41 Facts About Solid Snake

Solid Snake is a fictional character from the Metal Gear series created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami.

Solid Snake is depicted as a former Green Beret and highly skilled special operations soldier engaged in solo stealth and espionage missions, who is often tasked with destroying models of the bipedal nuclear weapon-armed mecha known as Metal Gear.

Solid Snake was given his own consistent design in Metal Gear Solid.

Solid Snake establishes Philanthropy, an anti-Metal Gear organization carrying the motto "To let the world be", with his friend Otacon.

Solid Snake possesses an IQ of 180 and is fluent in six languages.

Solid Snake has been on the battlefield for most of his life, and says that it is the only place he feels truly alive.

Solid Snake is a hardened veteran, burying his emotions within himself during missions, every one of which has different motives.

Solid Snake is sent by FOXHOUND leader Big Boss into the rogue nation Outer Heaven to rescue missing teammate Gray Fox and discover who or what the "Metal Gear" is, mentioned in Fox's last transmission.

The sequel Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake sees Solid Snake called up to infiltrate a heavily fortified enemy base in Zanzibar Land.

Solid Snake destroys Metal Gear D, and defeats both Fox and Big Boss.

Metal Gear Solid and its remake sees Solid Snake pulled out of retirement by Colonel Roy Campbell in a mission to deal with the "Sons of Big Boss" who, under Liquid Snake's leadership, seized an isolated American nuclear weapons disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island.

Solid Snake's mission is to retrieve two hostages.

Liquid harbors a strong resentment towards Snake since Solid was given their father's dominant "soldier genes" and Liquid was cast aside.

Solid Snake is enlisted by his old friend Roy Campbell to assassinate Liquid Ocelot, CEO of a giant mother company that are trying to take control of the Patriots' AIs.

The Phantom Pain shows that his low-polygon model from Metal Gear Solid can be an alternate outfit for Venom Snake after transferring the save data from Ground Zeroes.

Solid Snake serves as the protagonist in Snake's Revenge, a sequel to the original Metal Gear for the NES released for the western market in 1990 and developed without Kojima's involvement.

Solid Snake is addressed by the military rank of Lieutenant and starts the game already equipped with a handgun and a combat knife, in contrast to the first game, where Solid Snake had to procure all of his weapons on-site.

The first of these is Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, in which Solid Snake must infiltrate a rebuilt Outer Heaven to defeat a FOXHOUND-like team of rogue agents called Black Chamber and destroy a stolen Metal Gear prototype, Gander.

Solid Snake overcomes both and contacts the real Teliko, then destroys the latest model of Metal Gear, Metal Gear KODOQUE.

Outside video games, Solid Snake appeared in the Metal Gear Solid audio drama that focuses on his missions following the battle from Shadow Moses.

Solid Snake appears in Alex Garner's comic book adaptations of Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2.

Solid Snake appears in Project Itoh's novelization from Metal Gear Solid 4 where his actions are told from Hal Emmerich's point of view.

Solid Snake has appeared in a number of other games, including other Konami games.

Solid Snake appears in both halves of a crossover between the Metal Gear and Ape Escape franchises: the Ape Escape monkeys appear with Solid Snake in the "Snake vs Monkey" minigame featured in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

In turn, Snake appears in the corresponding Metal Gear Solid minigame featured in Ape Escape 3, where he is rescued by Pipo Snake.

Brawl Director Masahiro Sakurai has stated that Solid Snake was included under Kojima's request, and that he had talked to Sakurai about adding Solid Snake to the roster of the previous game Super Smash Bros.

Solid Snake returned as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros.

Old Solid Snake has appeared in the Japanese version of Scribblenauts, having been published by Konami in that region.

One of the robots in Astro's Playroom and one of the Villagers in An Egg's Guide to Minecraft each take on the appearance of Solid Snake using his signature cardboard box, the latter voiced by Dan Lloyd.

Solid Snake was apparently named after the fictional special forces operative Snake Plissken, Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York.

Solid Snake's real name David is a tribute to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey that has a character with the same name.

Solid Snake was written to act as father figure not only to protect those he cares but leave a message for the future generation despite his imminent death.

Yoji Shinkawa's Solid Snake design, characterized by his navy blue bandanna and "sneaking suit", would serve as the template for all future incarnations in later Metal Gear games.

Solid Snake was one of the characters easiest to draw by Shinkawa as he notes that his appearance is consistent despite suffering minor changes across the games.

When debuting in Metal Gear Solid Snake, Hayter was impressed by the game's cutscenes and the amount of dialogue.

Solid Snake's character was very well received by gaming media.

Solid Snake's character was amongst the last 16 contestants on the greatest video game hero on GameSpot contest held in 2009, and lost out to Gordon Freeman on a tiebreaker.

However, later previews speculated how was it impossible for Solid Snake to be in the game's settings, leading to the conclusion it was a young incarnation of his father.

The character's appearance in Metal Gear Solid Snake 4 has received mostly positive opinions.

The character customization in Soulcalibur IV that allowed to create Solid Snake was listed by UGO as one of the best ones from the series owing to his popularity within gamers.

Ultimate when Solid Snake wears a skintight stealth suit, and the rendition being completely changed.