Batman vs. Solid Snake

## Description

*The bat and the snake always hide in the shadows, and they shall continue to do so in a Fatal Fiction until either the vigilante or the soldier is victorious.*

## Interlude

Hiro: When it comes to the art of espionage, these two have mastered it like no one else.

**MBStarscream: Taking the names of deadly animals along the way, they've been pushed beyond the limits of human physicality to even stand a chance against the kinds of enemies they face on a daily basis - and have more often than not come out on top, cuz they're goddamn badass.**

Hiro: But one of these two can only hide for so long before meeting their end in a Fatal Fiction.

**MBStarscream: Batman, the caped Dark Knight of DC.**

Hiro: And Solid Snake, the Man Who Makes the Impossible Possible. I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Batman

Hiro: Bruce Wayne was born as the only child of Thomas and Martha Wayne, owners of the large Wayne Enterprises business conglomerate. As the heads of a multi-billion dollar empire, the couple had a responsibility to not only raise their son properly and provide him with anything he wanted and needed, but to also take care of their home - Gotham City.

**MBStarscream: Bruce's parents would use their luxury to rally efforts to combat the rampant crime and corruption which plagued the streets, and often reminded Bruce of the responsibility he would soon bear. But Bruce would grow up to have so much more on his shoulders.**

Hiro: At the age of 8, after seeing a movie with his parents, Bruce watched in horror as a mugger shot both of them dead in an alleyway before his eyes. From that moment on, things would never be the same.

**MBStarscream: The family butler Alfred Pennyworth was left with raising the traumatized Bruce, who soon realized what a wretched hive Gotham was and decided to do something about it. As soon as he was of age to inherit the family fortune, Bruce engaged on a world-wide journey, rigorously studying mathematics, science, martial arts, you name it.**

Hiro: Many years later, he returned to Gotham, ready to fight crime as a vigilante, but on his first night out, realized that he lacked one element: fear. Recalling his own childhood fear of bats, Bruce decided to adopt a bat motif as a means to terrify criminals.

**MBStarscream: This tactic worked so well that he has since taken a name that sends chills through Gotham's criminal underworld. You all know it, say it with me: Batmaaaaaan! Batmaaaaaan! Come on Hiro, you're not even singing!**

Hiro: I don't need to, because Batman's resume speaks for itself. He's one of the smartest individuals in the DC Universe, in no small part to his wealth of knowledge he picked up whilst training abroad including several masters degrees. He is an expert in computer acking, medical science, forensic pathology, gadgetry, among many others.

**MBStarscream: Nicknamed the “World’s Greatest Detective” by the likes of many, Bruce is also a master detective that recognizes which location of Gotham he’s at based on the water despite being drugged and exhausted and also easily piece together the schemes of his opponents - such as the Riddler’s. Even as a child, Bruce did some detective work such as discovering the location of the mysterious Court of Owls.**

Hiro: He applies his analytical mind extremely heavily whilst in combat - by making deductions about his opponents while fighting them, doing so against Cassandra Cain, an alternate version of the Riddler, and an imposter of the Wraith as well as being able to make snapshot deductions on Justice League opponents, allowing his fellow teammates to gain the upper hand.

**MBStarscream: Bruce isn't just mentally strong; over his decades-long crusade against crime, he's been pushed to peak human physique, able to perform feats that push the human body to their very limits. He's strong enough to leg press 2,500 pounds, and fast enough to dodge Wrath’s machine gun, which is capable of firing 5,000 rounds per minute. He has also powered through enough air pressure to kill a regular human.**

Hiro: Batman is a master of stealth, and he uses it constantly during his midnight escapades to bring about an end to crime in Gotham City. Random thugs are no match for his stealth, and he’s even managed to sneak up and hide in places where any normal ninja would have been found, such as the time he snuck into a base belonging to that of The Spectre or the time he managed to hide for over an hour without any of the Justice League hearing him. The League members even included that of Superman, who’s known for his superhuman hearing.

