17 Facts About Snake Plissken

1.

Snake Plissken traveled with his war buddy and only friend, Bill Taylor.

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2.

Snake Plissken took up with partners Harold Hellman and Bob 'Fresno Bob'.

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3.

Snake Plissken is eventually apprehended by the United States Police Force and brought to California, where he was scheduled for deportation to Los Angeles ? now an island due to the flooding of the San Fernando Valley in an earthquake, and a place of exile for criminals and undesirables.

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4.

Snake Plissken is skilled in martial arts due to his military training.

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5.

Snake Plissken is often stated by others to be somewhat of a misanthropist.

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6.

Snake Plissken is terse, stern in his speech, of few words, and holds nothing sacred or even important.

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7.

Snake Plissken was sentenced to life in New York maximum security prison, that is, the entire island of Manhattan, surrounded by an impenetrable wall, and then abandoned to fall into anarchy.

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8.

The story takes place sometime between Escape from New York and before his famous Cleveland escape mentioned in Escape from L A Snake has robbed Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control of some engineered metaviruses and is looking for buyers in Chicago.

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9.

Snake Plissken appeared in John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, a four-part comic book miniseries released in 2003 that was published by CrossGen comics and Hurricane Entertainment.

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10.

Snake Plissken has been given a military Humvee after his presidential pardon and makes his way to Atlantic City.

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11.

Once at the casino, Snake Plissken comes face to face with Marrs and his men, who arrive at the same time, ending in a high-speed shoot-out.

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12.

Snake Plissken gets away with the car and its actress portraying Jackie Kennedy, leaving Marrs to be caught by the casino owner, who cuts him a deal to bring his car back and live.

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13.

Sixteen years since his escape from New York, Snake Plissken is enlisted for a similar situation, as the story begins with a similar plotline as was used in Escape from New York.

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14.

Snake Plissken initially refuses, but once injected with the plutoxin 7 virus, which will lead to his death in ten hours, he agrees.

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15.

Snake Plissken retrieves the box and seemingly returns it to the President.

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16.

Snake Plissken reveals that he switched the box with a fake, and promptly uses the code "666" to "wipe out all technology" in the world.

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17.

Snake Plissken was then changed to "Desolation Williams, " and the studio insisted that Ice Cube be given the part.

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