
To me, this is one of the coolest concepts for a villain, which gives him more of a presence as an antagonist in MGSV than Skull Face does honestly. He lives on as a supernatural being powered almost entirely by rage and spite. Despite supposedly dying at the end of MGS3, he returns with the sole purpose of destroying Big Boss for taking everything away from him. He also appears as a secondary antagonist in The Phantom Pain as the Man on Fire. In this cutscene, Volgin beats Sokolov to death and I swear it’s some of the best and most horrific sound work in the whole series. There is a cutscene from Snake’s perspective while he has a bag over his head and you can only hear what’s happening. At one point in the game, the legendary Big Boss himself gets absolutely beaten to a pulp and then tortured by this mountain of a man. You see this happen with some of Snake’s other allies when they are discovered by Volgin. He’s really the only MGS villain to outright scare me due to his sadism. Alright, most intimidating villain is a go Other than that, he does, says, and harms whoever he wants. She is the only one to ever get him to back down. It seems the only things to scare him are lightning and The Boss. He is a character that will make the player tremble whenever he appears due to how he treats friends and foes alike, his sick grin he gets whenever the opportunity to hurt someone arises, and just how bloody big the man is. The main antagonist of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Colonel Volgin is an imposing presence whenever he is onscreen. He just doesn’t have much of a presence in his own game, compared to the other antagonists. He also has a very short amount of screen time and doesn’t get a boss battle, unlike all the other villains on this list. Except now it turns out the part of Cipher going after Big Boss was just Skull Face all along, with Zero still partially on Big Boss’ side. In the previous games, all the talk of Cipher was associated with Zero, who was one of your major allies in MGS3. He doesn’t get much of a build-up elsewhere and it sort of feels like he just kind of showed up. Unfortunately, he has nowhere near as much time to develop as a lot of the other villains.

Sure, he’s a pretty interesting character, especially when you learn more of his backstory and motivations. Konami was quite lucky they didn’t get sued for using the Hamburglar in their game
