In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, he has access to different disguises to make him look like other characters, as well as his younger self. Afterward, he helped Mei Ling infiltrate a neo-communist island of San Chago in order to acquire evidence of a chemical plant that is secretly being built on the island and then expose its existence. More of Snake's past, personality, and ideologies would come through, earning the character more popularity and character. The two clones were also modified on the genetic level, with one clone expressing Big Boss's dominant genetic traits and the other expressing Big Boss's recessive traits. Like the other characters, he has three victory poses. Later games and sources, however, ignore the artistic license used in the Western materials, instead revealing that Snake had been a Green Beret during the Gulf War prior to Operation Intrude N313. A A Solid Snake's OctoCamo, unlike the main game, and Sneaking Matches, will not render him completely invisible, but rather it will help him blend into the main environment. Enter the URL for the tweet you want to embed. Revolver Ocelot, the sole surviving member of FOXHOUND, reported the events on Shadow Moses to U.S. President George Sears, for whom he had acted as a spy throughout the entire incident. Solid Snake, a hardened career soldier, often displayed a calm and collected demeanor, rarely showing any signs of fear in extreme circumstances. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Old Snake During this battle, Snake contemplated destroying REX and killing Liquid at the cost of Fox's life. [35] He later became a dogsled racer, taking care of 50 huskies, and competed in the Iditarod. [112] In addition, Solid Snake appears a few times in the Snake Eater intro (which plays after playing the Virtuous Mission), which can be identified by his having a shorter haircut and lacking a beard. Snake attempts to fight it along with Fox, Zelda/Sheik, Peach, Lucario, and Falco. Ethnicity Repeatedly tasked with disar… While often condescending and harsh to Raiden during the Big Shell Incident, he's also trying his best during the end to give him a sense of identity and what he should be fighting for. Career and family information He informed Sears, that it was the inferior clone Solid Snake, who had survived, stating that Liquid had wrongly believed himself to be inferior right until his death. [16] It was at FOXHOUND's training camp that he also met survival instructor Master Miller. Solid Snake does serve as the player character in the minigame Snake vs. Monkey, as part of a promotional crossover between Konami's Metal Gear and Sony's Ape Escape series. He died, with a smile on his face, around 2015.[92]. II data as it appeared in the. [93][90] The addition of "Solid" was Kojima's intent to create a paradoxical name, in contrast to the smooth motion commonly attributed to snakes, and to express the character's strong image. Likewise, Snake also confirmed to Holly and Campbell that the cartridge he retrieved was indeed the one Marv used to store the OILIX plans, citing that Marv's signature was written backward on the MSX loading screen when used. The subject of Big Boss's dominant and recessive traits, in regards to the clones' gene expression, is never referred again in other games in the series, after Metal Gear Solid. His first victory pose has him removing his Cardboard box and standing up, stating "Not even close" to his opponent. He also chose to abandon the CQC techniques taught to him by Big Boss, due to its association with the man who had betrayed his unit. cobra, anaconda, viper, etc.) While undergoing this portion of the mission, he also ends up getting into an argument with Mei Ling in regard to whether killing child soldiers is any different than killing regular soldiers, to which Snake states that there is no difference. Designed by Moreover, he suffered greatly with the thought that he committed "patricide" despite being forced to save the world from a disaster. Similarly, Snake also overcame several almost impossible challenges despite being a clone created from supposedly inferior genes. Solid Snake , (commonly referred to as Snake) is a product of the Les Enfants Terribles project and "son" of legendary soldier, Big Boss along with his "brothers" Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake. In addition, he was originally supposed to hold the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer. He also establishes Philanthropy, an anti-Metal Gear organization carrying the motto "To let the world be", with his friend Otacon. If the player shoots and damages the box the man was in and calls him after obtaining and using a box, after explaining how Raiden should use it, Pliskin will humorously mutter "You know, I lost a couple because of you." Atop Arsenal, Ocelot revealed his true colors to Solidus, Fortune, Snake and Raiden. Solid