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Snake Plissken’s Profile is heavily outdated. But before anything, let’s clear some things up.
Canonicity:
Escape From New York is obviously canon and so is Escape From L.A
The Escape From New York comics (2014 - 2016) by Boom Studios takes place right after the first film and ends right before the second one.
It has the approval of John Carpenter, he even guided the team a little bit. And it's also worth mentioning that Carpenter himself has worked on Boom Studios, writing a comic book sequel for Big Trouble In Little China. So it is canon. It’s also the most recent form of media of Escape From NY/LA.
John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles (2003) is hard to say if it's canon, it was also approved by Carpenter, and it seems to also takes place after the first film, but it doesn’t really fit in the most recent timeline, and was a part of uncompleted multimedia project, so therefore I'll not use it.
The Adventures of Snake Plissken (1997) is yet another comic book, but it's contradicted by the Boom Studios one. So I believe it is non canon.
Escape From New York Novel a retelling of the first movie, but goes more in depth on Snake's past. Semi-canon.
Now with this in mind, Snake's profile needs an update. Snake needs to have:
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts (Is shown to be a capable fighter. Was able to beat several Special Forces soldiers bare handed), Vehicular Mastery (Skilled in piloting any kind of vehicle. Land vehicles such as cars and motorcycles, Air vehicles such as gliders and helicopters, and Seaborne vehicles like submarines and boats.), Weapon Mastery (Is said to be lethal with a weapon. Was a professional gunfighter for some time. Can easily kill multiple armed enemies in a shootout.), Stealth Mastery (Snake commanded a search and destroy squad with the best record in the entire Russian campaign. He was able to sneak into a Russian secret weapons facility without alerting anyone. Was able to appear behind a guy following him before the guy could notice.), Superhuman Precision (Was easily able to make a full-court shot in a basketball challenge no one was able to complete. Was capable of shooting the cables of a telephone tower to take down a helicopter while driving. While in the dark he was able to cut the ropes of swinging hammers using shurikens. Managed to shoot down the barrel of an APC's mounted gun, causing it to explode. Threw a sword at an RPG rocket the very moment a soldier shot it.), Acrobatics (Was able to easily jump from his car to a helicopter. Was able to jump from a tsunami into a moving car. Can jump from great heights without injuring himself), Enhanced Awareness (Shot a guy preparing to throw a knife on him, before he could do it, despite not even looking at him. Was able to sense a crocodile ready to attack him), Preparation (Rigged a camp with a bunch of traps to kill invading soldiers), Resistance to Cold Temperatures (Was able to swim the cold sea of Siberia for quite some time, with few clothes, and didn’t had any side effect)
With Optional Equipment:
Explosion Manipulation (With Grenades), Flight (Via Helicopters), Ilusion Creation (With the Holocam, Snake can project his image up to a half-mile away), Deconstruction (With Anton Bulgarov’s gloves, Snake can vaporize matter. Vaporized Hauk’s head.), Energy Projection (Via Energy Gun), Light Manipulation (Via Flash Grenades), Status Effect Inducement (With his mouth dart, Snake can stun his enemy for several seconds), Resistance to Fire and Enhanced Senses (With his stealth clothing)
Attack Potency: Wall level (Was able to kill an alligator with a kick. Cracked a car windshield with a simple knife throw. Can hurt those who can harm him.)
Speed: Athletic Human with Subsonic reactions (Reacted to a crossbow shot. Ducked gunshots. Was able to evade gunfire from a team of SWAT officers.)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 1 possibly Class 5 (Was able to hold and stop the Shark 3 from sliding off of a platform before the platform collapsed under the sub's own weight. The Shark 3 should be similar to the Welman submarine in both size and weight, Both are military one-man midget submarines “submersibles” used by SF operators. The Welman weighs 1140 kg with his warhead, And the Shark 3 should be even more heavy since it’s nuclear powered, and even lightweight nuclear reactors like The SNAP-10A weighs around 440 kg. Was able to crush a soldier’s neck with his grip. Can easily snap necks.)
Striking Strength: Wall level
Durability: Wall level (Was able to withstand attacks from an Armored Hauk, who was able to break down a steel door with his blows. Survived a close range explosion that destroyed the house he was in, and killed everyone inside of it.)
