#liquid snake

LIQUUUIIIIIID !!!

Thought about replaying MGS1 after I finish MGSV and had a thought. Liquid Snake's ending for both MGS1 and MGSV are similar in the way that he has to choose between two kinds of death.

In MGSV, within the content that didn't make it to the game, Liquid is left with a choice to die by the gun left for him or burn with the napalm. And if not the gun or the napalm, then by the Vocal Cord Parasite. Of course, he doesn't do either and lives to see MGS1 as he's saved by Psycho Mantis.

But in MGS1, his choices are to either defeat Snake and die to FOXDIE, or be defeated by Snake. And if not FOXDIE or Snake, then by the air raid ordered by the U.S. Secretary of Defence.

In both ends, Liquid has had to choose from dying from a bombing, some virus, or "himself," and without interference there is no way out of it. I say "himself" because by both Snakes being clones, by technicality they are one person: Big Boss. I also wouldn't put it behind Liquid to see Snake as himself in some aspect. In his eyes, they're only opposites because of what they've been driven to believe. Hence, "The brother of dark and the brother of light" line in the interrogation room.

I like to interpret this as a way of saying that Liquid had been truly doomed from the start because he believed so. The bombing representing outside powers (Enemies), the virus being his biological drawbacks (His idea of being cursed with his genes, inability to reproduce and overall abnormality between him and the average biology), and the Snakes being himself stunting his own growth (Big Boss being against him as a whole, his idea of being inferior, unable to be like Snake who isn't affected in the way he is about being a clone).

Snake is able to become his own person. Liquid, clinging so hard to his idea of being inferior and fate to be "another Big Boss" had willed it into existence. It even shows in the fact that Liquid was modified to be the superior clone, lied to by false evidence he was meant to find, but his conviction made the lie become true. He became inferior to Solid Snake.