Who is the bandaged man?
In the prologue to MGS V, you're attacked while recovering in a Cypriot hospital, and narrowly led to escape by a fellow bandaged patient. This escape culminates in an car crash that leaves you briefly unconscious after a helicopter strafes your vehicle with bullets, seemingly killing your benefactor. Upon recovery, the driver's seat of the vehicle is completely empty, with no blood or other trace of injury apparent, suggesting there was nobody present at all.
So who exactly is this bandaged person? Are they just a figment of Snake's imagination to keep him going in dire straits? If that is the case, what's the explanation for other segments in the prologue where said person interacts with other characters? For example, when he throws bottles at the would-be assassin right at the level's start, or drives the ambulance into the Burning Man.
Is there any explanation for this? Or are we simply left to decide on our own whether there was someone there besides Snake?
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The Masked guy is NOT Big Boss. He peed his pants during the escape and Big Boss would never peed his pants. The identity of the masked guy is one of the regular goons that is part of the SWAT team members. They didn't kill you because they know who he was and let you live. The original masked guy that saved your life already died in the hallway with the other patients. The one that saved you from there is a double. Again, he can not be Big Boss because Big Boss never pees on himself.
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Pretty sure it is the character you create. At mission 46 ( Spoilers ) You hear that they have to do something to Snake's head and the guy you're playing as there's head in the hospital. This is after the helicopter crash that featured Miller, Paz and the other kid. Where the chopper that evaded the Mother Base attack and explosion was blown up by another chopper. In Prologue you find that you have to create your character whilst looking into a mirror. This suggests that you're actually playing Snake as someone else, you're experiencing him. His past memories etc. And mission 46 features that you're ( the guy you're playing as ) is in the hospital next to Snake, and the guy that was masked in prologue was next to you as well. So there's something fishy going around here. The masked man is probably your character that you created in Prologue. This is no research and facts but a theory of mine that I've come to whilst playing MGSV-TPP and probably one that relates the most and makes the most sense to be true. But I do not get one thing, the bodies are swapped in Prologue.
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