Volgin

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Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin (Russian: diвгений Борисович Волгин), known as "Thunderbolt" in the western block, is a character in the Metal Gear video game series that makes its appearance in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Description
Volgin is a gigantic man with a grotesque face. It has an immense physical strength, even greater than that that which transpares from its size, and is a sadistic and extremely evil individual. Due to a physical malformation, Volgin can accumulate an electrical voltage of millions of volts with its body and easily manage the electric current, by scaling it or firing bullets heated with it, which makes it particularly dangerous. This characteristic forces Volgin to wear a rubber suit to protect itself from its own electricity, and leads him to fear the rain and lightning: this is why he sometimes stops and pronounces the words "Kuwabara, kuwabara".

In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, it is not explicitly said, but some clues suggest that Volgin has a sentimental relationship with Major Raikov.

Biography
During World War II, Volgin worked for the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, with the task of punishing deserters in the rear of the Red Army. After becoming famous for his anti-war operations in Ukraine and the Baltic states, he took part in the Katyn massacre, ordering to execute prisoners in a prison camp near the village of Gnëzdovo. Subsequently, it helps to suppress the 1953 insurrection in East Germany and to quell the 1956 revolt in Hungary, boasting that it has personally eliminated more than 100,000 anti-Communist activists.

In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, during the Cold War, Volgin is a colonel of the GRU belonging to the faction of Leonid Il'ič Brežnev, and plotted with the armed forces, who do not approve the government of Nikita Krusciov, to destitute it and conquer power. For this reason and thanks also to the money of the Philosophers inherited from his father, Volgin builds Groznyj Grad, a personal strategic center where to create and produce new weapons. In particular, the weapon of mass destruction that intends to put in serial production is the Shagohod: with it it counts to overthrow the fortunes of the cold war and bring Russia to the domain of the world.

After the desertion of The Boss in the Soviet Union, Volgin provokes an atomic explosion by launching against the research center of Sokolov the Davy Crockett that The Boss himself gave him as a sign of his loyalty. Accused of the atomic attack, the U.S. government sends Naked Snake to Russia to eliminate Volgin and thus demonstrate its extraneity to the fact. Snake manages to infiltrate the Groznyj Grad fortress, where he faces Volgin, but the latter chases him aboard the S