Solid Snake

Solid Snake, also known as Snake, Dave, David, Iroquois Pliskin, Old Snake, Legendary Mercenary, Legendary Hero and The Man Who Makes the Impossible Possible, is one of the main protagonists from the Metal Gear series.
== Charactah Account ==
Solid Snake is an infiltration specialist whose exploits usually revolve around destroying the titular Metal Gears, nuclear-armed humongous mecha whose very existence shifts the balance of power in the world dramatically. Through this, he becomes entangled in a massive web of control and deceit centered around The Patriots, a shadowy ancient conspiracy group that has been engaged in clandestine wars for decades. Without a doubt Solid Snake is, "the man who makes the impossible, possible."
Solid Snake, a hardened career soldier, often displayed a calm and collected demeanor, rarely showing any signs of fear in extreme circumstances. He buried his emotions deep inside himself, causing some to see him as cold and uncaring. Despite this perceived attitude, Snake occasionally showed a more human side, expressing great concern for allies' well being during dangerous operations, and even demonstrating compassion towards fallen enemies. During the Zanzibar Land Disturbance, Snake claimed to be different from Big Boss, and that he loved life. Unlike his clone brothers, Snake never displayed anger over his origins and accepted who he was.
Though mostly reserved, Snake showed some prominent change in his outlook towards life throughout the years. Big Boss's betrayal in 1995 and his battle to the death with Gray Fox and again with Big Boss in 1999 left a deep-seated emotional pain leading to PTSD, alcoholism and cynicism. His reunion with Gray Fox at Shadow Moses, as well as his newfound friendship with Otacon and love towards Meryl, invigorated his desire to live. With Philanthropy, Snake aspired towards building a better future for the world by eradicating Metal Gears and liberating humanity from digital subjugation. His accelerated aging, however, would create a morbid willingness to accept death as he was no longer exuberant in his words or actions in 2014. It was only by Big Boss's dying words that Snake was finally able to absolve himself of all guilt and torment and accept peace. 
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Ape Escape 3
* Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
* Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack Shinbok
* Dream Mix TV World Fighters
* Evolution Skateboarding
* Mainichi Issho
* Metal Gear
* Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
* Metal Gear Ac!d
* Metal Gear Ac!d 2
* Metal Gear Arcade
* Metal Gear Online
* Metal Gear Sol!d: Secret Santa
* Metal Gear Solid
* Metal Gear Solid 2: Ghost of Christmas Past
* Metal Gear Soild 2: Sons of Liberty
* Metal Gear Soild 2: Substance
* Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
* Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
* Metal Gear Solid 4 Database
* Metal Gear Soild 4: Guns of the Patriots
* Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
* Metal Gear Solid Mobile
* Metal Gear Solid Touch
* Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
* Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience
* Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel
* Metal Gear Solid: Integral
* Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
* Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus
* Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
* Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
* Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
* Monster Hunter Portable 3rd
* New Internation Track & Field
* Scribblenauts
* Snake's Revenge
* Super Bomberman R
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
* The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2
* Yu☆Gi☆Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament 2005
== Trivia ==
* Snake was announced to return in Ultimate on June 12th, 2018, which was also the 10 year anniversary of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
* Snake is the only returning third-party character to have his Final Smash completely changed.
** While Super Sonic and Super Pac-Man have different mechanics, they are otherwise the same Final Smash.
* The official Smash Bros. website lists Snake as being the 31st character to join the series, which is coincidentally the same amount of years from the first installment of the Metal Gear series was released, back in 1987, to Snake's return to Smash, in 2018.
* Snake is the only returning third-party character not to appear in Super Smash Bros. 4.
* Snake is the only character in Smash history whose series symbol has been entirely changed: the FOX logo was altered to the "!" Alert symbol from Metal Gear Solid.
** This is possibly due to the FOX logo also being the logo for the former Kojima Productions, a studio within Konami responsible for developing Metal Gear games which have since dissolved and reformed as an independent developer.
* Ultimate is the third time Snake, Simon, and Bomberman appeared in a video game together, the first two being DreamMix TV World Fighters and Super Bomberman R.
* Snake can be unlocked by playing Classic Mode as Simon or Meta Knight. This likely references Simon and Snake being Konami characters and Snake's team-up with Meta Knight in Subspace Emissary.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Solid Snake at Metal Gear Wiki
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