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The story of the ruthless GRU colonel Colonel Volgin from the Metal Gear Solid series.
Past[]
Volgin alongside the other solidiers as part of GRU.
Volgin was born sometime between 1905 and 1914 as Volgin became a boxing champion as a young man. In World War II, he decides to participated in the Katyn Forest Massacre, where over 20,000 Polish soldiers were massacred by Volgin.
They would often remove the Poles’ blindfolds before he beat them to death pinning the blame on the prisoner revolt to ally any fears inside them. He also served in the Soviet Secret Police, the NKVD, and was given the job of punishing anyone who tried to desert the Red Army, blaming prisoner revolts to alleviate fear. Volgin was also participated into putting down the East Germany Uprising and Hungarian Revolution in Ukraine and Belarus during anti-guerrilla operations with him stating that he has personally killed over 100,000 anti-communist activists.
He would also be involved in both putting down the unrest in East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956. At some point before 1964, Volgin’s father, Boris Volgin, died, allowing him to illegally acquire the Philosopher’s Legacy, an enormous cache of money collected from China, the Soviet Union, and the US. With it, he built a huge fortress, Groznyj Grad, in the Tselinoyarsk mountains.
Volgin also obtained the blueprints for the Objekt 279 tank after the project to build it was deemed too expensive and was able to construct at least eight with the Philosopher's Legacy. Volgin then conspired with the army and the Brezhnev faction to bring down Khrushchev After Khrushchev joined forces with Sokolov’s Shagohod, Volgin hired Alexander Leonovitch Granin, hoping to have him construct a Metal Gear. But it soon became clear Granin wasn't getting the results Volgin wanted and thus he turned to the Shagohod idea.
He would then also be acquainted by Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov who ended up becoming Volgin's favorite soldier and lover as he would always protect her from danger such as the hands of the Soviet military tribunal despite treating his fellow soldiers wrong by abusing them consistently.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater[]
Volgin contacted The Boss in 1964, using the spy network of a Philosopher and suggested that she defect to the Soviet Union so as to overthrow Khrushchev without endangering his own position. The Boss accepted, but unbeknownst to Volgin, this was actually part of a plan by the US government to obtain the Philosopher’s Legacy from him and expose Shagohod’s development.
Volgin welcoming the Boss to his ranks.
A month later, Volgin supervised the Boss’ official defection and ordered her to kill Naked Snake since he saw Volgin's face, as well as the fact that the Boss wouldn’t let him join them. However, Volgin, having not anticipated the US government’s actions, fired an American-made nuclear warhead at Sokolov's research facility. He intended to frame the US government for this, but in actuality, the DCI had manipulated Volgin into doing this as part of a plan to assassinate the Boss.
This set off a whole international incident and started Operation Snake Eater. During the operation, Snake's constant intervention in his plans, as well as the presence of a spy in his ranks, angered Volgin greatly. However, he didn’t realize the spy was Tatyana, who he constantly abused, but did think that Granin was a spy. Volgin arrested and tortured him by trapping him in an oil drum, then striking it with his enormous strength and electrical powers.
However, he killed Granin in the process before he said anything and found a transmitter in his shoes, which meant he either was a spy or it was planted on him. Volgin called in a Hind helicopter and additional soldiers to help guard Krasnogorje, so as to make sure Snake didn't get into Groznyj Grad. After The Pain, The Fear, and The End were killed, Volgin sent in Flame Troops to avenge them by burning Snake alive. While in his fortress, he managed to catch Snake, who’d disguised himself as Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, to find Sokolov.
Volgin as he tortured Snake who was naked during Operation Snake Eater.
Enraged that he hurt Raikov, Volgin beat him senseless and brought him to an interrogation cell where he tortured him with electrocution. However Snake was mentally trained to resist physical torture, but a transmitter fell off of him that the Boss had put there, supposedly to make it easier for the Cobra Unit to find him. Volgin ordered the Boss to cut out Snake’s eyes to prove she wasn’t the spy but Tatyana intervened. Major Ocelot threatened her with his revolvers and Snake kicked Ocelot to save Tatyana. However the muzzle flash blinded Snake in one eye and satisfied, Volgin left while Snake was brought back to his cell.
