Revolver Ocelot, known in his youth as Major Adam Ocelot, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Konami's Metal Gear series, created by Hideo Kojima. Throughout the series, he takes on a variety of roles: the archenemy of Solid Snake, a friendly rival to Naked Snake, the right-hand man to Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake, and a close ally to Venom Snake. Ocelot has been well-received by video game publications for his role as a central villain in the franchise, and has often been considered one of its most important characters for his connections with various characters. Introduced in Metal Gear Solid, Ocelot is normally clothed in a duster, spurs, and gunbelts, the traditional garb of gunslingers in spaghetti westerns, as well as a black armband on his left arm, and wields the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which he refers to as the greatest handgun ever made. In designing the character, Hideo Kojima wanted to add Western tones to a character resulting in Ocelot's appearance, which is based on that of veteran Western film actor Lee Van Cleef. For Metal Gear Solid 2, Yoji Shinkawa originally intended to give Ocelot a cybernetic arm in place of the one Gray Fox took from him, but this idea was not used as the staff intended to have Ocelot use the arm of Liquid Snake. While Kojima acknowledged fans finding the idea of Liquid's arm possessing Ocelot's mind ridiculous, he promised to answer the reason behind it in Metal Gear Solid 4.
The Betrayal of Shadow Moses
Ocelot is introduced in the video game Metal Gear Solid as a gunslinger-themed member of the FOXHOUND terrorists involved with the hostile revolt on Shadow Moses Island which housed Metal Gear REX, serving as the team's interrogation expert and their leader Liquid Snake's right-hand man. He challenges Solid Snake to a gunfight in the game's first boss-encounter, but their fight ends with Ocelot losing his right hand from an encounter with the Cyborg Ninja. Despite his loss, Ocelot later appears to torture Snake after Snake is captured. During Snake's torture, Ocelot reveals he was originally from the former Soviet Union and a former member of Spetsnaz, secretly wishing for Liquid's and Big Boss's dream world as well. Ocelot is the sole surviving member of FOXHOUND by the game's end. After the ending credits, it's revealed that he's in league with the U.S. President George Sears. This initial appearance established Ocelot not merely as a henchman, but as a complex figure with his own ideological motivations, setting the stage for his evolution into one of the most enigmatic characters in video game history.The Arm of Liquid
A young version of the character, known as, is featured in the prequel Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (set four decades before the original Metal Gear Solid). He's a GRU Major under Colonel Volgin's command and the leader of his own Ocelot Unit within GRU. His encounters with Naked Snake are why he acquires a preference for revolvers (due to a tendency to absorb the gun's recoil with his elbow being more suited to shooting revolvers). Throughout the game, Ocelot's constant challenges with Snake eventually turn into a friendly rivalry. He is revealed to be, The Boss's illegitimate child. After the deaths of Volgin and The Boss, Ocelot is revealed to be a triple agent, taking orders from the Philosophers and the KGB, while also receiving orders from the Director of Central Intelligence. He was supposed to intercept and assist Snake; a mission he failed when another agent of the Philosophers, EVA, got there first. This backstory recontextualized Ocelot from a mere villain into a tragic figure shaped by the loss of his mother and the