Liquid Snake
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Liquid Snake (voiced by Cam Clarke in the English versions and by Banjo Ginga in the Japanese versions) is the primary antagonist in the video game Metal Gear Solid, who is not only Solid Snake's doppelganger and archnemesis, but the leader of FOXHOUND during the events of the game. The player faces him multiple times in Metal Gear Solid:
Firstly he pilots a Hind to attack Solid Snake Secondly he pilots the Metal Gear Rex (a new Metal Gear Prototype that can fire nuclear warheads by using magnets instead of boosters - making them invisible to radar) and tries to attack Solid Snake. Grey Fox intervenes and helps Snake to beat him. Thirdly there is a hand to hand fight on top of the Rex's wreck (no pun intended). After hurling him from the top you are required to shoot him as he chases you in a military vehicle. After crawling from the wreck of his car, he dies from a biological disease FOXDIE that was developed by Dr. Naomi Hunter.
Throughout Metal Gear Solid, Liquid believes that he is the inferior twin, and that Solid Snake was the superior one. However, as Ocelot reveals at the end of the game, this belief is incorrect.
The mystery behind Liquid is that he is thought to cheat death; it is proved in Snakes escape with either Meryl or Otacon, given how the player handled Revolver Ocelot's torture device. You must keep him from escaping from the base first. After trying to kill both Solid Snake and his companion, he finally dies of the genetically engineered disease FOXDIE. However, in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, he manages to take control of former ally Revolver Ocelot, via a mysterious arm transplant. (See Revolver Ocelot's page for details of the transplant.)
He has shown a very high intelligence of geo-political situations around the world (he was the youngest member of the British Special Air Service in the first Gulf War) and is obsessed with destroying his father's (Big Boss) legacy and replacing it with his own. He is 183 cm tall and has an IQ of 180. He was loosely based on Andy McNab, author of Bravo Two Zero