The cardboard box bit is even funnier now. Recently DARPA ran an experiment training an ai to detect human movement. They pitted the ai against a couple of marines who snuck up and touched the robot by sneaking in a cardboard box😂.

I actually spoke with the animator of this death battle. He said working with the Snake model was very difficult as he was working with the model from smash brother brawl, where he's hunched over, so he had to rework the entire animation rig for Snake.

Fun fact: Sam Fisher the character indirectly recognises Solid Snake in one of the video games he's in. Remarking at how how he knew an "Army infiltration man who wore a bandanna" This is a little homage due to the fact the games almost direct competitors in the stealth game market.

One thing the Death Battle didn't really emphasize to make the fight seem fairer is the Metal Gear fights. In each game, Snake regularly duels giant mechs with nothing more than hand grenades, rockets, and his wits. On top of that, Fisher has only fought other soldiers or assassins, but Snake can punch the Cyborg Ninjas hard enough to dent their armor, jumped off Manhattan bridge and land on a tanker without getting hurt, survived said tanker sinking while inside, and completed similar feats throughout all of MGS4 while he was physically in his 70s-80s. Snake is about as close as you can get to superhuman in Metal Gear without actually being one, considering his enemies are psychics, ghost soldiers, vampire mercs, and cyborg ninjas.

This is legit one of my favorite Death Battles, glad to see it get a reaction. "You're pretty good."

Fun fact: Solid Snake’s voice actor in this Death Battle is none other than Chris Sabat, the official English voice actor for Piccolo and Vegeta from Dragon Ball.

To this day, the Death Battle community widely considers this to be one of the show's finest episodes, and frankly, it's not hard to see why! The fight especially is a work of art! Any Death Battle where there's a story taking place in the fight is a joy to watch! And if you thought Sam's death here was brutal, well..... According to the creators of the show, the original way Snake would have killed him would have been to break every bone in Sam's body. Yeah, imagine that for a second.

Bethany, in Sam's defense, the game gives you the option to use non-lethal or lethal methods on all enemies, so the choice to take out the doggo is entirely on the player. And canonically, he only uses lethal (if any force at all) if absolutely necessary, so he's not such a bad guy. Loved the reaction you two!

This is one of my favorite Death Battles. I also love Bethany’s justification for betting on Snake.

To this day there has to be their best one animation is top-notch they even made a little story that makes sense why these two would fight.

Everytime I see this death battle, I remember the video where Sam makes a reference of Snake, realising hes the only one left in the espionage field.

i think this is one of the objective best deathbattle episodes. like the only one i have found that basically nobody dislikes

Fuck yeah, love this one! So good! I love the tension once it gets to the knifefight. That bit in the dark with the flashes of light & the haunting echoes of "you're pretty good..." gives me goosebumps *_everytime._* A shame Ken second guessed himself about the skill vs tech match-up this time lmao, but it's just how it goes.

As soon as Snake said, "You're pretty good.", I knew it was over

Oh snaps! I love this Death Battle! I got into Metal Gear Soild in college. A friend of mine was playing Metal Gear Solid 4, and I became a fan and start playing it myself. It's rich with great storytelling, and Solid Snake's determination is incredible! Ironically enough, this Death Battle was announced at the same time I became a fan, and I was excited. I was teased by some of my friends because since I'm a Resident Evil fan as well, I want to see both Hideo Kajma (Metal Gear director) and Shinji Mikami (Developed the Resident Evil games up to Resident Evil 4) should creates an orginal game together lol. Regardless, hope you two like this Death Battle 🙏🏽💪

This is probably the single best episode of Death Battle they've done. The ending still gives me chills all these years later. And as far as I know, it was animated by one guy. Another fun thing, since you've been reacting to Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Christopher Sabat voiced Solid Snake in this episode. He's the official voice actor of Vegeta ;)

This is my all-time favorite Death Battle. The choreography, rigging, voice acting, jokes, and music were all on point. I'm also huge Metal Gear Solid fan, and have played and/or reviewed all the main games in the series. I know it makes me sound biased, but I knew Snake would win as soon as they first announced the matchup. They actually had to overlook/tone down his abilities to make the fight fair. His performance in MGS1 alone would have been more than enough evidence to beat Sam. It's still so much fun to watch.

