Decoy Octopus
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| Affiliations | FOXHOUND Sons of Big Boss |
| Current status | Deceased |
| Appears in | Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes |
| First game | Metal Gear Solid |
Decoy Octopus was the impersonation expert and mimic of the FOXHOUND unit. He, with the rest of his unit, went rogue during the Shadow Moses Incident.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early Life
There is very little that is known about Decoy Octopus. At some point in his life, he had his nose, ears, and cheekbones shaved down to make disguising himself easier, as well as having his hairline shaved back to ease mimicking different hairstyles. While mimicking someone, Decoy Octopus would even go as far as to swap his blood for that of the subject he is mimicking. In his mind, he not only would take on a disguise, but he would become that very person.
[edit] FOXHOUND Rebellion
Decoy Octopus was one of the FOXHOUND operatives who took part in the revolt under Liquid Snake's leadership. When Solid Snake infiltrated Shadow Moses Island, he met the DARPA Chief Donald Anderson who died right in front of Snake's eyes. As Snake continued with his mission, he later found the corpse of Donald Anderson. He noticed that the body had been drained of blood, and showed a few day's worth of decomposition, yet the DARPA Chief had only died a few hours earlier.
It was later revealed that the man Snake met was not Anderson but actually Decoy Octopus in disguise. Donald Anderson was an enemy target that Snake was to unknowingly eliminate with the FOXDIE virus through general proximity exposure. After only coming into contact with Snake for a short time, the FOXHOUND operative Decoy Octopus was killed by FOXDIE's simulated heart attack.
The real DARPA Chief was the rotting cadaver that Snake found in the prison cell. Anderson had actually been killed by Revolver Ocelot several days before the start of the mission, and his blood had been drained and swapped with Octopus's blood while he was in disguise.
The body of Decoy Octopus was later retrieved by Vulcan Raven.
[edit] Trivia
- He is seen in his normal appearance only once but his normal voice is not heard.
- He is the only FOXHOUND operative whose primary specialties aren't in combat, hence, he does not end up fighting Snake.
- Originally, Snake was to fight Decoy Octopus outright, but Hideo Kojima's vision wasn't possible on the PlayStation hardware, so it was omitted. His ideas were later integrated into the Laughing Octopus boss battle in Metal Gear Solid 4.
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| Metal Gear Solid Characters |
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| 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 |
