Sniper Wolf
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| Nationality |  Kurdish
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| Affiliations | FOXHOUND Sons of Big Boss |
| Current status | Deceased |
| Birthdate | Unknown |
| Eye Colour | Blue |
| Hair Colour | Blonde |
| Appears in | Metal Gear Solid |
| Created by | Hideo Kojima |
| Designed by | Yoji Shinkawa |
| English voice | Tasia Valenza |
| Japanese voice | Naoko Nakamura |
Sniper Wolf (スナイパー・ウルフ Sunaipā Urufu?) was one of the renegade members of FOXHOUND who took over Shadow Moses Island with the Genome Army. She was a Kurdish sharpshooter and has a great love for wolves and dogs.
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[edit] Biography
- "I was born on a battlefield. Raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens and screams... They were my lullabies..."
- — Sniper Wolf to Solid Snake
Sniper Wolf was an Iraqi Kurd born and raised in the middle of a violent guerrilla conflict between Kurdish rebels and the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, surrounded by gunfire, sirens, and screams. She was constantly being hunted after and always had to move from one shelter to another on a regular basis. When she would wake up from sleep, she would find one of her friends or family dead beside her, and prayed that she would make it through each day. The international community did nothing to help her or stop the fighting.
During the 1988 Al-Anfal Campaign in the Iran-Iraq War, Sniper Wolf witnessed the gassing of her friends and family at the hands of Iraqi soldiers. Sniper Wolf would later be trained by a Gurkha who taught her all he knew about sniping.
During the Gulf War in 1991, Sniper Wolf met Big Boss, who saw great potential and talent within her. Big Boss brought the young Sniper Wolf to the United States. Sniper Wolf eventually came to look up to Big Boss, whom she called "Saladin."
She then became a lone sniper, so she could watch and wait, and see war from the outside rather than from the inside. She could now get her revenge on the world. After the "death" of Big Boss, Sniper Wolf was later recruited into FOXHOUND, to get her revenge on the world.
She eventually became a famous sniper and was capable of waiting for her targets for days, even weeks, without moving or even eating. She typically formed an emotional connection with her targets before killing them with her favored weapon, the Heckler & Koch PSG-1, and used mercury bullets to poison the victims as well. She also has an addiction to diazepam and pentazemin, two drugs that relieve anxiety and stop muscle spasms.
[edit] FOXHOUND Rebellion
- "I finally understand. I wasn't waiting to kill people... I was waiting for someone to kill me. A man like you... You're a hero. Please... Set me free."
- — Sniper Wolf to Solid Snake
Eventually, she and the other members of FOXHOUND, Liquid Snake, Revolver Ocelot, Psycho Mantis, Vulcan Raven, and Decoy Octopus, grew tired of their roles as puppets to the government, and attacked Shadow Moses Island.
When FOXHOUND took over Shadow Moses Island, they were planning on killing the dogs on the island, however Sniper Wolf refused to let them kill them. She would let Otacon feed them when he asked and believed that she was a good person due to her love for them. He eventually fell in love with her.
As Solid Snake and Meryl Silverburgh made their way through Shadow Moses Island, Sniper Wolf managed to wound Meryl in order to lure Snake out, which then results in his capture. It becomes apparent that she has a sadistic obsession with Snake when she tells him that he's all she'll think about until she kills him. While in captivity, Otacon provides Snake some materials to escape, including a handkerchief Sniper Wolf had given him. After Snake escapes his holding cell, and after he battles Liquid in his Hind, he encounters Sniper Wolf again. After a silent yet deadly battle across the expansive snow field, Sniper Wolf is bested by Snake.
After crossing the snowfield, Snake finds Wolf lying down and coughing up blood. As she lay dying, Sniper Wolf tells Snake of her past, how she was born and raised on the battlefield, how "Saladin" had helped her, who Snake correctly assumes as Big Boss. She reveals to Snake that she has shamed herself and her people by joining Liquid's plot "to take (her) revenge on the world." Distraught, she refers to herself as a dog, but Snake assures her that she is wild, untamed, and solitary, hence a wolf. She also reveals that Meryl was never her real target and that she does not kill for sport and takes no pleasure in seeing women and children being harmed. Before asking Snake to kill her, she says she has not been waiting to kill people but rather has been waiting for someone to kill her.
Just before Snake is about to kill her, Otacon appears and openly expresses his feelings for her, however, she did not share the same feelings. She asks Snake to give her, her PSG-1, and to shoot her. Otacon clumsily hands her the gun. Before Snake finishes her off, she says her final words: "OK hero. Set me free.". Then Snake kills her with a single shot of his SOCOM. After killing her, Snake wraps her handkerchief over her face. Otacon inquires why he did this, to which Snake replies that he is returning it to its owner, and that he himself has no more tears to shed.
[edit] Trivia
- While the use of handkerchiefs to wipe one's nose is made obsolete by tissue paper, in some countries, such as Japan, it's seen as "fancy" and respectable.
- Shortly following the passing of Crying Wolf, Snake and Otacon witness the appearance of a wolf on the scene. It is possible, judging from the reactions of Otacon, that it is the reincarnation of Sniper Wolf herself. The Wolf, after howling in mourning for the recently deceased, lifts her "sister" up upon her back and vanishes into the wilderness.[1]
- In Metal Gear Solid 4 after the battle with both forms of Crying Wolf, the player can see a ghost picture of her if they take a picture of the door that leads to the Blast Furnace.
- In the video game Army of Two, there is a barrel for the MSG-90 called "MGS Sniper Wulf Mk. II." The spelling is most likely to avoid legal issues; since a figure of her was released, the name "Sniper Wolf" may well be trademarked by Konami.
- Also in DLC add-on of PS3 port of The Godfather II,one of the 5 new weapons is named "MG-S1 Sniper Wolfe".
- According to an IGN interview with Yoji Shinkawa, Sniper Wolf was originally intended to be a man, but when Shinkawa suggested to Hideo Kojima that Wolf be a young lady, Kojima thought it to be a much better idea.[2] A subsequent interview with Shinkawa revealed that Sniper Wolf is still popular amongst the staff at Konami. Another example of her popularity was that during an online critics poll, she was named the "12th greatest video game boss of all time", amongst her FOXHOUND peers.[3]
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[edit] References
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZj3RHop6k
- ^ IGN Yoji Shinkwa interview (2000-12-12). Retrieved on 2008-05-26.
- ^ The 20 Greatest Bosses in Video Game History. Retrieved on 2008-05-26.
