Liquid Snake

Template:Metal Gear Character Template:Spoiler Liquid Snake (voiced by Cam Clarke in the English versions and by Banjo Ginga in the Japanese versions) is the primary antagonist in the video game Metal Gear Solid, who is not only Solid Snake's doppelganger and archnemesis, but the leader of FOXHOUND during the events of the game. The player faces him multiple times in Metal Gear Solid:

Firstly he pilots a Hind to attack Solid Snake Secondly he pilots the Metal Gear Rex (a new Metal Gear Prototype that can fire nuclear warheads by using magnets instead of boosters - making them invisible to radar) and tries to attack Solid Snake. Grey Fox intervenes and helps Snake to beat him. Thirdly there is a hand to hand fight on top of the Rex's wreck (no pun intended). After hurling him from the top you are required to shoot him as he chases you in a military vehicle. After crawling from the wreck of his car, he dies from a biological disease Fox-Die that was developed by Dr. Naomi Hunter.

. Throughout Metal Gear Solid, Liquid believes that he is the inferior twin, and that Solid Snake was the superior one. However, as Ocelot reveals at the end of the game, this belief is incorrect.

The mystery behind Liquid is that he is thought to cheat death; it is proved in Snakes escape with either Meryl or Otacon, given how the player handled Revolver Ocelot's torture device. You must keep him from escaping from the base first. After trying to kill both Solid Snake and his companion, he finally dies of the genetically engineered disease FOXDIE. However, in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, he manages to take control of former ally Revolver Ocelot, via a mysterious arm transplant. (See Revolver Ocelot's page for details of the transplant.)

He has shown a very high intelligence of geo-political situations around the world (he was the youngest member of the British Special Air Service in the first Gulf War) and is obsessed with destroying his father's (Big Boss) legacy and replacing it with his own. He is 183 cm tall and has an IQ of 180. He was loosely based on Andy McNab, author of Bravo Two Zero

Depth -

Liquid Snake is one of the most well thought out characters in computer game history. His identity crisis and inferiority complex are mesmerisingly deep, which are expressed through an appealing and overwhelming malevolence. The way that he calmly decides upon "Lopnor, China" as an ideal target for a nuclear warhead as a bargaining chip is fascinatingly horrific: "if we nuke a major population centre: the game's over".

His identity crisis focuses around the fact that he believes that he wasn't the superior brother: "You're alright. You got all the old man's dominant genes. I got all the flawed, recessive ones!", "Do you have any idea what it's like to know that you're garbage from the moment you're born!?" and he wants to create an identity for himself superior to that of his clone father: the greatest soldier ever: "We have no names, we have no pasts! Even if we did they wouldn't be truly ours! You and I are just copies of our father, Big Boss."

Attitude to women -

Liquid Snake only refers to women twice throughout the game. He, like Snake prior to meeting Meryl Silverburgh, has no room for other people in his lives.

"Poor girl kept calling your name." "Stupid girl, falling in love with someone who doesn't even have a name!"

He refers to the only member of his squad with utter contempt. He sneers at Sniper Wolf, implying that her opinion (that all Americans are hypocrites) is irrelevant because she's kurdish. }}

He also has the most kickass british voice ever devised.