This, in addition to Chozo DNA, has turned her into an excellent fighter with practically superhuman capabilities when it comes to strength, speed, and endurance. It's a flawless transition and the new games focus on a dangerous substance known as Phazon that infect any genetic material.
Samus experiences deadly side effects and it's not until she destroys the Phazon's source, planet Phaaze, that she's able to fully heal and avoid corruption. Samus Aran is orphaned at a very young age and rather than be abandoned, she's taken in by the alien Chozo race. The Chozo become instrumental for Samus' powerful development. They don't only train her, but they build her the iconic Power Suit that amplifies many of her skills and keeps her better prepared for the outside world.
Samus looks like a human, but in many ways she's been raised as a Chozo. Samus travels all across the galaxy and the look of her gunship is nearly as recognizable as her distinct Power Suit. Samus' primary ship resembles her helmet and features a mix of both Federation and Chozo technology. The amiibo-locked hardest difficulty mode of the game is actually called Fusion difficulty in a nod to Fusion , which has Samus donning the Fusion Suit Good Is Not Soft : Quintessential.
The first time she spares the life of a child-enslaving pirate overseer; is so she can interrogate him. Furthermore, according to the backstory of Weavel in Metroid Prime Hunters , Samus beat him up so badly that the only parts of his body that weren't beyond repair were his brain and spinal cord.
Gun Fu : Seen especially in Other M , where her Overblasts and Lethal Strikes have her throw hands up-close with aliens before hitting them with point-blank cannon shots. She's gotten more and more hands on since then, such as the Melee Counters in Samus Returns and Dread. The Gunslinger The auto-lock is not technological. Revamped straight over into Improbable Aiming Skills in the manga. When five pirates are about to execute a girl.
They all fire simultaneously while encircling her. Aran deflects all of their shots away with her own beam, With four inhumanly quick shots of her own. Also an accomplished Quick Draw. And by accomplished, we mean she can take down multiple opponents and make it look like a single shot. This, with a weapon that's effectively an artillery piece. Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold : A gorgeous blonde, and about as kind of a mercenary as you could possibly know.
She has to be an optimist to endure what she's been through. For most of the series, she's a human with enough Chozo traits to survive where they resided, but then Fusion brings in the vaccine made from the infant Metroid Queen's stem-cells; which her unique organism adapts much in the same way her suit can adapt modular, alien technologies in order to fight off the infestation.
From there, fans debate about whether exposure to absorbed X Parasites when recovering her arsenal has messed up her genes further ; Nintendo itself has been silent on the matter. The game shows that the X Parasites were destroyed by her Metroid vaccine.
Metroids eat life energy, not solid food, so she's not integrating absorbed X physically into herself, but it's implied that the X she gets abilities from had them biologically, rather than mechanically, so fans understandably still argue. Hammerspace : Apparently, Chozo tech can store physical mass as energy, allowing her to manifest her armor from thin air. However, when she is not wearing the armor and her ship is totalled, her armor is destroyed, suggesting it's physical manifestation is teleporting it in and out of a vehicle's compartment.
This still applies, as the "Hunter Class Gun Ship" of "Prime 3" can have a much higher missile payload than its size suggests. A payload that can be restored by grabbing ammunition in her armor miles away from the vessel. Happily Adopted : Her second family foisted her with an unforgettable legacy.
Defend the Universe as the Entrusted One , at her request they allowed her to claim their nearly lost arts of destruction in order to avenge her home and birth parents against the forces of chaos. It's quite clear that this orphan received the best break possible after such a rotten start to life, cherished by both her foster-fathers in their dying moments as the supreme exemplar of both humanity and the Chozo.
Specifically, Samus was adopted by two Chozo, who took her to Zebes. Harmful to Minors : The Space Pirate raid of K-2L, which involved Ridley killing her mother right in front of her, happened when she was only three years old. Dread reveals an additional genetic donor who is none other than Raven Beak , meaning Archnemesis Dad is in full effect here. Heartbroken Badass : So far her family, adoptive family, the Metroid hatchling, mentors and many close friends have all been horrifically killed, with her often unable to do anything about it.
She suffers a horrific one in the manga. When she encounters Ridley again on Zebes, she becomes paralyzed in fear. Ridley realizes who Samus is and proceeds to beat her senselessly, sadistically telling her how he survived on K-2L by eating the corpses of her friends and relatives, particularly her mother. Suffering a relapse of trauma, Samus loses control of the mental link between herself and her Power Suit and goes into a catatonic trance, hyperventilating, eyes rolled into the back of her head and screaming repeatedly to be killed by her own allies as her fear is all-encompassing and overwhelming.