Stamina: Superhuman (In his rescue mission in New York Snake flew the Gullfire glider into the penitentiary, making a dangerous and rough landing on top of the World Trade Center. He took the elevator down and reached the streets. He continued alone, fended off hostile prisoners, and was pursued by a group of crazies right after and after some time running from them, Snake managed to commandeer a vehicle and escaped. After a treacherous run down Broadway, where roving gangs attack any vehicle that dares to drive there, he stopped in a train yard. Snake sneaked in and found the President, he killed 2 guards, but one of them was able to shoot an arrow in his knee before dying, and just moments after, he was ambushed and captured by the Duke's men and was knocked out by the Duke. Shortly after waking up, Snake was forced to fight to the death with "Slag", ultimately managing to kill him. Snake then runned back to the World Trade Center, but the Duke was waiting for him at the bottom floor, Snake was able to escape with the President, and the Duke began chasing them. Snake drove a cab to the 69th Street bridge, and managed to evade several mines until accidentally hitting one, splitting the cab in half, and so they continued on foot. Upon reaching the containment wall, the President is sent over as the Duke reaches Snake and attacks him. Snake fought and subdued the Duke and began his ascent over the wall, but the President stopped the lift to shoot the Duke to death. He then allowed Snake to continue over the wall. Just minutes after accomplishing his mission, Snake was pursued by the USPF. While still in their HQ, he stole a Jeep from one of the guards and then proceeded to take over a helicopter, which crashed in a forest just few moments later, Snake hid in the forest and killed one of the soldiers looking for him, and then he escaped the forest and hitched a ride on a highway. All this in about 24 hours, with little to no breaks.)
Range: Tens of Meters with his Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolvers and Mac-10, Hundreds of Meters with weapons like Ruger AC556
Standard Equipment: His twin Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolvers, A Mac-10 submachine gun.
Optional Equipment:
Intelligence: Gifted (Snake can speak other languages like russian. He's a very good strategist, he commanded a very successful search and destroy squad in the war. He is a very good quick thinker. Snake was able to outsmart the U.S Government, switching a device that can shutdown countries electricity, in anger, the President ordered Snake to be executed, but Snake had activated his hologram projector and the Snake that got shot was an illusion. Snake then activated the device, entering the world code, code that he learned and memorized during the mission, against pleas to stop. All over the world, the satellites activated their EMP weapons at the world, and shot down every electrical device, turning the world back into the Dark Ages.)
Weakness: Sometimes underestimate his opponents which makes him susceptible to capture.
Oh and I think this might be a better profile picture.
Canonicity:
Escape From New York is obviously canon and so is Escape From L.A
The Escape From New York comics (2014 - 2016) by Boom Studios takes place right after the first film and ends right before the second one.
It has the approval of John Carpenter, he even guided the team a little bit. And it's also worth mentioning that Carpenter himself has worked on Boom Studios, writing a comic book sequel for Big Trouble In Little China. So it is canon. It’s also the most recent form of media of Escape From NY/LA.
John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles (2003) is hard to say if it's canon, it was also approved by Carpenter, and it seems to also takes place after the first film, but it doesn’t really fit in the most recent timeline, and was a part of uncompleted multimedia project, so therefore I'll not use it.
The Adventures of Snake Plissken (1997) is yet another comic book, but it's contradicted by the Boom Studios one. So I believe it is non canon.
Escape From New York Novel a retelling of the first movie, but goes more in depth on Snake's past. Semi-canon.
Now with this in mind, Snake's profile needs an update. Snake needs to have:
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts (Is shown to be a capable fighter. Was able to beat several Special Forces soldiers bare handed), Vehicular Mastery (Skilled in piloting any kind of vehicle. Land vehicles such as cars and motorcycles, Air vehicles such as gliders and helicopters, and Seaborne vehicles like submarines and boats.), Weapon Mastery (Is said to be lethal with a weapon. Was a professional gunfighter for some time. Can easily kill multiple armed enemies in a shootout.), Stealth Mastery (Snake commanded a search and destroy squad with the best record in the entire Russian campaign. He was able to sneak into a Russian secret weapons facility without alerting anyone. Was able to appear behind a guy following him before the guy could notice.), Superhuman Precision (Was easily able to make a full-court shot in a basketball challenge no one was able to complete. Was capable of shooting the cables of a telephone tower to take down a helicopter while driving. While in the dark he was able to cut the ropes of swinging hammers using shurikens. Managed to shoot down the barrel of an APC's mounted gun, causing it to explode. Threw a sword at an RPG rocket the very moment a soldier shot it.), Acrobatics (Was able to easily jump from his car to a helicopter. Was able to jump from a tsunami into a moving car. Can jump from great heights without injuring himself), Enhanced Awareness (Shot a guy preparing to throw a knife on him, before he could do it, despite not even looking at him. Was able to sense a crocodile ready to attack him), Preparation (Rigged a camp with a bunch of traps to kill invading soldiers), Resistance to Cold Temperatures (Was able to swim the cold sea of Siberia for quite some time, with few clothes, and didn’t had any side effect)
With Optional Equipment:
Explosion Manipulation (With Grenades), Flight (Via Helicopters), Ilusion Creation (With the Holocam, Snake can project his image up to a half-mile away), Deconstruction (With Anton Bulgarov’s gloves, Snake can vaporize matter. Vaporized Hauk’s head.), Energy Projection (Via Energy Gun), Light Manipulation (Via Flash Grenades), Status Effect Inducement (With his mouth dart, Snake can stun his enemy for several seconds), Resistance to Fire and Enhanced Senses (With his stealth clothing)
Attack Potency: Wall level (Was able to kill an alligator with a kick. Cracked a car windshield with a simple knife throw. Can hurt those who can harm him.)