**MBStarscream: Batman is also a martial arts expert, having mastered 127 different arts. His primary form of combat is a mixture of jiu-titsu, taekwondo, judo, muay thai, capoeira, savante, karate, kung fu, boxing, aikido, and ninjutsu.**

Hiro: One type of martial arts that Batman is familiar with is known as Dim Mak, an ancient form of martial arts where he can strike vital points of an opponent’s body which causes paralysis, intense and prolonged pain, and even death. Batman’s mastery of combat doesn’t just extend to knowing martial arts, however. He’s also capable of making use of pressure points in combat. This allows him to take out foes by making use of their nervous system in the process.

**MBStarscream: Besides his mastery of other fields such as escape artistry, mechanical engineering, and marksmanship, Batman is also best known for the near-endless amount of resources at his disposal. As he is still the CEO of one of the world's largest businesses, Bruce's very well-off financial status allows him to fund development for the various pieces of equipment he carries with him into battle.**

Hiro: Combined with his paranoia and need to prepare for any conceivable situation, this means that the Caped Crusader has a tool to take on any foe he can come across. The Dark Knight's standard Batsuit is the one he dons for his nightly patrols and is made out of both Kevlar and reinforced titanium to provide equal amounts of flexibility and protection.

**MBStarscream: While helpful for dealing with the knives and guns ordinary street thugs can carry, the Batsuit is still incredibly durable enough to withstand a massive city block-sized explosion worth about 60 tons of TNT. His cowl comes equipped with various vision modes and a radio to communicate with others, while his utility belt carries gadgets such as smoke bombs, nerve toxins, his grappling gun, and various types of Batarangs that can be remotely controlled or blown up as grenades.**

Hiro: Not only were these tools enough to let him wage his one-man war on crime within his home turf, but it also proved invaluable when a Batman more willing to accept help and cooperate with others founded the Justice League, being the sole founding member with no true superpowers to his name beyond reaching the peak of human potential and more. In elevating himself from simply being Gotham City's nocturnal protector to a leader of the largest collection of superheroes within the DC universe, Bruce's knack for preparation was turned up to eleven, bordering his ability to prepare for anything on outright memetic levels.

**MBStarscream: This includes the time where he created a backup personality of himself - the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh - in the event he suffered a psychological breakdown that would drive him mad, akin to having a backup operating system for a computer. He has even developed contingency plans to defeat any of his fellow League members in the event they turned rogue.**

Hiro: Such preperations have let him contend with his fellow Leaguers from time to time, dodging Superman's heat vision and surviving hits from Wonder Woman. Outside of his own allies, Batman has battled the supervillains making up his iconic rogues gallery over and over again.

**MBStarscream: His deadliest foes include the monstrous Killer Croc, the back-breaking Bane, the lustful Poison Ivy, the mysterious Riddler, the frightening Scarecrow, and his greatest foe of all, the Joker, who has come closer to bringing him down to his level more than any other. Yet Batman always manages to beat his mind games and put him behind bars.**

Hiro: All this, however, does little to change the fact that at the end of the day, despite being at the peak of human potential, Batman is still... well, human, meaning that while he can survive injuries that would kill most, he is not invulnerable and can be killed through human means.

**MBStarscream: He tends to rely on his smarts to get him out of trouble, but even then it won’t always save him and has led to numerous close calls with death on multiple occasions. And while he does have equipment that allows him to fight on par with tougher metahuman enemies and the like, such tools tend to only work when he has time to prepare and study future targets.**

Hiro: Fighting opponents who boast superior strength, speed and durability against him can be tricky, often forcing him to rely on his gadgets, stealth and hand-to-hand prowess to hold out. And living in a world like the DC Universe has Batman growing ever more distrustful of others, even allies.

**MBStarscream: This came to a boil when the Brother Eye satellite he created was responsible for the creation and control of the metahuman-hunting cyborgs, the O.M.A.C.s. Realizing this, Bruce took off for a year in order to rebuild Batman while being hunted down by the Black Glove, who wished to break him utterly and kill him.**

Hiro: Barely escaping, he was tortured by the New God Darkseid to be used as a template for new soldiers. After an attempt to kill Darkseid, Bruce Wayne was ultimately 'killed' by the Omega Sanction which sent his soul into an endless loop of lives, each one worse than the last.