Although she later 'overcomes' this breakdown in about the most cathartic way possible, she is implied to still suffer PTSD-induced nightmares many years after the fact. An infamous one in Other M. Normally, Samus has fought Ridley several times without giving into fear despite what he represents to her. However, the repercussions of Super Metroid left her unprepared for Ridley's inevitable return. Samus believes that she had killed Ridley for good this time , helped by the fact his pieces were still on Zebes when it exploded.
She did not anticipate to see Ridley alive and well note It's later revealed to be a clone. It took the sight of her friend Anthony Higgs being knocked into a molten pit by Ridley for Samus to snap out of this state, and she delivers a world of hurt for the resurrected Space Dragon. Samus's breakdown was intended as a reference to her PTSD and the above scene from the manga, but players particularly those of Western audiences may not have read it and may not be aware of just what Ridley's sudden reappearance meant for her, making the scene seem incredibly out of place and out of character for Samus — especially considering she had gone toe-to-toe with Ridley multiple times in the past, while at least mentally seeming none the worse for wear.
Even his chronologically later appearance in Fusion as an X-clone yields zero reaction from Samus. Heroic Build : Samus is depicted this way Depending on the Artist. Ultimate depict Samus as being more muscular. Other M , uniquely, depicted her as even more slender than in other games. There's one particular image that can be viewed with a linked "Fusion" and "Zero Mission" where Samus's arms are about as wide as her waist.
Horror Hunger : She begins to show it in Metroid Dread as her awakened Metroid DNA sets in, as after counter-hitting an enemy that tried to attack her and stunning it, she instinctively makes to consume it with her new power.
She has to physically restrain herself to finish it with her Arm Cannon instead, the effort leaving her visibly panting afterwards. Unfortunately for her, Raven Beak creates another situation for her to use her new feeding ability, and as it's against the Power Bomb-wielding E. Heroic Willpower : Yoshio Sakamoto said in an interview that Samus's second Power Suit from Zero Mission manifests though inhuman levels of willpower and concentration.
Other M shows it can dissipate if she falters. Sakamoto compared her losing her suit to a salary-man losing his tie in a bullet train. Later games not only retain this missile carrying capacity but add things such as power bombs and ammunition for much stranger weapons. An Ice Person : Her most prominent power in terms of taking on Metroids is the Ice Beam, taking advantage of the Metroids' natural susceptibility to cold. Flipped on its head in Fusion , where Samus fears the Ice Beam as a result of the Metroid vaccine and can't use it herself until the very end of the game.
Samus can also use the cold plasma-based Judicator in Hunters , though since it's not her affinity weapon, she doesn't get as much mileage out of it as Noxus who can release a freezing blast by charging it. Iconic Outfit : Her Varia Suit has become her signature form in most of her appearances. Her Zero Suit later became her other major apparel. I Let Gwen Stacy Die : She lost many people she cares in her life, and she feels personally responsible for their deaths. In a flashback scene in Other M , it's revealed that Samus was prevented by Adam Malkovich to go rescue Ian Malkovich, his younger brother, because he refused to risk many more lives to be in jeopardy.
This became the catalyst for her to leave the Galactic Federation and become an independent bounty hunter. However, she was overwhelmed during her battle with Mother Brain, and could only watch as the baby Metroid performed a Heroic Sacrifice to give Samus the winning edge.
Given that she spared the newborn Metroid out of sympathy in first place, which nearly allowed the Space Pirates to gain an army of Metroids , she was personally affected by its demise, leading to self-doubt and depression that contributed to her sudden, passive personality in Other M. Implacable Man : A heroic example. The Space Pirates fear her as a force that they cannot turn away, no matter their numbers. Gets especially bad in Metroid Prime 2 where the Pirates already have their hands full with Dark Samus, and then the genuine article makes planetfall and things go From Bad to Worse for them.
Insistent Terminology : Since the very first game, Samus has officially been a bounty hunter, even though she's clearly a mercenary, and never does any actual bounty hunting.
This may be an artifact of her similarity to Boba Fett , who, like Samus, is a "bounty hunter" who functions more as a mercenary. It Gets Easier : In Metroid Dread , after fighting the urge to use her new Metroid feeding ability after her Metroid DNA fully sets in, she finds herself forced to use it when ambushed and pinned down by the orange E.
