Revolver Ocelot

Revolver Ocelot, real name Adamska or simply Adam, and also known as ADAM, Shalashaska, or most commonly Ocelot, is one of the major characters from the Metal Gear franchise.

Ocelot was a Russian-American operative of FOXHOUND and an agent of the Patriots. A master of interrogation and a formidable gunfighter, he was often referred to as a "ricochet genius" in regards to his gun fighting skills. A fanatic, he was known for his affinity towards Spaghetti Westerns, as evidenced by his choice of weapon and his clothing, duster and spurs, the traditional garb of cowboys. His weapon of choice was the Colt Single Action Army Revolver, which he regarded as "the greatest handgun ever made."

Throughout his career, Ocelot became personally acquainted with all five men codenamed Snake: a friendly rival to Big Boss (aka Naked Snake), the right hand man for Liquid Snakeand Solidus Snake, one of Venom Snake's top advisors, and a nemesis to Solid Snake. He was the son of The Sorrow, and the legendary soldier The Boss, given birth to on the battlefield. Specializing in infiltrations of a different nature than Solid Snake and Big Boss, Ocelot often acted as a triple agent, to serve multiple interests in the same situation.

Personality
A cunning operative and an expert marksman, Ocelot was renowned for his prowess on the battlefield as well as his deceitful nature and his penchant for torture. His marksmanship skills were demonstrated as early as the Virtuous Mission, when, back when he was still using a Makarov, he proceeded to kill a KGB soldier trying to hide from him simply via the use of the bullet's ricochet. Likewise, he also proceeded to kill Sergei Gurlukovich and Scott Dolph by firing at them despite having discarded his trenchcoat right in front of himself, and also managed to subsequently gun down several Gurlukovich mercenaries before they could get the chance to avenge their leader.

Ocelot was also shown to be a very charismatic individual, as the Ocelot Unit he commanded was absolutely loyal to him, and even was able to command regular GRU soldiers (such being demonstrated at Bolshaya Past's crevice, where several GRU soldiers aided the Ocelot Unit in keeping a perimeter, specifically guarding the outer perimeter to ensure no one tried to interfere). His charisma was retained during the 1980s, as evidenced by several female Diamond Dogs' soldiers forming a "team" supporting him, even having a rivalry with various females who preferred Miller, although one had no preference for either, with Ocelot in particular due to being "unpredictable".[24]

In his earlier years as a GRU major, Ocelot originally did not approve of the torture used by his superior Colonel Volgin. He was also dead set against killing his own comrades, especially his own fellow countrymen. However, after witnessing Volgin's torture sessions with Granin and Naked Snake in Groznyj Grad, he developed a fondness for the practice, believing it to be "the ultimate form of expression." Due to this experience, he would go on to torture many individuals in a similar manner throughout his career, often with a preference for the application of electrical shocks. Despite being a renowned sadist, he dismissed the word "torture" in reference to his interrogation techniques.[25]

As a young man, Ocelot was extremely arrogant, overly confident and had a large ego. He enjoyed showing off and was quick to inform others of his rank and status in the military. Such as when a KGB guard simply referred to him as Ocelot, he then quickly reminded the man that his full title was "Major" Ocelot. He was proud of his shooting abilities and his own self believed superiority over others. However his first encounter with Big Boss, then known as Naked Snake, slowly began altering his personality. After being defeated after each encounter, Ocelot began utilizing Snake's advice into his own combat style, making him a more effective gun fighter. While still cocky, Ocelot became more level-headed, understood the mistakes he made and became a better soldier because of it. Despite his young age, Ocelot demonstrated a lot of potential, which caused Big Boss, known at the time as Naked Snake, to take a liking to him and kept EVA from killing him. Ocelot also developed a mutual admiration and liking to Big Boss.

Ocelot was also highly intelligent and a fast learner, learning CQC techniques from observation and eventually using them to fight Naked Snake to a stalemate. He was an expert of psychotherapy and hypnosis, such as when he made Venom Snake and himself believe that the former was truly Big Boss in 1984, as well as his planned ruse of assuming Liquid's identity in 2014.

In contrast to his more vicious and treacherous behavior, Ocelot had grown to display a more calm demeanor during the events of the 1980s. He'd also become noticeably more mellow when compared to his brash and reckless behavior during the Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater. He implied, while commenting on his moniker "Shalashaska", that the reputation he'd earned as a torturer in Afghanistan was in part a cover calculated to keep Venom Snake safe while he was in the hospital.

