History Characters / EscapeFromNewYork

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being an hardened criminal he's deeply disgusted by the President's half-hearted and possibly fake regret for the people who died trying to get take him out of New York.

* HellBentForLeather: He seems very fond of leather clothing. He wears his iconic biker-like one in the original movie and then switches to a BadassLongcoat in the second one.

* GutturalGrowler: His voice is raspy and hoarse. Kurt Russell said he inspired it by Creator/ClintEastwood.

* BreakTheHaughty: By the time he's rescued from New York, the President has lost a finger, been mentally tortured, shot at, and been emasculated by having a wig and makeup put on him. He finally manages to regain his senses by the time he's treated by presidential aides and is given a shave and a new suit.

* EmbarrassingFirstName: He hates it when people refer to him by his given name, "Harold".

* DoNotCallMePaul[=/=]EmbarrassingFirstName: He hates it when people refer to him by his given name, "Harold".

* BreakTheHaughty[=/=]TraumaCongaLine: By the time he's rescued from New York, the President has lost a finger, been mentally tortured, shot at, and been emasculated by having a wig and makeup put on him. He finally manages to regain his senses by the time he's treated by presidential aides and is given a shave and a new suit.

* AmbiguousDisorder: It's implied that there's something... off about him. He has slow, almost-delayed movements and appears to be childlike in many ways. He simply doesn't understand what a cassette tape is, attempts to listen to it like a telephone, and pawns it off at the nearest opportunity in exchange for a hat. He laughs at odd times with a strange, [[TheHyena high-pitched squeal]]. While he follows the Duke's commands, he's easily tricked and is slow to catch on that something is wrong, which eventually leads to him being killed by Brain.

* DecoyProtagonist: It's implied that she'll play a large role acting as Snake's sidekick, but this doesn't long before she's caught and killed by the Crazies.

* SmokingIsCool: Has a SignatureScene where he's shown smoking a cigarette by one of the security stations at dusk.

* NotSoStoic: When Taslima dies during his mission in L.A., it's the first time in either film that he very nearly breaks down, and he's reduced to stunned silence as he watches her pass away.
** In the first movie when the time limit of the explosives in hs body is about to end we can see genuine desperation and fear in his face.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: To the point that it's his WeaponOfChoice. Snake prefers to carry at least one revolver on him at all times, though he doesn't have many opportunities to show his prowess with them. To note, just after he uses them (GunsAkimbo) to dispatch a group of Cuervo's men in L.A., he loses them when he's captured.