After being made to use it out of necessity, she quickly becomes too comfortable with it, immediately thereafter flaunting it to consume a Chozo X Parasite and returning to finish off the E. This ends up working against her, as fostering this power is precisely what Raven Beak wanted her to do.
It's Personal with the Dragon : Zigzagged; while Ridley is Samus' primary Arch-Enemy , Mother Brain has more than earned her personal emnity, with such actions as betraying Samus' adoptive caretakers for the Space Pirates and killing the baby Metroid that formed a bond with her. Most forms of damage that would go to her energy is instead taken by her Aeion reserve, and she suffers no knockbacks while it's active, allowing her to plow right through whatever gets thrown at her so long as the Aeion lasts.
Knight Errant : Running down the checklist, the only real reason not to consider her one is the scope of her adventures. And, as the narration occasionally reminds us, even a single planet is often just a drop in the cosmic bucket. Know When to Fold 'Em : Despite her skill as a bounty hunter, Samus knows when a situation is hopeless. When she realizes that her attacks cannot harm an E. I, she turns tail and runs.
The Lad-ette : Implied. Lady of War : On the contrary to the prior point, she cracks skulls and does it with obscene poise and grace. She embodies this especially with the Light Suit in Prime 2. Last of Her Kind : Thanks to the Metroid hatchling vaccine and the destruction of all known genetic labs dedicated to cloning the Metroids, she is the last known source of Metroid DNA. In fact, she is considered to be very last Metroid as the DNA infusion has been transforming her into one herself. Le Parkour : Supremely gifted at navigating treacherous environments at a constant sprint.
As well as performing an assortment of jumps, flips and tumbles that would make an Olympian gymnast green with envy. This is taken Up to Eleven in Other M , Samus Returns , and Dread where she can now do combat counters and moves in addition to her firepower.
Leitmotif : Samus has had three theme songs over the years. Samus Aran's Appearance Fanfare marks her entrance in every Metroid game to date, with the sole exception of Metroid II: Return of Samus and even this instance was rectified in the remake. Even Metroid Prime: Federation Force , which hardly reused any preexisting Metroid music in its soundtrack, used this fanfare as Samus's leitmotif. This makes more sense in light of the theme's triumphant reprise during the final battle.
However, this theme was never used again after its debut in Super Metroid. Theme of Super Metroid , on the other hand, has appeared in almost every Metroid game since its debut in Super Metroid. When it was remixed for Super Smash Bros.
Brawl , it was given the new title Theme of Samus Aran, Space Warrior , supplanting the original Crateria theme as Samus's new leitmotif. Life Drinker : Gains this power in earnest towards the later half of Dread as she fully turns into a proper Metroid hybrid, but upgrades into full Energy Absorption by her rematch with Raven Beak as she effortlessly absorbs ANY energy in proximity to her, including inorganic such as the fortress ship's energy reserves.
Life Energy This is apparently how the health and ammo pickups work, according to the first game's manual. Parental Abandonment : Not by choice, mind you.
Both Rodney and Virginia Aran perished when Samus was three years old. They were killed by Space Pirates, with Ridley being the one who incinerated Virginia before young Samus's eyes. Partial Transformation : In the manga, Samus is capable of manifesting her suit's Arm Cannon without the rest of the suit. Person of Mass Destruction : A one-woman army in the most advanced piece of Power Armor in the universe, possessed of enough power to level almost anything: man, beast, army, world, ghost or Physical God.
Samus gathers the twelve Artifact and opens the Impact Crater, confronting and defeating Meta Ridley in the process. Inside the crater, she encounters the source of Phazon on the planet, Metroid Prime. As the creature is defeated, it grabs hold of Samus' Phazon Suit , but destabilizes.
Samus departs Tallon IV, and leaves for another assignment. However, the Metroid Prime survived, as Dark Samus. The disappearance of the G. Tyr prompts the Galactic Federation to send Samus Aran to investigate.
She discovers that the entire crew of the Tyr has been killed by hordes of creatures called Splinters , [69] and that their bodies have become hosts for an unknown parasitic biomass. He explains that the impact of a cosmic object on the planet caused a division , and that as a result, Aether exists in a state of Transdimensional Flux. During her mission, she encounters her Phazon -powered doppelganger Dark Samus , Metroid Prime reborn using DNA from Samus and the structure of her Phazon suit, and engages her in combat multiple times.
She also dismantles several Space Pirate operations on the planet. She finally makes her way to the top of the dark Sky Temple and kills the Emperor Ing , siphoning the last of the stolen planetary energy. This causes Dark Aether to collapse. As she escapes, she encounters Dark Samus again.
