Revolver Ocelot

The man who stole the world's greatest secrets by stealing the faces of those who held them.

Revolver "Shalashaska" Ocelot (known in his youth as Major "ADAM" Ocelot) is a fictional character and a major 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 Big Boss, 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.

Quick Facts

Series: Metal Gear
First game: Metal Gear Solid (1998)
Creator: Hideo Kojima
Designer: Yoji Shinkawa

Lore & Background

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.

Reader's Guide

Codename: Revolver Ocelot / Shalashaska / Liquid Ocelot / Major Ocelot / ADAM Real Name: Adamska (revealed in Metal Gear Solid 3) Role: Major antagonist; archenemy of Solid Snake; friendly rival to Big Boss; right-hand man to Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake; close ally to Venom Snake. Key Relationships: Solid Snake (archenemy), Big Boss (friendly rival), Liquid Snake (commander/possessor), Solidus Snake (ally), Venom Snake (ally), The Boss (mother), The Patriots (former masters). In Metal Gear Solid 3, as a young GRU Major, he develops a preference for revolvers after encounters with Naked Snake. In Portable Ops, he assassinates the DCI to "end" the Philosophers before being invited to join the Philosophers' reorganized American branch. In Metal Gear Solid, he serves as FOXHOUND's interrogation expert and loses his right hand to the Cyborg Ninja. In Metal Gear Solid 2, he gains Liquid Snake's arm and becomes Shalashaska, betraying both Gurlukovich and Solidus to serve the Patriots. In Metal Gear Solid 4, as Liquid Ocelot, he uses self-hypnosis to impersonate Liquid and hijacks the Patriots' systems, ultimately dying from a new FOXDIE strain after a fistfight with Old Snake. In Metal Gear Solid V, he assists Venom Snake as an interrogator and helps facilitate Big Boss's deception through hypnosis.

Did You Know?

In Metal Gear Solid 4, Ocelot deliberately uses self-hypnosis and nano-machines to act as Liquid's mental doppelgänger to trick the Patriots' AIs.
Ocelot's death in Metal Gear Solid 4 was actually caused by the new FOXDIE strain that Drebin injected into Snake, not from exhaustion.