Introduction[]
Mortician: Snake Eyes, GI Joe’s Elite Assassin.
Redshock: Gray Fox, Foxhound’s Former Friend Turned Cyborg Foe.
Mortician: Assassins are the most dangerous mercenaries anyone could have around. If you’re not careful of your surroundings while being in sight of one of these stealth units.
Redshock: You will be put down with zero hesitation
Snake Eyes[]
Redshock: The G.I. Joe is an elite covert special operations unit under the control of the United States Military. The missions they take part in are supposed to be secretive and highly classified.
Mortician: Unfortunately the creation of the prioritized group was spearheaded by General Flagg who felt that the current assessment of threats required a team that is capable of working around their own limitations. That wasn’t just the start
Redshock: Despite their missions being top secret, they all have taken on high profile missions such as the daring rescue of Dr Adele Buckhurt from Cobra’s infamous clutches. Whose cobra you ask? Well they are a ruthless terrorist organization who’s flat out determined to rule the world and is the esteemed arch nemesis of the entirety of the G.I. Joe.
Mortician: This is why the joes have to ensure they have the best members and one of them is the elite master martial artist, commando warrior and deadly assassin, Snake Eyes.
Redshock: The beginning of his backstory is unknown but we do know that in his early life, he was in the army and served Vietnam alongside Thomas Arashikage AKA Storm Shadow. Under the training of the Arashikage clan, he learned several martial arts and combat skills. Snake Eyes was so adept in it that he earned the praise of not only one but both of the hard and soft masters, thus becoming one hell of an apprentice.
Mortician: Later on, Snake Eyes became an infantry member and a hand to hand combat instructor but also led a division called the Ninja Force that revealed many apprentices such as himself like Scarlet and Storm Shadow. However, he was involved in a helicopter crash. While Scarlett was saved by Snake Eyes, he lost his use of his vocal cords and earned him the title of Silent Master. This is because the damage to his vocal cords prevented him from never speaking.
Redshock: Snake Eyes is one badass ninja, He’s a black belt in 12 different martial art styles being Karate, Kung fu, Ninjutsu, Taekwondo, Aikido, Jujitsu and much more. He’s also a master swordsman with his weapon of choice being the Arashikage Blade. Snake Eyes is also proficient in using Tonfas, Sai’s, Nunchucks, Shurikens.
Mortician: He is also skilled with pistols, machine guns, grappling hooks, spiked grass knuckles and batons. With each weapon, he’s highly experienced in use and knows how to properly use these tools whenever the situation arises.
Redshock: And he has the feats to prove how badass he is. He’s strong enough to break a man’s neck, karate chop a wooden chair effortlessly and even sliced through a cyborg who was resistant to bullets. He even killed an Alligator with ease and American gators have a bit force of 2,125 psi. It’s no wonder he’s everyone’s favorite commando.
Mortician: Snake Eyes can trade blows with Storm Shadow equally without trouble and even did so while holding onto a moving vehicle. He can shatter statues with simple punches and kicks with no difficulty.
Redshock: Snake Eyes is fast enough to dodge gunfire from 14 gunmen, can deflect several arrows with his sword while being shot from behind, sliced a kunai chain clean in half before it can make contact with him, and deflected five crossbow bolts that were aimed in different directions of his body and somehow dispersed them all without even thinking about it
Mortician: Snake Eyes proves why he is the best for the GI Joe, he has gone through so much training that he’s survived being lit on fire, resisted being trapped inside a room filled with lethal gas and plunged his hand in molten lead and kept it there for several seconds
Redshock: The stealth he has is also something to think about, like being able to infiltrate a guarded base without being seen and leaving no trace of evidence regarding footprints in the sand while fighting Storm Shadow.
Mortician: I hate to say it but Snake Eyes does have his faults, he is still human and can be killed with enough force like any other human, and with so much battle damage he had suffered does take a toll on him.
Redshock: He’s incredible and it’s no wonder why he’s the best thing that the G.I Joe has under their belt. He’s the definition of what an assassin really is and if you run into him. I wish you the best of luck to escape before it’s too late. He’s G.I Joe's best serviceman.
Snake Eyes: “Ok, Hard On Master, whatever your name is. Let’s go”.
Gray Fox[]
Mortician: Foxhound was an elite and formidable black ops force of the United States Army established by Big Boss. The function of the unit did alter over the years but Foxhound did specialize in covert, solo infiltration to cope with local revolutions, regional complications and overall global terrorist activities in zones.
Redshock: All agents of Foxhound are defined tactical experience regarding the combat zone but there was one that seemed to be different from everyone else. This was Frank and was recruited as a child soldier in the Mozambican War of Independence. He was usually known for his tactics, rewarding him with the name of Frank Hunter.
