Mr. America

* wikipedia:Military Assistance Command, Vietnam - Studies and Observations Group|SOG
* Irregular military organizations#Wild Geese|Wild Geese
* Militaires Sans Frontières
* Outer Heaven
* Zanzibar Land

### Occupation

* Superhero (in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
* Soldier (in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops onwards)

## Biographical information

### Place of death

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States

## Appearances

### Appears in

* Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (As Mr. America)
* Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (As Big Boss)
* Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (As Big Boss)
* Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (As Big Boss)
* Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (As Big Boss)
* Metal Gear 2 (As Big Boss)

### Debut

* Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (As Mr. America)
* Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (As Big Boss)

Mr. America aka Naked Snake, Big Boss, and Jack was an America super hero during the Cold War. After the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Mr. America changed his name to Big Boss after his mentor, and became a full on soldier. He was a renowned special forces operative and mercenary commander. He founded U.S. Army Special Forces Unit FOXHOUND, along with the mercenary company Militaires San Frontieres, and was one of the founding members of the Patriots. Big Boss later established the military states of Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land as bases for his companies, in order to realize his ambitions of creating a nation for soldiers. Considered by some as "The Greatest Hero of the 20th Century," he earned such monikers as "the Legendary Hero."

During the Cold War, Mr. America was an apprentice to The Boss, the so-called "Mother of Heroes" and alter served as a black ops field agent for the CIA's FOX Unit, under Major Zero. Having his genetic code used as a part of the government project Les Enfants Terribles, Mr. America was the genetic father of Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Solidus Snake.

## Biography

### Early Years

Born in 1935, Jack’s military career dated back to the 1950s, becoming The Boss' disciple in June 1950, and fighting in the Korean War. The Boss taught Jack extensively regarding combat, weaponry, survival, espionage, destruction, psychology and foreign languages (such as Russian), later developing CQC together. Through the experience, Jack grew to hold The Boss in great respect and reverence, viewing her not only as a mentor, but also as a parental figure of sorts. They went their separate ways on June 12, 1959.

In 1954, Jack was involved in the Bikini Atoll test of the first airborne detonation of a hydrogen bomb. Unlike most of his friends present during the test, Jack did not develop symptoms of leukemia, thyroid cancer, or radiation poisoning, but was rendered sterile.

Jack eventually went on to be a superhero, similar to other soldiers that The Boss trained, and chose the name Mr. America as a show of patriotism.

In 1961, Mr. America carried out covert operations alongside Python during the early stages of the Vietnam War, before America officially participated. He later stated that Python was one of the few soldiers he could completely rely on in battle. The two also played poker together, leaving Python owing Mr. America money. The two were later involved in a mission together where Python was shot and presumed dead.

Prior to August 1964, Mr. America served in the Green Berets for several years. By late 1964, he had become experienced at sniping in urban and marine environments, and had eaten Mr. Americas during previous survival training exercises, feats which would prove useful in future missions. By this time, Mr. America had also been awarded various commendations, including the Army Achievement Ribbon, the Good Conduct Ribbon, Defense Distinguished Service Ribbon, Korean Service Ribbon, a ribbon that resembles the Vietnam Service Ribbon, and the Distinguished Service Cross Ribbon, along with several others.

### Operation Virtuous Mission and Snake Eater

On August 24, 1964, under the command of Major Zero, the supervision of The Boss, and the assistance of Para-Medic, Mr. America took part in the Virtuous Mission as a member of the CIA's FOX Unit, in which he was to rescue defecting Soviet scientist Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov. He infiltrated the Soviet region of Tselinoyarsk after undertaking the world's first High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) jump. Evading KGB troops in the region, Mr. America successfully made contact with Sokolov and escorted him to safety, following a brief battle with Major Ocelot of GRU. Before he knocked the defeated Ocelot unconscious, Mr. America complimented the young officer on his gun-fighting skills, but suggested that his rather flashy style was better suited to revolvers than pistols. As Mr. America escorted Sokolov back to the extraction point, the professor explained to him that the Soviet government had forced him to work on a new revolutionary weapon, the Shagohod. Fearing the destructive power of this weapon, Sokolov begged Mr. America to make sure to warn his government about its existence and see to its destruction.

