers, specifically the "Arm" and "Eye" trailers, which depicted Raiden's point of view throughout during his emergency surgery and showed various graphs, text, and machine code as he's analyzing his surroundings. Following the end of the war economy, Raiden attempted to return to a normal, civilian life with his wife and son. [19], At some point, both as a direct result of the attack and Raiden's injuries, and under his personal request, Raiden underwent a full-body cybernetic conversion, as he felt the Patriots "didn't leave him much of a body to begin with." If the player failed to do so, he will mention that underwater operations wasn't covered in VR training. He then mentions that most soldiers couldn't handle the violent deaths of enemies, but then stated that he likes the deaths a lot, and implies that this was due to it being ingrained on him since early childhood. While Wolverine's healing factor and adamantium skeleton made him a tough match for the ninja cyborg, Raiden ultimately triumphed due to his superior strength, speed, and his blade being able to weaken molecular bonds similar to Misty Knight's Antarctic Vibranium arm allowing him to cut through Wolverine's supposedly indestructible skeleton. Raiden is actually a pretty good dad considering his situation. After completing Metal Gear Solid Mobile, revealed to be a VR mission, Solid Snake is declared a failed test subject and has his memories erased, and a pair of mysterious voices discuss a second test subject, "Jack", wondering if he can do better. Raiden got a Resolve powerup. In the mission, Raiden, having somehow time traveled to an unknown period of the past, was contacted by the Militaires Sans Frontires to aid them in taking out several Body-Snatchers that have taken over the United States Naval Prison Facility in Cuba from a crashed Soviet airplane, as his cybernetic body rendered him immune to being taken over by the body snatchers. [29] He also became somewhat cocky as well, as evidenced by, after kicking an enemy soldier into a parked black car hard enough to almost flip over the car as well as set off the car alarm, his remarking that it was "too easy" before promptly cutting up the enemy soldier. Uprising in the first round, largely due to his cybernetics, and in spite of Krystal's many armaments. After wiping out the security at the base, he and Courtney discovered that World Marshal's XIFF ID came up as "unaffiliated;" the same XIFF ID that Desperado had during the African ambush. Armed with a gun at the age of six, he would later remember it as an AK rifle, as well as a knife, he proved to be a superior soldier, rising to become captain of the Small Boy Unit at ten. Raiden wasn't much of a sports fan, although he had admitted that the closest he'd came to actually liking a sport was basketball. In addition, in large part because of his experiences during the Big Shell Incident as a test subject for the S3 Plan, as well as Snake's advice in the aftermath of the S3 Plan, he also aimed to follow through with Snake's vision of people living their own lives, also believing that doing so will fully free him from being a pawn to the Patriots' proxies. Due to his cyborg body's design, he could sometimes generate electricity. Disavowing his identity as Jack, Raiden updated Snake as to his dealings with the Paradise Lost Army, before the call was interrupted due to a firefight. Nonetheless, due to his past experiences with Snake, he was completely loyal to the legendary soldier and citing his personal views about Snake. And in Metal Gear, devotion matters. Sometime after arriving at the Big Shell Raiden unknowningly met up with Solid Snake, although the man was claiming his name was Iriqoius Pliskin in order to stop himself from being detected. "fans rejected the character of Raiden pretty harshly upon the release of MGS2. Raiden's original render, alongside the updated version, demonstrating his appearance in Metal Gear Rising. However, before they could get out of Denver airspace, they were ambushed by a pair of MQ-320s. His opponents were Samuel Rodrigues, Gray Fox, and (as Black Raiden) Solidus. Shortly after the call, he was ambushed by cybernetic Denver cops under World Marshal's payroll, as they effectively had control over the city. With Jack, they requested for the actor to be within the 8-12 year range, have blond wavy hair and blue eyes, being athletic, have no scars on the arms, possess dramatic acting, and if possible possess a slight Greek or Italian accent. This is another similarity created as part of the Patriot's S3 plan. His body had similar design to that of a Gekko, as his feet could be used as hands, allowing him to grip and grab hold of objects and edges in a similar manner to an ape or bat. Inferno Raiden Skin bonus giveaway advert for Tsutaya. Throughout the mission, Raiden also harbored some suspicions that he may enjoy killing people, although he did not know why. The Metal Gear Solid Facebook page later confirmed that those scenes in the trailers were meant to show Raiden's training under Solidus.[51]. On the week of June 12, during Kojima's Metal Gear Rising demonstration in Mexico, Raiden's CGI model for the demo's menu was slightly modified to include a sombrero and cloak as a hint as to what exclusives the Latin American version will have. The giant portrait of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance protagonist Raiden in England has been replaced after seven years. Jack would grow up to suppress the memories about his terrible childhood, burying the memories of his bloody past, though he still suffered from nightmares of his past nearly every night. In the Metal Gear Solid 2 novelization, the narration mentioned that Rose had once compared Raiden's androgynous looks to that of a young David Bowie,[34] referring to the British singer and actor whose distinctive appearance was his androgynous features, responsible for songs such as "Space Oddity" and "Diamond Dogs", and was also noted as the actor who portrayed the Goblin King Jareth in the film Labyrinth. 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 shares this codename with the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden, an Imperial Japanese WWII fighter aircraft, which the Allied forces codenamed "Jack." Raiden decided he liked the look, after a while, and enjoyed the extra clarity the cameras gave and kept the eyepatch on his new body.[20]. Upon reaching the 20th floor of the lower half of the building (the regular workplace area), he then proceeded to destroy three power supply generators, including a backup supply, to deactivate a security gate for an elevator for the top half of the building where the research and development center was located. Afterwards, he ended up reaching the floor containing the server room, although he had to fight body doubles of both Mistral and Monsoon before confronting Sundowner at the room. 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