Liquid Snake (Japanese: リキッド・スネーク Hepburn: Rikiddo Sunēku) is a fictional character from the Metal Gear franchise. He is the twin brother of series' protagonist Solid Snake and the second product of the Les Enfants Terribles, a top-secret government project to artificially created soldiers through the DNA of Big Boss. He first appears as the antagonist in the original Metal Gear Solid, where he leads the now rogue FOXHOUND unit in a hostile takeover of a nuclear disposal facility in Alaska. The character returns in the sequel Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty as a dormant personality inside the mind of his former henchman Revolver Ocelot, with this persona seemingly taking over Ocelot completely by the time of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The prequel Metal Gear Solid V: The