Personality wise, Solid Snake and Big Boss are night and day. Both are introspective and passionate men, but the way they go about their feelings differ so heavily that they ended up mortal enemies despite only knowing each other for a fairly short time.
Snake would give his life to protect his friends, Big Boss forced a soldier to give his life to protect his own skin. One is a man. The other, a monster. Snake wants to let the world be while Big Boss wants to radicalize it and create a world of perpetual warfare. Snake is reactionary in the grand scheme of the world while Big Boss is provocative, orchestrating grand plans to seize control.
If you look at them biologically, though, Solidus is more of a father to Snake than he is a brother. What this means is that Solidus is a match to Big Boss. He looks exactly like Big Boss and his biology is identical to that of Big Boss. Incapable of having biological children of his own, Solid Snake has to find other means of passing his legacy on to the rest of the world.
Metal Gear Solid 2 actually explores this idea quite heavily in its ending by zoning in on the relationship between Snake and Raiden.
Snake tells Raiden that the future is what he makes of it and that passing on his wisdom is the best gift he can give to the next generation. We as a society need to pass on information and knowledge to promote human growth. When you can't pass on your genes, pass on your wisdom. Snake is passing on his legacy to Raiden, and Raiden is accepting it fully. By the end of the game, Raiden is a son to Snake in almost every sense.
It might surprise you, but Snake is an enormous dork. In one of his last scenes in Metal Gear Solid 2 , Otacon has reached his lowest point and is in desperate need of comfort. He ended up surviving the blast with the help of Otacon. In addition, after Raiden questioned him about toxins being released after Shell H was heavily damaged, Pliskin revealed he never heard of that and decided to investigate, also revealing that Shell 2 did not contain any hostages, meaning they were most likely in Shell 1.
He also implied that saving U. Afterward, acting on Raiden's tip, Pliskin conducted a thorough investigation of Shell 2 and managed to hijack a Kasatka helicopter, with Otacon acting as pilot. Afterward, he then briefly introduced Raiden to Otacon, via Codec, although they had to cut the meeting short when Pliskin had to fight off several Gurlukovich Mercenaries who had spotted them and attacked. Snake eventually met his genetic brother, the terrorist leader Solidus Snake , though he refused to acknowledge him as such.
He also once again met Olga and explained to her that it was in fact Revolver Ocelot who had killed her father Sergei. Blade, and despite not being "a big fan of blades," he instructed Raiden on how to use it. He and Raiden then fought their way through an army of Arsenal Tengu soldiers.
They were both eventually split up from one another, with Snake being captured by Fortune and brought to the top of Arsenal. But before he could kill them, Ocelot's right arm began to twitch, and Liquid Snake possessed him once more, revealing that he had leaked the information about Arsenal Gear to lure Snake out to the Big Shell so that Snake could "free him [Liquid]. 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.
He also declined Raiden's request to help Snake in Philanthropy and save Olga's child , as he suspected that even after the S3 Plan was complete, the Patriots would still monitor Raiden's vital signs and thus place Sunny in further danger of being killed should he try to help, and also hinted that Rosemary did indeed exist and that he should maintain his relationship to her before joining.
He then slipped away unnoticed to Otacon's car and left, being long gone by the time Raiden remembered about Snake. However, Snake eventually deduced that the information was a fake lead or as he put it, five years later, "a load of crap". His body began to age rapidly, with no doctors being able to diagnose the cause.
In addition, in , although Snake had earlier promised Raiden that he would rescue Sunny from the Patriots, he wasn't able to get that chance and ended up receiving Sunny via Raiden albeit covertly on the latter's part.
By , Otacon and the various doctors who treated Snake estimated that his remaining life span would be a year at best. Sometime prior to , the Pentagon declassified documents relating to Big Boss's exploits during the s , which evidently contributed greatly to his legend to the populace, and his CQC was also being taught in the military.
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. It was not until that Snake, now occasionally referred to as Old Snake , resurfaced for a final time. With PMCs now taking over the world's armies in terms of firepower, Liquid was finally on the verge of world domination.
