Raiden (Metal Gear)

Raiden, also known as Jack, Jack the Ripper, White Devil and Snake, is one of the main characters from the Metal Gear series.
== Charactah Account ==
Raiden appears to be a member of the U.S. special operations unit FOXHOUND and is participating in his first mission against terrorists. Despite coming across as a rookie, he is a young soldier who is later revealed to have been a Liberian child soldier.
Due to his participation in the Liberian Civil War, Raiden was one of the few Force XXI VR subjects to possess actual combat experience. Also, because of his past as a child soldier, as well as his possessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as a result, he also occasionally pushed away even people he cared about due to his being "afraid of the night." Because of this, he was outwardly cold and distant even to people whom he personally knew, such as his then-girlfriend Rosemary. It was largely because of this cold nature, as well as his pushing people he knew away that resulted in Rosemary initially fearing that he was unfaithful to her. When he first infiltrated the Big Shell, Raiden appeared to be a young and "inexperienced" agent of a "reformed" FOXHOUND unit, occasionally prone to emotional outbursts.
Throughout his mission, however, being that the memories of his past began to slowly resurface, he also began to suspect that he enjoyed killing, and reluctantly informed Rosemary as much.[24] When the memories of his time as a child soldier began to resurface, he gained somewhat of a low opinion of himself, especially in comparison to Solid Snake's accomplishments. He also held some hero worship for Solid Snake, as part of the reason for his agreeing to partake in the Big Shell Incident to take down the terrorist leader was so he'd meet the legend face-to-face, and was initially disappointed when it seemed Snake had truly died in the Tanker Incident. 
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Evolution Skateboarding
* Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
* Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
* Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
* Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
* Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
* Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
* Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus
* Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops
* PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
* Super Bomberman R
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
== Trivia ==
* The word "Raiden" literally means "thunder and lightning" or "thunder god" in Japanese. He shares this codename with the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden, an Imperial Japanese WWII fighter aircraft, which the Allied forces codenamed "Jack." The Patriots had named him after the plane[24] and later informed Raiden that, like his namesake, he was nothing more than a weapon, a tool to be discarded once its usefulness has been outlived. This codename stayed with him after the Manhattan incident until the Patriots' fall.
* One of Raiden's nicknames was White Devil. The nickname's use in this case was a reference to Caucasians (Raiden's ethnicity) being unusual in Liberia at the time of the Liberian Civil War.
* Another nickname of his was "Jack the Ripper," a pseudonym for an unidentified serial killer in 1888 who was active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London. In this case, it was a reference to his skill and cruelty with a blade, a trait that was ingrained into him by Solidus. 
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Raiden at Metal Gear Wiki
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