Snake himself does not appear in the game, but there is an achievement/trophy in this game that alludes to the Metal Gear series. Physical Characteristics. At the end, Haggard says he found an eyepatch, referencing Snake's Solid Eye. Although the cover mentioned references to UMAs and Area 51, there was one line that was uttered by Solid Snake, "KeptYOUwaiting", a variation of his line in Metal Gear Solid 2 indirect reference to the player in the beginning of the Tanker Chapter. Raiden explained that he was acting under the orders of Big Mama, the leader of a small resistance group in Eastern Europe. He's an infiltration specialist whose ability to carry out missions under any conditions has made him a legend. Also, you can buy the Solid Eye as a cosmetic accessory for Noire. He is the mastermind of this terrorist act. However, Raven Sword anticipated this move and made sure to blacklist him if he carried the same nanomachines, which nearly resulted in his cover being blown before his contact, Meryl, managed to get him through. Brown, later gray Akio Ōtsuka provided Snake's Japanese voice, while actor and screenwriter David Hayter provided his English voice. Vamp then went to attack Pliskin, but stopped short, remarking that Pliskin smelled just like "him." In Hard difficulty, he will only have a handgun with him, which will allow him to take on some enemies yet require the player to aid him if overwhelmed. Though he was born with what were known as Big Boss's "flawed recessive genes," he defeated Liquid Snake, the clone with the "dominant genes" on multiple confrontations in 2005. The Codec in Brawl is based on the Metal Gear Solid version, which utilizes animated character artwork, though Snake's icon has been modified to match his in-game appearance. The staff at Kojima Productions were strongly opposed to this idea, and convinced Kojima to change it. He can even be heard saying "Meryl..." and later shouting "Liquid!" He and Raiden then fought their way through an army of Arsenal Tengu soldiers. After deciding against it at the last moment, Big Boss appeared. In Kojima's "Grand Game Plan" for Metal Gear Solid 2, Pliskin was originally to have come off as seemingly bumbling in order to have the player doubt that he was Solid Snake. There is also a wooden sword called "Snake's Soul", a DLC-exclusive item. Clearing "Classic Mode" with Snake will award a trophy of Snake, with the following description: A former member of FOXHOUND with an IQ of 180 and mastery of six languages. While Snake makes no appearance in the game, he, and more specifically his usage of the cardboard box, is given an indirect reference in the Cobalt Fort level for the game: One of the Toads in the game was hiding inside a cardboard box, and when found tells Mario he was trying to be "stealthy", alluding to how Solid Snake and various other main characters used cardboard boxes to hide from enemies. Like the Snake vs. Monkey mini-game in MGS3, the character model is actually that of Naked Snake. Thanks to the photographs taken by a U.S. Army Cypher, the Patriots framed Solid Snake and Philanthropy in a smear campaign for the tanker sinking, simultaneously exposing them to the public and destroying their reputation. During another Codec conversation with Kevin, due to the ambiguous nature of his fate, Raiden referred to Snake in the present tense, while Kevin referred to him in the past tense. Possessing an IQ of 180 and fluent in six languages, he was known as "the man who makes the impossible possible" and his exploits made him into a living legend among the military black ops. 650 Snake dressed as a member of the local militia. Just as he was making his escape, Snake discovered that his mission commander, Big Boss, was secretly the leader of Outer Heaven, and was apparently confronted by the man himself within the fortress's 100th-floor basement. While Big Boss's clones are most often referred to as his sons in the series, they are biologically more similar to identical twins, since they share more genes with him than children born by normal sexual reproduction. Even getting close to him makes my skin crawl..." Snake also indicates that he's less than impressed at the fact that Mario continuously saves Princess Peach despite the latter constantly getting herself abducted by Bowser, to the extent that he bluntly stated that Mario should be smart enough to tell her to stop getting herself kidnapped (which caused Mei Ling, who largely found Mario's saving Peach to be romantic, to ask if he ever got many dates). Created by Hideo Kojima, Snake was introduced in the first game of the series, Metal Gear (1987), and has appeared in the majority of the subsequent games and spin-offs. View full history. Snake is also known to have an IQ of 180. [107] In the remake, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Snake is clearly depicted with dark-colored hair in the corresponding