Revolver Ocelot/MGS2

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**Revolver Ocelot**, also known as **Shalashaska** (Russian: Шалашаска), was a Russian-American spy and an agent of the Patriots. A master of interrogation and a formidable gunfighter, he was known for his affinity towards Spaghetti Westerns, as evidenced by his choice of weapon and his clothing, duster and spurs, the traditional garb of cowboys. His weapon of choice was the Colt Single Action Army Revolver, which he regarded as "the greatest handgun ever made."

## Biography

### Post-Shadow Moses

Following the Shadow Moses Incident, Revolver Ocelot sold Metal Gear REX's test data on the black market, which he had stolen on the orders of ex-U.S. President George Sears, a.k.a. Solidus Snake. Besides increasing Ocelot's wealth, this also resulted in the proliferation of Metal Gears across the globe, with various nations and organizations competing in a new arms race.

At some point, Ocelot had his right arm replaced with that of the deceased Liquid Snake via transplant surgery in Lyon, France, which was funded by Solidus. Ocelot helped Solidus go into hiding after events on Shadow Moses were revealed to the public, in order to protect him from the true rulers of the United States, the Patriots. However, unbeknownst to Solidus, Ocelot would serve as a spy for the Patriots.

### Manhattan Tanker Incident

In 2007, Revolver Ocelot was ordered by the Patriots to steal the U.S. Marines' Metal Gear RAY, which was seen as a threat to the development of the Navy's Arsenal Gear. To carry this out, he underwent VR training, enabling him to pilot the vehicle. On August 8, Ocelot allied with his former GRU comrade Sergei Gurlukovich and the Gurlukovich Mercenaries to infiltrate the dummy tanker that was transporting RAY and hijack it.

Ocelot anticipated Solid Snake's presence, intending to frame his anti-Metal Gear NGO Philanthropy for the theft, whom the Patriots considered a dangerous liability. Spying Snake on the tanker's deck from a Kasatka helicopter, Ocelot reported the news to his superior. When the Gurlukovich's mercenaries successfully boarded and took control of the ship shortly, Ocelot secretly made use of a U.S. Army Cypher drone to gather photographic evidence of Snake on the ship.

After Snake had eliminated a mercenary squad and entered the holds, Ocelot arrived on the scene, and confronted a surviving mercenary who had stealthily sealed Snake in. Surprised to see "Shalashaska" away from the Colonel's side, he questioned Ocelot what his purpose there was, but was promptly shot dead. Locking the door to the holds fully, Ocelot departed, remarking to his deceased "comrade" that the Colonel would be joining him soon.

Meeting with Colonel Gurlukovich in the holds, Ocelot threatened the U.S. Marines with an explosives detonator, allowing Gurlukovich's men to secure Metal Gear RAY. However, he betrayed Gurlukovich, shooting both him and Marine Commandant Scott Dolph, along with several mercenaries. He told the Marines to swim for their lives and detonated the explosives, scuttling the tanker, and making for RAY's cockpit.

Ocelot was then confronted by an armed Solid Snake, which triggered an abrupt transformation in Ocelot's behavior. The personality of Liquid Snake manifested through Ocelot, apparently living on through his transplanted arm, and made its presence known to his brother. "Liquid" was able to board RAY before a startled Snake could stop him, and proceeded to cut a hole through the sinking ship's hull with the machine's hydrocutter. The amphibious Metal Gear then swam to the surface of the river, leaving the Marines, the Gurlukovich Mercenaries, the Colonel's daughter lieutenant Olga, and Snake himself for dead.

A short time later, Ocelot regained control of his body, and reported the successful hijacking to a "Mr. President," promising to meet at a pre-arranged location. Photos of Snake on the scene, taken by Ocelot's Cypher, would also be leaked to the news media.

### Big Shell Incident

In 2009, Revolver Ocelot allied with Solidus Snake and his Sons of Liberty, comprised of surviving members of Dead Cell and the Gurlukovich Mercenaries. On April 30, he participated in the capture of the cleanup facility "Big Shell," off the shore of Manhattan. The Big Shell was the secret R&D center for the Navy's Arsenal Gear, with which Solidus intended to destroy the Patriots, although he remained ignorant of Ocelot's ties to the organization. Meanwhile, "Liquid" lured Solid Snake to the Big Shell, by leaking information on Arsenal Gear to Hal Emmerich, believing that Snake's presence was required for his full awakening within Ocelot.