But he managed to escape his prison, while Shagohod was completed, allowing Volgin to give his scientists and engineers some time to rest. However, it seemed that he planned to eventually execute them so they didn’t reveal Shagohod's existence. Volgin found Snake putting C3 explosives on Shagohod’s fuel tanks so as to destroy the weapon and managed to capture him again with help from Ocelot and the Boss. But as this was going on, EVA was stealing the Philosopher's Legacy microfilms from the vaults underneath Groznyj Grad, revealing that she was actually Tatyana. As opposed to his previously sadistic behavior, Volgin said he valued her as a "pet" and that he'd "cared" for her, but now planned to execute her for her betrayal.
Snake confronting Volgin.
Volgin then took on Snake in combat himself, but he found himself before suffered defeat while also being unexpectedly betrayed by Revolver Ocelot, who refused to obey his orders and help Snake. He said that he'd promised the Boss not to follow any orders that involved killing Snake, even if they were involving Volgin's. As Snake and EVA escaped on a motorcycle, Volgin pursued them in the Shagohod, which hadn’t been destroyed thanks to the technicians draining the fuel tanks. He laid waste to his own fortress in his determination to kill the two and even killed his own men that got in his way.
Volgin's supposed demise.
After the Shagohod was almost destroyed on the C3-laden rail bridge Volgin eventually activated the boosters in an attempt to run Snake and EVA over, as well as to incinerate Ocelot, who was behind the boosters at the time. Finally, the Shagohod was almost completely wrecked and Volgin took what was left of it to attack Snake and EVA. Even after it failed completely, he decides to used his own electrical powers to keep it running just to kill Snake and his friends. However, he was finally defeated by Snake with an RPG. As he stood on top of the wrecked Shagohod, Volgin was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning setting him to descend and leading to the ammunition in his bandoleers to discharge completely. After his defeat Snake calls his death a fitting end wondered if that was the Sorrow's doing since he appeared briefly before seeing a glimps of The Sorrow, who has accompanied the thunderstorm's arrival.
Post-Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater[]
Volgin as the Man on Fire.
Despite Volgin's defeat, his desire to have Khrushchev ousted from power and replaced with Leonid Brezhnev nonetheless came to pass. In addition, contrary to reports made as a result of Operation Snake Eater, Volgin had actually survived his battle with Snake, albeit with serious enough injuries to leave him in a comatose state. His survival was not explained by modern scientist of how Colonel was no ordinary man due to his electrokinetic abilities.
His body was then later recovered by Soviet scientists focusing on his paranormal abilities in individuals, where he was kept alive for scientific preservation and presumably experimentation on it. Ultimately the only thing that was keeping Volgin alive was his desire for revenge against Big Boss also known as Solid Snake, which also had the side effect of turning him into a literal "demon". After six years have passed since his defeat due to the soviet units realizing that Naked Snake was the one who defeated him Snake was considered to be a hero for both the soviet people and America. Sokolov who was using the pseudonym Ghost, thanked Snake for ending Volgin's region of terror hinting at his true nature.
The soviet governments have now deliver justice to Major Raikov's abuse of his rank thanks to Volgin's influence to them which prevented all of them doing so beforehand. Because of Snake defeating Volgin, Raikov was reluctant into joining Naked Snake's resistance against Gene once he got rescued. Gene then revealed to snake that the CTA strategist has planned the events that Volgin of the GRU have used the U.S. nuclear weapon in order to attack the OKB-754 research facility in Tselinoyarsk before Snake kills him.
The day Big Boss awoke from his coma nine years after Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Tretij Rebenok sensed his hatred, and come under his influence, with his psychic abilities empowering Volgin, turning him into the "Man on Fire".
Having lost his humanity completely he had to be controlled by Rebenok. In his new form, Volgin was completely immune to damage by guns or grenades even absorbing a tank blast or six missiles from a helicopter with ease. His only weakness was water. He also became immensely powerful, burning everything in his path, being able to blast fire out of his hands which is powerful enough to bring down a helicopter with ease or destroying even a tank.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain[]
Volgin appearing as Man On Fire after snake awakens from his coma.
