a replacement. This results in Liquid's personality manifesting itself within Ocelot whenever Solid Snake is nearby, causing Ocelot to adopt Liquid's voice and mannerisms. This happens for the first time when Snake confronts Ocelot during the hijacking of Metal Gear RAY from the disguised tanker. The rest of Liquid's body was being kept by an unspecified agency until it was stolen by Snake and Hal Emmerich to fake the former's death. Liquid's mind manifests within Ocelot once again during the final confrontation atop Arsenal Gear, at the cilmax of Solidus Snake's takeover again with the intent of rebelling against The Patriots. Liquid was the one to send Arsenal Gear crashing into Manhattan (which was explicitly cut from the final release due to the September 11 attacks). Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Liquid's consciousness seemingly takes over his host's body completely as a new personality: Liquid Ocelot. However, Liquid's persona is ultimately revealed to be an elaborate facade by Ocelot, made possible through a process of self-hypnosis, in order to trick the A.I. controlling the Sons of the Patriots system. The rest of Liquid's remains were used as spare body parts for Big Boss's restoration. Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain Liquid Snake's next official appearance is in a prequel. The youth is a 12-year-old child soldier named who fled from his home in England after learning about his nature as a clone. He becomes an active mercenary in the Angola-Zaire border region in Central Africa, where he sets up his own mercenary unit consisting entirely of children, nicknamed the or "Nyoka ya Mpembe" due to being the only white child soldier in the region. The player first encounters Eli in Masa Village after it is taken over by Eli's group in Episode 23. After the player subdues Eli, he is taken into Mother Base where the Diamond Dogs staff try to re-educate him and integrate him into normal society along with the other child soldiers. However, Eli resists this treatment and rebels against the Mother Base staff, focusing his hostility on their leader Venom Snake, whom he mistakenly believes to be his biological father (unaware of his true nature as Big Boss's body double, as revealed in Episode 46). When Eli sneaks into a chopper during Snake's deployment to OKB Zero in Kabul during the events of Episode 31, he catches the attention of the young