8th Hero

And the 8th Hero is:

























David, Solid Snake

Points: 72

# of voters: 5

Range: 9th - 3rd place

The man we’ve all been waiting for, Solid Snake! One of the most popular action characters in the video game world and main hero (that’s right, it wasn’t Raiden) of the video game series Metal Gear. The first Metal Gear was created (directed) by Hideo Kojima in 1987. The game was simply called Metal Gear and was used for the NES, or the Japanese MSX2. Metal Gear 2 came out in Japan for the MSX2. After that, Solid really took off in the PlayStation systems in the Metal Gear: Solid series. Metal Gear: Solid came out of the Playstation then both Metal Gear: Solid 2 Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear: Solid 3 Snake Eater came out for the Playstation 2. Now Metal Gear: Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots will be coming out for the Playstation 3 sometime in the future.

But who is Snake in all of this? Snake is a soldier. That’s the best word to describe him. If you could imagine the most bad ass soldier, the soldier you wouldn’t want fight, that would be him. An expert in everything one needs in the battle field, Snake is the ultimate and perfect soldier. The only thing he really is good at (other than dog sledding) is fighting and killing.

He literally is a one man army. Other than Sons of Liberty, he is sent in alone, completely outnumbered, and mostly unarmed. Suicide? Perhaps, if it was anyone but Solid Snake. He can sneak around an enemy base like it’s no ones business. Collecting weapons and tools when he can, he can outmaneuver an entire army base. When he needs to fight, he fights as the best warrior on earth. Whatever the battle, whatever the situation, whatever the condition (whatever the boss) Snake can adapt and win. He has no powers, he knows he’s outnumbered. It’s not that he’s super powerful, it’s that he knows that battle field, knows when to hide, knows when to kill, knows what it takes to be a soldier.

Snake is beyond army strong.

The threat? Metal Gear. A walking, nuclear equipped, battle tank. A weapon that can fight a nuke anywhere in the world from any point of the world and maneuver in any terrain. A.k.a. the ultimate weapon, and always in the wrong hands. The solution? Send one man in to destroy this threat. You’ve guess it, Solid Snake is that man. This is the basis of every one of his video games.

Where did he come from? He was raised in the military and eventually joined an army special task force called Fox Hound. There he was named Solid Snake. In the first Metal Gear incident, Snake figured out that his commander, Big Boss was really the criminal behind the Metal Gear threat. Big Boss was said to be the greatest soldier of all time. Later, Big Boss said that he was Snake’s father, but Snake still had to kill him to save the day. Years later, during the Metal Gear: Solid game, Snake meet his twin brother Liquid Snake. Liquid revealed that they weren’t the sons of Big Boss, they were his clones. Which is why the bother were perfect soldiers.

After defeating Liquid, Snake got tired of being a military pawn and set out on his own to destroy Metal Gears and evil powers that controlled our government.

He’s an awesome soldier and warrior. That alone is enough to set him on the hero list. But it is more than that. He’s attitude is also awesome. He is cool and coldhearted but can still care for people. He carries himself with a don’t-mess-with-me style and can certainly flirt well with the ladies. His cold hearted ego is well deserving, he has been a soldier for a long time. When he tells your to do something, you better do it. He also rocks because no matter how terrible the situation, no matter how hard it is, no matter how much he doesn’t want to go on, no matter how much he lost in the past, he still finds a way to prevail. Things are never easy for him but he is a true over-comer. And who else can make a cardboard box look so cool?