Since Solid Snake is different in Ac!d (and later in Ac!d 2), tropes that apply to these version of Solid Snake only should be listed here.
For other characters in the franchise, see the Metal Gear character index at Characters.Metal Gear.
Characters who debuted in Metal Gear Ac!d. Be aware that this page contains unmarked spoilers.
Protagonists:
An Alternate Universe counterpart of Solid Snake who brought down Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land as usual, but permanently retired to Alaska afterward and is only called back to infiltrate Lobito Physics and Chemistry Lab after a 17-year absence. Conjecture on Metal Gear Wiki indicates that having not participated in the events of the Solid games (if their events existed beyond the Ac!d continuity's card packs), this iteration of Snake is more trusting of his allies and less concerned about unnecessary violence.
- Most every trope that applies to the original Solid Snake.
- Well, this version of Snake is a bit more of a Jerkass than the Solid version, but to be fair, he was really enjoying his retirement, and was pulled out somewhat more reluctantly than his Solid counterpart.
- Plus, he might actually not be a clone, as he doesn't have the ageing problem that the canonical Solid Snake was heavily implied to have possessed since Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. He's actually two years older in this game than he is in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, but here he actually looks like a handsome man in his 40s (using his face model from Sons of Liberty atop his body model from Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes), rather than like a man in his 70s/80s. It's mentioned that he is sterile, though, which in the main games came about due to the genetic engineering process that created him.
- He also has a different haircut, not that it's any less extremely eighties.
- Noodle Incident: Weirdly invoked regarding his fate. The ending of Ac!d shows him completely escaping from Lobito's lab, yet Ac!d 2 revealed that he died during the incident, thus resulting in the creation of Snake 2.
Leader of a FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) unit sent to infiltrate Lobito Island in the opening events of Metal Gear Ac!d, seeking the data for a new Metal Gear (codenamed Pythagoras) and its creator William Fleming to thwart an airplane hijacking conducted by the Creepy Twin marionettes Elsie and Francis. However, her team is killed save for herself and Snake is sent in to rendezvous with her and complete the mission.
- Action Girl: She is an HRT operator who's sent to Moloni.
- But Not Too Foreign: Should be fairly obvious from her first name that she's part Japanese, but then her backstory pushes it by revealing that "Teliko" is the result of a database error in entering "Teruko".
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Is arguably more useful than Snake, as she gets to use three cards per turn rather than two, at the expense of slightly less health. Snake CAN use cards to add more turns, but those take up deck space, require cost, and only last so long.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Her actual name is Teruko Friedman. However, her name was accidentally recorded as Teliko Friedman after her FBI application was successfully processed. Teliko didn't bother to change it and decided to keep the Teliko spelling instead.
- Sole Survivor: She's the only FBI HRT operator who survived an ambush in Moloni.
- You Killed My Father: Teliko's father is revealed to have been killed by La Clown on orders from BEAGLE. She gets her revenge on Clown, at least.
Allies:
Snake's CO for the events of Metal Gear Ac!d, who served alongside Roy Campbell in the Green Berets and shares the rank of Colonel. Troubled by his decisions in Vietnam, he struggles to maintain his faith in Snake as his personality conflicts more and more with that of BEAGLE bigshot Hans Davis.
- Mission Control: He's in charge of running Snake (and later, Teliko) from command.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: Speaks to Snake via comms for the mission.
Due to the Mind Screw nature of Ac!d's end-game reveals, Alice is actually a product of William Fleming and Hans Davis's experiments with Child Soldiers and may be either No. 16 (the survivor of the children's final, Deadly Graduation ritual), No. 104 (No. 16's final victim, who turned into a cloud of white dust and assimilated No. 16), or some combination of the two. Either way, she's been doing just enough to support the theory that Snake may actually be Hans Davis (though he really isn't) to make him personally loyal to her via the CHAIN system (the in-game justification for the trading-card-based movement and combat system).
- Evil Brit: Alice hails from England, and is revealed to be more sinister than she lets on.
- Freudian Excuse: She was part of a group of children kidnapped by BEAGLE, turned into Child Soldiers, then forced all of them to fight each other in a Deadly Graduation ritual in which Alice was the only survivor. The experiences messed her up and set her on a quest for revenge against BEAGLE.
- Karmic Death: She receives an overwhelming amount of memories from all the people she controlled with the ACUA drug after Snake defeats the Metal Gear KODOQUE, and the psychic backlash was so intense that she died.
- Mission Control: For Snake and friends in the first Ac!d.
- Psychic Powers: Possesses Telepathy, Astral Projection, and clairvoyance.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Ritual of Conjuration that Fleming and Davis forced Alice and her fellow BEAGLE child experiments to participate in. It... traumatized her, to say the least.
Leone Unit:
- BFG: Leone's specialty is uing the PTRS-1941 for his kills.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He ends up trying to drive out/kill Sn... err "trespassers" from his "flower garden."
- Dangerous Deserter: Deserted from the US Army after he's accused of spying for the communists.
- Dying as Yourself: After being defeated the second time, not only does Leone get over his brainwashment from ACUA, but his hatred for his native land also disappeared with it.
- Enemy Mine: Teams up with Snake and Teliko to capture Fleming in exchange for letting him acquire Pythagoras. It doesn't last long, unfortunately for the both of them.
- Fat Bastard: Which Snake points out as they trade insults.
- Firing One-Handed: Leone firest the PTRS with his active arm this way since he lost his other arm in the course of his mercenary work.
- Handicapped Badass: Is missing an arm.
Lobito Island:
He's actually William Flemming himself, looking to use Snake's delusions of the Hans Davis personality to recover the Pythagoras data, use it to activate Metal Gear KODOQUE, and get revenge on BEAGLE for using his daughter Constance (brainwashed into thinking of herself as Minette...or so BEAGLE's agents thought) as a motivational hostage.
- Papa Wolf: The main motivation behind his actions, as BEAGLE kidnapped and brainwashed his daughter.
BEAGLE
- Chekhov's Gun: NEKAL Silk Powder
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Hans, perhaps also the rest of them. They were responsible for the creation for psychic Child Soldiers No. 16 (aka Alice Hazel) and the deceased No. 104 who possessed Flemming's daughter Constance.
- Asshole Victim: Since he's killed by No. 16 and his company's involved in shady stuff, no tears are shed when it's revealed that he died.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: No. 16 brainwashed his close protection officers with ACUA in order to get them to kill him and hack his body apart.
- Me's a Crowd: She uses hypnotism to create clones of herself in a fight.
- Never Suicide: Some of her jobs would entail taking out a target and making it look like they killed themselvese.
US Government
- Scapegoat: When the game ends, Charles manipulates evidence to ensure any public investigation would point to him as the terrorist mastermind of Flight 326.
- Asshole Victim: Lena's killed by No. 104, using Minette's body to do so.
- Walking Spoiler: Hard to mention her since it's revealed that she's the pupeteer of Elsie & Frances.
CIA:
- Karma Houdini: He's never caught by law enforcement for his actions.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He's a CIA agent on an anti-terrorist mission in Lobitio Island.
- Walking Spoiler: Hard to mention him when the player finds out that he's also Hans Davis.
Others:
A supposedly dead girl involved in the Ritual of Conjuration, she seeks revenge against those involved.
- Creepy Child: Using the body of Minette Donnel to get rid of Lena by killing her with a knife.
- Walking Spoiler: Part of the game's plot twist is that Minette is no ordinary girl after No. 104 takes over her body.
Two puppets involved in hijacking Flight 326.
