the fictional universe of Hideo Kojima’s
stealth-action franchise is large and
Basque with some of the most
three-dimensional characters we’ve ever
encountered in a video game series then
just call my son welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
Metal Gear Solid characters it was a
saying I like one sword keeps another in
the sheath for this list we’ll be taking
a look back at the definitive characters
who have helped influence the series
into what it is today not an ordinary
man to begin with number 10 Psycho
Mantis I’m Thomas
discovering his telekinetic powers at a
very young age Psycho Mantis has been
enlisted into various organizations due
to his new heat gift
Mantis began his career by working with
the KGB and eventually the FBI until he
finally found solace as foxhounds
psychic expert it’s Psycho Mantis
he’s controlling Marilyn that tune is
his mind-control music wearing a gas
mask to prevent the thoughts of others
to force entry mantas uses his ability
to aid his group of mercenaries to take
over Shadow Moses Island and wage war
against the u.s. of course everyone
remembers Psycho Mantis the best for
being able to break the fourth wall mess
with your controller and read your
memory card I one movie all Katonah by
the power of my will at all
number nine gray fox
get away gray fox during the events of
Metal Gear Solid 2 this mercenary
rivaled Solid Snake is one of the best
in the world the moment when this older
later defects from Fox hound to battle
alongside Big Boss he’s eventually
beaten and killed by his former comrade
snake his body is later recovered and
built into a super exoskeleton suit
granting him life but at the cost of his
humanity longing to challenge his
longtime rival once again and despising
his status as a government guinea pig
this tragic character still raises Niomi
out of guilt for killing her parents I
raised her like she was my own blood to
soothe my guilty conscience
number 8 Otto Kahn only you can save
those hostages got it
right not many have the liberty of
calling Solid Snake their best friend
however Otto Kahn real name dr. Hal
Emmerich probably knows our protagonist
better than anyone
originally employed as a weapons
specialist in the Shadow Moses incident
Otto Kahn now works with snake in
defending the nation against metal gears
you’re about your chief engineer Hal Mr
Christ
you know me you can often be seen
providing snake with Intel using the
codec or various other telecommunication
devices as he isn’t nearly as useful in
the field auto cons expert tech skills
are only matched by his loyalty
along with his affinity for anime what’s
with these guys it’s like one of my
Japanese enemies number 7 Eva call me
Eva raised as a spy by the philosophers
a secret organization of the wisest and
most wealthy men of the world
Eva worked as a sleeper agent in
operation snake year an agent of the
Philosopher’s a graduate one of their
charm schools I was raised in a joint us
Soviet Chinese facility during a sleeper
agent posing as a KGB agent this
illusive woman was able to get close not
only to Colonel Vulcan but also Big Boss
and I have my ways there’s not a man
alive who can resist my charms besides
you of course after completing her
mission in securing the Philosopher’s
legacy Eva disappears she later becomes
the surrogate mother to both solid and
liquid snake in the maze on fantasy blue
project but I gave you life I am her
mother
number 6 ridin let’s get this over with
this special forces agent played a key
role in the Big Shell mission which was
later revealed to have been an elaborate
plan meant to craft him into the next
solid state which almost explains the
bait and switch that has you playing as
him throughout most of the second game
his troubled past links him to being a
child soldier in Liberia under the rule
of solidus snake originally a pawn of
the Patriots ride in his later
recaptured after the big shell incident
and built into a cybernetic ninja
brooding on his dark history and his
fate of existence as an expendable
soldier ridin later finds resolved in
fighting for his mentor Solid Snake
snake it’s my turn to protect you
number-5
liquid snake you’ve been talking to me
Tim rasa liquid snake is the product of
big boss’s experiments of using his
genes to clone three perfect soldiers
being led to believe that he received
the recessive or inferior genes from the
legendary soldier liquid grew to become
envious of his highly revered brother
Solid Snake
I got all the resistant genes you took
everything from me before I was even
born in attempts to forgo his late
father’s work liquid declares war on the
United States in the Shadow Moses
incident in solid and liquids final
battle liquid succumbs to the foxdie
virus but later lives on through ocelots
surgically attached arm or so we’re
meant to think number four revolver
ocelot this character’s place in the
series seems to transcend almost all
titles as more of his role and identity
is revealed after every successive game
he’s the Ocelot commander yeah that’s
major Ocelot to you
don’t you forget it originally
introduced as one of liquid snakes
henchmen his affiliation with the
Patriots later becomes evident while his
ultimate goal is to see them
disassembled Ocelot now shares a
consciousness with liquid through fusing
with his right arm he also shares a deep
history with his idol big box meeting on
opposing sides of the battlefield in
operation Snake Eater
number three the boss
boss debatably the woman who started it
all the boss was the mentor of the
legendary soldier we know as Big Boss
today I didn’t raise you and shape you
into the man you are today just so we
could face each other in battle during
the Cold War the boss spent nearly a
decade training with snake developing
