History Awesome / Metroid

* Awesome/SuperMetroid
* Awesome/MetroidPrimeTrilogy
** Awesome/MetroidPrime
** Awesome/MetroidPrimeFederationForce
* Awesome/MetroidManga
* Awesome/MetroidSamusAndJoey
* Awesome/MetroidZeroMission
* Awesome/MetroidOtherM
* Awesome/MetroidSamusReturns

[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/msr_mother_brain.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[WeDoTheImpossible Against all odds]], [[ActionGirl Samus Aran]] eradicated the [[DemonicSpiders Metroids]] on [[DeathWorld Zebes]] and defeated [[BigBad Mother Brain]], the leader of the Space Pirates. And so their plans were thwarted.]]

* ''Super Metroid'' has two characters get a CMOA in the same scene. The fight with Mother Brain isn't going too well--she transforms from a helpless brain in a jar to a towering, drooling, screeching beastie and has Samus at her mercy. Just as Mother Brain's charging up for the final blow, the Metroid hatchling Samus saved from Metroid II shows up all grown up and drains Mother Brain into submission, then transfers the energy to Samus while taking heavy fire. It brings Samus back to full health before one last shot from Mother Brain kills it. After its heart-rending death squeal, Samus stands up. Hello, [[EleventhHourSuperPower Hyper Beam]]. Hello, ThemeMusicPowerUp. And hello, ''MamaBear''.
** This scene is even ''visually'' awesome, before, your most powerful weapons were barely scratching Mother Brain. The Hyper Beam, on the other hand, ''[[CurbStompBattle sends her reeling with each hit.]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz3aF1kw5k Here]] is a link to watch the battle.
** Even better still, if you chill for a moment and just obvserve Mother Brain, she moves around and shoots at Samus a lot more frantically in the second half. [[ShowDontTell Knowing the amount of detail put into this game]], there is no doubt in mind that Mother Brain is ''[[WhyWontYouDie panicking and desperately trying to stop Samus.]]''

* Most of the early SA-X encounters in ''Fusion'' involve you running and hiding because the feared evil twin can easily kill Samus with one shot of the Ice Beam and Super Missile (in that order). Once you have the Varia Suit, the Ice Beam won't freeze you (still hurts a lot, though), and by the time you meet SA-X again after getting said Varia Suit, you will be able to turn the tables on it by using Ice Missiles to freeze it. It only buys you about one second to run away, but this troper couldn't help but think "Who's laughing now?!" before running like hell to a hiding place.

* The fact that we're getting not one, but '''''two''''' new Metroid games; A remake of ''Metroid II'' for the 3DS, and ''Metroid Prime 4'' for the Switch. After the... mixed reception that ''Other M'' and ''Federation Force'' received, many feared Samus's adventures had come to an end. And then E3 2017 happened. After seven years of the fans asking, ''begging'' for new, true Metroid content... Nintendo listened. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Samus. Is. BACK.]]

[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/metroid_awesome.png]]]]

See [[Awesome/MetroidPrime this page]] for moments specific to the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy.''
----

* ''Any'' of the 'Captain N The Game Master' comics which star Samus as the clear [[TheAce Ace of the cosmos]]. A bad-ass Amazonian mercenary, Han Solo DistaffCounterpart who appreciates the finer things in life: like love, money and big guns.

*** Retroactively, that scene becomes even more impressive. That alien that Samus picks up and swings around ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''-style? That's Kraid. He was [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a lot smaller]] in [[VideoGame/{{Metroid1}} the NES days]], but try imagining Samus doing this to the {{Kaiju}}-sized Kraid that we know and love today. No wonder she's so highly regarded as a badass.