**MBStarscream: But death doesn't always stick in comics, so Batman came right back and decided to make the Batman idea an international organization called Batman, Inc, while leaving the title of Gotham's Batman to his first Robin Dick Grayson. Then New 52 happened, and Bruce has been back to being Gotham's Batman since then.**

Hiro: For as long as he wears that cowl, Bruce Wayne will never stop mustering everything he can to uphold his ideals and fight to his very last breath. Criminals had better beware of the Batman.

*Thug: The hell are you supposed to be?*

*Batman doesn't reply as he continues advancing towards the gang of thugs. The first thug eventually goes on the attack, only to be met with a vicious, bone-crunching beating. After knocking the thug to the ground and delivering two more punches, Batman lets out a chilling whisper.*

*Batman: I'm vengeance.*

## Solid Snake

Hiro: Les Enfants Terribles. This was the name designated for the United States government project to clone one of the greatest soldiers of their time: Big Boss, formerly known as Naked Snake.

**MBStarscream: Well, that's dumb. Snakes don't wear clothes, so they're always naked! Lame name!**

Hiro: Well, I'm sure you'll like the next Snake's name.

**MBStarscream: I'm sure I will.**

Hiro: Anyway, the Patriots, an underground organization bent on controlling the nation from behind the scenes, wanted the mark of such a legendary operative to be preserved, or even better, perfected. In 1972, an experiment was launched to create clones of him, and a total of eight embryos were created, with six being intentionally aborted to empower the final two, one prophesied to save the world, the other to destroy it. Luckily for David, he ended up being the good one.

**MBStarscream: David spent most of his young adult life fighting for the Green Berets, the US Army, the CIA, and eventually, the special operations group FOXHOUND; his work in stealth operations in the very last of those being where he attained his now famous codename: Solid Snake. Now *that* appeals to me.**

Hiro: After receiving training from Big Boss himself, Snake was sent to the secret base Outer Heaven on a rescue mission, but soon discovered that the base housed a Metal Gear, a bipedal weapon capable of launching a nuclear strike to and from anywhere in the world. Not only that, but Big Boss was revealed to be the leader behind the terrorist uprising.

**MBStarscream: So to stop nuclear war from breaking out, Snake killed Big Boss and destroyed Metal Gear before leaving for an early retirement, relocating to Alaska to train his dogs. Unfortunately, he soon had to be pulled out of retirement to destroy another Metal Gear and confront the still-alive Big Boss before leaving again.**

Hiro: But even then, more and more and many more Metal Gears would pop up, and Snake would be involved in the destruction of them all, a testament to his skill as a soldier.

**MBStarscream: Possessing an IQ of 180 and fluent in six languages, Snake is far from a gun toting thug. His perceptive and crafty nature has won him battles against opponents who would otherwise overwhelm him in a battle of strength and artillery.**

Hiro: Snake has spent time with both the Green Berets during the Gulf War of 1991 and FOXHOUND, where he trained under Big Boss himself and learned CQC, a unique and highly efficient form of martial arts which allows 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, he/she 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.

**MBStarscream: 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 neutralize an entire group of soldiers.**

Hiro: Of course, Snake is also an undisputed master of stealth. He has infiltrated multiple heavily armed strongholds from military bases in the Middle Eastern mountains, to the Alaskan arctic, to even cruise liners, with no weapons or gear, picking up equipment on-site while avoiding alert and capture, even being able to sneak around in makeshift items such as cardboard boxes. Snake loves boxes, you see.

**MBStarscream: Being a clone of Big Boss, Snake is also genetically superior to a normal human. His physique is nearly superhuman as a result, which has let him take quite the punishment and dish out then some.**

Hiro: He 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 --

**MBStarscream: Son!**

Hiro: -- 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.

**MBStarscream: But what would a soldier be without weapons?**

Hiro: Snake prefers to travel light for his missions, packing with him only a small handful of weapons: a Ruger Mk 2 pistol when lethal force is not required, a 1911 Operator pistol when it is, and a stun knife, the offspring of a combat knife and a taser. For his gear, Snake is outfitted with the Octocamo suit and his Solid Eye: the former is a camouflage system and allows Snake to blend in with his surroundings to an extent where even infrared-equipped Gekkos fail to spot him, while the latter is an eyepatch-like device that can provide real-time battle information, such as night vision and radar.