their signature combat style CQC when
her country ran into peril and needed a
scapegoat the boss was forced to defect
and pose as a traitor culminating in her
demise at the hands of none other than
her beloved student only a select few
know of her sacrifice while the rest ran
her as a traitor to this day snake
listen to me she didn’t betray the
United States no far from it she was a
hero who died for her country number 2
Solid Snake
who’s that
I’m here to save you product ablaze
alpha beta project former Foxhound agent
and hero of Shadow Moses Island need we
go on shall we watch you gosh but
honestly there’s not much that this man
hasn’t done after the Shadow Moses
incident snake was labeled a traitor by
the Patriots so he ends up staging his
own death to sever any ties to any
government organization thereafter snake
stopped a world war catastrophe from
transpiring in the Big Shell incident
we’ve inherited freedom from all those
who fought threatened we all have the
freedom to spread the word even May he
has since believed to be retired after
his final mission mainly due to his
accelerated aging a side effect of his
clone genes wrinkled skin hardened
arteries your early aging symptoms look
like classic fairness but none of the
tests were able to pinpoint the ball to
the uninitiated snake would have been a
clear number one if it wasn’t for
someone bigger a long time
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions that’s the second
time I’ve been able to sneak up on the
legendary Solid Snake you’re Merrill I’m
a whole different game from liquid come
put me out of my misery
impossible nothing will hit her is she
the one they call fortune well I’m not a
colonel anymore snake I figured the only
place I’d see you dressed like that
would be your daughter’s wedding
number one big boss
kept you waiting huh no real surprises
here the only person worthy of taking
this top spot would be the man that
fathered the best soldier the world has
ever known I hereby award you the title
of big boss after being forced to take
the life of his former mentor and friend
Big Boss retired from the CIA only to
later form his own mercenary group we’ve
let ourselves interfere with the times
with the Cold War system of deterrence
we’re an army without a flag soon
amassing enough funds
Big Boss dreamed to create a safe haven
for talented soldiers cast away and
mistreated by their government the outer
Haven he would later bill would be a
direct tribute to his late mentor the
hunt is on Koz
and the whole worlds on our tail
some of the man the only man better than
Solid Snake is the og snake himself Bank
boss do you agree with our list why
would I want to do that
what Metal Gear Solid character was your
favorite for more awesome top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com what enterprising
soldier of fortune could resist
stealth-action franchise is large and
Basque with some of the most
three-dimensional characters we’ve ever
encountered in a video game series then
just call my son welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
Metal Gear Solid characters it was a
saying I like one sword keeps another in
the sheath for this list we’ll be taking
a look back at the definitive characters
who have helped influence the series
into what it is today not an ordinary
man to begin with number 10 Psycho
Mantis I’m Thomas
discovering his telekinetic powers at a
very young age Psycho Mantis has been
enlisted into various organizations due
to his new heat gift
Mantis began his career by working with
the KGB and eventually the FBI until he
finally found solace as foxhounds
psychic expert it’s Psycho Mantis
he’s controlling Marilyn that tune is
his mind-control music wearing a gas
mask to prevent the thoughts of others
to force entry mantas uses his ability
to aid his group of mercenaries to take
over Shadow Moses Island and wage war
against the u.s. of course everyone
remembers Psycho Mantis the best for
being able to break the fourth wall mess
with your controller and read your
memory card I one movie all Katonah by
the power of my will at all
number nine gray fox
get away gray fox during the events of
Metal Gear Solid 2 this mercenary
rivaled Solid Snake is one of the best
in the world the moment when this older
later defects from Fox hound to battle
alongside Big Boss he’s eventually
beaten and killed by his former comrade
snake his body is later recovered and
built into a super exoskeleton suit
granting him life but at the cost of his
humanity longing to challenge his
longtime rival once again and despising
his status as a government guinea pig
this tragic character still raises Niomi
out of guilt for killing her parents I
raised her like she was my own blood to
soothe my guilty conscience
number 8 Otto Kahn only you can save
those hostages got it
right not many have the liberty of
calling Solid Snake their best friend
however Otto Kahn real name dr. Hal
Emmerich probably knows our protagonist
better than anyone
originally employed as a weapons
specialist in the Shadow Moses incident
Otto Kahn now works with snake in
defending the nation against metal gears
you’re about your chief engineer Hal Mr
Christ
you know me you can often be seen
providing snake with Intel using the
codec or various other telecommunication
devices as he isn’t nearly as useful in
the field auto cons expert tech skills
are only matched by his loyalty
along with his affinity for anime what’s
with these guys it’s like one of my
Japanese enemies number 7 Eva call me
Eva raised as a spy by the philosophers
a secret organization of the wisest and
most wealthy men of the world
Eva worked as a sleeper agent in
operation snake year an agent of the
Philosopher’s a graduate one of their
