Her story is one of tragedy forced to betray her friends and country to prevent a nuclear war, it's through her that Metal Gear Solid 3 became a masterpiece of the PlayStation 2 era. The World War II operative is strong and cunning, shaping Big Boss/Naked Snake into the man he would eventually become.
When you think of women with the strongest will and conviction in the industry, it's impossible to overlook The Boss. Hideo Kojima said in 2012, he would "love" to create a new prequel game starring The Boss as the protagonist. During the shooting of the final scene between The Boss and Naked Snake, Eriko Hirata (The Boss's motion capture actress), having read the script beforehand, was so moved by the scene that she broke down into tears. In the finished game, she wears a pale-colored combat outfit Kojima originally planned to have her in a blue sneaking suit similar to Solid Snake for the finale of the game, but this idea was ultimately cut. The Boss' likeness was modelled on actress Charlotte Rampling. The Boss died on September 2, 1964, at Tselinoyarsk, USSR at the age of 42. The Boss's entire personality is also reconstructed in a special AI system developed by Strangelove for the Peace Walker weapon. All evidence of her role in the program was erased, including airbrushing her out of an official picture of the Mercury astronauts, of whom she was the eighth member. The Boss, dubbed within the program as the "Mercury Lady", survived the crash but was rendered comatose for six months. However, the capsule suffered heavy damage upon reentry. She was eventually commissioned into Project Mercury to test the Mercury capsule and launched into space at roughly the same time as Yuri Gagarin's flight on April 12, 1961. ĮVA reveals in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker that The Boss infiltrated a sleeper agent into the USSR's OKB-1 from 1959 to 1961 to gather more information about the Sputnik program with a little help from the Philosophers. The whole mission is later revealed to be a coverup by the United States so that The Boss would steal Volgin's treasure and give it to Snake but then die at his hands to avoid a conflict between America and the Soviet Union. After one final fight, Snake fights and kills The Boss who gives him the Philosophers' Legacy hidden by Volgin. Following Volgin's death, The Boss reveals she is the daughter of one of the original members of the Philosophers behind the Philosophers' Legacy. Throughout the game, Naked Snake repeatedly encounters The Boss to kill her as ordered by his superiors. She moved to the Soviet Union with Colonel Volgin alongside the Cobra Unit. The Boss appears as one of the main antagonists in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. In June 1944, during World War II, she led the Cobra unit to victory at the Battle of Normandy. In the Metal Gear series, The Boss is a legendary American soldier, founder and leader of the Cobra Unit, the biological mother of Ocelot, mentor and mother figure to Naked Snake, and is known as the mother of the U.S.