Fan Casting Skullface in Live-Action Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Movie Adaptation

Skull Face is the main antagonist of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain. He is the commander of XOF, a covert black-ops unit originally under Cipher, but he eventually breaks away to pursue his own radical goals. As a child, Skull Face was horribly disfigured in a bombing during wartime, which left him physically scarred and emotionally shattered. He blames Cipher for robbing him of his identity and language, and becomes obsessed with revenge — not just against Cipher, but against the idea of linguistic and cultural domination. In The Phantom Pain, Skull Face plans to unleash vocal cord parasites that kill only English speakers, effectively wiping out the English language and reshaping global power dynamics. He also oversees the construction of Sahelanthropus, a new Metal Gear weapon, to back his vision with nuclear threat. Though he views himself as a liberator, Skull Face is ruthless, manipulative, and terrifying in his calm demeanor.