Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-166.137.88.23-20130610185107/@comment-4913740-20130628144315

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Misterbunnsy wrote: 94.192.168.247 wrote: also eli and david has 6 other siblings, and this references les enfantes terribles where there were originally 8 clones, but only solid and liquid survived.

id say thats enough evidence. I'd like to point out that, firstly, this claim is only stated in Konami-licensed materials, written by external authors. The claim itself is that there were actually eight BATCHES of clones, not eight clones themselves. With the ninth batch, the genetic code was corrected and resulted in the birth of simply the twin Snakes.

Again, not actually confirmed canon, and it doesn't even claim there's six other clones. The game itself does mention that Liquid and Solid Snake were originally octuplets, but thanks to the Super Baby method, all but the Twin Snakes were aborted. It's during Liquid's speech to Snake on REX, explaining the concept of Les Enfants Terribles.

Now that you mention it, I've read up and that is in fact true.

And the six siblings were intentionally aborted early in the process in order to help the Twin Snakes grow further.

My mistake.