The Sorrow
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| The Sorrow | |
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| Nationality |  Russian
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| Affiliations | Member of the member Cobra Unit |
| Current status | Deceased |
| Appears in | Metal Gear Solid 3 |
| English voice actor | David Thomas |
| Japanese voice actor | Yukitoshi Hori |
The Sorrow appears in the game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. He is the "Spirit Medium Soldier" of the Cobra Unit.
Although he has no actual unique combat abilities like the other Cobras, The Sorrow is gifted with the powers of a medium. He is able to summon the dead and assume their combat abilities by bringing their spirits into himself. Communicating with dead soldiers also gives him several advantages during a battle, such as learning of enemy positions. Like the other Cobras, his codename reflects the emotion he brings to the battlefield.
[edit] History
The Boss and The Sorrow fought together as part of the Cobra unit during World War II and participated in the Allied landing at Normandy in 1944. The two had a child together (Revolver Ocelot), who was taken from them by The Philosophers. After the War, he worked for the Soviet Union and was ultimately killed by The Boss during a covert mission at Tselinoyarsk in 1962.
[edit] Operation Snake Eater
In 1964, The Sorrow appears to Naked Snake as a ghost. Several times, he is seen crying blood. Whenever he does, rain falls from the sky. He frequently appears during the games' first-person view cinema sequences, where he can be seen observing Snake and the events of the mission, and occasionally offering helpful hints, like a key radio frequency.
During an apparent nightmare, The Sorrow forces Snake to walk down a seemingly endless river, so that Snake will "feel the sorrow of those whose lives he ended". He makes him encounter the ghost of every single person killed during the game. The ghosts of fallen Cobra unit members also appear. The Sorrow also prophesied that Big Boss would be killed by his own "sons" (the results of the Les Enfants Terribles project).
It is theorized that The Sorrow was responsible for summoning the lightning that killed Colonel Volgin, because in the scene when Volgin dies, when EVA is about to hug Snake, if the player holds R1, they will see The Sorrow floating behind her.
If the player makes it to the end of The Sorrow's river and uses the revival pill, when Snake gets his gear back, he will have obtained the Spirit camo, which allows Snake to drain stamina using CQC, and eliminates footstep noise.
[edit] Behind the Scenes
- The Sorrow's corpse can also be seen during a secret R1 scene after Snake is thrown off of the Dolinovodno bridge, after Snake bandages himself.
- In Guns of the Patriots, The Sorrow will be making a semi-cameo appearance as one of Screaming Mantis' puppets.
| Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Characters |
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Naked Snake — Major Zero — Para-Medic — Sigint The Boss — Colonel Volgin — Ocelot — EVA |
