Metroid

....I rather like that, actually. Kinda sweet.

Falcon Signature!

D'aww.

Little touches like that are nice. Reminds me of the picture we saw that Samus drew as a kid of her adoptive family.

Wait, Samus actually has a home? I always assumed her job meant she has to travel constantly.

Anyway, I really hope Retro makes another Metroid game for the Wii U. They did a really good job with everything...

Zebes was her home.

Well, I shouldn't say that.

Her original home was an Earth colony, but a couple of Space Pirates, they were up to no good, and started makin' trouble in her neighborhood. She got in one little horrifying tragedy and the Chozo got scared, and said "You're moving with Old Bird and Grey Voice in Zebes-Air".

She pulled up to the planet around seven or eight and the Chozo said "Welcome, have some of our blood!". She looked on her kingdom, she was finally there, to sit on the throne as the Princess of Zebes-Air.

Though if you mean does she have a current home, I have no idea. I assume she has some stable place of residence when she's not on a mission. I can't imagine she's a space hobo.

edited 23rd Nov '13 11:58:39 PM by Anomalocaris20

She probably has an apartment. Or lives in her gunship. Maybe the latter is more likely considering a bounty hunter would have many enemies. It pays to be defended.

edited 24th Nov '13 1:20:04 AM by Tuckerscreator

Samus Aran is a space hobo.

She likely has some dusty apartment on Terra she hasn't visited in a year and likely forgets about occasionally.

Wish I could upvote this or something.

edited 24th Nov '13 1:25:35 AM by ShirowShirow

IDK, I think she tends to get lots of missions and they can take months to complete. They also often require considerable travel distances.

So if she has a home, I would think it would be mobile or something. Like a base ship.

I always assumed her various ships had some sort of like really basic sleeping arrangements and stuff in them. Maybe like a tiny kitchen too.

We are talking about a woman who can turn into pure energy via meditation. I don't think she has much in the way of wordly desires.

I'm guessing her hunter ship is where she spends 90% of her time.

She's like The Sniper or Sniper's like her, rather: They both live in their respective vehicles. Samus is an interstellar bounty hunter, an exterminator of human and alien vermin (To use a quote from that one TF 2 fanfic psychiatric evaluation) and likely has several enemies gunning for her head hence why she's always on the move, so her gunship is her camper van equivalent.

Now I'm just thinking of Lone Starr's space faring Winnebago from Spaceballs

@Shirow: Granted, profligacy is not her thing (I think). But she is a bounty hunter. And I would assume she has basic human needs. If not food and water, than at least something more stimulating than sitting in a tiny pod all the time.

I think she's a workaholic too...That's hardly unworldly.

edited 24th Nov '13 2:33:08 AM by CassidyTheDevil

But her job has a notable tendency to lead her to actively destroy worlds! How much more unworldly can Samus get?

I'm sure Samus has plenty in the way of worldly desires, but as noted, her job takes her away to the depths of space for weeks/months/years at a time. I always just assumed she lived out of her ship, because there's no point in paying rent or mortgage for a place you're only going to spend, like, 10% of your time at between jobs. And with as much money as I'm sure she makes on the kind of jobs we've seen her take, she probably just pays for a penthouse suite when she's recreationally planetside.

My headcanon is that it's similar to Ghost In The Shell in that Samus has virtual reality diversions shipboard, and spends the long periods of FTL travel doing anything her shipboard entertainments can provide while her body sleeps. Usually training, occasionally some fun, perhaps.

That was indeed a touching Brawl in the Family comic. Someone mentioned another where she drew her family as a child?

Edit: Aside from the games that spanned multiple planets (Prime Hunters and Prime 3), all of Samus' missions take less than a waking day, and that's assuming the lowest level of completion speed is considered canon . Speedrunners would claim Samus' missions take less time out of her life than some feature films.

edited 24th Nov '13 8:44:26 AM by Ogodei

Although, story-wise, this would make no sense at all, since to be able to Speedrun that, one has to be extremely familiar with the areas and placement of the enemies/items etc. And, considering how Samus explores almost all of the areas in these games for the first time, I doubt that such insane times like only taking one hour or so to finish these missions would be canon.

Except she did used to live on Zebes. Her having to explore the place again actually makes a bit less sense.

That's why I said "almost". But, it guess that one could be justified by the Space Pirates rebuilding and changing the areas on Zebes between Metroid 1/Zero Mission and Super Metroid. Possibly.

She used to live on the surface of Zebes, back when it was habitable, right?

I'm pretty sure the Space Pirates did some digging and placed fortifications on what was already there, too.

I think it was mentioned that she went below the surface a bit sometimes. That's what the Chozo blood was for.

BTW, is the Prime series now non-canon?

I don't know, but, personally, I still see it as canon.

According to Sakamoto.

...Everyone else seems to disagree.