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Raiden

Raised by Solidus Snake and trained as a child soldier during the first Liberian Civil War, Raiden (whose real name is Jack) was the main playable character in MGS2. It is eventually revealed that his mission in the game is a carefully crafted reenactment of the events from MGS1 designed by The Patriots to mold him into a Solid Snake caliber soldier and use the resulting data to create more "super-soldiers" like him.

Raiden eventually realizes that he's been played and vows to help Solid Snake bring down The Patriots once and for all. He also makes a promise to find and rescue the child of Olga Gurlukovich, a secondary character in MGS2, who is being held captive by The Patriots.

In MGS4, Raiden appears as a cyborg, who, like Vamp, is seemingly immortal. The reason(s) behind his transformation have been a tightly kept plot secret.

11/06/08