--> '''Samus:''' ''(to Kraid)'' A month in solitary, or a month in the ''hospital''! It's your choice...
* In the manga, the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Chozo Scholar]], Gray Voice, [[ReverseMole pretends to betray his people]] when the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Space Pirates]] invade Zebes. He then reveals that he was just looking for a chance to take out Mother Brain, and, dusting off an old Chozo suit of PoweredArmor and a beam stave that eclipses anything from Stargate, starts blasting away at Mother with energy pulses that are too ancient for her more modern shields to compensate for. This is also in spite of the fact that the Chozo have all psionically vowed to renounce all violence under a Geis of crippling pain.
** Mother gets desperate and calls in her chief-lieutenant, Gray then fights Ridley to a stand-still, ''in close-quarters combat'' and it is only when Mother uses some sort of mental attack accompanied with a BreakingSpeech, that Gray is incapacitated long enough for Ridley to impale Aran's foster-father on his barbed tail. Gray proceeds to ''walk off'' this mortal wound, destroy one of the pursuit craft harassing Samus's escape and plant the Varia Suit for his daughter at a Chozo shrine just before Ridley consumes him with a jet of plasma breath.
--> '''Ridley:''' So you came all this way. You're a tenacious bastard... Crawl to your tombstone, old man! You may refuse to die... But your friends will!
** One for Miss Aran also, who is standing on top of the unarmed ship and manually sniping Pirate vessels out of the sky while she rides through the atmosphere; likening it to defending against a thousand spears with a single sword. Sam ''succeeds.''
* When Samus finally got out of being TheChick and TookALevelInBadass, she has three [=CMOAs=] in Volume 2:
** [[http://metroid-database.com/manga/official_vol_2_en/ch_0013/scaled/sc_metroid_v02_ch0071.png Power walking with a]] [[BadassLongcoat bad-ass white long coat]]. It just shows how awesome she is, especially when she easily defeats ''twelve'' power armoured GF Marines, while wearing it, then rescues Chairman Keaton with a single shot.
** [[https://orig13.deviantart.net/8931/f/2017/143/1/b/manga_samus_by_s3k94-dba883a.png Samus... dressing down the higher ups of the Federation... while wearing her tank top short shorts ensemble]]! No one can get away with arguing the point with world leaders dressed so. Well Samus does, baby!
** '''[[http://metroid-database.com/manga/official_vol_2_en/ch_0016/scaled/sc_metroid_v2_ch16_145.png THREE! I'll defeat you by the count of three!]]'''.
--> "If you're capable of it, then let's count together!"
*** Then she quashes her fear, [[CurbStompBattle fries out Ridley's muscular system, freezes his twisted body and turns him into a burnt crisp with a super missile]]. ''While [[UpToEleven counting to three]]''.

** [[http://metroid-database.com/manga/official_vol_2_en/ch_0014/scaled/sc_metroid_v02_ch0091.png Talking to the higher ups of the Federation...in a half tank top and shorts]]. Just like if someone can talk to the UN dressed like her.

** You can experience the hilarity and unmitigated awesome right [[http://cnn.captainn.net/com_issueguide.html here]].

* In the manga, when Samus finally got out of being TheChick and TookALevelInBadass, she has three [=CMOAs=]:

*** Then she quashes her fear, [[CurbStompBattle fries out Ridley's muscular system, freezes his twisted body and turns him into a burnt crisp with a super missile]]. ''While [[UpToEleven counting to three]]''.

* In the manga, one of the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Chozo]], Gray Voice, after [[ReverseMole pretending to betray the Chozo]] when the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Space Pirates]] invade Zebes, reveals that he was just looking for a chance to take out the Mother Brain, and, dusting off an old Chozo suit of PoweredArmor, starts blasting away at the Mother Brain with a BFG, despite the fact that the Chozo all programed themselves to feel intense pain if they ever used violence.
** Gray then fights Ridley to a stand-still, ''in close-quarters combat'' and it is only when Mother uses some sort of mental attack accompanied with a BreakingSpeech, that Gray is incapacitated long enough for Ridley to impale Aran's foster-father on his barbed tail. Gray proceeds to ''walk off'' this mortal wound, destroy one of the pursuit craft harassing Samus' escape and plant the Varia Suit for his daughter at a Chozo shrine just before Ridley consumes him with a jet of plasma breath.
--> '''Ridley:''' So you came all this way. You're a tenacious bastard... Crawl to your tombstone, old man! You may refuse to die... But your friends will!
** One for Miss Aran also, who is standing on top of the unarmed ship and manually sniping Pirate vessels out of the sky while she rides through the atmosphere; likening it to defending against a thousand spears with a single sword. Sam ''succeeds.''

!!Manga/Comics

* ''Any'' of the 'Captain N The Game Master' comics which star Samus as a hilariously bad-ass Amazonian mercenary who appreciates the finer things in life: like love, money and big guns.
** You can experience the hilarity and unmitigated awesome right [[http://cnn.captainn.net/com_issueguide.html here]].
** Aran and Princess Lana being imprisoned on the penal colony of RX 338. In [[http://cnn.captainn.net/scans/cn4-18.jpg one page]], Samus becomes ''more awesome'' than Richard B. Riddick and [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Walter Kovacks]], ''combined''.
*** Retroactively, that scene becomes even more impressive. That alien that Samus picks up and swings around ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''-style? That's Kraid. He was [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a lot smaller]] in [[VideoGame/{{Metroid1}} the NES days]], but try imagining Samus doing this to the {{Kaiju}}-sized Kraid that we know and love today. No wonder she's so highly regarded as a badass.
** That's not even the best part. Not only does Samus proceed to set up a prison break, she scares ''Kraid'' into becoming her diversion and even while ''lasers'' are being shot at her from all directions, she drags Lana into an escape shuttle and takes off. After having beaten two guards and her enemies. ''Suitless''.
--> '''Samus:''' ''(to Kraid)'' A month in solitary, or a month in the ''hospital''! It's your choice...