**MBStarscream: When he needs backup, he uses the codec system, which is regulated by the nanomachines inside his body that also enhance his body further. The codec is an almost entirely silent communication system between him and his support team; one of his most consistent allies on missions is Snake's good friend, Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, a self-professed otaku and successful hacker and programmer. Given enough time, he can hack into anything, providing some extra support for Snake, letting him finish the mission with fewer hindrances.**

Hiro: Snake was given the skills to become the greatest soldier in history, and thus far, he has never failed to deliver on that claim. Over the course of his life, Snake has defeated a collection of some of the Metal Gear universe's strongest and strangest, including snipers, cybernetic ninjas, psychics, and several Metal Gears.

**MBStarscream: He has also defeated Big Boss on twice, triumphed over Liquid Snake, the only other survivor of the Les Enfant Terribles project, once blew up a tank with grenades, even used a Metal Gear against a later model designed to destroy them and won, and can survive a long microwave corridor for at least three minutes. However, despite his genes, Snake is an ultimate soldier, but not a perfect human and can go down like a normal person if he takes too much damage.**

Hiro: He also suffers physical issues, namely heart issues, seizures and rapid aging, that have been attributed to a combination of having been cloned and the use of nanomachines, and his Octocamo, while unrivaled in its ability to conceal, only provides minimal protection against enemy attacks. Still, such setbacks never overwhelmed Solid Snake, nor would it be likely they ever would.

*Solid Snake: I'm no hero. Never was. Never will be.*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Well, this warehouse looks like a nice place for our combatants to hide in until the other has been bested. Time to determine who leaves this place alive.

**MBStarscream: Stealth battle, huh? I like it!**

*An abandoned warehouse*

Its shelves packed with cardboard boxes, the warehouse was filled with the incessant flickering of a single light, the only thing keeping the place from being totally silent. Then a thud echoed through the building as a large dark figure dropped in from above.

As he arose, the man clad in a suit modelled after the common bat swept his eyes across the shelves that surrounded him. The dark cape drapped behind him only made him look more imposing, the yellow utility belt he wore around his waist had a bat symbol on the buckle, and the cowl on his head was adorned with the ears of such an animal.

This man could only be called a creature of the night masquerading as such. A **Batman** lurking in the underbelly of society.

He took a step forward, and his booted feet slowly carried him through the warehouse towards the wall in front of him. His stop was just as tedious, and after another moment, his eyes turned to his left.

They laid on the single cardboard box laying not too far from where he was, beside a shelf full of other boxes like it. It just sat there, alone. It was misplaced. It had to have been taken out and left there, but for that to happen, someone had to have been in here recently; and Batman knew an abandoned place when he saw one.

It was funny to say, but something wasn't right about that box.

Batman kept himself dead silent, trying his best to listen for anything over the flickering of that one light somewhere above him. Even through his cowl, his ears could pick the flickering, but no noises from within the box. But what if something in there was just trying to be quiet too? Watching him?

Deep down, Batman knew that it was silly to be this cautious about a little cardboard box, but he always had his reservations, and they always saved him. This surely wouldn't be so different.

Still hearing no noise other than the flickering light gave him no reassurance. Something-- someone was hiding, he just knew it. Everything else but the light was too quiet, even for an abandoned place like this. He needed a noise *other* than flickering to confirm his nagging suspicions.

He waited, and still nothing else came.

His eyes moved to the wall and closed as Batman breathed in through his nose. A *shink* filled the air as two bat-shaped weapons appeared in each of his hands; with a throw, they flew towards the box. Embedded in their target, the batarangs knocked the box over as a testament to the force behind their throw.

He looked at the knocked over box, seeing nothing under it that would be exposed. He knew this didn't mean nothing wasn't hiding somewhere here after all.

Then he realized he never looked right.

