Is Liquid Snake a clone of Solid Snake?

In seminal PSone title Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid
In the series, a Metal Gear is a bipedal nuclear weapons-equipped tank. The Metal Gears are typically autonomous nuclear launch platforms which the player must destroy to save the world and complete the game. Often, confronting the latest Metal Gear model is one of the final challenges of each game.
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, Solid Snake goes up against his twin brother, Liquid Snake. They're both clones or sons of Big Boss. Kojima created the character because "the appearance of strongest enemy was a must in MGS".
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Is Liquid Snake related to Solid Snake?

Liquid Snake is a fictional character from the Metal Gear franchise. He is the twin brother of series protagonist Solid Snake and the second product of Les Enfants Terribles, a top-secret government project to artificially create soldiers by cloning the legendary soldier Big Boss.
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Was Liquid Snake a clone?

Liquid was cloned from Big Boss's DNA as part of the Les Enfants Terribles project, along with his brothers Solid Snake and Solidus Snake. He was almost an exact double of Solid Snake in terms of appearance, with the only distinguishable feature being his darker skin tone and fair hair color.
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Who is Solid Snake a clone of?

Snake was one of the children born of the 1972 project Les Enfants Terribles. He was created as a clone of the world-renowned soldier Big Boss, along with his brothers Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake.
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Is Liquid Snake the superior clone?

As it turns out, Big Boss' best genes were his recessive ones, and thus Liquid became the superior clone.
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Why did Ocelot pretend to be Liquid?

Big Boss later revealed to Solid Snake that Liquid's "possession" of Ocelot was a planned ruse as means of lowering the Patriots' guard. Big Boss elaborated that Ocelot was able to use hypnosis and psychotherapy, drugs, and nanomachines to transplant Liquid's personality onto himself.
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Is Punished Venom Snake a clone?

The now-infamous ending plot twist reveals that Venom Snake is simply a "clone" of Big Boss, a double created to distract the world while the real Big Boss betrays his allegiances to build Outer Heaven.
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Who is the perfect clone of Big Boss?

Solidus Snake (real name: George Sears) is the third and only perfect clone son of Big Boss and the main antagonist of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. He was voiced by the late John Cygan in English, who also played Hedley in Treasure Planet, Twitch in Toy Story 3, and the Mugger in The Cleveland Show.
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Why is he called Liquid Snake?

Metal Gear's sneaky special operative was named Snake because, according to Kojima, "snake was the most appropriate symbol of living thing that hides his presence and sneaks without any noise".
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How did Ocelot join Liquid?

Afterwards, Ocelot was scouted by U.S. Special Forces Unit FOXHOUND in 1999 and joined under Liquid Snake's command circa 2000. Unbeknownst to Liquid, Ocelot's decision to join FOXHOUND was based on his admiration for Big Boss, its former commander, and the man from whom Liquid had been cloned.
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Is Raiden a Liquid Snake?

The surprise to fans that Raiden was not Snake was admitted by Kojima to have been inspired by the plot twist of Terminator 2: Judgment Day where the titular character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger was not a villain in that movie.
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Who trained Liquid Snake?

The latter, Liquid Snake, trained with the SAS and endured the knowledge that he had lost all of his greatest potential to his brother before birth.
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Who is older solid or Liquid Snake?

Two clones were created as Solid Snake is Liquid's twin brother. Liquid was born in 1972 to surrogate mother and Patriot, code name, EVA. Liquid gained all of Big Boss's superior genes even though he had been told otherwise. The Les Enfantes Terrible project is the push factor for Big Boss to have left The Patriots.
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How is Raiden related to Solid Snake?

The real reason why Raiden was called "Snake" is because he represents the player having taken the role of Solid Snake in previous games/VR missions/Tanker Chapter. Minor nitpick, but a solidus isn't a gas, it represents a point between solid and liquid states.
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Who is the strongest Snake in Metal Gear Solid?

​​ This combined strength and determination makes it clear that Liquid Snake is definitely the strongest of Big Boss' clones.
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How many clones does Snake have?

Liquid Snake: They fertilized an egg with one of father's cells, and then let it divide into eight clone babies.
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Why is Solidus snake older?

5 Accelerated Aging Was Designed To Hit Solidus First

While Solid and Liquid were designed with accelerated aging in mind, the Patriots decided to push off their aging quite a bit. While Solid Snake never makes it to his fifties, he does at least make it to his forties.
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How many clones does Big Boss have?

Big Boss' presence figures prominently in the original Metal Gear Solid games where his DNA was used to create the genetically-altered clones as part of the secret "Les Enfants Terribles" government project (French for "The Terrible Children"): Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Solidus Snake.
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How did Venom have kids?

While captive, the Venom symbiote was forced to give birth to five offspring - Riot, Lasher, Phage, Agony, and Scream - who were bonded to PMCs hired by the Life Foundation. When corrupt corporation Scarmore Inc.
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Who kills Venom Snake?

It's stated in the timeline after the credits that during the Outer Heaven Uprising in 1995, Solid Snake kills Venom Snake.
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Who became immune to Snake venom?

Researchers have discovered that African and Asian primates evolved a certain resistance to diurnal cobra venoms. The research shows that the last common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and gorillas had evolved an even greater resistance to venom.
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Why does Venom Snake have a horn?

It Isn't A Horn

It's a piece of shrapnel stuck to Snake's skull after a bomb failed to kill him at the end of Metal Gear Solid 5's lengthy prologue. The bomb was implanted in Paz Ortega Andrade - a former friend of Snake whom he rescued from Guantanamo Bay.
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Is Ocelot the son of the boss?

Indeed, Hideo Kojima confirmed in the Extreme Box DVD commentary that Ocelot is the son of The Boss and The Sorrow. Based upon The Boss's story of giving birth in 1944, this would make Ocelot 20 years old at the time of Operation Snake Eater.
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