Solid Snake: The Hudson River, two years ago... We had classified intelligence that a new type of Metal Gear was scheduled for transport. The whole thing stank... But our noses have been out in the cold too long. Solid Snake: "Never give up. Fight until the end. Always believe that you will succeed, even when the odds are against you. Those are your words." // Big Boss: "Even I make mistakes from time to time." While Solid Snake does not appear in the game he receives a reference in the form of an easter egg, if the player character (named Chase McCaine) spends too long without entering the main objective point, another character (Frank Honey) will start yelling ''Chase? Chase?! Chaaaaaaase!'' As a reference to the classic Metal Gear game over screen. According to the director's commentary, most of Solid Snake's mannerisms (including the way he smokes his cigarettes) were replicated from that of his voice actor, Akio Ōtsuka. [115] First 4 Figures is proud to introduce their latest statue collectible, Solid Snake Grand-Scale Bust!This is the first statue to release in the all-new Metal Gear Solid Busts lineup.

Through years of training and experience, he developed heightened levels of endurance and reflexes, surviving prolonged periods of pain, [65] torture, [66] and narrowly evading numerous near-fatal incidents. [67] Besides his playability, he is also alluded to in a sleep talk by Female Soldiers with the "H" option of voices, where she says "...Uhmmm... watch it, Snake..."Snake tends to see Raiden as a whole as being an example of the "next generation" he's fighting for. While often condescending and cruel to Raiden during the Big Shell Incident, he's also trying his best during the end to give him a sense of identity and what he should be fighting for. Yet this had more of an influence in a way than he didn't intend and during his talks with Raiden, he carries a sense of regret that he wasn't a better teacher to him and that Raiden's life was made a living hell due to Snake's generation.

If the player inputs the Konami Code on the game clear screen, Solid Snake will be heard saying either "What do you think you're doing!?" or "STOP FOOLING AROUND KID!" In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Solid Snake is mentioned in audio tapes and in the game's ending timeline, along with the return of the Classic Snake character skin from Ground Zeroes. Snake was also speculated to appear as a child in the same game prior to its release due to the ending of the E3 2015 trailer showing two "Elis" with the narration mentioning Les Enfants Terribles. However, this was later proven false, as the second "Eli" in the scene was actually imagery invoked by the character Tretij Rebenok due to the latter being drawn to Eli's hatred of Venom Snake (whom he believed to be his father, Big Boss). When first joining FOXHOUND, Snake attended an initiation ceremony where Big Boss gave a speech. However, he did not make the connection between his words and those of the dying Gray Fox at Shadow Moses, until meeting with Big Boss at Arlington nearly twenty years later. [86] This Solid Snake bust is a realistic recreation of the Legendary Mercenary himself, from the anatomically accurate facial features and details to the strokes and strands of his hair, and even the textures and stitching of his bandana and suit. Following his birth, Solid Snake was given the name David. He spent his early life being raised in the United States by a variety of foster parents. [10] Making his way into the military, David was inducted into the Green Berets as a teen [11] and took part in a mission to infiltrate western Iraq in 1991, during the Gulf War. During the war, some U.S. soldiers were injected with soldier genes in an attempt to replicate the results of Les Enfants Terribles, making them, and the reported "Gulf War Babies," David's siblings, in a sense. [12]Snake was often flirtatious towards his female team members, [62] [63] [64] and expressed interest in intimate relationships on occasion, although he did not like getting involved with other people's lives and was a loner by nature, even going so far as to stand Holly White up despite promising to have Christmas dinner with her. Snake was somewhat disapproving of May-December relationships, remarking that Rosemary was young enough to be Roy Campbell's daughter, upon learning of their apparent marriage. In Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, the player can add Solid Snake's bandana and Solid Eye to Gabriel Belmont's normal attire by going to the Extras menu, after completing the game.

