• Post-FOXDIE ▾
• Pre-FOXDIE ▾

• Metal Gear Solid
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty ▾
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ▾

“	A strong man doesn't need to read the future, he makes his own.	„
	~ Solid Snake to Psycho Mantis

• Solid Snake
• Iroquois Pliskin

“	We can tell about other people about--having faith. What we had faith in. What we found important enough to fight for. It's not whether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have, that decides the future.	„
	~ Solid Snake to Raiden

“	Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies... what we've seen, heard, felt... anger, joy and sorrow... these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for.	„
	~ Solid Snake

“	I'm not an enemy. Calm down. My name is S... My name is Pliskin. Iroquois Pliskin. Lieutenant Junior Grade.	„
	~ Iroquois Pliskin to Raiden

“	There’s something my best friend said to me once. We're not tools of the government, or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at least I fought for what I believe in.	„
	~ Iroquois Pliskin to Raiden

• OctoCamo
• Middle Eastern Disguise

“	I'm no hero. Never was, never will be.	„
	~ Old Snake to Meryl Silverburgh

“	Snake... had a hard life. He needs some time to rest.	„
	~ Hal "Otacon" Emmerich to Sunny Emmerich

“	War... has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines. War, and its consumption of life, has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nano-machines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control... battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control. War - has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control. All in the name of averting catastrophe from Weapons of Mass Destruction. And he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War has changed... When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.	„
	~ Old Snake

• Metal Gear (1987)
• Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

“	This is Solid Snake... Metal Gear has been destroyed. Operation Intrude N313 was a success! No big deal, job done, that's all... No big deal... I'm coming back now... OVER.	„
	~ Solid Snake after defeating "Big Boss" and escaping Outer Heaven

“	Solid Snake: ...I've only got one fight left. To free myself from your grip, to rid myself of these nightmares... Big Boss, I will defeat you! Big Boss: It doesn't matter who wins here. Our fight will continue. The loser will be liberated from the battlefield, and the winner will remain. And the survivor will live out the rest of his days as a solider. Solid Snake: It doesn't have to be that way. I'm not like you. I love life!	„
	~ Solid Snake and Big Boss

Summary

Solid Snake (real name David) is the clone of Big Boss, and a world-renowned soldier and spy famed for his legendary exploits in the Outer Heaven Uprising and Zanzibar Land Disturbance. After repeatedly destroying several Metal Gear units, Snake has saved the world from the possibility of nuclear warfare on multiple occasions.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 8-B physically, higher, up to 8-A with weapons

Name: David, Solid / Old Snake, "Iroquois Pliskin"

Origin: Metal Gear

Age: 23 (Metal Gear), 27 (Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake), 33 (Metal Gear Solid), 35-37 (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), 42 (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)

Gender: Male

Classification: Human, Clone of Big Boss

Powers and Abilities:

Attack Potency: City Block level physically (Comparable to Big Boss and his brothers, Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake. Defeated Liquid Snake in hand-to-hand combat, and defeated Liquid Ocelot in his old age^{[Statistics Values 1]}), higher, up to Multi-City Block level with weapons (Can injure Vamp^{[Statistics Values 2]})

Speed: Superhuman (Comparable to Big Boss^{[Statistics Values 3]}), likely Subsonic (Caught up to Metal Gear RAY, putting a transmitter on it) with High Hypersonic+ combat speed (Comparable to Raiden, who blocked bullets from four different directions^{[Statistics Values 4]}), Massively Hypersonic reactions (Easily dodged a railgun round and later reacted to Vamp's attacks in his old age^{[Statistics Values 5]}) and attack speed with Rail Gun (The portable Rail Gun is a miniaturized version of REX's^{[Statistics Values 6]})

Lifting Strength: Class M (Should be comparable to Big Boss, who halted Cocoon^{[Statistics Values 7]})

Striking Strength: City Block level (Injured Gray Fox in hand-to-hand combat. Can knock over unsuspecting Gekkos by rolling into them in his old age^{[Statistics Values 1]})

Durability: City Block level (Comparable to Big Boss, who can survive lightning strikes from Volgin, can withstand the force of his own P-Bombs and stronger weapons, and survived walking through a microwave chamber, capable of vaporizing people, in his old age^{[Statistics Values 1]})

Stamina: Superhuman (Snake can shrug off bullet wounds, survive and keep himself from giving up information through extensive torture, withstand the constant exertion of sneaking and fighting during his long missions, endure interference with his nanomachines causing seizures and intense pain, and crawl through a hallway of microwaves that would vaporize other humans despite being in extreme pain throughout the ordeal, even as he was rapidly aging and in generally horrible condition. Right after this, he went on to fight Liquid Ocelot in a long, arduous battle that pushed them both to their limits, albeit after a recuperating shot)

Range: Standard Melee Range; Tens of Meters to Hundreds of Meters with weaponry

Intelligence: Genius (Snake is an extremely skilled combatant and a veteran soldier trained personally by Big Boss, the so-called greatest soldier in the world, who taught him CQC. He is a master of hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, stealth, free climbing, knowing six languages, and having an astonishingly high IQ of 180. Known as the man who makes the impossible possible, he can destroy tanks, assault helicopters, and even Metal Gears while on foot. He also has matched, outsmarted, and defeated legendary soldiers like Big Boss and his phantom, Gray Fox, Revolver Ocelot, and his twin brother, Liquid Snake. He can rapidly adapt to dangerous situations and think quickly and tactically even under pressure, defeating many opponents even with a limited arsenal, most impressively defeating Big Boss with nothing but a lighter and hairspray)

Weaknesses: Snake struggles with PTSD, and his genes were designed to make him age rapidly after 40. Old Snake's accelerated ageing significantly reduces his strength, stamina and afflicts him with the regular issues of old age. Snake is also known to self-handicap, and will refrain from using certain equipment and techniques, most notably refraining from using the CQC Big Boss taught him since it "never felt right using techniques learned from a man who'd betrayed his unit".

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

• CQC: Unique and highly efficient martial arts, allowing a soldier a variety of options while not denying them the use of weapons. It generally has the user taking a stance with a knife and a handgun; thus, they could grab/throw opponents in melee, threaten/execute people with the sharp blade or shoot down opponents who're otherwise outside the user's range. CQC mostly focuses on grabs, throws, and other methods to disarm the target, allowing one to take down enemies without killing them or use them as a human shield. A skilled practitioner can even "chain" throws, allowing them to rapidly neutralise entire groups of soldiers in close proximity of each other. Snake, having been instructed by Big Boss himself during his time as a member of FOXHOUND, is highly proficient in the use of CQC. However, after the events of Outer Heaven, Snake restricted himself from using it; not feeling right utilising the technique of someone who betrayed his unit. He would never use CQC in actual combat until 2014 when the Pentagon declassified Big Boss' file, causing the technique to become popular among soldiers. Though Snake notes that their use of CQC is only a "pale imitation" learned from reading about it.

Old Snake using CQC on Johnny Sasaki

Gallery

Snake in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Snake in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Snake in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Metal Gear Solid 4 OST Metal Gear Saga

Metal Gear Solid OST Encounter

Notable Matchups

Notes/Explanations

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