Volgin has then decides to seek vengeance against Naked Snake with Tretij Rebenok. After being awoken from his coma Venom Snake was briefly encountered by Tretij Rebenok in front of an elevator before it explodes as Snake manages to escorted to safety by Ishmael. Rebenok and the Man on Fire appear in the hospital the Boss awakes in, attacking both the Boss and the XOF agents, killing many of them. He is only temporarily stopped when Ishmael shoots the sprinklers on the ceiling, extinguishing the Man on Fire for a short amount of time thus being unable to attack the duo.
He appears in various times in the hospital to prevent Venom Snake to escape as he murders many XOF forces led by Skull Face. He appears again in the foyer but is distracted when a tank runs over him and rams him into a wall. After destroying the tank, he approaches Snake but is run over again, this time by Ishmael in an ambulance car. Snake enters the car and both men drive away. When the Boss meets Revolver Ocelot and escapes with him on horseback, they are pursued by the Man on Fire riding a flaming winged unicorn. Ocelot ended up recognizing the Man on Fire as Volgin realizing he is back from the dead. Eventually, they managed to escape him when an oncoming rainstorm appears and by crossing a river.
Man On Fire and Tretij Rebenok confronting Venom Snake for their final battle.
At some point, the Man on Fire and Rebonok came under the influence of Skull Face as he adopted them both as weapons for his plans after discovering that both of them have the same desire for vengeance against Big Boss being equal to Volgin's. During the mission at the Devil's house Venom Snake ends up coming across Skull Face at the Ngumba Industrial Zone. Instead of shooting Venom Snake, Skull Face decides to leave him be for both Tretij Rebenok and the Man on Fire to kill him while also burning down the Devil's House and the surrounding area itself.
The Man on Fire manages to nearly defeat Snake when being attacked but end's up letting him go when Tretij Rebenok uses his powers to smother Shabani in smoke causing the Man on Fire to be left paralyzed. This leads to Venom Snake having no choice but to run which eventually leads to the Man on Fire losing sight of Snake. The Man on Fire catches up to Snake so he could not escape resulting in the two of them engaging in a battle. In order to get away from him Snake blows up a water tank which extinguishes the Man on Fire and giving Snake the opportunity to escape by getting on the helicopter. During the flight back, Miller tells Snake that the Man on Fire burned everything and everyone in the area, leaving no survivors.
Man On Fire riding on his fiery horned horse before preparing to fight Venom Snake for the last time.
At the climax, when bringing Snake to the hangar containing Sahelanthropus, Skull Face ends up showing up in front of Snake with the Man on Fire, telling Snake that he is the one responsible for his survival. The Man on Fire then moves towards Snake with hostile intentions but little did they know both were stopped by Tretij Rebenok so he would allow himself to be used as a conduit in order to hijack Metal Gear Sahelanthropus for Eli. Chaos erupts moments later when Sahelanthropus is activated and crushes the Man on Fire killing him on impact. Later, Miller gets information that states that the Soviets secured the Man on Fire's body. To find out whether he really is dead, Miller decides to send Snake to the Yakho Oboo Supply Outpost to retrieve the body. He also rightly deduces that the Man of Fire is what is left of Volgin.
Volgin/Man on Fire finally dies.
In the base, Snake tries to extract the Man on Fire but before the Fulton Extraction is complete, the Man on Fire is revealed to still be alive regains consciousness, erupting in a fiery blaze one last time. This caused his fiery horse to appear knocking down Snake in the process. He pins down Venom Snake and meets him face to face, though he seemingly halts his assault. Mysteriously, Volgin and his body momentarily reverted to his original appearance causing him to stop his assult. Unbeknownst to anyone, he realized that Venom Snake was not the real Big Boss he thought was hunting for a long time. Due to this he falls backwards to the ground, dropping several bullets as well, dying peacefully in the meantime finally ending his region of terror once and for all. Volgin's corpse was then taken back to Mother Base before being put in one of the quarantine platform's cages. Ocelot then takes the time to look over Volgin's corpse, reflecting that Skull Face must have used his desires for revenge against Big Boss for his goals.