The Boss (Metal Gear)
| The Boss | |
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| Metal Gear character | |
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| First game | Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004) |
| Created by | Hideo Kojima |
| Designed by | Yoji Shinkawa |
| Voiced by (English) | Lori Alan |
| Voiced by (Japanese) | Kikuko Inoue |
| Motion capture | Eriko Hirata |
| Fictional profile | |
| Aliases | The Joy, Mercury Lady, Voyevoda |
| Affiliations | The Philosophers SAS COBRA Unit CIA NASA FOX GRU |
The Boss (ザ・ボス Za Bosu), also known as The Joy (ザ・ジョイ Za Joi), is a fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear series.
In the Metal Gear series, The Boss is a legendary American female 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. special forces. In June 1944, during World War II, she led the Cobra unit to victory at the Battle of Normandy.
The Boss appears as the main antagonist in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. She moved to the Soviet Union with Colonel Volgin alongside the Cobra Unit. Throughout the game, Naked Snake repeatedly encounters The Boss to kill her as ordered by his superiors. Following Volgin's death, The Boss reveals she is the daughter of one of the original members of the Philosophers behind the Philosophers' Legacy. After one final fight, Snake fights and kills The Boss who gives him the Philosophers' Legacy hidden by Volgin. 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.
EVA 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. 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. However, the capsule suffered heavy damage upon reentry. The Boss, dubbed within the program as the "Mercury Lady", survived the crash but was rendered comatose for six months. All evidence of her role in the program was erased, including airbrushing her out of an official picture of the Mercury astronauts, she being the eighth member. The Boss's entire personality is also reconstructed in a special AI system developed by Strangelove for the Peace Walker weapon.
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