>>13549955Solidus was actually the Michaels, it just doesn't look that way from what we see.
Liquid was a terrorist who got crushed by the machine, and Solid is and always was just a soldier.
Solidus is the youngest, but he raises an army of child soldiers in Liberia. He becomes the President of the United States. He rebels against the Patriots, and he's only stopped because they send Raiden, his greatest protege, to kill him. And honestly, if you can only be killed by someone you trained to be a master killing machine, it's kind of still a win.