I love the analysis of the microwave hallway being comparable to an EMP. That hallway scene went on for over 2 minutes. That should have cooked not only the nanomachines, but his living tissue as well, Snake is literally built tougher

Awesome fact is that they actually got a named voice actor in this one. Solid Snake Voice by Chris sabat who known for mainly Vegeta and Piccolo with a ton of characters in DBZ. When nick voice the two from abridged, that's the guy's performance nick is imitating.

One man kills normal human terrorists while another man kills nanomachine superhumans with super natural powers and metal gears the size of buildings.

I remember people joking during the lead up to this Death Battle. Saying stuff like "These two would end up encountering each other in a dark room, we'd get a few muzzle flashes, and then when the lights come on, we'd have a winner. Easiest Death Battle to animate." Turns out that they actually had that planned for the actual battle, but more as a set up for the final phase of the fight.

15:46 The VA for Snake did give us this gem: "Major, Im trying to sneak in but the clapping of my cheeks are alerting the guards!"

I can now predict how Bethany will vote on all future Death Battles based on how they treat dogs.

In the Tom Clancy novel he uses Parkour or free style running with krav maga which he and his instructor called this style...shadow monkey

What’s really cool is the Sam and snake actually know each other and Sam actually stays in the field longer

Yeah, in Snake's universe, a lot of top grade soldiers all have heard of him as practically a living legend. Besides Metal Gears, he fights off the cybernetic-enhanced foes. His typical fights are practically legendary. In fact onlookers seeing him in action take him and his "legend" seriously, and even want to follow it like some kind of great symbol. Throughout the series quite a few people want to compete with him or have even changed sides. They also set these notions of standards in how things get handled "honestly". In 5 there was the "Do it yourself!" whenever something was for your own good and you were in unbearable agony like popping joints back into place or the main antagonist begging to be put to death and being left with the gun to do it, and all his limbs shot, and himself stuck. Before that one in 3 was "Fight like a man!" to imply less dirty play and be forward with what they should be capable of as they claim to be, and in the end the antagonist couldn't really live up to that either, but the real ending of 3 led with Snake killing his own mother of the field who taught him everything. The big difference from those to 5 is that in 5 isn't the real Snake, but they purposely have everyone, even the player think that's who they're being to great success.

The Death Battle crew mentioned that they wanted to do this for a long time but weren't sure how to have 2 stealthy characters fight. One person even said that they wanted the fight to start in a warehouse full of boxes, then nothing happens for a bit, one box slightly moves, K.O. Obviously this is way better but still funny to think about. Since you're watching older episodes might I recommend my all time favorite episode: Godzilla vs Gamera.

what i like about snake is that he's grounded. despite his legendary rep, snake doesn't see himself as a hero. simple a solider. and he has a lot of people who care about him because he's so damn humble and his willingness to do a job that would make the world a better place. and his friendship with otacon is great as well. when they first met, he was a mulling coward who pissed himself and was almost always annoying him in the first game. by the second game, they were partners and the best of friends, despite having very little in common. snake always counts on otacon to come through over the radio and when someone needs to fly a chopper and otacon knows snake will survive anything to get the mission done.

fun fact: otacon isn't his real name. his real name is dr. hal emmerich. "otacon" is a nickname/code name he gave himself. it short for "otaku convention". that's right. he's a massive weeb! :D

As soon as they played the clip with the dog, I instantly knew who Bethany was betting on lol. This is easily one of my top 5 death battles. Its such a good one.

"That's what you get for killing a puppy" you mean the wild animal trying to kill him while also giving away his location?

I suggested this one! If you saw this, thanks for taking my suggestion(If that's why you watched it)

Definitely one of the better ones from the older era, my friend’s favorite

This is one of the GREATEST episodes of Death Battle.