Ocelot, having finally inherited his mother's vast wisdom, comparatively speaking, acted as a voice of reason within Diamond Dogs, capable of making and enacting precise threats to obtain information from prisoners as opposed to Kaz's often hotheaded, sometimes bloodthirsty behavior. Though Ocelot managed to work Miller in helping Venom Snake run Diamond Dogs, he often found himself at odds with him due to Miller's emotions clouding his judgement at times. Their differences came to a head after Miller failed to control the child soldiers onboard Mother Base, forcing Ocelot to take charge of the situation. While Ocelot insisted on interrogating the young Liquid Snake in contrast to Miller's disagreement and protest at the idea, he did not act violently towards him.

He often gave people the benefit of the doubt, even after Quiet attempted to kill Venom Snake and prevented Miller from having her executed upon Snake's return to Mother Base. He even encouraged Venom Snake to allow Quiet to partake in his missions, allowing her to demonstrate her skills to both Venom Snake and Miller.One example being with Quiet, whom he tried to persuade to keep alive as a source of information. He didn't react badly to her breaking out of her cell to go with Venom Snake on missions as long as she behaved. Ocelot relayed his understanding of Quiet's motives as being "in love with the legend" which he likens to his own fixation over Big Boss in which he claims that he was "the same way once."

Though his personality and methodology were more subdued at the time, he was still willing to use others to his and Big Boss's benefit, such as using the hospital staff in Cyprus as decoys and even deceiving Miller with regards to Venom Snake's identity while taking an antagonistic stance against him upon revealing him the truth behind Big Boss's intentions.

When Huey was exiled from Diamond Dogs, Ocelot displayed great maturity, stating his hopes that Huey would one day accept the painful truth and realized what kind of man he was.

Owing to his deceitful nature, Ocelot displayed treachery when it suited his goals, betraying both Sergei Gurlukovich and Solidus Snake during the Tanker and Big Shell Incidents, respectively. His treachery was such that his triple-crossing nature was considered notorious by the 1980s. When he was younger, Ocelot appeared to show patriotism toward Russia, always speaking up in defiance of Volgin's reckless killing of their fellow countrymen. He claimed to have no good feelings after killing KGB soldiers guarding Sokolov when he first confronted Big Boss, even with his affiliation to GRU, and he looked genuinely shocked when Volgin launched the Davy Crockett at Sokolov's research facility. Despite ultimately having no loyalty to Russia, Ocelot nonetheless did lament her state after the fall of the Soviet Union.

In addition, he was also demonstrated to be disgusted with Huey's self-serving behavior, implying that while he himself may be treacherous when pursuing his own goals, even he has his limits.

While Ocelot seemingly remained loyal to the Patriots since their founding in 1971, his eventual transformation into Liquid Ocelot, and the reason behind his assuming of such a role, proved otherwise. Ocelot's loyalties had always been questioned, although EVA stated that his loyalties belonged to Big Boss. Many of his battle tactics (using a Single Action Army and learning CQC) were adopted from Big Boss's advice and observation of him. This idolization was also the reason why Ocelot joined Liquid Snake's FOXHOUND, due to Big Boss's former membership, although this reason was unknown to Liquid himself.[13] Ocelot believed that Liquid was the only person who could achieve his goal of true anarchy,[27] sharing the view that by creating a world of chaos, à la Outer Heaven, everyone would know "the fullness of life," with Ocelot likening it to "the Wild West all over again."

Liquid Snake suspected that part of the reason Ocelot liked revolvers was due to his sadistic nature: the ammunition's slow velocity allowed it to be imbedded in the body, which required a long time for the body to heal, if the resulting wound could even heal at all. Ocelot also enjoyed the thrill of reloading his Single Action Army in the middle of battle, despite the inherent dangers of doing so. By 2014, Ocelot had discarded the use of his signature revolver, due to the "Liquid" persona. During the 1960s, Ocelot had a habit of using signature hand gestures as a sign of respect or acknowledgement towards others. While the frequency of his use of said hand gestures would dwindle over the years, he would use them again in 2014 to signify his respect towards Solid Snake during their fistfight atop Outer Haven, as well as during his final moments.

Although Ocelot only lost his right hand to Gray Fox, he later had his entire arm replaced. In 2009, Ocelot took a hypodermic injection to supposedly prevent Liquid Snake's arm from exerting control over him. During this occasion, his heart seemingly gave two heartbeats, as heard by Raiden, using a directional microphone. By 2014, Ocelot had switched Liquid's arm for a cybernetic prosthesis to restore balance to his psyche.

While discussing his transplanted arm with Solidus Snake, the surgery of which was performed in Lyon, Ocelot mentioned that he "never trust[ed] a Frenchman." He implied in a conversation with Big Boss about Les Enfants Terribles shortly after the latter woke up from his nine-year coma that the reason behind his distaste for the French ways was due to their aristocratic manners and their praise of Catherine the Great, demanding they can keep the "palace talk." Ironically, Ocelot was born in Normandy, France, and his preferred method of torture (electrocution) was developed by the French military during the Indochina War, and then used during the Algerian War. It was nicknamed "La Gégène," an abbreviation of Génératrice, which means "Generator."