His senses screamed at him to dive towards the shelves, and that's what he did. As he did so, he heard the loud bang that shattered the relative quietness. The bullet missed him by inches; it would have hit if he was a fifth of a second later. As he disappeared, the gun clicked from the darkness before the one holding it stepped out.

He was a soldier, and he was dressed like one, with the physique to match. The bandana he wore keeping his eyebrows hidden, the man looked at where his target had once stood, the cardboard box still lying by the shelf with two batarangs embedded in it. "Kept you waiting, huh?" he said, receiving no answer.

**Solid Snake** wrapped his other hand around the magazine of his 1911 Operator as he started walking slowly towards the shelf where Batman had hidden, passing by the box. He came around the corner of the shelf and pointed his gun, but saw nothing to shoot. He walked through the thin space, looking around for where his foe may have been hiding.

Something small suddenly fell from the ceiling, and once Snake realized that it was a smoke grenade, it went off, blocking his path with smoke. As he covered his mouth with an arm, Snake looked at the mass of smoke when he heard a large thud, and could faintly see a figure lunging through the smoke.

**FIGHT!**

Snake barely blocked the incoming blow on time and managed to flip Batman over him. On the floor, Batman did a sweeping kick that missed Snake's legs as the soldier backed away. In the same motion, Batman sprung to his feet and lunged as Snake aimed his operator, feeling Batman grip his wrist. His gun was forced to face the floor as Snake desparately pulled the trigger, and was then aimed at the shelf.

Holding Snake's wrist with one hand, Batman used his other to punch Snake's face, driving his elbow into his opponent's chin immediately after, and then delivering another punch. Snake karate-chopped Batman's arm, making him let go of his wrist, and quickly shot at Batman's chest, but the bullet simply bounced off of the bat symbol it collided with. Batman threw a batarang that knocked Snake's weapon out of his hand, and then another that stabbed into Snake's leg, making him shout in pain and fall to one knee.

That didn't stop him from taking out his stun knife and swiping it at Batman, forcing him to step back. Rising to his feet through the pain, Snake took a few more swipes and thrusts with his knife before trying to stab Batman in the shoulder. As the vigiliante grabbed his knife-wielding arm, electricity started to crackle out of the blade. Snake then suddenly punched Batman in the gut, stunning him. Batman then felt electricity course through his chin as it was sliced through by the knife, drawing blood.

Snake grabbed Batman's shoulder and tried to drive his knife through the Dark Knight's head, but Batman grabbed his hand and punched the knife out of it. Batman twisted Snake's arm, then planted an uppercut into his chin. As Snake backed away holding his wrist, Batman got up and jumped at Snake, flooring him, then punched him in the face while he was down before springing off.

Pushing himself up, Snake felt something slap onto his back, and heard a series of beeps before the batarang planted on him went off in an explosion that launched Snake forward. Rolling across the floor, Snake looked up to see Batman was gone again. Snake forced himself to his feet once more, looking down at his bleeding leg and reaching down towards the batarang lodged in it. More pain flared in him as the batarang was ripped out of his leg in one swift motion, more blood dripping off of it.

Snake picked his gun and knife off of the floor and put them in each of his pockets, then walked into the middle of the warehouse in search of his foe, pulling out his gun and aiming it at the ceiling. Above him, Batman unsheathed a batarang before throwing it across the room. It sliced through every light that shone above Snake, engulfing the entire building in pitch darkness. Batman wasn't going to miss that flickering.

Snake only chuckled before a flash of red signified the activation of the Solid Eye. Running footsteps from above him made him fire his gun at the ceiling, but Batman was on the other side of the warehouse in the time it took for Snake to fire three bullets. As Snake stopped to reload, a loud thud echoed in the darkness. Snake fired a single bullet straight ahead, but Batman sidestepped the bullet that ended up slamming into the wall behind him, hiding among the shelves once more.

After firing several more bullets at the shelves in the hopes of hitting his hidden opponent. Reloading again, Snake looked up to see Batman standing on top of the shelf he had just hidden behind before jumping down towards him. Snake blocked Batman's elbow drop with an arm and threw his punch. The son of Thomas Wayne and the clone of Big Boss pummeled one another with the skills honed from years of martial arts training, hitting each other with blows that would crunch the bones of lesser men.

