User blog comment:Zero McClane/Solid Snake = Major villain of MGS?/@comment-1971498-20131201171836/@comment-1504072-20131201184219

Yes, Drebin obviously holds some pessimism about the UN falling into the same traps that the Philosophers, and then the Patriots did, despite good intentions. That can in no way be taken as a fault of Solid Snake's character though. At "worst", Snake was presented as an antihero in MGS1, with a possibly murky past, yet he is still willing to stop Metal Gear and the various incarnations of Outer Heaven for the greater good, even if some of these actions may have benefited the Patriots. Big Boss is also used as a pawn, in all the games in which he has starred as the protagonist thus far, but he is still the "hero" in all of them.