In the third case of this Capcom adventure game, Athena Cykes encounters a character named Myriam Scuttlebutt, who constantly hides under a cardboard box similar to Snake's stealth tactics. When Apollo Justice notices the box, he says, "Don't let it be a SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!" The final reference is after Woods's acquittal, when Cykes thinks to herself, "Myriam's got this Tactical Espionage Action stuff down to a science..." Snake successfully made it to the PMC base that Liquid was using as his headquarters by disguising himself as a militia instructor for the militia in the region fighting off the Praying Mantis PMC, although he briefly lost the disguise after an ambush by several Gekko units, escaping with the use of his new OctoCamo suit. Snake once again met Meryl, who was now in command of the CID unit Rat Patrol Team 01. He also briefly witnessed the Beauty and the Beast unit when they wiped out a Middle Eastern militia platoon. However, he failed to assassinate Liquid in time due to the latter's sudden deactivation of the Sons of the Patriots system, which resulted in all the soldiers in the vicinity to experience mass convulsions from the sudden release of emotions, including Snake himself, although he was affected to a lesser degree. SOP was run by the Patriots with the purpose of monitoring and controlling every soldier engaged in combat action. Liquid's plan was to remove the system altogether, though his initial attempt had unforeseen consequences, when it caused the PMC's Middle Eastern base to descend into chaos (although the chaos unknowingly saved him from Snake's mission to kill him). Gray Fox: You made it, rookie. I'm Gray Fox. Metal Gear is the ultimate weapon - an all-terrain, nuclear-equipped, walking battle tank. When it's finished, a nuclear strike can be launched from anywhere on the planet. We must do everything we can to destroy it before it's completed. There's only one way to destroy Metal Gear. And the only person that knows how to do that, is Metal Gear's developer, Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar. And he is being held prisoner somewhere inside this building. Find Dr. Madnar! Snake was fluent in six languages, including French. [78] Although he was unfamiliar with Czech during the Zanzibar Land Disturbance, he was able to recognize the term "Matka Pluku," when Raiden told him of Big Mama's alias during the Guns of the Patriots Incident. Conversely, his knowledge of computing was somewhat limited, often relying on more technical-minded allies to deal with such matters during missions. [79] [80] Snake was somewhat knowledgeable about pop culture, having partially named an alias from the character Snake Plissken from Escape from New York, and once referenced Star Wars by describing Outer Haven as Liquid Ocelot's "very own Death Star."Unconfirmed history [ ] The following information has been detailed in official Konami-licensed media, written by various external authors. Its status in the Metal Gear canon is unconfirmed. [?] Snake (SaintLogic) - In Metal Gear Acid 2, this incarnation of Snake is a clone of the Solid Snake from the previous game, the latter having died during after the conclusion of the first game on Lobito Island. In this game, Snake must combat a military arms manufacturing company known as SaintLogic and must destroy their new Metal Gear, Metal Gear Chaioth Ha Qadesh. Statue numbers will be assigned randomly. There is no first-come, first-served policy when allocating statue numbers.

This Codec conversion takes place in the women's bathroom at the Strut C Dining Hall after Raiden has found Peter Stillman. When Snake awoke from the VR, he overheard two voices talking. They stated that Snake was unable to provide them with the data they needed, and proceeded to erase his memory of the events.A cloned “son” of Big Boss, Solid Snake was the “brother” of fellow clones Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake, & ultimately battled them both It remains unclear as to which clone was created to express Big Boss's dominant or recessive traits, since Liquid Snake's exposition on Les Enfants Terribles is contradicted by Ocelot's later report to Solidus, regarding which clone was designated the "inferior" one. The subject of Big Boss's dominant and recessive traits, in regards to the clones' gene expression, is never referred again in other games in the series, after Metal Gear Solid. A recap of Liquid's dialogue was included in the fictional in-game novel In the Darkness of Shadow Moses, but there is no mention of dominant and recessive traits. However, the dialogue remains essentially unchanged from the original game, in its 2004 remake, The Twin Snakes.