I love that they used Brahman's boss theme from Digital Devil Saga 2.

well, this was quite a good fight. also, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the patriots, the game clip that was shown with Snake saying that he's no hero, is so depressive, that it's like depression was a person, wrote a book, and then made a live-action tv-show of that book. translation: the game is gonna make you sad at the end. or throughout the adventure. it kinda depends. either way, this fight was awesome. :)

15:46 Okay so slight correction, Solid Snake is actually caked tf up in a lot of the games. It really just depends on which one youre playing. I mean, Solid Snake is the origin of the "Colonel, Im trying to sneak around but im dummy thick and the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the guards" meme.

You know Sam Fisher didn't kill the dog, it's the player who did that, you have the choice to kill or knock down your enemy, you can be both lethal or non lethal. Sam is a sweat heart he wouldn't hurt a dog. I blame the player lol.

Solid snake is literally legendary cause he kills legends 💀 Death battle didn't show how good big boss is, but he's easily the best soldier around having done the impossible time and again. And Solid snake beat him 🥶

This is one of my favourite Death battles that has been. And yes, Fisher is good, But snakes story and what he has done is way over, sure there could be an instance snake lost but it's more in snakes favour. Also, i do love that both games do refrence each others in their game(s), like they know each other and have a positive and friendly words to each other. also jokes. around 4 years ago there was a DLC , Sam Fisher hear when snake retired, he got sad. Another thing Sam Fisher Actor Pays Tribute to Snake's Most Iconic Line, and it was very nice of him.

Also!!!!!! Props to the legend "Christopher R. Sabat" one of the best anime VA's out there for his portrayal of solid snake for this death battle

Watching METAL GEAR Series cut scenes is a MUST its more relevant now more than ever at this point (especially MGS2 and soon enough MGS4)

Man this fight till this day feels so close between these two legendary soldiers

20:00 😂 the excitement and the shocks on your faces makes this the best video ever. (Bethany's thats what you get for killing a puppy at the end 😂 moment will live on for ever)

This one is in my Top 10 Favourite DBs.

I really need a release date on the splinter cell remake it’s been so long since I’ve played a splinter cell game, my second favourite video game franchise of all time.

At 18:45 had Sam used his thermal vision he would have known that snake wasn’t in the box because it’s capable of detecting heat signatures and would have known that the box was a trap!

This is still my favorite Death Battle. No cosmic bs, no super powers, just two highly trained operatives in their environment trying to beat the crap out of each other.

Just to correct you guys on one tidbit of information you're wrong about. Snake isn't engineered to be a better soldier. He's part of the project involving that end, but he's more of a by product of it. His twin brother "liquid snake" was the genetically superior soldier, having all the "soldier genes" of their father. Before anyone says "no you're wrong sir" it's in the end credits audio to "metal gear solid" for the PS1, revolver ocelot talking to the then president George Sears(solidus snake, big boss' exact clone with out the gene therapy and alterations). And ocelot says "so the inferior one is the winner after all. To the very end, liquid thought he was the inferior one". The stipulated idea is that the project that created the twin snakes was testing the nature vs nurture theory. Liquid being told he was not the super soldier, but snake is, living a shit life, while snake lived a decent ish one. Liquid growing up as a child soldier while snake got his training like any enlisted man, and then being trained by daddy dearest himself. Snake genetically is supposed to be the worst soldier by comparison to his twin brother liquid. But snake beat him. And compared to Sam Fischer, again he's genetically a bad soldier. He just has better training, experience, and way better toys

It's cool to watch people's first viewings of my fav death battles!

15:46 - The model they used for this video did Snake dirty. Snake completes most of his missions double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon.

Noone tell them that snake kills dogs in packs with assault weapons.

