Ed (Metal Gear)

Ed is a supporting character in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. He is voiced by Dave Fennoy in the English version of the game.
==Biography==
A man of African-American descent, Ed serves in Meryl Silverburgh's Rat Patrol Team 01 as their radioman and sniper. During the events of the game, he is with his team in the Middle East doing reconnaissance work on Liquid Ocelot's Praying Mantis Private Military Company (PMC), when their position is compromised. Ed breaks the bad news to Meryl about what's coming to kill them:
With the aid of Solid Snake, they are able to make it down to the parking garage of the Advent Palace hotel where they are ambushed by three more FROGs, but a coordinated effort from Meryl, Ed, and Jonathan thanks to their nanomachines allow them to plug all three at the same time simultaneously. After they split off from Snake, they are later seen scoping out the Praying Mantis main camp when Meryl sees Snake hiding among some crates. Using Ed's backpack radio to contact Snake via his Codec, Meryl makes it clear she knows Snake is here to kill Liquid, but is unable to intervene due to her own orders. However, as Meryl and her team advance carefully behind cover towards Liquid themselves, Liquid activates his test of taking over the Sons of the Patriots (SOP) System using Liquid's own DNA, but this results in the Praying Mantis PMC troopers suffering emotional breakdowns that they can't endure. Meryl's team is not immune themselves, as they too collapse into emotional fits, with Ed breaking into hysterical laughter. Only Akiba is immune as he watches his own teammates become unable to do anything in their emotional conditions, forcing him to help get them to safety on his own, including Snake when he finds him suffering a similar situation among all the dead and still living Praying Mantis troops.
After Ed and the others recover, they pass on their report to ARSOC (Army Special Operations Command), and also have it relayed to the POTUS (President of the United States). Realizing the threat Liquid poses to national and world security, the POTUS assigns a joint United States Army-Marine Corps task force to Meryl to bring Liquid in. Upon meeting up with Snake again in Eastern Europe after getting him away from a Raven Sword PMC checkpoint that would have blown his cover, while Meryl speaks to him alone, Ed and Jonathan do their best to keep Akiba quiet to avoid compromising their cover with all the Raven Sword troopers around. Later, they intercept Liquid as he attempts to escape with the pyx of Big Boss that he had acquired from former fellow Patriot member EVA, now going by the name of "Big Mama", and surround Liquid's gunboat with Humvees, PT boats, and helicopters loaded with U.S. Army soldiers and Marines who train all their guns on Liquid, Vamp, Naomi Hunter, and the six FROGs guarding them. Basking in this massive audience of U.S. forces that have come to see his triumph, Liquid prepares to unleash his endgame. Sensing trouble, Meryl has everyone take aim, but just as she gives the command to open fire, Liquid disables their weapons, showing he now controls SOP, before taking out the helicopters and then having one of his FROGs fire on Rat Patrol on their PT boat, wounding Ed and Jonathan before they can react with numerous bullet wounds from the FROG's FN P90 submachine gun's 5.7x28mm rounds. After that, Liquid then sends the U.S. troopers into emotional breakdowns like what happened in the Middle East, and as Akiba again tries to tend to Meryl, Ed, and Jonathan as they struggle with their emotions overwhelming them, Liquid then has his FROGs take aim and begin cutting the U.S. soldiers and Marines to ribbons with them unable to fight back. When it is all over, Liquid adds the final nail in the coffin by having his gunboat blast Rat Patrol's with its main cannons, the impact and the boat rocking to stay upright sending Jonathan and Ed into the water before Akiba and Meryl follow as Akiba tries to protect her. Ed and Jonathan make it to shore, but are still badly wounded, and it initially appears that their wounds are mortal as they exchange last words with each other.
However, after Meryl, Johnny, Snake, Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, Drebin 893, Mei Ling, and Sunny are able to stop Liquid and destroy the Patriot AIs, saving modern civilization and ending the war economy for good, Jonathan and Ed are revealed to have survived their wounds, recovered, and attend Meryl and Johnny's wedding, with Ed serving as minister for the ceremony with uniting Meryl and Johnny in holy matrimony. However, he's forced to remind Johnny of when it was time to kiss the bride with a look of annoyance before Johnny realized what he meant. After Drebin arrives to offer his gifts to the newlyweds, Ed joins everyone in the reception afterwards.
== Trivia ==
* Ed is implied to be an equivalent to Ed Brown from Hideo Kojima game Policenauts, even sharing the same Japanese voice actor. His and Jonathan's relationship is also very similar to their Policenauts counterparts. 
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