Meryl Silverburgh is a video game character in the Metal Gear series by Hideo Kojima.
24 Facts About Meryl Silverburgh
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Meryl Silverburgh was originally a character from the 1994 Konami adventure game Policenauts, which was directed by Hideo Kojima.
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Meryl Silverburgh is first introduced as the teenage daughter of Roy Campbell's deceased brother, Matt Campbell, who died during the Gulf War.
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Meryl Silverburgh admired the FOXHOUND unit, viewing the days when her uncle and Solid Snake were members as the unit's heyday, and wears a paint tattoo of the unit's old logo on her left shoulder.
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Meryl Silverburgh's weapon of choice is a Desert Eagle pistol.
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Meryl Silverburgh was recruited by the Next-Generation Special Forces, a US military unit, and assigned to Shadow Moses island in 2005 as an emergency replacement when several soldiers were reported missing.
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Meryl Silverburgh refused to join in with the mutiny and was taken prisoner and placed on the same holding cell level with ArmsTech President Kenneth Baker, who gave her the card needed to activate REX.
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Meryl Silverburgh manages to escape confinement and meets up with Solid Snake, and the two eventually begin working together.
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Meryl Silverburgh manages to stay hidden by disguising herself as one of the Genome Soldiers using the clothes she stole from Johnny Sasaki, the guard that was watching her cell.
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Later Meryl Silverburgh was shot and subsequently captured by FOXHOUND member Sniper Wolf.
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However, if the player submits to the torture, Snake discovers that Meryl Silverburgh has died during her imprisonment and he leaves her body to be buried by the collapsing structure with the remains of REX.
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Meryl Silverburgh is aware that Roy Campbell is her true father, but openly resents him due to the circumstances of her conception and his marriage with Rosemary, who is her own age.
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Meryl Silverburgh appears in Metal Gear Online as a playable character.
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Meryl Silverburgh is mentioned by name in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.
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Olga Gurlukovich, a character resembling Meryl Silverburgh, appears in Metal Gear Solid 2 and plays a vital role within the story.
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Meryl Silverburgh herself appears in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance as a supporting character in a '"Snake Tales" mission titled "Confidential Legacy", in which she takes Olga's place as the boss of the Tanker stage.
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Meryl Silverburgh appears in both volumes of the Metal Gear Solid Drama CD series.
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Meryl Silverburgh's sneaking suit from the Drama CD was made into an unlockable extra in Metal Gear Solid: Integral, and later in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.
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Meryl Silverburgh makes a cameo appearance in both Super Smash Bros.
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Sexy, sassy and with a strength that reminded me of Ellen Ripley, Meryl Silverburgh was a true pioneer for strong female gaming characters in a time when Lara Croft was a role model for lower back pain.
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Meryl Silverburgh was ranked by Complexs Larry Hester as the "42nd-hottest" woman in video games in 2012, and the magazine's Michael Rougeau ranked her as the 26th-greatest heroine in video game history in 2013.
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Also in 2013, Meryl Silverburgh was ranked as the seventh-most-attractive female video game character Scott Marley of Daily Record, as well as the eighth-sexiest female video game character by Scarlet Clearwater of Soletron.
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Meryl Silverburgh was ranked as the 44th-best-looking game girl by GameHall's Portal PlayGame in 2014.
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However, GamesRadar's Chris Antista criticized the character for "fact that she's got the shoulders of a teamster topped with the fugly hair style of a LPGA Pro" and reminded her of Cooking Mama, and Kojima-approved Square Enix's Play Arts Kai line figure of Meryl Silverburgh was criticized by Tony Ponce of Destructoid.