charm schools I was raised in a joint us
Soviet Chinese facility during a sleeper
agent posing as a KGB agent this
illusive woman was able to get close not
only to Colonel Vulcan but also Big Boss
and I have my ways there’s not a man
alive who can resist my charms besides
you of course after completing her
mission in securing the Philosopher’s
legacy Eva disappears she later becomes
the surrogate mother to both solid and
liquid snake in the maze on fantasy blue
project but I gave you life I am her
mother
number 6 ridin let’s get this over with
this special forces agent played a key
role in the Big Shell mission which was
later revealed to have been an elaborate
plan meant to craft him into the next
solid state which almost explains the
bait and switch that has you playing as
him throughout most of the second game
his troubled past links him to being a
child soldier in Liberia under the rule
of solidus snake originally a pawn of
the Patriots ride in his later
recaptured after the big shell incident
and built into a cybernetic ninja
brooding on his dark history and his
fate of existence as an expendable
soldier ridin later finds resolved in
fighting for his mentor Solid Snake
snake it’s my turn to protect you
number-5
liquid snake you’ve been talking to me
Tim rasa liquid snake is the product of
big boss’s experiments of using his
genes to clone three perfect soldiers
being led to believe that he received
the recessive or inferior genes from the
legendary soldier liquid grew to become
envious of his highly revered brother
Solid Snake
I got all the resistant genes you took
everything from me before I was even
born in attempts to forgo his late
father’s work liquid declares war on the
United States in the Shadow Moses
incident in solid and liquids final
battle liquid succumbs to the foxdie
virus but later lives on through ocelots
surgically attached arm or so we’re
meant to think number four revolver
ocelot this character’s place in the
series seems to transcend almost all
titles as more of his role and identity
is revealed after every successive game
he’s the Ocelot commander yeah that’s
major Ocelot to you
don’t you forget it originally
introduced as one of liquid snakes
henchmen his affiliation with the
Patriots later becomes evident while his
ultimate goal is to see them
disassembled Ocelot now shares a
consciousness with liquid through fusing
with his right arm he also shares a deep
history with his idol big box meeting on
opposing sides of the battlefield in
operation Snake Eater
number three the boss
boss debatably the woman who started it
all the boss was the mentor of the
legendary soldier we know as Big Boss
today I didn’t raise you and shape you
into the man you are today just so we
could face each other in battle during
the Cold War the boss spent nearly a
decade training with snake developing
their signature combat style CQC when
her country ran into peril and needed a
scapegoat the boss was forced to defect
and pose as a traitor culminating in her
demise at the hands of none other than
her beloved student only a select few
know of her sacrifice while the rest ran
her as a traitor to this day snake
listen to me she didn’t betray the
United States no far from it she was a
hero who died for her country number 2
Solid Snake
who’s that
I’m here to save you product ablaze
alpha beta project former Foxhound agent
and hero of Shadow Moses Island need we
go on shall we watch you gosh but
honestly there’s not much that this man
hasn’t done after the Shadow Moses
incident snake was labeled a traitor by
the Patriots so he ends up staging his
own death to sever any ties to any
government organization thereafter snake
stopped a world war catastrophe from
transpiring in the Big Shell incident
we’ve inherited freedom from all those
who fought threatened we all have the
freedom to spread the word even May he
has since believed to be retired after
his final mission mainly due to his
accelerated aging a side effect of his
clone genes wrinkled skin hardened
arteries your early aging symptoms look
like classic fairness but none of the
tests were able to pinpoint the ball to
the uninitiated snake would have been a
clear number one if it wasn’t for
someone bigger a long time
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions that’s the second
time I’ve been able to sneak up on the
legendary Solid Snake you’re Merrill I’m
a whole different game from liquid come
put me out of my misery
impossible nothing will hit her is she
the one they call fortune well I’m not a
colonel anymore snake I figured the only
place I’d see you dressed like that
would be your daughter’s wedding
number one big boss
kept you waiting huh no real surprises
here the only person worthy of taking
this top spot would be the man that
fathered the best soldier the world has
ever known I hereby award you the title
of big boss after being forced to take
the life of his former mentor and friend
Big Boss retired from the CIA only to
later form his own mercenary group we’ve
let ourselves interfere with the times
with the Cold War system of deterrence
we’re an army without a flag soon
amassing enough funds
Big Boss dreamed to create a safe haven
for talented soldiers cast away and
mistreated by their government the outer
Haven he would later bill would be a
direct tribute to his late mentor the
hunt is on Koz
and the whole worlds on our tail
some of the man the only man better than
Solid Snake is the og snake himself Bank
boss do you agree with our list why
would I want to do that
what Metal Gear Solid character was your
favorite for more awesome top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com what enterprising
soldier of fortune could resist
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