Solid Snake

Solid Snake (real name David) is the main character of Konami's Metal Gear series of games. In the games, he is constantly given the job of deprogramming the dangerous weapons called Metal Gear. His main choice of weapons are heavy explosives. He was the first third-party character to be confirmed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii. He appears in Brawl as he did in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Snake fights using hand-to-hand combat and uses a variety of explosives. Snake is voiced by Akio Ohtsuka in the Japanese version, and by David Hayter in the English version. Snake's special moves are Hand Grenade, an explosive that can be thrown various distances, Remote Controlled Missile, a guided missile that rockets wherever it is aimed, Cypher, a flying spy camera that flies Snake up, and C4, a sticky explosive that can be mounted on various surfaces. His Final Smash is Grenade Launcher, in which he jumps onto a helicopter and fires grenades on the stage.

The Subspace Emissary
Snake finds his way aboard the Halberd and starts looking around the area (his Cardboard Box was seen earlier in The Research Facility). When he hears a sound, Snake quickly hides in his box as Lucario and Meta Knight pass by him. However, Lucario suddenly stops, and using the Aura, sees through the box and sees Snake. He takes the box off him, and Snake is shocked. They were about to battle as soon as Lucario saw Primids coming with his Aura. Lucario then tells Snake to follow him and they form a party. Soon they reach a room in which there are two cages with the trophies of Peach and Zelda just after they see that the purple Shadow Bugs go to them and make dark versions of the two. The team fights the evil princesses and defeats them. The good Princesses are taken out of the cages they are kept in.

Meta Knight and Lucario leave and Snake tells the two girls to stay where they are. The princesses stand there wondering what to do, then Zelda turns into Sheik (reason for transformation is to ambush him and evade his order) and decides to follow Snake. Peach follows Sheik. They reach the top of the Halberd, where they meet up with Snake and get Fox McCloud to join the party. By then the three (Lucario, Meta Knight and Snake) guys went to the engine to find out that there are a lot of Mr. Game & Watch piloting the ship. Snake runs and throws them all out the window. Snake and the other two jump out the window, only to see Shadow Bugs create Duon. Falco Lombardi then comes in.

Snake, Lucario, Meta Knight, Peach, Zelda, Fox and Falco fight the monster and after defeat, they see a Mr. Game & Watch trophy. After Peach revives it, Mr. Game & Watch joins the party. Later, Snake ends up fighting Tabuu along with everyone else in the game.

Smash Taunt
By doing a split-second down taunt on Shadow Moses Island, Snake will start his Codec Conversation analyzing an opponent with Mei Ling, Otacon, Colonel Roy Campbell or Slippy Toad if the character being analyzed is Falco Lombardi.

Snake's codec

 * Snake: Colonel, it's me! I'm fighting myself!
 * Colonel: Snake, what's going on out there?! Could it be...? Has the "Les Enfants Terribles" project really come this far?!
 * Snake: It's more than that. He's got my moves, my gear... It's like looking in a mirror.
 * Colonel: Do you think they collected data on you and created another Snake...?
 * Snake: He's got the same build, too. Creepy. But his Sneaking Suit is a different color. And his tactics are slightly different.
 * Colonel: Interesting. So even if you're evenly matched in power, your fighting styles will make a big difference. You've faced tougher odds in the past, Snake. Don't let this impostor beat you!!

Trivia

 * Solid Snake is the only fighter in the Super Smash Bros. series to come from a series of games that are rated M (Mature) by the ESRB.
 * Solid Snake's character model in Super Smash Bros. Brawl combines traits from both the Metal Gear series' Solid Snake and the young Big Boss; Naked Snake. While the Snake of Brawl wears the MGS2 Sneaking Suit, he also has a full beard similar to Naked Snake, whereas his Metal Gear counterpart is usually portrayed with only stubble. Additionally, in one palette swap (Tiger Stripe), Snake wears Naked Snake's green bandana as opposed to Solid Snake's trademark gray-blue one. Furthermore, in his Codec call about Yoshi, Snake suggests to Otacon that he capture him and "see what he tastes like," which was Naked Snake's typical response to animal life in Metal Gear Solid 3. This design for Solid Snake was later reused for one of his renders in the 2012 E3 Battle.
 * The C3 in Snake's C4 move a reference to Metal Gear Solid 3, when Naked Snake molded his own C3 into the shape of a butterfly.
 * Solid Snake's victory theme and crowd cheer are a reference to the "Game Over" theme from the original Metal Gear Solid title.
 * When Snake talks about Sonic the Hedgehog over his codec, he mentions that he dislikes Sonic, giving no specific reason as to why. This may be a reference to hedgehogs being common snake predators in real life, as their spikes prevent the snake from being able to eat it. In the Japanese version of the game however, the codec call can be assumed as a joke, because Snake's Japanese voice actor, Akio Ōtsuka, is the son of Dr. Eggman's Japanese voice actor, Chikao Ōtsuka. However, this could be that they are both Third-Party characters.