With the world once again in crisis, Snake was dispatched to the Middle East as a personal favor to Campbell to assassinate Liquid. Snake successfully made it to the PMC base that Liquid was using as his headquarters by disguising himself as a militia instructor for the militia in the region fighting off the Praying Mantis PMC, although he briefly lost the disguise after an ambush by several Gekko units, escaping with the use of his new OctoCamo suit. He also briefly witnessed the Beauty and the Beast unit when they wiped out a Middle Eastern militia platoon.
However, he failed to assassinate Liquid in time due to the latter's sudden deactivation of the Sons of the Patriots system , which resulted in all the soldiers in the vicinity to experience mass convulsions from the sudden release of emotions, including Snake himself, although he was affected to a lesser degree.
SOP was run by the Patriots with the purpose of monitoring and controlling every soldier engaged in combat action. Liquid's plan was to remove the system altogether, though his initial attempt had unforeseen consequences, when it caused the PMC's Middle Eastern base to descend into chaos although the chaos unknowingly saved him from Snake's mission to kill him. The message contained a distress call as well as an encrypted map of Liquid's South American base in Soliton Radar format a sign from Naomi that it was truly from her , the location of which Olga's daughter Sunny was able to trace.
In addition, he was able to arrive at Liquid's base, located in a mountainous region implied to be the Andes surrounded by forests, by landing at the El Dorado International Airport with the cover job of a UN inspector as well as gaining a 4x4 vehicle, driving it as close to the security perimeter as he could before sneaking into the region, due to Roy Campbell's influence.
Although Snake initially was to meet up with a rebel group to aid him in getting into Liquid Ocelot's primary base, the Vista Mansion, he was forced to change plans after Laughing Octopus murdered some rebel soldiers and spared one under the condition that he not forget "his" face Laughing Octopus having disguised herself as Old Snake via FaceCamo at that time.
Snake made it to the base where Naomi was held, and she gave him a thorough medical examination. It was during this that Snake discovered the harsh truth: his aging was not part of any external source, but the way he was designed as a clone, and also that the FOXDIE that Naomi injected him with almost a decade earlier will finally claim his life within six months. This was because the FOXDIE was also starting to mutate due to Snake's rapid aging, and would eventually lose its ability to kill by specific DNA patterns and indiscriminately infect anyone and everyone, effectively turning Snake into a walking biological weapon who could cause the deaths of millions.
Snake also learned from Naomi that he had a new FOXDIE strand that was injected into him recently, and immediately deduced that Drebin was the one who injected it into him. They also picked up Raiden, who was now a Cyborg Ninja.
He also learned from Naomi that, despite what he and anyone else believed earlier, Solid Snake was neither a perfect clone of Big Boss nor was he genetically identical to Liquid Snake, which also explained why the previous FOXDIE virus was not able to kill him earlier.
Raiden explained that he was acting under the orders of Big Mama , the leader of a small resistance group in Eastern Europe. He then disguised himself as a civilian in Eastern Europe, also putting his FaceCamo to good use by giving himself a younger look, and was tasked to meet up with a contact that Campbell supplied. 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.
However, Snake and Meryl ended up getting into an argument regarding Liquid's threat level, as well as some of Snake's decisions. Due to her ties with Big Boss, she was able to explain most of the Patriots' history to him.
She also revealed that she had Big Boss's body in her possession. After escaping an onslaught of Haven Troopers and defeating a second BB Corps member, Raging Raven , Snake found Liquid, who was in the midst of implementing the now perfected version of his plan. Luckily, in the chaos, Otacon was able to stow the Mk. As a result of the chaos in the final legs of the mission, he also received severe burns to the left side of his face. However, he was unable to kill Liquid or stop him from stealing the rail gun in time, a prize which Liquid quickly equipped to his own recreation of Arsenal Gear, Outer Haven.
Atop Outer Haven , Liquid revealed to Snake that he had wanted him to succeed in uploading the worm, and thus eliminate the Patriots' control, though he was unaware that the societal collapse, which he anticipated would come about, had been averted. Snake faced his "brother" in hand-to-hand combat one last time, where it was revealed that Liquid Ocelot no longer possessed the right arm of Liquid Snake, but rather a cybernetic prosthetic instead.
