**Note: This is not a theory of mine.
So far in the story, all Bofoi cared for was weapons, that has been his ultimate goal. A really common thing I've seen is people suggesting that Metal Knight is part of The Organization.
But what if he's actually trying to fight them?
Let's take a quick inventory of robot/cyborg-related characters:
- Armored Gorilla, who said he was the only cyborg from his group, so he's most likely unrelated.
- Genos, who was built by Dr. Kuseno.
- Dr. Kuseno, who we actually know very little about aside from his kindness to Genos.
- The cyborg Genos is hunting.
- Drive Knight, whose only role has been to tell Genos to distrust Metal Knight.
- Metal Knight, whose only role so far has been collecting and creating weapons.
- The Organization robots, of which we've seen four:
Spoiler: Organization Robots
That's a lot of factions. Genos and Dr. Kuseno are together, and I'm not counting Armored Gorilla, but otherwise that adds up to 5 individual robot-themed groups/players.
Bofoi being part of the Organization is plausible, he's constantly making better weapons, and they're constantly collecting battle data, right?
But there's the thing- Metal Knight only upgrades hardware. He has never built a robot that showed any form of sentience. Meanwhile, The Organization wants to collect AI data more than anything else.
Let's talk about Metal Knight's robots.
This is the robot he sent to take out the meteor.
This is the robot he sent to collect Boros's ship.
The first robot that was sent to destroy the meteor appears again to test weapons against Elder Centipede.
There's a consistent style here: Three eyes, in a bowling ball pattern. We've never seen any humanoid Metal Knight robot that didn't look like that.
As for the robots he sent to rebuild City A, they're clearly not used for battle so they have a different design.
Metal Knight's other favorite is missiles and jet propulsion. His main battle-bot uses jet boots to fly around and missiles to attack. His ship-collecting robot arrives in a giant missile pod.
Meanwhile, The Organization has shown two types of technology they focus on: super strength (Hammerhead's suits, G4's steel-shattering body), and lasers. Concurrently, the robot designs themselves are kind of all over the place, not fitting any particular pattern- which makes sense, since an "organization" implies it's a large group of different robots.
By this point, hopefully I've convinced you that Metal Knight and The Organization don't quite seem to line up. Now here's the fun part.
Dr. Kuseno is the head of the organization.
What other robots have we seen with super strength? Who else have we seen with powerful lasers? Who else is trying to get as good at combat as possible? Genos
Check out this part where Genos gives Dr. Stench G4's parts. Look at his reaction. He looks... bewildered. No matter how I look at this, I can't help but think he recognizes the robot design.
Lastly, Drive Knight.
His only role so far has been to shadily tell Genos to distrust Metal Knight.
If Metal Knight hadn't already come off as a colossal jackass, I think most of us would have looked at Drive Knight and thought "wow, this guy is clearly the bad guy here."
If Drive Knight is part of the Organization, that makes The Organization and Metal Knight sworn enemies.
The best part of all this is it makes it so there's only two factions: Metal Knight, desperately making weapons; and The Organization, who are trying to perfect their battle AI. Genos is unknowingly one of The Organization data collectors.
Last reason I think it'll go this way: It's just interesting. Metal Knight has clearly been bad news from the start, and Genos obviously doesn't trust him. If Genos ends up assaulting Metal Knight, only to learn he's attacking entirely the wrong side... things would get interesting. (Also it's basically the plot of the entire Metal Gear franchise at that point, which is pretty popular in Japan, so I wouldn't be surprised if One took some inspiration there.)
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