Anyone who've played both games, it's hard to argue that Solid Snake wouldn't win. He has fought basically meta-humans and won with minimum equipment. In the 4th game, he was so handicapped in fighting due to his old age and etc, but STILL he fought a giant mech, crazy meta-human ladies, and survived a goddamn microwave. Death Battle got it right as well, when it comes to Close Quarter Combat, Snake had the edge, as CQC is usually how Snake finishes the final "Boss" battles. I recommend for ya'll to check out the Metal Gear Solid series, it's like watching a James Bond movie. You honestly don't even need to play the game as the creator, Hideo Kojima, is a huge fan of Hollywood, so there's a lot of cinematic scenes, you can kinda just watch the cutscenes to understand everything. The 4th game has so much cutscenes, it's like watching a movie with a side of gameplay.

Sam Fisher is actually in Rainbow Six: Siege! his operator name is 'Zero' personally hes one of my favorite characters ever

Honestly, this was a really good Death Battle. It's definitely one of the ones that has stood the est of time and is still top tier Death Battle.

Btw the screaming 3 times snake is referance to snake dying in game then someone screaming

So, quick bit of trivia. This music syncs PERFECTLY with Moby's James Bond theme used for Sean bond films, exact same BPM. This COULDN'T HAVE BEEN intentional...right?

Fun fact the voice actor for snake is Christopher sabet who’s the English dub voice for Vegeta

Yeah, anything out of stealth Sam becomes screwed. We’re talking about a man who fights psychics, cyborgs, entire governments, supersoldiers, and mechs on a yearly basis.

Man this battle was nuts and awesome 😄 seems crazy that I been thinking to play both games when I was younger but never gotten around it since the rating for games was too violent for my parents to get me. Till now I might order both games for my GameCube or PlayStation to play.

20:23 “it’s not over yet”

Oh this is a good one. Definitely a top five DBs of mines. Great reaction

Ah, a classic. Still love that "You're pretty good" line, so awesome!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

They did it i been waiting im months late but they did it

Snake wins not because of gadgets or assists, but through sheer willpower to do whatever needs to be done...

YES YOU GUYS FINALLY WATCHED !!!!

20:43 lol that's what liquid said..

Solid is a genetically engineered version of the greatest soldier of all time - It's a lock for a win.

The choreography is amazing

Ocelots are proud creatures, they prefer to hunt alone.

top 3 fav DB and is one of the older ones if the visuals didn't give that away

To this day, I still think this is the best Death Battle episode! Everything is just so great about it!

Fun fact Chris sabat aka official vegeta/ piccolo plays snake in this episode

I have been waiting for you to React to this one, this is one DEATH BATTLE’s better …Death Battles. Say, have you done Raiden vs Wolverine yet?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Sam didn't kill that dog but put it to sleep. Throwing it was just the games function to hide bodies, so others don't find them.

Aaahhh, Hideo Kojima and his games. As Bethany noted, Solid Snake did indeed castrate that statue, a perfect example of how Hideo Kojima is essentially the Amadeus Mozart of video games. As sophisticated as his games are, he does not shy away from potty humor, quite literally. Just like Mozart made a song dedicated to farts and feces, Kojima also likes to incorporate such jokes in his games. One such example is in MGS2 where an enemy soldier unknowingly accidentally pisses on the player's head. Yeah.... that is a thing. The story of MG/S is quite fascinating (Talking about how the game came to be) as the entire genre of "Stealth Action Adventure" came to be due to hardware limitations. Kojima was hired to develop a game for the MSX, a very old console with very limited hardware capability. He wanted to make a shooter, but with the limited resources couldn't fit in all that many enemies. Thus he came up with the idea that instead of focusing on fighting the enemies, he challenged players to avoid them instead and sneak past the enemies. As such, the game franchise has taken a pacifistic approach and outlook, rewarding players for avoiding violence. MGS3 is most notable in this aspect as it has 1 boss fight, which gets more difficult based on the number of people you've killed. Similarily in MGS4 there is an aesthetic aspect where your character become increasingly demonic looking the more violent you are. Overall all of the games focus heavily on the theme of nuclear disarmament and the inherent danger nuclear weapons have as well as peace in general, a common theme in Japanese media for understandable reasons. Solid Snake to Raiden: "I am not exaggarating when I say that the success of this mission hinges on how you use that cardboard box!" Naked Snake (Later named Big Boss) to SIGINT: "You should come inside the box, then you'll know what I mean." Sigint: "Man, I don't wanna know what you mean!" The cardboard box is ICONIC for ALL Metal Gear games! Also, you might've noticed that Solid Snake aged quite a bit on the scene where he emasculated that statue. As he is a clone of Big Boss, he suffers from rapid aging and as such has a significantly shorter life span than most humans. As for the fight itself, I have to note that Snake's aerobatics were not canon. Yes, he did have those moves in one remake of MGS1 (The Twin Snakes), but when it comes to the differences between the original and TTS, the original is considered canon and thus those aerobatics are a little out of place in this fight. As for the result, I think it's fine, I've played both games and I personally think it's a close call, don't mind either result. I suppose it's fitting that it ends in a Close Quarters Combat as that is Snake's speciality, but personally would've preferred if Sam died some other way rather than in a knife fight.