She engages her in combat, presumably destroying her, and saves the planet. After the incident, the G. Anhur comes to the planet and helps the Luminoth rebuild. The crew of the Anhur finds Phazon left behind by the Space Pirates and brings it back with them. About six months after the events that occurred on the planet Aether, Samus Aran is again issued an assignment by the Galactic Federation: she is to travel to the G. The four hunters are briefed concerning a digital Phazon virus that had spread to several supercomputers dubbed Aurora Units.
The Space Pirates then launch an attack on the planet being orbited by the Olymupus , Norion , which is one of the most important military planets in the entire Galactic Federation. On the surface of Norion, the hunters and the Federation realize that the Space Pirates have disabled several power conduits that are needed for the digital interfaces to work properly. Aurora Unit suddenly indicates that a Phazon-like meteor, later revealed to be a Leviathan , is about to crash into the planet and will infect Norion in its entirety with Phazon if it is not stopped.
Samus and the hunters are dispatched to restore energy to the downed power conduits, which in turn will power an energy cannon that can be used to destroy the meteor. While Samus is engaged in this task, she encounters Meta Ridley , once again resurrected by the Space Pirates. She defeats him and restores power to all the generators. Once the hunters arrive at the Energy Cannon's controls, they encounter the revived Dark Samus. Samus, however, is able to remain awake long enough to fire the Energy Cannon, destroying the meteor.
One month later, Samus awakens and is informed by a trooper that the other three hunters woke up several weeks ago. The hunters were producing Phazon on their own as a result of Dark Samus' attack, but the Federation's medical team noticed no ill-effects, so they outfitted the hunters with Phazon Enhancement Devices.
The three hunters had been sent to Bryyo , Elysia , and the Pirate Homeworld to destroy Leviathans that had impacted there, but communications with them were lost shortly thereafter, and so Samus is issued a PED Suit , similar in nature and appearance to those being worn by several squads of Federation Marines, [77] and is issued a new assignment: find and destroy the Leviathans and, if possible, discover what happened to the other hunters.
Each of the hunters attacks Samus when she encounters them, and Samus is forced to terminate them. While on the Pirate Homeworld, Samus learns that the hunters had been completely consumed by Phazon and were under the dominion of Dark Samus.
Dark Samus had even placed them in command of the Space Pirate forces on each planet. After Samus completes her mission, Aurora Unit announces the discovery of a single planet that is the source of all Phazon, called Phaaze , and that Dark Samus has been controlling it using Aurora Unit , stolen from the GFS Valhalla. When Samus arrives at Phaaze and steps out of her gunship, the sheer amount of Phazon present in her body causes her Phazon corruption to rise to one-hundred percent.
Her ship no longer recognizes her, so passage on the gunship is unavailable until she rids her body of the Phazon corruption. Once Samus arrives at the Sanctum of the Phazon core, she encounters Dark Samus once again and engages her in battle.
Dark Samus is forced to merge with the stolen Aurora Unit as a last resort. With her Phazon levels ever rising, Samus destroys the corrupted supercomputer. Dark Samus emerges from the downed Aurora Unit and makes one last gesture towards Samus before vanishing into a gas of Phazon, never to be seen again. Samus quickly flees the unstable planet. Her objective is completed, but at great cost; many Federation troopers and ships were lost, the lives of each of the other hunters, and great mental distress to Samus herself.
With Phaaze eliminated, the threat of Phazon Corruption disappears. Samus flies off in search of a new mission, but she is followed by a mysterious ship. Some time after neutralizing the threat Phazon posed, Samus is ordered to eradicate the entire Metroid population on the planet of SR After a fierce battle with the Queen Metroid, Samus emerges victorious and completes her main objective.
However, after heading towards her gunship to leave SR, a Metroid , the last of its kind, hatches from an egg. Instead of terminating the infant Metroid, Samus takes it to the Ceres Space Colony for the Galactic Federation to conduct research on the specimen. Shortly after departing from the Ceres Space Colony, Samus receives a distress signal indicating that the colony had come under attack by Space Pirates. After further exploration into Ceres, Samus encounters Ridley, who is holding the Metroid.
She is unable to defeat Ridley before he flees with the Metroid and activates the station's self-destruct. Samus follows the Pirates to a rebuilt Zebes to finish them off and retrieve the Hatchling.
On Zebes, Samus encounters several enemies she has encountered in the past, such as Kraid. New additions are also added to the Pirate forces. After defeating Kraid, Phantoon , Draygon , and Ridley, Samus gains access to a rebuilt and pulchritudinous Tourian where she discovers a host of Metroids.