Batman sent a forward-flip kick to Snake's head, but Snake caught Batman's leg and pushed him backward. Taking out a grenade and removing the pin, Snake threw it in Batman's direction, hearing the thudding the explosive made as it bounced across the floor. Only a second later, the warehouse was filled with an explosion that sent flame in every direction, some of the boxes catching fire.

Deactivating his Snake Eye, Snake saw the small fire on the floor before him growing, gradually lighting up the warehouse again. But once again, there was no sign of the Batman. Knowing the whole building would be in flames within moments, Snake activated his OctoCamo and disappeared as his suit crackled with electricity.

A giant, bat-shaped shadow walked out of the fire that was spreading rapidly from box to box, encoating the shelves with flame that licked the ceiling. Batman then drew a fist back and threw it in a jabbing motion, hitting partially-invisible flesh that was quickly revealed to him as Snake's OctoCamo deactivated, the soldier holding his face in pain. Batman then grabbed onto him and slammed him into the nearest shelf, pinning him to it.

Seeing the fire quickly spreading to the shelf he was pinned to make Snake quickly realize Batman's intent, and as quick as a flash he forced Batman back with a headbutt that made the nocternal hero take a step back in surprise and pain. Snake maneuvered behind Batman, grabbed him by the middle, then suplexed him to slam his head into the ground, then pulled Batman up and put him in a chokehold, forcing him to stare into the flames.

"Let's watch it all burn, shall we?" Snake whispered in Batman's ear. "You sound like someone I know." Batman simply said.

Then, in a single motion, Batman flipped Snake over him and tossed him to the floor, feeding Snake to the flames.

He stepped back as Snake writhed, screaming in excruciating agony and horror. While watching, Batman took out a spray of some sort and aimed it at the burning soldier as he desparetly stood upright, obscured by flames. Snake let out a final scream before Batman sprayed the flames.

The explosive gel detonated once it made contact with the fire, causing a huge explosion that incinerated Snake completely, knocking Batman backward in the process. The flames grew even more massive and were spreading even faster; Batman had to get of here quickly.

Aiming his grappling hook at the ceiling, Batman pulled himself up out of sight.

A horde of fire engines were outside the warehouse within minutes, their sirens filling the air. Firefighters raced to the building and kicked the front door open, laying eyes on the giant flames inside, and did the best they could to stop them from spreading any further.

Batman watched their efforts from afar, then spoke. "You fought well, soldier."

And with a flutter of his cape, he was gone.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: Now that's how you cook a snake!**

Hiro: Both of these two were impressive fighters, able to survive anything and everything, and had their ways of winning this fight. Snake was genetically superior to Batman in every way even without his gadgets, and was on par with him in hand-to-hand combat, making him a challenging foe for the Dark Knight.

**MBStarscream: But Batman's seen all this before. Artifically enhanced super soldier? Been there, done that. Not helping was Batman knowing far more martial arts than his opponent, which countered Snake's CQC considerably.**

Hiro: One other advantage Snake had was that Batman's arsenal of gadgets was primarily non-lethal, meaning that Snake had the deadlier arsenal. But unfortunately for him, Batman's arsenal still outclassed his by coming with devices specifically for countering stealth-users like Snake. Batman was also far better armored than Snake, with his batsuit being tough enough to take a massive explosion.

**MBStarscream: Batman was quick too, dodging the likes of Darkseid's undodgable Omega Beams which have tagged Superman, the Flash, Lightray, and other super fast DC characters. Anything Snake has fought doesn't hold a candle to what Batman has seen over the years, so Snake was pretty outclassed here.**

Hiro: While both ware prepared for anything that can be thrown at them, Batman just had the superior stats, tech and skills needed to overcome Snake.

**MBStarscream: Solid Snake just didn't have the metal gear to win.**

Hiro: Batman wins.

## Advantages

### Batman (Winner)

* Better equipped
	+ Has devices that could counter Snake's stealth
* Knows literally all martial arts known to man
* Has beaten foes similar to Snake and even foes way superior to him
* Heavily armored
* Arguably a better strategist even when he doesn't have prep time
* Faster