13 Facts About Venom Snake

Venom Snake, known as Punished Snake, is a fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear video game series.

Venom Snake is performed via voice acting and performance capture by Akio Otsuka in the Japanese version and by Kiefer Sutherland in the English version.

Venom Snake makes a minor appearance in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes as an unnamed combat medic and then throughout Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as the player character known as Punished Snake.

Venom Snake accompanies Big Boss in the helicopter extraction of Ricardo "Chico" Valenciano Libre and Paz Ortega Andrade from a U S Naval prison facility in Cuba in 1975.

Venom Snake successfully removes a time bomb implanted inside Paz's abdomen, but fails to notice a second bomb within Paz which goes off, causing their helicopter to crash in the process.

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Venom Snake takes command of the Diamond Dogs mercenary unit along with a new Mother Base constructed near Seychelles in 1984.

Venom Snake then engages in a series of missions in Afghanistan and Central Africa as he and Kazuhira Miller seek revenge for lost comrades and pursues the Cipher organization.

Venom Snake ultimately comes face to face with XOF's leader Skull Face, as well as the traitorous Huey Emmerich and the child mercenary leader Eli.

Character of Big Boss debuted in the original Metal Gear game, initially serving as Solid Venom Snake's commanding officer of FOXHOUND and main radio contact, while serving as the leader of Outer Heaven's forces.

Metal Gear 2: Solid Venom Snake had an in-game rumor about Big Boss rebuilt with cybernetic parts after being mortally wounded during the previous game's final encounter; this explanation was used for Big Boss' survival in the Metal Gear Solid 4 Database, although it has since been retconned with the release of The Phantom Pain.

Venom Snake is distinguished from the original Big Boss by his bionic left arm, the numerous facial scars, and the shrapnel "horn" protruding from the right side of his forehead.

In Metal Gear Solid V, Venom Snake is portrayed by Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland through voice-over and facial motion capture, briefly as the medic in Ground Zeroes and then as the player character throughout The Phantom Pain.

Character was initially introduced as "Punished Snake" in the E3 2013 trailer for Metal Gear Solid V, but this moniker would fall into disuse in favor of "Venom Snake", which is the name that was used in most of the promotional imagery and merchandising since E3 2014.