Crying Wolf
Biographical information
Nationality	African
Physical description
Hair color	Black
Ethnicity	African
Career and family information
Affiliations	The Beauty and the Beast Unit Werewolf
Metal Gear series information
Appearances	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Created by	Hideo Kojima
Voiced by (English)	Debra Wilson Skelton (Beauty) Fred Tatasciore (Beast)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Eriko Hirata (Beauty) Shozo Iizuka (Beast)
Motion capture	Eriko Hirata

Crying Wolf was the scout and sniper of the Beauty and the Beast Unit. Her speed as a quadruped and extremely tough shell made up the brute force of the unit. Wolf, along with the other members, suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, expressing extreme sorrow in battle through her eternal crying.

BiographyEdit

Early lifeEdit

The young woman who became Crying Wolf was born in Africa, in what was a chaotic war zone at the time due to the belief of ethnic cleansing. Soon enough the conflict reached her village, with the rival faction slaughtering her parents and siblings, leaving her a refugee. Before leaving her village, she decided to bring along her only surviving relative, her baby brother. One day, they came across an enemy unit, forcing them to hide in an abandoned shack. Unfortunately for Wolf, her baby brother started to cry. Knowing they would die if his cries were heard by the soldiers, she wrapped her hand as tight as she could around his mouth. It was only after the soldiers left that she came to her senses and noticed her brother was no longer crying. Taking her hand off, she saw that he had stopped breathing. Wolf had accidentally smothered her own baby brother, her last surviving relative. Horrified, she traveled through the thick of battle carrying her dead brother in her arms. Shortly after, she began to have visions of a wolf walking beside her. Every night, she would cry and howl just like her brother did.

Eventually, she reached a government-run refugee camp, still holding the now-rotted corpse of her brother. The camp was crowded with refugees like herself, and little children like her brother. The cries of the little children tormented her day and night and she soon envisioned the wolf answering her sorrowful screams and watched as he made his way around camp to silence the children forever. She had tried to stop the wolf but she was powerless to do so. This was, in reality, a hallucination created by her damaged mind. There was no wolf, she was murdering the children herself. By the eve of the enemy raid, she had killed all of the children. However, she never could come to cope with the truth, always believing that the wolf had killed them, not her.

Liquid Ocelot's InsurrectionEdit

See Liquid Sun, Solid Sun, Third Sun, Twin Suns, Old Sun, and Naked Sin/Naked Son

The girl was later recruited by Liquid Ocelot into the Beauty and the Beast Unit, where she was given a quadupedal power suit, as well as an enormous rail gun that she could use to destroy anything in her path, and was given the "Crying Wolf" codename. While encased inside of her suit, Wolf was nearly invincible, only revealing herself to snipe using her rail gun. Liquid told her that destroying Solid Snake would finally silence her inner demons, and placed her in charge of the Werewolf PMC.

In 2014, Crying Wolf and the other members of the BB Corps fought against local militiamen in the Middle East. She halted and overturned one of the militia's armored bulldozer entirely by herself as they attempted to reach Millennium Park. Wolf and the rest of the unit then went on to kill all of the accompanying soldiers, before leaving.

Wolf later encountered Solid Snake near the communication towers on Shadow Moses Island (the same area in which he had dueled Sniper Wolf nine years earlier), and was accompanied by several Haven Troopers. Working against a massive blizzard and using various vehicles and trees as cover, Snake was able to eliminate the Haven soldiers and eventually Crying Wolf herself. After Wolf was defeated in her Crying Beauty form, a wolf-dog appeared and hoisted up her body onto its back before walking off into the blizzard.

Abilities and traitsEdit

The extreme trauma she had suffered in her early life made her irrevocably insane. Her insanity manifested itself in her constantly crying, sobbing loudly even in the midst of battle. She also sometimes hallucinated the presence of a wolf nearby. Due to these hallucinations, she would often bay loudly like a wolf. 

Arguably Crying Wolf's deadliest weapons were the olfactory sensors built into her armor. These allowed her to detect and track a quarry's scent just like a hunting animal, such as her namesake. With this ability, she could locate a foe even in the most blinding of snowstorms. In addition, her armor did not radiate heat, making her impossible to detect with thermal vision. It was also very difficult to spot with night vision unless she was close by. She engaged in team-based attacks along with an escort unit of powered suit soldiers.

Firing the on-board rail gun required Wolf to manually sight foes, partially exposing herself above her beast armor. Thus when she opened her armor and raised her upper body up out of it to sight and fire, she was highly visible in thermal vision.

