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Encyclopedia > The Pain
Metal Gear Character
The Pain]
The Pain
Aliases Hornet Soldier
Real Name Claude
Nationality Unknown
Affiliations Cobra unit
Gender Male
Voice Actor (English) Gregg Berger
Voice Actor (Japanese) Hisao Egawa
Motion Actor Yasuhiro Masuda
see The Pain (comic) for the political webcomic.

The Pain is a fictional character in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. He is the "Hornet Soldier" of the Cobra unit. The Pain. ... The Cobra unit, also called the Cobras, is a fictional special forces unit in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. ... Male symbol Male is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces sperm. ... Gregg Berger is a voice actor who is known for his roles in both TV and video games. ... Hisao Egawa (江川 央生 Egawa Hisao) is a seiyū whose birthday is September 13. ... The Pain, When Will it End? is a cartoon drawn by Tim Kreider, and published both online as a webcomic and in the Baltimore City Paper. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (commonly abbreviated MGS3) is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima, developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. ... The Cobra unit, also called the Cobras, is a fictional special forces unit in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. ...

He has the ability to control large swarms of hornets at will. He gained this ability by allowing hornets to sting him for days on end and for months at a time, until the hornets came to believe that he was one of their number. As a result of this, his face is covered with weals from the stings. He is also said to carry a Queen in the pack on the back of his hips, using her sound to guide the hornets. Additionally, he carries a large array of vials on his vest, which he flings at enemies to guide hornet swarms at them. School of juvenile herring - many fish have the opercula wide open for ram feeding and you can see the red gills The term swarm (schooling or swarming) is applied to fish, birds and insects and describes a behavior of an aggregation (school) of animals of similar size and body orientation... Hornets are large eusocial wasps. ...


Besides his hornets, The Pain is armed with a Tommy gun and grenades, and can use hornets in conjunction with these weapons. He can protect himself from gunfire and other attacks by covering himself with a thick shield of them, and can create an exact duplicate of himself, shaped out of hornets, to confuse his enemies. The Thompson submachine gun, also known as the Tommy gun, was an American submachine gun (SMG) that became infamous during the Prohibition era. ... A hand grenade is a hand-held bomb, made to be thrown by a soldier. ... A weapon is a tool used to kill or incapacitate a person or animal, or destroy a military target. ... // A gun is a mechanical device that fires projectiles at high velocity, using a propellant such as gun powder or compressed air. ... An enemy or foe is a relativist term for an entity that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. ...


He also raises special hornets called "bullet bees" inside his own body. When he removes his balaclava, the bullet bees are released from his mouth. They move at extraordinarily fast speeds, and upon contact with enemies, they burrow into their bodies and begin eating their insides until they are dead. 0. ... Families Andrenidae Anthophoridae Apidae Colletidae Ctenoplectridae Halictidae Heterogynaidae Megachilidae Melittidae Oxaeidae Sphecidae Stenotritidae This article is about the insect. ... Balaclava and gun A balaclava, balaclava helmet or ski mask is a form of headgear covering the whole head, exposing only the face (and often only the eyes). ... Sagittal section of nose mouth, pharynx, and larynx. ...


He is the largest of the Cobras, at well over 6'7" tall. Despite his size, he is incredibly agile, and performs backflips with ease. This article is about somersault, the acrobatic feat. ...


His codename signifies the pain he feels while on the battlefield. A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. ... According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), one should distinguish between pain and nociception. ... See also the town of Battle, East Sussex, England Generally, a battle is an instance of combat between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. ...


The Pain was ultimately defeated by Naked Snake in a battle in an underground cave. Upon his defeat, he activated a microbomb like that all the Cobras carried, destroying his corpse and his entire swarm. Big Boss is a fictional character in the Metal Gear video game series created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami. ... Alternate meanings: Cave (disambiguation) The outside world viewed from a cave A cave is a natural underground void large enough for an adult human to enter. ...


Kojima revealed, in an exclusive interview for Japan's Famitsu magazine, that The Pain's forename is Claude. However he is not french. His nationality is never revealed. Hideo Kojima Hideo Kojima (小島秀夫 Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a dick head. ... Famitsu (commonly abbreviated in Japanese kana to Fami, ファミ通) is a Japanese video game magazine published by Enterbrain, Inc. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Pain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2525 words)
Slow pain is transmitted via slower type C fibres to laminae II and III of the dorsa horns, together known as the substantia gelatinosa.
Pain is also "gated" by signals that descend from the brain to the spinal cord to suppress (and in other cases enhance) incoming pain information.
Since pain is defined as a signal of present or impending tissue damage effected by a harmful stimulus, the ability to experience pain or irritation is observable in most multicellular organisms.
Pain Control (2059 words)
But pain is also modified by remembrances of past painful episodes, the special meaning of pain to each individual, the expectations of family and friends, religious upbringing and personal coping skills and strategies.
Pain from bone involvement is often described as achy, dull, localized and brought about by activity of the surrounding muscle groups or movement of the limb or spine.
Neuropathic Pain from nerve involvement is either related to direct tumor spread, such as the spread of colon cancer into the pelvis where the nerves to the legs or pelvic structures reside, or is secondary to irritating substances that tumors secrete near nerves.
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