briefing files, which are now polygon demos. [121] His voicelines are reused from Brawl. Caucasian He's saved the world three times from the threat of bipedal, nuclear-armed mechs called Metal Gear. Solid Snake himself does not actually appear in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, although he was briefly referenced in the game's Albus mode. While attempting to stop Ocelot, Snake was confronted by the spirit of his deceased brother Liquid Snake, who had apparently taken over the mind of Ocelot through an arm transplant (Liquid's arm having been grafted onto Ocelot, to replace the hand he lost at Shadow Moses). Unbeknownst to Snake, the FOXALIVE worm cluster that he had uploaded to GW, spread to JD and the rest of the Patriots' AIs. It was here that Snake would earn the codename Solid Snake. If the player inputs the Konami Code on the game clear screen, Solid Snake will be heard saying either "What do you think you're doing!?" This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Solid Snake, as depicted in the cover art for. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Both the name of the mission and the overall objectives are a clear reference to Solid Snake. Possessing an IQ of 180 and fluent in six languages, including English and French, he was known as "the man who makes the impossible possible" and his exploits made him into a living legend among the military black ops. Snake would enter into military life in his youth, and as a teenager, he would be inducted into the Green Berets. Otacon initially believed that Snake lifted his self imposed ban to show them how it's really done but Snake corrected him and said his body just simply reacts with the "real deal" when he sees their "cookie cutter imitation" coming at him and adopted the use of a stun knife. Eye color With PMCs now taking over the world's armies in terms of firepower, Liquid was finally on the verge of world domination. In 2004, comic publisher IDW would adapt Metal Gear Solid into a comic series. Possessing an IQ of 180 and fluent in six languages, he was known as "the man who makes the impossible possible" and his exploits made him into a living legend among the military black ops. They must sneak through the Mako Reactor 0 without being caught. Although Snake failed to stop RAY, he placed a tracker on the Metal Gear and explained later to Raiden that his plan was for him to find the Patriots by deciphering the source code of Emma's worm cluster, admitting that the disc they gave Raiden was a decoy. [53] Though willing to take on the mission to Shadow Moses, Snake showed no sign of longing for the army or the country he was part of,[60] and has also referred to himself as a "nomad" during the Tanker Incident when asked about his American status. Snake also learned from Naomi that he had a new FOXDIE strand that was injected into him recently, and immediately deduced that Drebin 893 was the one who injected it into him. Just before delivering the coup de grace against the boss character Brachyura at the lighthouse by crushing him with an elevator, Albus will say "Showtime" in a vocal tone similar to that of Solid Snake. [44] Solid Snake would later reminisce that the intelligence had been suspicious, but Philanthropy had grown complacent due to its previous successes in sabotage. Solid Snake Play Arts Kai figurine icon from the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary website. ", to which Pliskin responds "Changing sides? Real name Lid also wears a bandanna which is Snake's most iconic clothing item. Solid Snake, after this point in his early life, would live in the United States, having multiple foster parents. Although Snake does not actually appear in Portable Ops due to it taking place two years prior to his birth, he was briefly alluded to by Elisa/Ursula while dying, where she explains the future to Big Boss. While Snake is depicted as the primary protagonist of the Metal Gear series, his father, Big Boss, acquired a prominent status as the central character in the four prequel games that he has starred in. If the player calls Pliskin by Codec while he is sleeping, he will start to mumble in his sleep. In the initial MSX2 release for the game, the cigarette was located on the left side of his mouth, while in the re-releases, it was located on the right side. Because of his exploits at Shadow Moses, he also became a hero to the public, which greatly concerned the Patriots.[38]. Genetic modification and alterations would also imbue one of the embryos with "dominant" genes, with the other to receive the "recessive" genes. 200 Following the Shadow Moses Incident, Snake and Meryl disappeared after leaving the base, after Campbell faked their deaths by claiming that they had died after their jeep crashed into the ocean. While disguised as Pliskin, Raiden observed Snake screaming "Liquid!" 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