Working Title: Punch Clock Hero: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=m14upik4&trope=PunchClockHero From YKTTW]]

{{Vulpy}}: I disagree with Solid Snake as a PunchClockHero, frankly. I might agree that he ''started'' as a soldier primarily, by the end of the first MGS game, he could have easily retired. And he tried to. But he always finds his way back, despite the vicious PlotRelevantAgeUp. Snake tries to convince ''us'' that he's just an old soldier, but didn't Raiden have a speech in MGS2 about heroics being made of more than a sense of duty? I see Snake as more of a Martyr, trying to suffer himself so the rest of the world doesn't have to.