Solidus Snake, a.k.a. George Sears, and commonly referred to as Solidus, was the 43rd President of the United States, and a result of the Les Enfants Terribles project, making him the third son and the perfect clone of Big Boss. After covertly inciting the events on Shadow Moses Island, he became directly involved in the Big Shell Incident.
Solidus shares the following common traits with his father Big Boss:
- His almost identical appearance with his father.
- Both were puppets of the Patriots.
- Both wanted to free people from the Patriots' control with good intentions but went to extreme lengths to destroy the Patriots even if others got hurt.
- Both of them were defeated in battle by their sons.
Solidus fought in the Liberian Civil War as a teenager, during the late 1980s to early '90s. While there, he adopted a boy during the war after killing his parents and named him Jack, and trained him to be a merciless killer from as early as the age of six.
Solidus had Jack serve as part of his Small Boy Unit in the Army of the Devil. At some point, he allowed a physician to inject Jack with a substance that he claimed would "never make him the same," although not before warning the physician that he would kill him if it permanently harmed Jack.
He taught Jack that blades were "honorable" compared to guns. Jack proved himself to be one of Solidus's best child soldiers through his amazing kill record, gaining platoon leadership of his unit at only ten years old, and earning him the nicknames of "White Devil" and "Jack the Ripper."
After the war ended, Jack suddenly vanished from a relief center, leaving Solidus to wonder what had happened to him.
It is expected that Jack/Raiden and Solidus Snake will finally meet once again in Revengeance.