Mortician: See the Central Intelligence Agency took Frank from the center and enrolled him into a perfect soldier program. By teaching and educating Frank some techniques according to plan, they turned him into a remorseful killer. He was such a dangerous threat in missions that afterwards, they had no choice but to lock him up within a chamber to erase his memories and suppress his emotions.
Redshock: Dick move, anyway after losing to Solid Snake Frank was victim to a landmine upon enduring the explosive and died. However he survived and was taken to Doctor Clark. This is where he was rebuilt, combined with nanotechnology and gene therapy transforming him into a cyborg ninja. Frank Hunter was gone and Gray Fox was born
Mortician: Gray Fox isn’t your normal ninja, he carries advanced weaponry like his portable laser cannon and of course the high frequency blade. This blade resonates extremely high vibration frequencies allowing it to weaken its target's molecular bonds of anything it cuts through. This increases the blade's cutting and striking ability. Only proficient users were able to wield this piece of weaponry with such accuracy and speed that almost all of those who used the blade including Raiden were able to deflect bullets easily.
Redshock: Gray Fox can trade blows with Solid Snake and Big Boss effortlessly without failure and has the strength to hold back a Metal Gear REX. Despite only holding back briefly for a few seconds, it’s still impressive considering REX weighs over 505 tons.
Mortician: Gray Fox has cut through concrete, steel and even a regular man in half. He can also dodge bullets and even block point blank FAMAS rounds with bullets that travel up to Mach 2 and even Vulcan cannon rounds that can reach up to Mach 3.
Redshock: This is one cyborg that’s tough to deal with because his durability is also very high. Like being able to withstand his arm being cut off by a laser or being crushed from a force slam by a 500 ton REX.
Mortician: His Gray Fox suit has stealth camouflage. He disappears using invisibility while cloaked entirely and has killed several soldiers while doing so and it’s also protected from Mental Attacks like from Mantis.
Redshock: And remember the cannon we mentioned. The suit itself is armed with a sun cannon which is an energy blaster. The blast and radius of them are so powerful that it’s able to take out a Metal Gear REX in just a few shots.
Redshock: But despite all these great feats. He’s definitely not perfect. We’ll admit that as the soldier of perfection he was going to be, he has been educated in combat from a very early age proving to be a very talented killer but it’s suit that has one weakness that’s not good.
Mortician: The problem is that Gray Fox’s cyborg body has periodic violent spasms. This is due to his entire body being composed of electronic devices. When damaged, it leaves an electrical discharge and is vulnerable to things that set it off like chaff grenades and such. It can also leave him temporarily dysfunctional for a few seconds but other than this.
Redshock: Gray Fox is still one of the most deadliest cyborgs that ever lived. Challenge him and your life could be sliced to pieces
Gray Fox: “We’re not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing…the only thing I was good at, but…at least I always fought for what I believed in”.
Death Battle[]
Prologue[]
A Helicopter arrived on top of a skyscraper building. A rope ladder rolled down out of the helicopter and Snake Eyes came down on it before landing on the surface and the helicopter left. Snake Eyes infiltrated building with ease hiding and sneaking past several armed guards. He crawled through a vent before finally entering an office building.
As Snake Eyes was going through some files on a computer, he heard footsteps nearby. Gray Fox was nearby as he got word of a tripped alarm. He is near the officr where Snake Eyes is inside. He says to himself “He’s probably here for the data. I can’t let him take it”. He kicks down the door and sees Snake Eyes
Fight![]
Gray Fox activated his suit’s camouflage, Snake Eyes was ready to throw three shurikens but the cyborg ninja disappeared. Snake Eyes looked around and thought that he probably gave up so he grabbed the hard rice disc and walked out of the room and into a long hallway checking to see if the coast was clear. Then Gray Fox appears before swinging down his high frequency blade, slicing the wall behind Snake Eyes cleanly.
Snake Eyes backflips out the way then tosses the ninja stars but Gray slices each one less than second with his High Frequency Blade. Snake Eyes took out his Arashikage blade and swung it violently. As the two blades stalemated in the process, but Gray’s weapon weakened the molecular bond of Snake Eyes’s blade.
Gray swung his blade downward but Snake Eyes caught it with his two hands to a standstill. Using his strength, he raised up the frequency blade and kicked the cyborg in the stomach. Gray was knocked through a glass window into another office across the one Snake Eyes infiltrated. Gray stood up but Snake was gone. He then walked out the room and looked around. He noticed cardboard box around the corner. Gray Fox goes over and kicks it over and shows that Snake was not underneath the box.
