Best Metal Gear Solid Characters

Since MGS4 is coming soon, I thought, let's make a Metal Gear list.

Well, this is a list of the characters from all the MGS games. Who's the best character of them all?

1. Solid Snake

   

   Solid Snake is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the Metal Gear video game series created by Hideo Kojima. He is a legendary soldier cloned from Big Boss's DNA, tasked with infiltrating and destroying Metal Gear weapons to prevent global warfare. The character is widely recognized... read more

   Solid Snake is just the best. I cared the most about his story mainly because I started the series with him. He also has the best support group with Otacon, Campbell, Mei Ling, Meryl, Naomi, Raiden, and the list goes on.

   Big Boss has Miller in Peace Walker and Phantom Pain. His support group kind of sucks in Snake Eater. The only ones I cared about were Zero and Eva. Miller is his best supporter and he's not even in 3. Huey is no comparison to Otacon. And Revolver being in Phantom Pain felt kind of weird. Solid Snake has also defeated Big Boss a couple of times. Solid Snake is the best!

   Solid Snake is by far the best. He's a one-man army who gets the job done no matter what. Nothing gets in his way. Solid has defeated his brother Liquid Snake. He's defeated many bosses. And Metal Gears.

   Plus, Big Boss is a wimp. He went into hiding and got a phantom to do his work, called Venom Snake. Solid killed Venom and defeated Big Boss. Solid is the true soldier. No one is better than him or tougher than him.

2. Big Boss

   

   Got to give it to Big Boss. He's definitely the best. There are quite a few things that make him better than Solid Snake. For one, he's a leader. Snake is a follower/mercenary, although he does later fight for a cause he believes in.

   Big Boss invented CQC alongside The Boss, and he used it better than Snake ever could. Big Boss was much better at being stealthy. I mean, Snake can see what everyone else sees, but he's still been found before. Big Boss had a much more sad and personal story, and it really makes you feel.

   Overall, I'd say he's much better than Snake. In fact, Snake isn't even my number two.

   The greatest character in Metal Gear. With more substance and emotion than Solid Snake, he showed us all in MGS3 that there's more to the story than what we were led to believe in the original MG games. Big Boss, aka Naked Snake, aka Jack/John, aka the one-eyed man, aka the legendary soldier, aka Ishmael, aka The Man Who Sold the World, is the greatest soldier who ever lived and the greatest MG character. Without him, none of what happened would've happened.

   You felt his Pain, Sorrow, Fear, and Fury in MGS3, and that solidified his status as the most important and best character in MG until the very end.

3. Revolver Ocelot

   

   Revolver "Shalashaska" Ocelot is a major character in Konami's Metal Gear video game series. He plays several important roles across the series, including nemesis to Solid Snake, rival to Naked Snake, right-hand man to both Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake, and ally to Venom Snake.... read more

   Possibly the best-recognized villain in gaming, never mind this entire series.

   Watch him gun-spinning and you'll see why every argument is invalid.

4. Raiden

   

   Raiden, whose real name is Jack, is a fictional character and prominent protagonist in the Metal Gear video game series created by Hideo Kojima. He is introduced as the main hero of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty where he serves as a FOXHOUND soldier. In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Raiden returns... read more

   Raiden is a very moral character, and this makes him one of the most likable characters in MGS. He was kind of lame in MGS2, but he redeemed himself in 4 and soared to new heights in Rising.

   Charismatic, and in the last MGR cyber-body upgrade, he has become by far the strongest Metal Gear character ever.

   New game on the way. Could beat Revolver any day.

5. The Boss

   

   The Boss is/was the most legendary war hero, and she truly expressed her beliefs when she died for a country she didn't completely trust. But that was the order. That was her mission.

   Big Boss would be nothing without The Boss, and Solid and Liquid would be nothing without either of them. It's also pretty cool that her dad was a founding member of the Patriots.

   War hero, honor, sacrifice, love. Is that about enough?

   Aside from Big Boss himself, The Boss has the best characterization in the entire franchise and the biggest influence on the 20th century. Her charismatic demeanor inspired loyalty in everyone who listened to her, and her morals created a fervor so powerful that its misrepresentation (The Patriots) almost ruined the world.

6. Otacon

   Where would Snake be without Otacon reminding him what to do?

   He is the best comic relief character ever.

7. Liquid Snake

   

   Liquid Snake is a fictional character in the Metal Gear video game franchise created by Konami. He is one of the genetic clones of Big Boss and serves as a major antagonist in Metal Gear Solid. Liquid leads the rogue FOXHOUND unit during the Shadow Moses incident and is the twin brother of protagonist... read more

   Best villain of the series. Hated to see him bite the dust and then fuse with Ocelot.

   The evil twin of Solid Snake, even feared by the Patriots.

8. EVA

9. Kazuhira Miller

   

   Kaz is awesome. In PW, he was cool, and in PP, he became an ass, but in a really badass way. SPOILER FOR MGS1: Sadly, he dies off-screen sometime before Shadow Moses instead of on the battlefield.

10. Grey Fox

    

    He was a great antihero. One minute he's trying to kill Snake, then he's saving him. Also, his suit is way cooler than Raiden's.

    He's an invisible robot/ninja. Enough said.

The Newcomers
11. ?

    Steven Armstrong

    

    He is the funniest, most badass, yet surprisingly complex villain in the whole franchise.

12. ?

    Huey Emmerich

The Contenders

13. Psycho Mantis

    

14. Venom Snake

    

    Venom Snake made Big Boss the legend he is. In fact, he may even be a better soldier than Big Boss ever was.

    If anything, Venom and Big Boss should be numerically near each other.

    He is also Big Boss. Venom Snake is pretty much an avatar player character. Through him, you became your own Big Boss and forged your own legend.

    Vote for him because he's a good guy. He truly cares about his soldiers. He's one of a kind. He shouldn't have died as a villain.

15. Paz

16. The End

    The End is the best part of the game in Snake Eater. The most intense sniper showdown.

17. Sunny Emmerich

18. Solidus Snake

    

    He shared a lot of similarities with Big Boss, and he fought and died for what he believed in.

19. Quiet

    

20. Volgin

    

    The most evil character in the series. He was very entertaining, in my opinion.

21. The Sorrow

22. Jetstream Sam

23. Roy Campbell

24. D.D.

25. Meryl

    

26. Vamp

27. Sniper Wolf

    

    Sniper Wolf is a fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear video game series. She is portrayed as an elite enemy sniper of IraqiKurdish descent, first appearing in Metal Gear Solid (1998). Known for her exceptional sharpshooting skills and tragic backstory, she became a memorable boss character in... read more