Iroquois Pliskin
From the Metal Gear Wiki
| Iroquois Pliskin | |
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| Real name | David |
| Also known as | Solid Snake, Old Snake, Dave |
| Nationality |  American
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| Affiliations | Navy SEALs (as Pliskin) |
| Current status | Alive |
| Game series | Metal Gear Solid |
| First game | Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty |
| Created by | Hideo Kojima |
| Designed by | Yoji Shinkawa (Metal Gear Solid series) |
| English voice actor | David Hayter |
| Japanese voice actor | Akio Ōtsuka |
| Motion capture actor(s) | Mizuho Yoshida |
Iroquois Pliskin serves in the Navy SEALs as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. He doesn't seem a normal Lieutenant, as SEAL officers give orders via the command post with the headphones which he wears. Pliskin knows a large amount about FOXHOUND, Dead Cell, and Olga's mercenary army. Pliskin also uses the Marines and SAS slogans: "Semper Fi" and "Who Dares, Wins", respectively.
Raiden discovers him when he stumbles upon a room filled with corpses of other SEALs killed by Vamp. Pliskin is about to join them, when he yells at Raiden to shoot, distracting Vamp and allowing Pliskin to find cover and nurse his wounds. He introduces himself to the young upstart, and eventually helps Raiden and Peter Stillman diffuse the bombs laid by Fatman around the Big Shell. Iroquois later reveals himself to be Solid Snake, who supposedly died two years prior in the destruction of the U.S.S. Discovery, in disguise. The audience is obviously aware of this fact, but the in-game characters are none the wiser.
[edit] Trivia
- Iroquois wears the exact same uniform as worn by Snake on the box art of Metal Gear.
- It is later explained that the last name of 'Pliskin' is based on the protagonist in a movie called 'Escape From New York', while 'Iroquois' is the Algonquin word for 'black snake.'
- An early rendition of Iroquois Pliskin was going to have blonde hair, much like Solid Snake's supposed real hair color.
- An unlockable Pliskin trophy is available in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It has the following description:
A SEAL member who infiltrates the Big Shell to suppress a terrorist group threatening to destroy it. He joins forces with Raiden, a new recruit in the special-forces unit called FOXHOUND. Disguised in order to secretly infiltrate the Big Shell, Pliskin is actually Solid Snake.
| Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty Characters |
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Solid Snake — Otacon — Revolver Ocelot — Sergei Gurlukovich Olga Gurlukovich — Scott Dolph — Liquid Snake — Colonel Raiden — Vamp — Iroquois Pliskin — Fortune |
