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Dr. Thomas Koppelthorn was the vice president of SaintLogic, who threatened to launch a nuclear attack unless 12 high-ranking officials were released. He also demanded that the SaintLogic president, Rodzinski, hand over the Lucinda File to him.

Overview[]

Dr. Thomas Koppelthorn was Vice President of SaintLogic. Koppelthorn later plotted revenge against Snake, the man who he believed was responsible for the murder of his wife, Lucinda. After the death of his wife, Koppelthorn scanned her nerve junctions, extracting her character and memories. It was his intention to revive his own wife by inseminating her consciousness into another body, using nano-chip expansions - a system capable of transplanting one's abilities and experiences into another. In order to find a suitable host, Koppelthorn purchased dozens of young children from numerous criminal groups in Africa and South America. Eventually, Koppelthorn discovered the ideal body - that of a young girl named Lucy.

With the experiment nearing completion, Koppelthorn then began to enact his revenge. Seizing control of the "Chaioth Ha Qadesh" Metal Gear, Koppelthorn demanded that those responsible for the Praulia Massacre (and subsequently, the death of his wife) should be handed over to him. If his demands were not met, Koppelthorn threatened to launch a nuclear attack using Chaioth Ha Kadosh. However, Lucy later betrayed him and revealed that she in fact possessed a different EGO during the surgery and that she in fact had been manipulating him from the start. Upon learning the truth behind Lucinda's death, Koppelthorn also expressed shock and remorse, although he was unable to reconsider or make amends for his actions before Lucy killed him via ejecting his cockpit and then arranging for a missile to hit him.

Behind the scenes[]

Although Dr. Koppelthorn's first actual appearance was in Metal Gear Acid 2, previous games have made references to him.

In Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Mei Ling attempts to quote from him, only to get interrupted by Solid Snake every time:

"Snake, Dr. Koppelthorn says -"
"Quotes are all well and good, but why don't you talk a bit about yourself?
"
―Meil Ling and Snake[src]

Dr. Koppelthorn is also mentioned in the IdeaSpy 2.5 Easter egg featured in Ghost Babel. There, it is claimed that Koppelthorn recommends J.E. Corporation's pest-scaring "Boom Balloo'N'" for driving away birds, a claim that is reiterated in the Japanese instruction manual for Acid 2.[1]

In Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, the Koppelthorn Engine is the power behind a VR simulator program that actually serves as a gateway to parallel worlds and is mentioned in the Snake Tales story, External Gazer.

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References[]

  1. ^ Metal Gear Acid 2 (JP) instruction manual, Konami Digital Entertainment (2005).
    Characters > Dr. Koppelthorn
    "ちなみに 「メタルギアゴーストバベル」 でカラスを追い払うためのゴム風船、 「ブーン・バルー 「ン」を推薦したDr.コペルソーンと同一人物。"
    ("By the way, he is the same person as Dr. Koppelthorn, who recommended the rubber balloon "Boom Balloo'N'" to drive away crows in "Metal Gear Ghost Babel".")


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