Solid Snake

Solid Snake is a male video game character who features in Metal Gear Solid.

Biography

Solid Snake (Japanese: ソリッド・スネーク, Hepburn: Soriddo Sunēku) was a male human born as David in 1972 alongside his twin brother Eli where they were products of a top secret government project called Les Enfants Terribles. The pair were designed to be the perfect soldier and were created from the genes of the greatest warrior of the 20th century with this being the Big Boss. The twins were created as an insurance policy by the Patriots in case Big Boss every abandoned their organization. They children were created using a process of somatic cell nuclear transfer whereby eight clone embryos were created where Big Boss's DNA was inserted into the enucleated egg cells with these being donated by a healthy Japanese woman. Through the Super Baby Method, the embryos were implanted into the womb of a surrogate mother with six of the babies eventually being aborted in order to promote the growth in the remaining two offspring. The two clones were then modified on a genetic level whereby one expressed the dominant traits of Big Boss whilst the other expressed the recessive traits. Nine months later, the twins were born where they were given the code names of Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. After his birth, he was given the name David where he spent his early years being raised in the United States by a number of foster parents.

As a teenager, he was noted to had infiltrated western Iraq with a platoon of Green Berets. In 1991, he took part in a mission to infiltrate western Iraq during the Gulf War. During this time, some of the U.S. soldiers were injected with soldier genes in an attempt to replicate the results of Les Enfants Terribles.

He later came to be a recruit to the elite special forces unit known as FOXHOUND where he was given the codename 'Solid Snake'. It was then that he was put through an intensive raining regimen where he learnt a number of combat skills. In 1995, Snake was sent by Big Boss on a mission into the rogue nation known as Outer Haven in order to rescue a missing teammate named Gray Fox. He had been in a mission into the state where his last transmission spoke of something called a Metal Gear with Snake tasked with uncovering what the nature of this discovery was from the mission.

Overview

Personality and attributes

He was given the name David after his birth where he was raised by a number of foster parents. After joining FOXHOUND, he was given the codename of Solid Snake with his real name and origins being classified under National Security. His successes on missions led to him being known as the Man Who Makes the Impossible Possible.

Snake would claim that only when he was cheating death on the battlefield was the only time he truly felt alive. It was said that he loved war and did not want to stop as seeing other people die made him feel alive.

He would claim that there was no happiness to be found in death and no peace either.

It was shown that he tended to be a loner.

Powers and abilities

Solid Snake was born of Les Infant Terribles where he was created as a clone of Big Boss. He was noted for possessing an IQ of 180 and was fluent in six languages. Unknown to anyone, he was modified to show the recessive traits of Big Boss.

After joining FOXHOUND, he underwent a training regimen where Snake became an expert of high-altitude skydiving, linguistics, closed-circuit open-circuit combat diving, and free climbing. Big Boss was personally responsible for training him in the use of CQC. In addition, Big Boss also taught him the importance of having the will to survive on the battlefield.

Solid Snake was a highly skilled special operations soldier who engaged in solo stealth and espionage missions.

Notes

• Solid Snake was created by Hideo Kojima where he featured in the setting of the Metal Gear universe.

In other media

Video games

• In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Snake appeared as a playable character in the setting of the 2018 crossover fighting video game.

Appearances

• Metal Gear:
• Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake: (1987)
• Metal Gear Solid:
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty:
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots:

External Links

• Metal Gear Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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