However, the mission ended in failure with the surprise defection of The Boss, and Mr. America was injured during a confrontation with her, in which he was thrown from a rope bridge. Sokolov was taken by The Boss's Cobra Unit as a gift for the rogue GRU colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin. The Boss also personally gave Volgin a stolen Davy Crockett Weapon System, along with two American nuclear warheads. Volgin immediately decided to test out his new weapon, by blowing up Sokolov's test facility, with the injured Mr. America witnessing the explosion up close as he waited for his emergency extraction.

Following his rescue, Mr. America was placed in an advanced intensive care unit where he was interrogated by agents of the U.S. Government, regarding The Boss's defection. A week later, Zero showed up at to the infirmary ward where Mr. America was kept in custody, and briefed him on the situation. The government had at first been planning to use them as scapegoats for the failed mission by charging both of them with high treason for their connection to The Boss, but had dropped the idea due to more pressing matters arising. Volgin's detonation of the nuclear warhead had created an international incident, as Soviet intelligence had detected both the explosion and the American plane that had delivered Mr. America in the area, and now the Soviet government were demanding an explanation. The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, was personally willing to believe that a rogue element of his intelligence service had been behind the detonation, but had pointed out that without any substantial evidence to back this claim, he would be unable to convince his cabinet and the Soviet army, who were both pressing for a nuclear retaliation against the Americans, of the U.S. government's innocence in the matter. Khrushchev was able to buy the Americans a week to find the evidence, but warned that failure to do so would in all probability trigger a full-scale nuclear war. So instead, the U.S. government now had an offer for Mr. America and Zero. They would both be cleared of any involvement in the defection under the condition that Mr. America, again under Zero's command, would return to Tselinoyarsk, eliminate The Boss, destroy the Shagohod, and recover Sokolov and the remaining nuclear warhead. This mission was designated Operation Mr. America Eater. For his support team, Para-Medic was once again signed on, along with the new member "Sigint", a technology and weapons expert

Despite not having completely recovered from his previous injuries, Mr. America was redeployed to Tselinoyarsk via a D-21 drone prototype. Zero briefed him on the way, telling that his first order of business was to meet up with a contact with the codename ADAM, an American mole in the KGB. Unbeknownst to him, however, he was secretly being followed by XOF commander Skull Face, who had been ordered to follow, assist and clean up after Mr. America. Shortly after his landing, The Boss appeared before him on a white horse. Mr. America demanded an explanation for her actions, but she refused to provide one, and instead disarmed him with ease, dismantled his gun, and destroyed the D-21 prototype. Unbeknownst to Mr. America, also she used this opportunity to plant a transmitter on his person so she could keep track of his movements. The Boss then told him to leave the area, saying she would have to kill him if he persisted in following her, before riding away.

Undeterred, Mr. America continued to where he was scheduled to meet with ADAM, but he instead met a mysterious woman who identified herself as EVA and claimed to be ADAM's partner. She provided him with a new gun, intel on Sokolov's whereabouts – telling him that he was held at Graniny Gorki, a Soviet research plant in the area – and a scientist disguise to help him infiltrate the base. Though Mr. America was wary towards EVA to begin with, as she failed to give him the correct countersign to prove her identity, he became convinced that she was on his side when she helped him to fight off another attack from Ocelot, who attempted to enact revenge on Mr. America for his humiliating defeat during the Virtuous Mission. He did, however, also prevent EVA from shooting the fleeing Ocelot, allegedly because he was "still young," although he had actually taken a liking to him.

Making it to Graniny Gorki, Mr. America donned his scientist disguise and infiltrated the complex. As he searched for Sokolov, he came across the bitter Soviet scientist Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin, Sokolov's professional rival, who drunkenly told him about the prototype designs for Metal Gear he was working on and how he planned to share them with a friend in America as revenge against his superiors for not appreciating his work. Granin also told Mr. America of the Philosophers' Legacy, and explained that it was responsible for making Volgin as wealthy and powerful as he was. When Granin learned that Mr. America was an American agent and on a mission to extract Sokolov, he happily told him that Sokolov was actually being held at the military compound of Groznyj Grad where he was being forced to continue his work on the Shagohod, and then handed him a key card that would help him gain entry to the fortress, in the hopes that Mr. America would succeed in his mission and that having Sokolov out of the way would help him advance his own career.