Deeper within the lair, she confronts the Metroid Hatchling, which has grown to a massive size; it appears to be in its adult stage. The Metroid feeds on Samus's Energy Tanks and leaves her with a single unit of energy before flying off. Once she recovers, Samus works her way to Mother Brain. Though she manages to destroy Mother's containment vessel, Mother rises up from the ground with a mechanical body.
Among her many attacks, Mother fires an energy beam that is powerful enough to immobilize Samus. The Hatchling then begins replenishing Samus's energy, even as it is assaulted by Mother Brain. After her energy is restored, the Metroid again tries to attack Mother Brain, but it is killed in the process. Samus discovers that as a result of the Hatchling's restoration of her health, all of her beam weapons are replaced by the far more powerful Hyper Beam.
She then uses her new-found power to destroy Mother Brain. Immediately after Mother Brain is defeated, a self-destruct sequence is activated. Samus escapes, and the entire planet is destroyed in the explosion. A few months after her return from Zebes, Samus, who is no longer under orders, receives a distress signal known as "Baby's Cry," which is emanating from a space station known as the Bottle Ship , and takes it upon herself to respond and investigate the facility.
Although she is initially left in the dark about the Federation's motives Anthony Higgs is the only person who treats her amicably , she cooperates with the platoon to take down the Brug Mass. Adam allows Samus to aid the Federation if she will accept his one condition: she must obey orders from him.
Her directives take her to three sectors, each with a different simulated environment. She faces many familiar enemies during her stay, along with a plethora of new and bizarre creations, including Nightmare and the RB Ferrocrusher.
She eventually learns from Madeline Bergman that a rogue group of Federation agents has been, against Federation protocol, genetically modifying the life-forms aboard the ship for use as bioweapons. The group in charge also dispatched an assassin to eliminate anyone who learns this, and this assassin is in the platoon. Much to her surprise, Samus also learns that Mother Brain's AI was used to create an android that could control Metroids, [91] long thought to have been extinguished, and that DNA from her Power Suit was even used to unwittingly clone Ridley.
Her desire to stop the rogue agent and resolve the crisis leads Samus to the Bioweapon Research Center , an off-shoot of the Biosphere, where she meets the real Madeline Bergman , [94] and discovers that she and other scientists accidentally created a Queen Metroid. After a long and difficult battle made worse with the knowledge that Adam sacrificed himself to destroy Sector Zero , Samus destroys the Queen, shuts down the rebellious android, and leaves the Bottle Ship, which has since been marked by the Federation for destruction.
She returns before the Federation destroys the ship in order to retrieve Adam's helmet, but her task is hindered by the appearance of another enemy from her past, Phantoon. With the specter's defeat, a self-destruct sequence is activated. Samus races to and climbs into her Gunship, clad in her Zero Suit. As she places Adam's helmet in the seat beside her, Samus reflects on her experiences on the Bottle Ship and narrowly escapes her demise.
Some time after her return from the Bottle Ship, Samus is tasked with guarding a group of Biologic Space Labs research station employees who are studying the life-forms of SR now that the planet is devoid of Metroids.
L Research Station, the X infects her central nervous system, causing her to lose consciousness and control of her ship, which crashes into a nearby asteroid belt after ejecting an escape pod with Samus inside. Once she recovers, Samus, clad in the Fusion Suit , is given a new ship with a built-in computer through which she receives orders, which she names after her former commanding officer, and is sent back to B. Research Station to investigate after it is marred by a large explosion.
Once Samus is on board the station, she is told to uplink to her ship's computer via a Navigation Room in order to receive her mission directives.
She is sent to the Quarantine Bay , the station's holding area for the specimens brought from SR, and discovers that the specimens are infected with X parasites. Samus is then ordered to find and exterminate the X on board the station so as to keep them out of its six simulated breeding environments, or sectors.
Samus travels through each Sector, defeating enemies and acquiring upgrades on the way, including an X-copy of herself , known as the SA-X.
Because the SA-X reproduces asexually, like all X Parasites, no fewer than ten are on board the station by the time she defeats Yakuza. Her escape is hampered when she encounters a copy of the frozen corpse of Ridley, the second specimen taken from the Bottle Ship.
Its eyes glow when Samus approaches, and she is forced into battle with an X version of her nemesis. After she emerges victorious, Samus learns from her ship's computer that the Federation is approaching the station, having taken an interest in the X. Adam informs Samus that it is possible to redirect the station's orbit so that SR is destroyed with the station's detonation, and her final mission is to change the orbit and escape the station alive.