Snake ultimately defeated Liquid, with Ocelot's former personality temporarily reasserting control prior to his death. After performing his signature hand gesture and commenting, "You're pretty good," he passed away, having succumbed to the new FOXDIE virus within Snake's body. He sat in front of Big Boss's grave with his gun in his mouth, but ultimately was unable to end his own life. Big Boss then appeared, returning the Patriot to the grave of The Boss and explained the full history of the Patriots from his point of view, and euthanized the now-vegetative Zero himself.
He also revealed to Snake that Revolver Ocelot was never truly possessed by Liquid, but had put himself through hypnotherapy and implanted himself with nanomachines in order to make himself "believe" that he was Liquid Snake.
This was done to throw off the Patriots who, being a computer program, could only repeat the same processes and would send Snake in to take down Liquid if they thought he was alive. Succumbing to illness from exposure to the new FOXDIE strain, Big Boss finally made his peace with Snake and urged him to live out the rest of his days "not as a snake, but as a man. Solid Snake, a hardened career soldier, often displayed a calm and collected demeanor, rarely showing any signs of anger, aggressiveness or fear in extreme circumstances.
He buried his emotions deep inside himself, causing some to see him as intense and at times, He can get proper rude. Though mostly reserved, Snake showed some prominent change in his outlook towards life throughout the years. Big Boss's betrayal in and his battle to the death with Gray Fox and again with Big Boss in left a deep-seated emotional pain leading to PTSD, alcoholism and cynicism.
His reunion with Gray Fox at Shadow Moses, as well as his newfound friendship with Otacon and love towards Meryl, invigorated his desire to live. With Philanthropy, Snake aspired towards building a better future for the world by eradicating Metal Gears and liberating humanity from digital subjugation.
His accelerated aging, however, would create a morbid willingness to accept death as he was no longer exuberant in his words or actions in It was only by Big Boss's dying words that Snake was finally able to absolve himself of all guilt and torment and accept peace. 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 Unlike Liquid and Solidus who spent their lives under the pressure of Big Boss's legend, Snake did not burden himself with such weight and defiantly sought out a life of his own.
In the end, his indomitable will for justice made him the final survivor and victor among the clones because he lived through Naomi Hunter's theory spoken in Shadow Moses: not "to be chained to fate. Due to his extensive military background, Snake found his calling on the battlefield, having spent most of his life there, [52] , and believed it was the only place where he felt truly alive.
Snake was often flirtatious towards his female team members, [63] [64] [65] and expressed interest in intimate relationships on occasion, although he did not like getting involved with other people's lives and was a loner by nature, even going so far as to stand Holly White up despite promising to have Christmas dinner with her.
Snake was somewhat disapproving of May-December relationships, remarking that Rosemary was young enough to be Roy Campbell's daughter, upon learning of their apparent marriage. During the events of the Guns of the Patriots Incident, Snake calmly accepted the inevitability of his impending death. Because of this, he was more willing to risk his life, as demonstrated during the Missouri debriefing.
However, he would often become annoyed upon being reminded of his accelerated age, once telling Otacon to "cut the senior citizen crap" and his psyche dropping at occasional moments when called "Old Snake. Naomi stated an ordinary person wouldn't even be able to stand in his condition in and the only thing keeping him mobile, albeit limitedly, is his will. Big Boss noted that Snake had always fought for something more than himself. Big Boss also noted that if Snake had been in his place then the mistakes that he had made may not have come to pass.
By this time, Snake had also developed an apprehension to nanomachine injections, due to Naomi's betrayal at Shadow Moses, and initially refused to allow Drebin to administer a shot to him. Through years of training and experience, he developed heightened levels of endurance and reflexes, surviving prolonged periods of pain, [66] torture, [67] and narrowly evading numerous near-fatal incidents. Snake was a heavy cigarette smoker. Snake didn't like being lectured on the dangers of smoking.
During the same time, he often ignored the no-smoking policy onboard the Nomad , often resulting in Sunny telling him off when she found out or caught him in the act, once even having his cigarette confiscated and disposed of by Sunny before he could get the chance to smoke it. After sharing one last smoke with Big Boss, Snake decided to quit smoking. Snake likewise was not too keen with using bladed weapons, informing Raiden as much during the Big Shell Incident.
