physical therapy prescribed by his physicians. On January 12, 2000, the first double hand transplant was also performed in Lyon.

In Kojima's "Grand Game Plan," it was intended that Ocelot, after boarding Metal Gear RAY on the tanker, would step on Sergei, rather than shoot him prior to boarding as he does in the final version. Ocelot was also to have held genuine loyalty to Solidus, and was also intended to have been killed by Snake.

While this is the first game to establish that Ocelot was a spy for the Patriots, any other role he might have had in the organization is left ambiguous. Later games would reveal that he was also one of the founding members of the Patriots.

Despite being a colleague of Psycho Mantis, who possessed legitimatesupernatural powers, as well as his previously being under the command of Colonel Volgin, who possessed electrokinetic abilities, Ocelot tells Fortune there's no such thing as "the supernatural."

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Ocelot appears as his younger self in the prequel Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The defection of NSA code breakers ADAM and EVA, the former of which was Ocelot, is based on a real life incident that occurred in September 1960. In real life, however, none of the NSA code breakers were named "Adamska," but rather William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell.

Ocelot's trademark gesture, where he points two fingers as if a gun, was ad-libbed by Kanazawa Tarou, Ocelot's motion capture actor.[42] In addition, Tarou recalled that doing motion capture for Ocelot was troublesome,