Ocelot manipulated events at the offshore plant, ensuring that both the terrorist incident and the U.S. response proceeded according to the Patriots' designs. As an anti-intruder measure, he arranged for Semtex explosives to be placed on one of the plant's connecting bridges, which accessed the location of the terrorists' key hostage, U.S. President James Johnson. He also interrogated Emma Emmerich, the chief programmer for Arsenal Gear's AI system, which he accomplished with the use of truth serum.

Ocelot later reported his actions to Solidus, along with a damage assessment following an attempt by Dead Cell member Fatman to destroy the plant with explosives. This apparent betrayal led Ocelot to intimate that Fatman had been working for the Patriots. He was also forced to defend himself, when Olga Gurlukovich, the new leader of the Gurlukovich Mercenaries, threatened his life for having abandoned her father Sergei to his death, during the Tanker Incident two years earlier. Also aware of Ocelot's involvement at Shadow Moses, Olga demanded that he reveal what he knew of a sword-equipped Cyborg Ninja that had been sighted at the Big Shell. Ocelot denied having any knowledge, although he had secretly arranged for the Ninja's appearance.

Following Solidus's intervention and Olga's departure, Ocelot was sharply interrupted by painful spasms in his right arm, which he remedied with a drug injection. Left to watch over the hostages by Solidus, Ocelot spied the disguised U.S. agent Raiden speaking with bound hostage Richard Ames via surveillance camera. However, his eavesdropping was cut short, when the two utilized their internal nanomachines to communicate. Ocelot then confronted Ames directly, revealing that he knew the Secret Service agent was really a Patriot spy, while maintaining his own cover. Ocelot aimed his revolver at Ames, when the agent suddenly suffered a heart attack, his pacemaker having been shutdown remotely by the Patriots, via his own nanomachines. Ames realized Ocelot's true identity just before his death.

When Raiden, disguised as a Gurlukovich soldier, checked over Ames's body, Ocelot outed him and ordered his mask be removed. Raising his revolver at Raiden, Ocelot retreated when the Cyborg Ninja dropped down from above to protect Ocelot's intended victim. Ocelot expressed apparent shock at this intruder's appearance, it bearing the likeness of the Ninja who died at Shadow Moses. The Ninja allowed Raiden to escape, while Ocelot ordered his men to hold their fire to avoid harming the hostages.

Ocelot encountered Raiden again, when the latter attempted to rescue President James Johnson. Johnson resigned himself to the role of pawn in the Patriots' grand scheme, and tried to force Raiden to kill him, but when the latter refused, Ocelot surprised the two during their scuffle and shot Johnson himself. Claiming his finger had slipped on his gun's trigger, Ocelot told Raiden they'd meet again and escaped.

When Raiden was captured by Olga Gurlukovich and imprisoned on board Arsenal Gear, Ocelot suggested to Solidus that he be used as bait, in order to lure out a suspected Patriot plant. Once alone with Raiden, Ocelot remarked on the similarities between current events and those at Shadow Moses four years earlier, the situation making him feel nostalgic.

Ocelot's plan to use Raiden as bait succeeded when Olga, secretly the Cyborg Ninja, was revealed to be the mole when she later saved Raiden's life, prompting Solidus to kill her. In addition, Ocelot had earlier floated the idea to Dead Cell to hijack Arsenal Gear for themselves. This was at Solidus's direction, intending that Dead Cell distract the Patriots' focus while he himself hunted down and assassinated the individual members of the Patriots' ruling members, the Wisemen's Committee.

With Arsenal Gear's AI neutralized, Raiden and Solid Snake captured, and Solidus and Dead Cell leader Fortune preparing to part ways, Ocelot decided to end the whole charade. He stunned his audience by revealing that the entire incident had been scripted by the Patriots, and that with the exeption of Solid Snake, they had all been mere pawns in a huge test scenario for Arsenal's AI, GW. When Fortune and Solidus turned their weapons on him, Ocelot shot the former and evaded the latter, boarded Metal Gear RAY and prepared to destroy the "refuse" from the exercise.

