Roy Campbell
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| Colonel Roy Campbell | |
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| Real name | Roy Campbell |
| Also known as | "Chicken Fox" |
| Affiliations | FOXHOUND Marine Corps Green Beret Delta Force |
| Current status | Alive |
| Game series | Metal Gear Metal Gear Solid |
| Appears in | Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots |
| First game | Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake |
| English voice actor | Paul Eiding (old) David Agranov (young) |
| Japanese voice actor | Takeshi Aono (old) Toshio Furukawa (young) |
Colonel Roy Campbell is best known as the original executive officer and the second commanding officer of FOXHOUND. He is one of Solid Snake's closest friends, and uncle of Meryl Silverburgh, although they later discovered that he is actually her biological father.
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[edit] Background
[edit] San Hieronymo Takeover
Prior to joining FOXHOUND, he served the Marine Corps, the Green Berets and Delta Force. He became involved in the downfall of the original FOX unit in 1970, where he met Big Boss in a prison at La Peninsula de los Muertos, and the two joined forces to bring down FOX. Recruiting members of the Red Army who were stationed at the base over to their side, they discovered the truth behind FOX's revolt, and destroyed their secret weapon Metal Gear and killed the remaining members of FOX. A year later, Big Boss and Campbell officially set up FOXHOUND. Roy Campbell served as a tactician and executive officer under the codename of "Chicken Fox".
After Big Boss was defeated at Outer Heaven (and it was discovered he was their leader), Campbell was appointed as commander of FOXHOUND and began revising FOXHOUND's methods with his personal touch. He discarded the codename system and adopted the use of high-tech equipment such as radars and spy satellites.
[edit] Zanzibar Land Uprising
Campbell brought out former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake during the Zanzibar Land uprising and served as his commanding officer during Operation: Intrude F014 in 1999. With his supervision, Snake was able to defeat the forces of Zanzibar Land and retrieve the OILIX formula.
In the following year, Campbell retired as FOXHOUND commander for undisclosed reasons, although it is believed he was unhappy with the direction the unit was taking.
[edit] FOXHOUND Rebellion
In 2005, Campbell was called back to action by the US Government when FOXHOUND (now led by Liquid Snake), took over a nuclear disposal facility and held several people hostages, including Campbell's niece, Meryl, who was assigned to the disposal facility on the day of the takeover. Campbell once again brought Snake out of retirement to neutralize the new FOXHOUND. However, during the course of the mission, Campbell was forced to keep a lot of secrets from Snake, including the true purpose of his mission and his injection with FOXDIE. Eventually, Campbell revealed the truth at the end of the mission and tried to call off an air strike directed to the base, but was briefly arrested by Secretary of Defense, Jim Houseman. However, after Snake defeated Liquid, Campbell was exonerated from charges, as blame was laid on the secretary of defence instead. Campbell also revealed to Snake at the end of the mission that Meryl was really his daughter.
After the events of Shadow Moses incident, Campbell continued with his retirement.
[edit] The Manhattan Incident
A man resembling Roy Campbell served as Raiden's commanding officer during the Manhattan Incident. However, this Colonel was later revealed to be an artificial construct created by The Patriots and generated by GW, Arsenal Gear's supercomputer.
[edit] Guns Of The Patriots
The actual Campbell later stepped out of retirement and hired Philanthropy to do a hired hit on Liquid Ocelot. Not content with the world simply ignoring Liquid's attempt to plunge the world into total war (in effect aiding the economy of the 21st Century) Campbell has taken the matter into his own hands and hired Snake to perform the hit.
[edit] Behind the scenes
- Campbell was originally modeled after the likeness of actor Richard Crenna from the Rambo films, in which he played Colonel Trautman.
- Campbell (along with Solid Snake) make a cameo appearance in the mini-game that is included in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater called Snake vs Monkey. The Colonel briefs Snake about his newest mission to catch experimental mechanical monkeys, much to Snake's dismay.
[edit] Gallery
 Roy Campbell, circa 1970 |
 The Colonel from MGS2 |
[edit] Appearances
- Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (cameo)
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (non canon)
- Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (non canon)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (non canon)
| Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Characters |
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Naked Snake — Roy Campbell — Jonathon — Para-medic — Sigint Null— Gene — Python — Cunningham — Elisa and Ursula Colonel Skowronski — Sokolov — Ocelot — EVA — Major Zero — Raikov |
| Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Characters |
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Solid Snake — Otacon — Raiden — Naomi Hunter Meryl Silverburgh — Liquid Ocelot — Roy Campbell — Vamp |
