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Doctor Hal Emmerich, also known as Otacon, is the deuteragonist of the Metal Gear series.
He is the son of Huey Emmerich and Strangelove, Solid Snake's best friend, Sunny's adoptive father and guardian and the co-founder/member of Philanthropy.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Good?[]
General[]
- He helped Solid Snake in his missions, despite possibly not having anything to gain, taking responsibility for his actions.
- He is shown to be kindhearted, having remained loyal to Snake throughout the years and providing him one of his few consistent companions and people he can emotionally rely upon.
- While he has a skittish and easily terrified personality, he gradually gets over this in the first game and it never prevents him from doing the right thing afterwards.
- Ultimately proves to be critical in helping Snake dismantle the control of the Patriots, liberating humanity from their control.
Background[]
- While he refused to save his sister Emma Emmerich from nearly drowning as a child, this was because he was being raped by his sexually abusive step-mother at the time it happened, and he felt immense regret for not doing so.
- Despite being raised by his incredibly evil father and his sexually abusive step-mother, he refused to let them corrupt him and grew up to be a good person as an adult.
Metal Gear Solid 1[]
- Despite helping develop the Metal Gear, he didn't realize that it was going to be used for nuclear attacks by FOXHOUND and only wanted to advance science and make the giant mechas that he loved in anime a reality. He was immediately horrified when he discovered the truth and allied with Snake to assist him in Shadow Moses, being incredibly important in ensuring he was able to destroy the Metal Gear and defeat Liquid.
- He told Snake where he could find a sniper to save Meryl from Sniper Wolf.
- He helped in freeing Snake after he got captured by FOXHOUND.
- Tried to convince Sniper Wolf to stop committing illegal actions after falling in love with her, pleaded with Snake not to kill her, and emotionally comforted her in her final moments.
- He saved Snake when Liquid trapped him in a room with nerve gas.
- Agreed to stay on Shadow Moses despite the U.S. Government planning to destroy it initially, risking his own life to ensure that what happened was properly exposed.
- Comforts Snake after Meryl dies in the non-canonical Bad Ending.
Metal Gear Solid 2[]
- Together with Snake, he formed the N.G.O Philanthropy in order to expose and dismantle Metal Gears throughout the world for the future stability of humanity, assisting Snake as mission control in several missions including the prologue Tanker mission.
- Risked his personal safety by taking a Helicopter onto Big Shell in order to foil the plans of Dead Cell and Solidus Snake, who planned to annihilate the world economy to counter The Patriots.
- Comforted his younger sister Emma as she was dying, telling her that her virus had succeeded despite it initially seeming it might not work.
Metal Gear Solid 4[]
- Refuses to kill Vamp, despite him killing his sister.
- Pledges to stay with Snake in the ending, who had only a few years to live as a result of his built-in accelerated aging from being a clone of Big Boss.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]
- He has minor perverted tendencies, as shown when he made comments about Meryl Silverburgh's rear to Snake despite her being 18 at the time and Hal being 25. However, this was played for laughs, thus making it a minor prevention.
- He hacked and monitored into the FBI's central database while working for them, which results him being caught and kicked out of the FBI. While the government is revealed through the series to be corrupt enough to justify this, Hal mainly did this to satiate his curiosity.
External Links[]
- Hal "Otacon" Emmerich on the Heroes Wiki
- Hal "Otacon" Emmerich on the Metal Gear Wiki