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Refers to the white haired androgynous looking character from the Metal Gear Solid franchise. He debuted in Metal Gear Solid 2 and is the star of the spinoff/sequel game Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeance. His outfits are different in each of his 3 main game appearances. In MGS2 and his cameo appearance in Metal Gear Solid 3, he is dressed in a black sneaking suit. In Metal Gear Solid 4, he acquires his cyborg ninja form and wears a longcoat over his cyborg body. In Metal Gear Rising, Raiden predominantly wears an eyepatch over his left eye and gains a new cyborg body.

His androgynously beautiful and youthful appearance was inspired by a piece of fan mail from a female Metal Gear fan that Kojima received where the fan stated that she did not want to keep playing as an old man.

He is apparently a young rookie solider just starting out on his first major mission in Metal Gear Solid 2. He has a steady girlfriend in Rosemary, but their relationship has run into problems and although she is his mission control, there is a tension between the two of them.

As MGS 2's story goes on, things turn out to be much more complicated. Raiden turns out to be not quite as 'inexperienced' as he seems to be. He also discovers that he is being treated as a pawn in a much larger scheme and he has been manipulated so much that he grows increasingly unsure of what is real or not. Despite the horrible things he experiences in the game, Raiden pulls through and survives. . .

But in between Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4, Raiden has lost most of his original body except for his head and spine which are now attached to a cyborg body. His new body gives him superhuman strength, agility, and fighting skills but Raiden has also become much more cynical as a result of his experiences. His girlfriend Rose has apparently married Colonel Campbell and the son he had with her has also died due to a miscarriage. Raiden feels that he has little to live for and throws himself into life or death combat. The only person he feels he can still trust is Solid Snake himself who he had grown to respect over the course of Metal Gear Solid 2 but Snake's time left in the world is limited. Although Raiden assists Snake in battle, he falls into despair over all the tragedy he has experienced but Snake manages to inspire him to keep going. . .

However, Raiden's difficulties have not ended yet and he has returned to the battlefield in Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. The antagonists of the game believe Raiden to be not that different from them and attempt to break him by taunting him about his bloodlust. Raiden gradually gives in to his bloodlust, but he becomes more powerful than he ever was as a fighter. In spite of Raiden's increased viciousness, he still gets along with mission control and goes out of his way to help civilians; it is also impossible for Raiden to directly kill civilians in-game even though he can kill his enemies in some rather sadistic ways.

He is one of the more controversial characters in the series for a variety of reasons, especially when he was first introduced. Although he is the main character of MGS2, advertising for the game went out of its way to avoid showing him and gave people the impression that they would be playing as the iconic series hero Solid Snake for the whole game so Raiden's sudden appearance as the main playable character was a major shock for many people when the game debuted.

Konami has acknowledged the strong backlash Raiden received in his debut and introduced the character Major Ivan Raidenovich Raikov in Metal Gear Solid 3 who looked exactly like Raiden although he has no relation to him. Raikov gets put through some humiliating situations thanks to game's protagonist Naked Snake. The game also included the actual Raiden in one of the self-parody Secret Theater clips where he attempts to kill Big Boss and become the main character of the series and fails miserably in each of his assassination attempts.

Despite the controversy surrounding his character, Raiden was once again made the main character in Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, this time, in his cyborg ninja form. The game also has sold well, selling 300,000+ copies within its first week in Japan and was the second best selling game in the United Kingdom when it debuted. Kojima has also said that if Rising sells well then further sequels may be produced so Raiden will likely continue to be a major player in the series.

Like Solid Snake, he has made a crossover fighting game appearance. He is a playable character in Playstation All Star Battle Royale.

He is voiced by Horiuchi_Kenyu. In English, he is voiced by Quinton Flynn, who also voices him in Metal Gear Sunrising (a Freddie Wong parody of Metal Gear Rising) and Charlie Schlatter (Metal Gear Solid 3 only).



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Last updated: 04/15/13 9:38 PM by jojosstand
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