She manages to reduce it to its base X form, though it flees before she can absorb it. She reaches the docking bay, only to find her ship missing and an Omega Metroid waiting in its place. It attacks her, leaving her at the brink of death. The Omega Metroid damages it and permanently reduces it to its base form. It dies, Samus's ship returns, and she escapes the station just before it collides with SR, obliterating both. After defeating Yaridovich and retrieving the fifth Star Piece , if Mario and his friends return to the Mushroom Kingdom castle in Toad Town , they can find Samus lying on a bed, clad in her Power Suit, in one of the guest rooms.
When interacted with, she will say: " I'm resting up for Mother Brain". Samus recruits Kirby to aid her in eliminating a swarm of Metroids. The level that this is in appears to be a combination of Tourian and Norfair by design, and the fact that the Ice ability is required for the Heart Star is in reference to how the Metroids are extremely susceptible to cold in their early stages. Samus has appeared in every installment of the Super Smash Bros.
Her basic special attack is her Charge Beam, which she begins charging when the B button is pressed. She will finish charging when the B button is pressed again, or the beam is fully charged. This can then be fired by pressing B once more. She can fire Missiles, which can either home in on opponents, but with weak attack power, or speed them up, at the expense of their homing capabilities.
She also has the ability to switch to Morph Ball form temporarily in order to drop Bombs. Bombs can be used to perform 'bomb jumps' in a similar manner as the Prime series. She uses her Morph Ball form for another attack, Screw Attack, which attacks opponents while jumping highly. She also has a Grapple Beam, which can be used to grab opponents, or the edge of the stage, helping her chances of survival.
In Super Smash Bros. For her Power Suit Final Smash, Zero Laser, she fires a massive full-power beam, which will almost all the time KO anyone in it's path, the power of which is so great it shatters her Power Suit, leaving her in Zero Suit form. The broken remnants of the Power Suit can then be picked up and thrown at opponents to cause a small amount of damage. She loses this ability in Super Smash Bros. Samus also has a major role in Brawl' s Subspace Emissary mode.
She infiltrates the Research Facility in search of her Power Suit. During her search, she finds Pikachu being used as a power source, which appears to be physically painful. She and Pikachu fight their way through the facility, eventually coming upon three Power Suit clones. They appear to be clad in the Gravity Suit and have glowing purple visors. The pair defeats the clones, and Samus regains her suit.
Her victory is short-lived, however, as they soon encounter Ridley, who grabs Samus and scrapes her against the wall. Using its Thunder attack, Pikachu rescues the bounty hunter from the Pirate leader's clutches, and a battle ensues. After Ridley's defeat, Samus and Pikachu meet up with other heroes in the Subspace Bomb Factory , initiating the next part of the story. Samus is one of the characters who can travel through the Great Maze and fight Tabuu.
Soon after, Samus set out into the galaxy to find her own way in life. Driven by the murder of her parents, Samus quickly enlisted herself as a soldier the Galactic Federation Army.
During her time as a member of the military, she served under the command of Adam Malkovich. Mutual respect between the two grew into a friendship that was shared with Adam's younger brother and fellow soldier Ian. However, after Ian was left to die during a mission under Adam's command, Samus became disillusioned with military life and left. Following her departure from the army, she became a freelance bounty hunter, leading to her adventures in the Metroid series. She has long blonde hair, usually tied into a ponytail.
In the original game her hair was miscolored as brown. Her hair color also changes depending on the suit she is wearing - green, red, and violet are some of the colors that have been seen. Her eyes are blue with a green tinge in most games, but in Metroid: Other M her eyes are green and her she has short hair. Samus' personality hasn't often been explored, which, as is the case with many of Nintendo's other main characters, was a conscious decision by Nintendo to allow players to better integrate themselves into the experience.
However, she is clearly an introvert. She spends her time alone for long periods of time, her ship is designed with only a single seat, she left her military unit to work on her own, and she rarely speaks, even when in the presence of more social characters, so pretty much every facet of Samus' personality reinforces this.
On the one hand, she is very ruthless when dealing with her enemies, but on the other, she is also known for her compassion, as shown by her consistently standing up for the helpless and downtrodden. A couple of good examples of this are when she volunteered to single-handedly save the Luminoth race from the brink of extinction, and when she helped innocent Etecoons and a Dachora escape a self-destructing Zebes.
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