The 5 seven handgun uses armour Peircing rounds ment to go through Kevlar armour which is why in some games they make the gun kinda weak but hit 2 targets if aligned in same line.....strange

Didn't even have to watch the video before giving this one a like. My favorite death battle by a good margin

Yeah if snake has lost this they would have gotten old-school slipper to the cheeks. As much as I love Sam there's no way he's winning against snake

A simple summary for this fight a Super soldier with cybernetics upgrades against a Normal human spy who has never fought anyone like Snake

It wouldn't be one of your reactions without Bethany judging a character based on some inconsequential thing the player chose to do. Love you guys.

Big boss was not in the first game that was venom snake designed to look like him if im not mistaken

Lol it's ironic, if sam just waited afew years snake would of just died due to the advanced aging.. kinda like that one boss is MGS3.

Maybe you could watch a few Cyberpunk 2077 trailers. After over 2 years with a few major patches and the upcoming DLC the game is a lot closer to what was promised to us. I'd recommend the Official Gameplay Trailer, Official E3 Trailer, Lifepaths trailer, Tools of Destruction trailer and the Diner trailer. Keep up the good work!

In honor of Snake's victory lets play a little game, Can you guess which one of these isn't a real Metal Gear quote A."Forget Pax Americana. Say hello to Pax Hamburgana" B."Wipe this Meme from the face of the earth" C."Remember to dampen the recoil when using an automatic" D"Now there's a pretty meme, exquisite"

If you liked the fight choreography for this I hope you check out their Red Hood vs Winter Soldier one, it's so well done.

Don't tell Bethany what snake has done to several other animals.

One my favorite death battles

This one and Meta vs Carolina are my favorites

Have you guys reacted to Afro samurai versus samurai Jack yet?

Please do Vergil VS Sephiroth next!

So, killing a guard dog to save the world is a crime punishable by death, even if it's for his daughter's sake, Beth? Noted...🤨😋

I don't know if y'all have reacted to the scarlet witch vs zatanna one but you should if you haven't

Don't forget you already seen Sam fisher in rainbow six siege older aka Zero

I can't believe they recreated that Smash Bros abomination model. Solid Snake's body with his clone father's head. It looks so wrong.

Blame the player for the Puppy, not Sam.

Metal Gear is dope! You should definitely find a way to play it or watch a short "movie" of it

If y’all like metal gear react to Raiden vs Excalibur my favorite death battle yet

As someone who has played both series alot and is a bigger fan of Snake overall, I would still put my money on Sam. While there's absolutely no question thst Snake far outclasses Sam in hand to hand combat, Sam is undeniably a quicker and more accurate marksman, able to consistanly headshot multiple targets in a row in under a second. Snake would not be able to take on Oscelot in an open area without something to hide behind, and i think that the same could be said of Sam. Granted this fight is in a building with things to hide behind, but i still think that Sam had enough chances to headshot Snake.

Each metal gear solid 4 all story scenes it could be a long series