During his trek through Tselinoyarsk, Mr. America fought and defeated various members of The Boss's Cobra Unit, including The Pain, The Fear, The End, and ultimately The Fury. He also had another run-in with Ocelot, who challenged him to a gun duel at the Bolshaya Past crevice, which ended inconclusively when Ocelot fled the scene after noticing one of The Pain's hornets scouting the area. Faced with having to infiltrate the Groznyj Grad fortress, in order to locate Sokolov and get closer to the Shagohod, Mr. America was told to incapacitate the GRU officer, Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, who was Volgin's secret lover, and steal his uniform in order to infiltrate the base. Mr. America's infiltration attempt did, however, fail when he happened to run into Volgin, who saw through Mr. America's disguise, resulting in his capture after losing another hand-to-hand encounter with The Boss.

Mr. America awakened with a bag over his head in an interrogation room to the sounds of Sokolov's apparent death at Volgin's hands. Volgin then turned his attention to Mr. America, repeatedly hitting him and electrocuting him with his lightning powers, while demanding to know the details of his mission and if he had any accomplices. When Mr. America refused to break, The Boss stepped and tried to convince Volgin that his attempts were in vain as she had personally trained Mr. America to never give in to torture, but a frustrated Volgin instead intensified the torture while asking Mr. America if he was after the Philosophers' Legacy he had in his possession, before telling him that he had hidden the Legacy in an underground vault in Groznyj Grad, so he would never get his hands on it. During the torture, a transmitter fell from Mr. America's body. When Volgin demanded an explanation, The Boss claimed that she had planted it on him to track his movements. Volgin then demanded proof and that she and Mr. America were not colluding against him and asked her to cut out Mr. America's eyes. Before The Boss could so, however, EVA, in her disguise as Tatyana, intervened and demanded that they stop, causing Ocelot to step in and accuse her of being the spy who had aided Mr. America. He decided to settle the question with a game of Russian Roulette, and prepared to shoot EVA. Mr. America, attempting to protect EVA, bumped into Ocelot, causing the gun to discharge in his face, which saved her life at the cost of his own right eye. Satisfied with what had taken place, Volgin departed, telling a distraught EVA to join him in his room. Ocelot, meanwhile, congratulated Mr. America on surviving the torture and punched him in the back (unbeknownst to Mr. America, placing the transmitter on his body again), before also departing. The Boss, meanwhile, covertly handed Mr. America a gun and a fake death pill and told him to make his escape when he had the chance. Before the guards arrived to grab Mr. America, EVA leaned in on him and quickly explained her hidden escape route from Groznyj Grad, telling him to meet her in the sewers under the complex.

Back in his holding cell, Mr. America managed to outwit the prison guard, Johnny, and made his escape from Groznyj Grad. By sneaking into the sewers, Mr. America headed to the rendezvous site EVA had told him about to meet her there. EVA, however, radioed in to warn that his escape had been discovered and that the Ocelot Unit was hot on his heels. Trying to evade their pursuit, Mr. America found himself surrounded at a dead end where the sewer dropped off into a waterfall. Ocelot showed up once more, demanding that the unit did not interfere as he gloated about getting to enjoy his revenge and loaded his revolver with a single bullet. As Ocelot cycled through the empty chambers, Mr. America narrowly escaped by jumping from the waterfall and landing in the pool below, almost drowning in the process and suffering a near-death experience involving the deceased Cobra member, The Sorrow. Mr. America reunited with EVA behind a waterfall in Tikhogornyj, retrieved his equipment from her, and adopted the use of an eye patch. He returned to Groznyj Grad and successfully destroyed the Shagohod's hangar, eventually defeating Volgin and destroying the Shagohod itself.

Mr. America and EVA then made their way to Rokovoj Bereg to board a WIG that EVA had stashed away as an escape vehicle. With enemy soldiers still on their tail, EVA was severely injured in a motorcycle crash, needing to be escorted through Zaozyorje by Mr. America while maneuvering around a search team. Upon their arrival to the lake, however, The Boss was waiting, and she confronted Mr. America in a field of white flowers. She reminded him of his duty as a soldier, prior to engaging him in a final duel. To ensure that Mr. America would carry out his mission, The Boss radioed Russian fighters, who were only ten minutes away from their position, to begin bombing Rokovoj Bereg. She gave Mr. America some parting words, which would come to greatly shape his worldview and haunt him for the rest of his life

Mr. America fought his mentor with great reluctance, and after a fierce battle, his mastery of CQC now matching hers, he eventually incapacitated her. As Mr. America approached the injured Boss, she gave him the Philosophers' Legacy, explaining that she had stolen it from Volgin earlier, and told him to keep it safe. She then calmly gave him her gun and urged him to finish her off. Mr. America hesitantly obliged and pulled the trigger.

