Editing Solid Snake (section)

====''Metal Gear Solid / The Twin Snakes''====
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''Metal Gear Solid'' and its remake – ''The Twin Snakes'' – reveals Solid Snake's real name as {{nihongo|David|デビッド|Debiddo}}. He is pulled out of retirement by [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#Roy Campbell|Roy Campbell]] to deal with the "Sons of Big Boss" led by [[Liquid Snake]] who seized an isolated American nuclear weapons disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island. Snake's mission is to rescue [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#Donald Anderson|Donald Anderson]] and [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#Kenneth Baker|Kenneth Baker]] but he is unable to prevent both hostages' deaths.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid|year=1998|developer=Konami Computer Entertainment Japan|publisher=Konami|quote='''Solid Snake:''' FOX-HOUND hijacking a nuclear weapon? / '''Campbell:''' Now you understand how serious the situation is. You'll have two mission objectives. First, you're to rescue the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Chief Donald Anderson, and the ArmsTech president Kenneth Baker. They're both being held as hostages.}}</ref> As the game progresses, Snake infiltrates and learns about [[Metal Gear (weapon)#Metal Gear REX|Metal Gear REX]] while meeting up with rookie soldier [[Meryl Silverburgh]] and REX's engineer [[Otacon|Hal Emmerich]], confronts and defeats each member of the corrupt faction of FOXHOUND (consisting of [[Revolver Ocelot]], [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#Decoy Octopus|Decoy Octopus]], [[Psycho Mantis]], [[Sniper Wolf]], [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#Vulcan Raven|Vulcan Raven]], and the Genome Soldiers), several confrontations with the Cyborg Ninja, is able to destroy REX, and personally confronts Liquid. During their fight, it is revealed that Solid and Liquid are twin brothers artificially conceived from Big Boss's genes during the "Les Enfants Terribles" government project designed to create the perfect soldier, in which one brother was genetically modified to be superior over the other.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid|year=1998|developer=Konami Computer Entertainment Japan|publisher=Konami|quote='''Liquid Snake:''' There's a killer inside you... You don't have to deny it. We were created to be that way. '''Solid Snake:''' Created? '''Liquid Snake:''' Les enfants terribles... the terrible children. That's what the project was called. It started in the 1970's. Their plan was to artificially create the most powerful soldier possible. The person that they chose as the model was the man known then as the greatest living soldier in the world...}}</ref> Liquid harbors a strong resentment towards Snake since Solid was apparently given their father's dominant "soldier genes" and Liquid was seemingly cast aside. A grueling series of battles and Liquid dies from the FOXDIE virus that was previously implanted into Snake by [[List of characters in the Metal Gear series#Naomi Hunter|Naomi Hunter]] in order to wipe out FOXHOUND without risking any damage to REX for retrieval.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid|developer=Konami Computer Entertainment Japan|quote='''Liquid Snake:''' The Pentagon only needed for you to come into contact with us. That's what killed the ArmsTech president and Decoy Octopus. / '''Solid Snake:''' You don't mean... / '''Liquid Snake:''' That's right. You were sent in here to kill us so they could retrieve Metal Gear undamaged along with the bodies of the genome soldiers. From the beginning, the Pentagon was just using you as a vector to spread FoxDie!}}</ref> In the end, it is revealed that Liquid got Big Boss's superior "soldier genes" while Solid was actually the inferior one.<ref name=MGSpostcred>{{cite video game|title=Metal Gear Solid|developer=Konami Computer Entertainment Japan|quote='''Revolver Ocelot''': Yes, although [Solid Snake] proved he was superior and was the winner after all. ...That's right. Until the very end, [Liquid Snake] thought he was meant to be the inferior one.}}</ref>