His favorite animal was the Markhor, to the extent that he ended up infuriated if one got harmed in close proximity to him. Aside from the Markhor, he had a fondness for the Ocelot. He also acknowledged that the Caracal of Afghanistan was "cute", although it ultimately paled in comparison to the Ocelot.

Ocelot spoke seven languages fluently, namely French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and English, the latter two being his primary languages. Although Russian and English were his primary languages, he was not fluent enough with either to be able to act as an interpreter, which he admitted to Venom Snake when the latter attempted to find a Russian interpreter.

Abilities
Prior to the torture scene, Ocelot warns the player not to use auto-fire controls in order to resist, otherwise he will know. Doing so will cause the electrocution to continue onwards after the timer has stopped, disable input from the controller, and will kill the player. The game detects if an auto-fire controller is in use by setting a button-press thresh-hold. If the button-press speed excedes this thresh-hold, the game will automatically assume that the player is using an autofire controller and will trigger the instant death.

Depending on the player's actions during the game, Ocelot will have different dialogue in certain scenes:
 * During the fight against Ocelot, should Snake accidentally kill Kenneth Baker, Ocelot will shout, "You idiot!" during the Game Over sequence ("You stupid fool!" in The Twin Snakes).


 * If the player loses to Ocelot too many times, Ocelot will remark that Snake will never live up to the Boss's name (referring to Liquid Snake) post-battle. Likewise, Ocelot will also give a different response when his hand is cut off by Gray Fox.


 * Prior to the torture sequence, if the player hasn't saved in a long time, Ocelot will remark to Snake, "You really wanna travel down that long road again?"


 * If Snake is killed during the torture session, Liquid will berate Ocelot for "doing it again" during the Game Over sequence, with Ocelot apologizing. This is in reference to the supposedly botched torture session with the DARPA Chief.


 * If Snake submits to the torture, Ocelot will remark that Snake is apparently "human" after all, and that he intends to make well of his promise of torturing and killing Meryl if Snake submitted to the torture. He also calls Snake out on his submitting to the torture and placing Meryl in danger.


 * If the player refuses to submit to the torture session in the original PlayStation version, Ocelot reveals that Snake is actually the inferior clone, and that the U.S. President is the third clone known as Solidus, during the post-credits telephone conversation. He also refers to keeping "the woman" under surveillance.


 * Shooting the markhor during Naked Snake's battle with Ocelot, at Bolshaya Past Crevice, will cause Ocelot to yell, "Son of a bitch!" Also, Ocelot will be overjoyed if the player, during subsequent playthroughs, managed to twirl the SAA, although he will eventually grow impatient if the player keeps it up and eventually shoots you out of irritation.


 * If Snake had any food in his backpack when he was captured by Volgin, EVA will reveal to him that Ocelot stole all of the food and ate it, during an optional radio conversation, after retrieving his gear.[51]


 * A hidden R1 moment shows Ocelot secretly in attendance during Big Boss's award ceremony. Doing this in the Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection will earn the player the trophy achievement "The Cat's out of the Bag."


 * If Snake kills Ocelot after he is knocked unconscious in the Virtuous Mission, or during the fight with Colonel Volgin in the Shagohod hangar, a Game Over will occur. Colonel Campbell from the previous games will then berate Snake for causing a Time Paradox: "Snake, what have you done?! You created a Time Paradox!" Performing this in the HD Collection version will also grant the player an achievement/trophy humorously titled "Problem Solved, Series Over." Also, if the player wounds Ocelot during the Virtuous Mission, he'll be wearing a bandage on the wounded area for the rest of the game. During the fight with Volgin, if the player tosses up Rations, Instant Noodles, or Calorie Mates to Ocelot, he'll return the favor by supplying Snake with life medicine and ammunition for the Single Action Army. If the player shakes up Ocelot while he is unconscious during the Virtuous Mission, the player can also procure a mousetrap.

He also has 27 ability slots, most of which are related to Intel, and as such technically makes him more powerful than Venom Snake.
 * In the final duel onboard the WIG had four scenarioes, depending on the actions the player chose: Choose the loaded weapon and shoot Ocelot; Choose the loaded weapon and not shoot Ocelot; Choose the loaded weapon and narrowly miss Ocelot, and choose the unloaded weapon. Ocelot will either take both SAAs after the duel, or, if the player chose the final option, let Snake keep the unloaded SAA. This will also allow the player to use the SAA in subsequent playthroughs.

His signature weapon is the Tornado-6, which allows him to either double wield the pistols, or otherwise use one in conjunction with a shield. It also allows for ricochets, with it only requiring that the player mark an enemy with the weapon to pull it off, as it locks on automatically.