Solidus Snake
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Template:Metal Gear Character Solidus Snake is a fictional character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty by Konami.
Solidus Snake, under the name of Solid Snake, is the chief of a terrorist group incorporating members of Dead Cell and a Russian private army, a group that took control of the Big Shell. Solidus Snake is a clone of Big Boss and therefore genetically identical to Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. Also included as one of the three of eight original zygotes that survived the Les Enfant Terrible Project. Unlike his genetic brothers Solid and Liquid, Solidus possesses neither recessive nor dominant genes, but instead was endowed with a masterful balance of both. The reason he looks older in appearance than his brothers is because he is undergoing advanced cellular degeneration as a result of the cloning process. In addition, he purposefully cut and dyes his hair to more closely resemble Big Boss. He is also known to the public as former President George Sears.
During the Liberian Civil War, Solidus was raising child soldiers for the war effort. During his time there he adopted a young boy he named Jack after killing the boy's true parents.
Initially it is believed he is holding a ransom for his successor's, President Johnson, safe return. Solidus' actions are directed by his hatred of the Patriots and Big Shell is the starting point of his plan to overthrow their totalitarian rule.
He sent in Revolver Ocelot to incite Liquid Snake to bring the said Shadow Moses Incident. As a result, he was removed from the presidential office after exposing the existence of Metal Gear REX and the Genome Army.
Four years later, he was using the Navy's Arsenal Gear project to destroy the Patriots by launching a nuclear strike over Manhattan, but found out that Ocelot was a Patriot spy all along. His adopted son (Jack) was now a field agent working under the codename of Raiden. Solidus fought against Raiden in order to obtain information about the Patriots contained in his own nanomachines, but ended up being defeated and killed by him.
In the game, Solidus' personal arsenal includes a Katana, a Wakizashi, a P90 submachine gun, and a suit featuring much of the same technology incorporated in Metal Gear Ray as well as robotic arms like Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Octopus.
Quotes
- "I recommend against switching camps - you've nowhere left to go." (to Ocelot and Olga)
- "I'm the boss to surpass Big Boss himself."
- "Brother, I'm a whole different game from Liquid."