Raiden
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Raiden (original name "Jack"), is a recurring character from the Metal Gear series. He was the main protagonist of Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
Bio[edit | edit source]
TL/DR: Raiden had a hard life. Including a shitty childhood as a child soldier in Liberia, nano-machines being pumped into his brain after being evacuated to the United States, even more nano-machines replacing all of his blood after he first joined the army and then FOXHOUND, having the Patriots use him as a test subject and replacing most of his body safe for his skull and his spine with a cybernetic one, undergoing surgery to remove all the nano-machines in him, and then getting his shit fucked up by Jetstream Sam so badly that he asked to undergo a full-body cybernetic conversion.
People or groups that he loves or at least trusts also have an uncanny tendency to betray him, but that's more or a less a running gag through the entire series anyway.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Season 1[edit | edit source]
While the date of Raiden's debut in 8chanmania has been lost to history, it is known that he fought in 8chanmania XXVII. Unfortunately, all of his bionics meant little against the far superior nano machines of JC Denton.
In 8chanmania XXXI, he ironically would fight alongside no-one other than Jetstream Sam. The two made the mistake of asking Mahatma Gandhi and Utsuho Reiuji to hand over their nukes, and promptly got more nuke than they asked for.
Season 2[edit | edit source]
Their second debut in 8chanmania XLIV was more promising - the two cyborgs took down Naked Snake and Big Boss (in a rather amusing time paradox), and also refused to be spooked by Controller and Eve (with Raiden landing a crushing KO on the controller. Stuff went south when the two faced Doomguy and Ranger - with Ranger ultimately landing a pin on Raiden.
Best friends forever that they are, Raiden and Jetstream Sam gave it another try at 8chanmania LIII. They were promptly rejected by Cate Archer and Point Man - both from the prelims, and from Cate's team.
But did they give up? No! Raiden and Sam showed up again for 8chanmania LXV, and were immediately removed again during the preliminaries - this time by Nero & Vergil.
Season 3[edit | edit source]
Raiden was last seen in 8chanmania C, where Abby Anderson punched the crap out of him in exchange for information about the Wrestle Gear.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Pissing off Raiden enough may result in him giving in to his childhood PTSD and assuming the persona of "Jack the Ripper". This was infamously seen during his fight against Doomguy, where both simply kept shouting at each other at the top of their lungs. Sly Marbo would have been proud.