Snake Eyes sneaks up behind Gray before catching him in a headlock. Gray flipped himself and Snake backwards, slamming him against the floor and releasing his grip. Gray hits Snake in his jaw with two elbows strikes causing Snake Eyes to back up. Gray then grabs the back of Snake’s head and bangs it against the wall repeatedly until Snake Eyes delivers a backwards head butt followed by a jump kick to the face. Gray stumbles back before Snake can send a punch his way. Gray ducks underneath and counterattacks with an uppercut. The two ninjas fight in hand to hand combat with each ninja countering each other neither one landing a damaging hit.
Snake Eyes backed away and reached for his Tonfa. Gray Fox shows his high frequency blade once more as the two assassins charge at each other. The Tonfa was quickly sliced in two, Snake Eyes quickly kicked him backward before unleashing his machine gun strapped on his back. Snake Eyes started shooting bullets with Gray slicing them with his blade. Gray Fox activates camouflage, disappearing from his opponent again.
Snake Eyes pulling a pin off a grenade and waited while using his senses, he could sense Gray Fox was behind him so he tossed the grenade behind him before Gray could attempt to strike. The grenade went off affecting Gray’s suit and destroyed Gray’s camouflage system.
Before Snake could attack, the lights in the building went off as Gray let out a discharge of electricity from his suit which shut off the lights in the entire building. Suddenly Gray was behind Snake Eyes, Snake sensed him and delivered an elbow strike before reloading his machine gun. Snake Eyes pelted bullets shattered the concrete wall missing Gray completely. Snake Eyes ran out of ammo and threw the firearm aside and unsheathed the Arashikage blade once more.
Gray clashed with Snake Eyes one last time, until Snake Eyes’s blade was sliced in half, but he managed to disarm Gray and kicked his sword out of his hands. Gray Fox then kicked him, sending Snake Eyes against a wall. Snake threw several more shurikens and rolled away and picked up the High Frequency Blade. Snake Eyes swung the blade but Gray dodged out of the way of his own blade and grabbed Snake’s hands and held onto his blade until he forced his sword out of Snake’s hands and sliced his right arm off. Following it up with another arm slice, he finishes the fight by slicing Snake Eyes in a blur in a flurry of uncountable sword slashes and Snake Eyes’s body erupted in thousands of pieces of blood and flesh
“Piece of Cake” Gray Fox says as he walks away.
Results[]
Redshock: WHAT!? Please tell me this was rigged. There’s no way Snake Eyes would lose right
Mortician: Both Gray and Snake Eyes were some of the best in their units and exceeded in hand to hand combat so they were pretty even so to determine the winner we had to search their physicality and personal feats.
Redshock: Snake Eyes’s proved to be a top tier soldier, I mean he killed an Alligator after biting him which weighs half a ton with bite force of over 2000 PSI. That is incredible but it kinda pales in comparison to briefly holding back a Metal Gear that weighs 110,231 pounds. Far greater than what Snake Eyes can pull off.
Mortician: In terms of Speed they were both pretty much equal with their amazing reaction time and can deflect bullets respectively. But in terms of Durability it pretty much gave Gray the win, he could survive being crushed by a Metal Gear while Snake survived a helicopter crash and last I checked a Metal Gear is way heavier than a helicopter.
Redshock: And the High Frequency Blade was way deadlier than anything Snake Eyes had, sure his Arashikage was very durable but with its weakening molecular bond it could destroy any of Snake Eyes’s weapons
Mortician: With Gray’s Cybernetic Physiology, Advanced Weaponry and Higher Durability made him the victor of this close match.
Redshock: Snake Eyes may have snake in his name but this time around, he went up against a cobra. The Winner Is Gray Fox!
Comparisons[]
Gray Fox[]
- + Physically Faster and Stronger
- + Access To Advanced Weaponry
- + Physically Tougher and More Durable
- + Camouflage Allowed Better Stealth Options
- = Even Hand To Hand Combat
Snake Eyes[]
- + Access To More Weaponry
- = Even Hand To Hand Combat
- - Physically Weaker and Slower
- - Hasn't Survived Anything As Much as Fox
- - Had nothing to counter act the High Frequency Blade
Trivia/Connections[]
Trivia[]
- Track Name is "Militia Ninjas"
- Track Art is Snake Eyes Mask with Gray Fox's Blade behind it
Connections[]
- Both are modern interpretations of Ninja's
- Both are skilled Ninjas with an extensive history of martial arts and weaponry
- Both worked as mercenaries to a secret government elite squad (Foxhound and GI Joe)
- Both have suffered life changing situations (Gray getting rebuilt as a Cyborg and Snake surviving a helicopter crash but lost the use of his voice)