Her armor, which was quadrupedal, was very tough, capable of withstanding the heaviest caliber weapons fire. It gave her great physical strength, enough to dig in and block a bulldozer from moving, even if it attempted to move forward at full rev. It also made her extremely fast and agile. The toughness of the armor as well as the strength and speed it granted her made her extremely formidable in combat. Her charges were devastating. She could easily knock an armored bulldozer over, and a charge through a group of enemy combatants left every one of them dead from the impact.

The rail gun model used by Wolf was the same as that used by Dead Cell leader Fortune, the technology of which was provided by Vamp after Fortune's death.^[1] Despite the inherent dangers of using the rail gun (which Fortune was able to overcome with her "luck"), Wolf was capable of operating the weapon safely and effectively in battle. When engaging Snake in Shadow Moses, when aiming down the rail gun she activates a similar version of thermal vision used by the Solid Eye.

Wolf also carried explosives which she would throw at enemies who were out of reach.

In her beauty form, she, alongside the other members of the unit, also was capable of setting foes on fire by touch.^[2]

EtymologyEdit

Her codename referenced two things: The first was her constant sorrow on the battlefield, due to her PTSD. The other was also similar to "crying wolf", which is a euphemism for lying or deception, which was derived from the tale called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", where a shepherd frequently lied for his amusement by claiming a wolf is killing his Sheep, causing the populace to not believe him when a wolf really is attacking his sheep, resulting in either him losing his flock at the very least or also losing his life as well to the Wolf, depending on the rendition of the tale. Similar to the tale, Crying Wolf, during her childhood, also claimed that a wolf was killing various children which was actually false. In her case, however, her "crying wolf" were actually hallucinations and delusions caused by her PTSD, having killed the children herself.

Behind the scenesEdit

Crying Wolf appears in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, in which she is fought by the player during a boss battle. Depending on the player's actions, she either dies or falls unconscious. If Wolf is defeated lethally, she also appears to be engulfed in blue flames. Crying Beauty's appearance is based on swimsuit model Mieko Rye.

The Beauty and the Beast Unit is a tribute to the bosses of the previous Metal Gear Solid games in the series; the name of each member of the unit is derived from the name of a member of FOXHOUND (from Metal Gear Solid), their weapons are a derivative of Dead Cell members' weapons (from Metal Gear Solid 2), and their emotions similar to the Cobra Unit member codenames and in some cases, even their trademark abilities (from Metal Gear Solid 3): In Crying Wolf's case, her name and fighting style are a taken from Sniper Wolf, the rail gun from Fortune, and the emotion of The Sorrow.

Promotional artwork for Metal Gear Solid: Rising shows Raiden atop what appears to be Crying Wolf. The entity in question was later revealed via "recovered" corrupted blueprints on the teaser site to be a robot called the Bladewolf.

GameplayEdit

• Crying Beauty's FaceCamo can be unlocked by defeating her "Beauty" form through non-lethal means.
• An easier way to track Crying Wolf during the boss battle is to look for her footprints by using the NV Mode of the Solid Eye.
• Crying Wolf can easily be defeated by hiding under the supply truck immediately east of the battle's starting location, facing the front of the truck; under here, Snake does not lose Psyche from the blizzard, recovers health constantly from being prone, is practically impossible for the FROGS to spot or Wolf to hit, and simply has to wait for Wolf to cross in front of him and open her armor. Wolf will occasionally damage him by running headlong into the truck and knocking him around, but the damage is quickly recovered.

Other appearancesEdit

Crying Wolf (夜鳴き狼Yonaki Ōkami ) appeared alongside the rest of the Beauty and the Beast Unit in the Konami-sponsored contest E3 Battle, where she, along with the rest of her allies, lost against Ocelot.

She later reappeared in the versus page for the official Metal Gear Solid website, this time acting solo, where she is fighting against Bladewolf and won. Her bio reveals that her strengths are low-visibility environments, her weakness is sandpits, and her featured fact erroneously attributes her birthplace as Alaska.

"CRYING WOLF
STRENGTHS:
Low Visibility Environments.
WEAKNESSES:
Sandpits
FEATURED FACT:
Crying Wolf was born in Alaska [sic], in a chaotic war zone.
FEATURED GAME:
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots"

— Crying Wolf's bio in the Metal Gear Solid official site's versus page.

GalleryEdit

Shinkawa statue of Crying Wolf.

Crying Wolf (Beast form) concept art.

Crying Wolf during B&B's mission into the Middle East, in 2014.

Crying Wolf's personal image.

Crying Wolf confronting the Middle Eastern militia soldiers in 2014.

Crying Wolf's appearance in the MGS official website's versus page.

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