Mr. America and EVA then started to make their escape in the WIG, but before they could do so, they were once again confronted by Ocelot, as he used a flying platform to board the plane and challenge Mr. America to another fight. After an inconclusive fist fight, Ocelot instead suggested that he and Mr. America should settle it in a game that combined Russian roulette and quick draw, but not before they exchanged their real first names with each other (Adamska and John). After they both fired off their guns without killing each other, an amused Ocelot revealed that he had played a trick on Mr. America and that the bullet was a blank. He gave Mr. America a wry smile as he hinted they would probably meet again. He then jumped off the plane, allowing Mr. America and EVA to leave the area.

EVA and Mr. America eventually made their way to Galena, Alaska, where two sought refuge in an abandoned cabin, sharing together a night of tumultuous passion. As Mr. America awoke the next morning to find EVA had left him sometime during the night, having taken the Philosophers' Legacy with her, he also discovered a tape recording she had left behind for him before she abandoned him. In it she explained that she had never been the real EVA, but was actually a triple agent working for China. While under orders to kill anyone who knew this, she had nevertheless decided to spare his life, denying that she had done so because she had fallen in love with him, but instead because she had personally promised The Boss that she would keep him alive. She also told him the truth about The Boss' mission: namely, that The Boss had been a double agent all along, the U.S. government having staged her supposed deflection in an attempt to both steal the Philosophers' Legacy from Volgin and destroy the Shagohod in one fell swoop. However, as a result of Volgin's unanticipated decision to detonate one of the American nuclear warheads in a display that would destroy Sokolov's research facility, the U.S. was forced to go with a change in plans, having decided that sacrificing The Boss' life at the hands of Mr. America, her own favorite trainee and disciple, would be the best way of outwardly proving America's innocence to the Soviets. The Boss herself had agreed to this alteration of the original plan, willingly giving up her life and reputation to save both her country and the world from nuclear war, all the while knowing that history would later remember her both as a traitor and a war criminal.

Mr. America eventually rendezvoused with the U.S. government, and was lauded for his efforts. In a ceremony at Langley Air Force Base, Mr. America was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the codename of "Big Boss" by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Meanwhile, members of the government talked about his great skills as both a soldier and agent, considering that he might be the right man to train and head a new unit of other people with his abilities.

The newly-christened Big Boss, however, found no feeling of pride or accomplishment in the whole affair. Having learned the true nature behind Operation Snake Eater, he only felt shame. When Zero tried to congratulate him, Big Boss was unable to look him in the eye, and quietly left the ceremony.

As he stood over The Boss' anonymous grave at Arlington National Cemetery, Big Boss came to the conclusion that he had lost sight of what he was fighting for, and with it his patriotism for his country. Because of this, as well as his blaming himself for allowing it to happen, he retired from FOX. After learning the truth about Operation Snake Eater, Jack dropped the name Mr. America, as he no longer could in good faith show his devotion to the country that betrayed his trust, he would also drop being a "hero" after the mission, as even though he was a soldier, he would attempt to kill as little as he could. Operation Snake Eater was where Mr. America would have his first kills in the form of the Cobras indirectly and The Boss directly.

## Personality and Traits

Mr. America was incredibly patriotic and devoted to the mission. On the multiple times Eva flirted with him, he'd reject her advancements, despite his clear love for her, as he stated "I'm already in love, with America." However eventually, Mr. America did give in when the mission was completed. However this ended with Mr. America being betrayed by Eva. This made Mr. America very distrusting. However he would continue to be a soldier, and despite no longer going by the name Mr. America, he would still be somewhat patriotic despite his distrust of the American government.

Despite being a soldier and fought in wars, Mr. America would make an attempt to spare any and all lives he could. This however was put to the test during Operation Snake Eater, where even if he defeated the Cobras non lethally, their powers overloaded causing them to blow up. This changed however when he was forced to physically take the life of The Boss. This event, plus being branded as Big Boss, would be the reasons why he stopped going by the name Mr. America, as he viewed that he couldn't be seen as a hero that took a life willingly.