** You can experience the hilarity and unmitigated awesome sauce [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/listing.php?vid=4 here]].

** That's not even the best part. Not only does Samus proceed to set up a prison break, she scares ''Kraid'' into becoming her diversion and even while ''lasers'' are being shot at her from all directions, she drags Laina into an escape shuttle and takes off. After having beaten two guards and her enemies. ''Suitless''.
--> '''Samus:''' ''(to Kraid)'' A month in solitary, or a month in the ''hospital!'' It's your choice...

** Aran and Princess Laina being imprisoned on the penal colony of RX 338. In [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/captain_n_comics/ch_0005/scaled/sc_cn4-18.jpg one page]], Samus becomes ''more awesome'' than Richard B. Riddick and [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Walter Kovacks]], ''combined''.

* In the manga, one of the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Chozo]], Gray Voice, after pretending to betray the Chozo when the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Space Pirates]] invade Zebes, reveals that he was just looking for a chance to take out the Mother Brain, and, dusting off an old Chozo suit of PoweredArmor, starts blasting away at the Mother Brain with a BFG, despite the fact that the Chozo all programed themselves to feel intense pain if they ever used violence.

** Fighting Ridley in general is also a [=CMoA=] for Samus once you learn her childhood encounter with the monster gave her a tremendous case of PTSD. This isn't exactly something that can be fought off; traumatic events like the deaths of Samus' parents will linger for an awfully long time, even when you think they're gone for good. The fact that Samus fought him several times with this condition and [[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM (for the most part)]] didn't completely lose her mind, even as he just ''kept on coming back,'' is not just impressive -- it's commendable.

** One for Miss Aran also, who is standing on top of the unarmed ship and manually sniping Pirate vessels out of the sky while she rides through the atmosphere; likening it to defending against a thousand spears with a single sword. Sam ''succeeds.''
* Several moments in the 'Samus and Joey' manga issues, including these gems from '''Volume 1''':
** [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0001/scaled/sc_SAJ_Vol1_016_017.jpg The Pirates that shot first.]]
** [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0001/scaled/sc_SAJ_Vol1_021.jpg She's just too fast.]]
** [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0001/scaled/sc_SAJ_Vol1_042_043.jpg Tank - meet super missile.]]
** [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0004/scaled/sc_SAJ_Ch4_131.png Rousing a dormant volcano.]]
** Chapter 5, Samus encounters another high tier bounty hunter called Bomad, the muscle of a crime boss who is shaking down an old junk-dealer friend of hers, Diesel. Not only does Aran CurbStomp the hunter after enduring his RapidFireFistiCuffs with far less blows; she then contends with his [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0005/scaled/sc_SAJ_Ch5_166.png secret weapon]], and [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0005/scaled/sc_SAJ_Ch5_167.png proves why]] [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0005/scaled/sc_SAJ_Ch5_168.png a certain feature of the series]] [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0005/scaled/sc_SAJ_Ch5_169.png will remain forever cool.]]
* '''Volume 3''' continues the trend of Samus being an unmitigated bad-ass of the highest order. Not excluded to:
** [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0012/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH12_025.jpg Being the protector the Universe needs.]]
** Why - [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0012/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH12_027.jpg Won't]] - [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0012/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH12_028.jpg You]] - [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0012/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH12_029.jpg DIE?!]] At its finest.
** [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0012/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH12_030.jpg CHOZO...]] [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0012/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH12_031.jpg PAWNCH!!!]]
** [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0013/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH13_059.jpg Aran counters]] ''[[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0013/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH13_060-061.jpg an orbital strike.]]''
** An evil Illuminati faction of arms dealers known as Dominion create ''Integra'', a war droid based on Sam's technology. It's powerful enough to kick the Hunter all over the shop. Until Aran uses her superior tactical thinking and some underhanded pragmatism to cripple its weapons. Then... We get [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0014/scaled/sc_090.jpg a glimpse]] of Samus' ''[[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0014/scaled/sc_091.jpg true]]'' [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0014/scaled/sc_092-093.jpg power...]]
* The simple fact that even though it took [[ScheduleSlip six years]], the [[http://metroid-database.com Metroid Database]] successfully completed translating the entire Samus & Joey manga on October 6, 2015. This was no small task, considering that the manga is extremely difficult to find even in Japan. The same could be said for the ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'' manga, which was similarly rare and the Database staff had to hunt wide and far and utilize contacts in Japan to find the elusive final chapter of it.

