Raiden (Metal Gear)

Raiden, real name Jack and nicknamed Jack the Ripper, began as a child soldier in 1989 where he fought in the Liberian Civil War where he was kept "controllable" through a healthy "image training" regiment of hollywood action movies and food mixed with gunpowder. He was adopted by Solidus Snake, who demostrated to Raiden that blades were a more noble weapon than firearms by using a knife to slice open a man's throat in front of the boy. He earned a fearsome reputation for his substantially higher kill count than his fellow child soldiers, but when the war ended, Solidus had him taken to the United States where The Patriots obtained him and injected him with nanomachines. Haunted by the past he hated as he grew up, Jack joined the United States military where he met his future wife Rosemary. Eventually, he joined the newly reformed FOXHOUND group.

In 2009, Raiden became involved with the Big Shell Incident, where Raiden battled the plans of The Patriots and the mass produced Metal Gear Rays, as detailed in the game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. After the events of the game, he was captured by the Patriots and used in experiments in which his head and spine were implanted in an exoskeleton body resembling the Cyborg Ninja, Frank Jaeger. During Liquid Ocelot's Insurrection, Raiden resurfaced to rescue Solid Snake and Naomi Hunter from Vamp and his GEKKO. While gravely wounded by the nanomachine-enhanced Vamp, Raiden was able to recover in time to help Snake once again when the old soldier returned to Shadow Moses Island to battle Liquid, preventing Snake's death at the cost of both of his arms. During Snake's final mission, Raiden returned to help Snake one last time- wielding his blade with his mouth and feet to hold the line against Liquid's soldiers as Snake traveled down the Microwave Hallway to shut down The Patriot's AI.

After the events of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raiden's body was rebuilt further and he founded a new PMC group to protect people.

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