He did nonetheless have knowledge on how to use them, and in , he also utilized a stun knife during his operations. Snake did not possess any qualms for doing things that are normally considered unacceptable social behavior if it meant completing a mission.
For example, Snake entered the women's bathroom in both the Zanzibar Land and the Shadow Moses facilities in order to find a disguised female contact Gustava Heffner and Meryl Silverburgh, respectively.
In the former instance, after Snake made contact with Dr. Marv, Dr. Madnar told Snake to look for Gustava there due to her disguise. Snake was fluent in six languages, including French. Conversely, his knowledge of computing was somewhat limited, often relying on more technical-minded allies to deal with such matters during missions. Snake did not believe in the supernatural; when Otacon explained the technology to attach to walls, he asked if Vamp could have used it during the Big Shell Incident.
Otacon said it was possible, and Snake said that Vamp was not supernatural and despite the visual evidence, believed that Vamp was not actually immortal. Of all the relationships Snake has had, his connection to Big Boss had the biggest impact on him. Big Boss saw great potential in Snake and personally trained him in advanced combat skills, particularly CQC. He even came to see him as a father figure, though not knowing that in truth he was Big Boss's clone.
It was only until after he discovered that Big Boss was behind the Outer Heaven incident that he lost his faith in him. He constantly struggled between respect and anger towards his former commander as he truly respected Big Boss. When Snake found out that Big Boss was actually the leader of Outer Heaven, he thought that this was unacceptable. Because of this, he refrained from using CQC for years.
Moreover, he suffered greatly with the thought that he committed "patricide" despite being forced to save the world from a disaster. Snake struggled to understand Big Boss's true motive for two decades believing that his betrayal was based on foul intentions. Nevertheless, he could never truly give up his respect to the legendary soldier as he visited his grave and saluted it and later chose to end his life right then and there after destroying the Patriots.
After deciding against it at the last moment, Big Boss appeared. When he explained his reasons for his uprising in the s, Snake was finally able to find closure between their fates as old enemies. Snake described Gray Fox as his best friend and when he was a rookie he looked up to the only man to earn the code name "Fox".
Much like Big Boss, Fox took on a mentor role in Snake's life. Fox was the one who "showed him the ropes" as he put it. Even during the fist fighting, they had towards the end of Snake's mission, he still considered Fox as his friend.
Years later during the Shadow Moses Incident, when it was revealed Fox had survived his injuries as the Cyborg Ninja, Snake was horrified and felt nothing but remorse for what Fox had become. Fox would later go on to battle REX. In the end, however, he could not go through with it.
Fox's final words had a deep impact on Snake's personal beliefs to the point where he would echo them to Raiden years later during the Big Shell Incident. During the Shadow Moses Incident, Snake developed a powerful bond with Meryl, displaying uncharacteristic concern and care for her. When Otacon was willing to sacrifice himself so Snake and Meryl could escape, Snake fully respected him.
Following the Shadow Moses Incident, Snake and Otacon formed Philanthropy and developed a strong friendship, even creating their own personal handshake. When they returned to Shadow Moses and went to Otacon's office, where they first met, they looked back on the memory.
Otacon was the only person Snake told about his plan to kill himself in order to prevent a FOXDIE outbreak and Otacon decided to stick with Snake to the day he died to pass his legacy and accomplishments with others. Just as Gray Fox did for him during Outer Heaven, Snake "showed the ropes" to Raiden, acting as a de facto mentor to the "rookie" and teaching him about his supplies and how to become a better soldier.
Despite this, Snake was willing to use Raiden to further his mission, allowing him to infiltrate Arsenal Gear more easily during the Big Shell Incident by having enemy forces capture him temporarily. Following the conclusion of the Big Shell Incident, Snake gave Raiden advice on how to live his life.
Throughout Liquid Ocelot's Insurrection, Snake was somewhat adamant about Raiden not fighting more than he was and for him to "not waste his youth" on fighting, as Snake believed that it wasn't Raiden's fight. Snake tends to see Raiden as a whole as being an example of the "next generation" he's fighting for.
