Editing Solid Snake (section)

====''Metal Gear'' and ''Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake''====
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''Metal Gear'' introduces Snake, a rookie recruit of the elite special forces unit [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#FOXHOUND|FOXHOUND]]. Snake is sent by Big Boss into [[Outer Heaven]], a rogue nation in South Africa, to rescue [[Gray Fox (Metal Gear)|Gray Fox]] and discover who or what the "[[Metal Gear (weapon)#Metal Gear|Metal Gear]]" is.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Big Boss:''' Big Boss speaking. Operation Intrude N313. Penetrate the enemy's Outer Heaven and destroy the ultimate weapon, Metal Gear!}}</ref><ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Big Boss:''' First, contact missing Gray Fox and destroy Metal Gear!}}</ref> As his mission progresses, Snake finds out that he has been set up; Big Boss's phantom intended to use TX-55 Metal Gear (the experimental, nuclear-armed weapon) to establish Outer Heaven as a nuclear power.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Big Boss:''' Solid Snake! You've finally come here. Yeah, I'm Big Boss General Commander of Foxhound. And in charge of this castle, Outer Heaven.}}</ref> After destroying the Metal Gear, Snake confronts and defeats Big Boss's phantom.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Solid Snake:''' This is Solid Snake... Metal Gear's destruction is a success.}}</ref>

The sequel ''Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake'' sees Solid Snake called up to infiltrate Zanzibar Land, a heavily fortified enemy base in Central Asia that has aggravated an international oil crisis and declared themselves a nuclear power by kidnapping Dr. Kio Marv (after the creation of a bio-engineered algae that produces an oil substitute) and the Metal Gear engineer [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#Dr. Madnar|Pettrovich Madnar]].<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Roy Campbell:''' Snake... Right on time, as always.  Let's get started... Commencing Operation Intrude F014. Let's go over this one more time. Your mission is to infiltrate Zanzibar Land and rescue the kidnapped Czech biologist, Dr. Kio Marv.}}</ref> Snake infiltrates the base and discovers that Pettrovich as well as Fox has defected to Zanzibar Land, and that Zanzibar Land is led by the true Big Boss.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Solid Snake:''' Big... Boss?! / '''Madnar:''' The very same! With Metal Gear and OILEX, he plots to rule the world. We cannot let the secret of OILEX fall into his hands!}}</ref> Snake destroys Metal Gear D, and defeats both Fox and the true Big Boss.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Gray Fox:''' Snake... I'm not the same as I used to be. And neither is Metal Gear. I'll show you what fear really is. Prepare to taste defeat!}}</ref><ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake|year=2005|developer=Kojima Productions|publisher=Konami|quote='''Big Boss:''' Even I make mistakes from time to time. Snake! This will be our final battle... Let's end this once and for all!}}</ref><ref name="UGO">{{cite web|title=The History of Metal Gear Solid|work=UGO.com|access-date=2005-07-15|url=http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/metalgearhistory/default.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050331004729/http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/metalgearhistory/default.asp|archive-date=2005-03-31}}</ref>