Speculative table of MGS bosses

Anyone simply comparing the bosses between the bosses in MGS1 and MGS4 based on the similarity of their names should well do to read the following formal analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, particularly the analysis of the boss fights. Pay attention to the fact that Hideo Kojima likes to mess with your expectation of boss fights, and has done so since the original MGS1 fights.

Of course, no mention of the similarities could be complete without my own wild speculation. Its worth noticing that MGS2 had the least bosses in the series and MGS3 delivered more fights but possibly less variety (only 1 vehicle based fight). Much of the MGS1 and MGS2 speculative connections are elabourated more fully in the above analysis and I've only jammed them roughly into tabular form.

I'm sure you can argue for different positions for many of these. You could, for instance, swap the positions of the Sorrow and the End: I've placed them where they are because of the emotional association suggested by the Sorrow and Crying Wolf, but the End probably deserves the place better due to the connection with sniper-based fights, and the Sorrow with Decoy Octopus through the association of fights that don't really happen.

Metal Gear Solid	MGS2: Sons of Liberty	MGS3: Snake Eater	MGS4: Guns of the Patriots
Psycho Mantis	Fortune	The Pain	Screaming Mantis
Decoy Octopus		The End	Laughing Octopus
Vulcan Raven	Fatman	The Fury	Raging Raven
Sniper Wolf	Vamp (2nd fight)	The Sorrow	Crying Wolf
Revolver Ocelot	Vamp (1st fight)	Ocelot	Revolver Ocelot
Liquid Snake	Solidus Snake	The Boss
Gray Fox	Olga Gurlukovich	The Fear
Hind-D	Harrier Jet	Volgin
Metal Gear Rex	Metal Gear Ray	Shagohod

[Edit: Anyone for speculation on the additional boss fights in MGS4? I can definitely tell you that Hideo is going to be doing stuff with surround sound in these boss fights. You can't name them Screaming/Laughing/Crying/Raging without considering the aural aspect in the boss fights.

Hunch will be Crying Wolf will be an arena fight like Vulcan Raven and Fatman, but where you have to track Crying Wolf by its cries - probably because it moves too fast to follow by sight.

And this leaked video of a MGS4 boss fight only confirms my speculation.]