Speed: Athletic Human with Subsonic reactions (Reacted to a crossbow shot. Ducked gunshots. Was able to evade gunfire from a team of SWAT officers.)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 1 possibly Class 5 (Was able to hold and stop the Shark 3 from sliding off of a platform before the platform collapsed under the sub's own weight. The Shark 3 should be similar to the Welman submarine in both size and weight, Both are military one-man midget submarines “submersibles” used by SF operators. The Welman weighs 1140 kg with his warhead, And the Shark 3 should be even more heavy since it’s nuclear powered, and even lightweight nuclear reactors like The SNAP-10A weighs around 440 kg. Was able to crush a soldier’s neck with his grip. Can easily snap necks.)
Striking Strength: Wall level
Durability: Wall level (Was able to withstand attacks from an Armored Hauk, who was able to break down a steel door with his blows. Survived a close range explosion that destroyed the house he was in, and killed everyone inside of it.)
Stamina: Superhuman (In his rescue mission in New York Snake flew the Gullfire glider into the penitentiary, making a dangerous and rough landing on top of the World Trade Center. He took the elevator down and reached the streets. He continued alone, fended off hostile prisoners, and was pursued by a group of crazies right after and after some time running from them, Snake managed to commandeer a vehicle and escaped. After a treacherous run down Broadway, where roving gangs attack any vehicle that dares to drive there, he stopped in a train yard. Snake sneaked in and found the President, he killed 2 guards, but one of them was able to shoot an arrow in his knee before dying, and just moments after, he was ambushed and captured by the Duke's men and was knocked out by the Duke. Shortly after waking up, Snake was forced to fight to the death with "Slag", ultimately managing to kill him. Snake then runned back to the World Trade Center, but the Duke was waiting for him at the bottom floor, Snake was able to escape with the President, and the Duke began chasing them. Snake drove a cab to the 69th Street bridge, and managed to evade several mines until accidentally hitting one, splitting the cab in half, and so they continued on foot. Upon reaching the containment wall, the President is sent over as the Duke reaches Snake and attacks him. Snake fought and subdued the Duke and began his ascent over the wall, but the President stopped the lift to shoot the Duke to death. He then allowed Snake to continue over the wall. Just minutes after accomplishing his mission, Snake was pursued by the USPF. While still in their HQ, he stole a Jeep from one of the guards and then proceeded to take over a helicopter, which crashed in a forest just few moments later, Snake hid in the forest and killed one of the soldiers looking for him, and then he escaped the forest and hitched a ride on a highway. All this in about 24 hours, with little to no breaks.)
Range: Tens of Meters with his Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolvers and Mac-10, Hundreds of Meters with weapons like Ruger AC556
Standard Equipment: His twin Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolvers, A Mac-10 submachine gun.
Optional Equipment:
- Knives: A combat knife.
- Pistols: Desert Eagle Mark VII, Seecamp LWS.
- Submachine Guns: Heckler & Koch SP89.
- Rifles: Ruger AC556.
- Shotguns: A sawed off Remington 870.
- Rocket Launchers: RPG-7.
- Grenades: Mk2 grenade, Flash grenades.
- Vehicles: 1976 Ford LTD Country Squire, 1974 Checker Taxicab, 1996 Harley-Davidson Sportster, The Gullfire stealth glider, The Shark 3 submersible, USPF attack chopper.
- Others: Hang glider, Holocam, mouth dart, Energy Gun, Anton Bulgarov’s gloves, Stealth clothing, Matches.
Intelligence: Gifted (Snake can speak other languages like russian. He's a very good strategist, he commanded a very successful search and destroy squad in the war. He is a very good quick thinker. Snake was able to outsmart the U.S Government, switching a device that can shutdown countries electricity, in anger, the President ordered Snake to be executed, but Snake had activated his hologram projector and the Snake that got shot was an illusion. Snake then activated the device, entering the world code, code that he learned and memorized during the mission, against pleas to stop. All over the world, the satellites activated their EMP weapons at the world, and shot down every electrical device, turning the world back into the Dark Ages.)
Weakness: Sometimes underestimate his opponents which makes him susceptible to capture.
Oh and I think this might be a better profile picture.
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