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. Yet this had more of an influence in a way than he didn't intend and during his talks with Raiden, he carries a sense of regret that he wasn't a better teacher to him and that Raiden's life was made a living hell due to Snake's generation.
Liquid Snake was Snake's twin brother, one of his greatest rivals and one of his most dangerous enemies. Though Snake did seem to at the very least understand the motivation of Liquid's actions during the Shadow Moses Incident, in which Liquid wished to use the facility and Metal Gear REX to create eternal conflict in order for soldiers to be free from being pawns, he heavily disagreed with creating global widespread conflict to achieve this goal.
Snake exclaimed that " he didn't want that kind of world" when Liquid revealed his intentions. Liquid was also the man who killed Fox and nearly killed Meryl, which no doubt only intensified Snake's hatred towards him.
What Liquid had put Snake through in Shadow Moses had a negative effect on him. While disguised as Pliskin, Raiden observed Snake screaming "Liquid! In , Snake was willing to come out of retirement to stop Liquid Ocelot, though he was reluctant to assassinate him at first due to the mission being more of a "hired hit" than "justice" as Roy Campbell put it.
In the end, Liquid Snake was one of Solid Snake's most unpredictable and despised adversaries. It was implied that a stealth camo-equipped Snake returned to the Fox Archipelago in , while trailing journalist Gary McGolden. After supposedly journeying to the island himself in order to verify Nastasha's account, McGolden was captured and interrogated by an unknown party and subsequently rescued by an "invisible" savior. The article helped to give more exposure to Nastasha's novel, though its publisher raised doubts as to the accuracy of McGolden's report.
However, he did not make the connection between his words and those of the dying Gray Fox at Shadow Moses, until meeting with Big Boss at Arlington nearly twenty years later. Snake did not believe in God, and asked his friend Otacon to give him strength before his attempted suicide.
Snake's last days were peaceful, traveling the world with Otacon and Sunny passing on his story. He died with a smile on his face. Created by Hideo Kojima , Snake was introduced in the first game of the series, Metal Gear , and has appeared in the majority of the subsequent games and spin-offs.
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.
Much as Metal Gear began as a pastiche of action movies of the time, Snake began as a pastiche of contemporary action movie heroes. Kojima based Snake on a number of different characters, including Escape from New York 's Snake Plissken, who inspired the name. The ambiguity of his character was contributed to by Metal Gear 's limited script, in which he only speaks five times. Although Snake Plissken inspired the name, Kojima denied that he was the basis for Snake's personality, which instead was developed as the series itself progressed.
The Worlds of Power novelization of the game maintains the Marine background, while also giving Snake the real name of "Justin Halley. In the re-released versions, Snake's appearance was brought more in line with his altered presentation in the sequel Metal Gear Solid , and was to a certain extent reused from his Codec portrait from Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. Similarly, he also had an additional transceiver portrait accessible only when using the transceiver upon using the hang-glider to reach the other side of the Bridge of Sorrow, which depicted him with a cigarette in his mouth.
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. While Snake's Japanese heritage was retained, the nature of it was altered in later games in the series. While Snake states that defeating Big Boss ended his nightmares, the Previous Operations section claims that he wasn't happy because "Big Boss's last words kept ringing in [his] head.
It is commonly assumed that Big Boss relayed this information to him immediately prior to their final battle in Metal Gear 2 , though the only detail made clear is that Snake knowingly "killed" his own father at that time, with only himself and Roy Campbell being aware of this.
In addition to expanding Snake's backstory, Metal Gear Solid established his characteristic voice and appearance. Yoji Shinkawa 's Snake design, characterized by his navy blue bandana and "sneaking suit", would serve as the template for all future incarnations of Snake in later Metal Gear games.
According to Shinkawa, Snake's physique in Metal Gear Solid was based on that of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, while his facial appearance in the same game was inspired by actor Christopher Walken. Kojima later expressed that he "cheated" when came up with this decision. While Snake shares the same given name with his English voice actor, David Hayter, this was not intentional, contrary to popular belief, and is merely coincidental.
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