However, Ocelot was ultimately foiled when his mind was completely subsumed by the personality of Liquid Snake's, thanks to the continued presence of Solid Snake. Revealing his part in luring Snake to the Big Shell, Liquid set off to destroy the Patriots himself, leaving the others to die while he directed Arsenal Gear to crash into Manhattan. Escaping in the hijacked RAY, he taunted Snake into pursuing him, which Snake did, while planting a transmitter on RAY. Snake later theorized that the Patriots had given Ocelot a bogus location to begin with, thus foiling Liquid's plan.

## Personality and traits

A cunning operative and an expert marksman, Ocelot was renowned for his prowess on the battlefield as well as his deceitful nature and his penchant for torture. Ocelot displayed treachery when it suited his goals, betraying both Sergei Gurlukovich and Solidus Snake during the Tanker and Big Shell Incidents, respectively. He had no loyalty to his mother country Russia.

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In 2009, Ocelot took a hypodermic injection to supposedly prevent Liquid Snake's arm from exerting control over him. During this occasion, his heart seemingly gave two heartbeats, as heard by Raiden, using a directional microphone. While discussing his transplanted arm with Solidus Snake, the surgery of which was performed in Lyon, Ocelot mentioned that he "never trust[ed] a Frenchman." Ironically, Ocelot's preferred method of torture (electrocution) was developed by the French military during the Indochina War, and then used during the Algerian War. It was nicknamed "La Gégène," an abbreviation of *Génératrice*, which means "Generator."

## Codenames, aliases, and nicknames

Ocelot was named for the species of wild cat that lives on the American continent.

Ocelot's nickname of Shalashaska (gained from the Mujahideen he tortured during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan) was derived from the mispronunciation of the word "Sharaska" - a slang term for a suspicious, hastily thrown together organization which was also applied to secret R&D facilities in Soviet labor camps.

During the Big Shell Incident, Vamp referred to Revolver Ocelot as "Crazy Ivan," respectively. Ivan, the Slavic variant of the name "John," is also a slang term for Russian people in general.

## Behind the scenes

Template:Nihongo is a character who appears in *Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty*.

### Character concept

According to an interview with character designer Yoji Shinkawa, Ocelot's missing right arm was originally to have been replaced by a mechanical prosthesis for *Metal Gear Solid 2*. However, it was later decided that Ocelot would instead possess a transplanted arm from Liquid Snake, due to latter's positive reception by fans of the previous game. Originally, Ocelot was to have been unable to bend the fingers of his transplanted arm, but could do so whenever Liquid gained control of his body.

Ocelot's arm transplant was described as having been performed in Lyon, France, which was the location of the world's first hand transplant team. The first successful hand transplant was performed there on September 28, 1998, though the patient later had it amputated, after failing to follow the correct anti-rejection treatment and physical therapy prescribed by his physicians. On January 12, 2000, the first double hand transplant was also performed in Lyon.

### Story development

In Kojima's "Grand Game Plan," it was intended that Ocelot, after boarding Metal Gear RAY on the tanker, would step on Sergei, rather than shoot him as he does in the final version. Ocelot was also to have held genuine loyalty to Solidus, and was also intended to have been killed by Snake.

While this is the first game to establish that Ocelot was a spy for the Patriots, any other role he might have had in the organization is left ambiguous, and is expanded upon in later games.

## Appearances

* *Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty*
	+ *Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance*
* *Metal Gear Solid 2: Digital Graphic Novel*

## Gallery

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## Notes and references

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1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Gamers%20Today`
2. ↑ *Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty* (script), Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2001).
**Solidus Snake:** How much do you think we spent on that arm in Lyon. The best transplant surgery team in the world -- **Revolver Ocelot:** I never trust a Frenchman.
3. ↑ *Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty*, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2001).
**Ocelot:** ...Yes, at the location we discussed…
4. ↑ *Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty*, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2001).
**Vamp:** Crazy Ivan sometimes speaks the truth.
5. ↑ *Metal Gear Solid*, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (1998).
**Vulcan Raven:** So, General Ivan, I hear he took your hand as well as your dignity. // **Revolver Ocelot (Codec):** Watch your tongue, Shaman!
6. ↑ Yoji Shinkawa interview by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2002).