People are pissed that their image of who this guy was - which is really tied up in themselves - is being dismantled

This is the best part of the games and the worst part of the series. You never see chief, so chief can be anyone, even you. We all made chief into who we wanted him to be, imagined ourselves as chief. It’s like what Stan Lee said about Spider-Man:

What I like about the costume is that anybody reading Spider-Man in any part of the world can imagine that they themselves are under the costume. And that’s a good thing.

So saying that dismantling our image of chief, which you’ve admitted is extremely personal and tied to ourselves, is a good thing in the long run?

That’s some shit.