* Ridley's a walkin' [[CrowningMomentofAwesome CMoA]], as well (albeit for reasons in which YMMV); he murders Samus' parents, sends her into a PTSD-induced ''breakdown'' which renders her helpless ''and taunts'' her with the idea that ''he devoured her mother's body'', and even when Samus thinks she's killed him, he returns for another go in her first mission, and seems to follow her like some kind of demon. He can give Samus a fight as a ''walking corpse'', and it takes a ''planet-sized explosion after exploding and falling into lava'' to canonically kill him. Then, ''immediately after'', he's cloned by the Galactic Federation and suddenly engages the still-traumatized Samus in the Pyrosphere, his apparent survival of Zebes' destruction only serving to remind Samus of her helplessness at the time of her parents' death at the claws of Ridley; and it takes until Ridley ''supposedly kills her crewmate Anthony'' before she can overcome her ''second'' mental breakdown and manage to compose herself enough to battle Ridley. His clone is killed by a Queen Metroid...but its corpse is still viable for use by an X when it's stored on the BSL, and it's only when Samus fights the X-infected corpse that he finally, ''finally'' dies. ''Goddamn''.

* Even in the instruction booklet for the original ''VideoGame/{{Metroid|1}}'' game, Samus Aran was played up to be a man...or at the very least, a cyborg, with such lines as, "Even the Space Pirates fear ''his'' armor" [[labelnote:*]]To this day, no one's quite sure whether this was intentionally misleading or if it was a BlindIdiotTranslation, which was facepalmingly frequent in TheEighties[[/labelnote]]. But beating the game in a very short amount of time treats players to Samus stripping away said armor to reveal...[[SamusIsAGirl a chick in a bikini]]. Take that, DistressedDamsel archetype!

* The fact that we're getting not one, but '''''two''''' new Metroid games; A remake of ''Metroid II'' for the 3DS, and ''Metroid Prime 4'' for the Switch. After the... [[{{Understatement}} mixed reception]] that ''Other M'' and ''Federation Force'' received, many feared Samus's adventures had come to an end. And then E3 2017 happened. After seven years of the fans asking, ''begging'' for new, true Metroid content... Nintendo listened. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Samus. Is. BACK.]]

** Even better still, if you chill for a moment and just obvserve Mother Brain, she moves around and shoots at Samus a lot more frantically in the second half. [[ShowDontTell Knowing the amount of detail put into this game]], there is no doubt in mind that Mother Brain is ''panicking and desperately trying to stop Samus.''

*** And now.... for the big moment.... RIDLEY. FINALLY PLAYABLE. IN SMASH.

** Even better still, if you chill for a moment and just obvserve Mother Brain, she moves around and shoots at Samus a lot more frantically in the second half. Knowing the amount of detail put into this game, there is no doubt in mind that Mother Brain is ''panicking and desperately trying to stop Samus.''

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/metroid_awesome.png]]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[WeDoTheImpossible Against all odds]], [[{{Badass}} Samus Aran]] eradicated the [[DemonicSpiders Metroids]] on [[DeathWorld Zebes]] and defeated [[BigBad Mother Brain]], the leader of the Space Pirates. And so their plans were thwarted.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[WeDoTheImpossible Against all odds]], [[{{Badass}} Samus Aran]] eradicated the [[DemonicSpiders Metroids]] on [[DeathWorld Planet Zebes]] and defeated [[BigBad Mother Brain]], the leader of the Space Pirates. And so their plans were thwarted.]]

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dfpkt8cxgaebh_d.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[HesBack At last, the hunter has returned.]]]]

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/metroidsamusreturns_thumb.jpg]]

* The fact that we're getting not one, but '''''two''''' new Metroid games; A remake of ''Metroid II'' for the 3DS, and ''Metroid Prime 4'' for the Switch. After the... [[{{Understatement}} mixed reception]] that ''Other M'' and ''Federation Force'' received, many feared Samus's adventures had come to an end. And then E3 2017 happened. After seven years of the fans asking, begging for new true Metroid content... Nintendo listened. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Samus. Is. BACK.]]

** The fact that we're getting not one, but '''''two''''' new Metroid games; A remake of ''Metroid II'' for the 3DS, and ''Metroid Prime 4'' for the Switch. After the... [[{{Understatement}} mixed reception]] that ''Other M'' and ''Federation Force'' received, many feared Samus's adventures had come to an end. And then E3 2017 happened. After seven years of the fans asking, begging for new true Metroid content... Nintendo listened. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Samus. Is. BACK.]]

--> "If you're capable of it, then we'll count together."