>>1142220 I thought all the stiches implied (you) went under some facial reconstruction surgery. I guess it could also just be from the helicopter crash, but since everyone fully believes you're the boss I doubt it is just the Medic's face.

>>1142220 I think you went under facial surgery to look like the boss, and people see you as the boss, but you don't fully look right. Remember when Huey goes "Snake?" Also the Boss AI could tell your not actually Big Boss.

>>1142796 >>1142849 what about the real boss though, they give him a passport with your face on it.

>>1142220 Like other anons have said, Venom probably got facial surgery while in a coma. If not that, dude just kept his hair/beard unkept and wore an eyepatch and that was have enough to convince people he's BiBo. Emphasis on 'probably' here. A lot of things in MGSV are either only briefly explained or left to interpretation, the reasoning for which is the implication of Venom having schizophrenia/hallucinations from brain damage. MGSV's big theme, aside from revenge, is about chasing phantoms - >Miller's obsession with hunting Cipher/Zero, whom Skull Face already took down in between GZ and TPP (If i remember correctly) >Venom delivering photographs to Paz to try and jolt her memory (before she's revealed to be entirely a hallucination) >Volgin chasing Venom (before he discovers Venom's true identity in a side mission and gives up on living) >There's also a bunch of Moby Dick references to reinforce this (Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, the bigass fire whale that swallows the chopper during the hospital escape) I'm convinced Kojima used the theme of phantoms as an excuse to cover his ass and insert as much stupid shit as he wanted (granted he'd been working on Metal Gear the majority of his time at Konami and probably stopped giving a shit, but still). Every weird, contradictory, or out-of-left-field story beat can be explained away with "hurr durr Venom hallucinates pls understand", to the point where whether or not the game even happened can be questioned without much difficulty at all. Despite MGSV being touted as 'the missing link between MGS3/PW and MG1, nothing of actual narrative importance affecting the rest of the games happens in TPP, either. The only thing I can think of/remember which COULD explain things being the way they are in other titles is > The presence of 'parasites' being the reason bosses in MGS2/3 have superpowers. >The truth tapes re-contextualizing Zero's actions after MGS3 (the best part of TPP imo) Basically, whether or not Venom's face is (you)r avatar's or BiBo's doesn't matter because almost nothing else that happens in this game does either.

>>1142220 Isn't his original face an OC character you make at the start of the game? He has to have had surgery or else if you made your character look retarded you wouldn't fool anyone.

>>1142220 The characters that knew Big Boss and were still interacting with him brainwashed themselves to believe Venom is BB, but it's implied he was given surgery to resemble BB enough to pass, so basically MGSV is a trans allegory. They should've had David Hayter voice the real Big Boss in the end.

Play the game to the end and it will be revealed that his face got reconstructed to double as a Big Boss (Naked Snake) and both Venom and Ocelot underwent a temporary hypno therapy about Venom's true identity. I wonder how they altered his voice though.