Solidus Snake - Definition and Overview

Solidus Snake is a fictional character from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty by Konami.

Solidus Snake, under the name of Solid Snake, is the leader of a terrorist group incorporating members of Dead Cell and a Russian private army, a group that took control of the Big Shell. Solidus Snake is a clone of Big Boss and therefore genetically identical to Solid Snake and Liquid Snake, and is better known to the public as former President George Sears. However, Solidus appears to be older than his two brothers and this is not explained in MGS2.

During the late 1980s, Solidus worked in Africa raising child soldiers. During his time there he meet a young boy named Jack (codename: Raiden). Initially it is believed he is holding a ransom for his successor's, President Johnson, safe return. Solidus' actions are directed by his hatred of the Patriots and Big Shell is the starting point of his plan to overthrow their totalitarian rule.

He sent in Revolver Ocelot to incite Liquid Snake to bring the said Shadow Moses Incident. As a result, he was removed from the presidential office after exposing the existence of Metal Gear REX and the Genome Army.

Four years later, he was using the Navy's Arsenal Gear project to destroy the Patriots, but found out that Ocelot was a Patriot spy all along. He wanted to kill Raiden to obtain data on the Patriots that is contained in his own nanomachines, but ended up killed by Raiden who was fighting to live.