Cyborg Ninja

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Cyborg Ninja (サイボーグ忍者, Saibōgu Ninja^?) is an alter-ego assumed by several individuals. The name "Cyborg Ninja" is derived from the high-tech exoskeletons that the Ninjas wear, which are apparently made by Tokugawa Heavy Industries. The people known to have assumed this role are:

• Kyle Schneider, the leader of the resistance force against Big Boss' Outer Heaven in 1995, was presumed dead after contact was lost during the operation. He was actually captured by NATO forces and he was fitted with a flex armor suit, going under the alias Black Ninja, the codename of NASA's Extraterrestrial Environment Special Force. While not quite as advanced as the later Ninjas, he can be considered to be the precursor to the Cyborg Ninja persona.

• Gray Fox, former FOXHOUND member and Big Boss' most loyal soldier; also known as Frank Jaeger. He was supposedly killed during a fist fight in a minefield with Solid Snake. His body was recovered by Dr. Clark, who fitted him with a prototype Cyborg Ninja suit. The first true Cyborg Ninja, Gray Fox had been revived following his defeat to become a guinea pig for the Genome project.

• Olga Gurlukovich, the leader of the Gurlukovich Mercenaries during the Big Shell incident, wore a similar powered suit. A double-agent working for both the members of Dead Cell and The Patriots, her appearance as the Ninja was scripted by The Patriots as in part to assist Raiden and also to assist in the recreation of the Shadow Moses Incident.

• Raiden, during the Big Shell incident, was granted the high-frequency blade from Olga. While on a mission for Big Mama to get the remains of Big Boss, he was captured and held in Area 51; there, as part of The Patriots' experiments, his head was completely severed from his body from the jaw down. He was fitted with a cyborg body by Dr. Madnar and given white artificial blood. After he was rescued by Big Mama's resistance group, he used his powers as the Cyborg Ninja to assist Old Snake. Unlike the other Cyborg Ninjas before him, Raiden makes no secret as to his true identity when wearing the "suit".

Contents 1 Weaponry 2 Playable appearances 3 Trivia 4 References

[edit] Weaponry

With the exception of Black Ninja, all of the Cyborg Ninja have carried a H.F. Blade as standard issue. Gray Fox was also outfitted with an arm cannon which fired explosive energy blasts. Raiden holstered a SOCOM pistol as his sidearm, although he never used it during his time as the ninja. Raiden is said to use the the H.F. Blade that Olga gave him, but there are some differences between the swords; Raiden's blade in MGS4 has a dark grey color,  and the handle of the sword is different in that there is now no hilt.

[edit] Playable appearances

Although the Cyborg Ninja has never been playable in any of the main MGS games, he has been featured as a playable character in the expanded versions of the games:

• In the racing game Konami Krazy Racers for Game Boy Advance, a cyborg ninja, simply called Ninja, is one of the playable racers.
• In the VR Disc portion of Metal Gear Solid: Integral, the Ninja is playable in three specialized missions, all taking place in the same storehouse. The goals are destroying several straw targets, killing several Genome Soldiers, and assassinating Solid Snake, who's disguised as a Genome Soldier from the neck downward. These same missions are also available in Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions/Special Missions.
• In Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, Gray Fox's exoskeleton is an alternate outfit for Raiden's VR missions.
• Although not a playable character, Gray Fox as the Cyborg Ninja is available as an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros Brawl.
• The SCENE expansion of Metal Gear Online allows the player to play as Cyborg Raiden.

[edit] Trivia

• Two of Old Snake's FaceCamo faces are Cyborg Raiden (visor open and visor closed). The two can be unlocked by having the MK. II ram into Naomi Hunter (the foster sister of Gray Fox) and Sunny Gurlukovich (the daughter of Olga Gurlukovich) during mission briefings.
• In the original script for MGS2, Olga wasn't going to be the Cyborg Ninja. Instead, it would have been a computer that would change its voice to taunt Snake (Meryl's voice), and Otacon (Sniper Wolf's).^[1]
• After completing Metal Gear Solid twice, Gray Fox's Cyborg exoskeleton swaps its colors so that its red portions become grey and the grey portions become red. Also observable is the color of the "eye" changing from green to red.
• Raiden is the only Cyborg Ninja in the series to survive. On a related note, he is also the only Cyborg Ninja to have never fought Solid Snake.

[edit] References

Metal Gear Solid Characters
Solid Snake — Meryl Silverburgh Roy Campbell — Naomi Hunter — Mei Ling Liquid Snake — Revolver Ocelot — Psycho Mantis — Sniper Wolf — Decoy Octopus — Vulcan Raven Nastasha Romanenko — Master Miller — Hal Emmerich Donald Anderson — Kenneth Baker — Johnny Sasaki — Jim Houseman Cyborg Ninja — Big Boss - US President George Sears

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Characters
Solid Snake — Otacon — Revolver Ocelot — Sergei Gurlukovich Olga Gurlukovich — Scott Dolph — Liquid Snake — Colonel Raiden — Vamp — Iroquois Pliskin — Fortune Fatman — Peter Stillman — Richard Ames — Solidus Snake Cyborg Ninja — Rosemary — Emma Emmerich — James Johnson — Johnny Sasaki