Family Business: My Favorite Sibling Rivalries in Nerddom

I would say that siblings are fun and wonderful, but that really depends upon how cool your sibling is. While genetically speaking, your sibling is supposed to be your closest ally; sometimes it’s that same genetic map that pushes siblings apart. And sometimes, siblings are about competition more than anything else. This doesn’t change in the Nerd Realm either. Comics, Fiction Lit, TV and movies, we’ve all seen them play off the traditional tropes of brother sister bonds on Corleone type of levels. They can range from Kane and Abel mythology through Sansa and Arya Stark and all the way down to Elsa and Anna. But those are pretty cut and dry, it’s the complex ones that give us something different and elevate a story. Solid and Liquid Snake – Metal Gear Solid

I’m not even going to begin and take you through the labyrinth that is the Metal Gear mythology including why the most recent version of Snake is Jack Bauer now (even though I can because I too, have had a full Saturday to completely waste). What you need to know is that Solid Snake, the protagonist of Metal Gear Solid, wasn’t exactly born of virgin birth, but he was “engineered” to be the perfect soldier receiving all the superior genes of his twin brother. Guess that what left for twin in retrograde Liquid? All the shitty ones. You might feel some kind of way about that too. While there is a larger conspiracy at play (it’s Metal Gear, there’s ALWAYS a bigger story involved), this particular story at its root is about Li…