Comments on: Solid Snake Totally Looks Like Kyle Reese

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:11:58 +0000

Yes the Kyle Reese look alike was dóne intentionally. It changed in Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake, if you look at snakes codec image (note: I’m not talking about in the MGS3 subsistence version where they changed the image to match snakes current look) they designed him to look like Mel Gibson.

By: bobnine

bobnine — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:24:39 +0000

And metal gear was replaced with a big computer in the NES version.

By: Michael Heide

Michael Heide — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:13:03 +0000

No. You’re not the only one. Which you’d know if you’d read the countless posts above of people saying exactly that.

Moron.

By: bpace

bpace — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:13:00 +0000

Umm thats because they modeled the box art for Metal Gear after Kyle Reese from The Terminator, Konami admitted this in an article.

By: Ann M

Ann M — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:47:22 +0000

Yes, the American and Japanese entertainment industry draw from each other endlessly regardless of copyrights etc. All the way back to Kimba the White Lion and Disney’s Lion King and most recently Disney’s Little Mermaid and Miyazaki’s latest film… (oh gosh senior moment) it’s “somebody” Sitting on the Cliff… haven’t seen it yet. They all dip from the same well.

And I’ve talked with Japanese anime artists who admit they base characters on American stars, changing them barely enough to avoid legal conflict. Sometime this spring, though, you gamer guys and gals watch the anime con photos… because I’m getting my husband (age 65) into an Old Snake costume and he really looks like the game character! Can’t wait.

By: Kerrigan

Kerrigan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:05:08 +0000

Am I the only one stating that the picture on Metal Gear IS a picture of Michael Biehn?

They just photo edited it, it was meant to be Kyle Reese.

By: Kerrigan

Kerrigan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:03:56 +0000

You’re amazing, Eddie Izzard is a god. XD

By: Bone

Bone — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:10:09 +0000

Ingenious!!!

By: KnifeSmith

KnifeSmith — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:12:12 +0000

Archer, you seem to be well informed and you are correct about the box art and are obviously like me a MG fan but I do not agree with your movie analysis.

“The Matrix” pays tribute to Metal Gear Solid(PSX) (mainly Gray Fox moves) as well as scenes from Ghost in the shell and other sources. (If you didn’t read William Gibsons Sprawl series I very much recommend it, because they are great)

I do not think you are correct to use the word “ripoff” (I like “tribute” more).

Since “Twin Snakes” is a remake of the PSX version, I would not call the scene “a Matrix ripoff”

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:35:49 +0000

I’ve heard that before as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Biehn

Look under “Career”

By: Shadox

Shadox — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:57:43 +0000

Acctually the Photo on the NES Metal Gear was modeled after Kyle Resse, Because at the time Terminator was very popular in the states. So Konami (Hideo Kajima had nothing to do with the NES version) used this photo to attract the american audience with something we can relate too hero wise.

This MG was concidered the worse in the series next to Snakes Revenge, Like all japanese imports that come to the states we always get the watered down versions.

By: Archer

Archer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:50:01 +0000

It’s because the promotional photo of kyle reese from the terminator was used as the box art for the original Metal Gear for the MSX snake was modeled after Kurt Russel’s Snake Plisskin. Sean Connery was used as big boss. Ocelot and Old snake were inspired by Lee Van Cleef directly. That’s why they’re compared, because the man inspired the legend… in just about every case. Hell if you want to see a good Matrix ripoff play twin snakes, and pay close attention to when Snake backflips off of a missile, to shoot the Hind D with a Stinger Missile… I kinda wish I was making that up. The only thing missing from that scene to make it much more AWESOME would be him eating a hot dog whilst saluting the American flag and humming the star spangled banner.

By: omgzorz

omgzorz — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:59:56 +0000

….wow, that isnt solid snake, and snakes image was taken from kurt russel, from escape from l.a…. they even use the same code name, snake plisken >.>

By: Nemo

Nemo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:24:45 +0000

Wow, that Kyle Reese guy looks like Haywire, from Prison Break, in that photo.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:23:04 +0000

Pager code ftw. 411257

By: Squishy

Squishy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:07:42 +0000

Yes, same here. It is slightly depressing.

By: Maryll

Maryll — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:24:15 +0000

Someone knows there stuff.

By: PSN: SamuraiBubba

PSN: SamuraiBubba — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:45:19 +0000

Old Snake was supposed to look like Lee Van Cleef too

By: jluve82

jluve82 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:04:14 +0000

It took me a sec, but so can I…

By: fawkes

fawkes — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:50:30 +0000

The very fact that I can read that depresses me.

By: David Jay

David Jay — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:58:57 +0000

YES IT IS! GURGH!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:56:12 +0000

That was marketing. Just like Big Boss (Not sure on that one, the main villain from the first game) looks like Sean Connery.

By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:40:25 +0000

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard: NOBODY WAS ALIVE BACK THEN!!!

By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:39:54 +0000

Pretty much, actually. Solid Snake was lifted off of Mad Max AND said character compared in this entry. Next thing i see, Shalashashka/Revolver Ocelot will be compared to Lee Van Cleef.

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:36:25 +0000

That’s because they deliberately used this image of Reese for that cover.

By: pbsjones

pbsjones — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:47:27 +0000

Whatever….I think he looks more like Robert Redford!

By: Ham

Ham — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:36:56 +0000

Wow, another comparison between things that were designed to look identical. Is this the blog for people with head trauma relearning pattern-recognition now?

FAIL.

By: st3alth23

st3alth23 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:16:56 +0000

Kojima ftw <3

By: just a guy

just a guy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:42:07 +0000

Yes, that’s Solid Snake from METAL GEAR, not METAL GEAR SOLID!

The Snake from metal gear solid looks a lot different. More ‘Japanese’ Style in my opinion. In the SOLID series, they make reference to Snake being Japanese, but the cover from the original metal gear, he looks quite ‘gaijin’ !

Note: the metal gear solid snake’s personality was based vaguly on Snake Pliskin from the ‘Escape from NY/LA’ movies. In MGS2, he even goes by the the code name Pliskin when talking to Raiden.

But, yeah, that looks like a total art copy.

By: Autochthon

Autochthon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:21:00 +0000

Note to self, Purchase: Metal Gear.

Yeah those were the days, back there in the 80’s

By: J.P

J.P — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:57:48 +0000

Is from the COVER!!!!! of the NES game METAL GEAR!!!!!!!

By: paul

paul — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:53:52 +0000

it’s from the box of the first metal gear game. you weren’t alive in the 80’s were you?

By: Erastes

Erastes — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:41:30 +0000

except the picture of Snake doesn’t actually look like Snake, wrong face, wrong hair, no headband, no mullet, wrong clothes… what’s it from, some comic?

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:08:11 +0000

This is, in fact, another intentional one. Metal Gear is notorious for lifting the appearances of their characters from real life celebs.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:41:20 +0000

damn! exact match!

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:32:56 +0000

THATS BECAUSE HE WAS!

By: Z

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:07:48 +0000

This is another case like the Contra one before this, isn’t it?

By: Tom H

Tom H — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:56 +0000

Totally

By: Duder

Duder — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:03 +0000

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By: MEH

MEH — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:12:17 +0000

first!