Beowulf + Snake... Separated at Birth?

I never thought (serious[?]) gaming for years would yield such knowledge of many characters, Nintendo and non-Nintendo (for those keeping track, you might have assumed I'm a Nintendo dude, no Xbox or PS3 on this blog, sorry guys...) but anyways I learn about many aspects of video game characters. One "non-Nintendo" character that interests me is the die-hard snake eater from Metal Gear, Snake.

That's nothing compared to claymores...

So then I was fiddling around with the Google image search engine (something I don't usually do with Google) and I just happened to type *Beowulf* into the search bar. Looking at the Teeth in the Darkness somehow made me remember that little PS3 soldier with as much guts as guns. And suddenly-

Yeah, I was amazed too...

I spotted striking similarities between two of my top 50 favorite heroes of all time, ranging from hair bands to very-manly beards and even a prominent self-esteem, and perhaps the kind of talk is another distant likeness, but the "Talons in the Night" has a strange accent and stranger way of speaking. Then again, Beowulf is British.

I am not British! I... AM... BEOWULF!!!!

Yeah, right, Ray, and this... is... Sparta.

Well, anyway, of course there ARE [hardly any] differences between the two, most notably their time periods, hair color, accent, methods, weapons-of-choice, accent, eye color, clothing preferences, accent, and probably their resistance to women (which Beowulf has none in stock) And did I mention their different accent?

Well, as far as I know (I don't know much about Snake, remember I'm a Nintendo fan) Snake is a military veteran who seems to be the best man for jobs like stopping a mad scientist from commanding all the military in the world via brain implants (as of MGS4) He started sporting a muy-macho beard in MGS3 and has not taken it off for SSBB.

Yep, he's in Super Smash Brothers Brawl, HOORAY!!

However, he did shave it as he got older in MGS4, but he still shows off a manly mustache which makes the Sony mascot not too different from another mustachioed mascot I know and have written about.

Someone with a greater timeline of games...

As for Beowulf, well, he's as real to us as MMORPG's are to computer geeks that spend up to fifteen weeks with their asses stuck to the chair and eyes sucked into the screen. Beowulf is just Bors with a LOT of digital work-out. Mark my words, it was such a classic and spectacular motion picture, that the incursion of such a fat actor just turned it into "a bloody mess".

Sorted out, he's basically this: