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* YouDontLookLikeYou: Samus's appearance in the post-game screens from ''Fusion'' looks radically different than the appearance established in ''Zero Mission'' and the ''Prime'' series, with much lighter (and wilder) blond hair, and an almost completely different build. Some fans speculate it is a result of the Metroid vaccine and the absorption of Metroid parasites.
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* YouDontLookLikeYou: Samus's appearance in the post-game screens from ''Fusion'' looks radically different than the appearance established in ''Zero Mission'' and the ''Prime'' series, with much lighter (and wilder) blond hair, and an almost completely different build. Some fans speculate it is a result of the Metroid vaccine and the absorption of Metroid parasites.X-parasites.
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** CombatStilettos: The Zero Suit has them in ''Other M'', which ironically enough were previously [[http://media.tumblr.com/91f44318b45126781a6af76b0bf85a5d/tumblr_inline_mx95epDqug1r5618z.png discouraged]] during ''Zero Mission'''s design process.
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** CombatStilettos: The Zero Suit has them in ''Other M'', which ironically enough were previously [[http://media.tumblr.com/91f44318b45126781a6af76b0bf85a5d/tumblr_inline_mx95epDqug1r5618z.png discouraged]] during ''Zero Mission'''s design process. ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros for 3DS/Wii U'' then turns them into ''literal'' CombatStilettos - by weaponizing them into jet boots.
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* RapunzelHair: Her hair frequently varies in length but sometimes goes past her waist, with ''Fusion'' probably showing it at its longest.
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* HeroicBuild: Sadly zigzagged. Most apparent at the end of ''Super'' and ''Fusion''.
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* HeroicBuild: Sadly zigzagged. Most apparent at the end of ''Super'' and ''Fusion''.''Fusion'', and most absent in ''Other M''.
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* {{Badass}}: Unbelievably so. She's defeated legions, hunted impossibly dangerous quarries and walked over every nightmare that dares cross her path ''and then some.'' She wiped out the Universal threats embodied in the Metroids, Gorea, the X, Phazon and the Ing. Battled an NGOSuperPower for her entire life, reducing them to a bad memory and takes on her family's murderer every other week; eventually wiping him from the face of existence with an EarthShatteringKaboom. And that's what she get's up to in her ''spare'' time.
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* {{Badass}}: Unbelievably Supremely so. She's defeated legions, hunted impossibly dangerous quarries and walked over every nightmare that dares cross her path ''and then some.'' She wiped out the Universal threats embodied in the Metroids, Gorea, the X, Phazon and the Ing. Battled an NGOSuperPower for her entire life, reducing them to a bad memory and takes on her family's murderer every other week; eventually wiping him from the face of existence with an EarthShatteringKaboom. And that's what she get's up to in her ''spare'' time.
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* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: And my foster father. And my adoptive alien race.
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* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: And my foster father. And my adoptive alien race.family.
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* TheSilentBob: In the ''Prime'' trilogy.
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* TheSilentBob: In the ''Prime'' trilogy.trilogy, she only grunts when she takes damage and screams when she loses all her energy.
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* TheAce: Expert combatant in both ranged and close-quarters-combat, survivalist, acrobat, linguist, archaeologist, particle physicist, xenologist, skilled pilot, all-round engineer, intuitive tracker and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ship designer]].
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* OneRiotOneRanger: Send her in to enemy-territory and on impossible missions to do what no one else in the universe can. She's done this ''eleven times'' in the series so far. Five of which were in a single game!
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation; which is comprised of trillions of individuals. To which Aran has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum in its defence for the near entirety of a career, a career that stretches through the ages and has become myth. As such, she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation; which is comprised of trillions of individuals. To which Aran has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum in its defence for the near entirety of a her career, a career that stretches through the ages and has become myth. As such, she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, for both healing and offence, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, in conjunction with her myriad 'visors', it can switch beams over to entirely different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences to maim in one or energize dead systems with a conductive blast. The cannon also possesses some sort of advanced isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship through musical application, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways. On the flip side, the cannon can close together [[MundaneUtility to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together]]; or better yet, drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited topographical data with a touch. A little-known addition is that each individual beam can be combined with a power bomb in ''Super Metroid'' to create a temporary deadly-to-the-touch set of force field orbs that flit around Aran's armoured form. The cannon even sometimes possesses its own variant of the entanglement and Less-Than-Lethal fire modes which utilise electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversing the environment as well as subduing a live bounty. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; so much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, for both healing and offence, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, in conjunction with her myriad 'visors', it can switch beams over to entirely different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences to maim in one or energize dead systems with a conductive blast. A little-known addition is that each individual beam can be combined with a power bomb in ''Super Metroid'' to create a temporary deadly-to-the-touch set of force field orbs that flit around Aran's armoured form. The cannon also possesses some sort of advanced isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship through musical application, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways. On the flip side, the cannon can close together [[MundaneUtility to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together]]; or better yet, drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited topographical data with a touch. A little-known addition is that each individual beam can be combined with a power bomb in ''Super Metroid'' to create a temporary deadly-to-the-touch set of force field orbs that flit around Aran's armoured form. The cannon even sometimes possesses its own variant of the entanglement and Less-Than-Lethal fire modes which utilise electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversing the environment as well as subduing a live bounty. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; so much more than a {{BFG}}.
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation; which is comprised of trillions of individuals. She has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum for the near entirety of her long career. As such, she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation; which is comprised of trillions of individuals. She To which Aran has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum in its defence for the near entirety of her long career.a career, a career that stretches through the ages and has become myth. As such, she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation. Which is comprised of trillions of individuals and has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum for the near entirety of her long career. As she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation. Which nation; which is comprised of trillions of individuals and individuals. She has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum for the near entirety of her long career. As such, she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, for both healing and offence, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, in conjunction with her myriad 'visors', it can switch beams over to entirely different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences to maim in one or energize dead systems with a conductive blast. The cannon also possesses some sort of advanced isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship through musical application, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways. On the flip side, the cannon can close together [[MundaneUtility to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together]]; or better yet, drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited topographical data with a touch. The cannon even sometimes possesses its own version of the entanglement and Less-Than-Lethal fire modes which utilise electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversing the environment. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; so much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, for both healing and offence, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, in conjunction with her myriad 'visors', it can switch beams over to entirely different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences to maim in one or energize dead systems with a conductive blast. The cannon also possesses some sort of advanced isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship through musical application, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways. On the flip side, the cannon can close together [[MundaneUtility to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together]]; or better yet, drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited topographical data with a touch. A little-known addition is that each individual beam can be combined with a power bomb in ''Super Metroid'' to create a temporary deadly-to-the-touch set of force field orbs that flit around Aran's armoured form. The cannon even sometimes possesses its own version variant of the entanglement and Less-Than-Lethal fire modes which utilise electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversing the environment.environment as well as subduing a live bounty. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; so much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, for both healing and offence, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, in conjunction with her myriad 'visors', it can switch beams over to entirely different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences to maim in one or energize dead systems with a conductive blast. The cannon also possesses some sort of advanced isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship through musical application, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways. On the flip side, the cannon can close together to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together; or better yet, drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited topographical data with a touch. The cannon even sometimes possesses its own version of the entanglement and Les-Than-Lethal fire modes which utilise electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversing the environment. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; so much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, for both healing and offence, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, in conjunction with her myriad 'visors', it can switch beams over to entirely different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences to maim in one or energize dead systems with a conductive blast. The cannon also possesses some sort of advanced isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship through musical application, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways. On the flip side, the cannon can close together [[MundaneUtility to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together; together]]; or better yet, drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited topographical data with a touch. The cannon even sometimes possesses its own version of the entanglement and Les-Than-Lethal Less-Than-Lethal fire modes which utilise electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversing the environment. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; so much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, the cannon possesses some sort of isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways, switch beams over to a different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences in conjunction with Visor-tech. On the flip side, the cannon can close together to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together; or better yet drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited data with a touch. The cannon even possesses entanglement and Les-Than-Lethal fire modes with electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversal. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, for both healing and offence, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, the in conjunction with her myriad 'visors', it can switch beams over to entirely different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences to maim in one or energize dead systems with a conductive blast. The cannon also possesses some sort of advanced isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship, gunship through musical application, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways, switch beams over to a different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences in conjunction with Visor-tech. pathways. On the flip side, the cannon can close together to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together; or better yet yet, drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited topographical data with a touch. The cannon even sometimes possesses its own version of the entanglement and Les-Than-Lethal fire modes with which utilise electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversal. traversing the environment. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; so much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* SwissArmyWeapon: Her famous arm-cannon doesn't just shoot a multitude of different energy types and reams of AbnormalAmmo but can also tractor in free-floating energy particulates when charging up, manufacture micro-missiles and not so micro missiles of incredible strength, infuse energy types into said ballistics, whether a continuous stream or a massive one-shot release. But it doesn't end there, the cannon possesses some sort of isomorphic controls that can remotely pilot her gunship, the 'petal flaps' can open to fine-tune interface with machinery, crack security matrices and operate hidden pathways, switch beams over to a different spectrum fields of existence or even directly penetrate uncommon defences in conjunction with Visor-tech. On the flip side, the cannon can close together to project a roaring white-hot plasma pilot light that can weld damaged metal and circuitry together; or better yet drain massive amounts of energy from planetary energy collectors and seamlessly download unlimited data with a touch. The cannon even possesses entanglement and Les-Than-Lethal fire modes with electro-magnetic grapple lines that can also be used for traversal. It's a truly versatile piece of equipment; much more than a {{BFG}}.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: The most badass BountyHunter in the known universe started out life as a little girl on a small mining colony.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: Quintessential. The first time she spares the life of a child-enslaving pirate overseer; is so she can ''[[ColdBloodedTorture 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.
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* LadyOfWar: On the contrary to the prior point, she cracks skulls and does it with ''obscene'' poise and grace. She embodies this especially when wearing [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/6/67/LightSuit_concept2.png/revision/20120104171947 the Light Suit.]]
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* LadyOfWar: On the contrary to the prior point, she cracks skulls and does it with ''obscene'' poise and grace. She embodies this especially when wearing [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/6/67/LightSuit_concept2.png/revision/20120104171947 the Light Suit.]] Suit.
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** BadassLongcoat: Owns one in the manga, and yes, she can still kick your ass with it. Plus, a [[NiceHat nifty wide brimmed sun hat]] that would make the Queen of England jealous to boot.
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* BrokenBird: She's lost virtually everyone she loves and cares about. For starters, her home planet was raided by Space Pirates, her parents died trying to protect her with Ridley incinerating her mother right in front of her, and the Chozo, who took her in and raised her, are apparently extinct.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Are you not afraid? Those who don't worry about dying in the future won't fight for their lives in the present."'']]
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-->''"The Cosmos. In the vast depths of the Universe, the history of humanity is but a flash of light from a lone star. The life of a single person should be lost in space and time. But among the stars, there is one light that burns brighter than all others. The light of Samus Aran. Her battles extend beyond her life, and etch themselves into history."''
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation. Which is comprised of trillions of individuals and has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum for the near entirety of her long career. As she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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* ActionGirl: The first major example in all of video games. And arguably the ''definitive'' example.
* AmazonianBeauty: Over six feet tall, defined like Bruce Lee, clad head to toe in armor, and one of Nintendo's biggest [[BadAss bad asses]].
* ArmCannon: Her primary weapon among a veritable arsenal.
* {{Badass}}: Unbelievably so. She's defeated legions, hunted impossibly dangerous quarries and walked over every nightmare that dares cross her path ''and then some.'' She wiped out the Universal threats embodied in the Metroids, Gorea, the X, Phazon and the Ing. Battled an NGOSuperPower for her entire life, reducing them to a bad memory and takes on her family's murderer every other week; eventually wiping him from the face of existence with an EarthShatteringKaboom. And that's what she get's up to in her ''spare'' time.
** BadassCape / CapedMecha / CoatCape: Aran sometimes wears one over her armour. It's [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0013/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH13_054.jpg awesome.]]
** BadassLongcoat: Owns one in the manga, and yes, she can still kick your ass with it. Plus, a [[NiceHat nifty wide brimmed sun hat]] that would make the Queen of England jealous to boot.
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: By way of her Chozo and later Metroid genetics.
** HeartbrokenBadass: So far her family, adoptive family, imprinted Metroid infant, mentor and many close friends have all been horrifically killed, with her often unable to do anything about it.
* BagOfSpilling: In the Prime trilogy: Samus either loses all her previous weapons or is forced to seek out new ones.
* BatmanGambit: She periodically overcomes every counter-tactic the Urtragian Space Pirates throw at her, always through intellectual application and her own warrior instincts. Taken to hilarious heights in the 'Captain N Comics' when she, at one point, caught off-guard by 'Big-time' Brannigan, sabotages her own gun to back-fire, knowing he'll want the DramaticIrony of finishing the best bounty hunter in the guild with her own side-arm. He's promptly maimed and Aran escapes. Another time, she tricks ''Mother Brain'' into handing over a more substantial bounty for turning on her allies, then she promptly betrays her, steals the AppliedPhlebotinum that was the main objective of their mission ''and'' rescues her friends on top of all that! Leaving Mother with nothing! Fittingly, her character is more of an {{Expy}} combination of both Han Solo and Boba Fett.
* BeautyMark: Naturally. Previously hinted at by [[AuthorAppeal Yoshio Sakamoto]] who claimed to be the only one who knew where it was. Its location is finally shown in ''Other M:'' under the left side of her lip.
* BodyHorror: She goes through this fighting the corruption in ''Prime 3.'' When was the last Nintendo game in which you saw the protagonist vomiting up radioactive sludge? Also, if she overloads on Phazon in Hyper-mode, she becomes fully corrupted.
* BoobsOfSteel: From Zero Mission onwards she's been a rather ''well-endowed'' bad-ass, something that [[{{Rule34}} the fan-base has certainly noticed.]]
* BountyHunter: Purportedly her profession, but some overseas developers think Nintendo's refusal to include actual bounty hunting in the games indicates it's a translation screw-up. Despite this, they seemed to have no problem with the manga showing her hunting bounties.
* BioAugmentation: Her DNA is as modular to genetic ''upgrades'' as her armour is to technology, as she was infused with Chozo DNA and later Metroid DNA. How mighty are her genetic gifts do you say? In Metroid Prime, scan data of Zebes reveals it to have both an incredible mass and gravitational pull. As Samus grew up on Zebes, with Chozo DNA to boot, simple math performed by fans reveals this gem: Suitless, Samus can lift ''66.5 TONS'' on Earth.[[note]]That's with her just lifting the equivalent of her own body weight, given that athletes on Earth can lift more than their own weight with training, it's reasonable to assume 66.5 tons isn't even the upper limit of Samus' physical strength[[/note]]
** This, however, hinges on the assumption that the developers knew the actual significance of the immense numbers they put into those scans if they were put into proper calculations - common sense would recognize such insane scaling (which would make Samus over 950 times as strong as a normal human!) as a case of WritersCannotDoMath...
*** Well, the thing is whether or not [[WritersHaveNoSenseOfScale the writers were conscious of what these numbers imply]], it's a moot point because Samus (as far as we know) never visits worlds with gravity comparable to Earth. All of the enemies she's fighting are adapted to the same intense gravity as she is; since she's only compared to similarly strong opponents, there aren't any massive gaps in strength like there would be if she went to Earth and fought something there.
* BuildingSwing: The Grapple Beam in Super and Grapple Lasso in Prime. This becomes less important with the Space Jump/Screw Attack, but Prime 3 gives the lasso more functions to keep it relevant.
* CastingGag: During Samus' younger flashback scenes in ''Other M'', her younger self looks a lot like [[Manga/{{Appleseed}} Deunan Knute]] from the ''Appleseed'' CGI films. Incidentally, Samus is voiced by one of [[Creator/AiKobayashi Deunan's Japanese VAs]].
* TheChosenOne: According to Chozo prophecy and the carvings on Tallon IV.
* CombatPragmatist: Fond of shooting people at point-blank range when getting into physical grapples and applying the most overwhelming amount of force possible to end a fight quickly. In Super Metroid, she defeats Draygon within seconds by conducting electricity through the grapple beam and through ''herself'', flash-frying the monstrous crustacean.
* CoolShip: Her Gunship. With it's own remote controlled auto-piloting functions, industrial grapple beam, missile silos, prisoner containment cells, array of beam weapons and even capable of self-repair and enduring ridiculous levels of combat damage and even the corrosive properties of Phaaze's atmosphere.
* CowboyCop: In the prequel comic, Samus was part of a cowboy cop trio up until she left the force to become a solo bounty hunter on General Adam Malkovich's suggestion.
* CulturedWarrior: Explores uncharted territory, muses on war, peace and her place in the universe, collates zoological databases on a variety of exotic flora and xeno-fauna, is an evaluator of her own and other's morality, translates ancient advanced alien scriptures and seems to practice a form of Instrumentalist Philosophy.
* {{Determinator}}: An absolute given, considering her suit's defences rely on maintaining a zen level of focus during battle, which doubt can cripple. But one particularly impressive display of willpower she displays is in ''Metroid Prime 3''. She staves off Phazon Corruption longer than any of her fellow bounty hunters, in spite of being given the largest dose of radioactive venom by her arch-nemesis. And even retains her mind when at its very origin. With the poison coursing through her veins she descends into the core of the planet Phaaze and wipes the floor with her dark doppelganger, endures the cancer being (unimaginably painfully) purged and ''somehow'' manages to escape back up to the surface before the world blows apart.
* DoomMagnet: Inherited from the Chozo. Person, planet, species, once she gets there, if they haven't already suffered tremendously (and they often have), they will. Not necessarily by her design or intent, mind you, but it inevitably happens anyways.
** Subverted with the Luminoth, as she actually ''does'' help them out with no negative side effects to them in the long run.
** And the Elysian star charts in ''Corruption'' show that the native life on Tallon IV is thriving since Samus ended the Phazon spread.
* TheDreaded: The Space Pirates probably tell their spawn stories of the 'Accursed Hunter' that stalks their kind. They fear and loathe her above all else.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the original ''Metroid'', her aspect was unusual at best. Especially outside her suit where she has an almost bare outfit and has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] when wearing the Varia Suit. When you play as her outside her suit, she can use the majority of her suit's abilities including her Morph Ball function.
* ElementalPowers
** AnIcePerson: Her most prominent power in terms of taking on Metroids. Flipped on its head in Fusion, where ''Samus'' fears the Ice Beam.
** PlayingWithFire: The Plasma and Nova beams are depicted as such. While not exactly fire, ''per say'', they essentially act as such in the ''Prime'' series.
** ShockAndAwe: What the Wave Beam is mostly portrayed to be. Though in actuality it can diffuse through materials and hit opponents ''behind cover.''
** LightEmUp: The Light Beam from ''Prime 2.'' An effective solar ray. Or even the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness wandering matter]] of the Luminoth's planetary energy that sustains them.
** CastingAShadow: Also the Dark Beam from ''Echoes.'' This will ruin anyone's day with concentrated ''evilness'' from the Dark Dimension. It hurts a being of pure ''Phazon''.
** PureEnergy: Essentially what her Power Beam is. It ''Vaporizes'' targets in ''Prime 3''.
** MakeMeWannaShout: What the Annihilator beam becomes when charged. It temporarily ''cracks reality''.
** YinYangBomb: What the Annihilator beam, and especially its missile combination the Sonic Boom is, in addition to the above; being a matter-antimatter weapon and all.
* {{Expy}}: Directly stated to be one of [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Ellen Ripley]], another strong female sci-fi protagonist who battles cosmic monstrosities. She's also occasionally considered a DistaffCounterpart of [[Franchise/{{StarWars}} Boba Fett]], another space-faring BountyHunter with a CoolShip, a full suit of armor, and lots of weapons and gadgets.
* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: What makes Other M slightly easier to swallow is this trope. Samus informs a would be ally that a warrior only fights their hardest when controlling and utilizing their fear of death. Not suppressing or trying to deny it.
* FemmeFatale: As beautiful as she is dangerous. The fandom plays up this aspect of her predatory nature.
* TheFettered: She has a code, it has [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight a lot of leeway.]]
* FlashStep: You can do this in-game as a strafe mechanism but the most memorable one has to be in the supplemental material. it's accompanied with an insane [[BulletCatch bullet catch]] when the hostage's face is ''two feet away'' from the muzzle of the weapon. Sam manages to ''[[UpToEleven shoot the Pirate at the same time.]]''
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Shown to concern herself with the well-being of wildlife she encounters during missions.
* GeniusBruiser: Her handwritten notes in her log book very much implies extensive knowledge in the fields of biology, physics and chemistry. After all, she was brought up and educated by enlightened {{Precursors}}. She also knows a great deal about mechanics and electronics, evidenced by her [[WrenchWench working circuitry in a few games and by designing her own gunships]], doing precision welding jobs, energizing dead systems, hell, just being able to operate that walking death mobile she's clad in has to count -- but the stand-out moment for Aran has to be her constructing a Chozo WMD called a Theronian Bomb out of a floating city's infrastructure, rewiring the engines to float a section of said city over to the Leviathan Seed's shield generator, all the while fending off ''dozens'' of pirate drop ships before leaving in a sabotaged escape pod that she quickly repairs; the munition is dropped and the atmosphere is ignited in nuclear fire.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Quintessential. The first time she spares the life of a child-enslaving pirate overseer; is so she can ''[[ColdBloodedTorture interrogate]]'' him.
* TheGunslinger: The auto-lock ''is not'' technological. Revamped straight over into ImprobableAimingSkills 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 [[QuickDraw 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.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: 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.
* HalfHumanHybrid: In the end, she's anywhere from as much as [[ShrugOfGod 95% human to as little as 10%]]. For most of the series, she's a human with Chozo traits that supersede human maximum potential, 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 of 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 its implied that the X she gets abilities from had them biologically, rather than mechanically, so fans understandably still argue.
* HappilyAdopted: 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.
* HeroicBSOD: A horrific one in the e-manga. When Ridley forces her to remember that fateful day he brought devastation to K-2L. How his men butchered her childhood friends and how he roasted and ''ate'' her mother! She loses control of the mental link between her armour 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.
* HeroicBuild: Sadly zigzagged. Most apparent at the end of ''Super'' and ''Fusion''.
* HeroicWillpower: As seen in ''Metroid Zero Mission'' and ''Other M'', Samus' Power Suit manifests though inhuman levels of willpower and concentration, and can dissipate if she falters. Yoshio Sakamoto [[ItMakesSenseInContext compared her losing her suit to a salary-man losing his tie in a bullet train]].
* TheHunter: Literally. In Metroid's Universe she'd be the example under the noun in the dictionary.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Her suit can hold over 200 missiles even on the NES game.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: To an extent, as she was raised by aliens. Non-mammalian aliens, at that. Not to mention that she's not entirely human herself anymore.
** One theory as to why most of her outfits besides the ubiquitous powersuit are so skimpy is because she's uncomfortable wearing too much, rather than a deliberate attempt to look seductive. Because the suit links directly with her nerves it feels like her own skin and thus she's gotten used to feeling naked most of the time.
* TheLadette: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While Samus isn't often seen engaging in overly "frat-boy-ish" behavior, she wears a traditionally masculine suit of PoweredArmor and can kick ass with the best of them. Except in ''Other M'', Samus has almost no feminine traits apart from her physical appearance, and can even be seen [[http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/Precita/Samus%20Aran/Samus_bar.gif hanging out at a bar]] in one of the ending scenes of ''Zero Mission''.
* LadyOfWar: On the contrary to the prior point, she cracks skulls and does it with ''obscene'' poise and grace.
* LeParkour: 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. Mei Ling in ''Smash Bros. Brawl'' can only refer to her as a "Super Athlete" and she's damn right.
* LightningBruiser: Can plow through enemies with mach speed shoulder charges, possesses enough razor sharp reflexes to dodge gunfire while stationary and can tether, hook line and sinker, then ''beach'' a gigantic alien beast that can ''swim in lava.'' Even without the suit she can jump about forty feet straight up in the heavier gravity of Zebes. Imagine what she could do to you if she kicked you while on Earth.
* LukeIAmYourFather: In the manga, Grey Voice turns out to be the donor for Aran's infusion of Chozo DNA.
* MadeOfIron: Due to her Chozo heritage and Zebesian upbringing. She can take shots for the team that would cause a lesser hero to crumple in one. She can stand ''multiple'' times after having been hit by Mother Brain's ''[[WaveMotionGun rainbow hyper beam]].'' And she ''will'' fight and win battles with [[BackFromTheBrink a drop in the tank to spare.]]
* MamaBear: Ask Mother Brain. Oh wait, we can't, it [[CurbStompBattle suffered Samus' rage]] after it killed the Super Metroid while protecting its perceived mother figure.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Basically, everything she steps on triggers a SelfDestructMechanism.
* MsFanservice: Oh, most definitely. She's undeniably gorgeous and doesn't mind peeling off all that armour and enjoying the breeze. Just don't think she's another pretty face... Or you'd find yourself [[MuggingTheMonster paying for it, dearly]].
* NervesOfSteel: If courage has a name, it must be Samus Aran.
* NeverTrustATrailer: All promotional material for the first game outright lied and said that Samus was a male cyborg. This extended to the game manual itself. Of course, this was to preserve the surprise at the end.
* NonchalantDodge: The fact that she can pull these off, along with her StoneWall levels of health, makes her nearly invincible.
* NotQuiteFlight: The Space Jump in the 2D games lets Samus jump at any time, even in midair; downgraded to a DoubleJump in Prime, but then you get the Screw Attack in those games and she's back to jumping canyons. The Shine Spark also qualifies.
* [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]]: She was called in to Zebes to solve what orbital bombardment could not.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Aran's second Power Suit, attained in the Zero Mission epilogue after her first was destroyed.
* ParentalAbandonment: Certainly not by their own choice. Both Rodney and Virginia Aran go down in ways that make James and Lily from [[HarryPotter the Harry Potter books]] look like pansies. [[SarcasmMode Thanks for that, Ridley]].
* PartialTransformation: In the manga, Samus is capable of manifesting her suit's ArmCannon without the rest of the suit.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Possesses enough power to level almost anything, man, beast, army, world, ghost or PhysicalGod.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Is a bounty hunter who is yet to be seen doing any actual bounty hunting. Her work in-game would suggest she's more like a mercenary.
** She claimed to be searching for a bounty in Super Metroid, so it could be assumed most of the games we play are special situations where someone contracted her, or she's just sidetracked and she would be hunting bounties if not for it.
** In ''Metroid Prime 2,'' Samus actually ''was'' hired by the Galactic Federation for a search-and-rescue mission for the missing troops that had crash-landed on Aether. Of course, within the first five minutes of the game she learns that they've already been wiped out. Everything after that was of her own volition.
** For ''Metroid Prime 3,'' Retro Studios initially planned for Samus to do some actual bounty hunting. She'd get a list of possible jobs to do, earn rewards, and use the cash to buy upgrades for her equipment. Nintendo didn't like the idea, and after some back-and-forth, Retro realized there was a language issue, and that "bounty hunter" isn't exactly the best description of what Samus is supposed to be. The Retro developers started joking that she was a "pro-bono hunter" instead.
* PoweredArmor: Her Power Suit is one of the most famous examples in all of media. A Chozo-designed cybernetic battle exo-skeleton of quantum-locked, psionically summoned armour that is synchronized with her very being and can adapt to incorporate all known (and some unknown) weaponry. It also provides energy shielding, protection from lethal environments, enhanced strength and uncharted tactical [[AwesomeByAnalysis scanning capabilities]].
** ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Although she is still inhumanly agile and monstrously strong outside the suit, Samus is unable to take down a lowly Space Pirate trooper without its help. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] (possibly even [[InvertedTrope inverted]]) in ''Videogame/SuperSmashBros'' for CompetitiveBalance reasons. That might be because she was basically unarmed (that paralyzer doesn't really count) without it.
** CoolHelmet: Especially in the ''Prime'' series, where it resembles a V-shaped, upside-down bird's wings.
** LifeEnergy: This is apparently how the health and ammo pickups work, according to the first game's manual. The Prime series let you find them from crates too though, suggesting it might just be general matter/energy conversion ([[AntiFrustrationFeatures or that Retro wanted to make things easier]])
--> Even the Space Pirates fear [[SamusIsAGirl his]] space suit, which can absorb any enemy's power.
** This is seemingly how Samus gets the hyper beam and Phazon suit, both involved an almost deceased monster falling on and getting partially absorbed by the suit.
** TronLines: Kelly green for the Varia suit, cerulean for the P.E.D. suit.
* {{Protectorate}}: At least on paper. She trained as a warrior ultimately to defend others from what she had to endure but she is not averse to proactively tracking down evil and ''annihilating it.'' And a girl has to make a living somehow.
* RaisedByNatives: Rescued, nurtured, trained and loved by the last remnants of the Chozo.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: While she's best known for her various beam and missile weapons, the Screw Attack and Shine Spark are some of Samus' most powerful attacks.
* Really700YearsOld: Inferred. Even if she's not this in the timeline that would have you believe she became famed across multiple galaxies within twenty years. Her Chozo genetic properties ensure she won't be dying peacefully in her bed any time soon.
* RedBaron: Of all her prey. Of all her foes, [[MookHorrorShow the Space Pirates deem her as]] the one and only being regarded enough to bear the title of ''TheHunter''. In a universe ''full'' of them!
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: In ''Echoes'', logs left by the troopers mention the two planets full of Space Pirates she's blown up. One of the ones who mentions the story thinks that the act was too much for a single human to accomplish...
** Although it's worth pointing out that, chronologically, she had not yet blown up any planets when that comment was made. As far as we know...
** Then again, it's a possible the trooper meant the events of ''Zero Mission'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', where she attacked their bases directly.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Implied that she has a very massive one against [[BigBad Mother Brain]] and [[TheDragon Ridley]].
** In ''Corruption'', the final battle on Phaaze is implied to be this as well, considering Aran's reactions to each of the Hunters' deaths, making it quite clear that by the time the final fight ensues, she's ready to rip the one responsible (Dark Samus) apart.
* RocketJump: Bomb jumps; as bombs float in air, it can be done at least twice in all games, and taken to [[SequenceBreaking ridiculous levels]] in some. Power Bombs can be used for this effect too in the games where they aren't explicit room cleaners. It's implied that the jets on her back sometimes do this as well.
** Being immune to her own explosives is important, as it helps Samus remove {{Personal Space Invader}}s from her suit. (for {{competitive balance}} reasons, Samus can be hurt by the explosions of some of her own weapons in Hunters)
* RollingAttack: The Boost Ball and the shine spark can be used in morph ball mode in Zero Mission.
* SamusIsAGirl: TropeNamer, as the first game used this trope as a bonus for players to find out.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: All but outright stated. She tracks the Pirates that flee from Zebes to Tallon IV across space. Also, complete the scavenger hunts in each chapter of the ''Prime trilogy'' and you will most definitely feel like one of these.
* ScreamingWarrior: Only once, and in the manga at that, but what a moment it is. After ''[[CurbStompBattle obliterating]]'' Ridley for the first time and avenging her mother, her childhood home and her adoptive father, Samus lets loose over twenty years of pent-up primal fury with a [[SkywardScream roar of vindication and release]]. It. Is. ''Glorious''.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Was suggested to have PTSD in the manga (though not officially diagnosed, as there was another theory), and according to [[http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/metroid-other-m/0/3 an interview with Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja]] Samus is poor at coping with her life's problems as well.
* SherlockScan: Thanks to her Scan Visor, though considering the notes seem to sometimes be written by Sam's own hand -- and that [[FridgeBrilliance time]] [[HyperAwareness pauses]] upon finishing the [[AwesomeByAnalysis evaluation...]]
* ShouldersOfDoom / GiantPoofySleeves: Since ''Metroid II'' on the GameBoy couldn't use color to differentiate between the different suits, the Varia suit was given big honking shoulders to distinguish its sprite from the regular Power Suit. The design has carried over since then to every subsequent game in the series.
* ShroudedInMyth: In the very first game's instruction manual, Metroid's Samus Aran is described as being "shrouded in mystery", supernaturally skilled, and NighInvulnerable thanks to a plethora of cybernetic upgrades, encased in a suit of PoweredArmor that's the terror of every law-breaker in the universe, and with his, her or ''its'' true form known to no one. Of course, when the armor finally comes off at the end of the game, the galaxy's most famous BadAss turns out to be a rather attractive blonde woman.
** The legend also winds up oddly inverted, according to the logs of ''Metroid Prime 2''. Some of the Federation Marines apparently consider the various exploits of Samus Aran, and even her very existence, to be only slightly more credible than bed-time stories:
-->'''PFC Crany:''' Last night at chow, Angseth starts talking about some bounty hunter and how she blew up a planet full of Space Pirates. I told her I didn't believe in fairy tales like that, and she took it personal. I just find it hard to believe that one person took out an entire Space Pirate base, that's all. But if she wants to believe in this Samus, or Bigfoot, or Santa Claus, she can.
** The Space Pirates, not to be outdone, have grown Samus into their cultural mythology as a one-woman demonic grim reaper. Every game in the ''Prime'' series features an ApocalypticLog sequence in which the Space Pirates describe the impending horror of a raid by "[[TheHunter The Hunter.]]" To clarify, the Prime series shows numerous other bounty hunters, and implies that there are many more; that it is Samus alone that they call [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Hunter]] shows how ''terrified'' they are of her.
* SignatureMove: The fabled [[PunnyName Screw-Attack]]... It really needs a title update.
* TheSilentBob: In the ''Prime'' trilogy.
* SphereOfDestruction: Power Bombs in the 3D games. They are ovals in the 2D ones.
* SpiderSense: Prime reveals that the heads up display of her helmet includes indicators of movement and energy sources outside of her field vision, allowing Samus to react to things she cannot immediately see (Prime 2 and 3's cutscenes provide third person demonstrations even if the player never figures it out). Apparently supplementary materials suggest she has Chozo physic senses to fore-warn her of imminent danger and trigger fantastic reaction speed but the only places any thing like this comes close to being demonstrated are in the manga and ''Other M''.
* SpyCatsuit, FormFittingWardrobe, SensualSpandex: The Zero Suit. At its introduction it was the most modest clothing she had worn outside of her Power Suit.
** CombatStilettos: The Zero Suit has them in ''Other M'', which ironically enough were previously [[http://media.tumblr.com/91f44318b45126781a6af76b0bf85a5d/tumblr_inline_mx95epDqug1r5618z.png discouraged]] during ''Zero Mission'''s design process.
* StandardPowerupPose: Does a painful looking variant in Prime 3 when empowered after Leviathan Guardian bosses.
* StatuesqueStunner: [[http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Samus_Aran?file=Samus_Aran_Varia_suit_Super_Metroid_Player%27s_Guide_1994.jpg According to the Super Metroid Player's Guide]], she's ''supposed'' to be 6'3 and 198 pounds outside her armor. She's significantly shorter than the average male human in ''Other M'', but in the Prime games, she's just as tall or taller than the Federation personnel and about the same size as most of the bounty hunters (except the three from Prime 3), so it's easier to believe there.
* TheStoic: Until ''Other M'' came along...
* {{Stun Gun|s}}: Her Paralyzer, which she uses for protection when not wearing her armor. ''Brawl'' [[SwissArmyWeapon adds]] a [[WhipItGood whip mode]].
* SuperReflexes: Capable of nullifying hails of gunfire with her own shots.
** One of the coolest and most impressive displays of her [[SuperReflexes reflexes]] and [[SuperSpeed speed]] comes from the ''Samus and Joey'' manga: [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0001/scaled/sc_SAJ_Vol1_020.jpg a Space Pirate has his weapon trained on Joey, his hostage, at point-blank range, with his weapon inches away from the boy's head]]. [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0001/scaled/sc_SAJ_Vol1_021.jpg Samus tells him to fire, and he does]]. Samus then moves with lightning speed and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome catches the bullet well before it hits Joey, while simultaneously mortally wounding the Space Pirate with a shot of her own!]]
* SuperSoldier: Sam's pretty much got the complete Super Soldier package, being adopted by the fantastically advanced yet consciously going extinct Chozo, who infused her with Chozo DNA to gain fantastic speed, strength, agility and sensory capacity, trained her as the last Defender (read: legendary universe-saving warrior/judge figure) and equipped her with a modular suit of Powered Armor that's the envy of the galaxy. On top of this, she's largely fueled by a burning desire to get back at the Space Pirates who trashed both of her home-worlds and left her orphaned twice over. If there's a better warrior in the series' galaxy, we haven't seen him, her or it yet.
** Not only that, she later gets infused with Metroid DNA, and has also been exposed to the highly volatile substance Phazon repeatedly. Additionally, her aforementioned Powered Armor can utilize virtually any weapon or technology it comes across, can hack into even the most secure networks just by ''looking'' at it, and can determine the weakness of almost anything, animal or mineral, by the same process.
** For bonus points, the word "metroid" in the Chozo language means "ultimate warrior."
** Also, most planets tend to explode by the time she's done with them
** Let's face it, in her universe she's a combination of Superman, Ironman, Batman, Wolverine and Green Lantern. No wonder most people don't even think she's real anymore. Most of the Federation marines think she's just a myth or propaganda, and the Space Pirates treat Aran as their primary enemy all on her lonesome.
* SuperStrength / SuperToughness: When someone can swan-dive and free-fall off a sheer cliff on Zebes, plummet about fifty metres, unarmoured, while performing several impossible, gravity-defying feats and come to a halt with a [[ThreePointLanding palmed three point landing]] that ''leaves a crater'' then do a happy dance after this; you ''definitely'' qualify for these. For added awesome, when Samus recalls this memory in the manga; she looks to be about ''five''.
** And we must reiterate that, as it said above, this is on a planet with ''950 times'' the Earth's gravity.
* SurvivorGuilt: Notice how she hits all the 'psychologically damaged' tropes?
* TaughtByExperience: She's not the greatest warrior in the universe by dint of her technology alone. The woman has had enough time lived on the battlefield to learn some mad skills.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Samus in ''Other M'' does this ''more'' than a few times.
* TomboyishPonytail: Sometimes seen with a ponytail when out of armor, especially in later appearances; for obvious practical reasons, she almost always wears this hairstyle under her helmet. It definitely helps reinforce her no-nonsense ActionGirl nature even when she doesn't have her Power Suit on.
* {{Transhuman}}: As of ''Fusion'', parts of Samus' suit are fused to her nervous system, and she's part Metroid and Chozo. Despite that, she still resembles a human.
* WalkDontSwim: How Samus handles water; becomes less of a problem with the gravity suit or gravity boost.
* WalkingArmory: When fully equipped, Aran totes more firepower than all of our world military's combined.
* WallCrawl: The Spider Ball. It is limited to magnetic surfaces in Prime, but since Samus can combine it with the Boost Ball to force herself away from one place and stick to another, it was necessary.
* WallJump: Generally becomes redundant when she gets the space jump and screw attack, except for ''Prime 2'' and ''3'', where the Space Jump and Screw Attack are used in tandem for wall jumping.
* WarriorPoet: Introspective, calculating and arguably spiritual. That one silent scene of Samus surveying the burning, destroyed Chozo Temple at the end of ''Prime'' before closing her eyes with some curious, subdued emotion; cements her ''forever'' as one of these.
* WeaponAcrossTheShoulder: When at rest, or to show confidence. Sam likes to rest her cannon back over one of those big spherical shoulders of hers.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Highly regarded as being so, very few can stand against her and hope to live.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: And my foster father. And my adoptive alien race.
** Or at least drove the latter into hiding beyond the corporeal world.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Samus's appearance in the post-game screens from ''Fusion'' looks radically different than the appearance established in ''Zero Mission'' and the ''Prime'' series, with much lighter (and wilder) blond hair, and an almost completely different build.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: According to the first official tie-in manga, Samus is only supposed to be 17 during the events of the first game. But there is an indeterminate TimeSkip in between both volumes and the ''true'' Zero Mission, so a lot of fans call foul. Also, thanks to her Chozo blood, her age is practically impossible to determine.
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--->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JenniferHale (''Metroid Prime'' series), Alesia Glidewell (''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''), Jessica Martin (''Metroid: Other M'' English), Creator/AiKobayashi (''Metroid: Other M'' Japanese)
-->''[[AC:"In The Galactic Federation, only one being in a million hopeful applicants are qualified to join the Federation Police Force. The annals of their history tell of a woman who not only undertook the specialist training but completed the course in record time, graduated first in her class and became the youngest Police Officer ever to be promoted to the Elite Star Tracker Squad!"]]''
--->--''' ''The Coming of a Hero'' -- Nintendo Power Comics System'''
-->''"The Cosmos. In the vast depths of the Universe, the history of humanity is but a flash of light from a lone star. The life of a single person should be lost in space and time. But among the stars, there is one light that burns brighter than all others. The light of Samus Aran. Her battles extend beyond her life, and etch themselves into history."''
--->--''' ''Metroid Prime's'' Intro Narration'''
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Samus Aran created history in 1986 by being the first video game hero (or in her case, heroine) to be a female. Samus Aran is the main protagonist of the series and considered to be an [[LivingLegend icon of strength]] within her own universe. She's regarded as the finest killer alive in a society spanning at least more than one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation. Which is comprised of trillions of individuals and has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum for the near entirety of her long career. As she is [[FamedInStory held in such high regard]] to the degree that [[MysteriousPast he, she, it,]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman of humble origins]] [[HiddenDepths and surprising means]]. Although seemingly remorseless and without scruples, she possesses untold benevolence and humanity despite her violent profession and strives to be a force for good, spreading light into the darkest corners of space. Underneath her armored suit, she's also drop dead gorgeous, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest females in video games.
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* ActionGirl: The first major example in all of video games. And arguably the ''definitive'' example.
* AmazonianBeauty: Over six feet tall, defined like Bruce Lee, clad head to toe in armor, and one of Nintendo's biggest [[BadAss bad asses]].
* ArmCannon: Her primary weapon among a veritable arsenal.
* {{Badass}}: Unbelievably so. She's defeated legions, hunted impossibly dangerous quarries and walked over every nightmare that dares cross her path ''and then some.'' She wiped out the Universal threats embodied in the Metroids, Gorea, the X, Phazon and the Ing. Battled an NGOSuperPower for her entire life, reducing them to a bad memory and takes on her family's murderer every other week; eventually wiping him from the face of existence with an EarthShatteringKaboom. And that's what she get's up to in her ''spare'' time.
** BadassCape / CapedMecha / CoatCape: Aran sometimes wears one over her armour. It's [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey3_en/ch_0013/scaled/sc_SAJ_CH13_054.jpg awesome.]]
** BadassLongcoat: Owns one in the manga, and yes, she can still kick your ass with it. Plus, a [[NiceHat nifty wide brimmed sun hat]] that would make the Queen of England jealous to boot.
** EmpoweredBadassNormal: By way of her Chozo and later Metroid genetics.
** HeartbrokenBadass: So far her family, adoptive family, imprinted Metroid infant, mentor and many close friends have all been horrifically killed, with her often unable to do anything about it.
* BagOfSpilling: In the Prime trilogy: Samus either loses all her previous weapons or is forced to seek out new ones.
* BatmanGambit: She periodically overcomes every counter-tactic the Urtragian Space Pirates throw at her, always through intellectual application and her own warrior instincts. Taken to hilarious heights in the 'Captain N Comics' when she, at one point, caught off-guard by 'Big-time' Brannigan, sabotages her own gun to back-fire, knowing he'll want the DramaticIrony of finishing the best bounty hunter in the guild with her own side-arm. He's promptly maimed and Aran escapes. Another time, she tricks ''Mother Brain'' into handing over a more substantial bounty for turning on her allies, then she promptly betrays her, steals the AppliedPhlebotinum that was the main objective of their mission ''and'' rescues her friends on top of all that! Leaving Mother with nothing! Fittingly, her character is more of an {{Expy}} combination of both Han Solo and Boba Fett.
* BeautyMark: Naturally. Previously hinted at by [[AuthorAppeal Yoshio Sakamoto]] who claimed to be the only one who knew where it was. Its location is finally shown in ''Other M:'' under the left side of her lip.
* BodyHorror: She goes through this fighting the corruption in ''Prime 3.'' When was the last Nintendo game in which you saw the protagonist vomiting up radioactive sludge? Also, if she overloads on Phazon in Hyper-mode, she becomes fully corrupted.
* BoobsOfSteel: From Zero Mission onwards she's been a rather ''well-endowed'' bad-ass, something that [[{{Rule34}} the fan-base has certainly noticed.]]
* BountyHunter: Purportedly her profession, but some overseas developers think Nintendo's refusal to include actual bounty hunting in the games indicates it's a translation screw-up. Despite this, they seemed to have no problem with the manga showing her hunting bounties.
* BioAugmentation: Her DNA is as modular to genetic ''upgrades'' as her armour is to technology, as she was infused with Chozo DNA and later Metroid DNA. How mighty are her genetic gifts do you say? In Metroid Prime, scan data of Zebes reveals it to have both an incredible mass and gravitational pull. As Samus grew up on Zebes, with Chozo DNA to boot, simple math performed by fans reveals this gem: Suitless, Samus can lift ''66.5 TONS'' on Earth.[[note]]That's with her just lifting the equivalent of her own body weight, given that athletes on Earth can lift more than their own weight with training, it's reasonable to assume 66.5 tons isn't even the upper limit of Samus' physical strength[[/note]]
** This, however, hinges on the assumption that the developers knew the actual significance of the immense numbers they put into those scans if they were put into proper calculations - common sense would recognize such insane scaling (which would make Samus over 950 times as strong as a normal human!) as a case of WritersCannotDoMath...
*** Well, the thing is whether or not [[WritersHaveNoSenseOfScale the writers were conscious of what these numbers imply]], it's a moot point because Samus (as far as we know) never visits worlds with gravity comparable to Earth. All of the enemies she's fighting are adapted to the same intense gravity as she is; since she's only compared to similarly strong opponents, there aren't any massive gaps in strength like there would be if she went to Earth and fought something there.
* BuildingSwing: The Grapple Beam in Super and Grapple Lasso in Prime. This becomes less important with the Space Jump/Screw Attack, but Prime 3 gives the lasso more functions to keep it relevant.
* CastingGag: During Samus' younger flashback scenes in ''Other M'', her younger self looks a lot like [[Manga/{{Appleseed}} Deunan Knute]] from the ''Appleseed'' CGI films. Incidentally, Samus is voiced by one of [[Creator/AiKobayashi Deunan's Japanese VAs]].
* TheChosenOne: According to Chozo prophecy and the carvings on Tallon IV.
* CombatPragmatist: Fond of shooting people at point-blank range when getting into physical grapples and applying the most overwhelming amount of force possible to end a fight quickly. In Super Metroid, she defeats Draygon within seconds by conducting electricity through the grapple beam and through ''herself'', flash-frying the monstrous crustacean.
* CoolShip: Her Gunship. With it's own remote controlled auto-piloting functions, industrial grapple beam, missile silos, prisoner containment cells, array of beam weapons and even capable of self-repair and enduring ridiculous levels of combat damage and even the corrosive properties of Phaaze's atmosphere.
* CowboyCop: In the prequel comic, Samus was part of a cowboy cop trio up until she left the force to become a solo bounty hunter on General Adam Malkovich's suggestion.
* CulturedWarrior: Explores uncharted territory, muses on war, peace and her place in the universe, collates zoological databases on a variety of exotic flora and xeno-fauna, is an evaluator of her own and other's morality, translates ancient advanced alien scriptures and seems to practice a form of Instrumentalist Philosophy.
* {{Determinator}}: An absolute given, considering her suit's defences rely on maintaining a zen level of focus during battle, which doubt can cripple. But one particularly impressive display of willpower she displays is in ''Metroid Prime 3''. She staves off Phazon Corruption longer than any of her fellow bounty hunters, in spite of being given the largest dose of radioactive venom by her arch-nemesis. And even retains her mind when at its very origin. With the poison coursing through her veins she descends into the core of the planet Phaaze and wipes the floor with her dark doppelganger, endures the cancer being (unimaginably painfully) purged and ''somehow'' manages to escape back up to the surface before the world blows apart.
* DoomMagnet: Inherited from the Chozo. Person, planet, species, once she gets there, if they haven't already suffered tremendously (and they often have), they will. Not necessarily by her design or intent, mind you, but it inevitably happens anyways.
** Subverted with the Luminoth, as she actually ''does'' help them out with no negative side effects to them in the long run.
** And the Elysian star charts in ''Corruption'' show that the native life on Tallon IV is thriving since Samus ended the Phazon spread.
* TheDreaded: The Space Pirates probably tell their spawn stories of the 'Accursed Hunter' that stalks their kind. They fear and loathe her above all else.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the original ''Metroid'', her aspect was unusual at best. Especially outside her suit where she has an almost bare outfit and has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]] when wearing the Varia Suit. When you play as her outside her suit, she can use the majority of her suit's abilities including her Morph Ball function.
* ElementalPowers
** AnIcePerson: Her most prominent power in terms of taking on Metroids. Flipped on its head in Fusion, where ''Samus'' fears the Ice Beam.
** PlayingWithFire: The Plasma and Nova beams are depicted as such. While not exactly fire, ''per say'', they essentially act as such in the ''Prime'' series.
** ShockAndAwe: What the Wave Beam is mostly portrayed to be. Though in actuality it can diffuse through materials and hit opponents ''behind cover.''
** LightEmUp: The Light Beam from ''Prime 2.'' An effective solar ray. Or even the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness wandering matter]] of the Luminoth's planetary energy that sustains them.
** CastingAShadow: Also the Dark Beam from ''Echoes.'' This will ruin anyone's day with concentrated ''evilness'' from the Dark Dimension. It hurts a being of pure ''Phazon''.
** PureEnergy: Essentially what her Power Beam is. It ''Vaporizes'' targets in ''Prime 3''.
** MakeMeWannaShout: What the Annihilator beam becomes when charged. It temporarily ''cracks reality''.
** YinYangBomb: What the Annihilator beam, and especially its missile combination the Sonic Boom is, in addition to the above; being a matter-antimatter weapon and all.
* {{Expy}}: Directly stated to be one of [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Ellen Ripley]], another strong female sci-fi protagonist who battles cosmic monstrosities. She's also occasionally considered a DistaffCounterpart of [[Franchise/{{StarWars}} Boba Fett]], another space-faring BountyHunter with a CoolShip, a full suit of armor, and lots of weapons and gadgets.
* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: What makes Other M slightly easier to swallow is this trope. Samus informs a would be ally that a warrior only fights their hardest when controlling and utilizing their fear of death. Not suppressing or trying to deny it.
* FemmeFatale: As beautiful as she is dangerous. The fandom plays up this aspect of her predatory nature.
* TheFettered: She has a code, it has [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight a lot of leeway.]]
* FlashStep: You can do this in-game as a strafe mechanism but the most memorable one has to be in the supplemental material. it's accompanied with an insane [[BulletCatch bullet catch]] when the hostage's face is ''two feet away'' from the muzzle of the weapon. Sam manages to ''[[UpToEleven shoot the Pirate at the same time.]]''
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Shown to concern herself with the well-being of wildlife she encounters during missions.
* GeniusBruiser: Her handwritten notes in her log book very much implies extensive knowledge in the fields of biology, physics and chemistry. After all, she was brought up and educated by enlightened {{Precursors}}. She also knows a great deal about mechanics and electronics, evidenced by her [[WrenchWench working circuitry in a few games and by designing her own gunships]], doing precision welding jobs, energizing dead systems, hell, just being able to operate that walking death mobile she's clad in has to count -- but the stand-out moment for Aran has to be her constructing a Chozo WMD called a Theronian Bomb out of a floating city's infrastructure, rewiring the engines to float a section of said city over to the Leviathan Seed's shield generator, all the while fending off ''dozens'' of pirate drop ships before leaving in a sabotaged escape pod that she quickly repairs; the munition is dropped and the atmosphere is ignited in nuclear fire.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Quintessential. The first time she spares the life of a child-enslaving pirate overseer; is so she can ''[[ColdBloodedTorture interrogate]]'' him.
* TheGunslinger: The auto-lock ''is not'' technological. Revamped straight over into ImprobableAimingSkills 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 [[QuickDraw 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.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: 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.
* HalfHumanHybrid: In the end, she's anywhere from as much as [[ShrugOfGod 95% human to as little as 10%]]. For most of the series, she's a human with Chozo traits that supersede human maximum potential, 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 of 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 its implied that the X she gets abilities from had them biologically, rather than mechanically, so fans understandably still argue.
* HappilyAdopted: 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.
* HeroicBSOD: A horrific one in the e-manga. When Ridley forces her to remember that fateful day he brought devastation to K-2L. How his men butchered her childhood friends and how he roasted and ''ate'' her mother! She loses control of the mental link between her armour 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.
* HeroicBuild: Sadly zigzagged. Most apparent at the end of ''Super'' and ''Fusion''.
* HeroicWillpower: As seen in ''Metroid Zero Mission'' and ''Other M'', Samus' Power Suit manifests though inhuman levels of willpower and concentration, and can dissipate if she falters. Yoshio Sakamoto [[ItMakesSenseInContext compared her losing her suit to a salary-man losing his tie in a bullet train]].
* TheHunter: Literally. In Metroid's Universe she'd be the example under the noun in the dictionary.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Her suit can hold over 200 missiles even on the NES game.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: To an extent, as she was raised by aliens. Non-mammalian aliens, at that. Not to mention that she's not entirely human herself anymore.
** One theory as to why most of her outfits besides the ubiquitous powersuit are so skimpy is because she's uncomfortable wearing too much, rather than a deliberate attempt to look seductive. Because the suit links directly with her nerves it feels like her own skin and thus she's gotten used to feeling naked most of the time.
* TheLadette: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While Samus isn't often seen engaging in overly "frat-boy-ish" behavior, she wears a traditionally masculine suit of PoweredArmor and can kick ass with the best of them. Except in ''Other M'', Samus has almost no feminine traits apart from her physical appearance, and can even be seen [[http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v66/Precita/Samus%20Aran/Samus_bar.gif hanging out at a bar]] in one of the ending scenes of ''Zero Mission''.
* LadyOfWar: On the contrary to the prior point, she cracks skulls and does it with ''obscene'' poise and grace.
* LeParkour: 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. Mei Ling in ''Smash Bros. Brawl'' can only refer to her as a "Super Athlete" and she's damn right.
* LightningBruiser: Can plow through enemies with mach speed shoulder charges, possesses enough razor sharp reflexes to dodge gunfire while stationary and can tether, hook line and sinker, then ''beach'' a gigantic alien beast that can ''swim in lava.'' Even without the suit she can jump about forty feet straight up in the heavier gravity of Zebes. Imagine what she could do to you if she kicked you while on Earth.
* LukeIAmYourFather: In the manga, Grey Voice turns out to be the donor for Aran's infusion of Chozo DNA.
* MadeOfIron: Due to her Chozo heritage and Zebesian upbringing. She can take shots for the team that would cause a lesser hero to crumple in one. She can stand ''multiple'' times after having been hit by Mother Brain's ''[[WaveMotionGun rainbow hyper beam]].'' And she ''will'' fight and win battles with [[BackFromTheBrink a drop in the tank to spare.]]
* MamaBear: Ask Mother Brain. Oh wait, we can't, it [[CurbStompBattle suffered Samus' rage]] after it killed the Super Metroid while protecting its perceived mother figure.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Basically, everything she steps on triggers a SelfDestructMechanism.
* MsFanservice: Oh, most definitely. She's undeniably gorgeous and doesn't mind peeling off all that armour and enjoying the breeze. Just don't think she's another pretty face... Or you'd find yourself [[MuggingTheMonster paying for it, dearly]].
* NervesOfSteel: If courage has a name, it must be Samus Aran.
* NeverTrustATrailer: All promotional material for the first game outright lied and said that Samus was a male cyborg. This extended to the game manual itself. Of course, this was to preserve the surprise at the end.
* NonchalantDodge: The fact that she can pull these off, along with her StoneWall levels of health, makes her nearly invincible.
* NotQuiteFlight: The Space Jump in the 2D games lets Samus jump at any time, even in midair; downgraded to a DoubleJump in Prime, but then you get the Screw Attack in those games and she's back to jumping canyons. The Shine Spark also qualifies.
* [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]]: She was called in to Zebes to solve what orbital bombardment could not.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Aran's second Power Suit, attained in the Zero Mission epilogue after her first was destroyed.
* ParentalAbandonment: Certainly not by their own choice. Both Rodney and Virginia Aran go down in ways that make James and Lily from [[HarryPotter the Harry Potter books]] look like pansies. [[SarcasmMode Thanks for that, Ridley]].
* PartialTransformation: In the manga, Samus is capable of manifesting her suit's ArmCannon without the rest of the suit.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Possesses enough power to level almost anything, man, beast, army, world, ghost or PhysicalGod.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Is a bounty hunter who is yet to be seen doing any actual bounty hunting. Her work in-game would suggest she's more like a mercenary.
** She claimed to be searching for a bounty in Super Metroid, so it could be assumed most of the games we play are special situations where someone contracted her, or she's just sidetracked and she would be hunting bounties if not for it.
** In ''Metroid Prime 2,'' Samus actually ''was'' hired by the Galactic Federation for a search-and-rescue mission for the missing troops that had crash-landed on Aether. Of course, within the first five minutes of the game she learns that they've already been wiped out. Everything after that was of her own volition.
** For ''Metroid Prime 3,'' Retro Studios initially planned for Samus to do some actual bounty hunting. She'd get a list of possible jobs to do, earn rewards, and use the cash to buy upgrades for her equipment. Nintendo didn't like the idea, and after some back-and-forth, Retro realized there was a language issue, and that "bounty hunter" isn't exactly the best description of what Samus is supposed to be. The Retro developers started joking that she was a "pro-bono hunter" instead.
* PoweredArmor: Her Power Suit is one of the most famous examples in all of media. A Chozo-designed cybernetic battle exo-skeleton of quantum-locked, psionically summoned armour that is synchronized with her very being and can adapt to incorporate all known (and some unknown) weaponry. It also provides energy shielding, protection from lethal environments, enhanced strength and uncharted tactical [[AwesomeByAnalysis scanning capabilities]].
** ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Although she is still inhumanly agile and monstrously strong outside the suit, Samus is unable to take down a lowly Space Pirate trooper without its help. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] (possibly even [[InvertedTrope inverted]]) in ''Videogame/SuperSmashBros'' for CompetitiveBalance reasons. That might be because she was basically unarmed (that paralyzer doesn't really count) without it.
** CoolHelmet: Especially in the ''Prime'' series, where it resembles a V-shaped, upside-down bird's wings.
** LifeEnergy: This is apparently how the health and ammo pickups work, according to the first game's manual. The Prime series let you find them from crates too though, suggesting it might just be general matter/energy conversion ([[AntiFrustrationFeatures or that Retro wanted to make things easier]])
--> Even the Space Pirates fear [[SamusIsAGirl his]] space suit, which can absorb any enemy's power.
** This is seemingly how Samus gets the hyper beam and Phazon suit, both involved an almost deceased monster falling on and getting partially absorbed by the suit.
** TronLines: Kelly green for the Varia suit, cerulean for the P.E.D. suit.
* {{Protectorate}}: At least on paper. She trained as a warrior ultimately to defend others from what she had to endure but she is not averse to proactively tracking down evil and ''annihilating it.'' And a girl has to make a living somehow.
* RaisedByNatives: Rescued, nurtured, trained and loved by the last remnants of the Chozo.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: While she's best known for her various beam and missile weapons, the Screw Attack and Shine Spark are some of Samus' most powerful attacks.
* Really700YearsOld: Inferred. Even if she's not this in the timeline that would have you believe she became famed across multiple galaxies within twenty years. Her Chozo genetic properties ensure she won't be dying peacefully in her bed any time soon.
* RedBaron: Of all her prey. Of all her foes, [[MookHorrorShow the Space Pirates deem her as]] the one and only being regarded enough to bear the title of ''TheHunter''. In a universe ''full'' of them!
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: In ''Echoes'', logs left by the troopers mention the two planets full of Space Pirates she's blown up. One of the ones who mentions the story thinks that the act was too much for a single human to accomplish...
** Although it's worth pointing out that, chronologically, she had not yet blown up any planets when that comment was made. As far as we know...
** Then again, it's a possible the trooper meant the events of ''Zero Mission'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', where she attacked their bases directly.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Implied that she has a very massive one against [[BigBad Mother Brain]] and [[TheDragon Ridley]].
** In ''Corruption'', the final battle on Phaaze is implied to be this as well, considering Aran's reactions to each of the Hunters' deaths, making it quite clear that by the time the final fight ensues, she's ready to rip the one responsible (Dark Samus) apart.
* RocketJump: Bomb jumps; as bombs float in air, it can be done at least twice in all games, and taken to [[SequenceBreaking ridiculous levels]] in some. Power Bombs can be used for this effect too in the games where they aren't explicit room cleaners. It's implied that the jets on her back sometimes do this as well.
** Being immune to her own explosives is important, as it helps Samus remove {{Personal Space Invader}}s from her suit. (for {{competitive balance}} reasons, Samus can be hurt by the explosions of some of her own weapons in Hunters)
* RollingAttack: The Boost Ball and the shine spark can be used in morph ball mode in Zero Mission.
* SamusIsAGirl: TropeNamer, as the first game used this trope as a bonus for players to find out.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: All but outright stated. She tracks the Pirates that flee from Zebes to Tallon IV across space. Also, complete the scavenger hunts in each chapter of the ''Prime trilogy'' and you will most definitely feel like one of these.
* ScreamingWarrior: Only once, and in the manga at that, but what a moment it is. After ''[[CurbStompBattle obliterating]]'' Ridley for the first time and avenging her mother, her childhood home and her adoptive father, Samus lets loose over twenty years of pent-up primal fury with a [[SkywardScream roar of vindication and release]]. It. Is. ''Glorious''.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Was suggested to have PTSD in the manga (though not officially diagnosed, as there was another theory), and according to [[http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/metroid-other-m/0/3 an interview with Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja]] Samus is poor at coping with her life's problems as well.
* SherlockScan: Thanks to her Scan Visor, though considering the notes seem to sometimes be written by Sam's own hand -- and that [[FridgeBrilliance time]] [[HyperAwareness pauses]] upon finishing the [[AwesomeByAnalysis evaluation...]]
* ShouldersOfDoom / GiantPoofySleeves: Since ''Metroid II'' on the GameBoy couldn't use color to differentiate between the different suits, the Varia suit was given big honking shoulders to distinguish its sprite from the regular Power Suit. The design has carried over since then to every subsequent game in the series.
* ShroudedInMyth: In the very first game's instruction manual, Metroid's Samus Aran is described as being "shrouded in mystery", supernaturally skilled, and NighInvulnerable thanks to a plethora of cybernetic upgrades, encased in a suit of PoweredArmor that's the terror of every law-breaker in the universe, and with his, her or ''its'' true form known to no one. Of course, when the armor finally comes off at the end of the game, the galaxy's most famous BadAss turns out to be a rather attractive blonde woman.
** The legend also winds up oddly inverted, according to the logs of ''Metroid Prime 2''. Some of the Federation Marines apparently consider the various exploits of Samus Aran, and even her very existence, to be only slightly more credible than bed-time stories:
-->'''PFC Crany:''' Last night at chow, Angseth starts talking about some bounty hunter and how she blew up a planet full of Space Pirates. I told her I didn't believe in fairy tales like that, and she took it personal. I just find it hard to believe that one person took out an entire Space Pirate base, that's all. But if she wants to believe in this Samus, or Bigfoot, or Santa Claus, she can.
** The Space Pirates, not to be outdone, have grown Samus into their cultural mythology as a one-woman demonic grim reaper. Every game in the ''Prime'' series features an ApocalypticLog sequence in which the Space Pirates describe the impending horror of a raid by "[[TheHunter The Hunter.]]" To clarify, the Prime series shows numerous other bounty hunters, and implies that there are many more; that it is Samus alone that they call [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Hunter]] shows how ''terrified'' they are of her.
* SignatureMove: The fabled [[PunnyName Screw-Attack]]... It really needs a title update.
* TheSilentBob: In the ''Prime'' trilogy.
* SphereOfDestruction: Power Bombs in the 3D games. They are ovals in the 2D ones.
* SpiderSense: Prime reveals that the heads up display of her helmet includes indicators of movement and energy sources outside of her field vision, allowing Samus to react to things she cannot immediately see (Prime 2 and 3's cutscenes provide third person demonstrations even if the player never figures it out). Apparently supplementary materials suggest she has Chozo physic senses to fore-warn her of imminent danger and trigger fantastic reaction speed but the only places any thing like this comes close to being demonstrated are in the manga and ''Other M''.
* SpyCatsuit, FormFittingWardrobe, SensualSpandex: The Zero Suit. At its introduction it was the most modest clothing she had worn outside of her Power Suit.
** CombatStilettos: The Zero Suit has them in ''Other M'', which ironically enough were previously [[http://media.tumblr.com/91f44318b45126781a6af76b0bf85a5d/tumblr_inline_mx95epDqug1r5618z.png discouraged]] during ''Zero Mission'''s design process.
* StandardPowerupPose: Does a painful looking variant in Prime 3 when empowered after Leviathan Guardian bosses.
* StatuesqueStunner: [[http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Samus_Aran?file=Samus_Aran_Varia_suit_Super_Metroid_Player%27s_Guide_1994.jpg According to the Super Metroid Player's Guide]], she's ''supposed'' to be 6'3 and 198 pounds outside her armor. She's significantly shorter than the average male human in ''Other M'', but in the Prime games, she's just as tall or taller than the Federation personnel and about the same size as most of the bounty hunters (except the three from Prime 3), so it's easier to believe there.
* TheStoic: Until ''Other M'' came along...
* {{Stun Gun|s}}: Her Paralyzer, which she uses for protection when not wearing her armor. ''Brawl'' [[SwissArmyWeapon adds]] a [[WhipItGood whip mode]].
* SuperReflexes: Capable of nullifying hails of gunfire with her own shots.
** One of the coolest and most impressive displays of her [[SuperReflexes reflexes]] and [[SuperSpeed speed]] comes from the ''Samus and Joey'' manga: [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0001/scaled/sc_SAJ_Vol1_020.jpg a Space Pirate has his weapon trained on Joey, his hostage, at point-blank range, with his weapon inches away from the boy's head]]. [[http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/samus_joey_en/ch_0001/scaled/sc_SAJ_Vol1_021.jpg Samus tells him to fire, and he does]]. Samus then moves with lightning speed and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome catches the bullet well before it hits Joey, while simultaneously mortally wounding the Space Pirate with a shot of her own!]]
* SuperSoldier: Sam's pretty much got the complete Super Soldier package, being adopted by the fantastically advanced yet consciously going extinct Chozo, who infused her with Chozo DNA to gain fantastic speed, strength, agility and sensory capacity, trained her as the last Defender (read: legendary universe-saving warrior/judge figure) and equipped her with a modular suit of Powered Armor that's the envy of the galaxy. On top of this, she's largely fueled by a burning desire to get back at the Space Pirates who trashed both of her home-worlds and left her orphaned twice over. If there's a better warrior in the series' galaxy, we haven't seen him, her or it yet.
** Not only that, she later gets infused with Metroid DNA, and has also been exposed to the highly volatile substance Phazon repeatedly. Additionally, her aforementioned Powered Armor can utilize virtually any weapon or technology it comes across, can hack into even the most secure networks just by ''looking'' at it, and can determine the weakness of almost anything, animal or mineral, by the same process.
** For bonus points, the word "metroid" in the Chozo language means "ultimate warrior."
** Also, most planets tend to explode by the time she's done with them
** Let's face it, in her universe she's a combination of Superman, Ironman, Batman, Wolverine and Green Lantern. No wonder most people don't even think she's real anymore. Most of the Federation marines think she's just a myth or propaganda, and the Space Pirates treat Aran as their primary enemy all on her lonesome.
* SuperStrength / SuperToughness: When someone can swan-dive and free-fall off a sheer cliff on Zebes, plummet about fifty metres, unarmoured, while performing several impossible, gravity-defying feats and come to a halt with a [[ThreePointLanding palmed three point landing]] that ''leaves a crater'' then do a happy dance after this; you ''definitely'' qualify for these. For added awesome, when Samus recalls this memory in the manga; she looks to be about ''five''.
** And we must reiterate that, as it said above, this is on a planet with ''950 times'' the Earth's gravity.
* SurvivorGuilt: Notice how she hits all the 'psychologically damaged' tropes?
* TaughtByExperience: She's not the greatest warrior in the universe by dint of her technology alone. The woman has had enough time lived on the battlefield to learn some mad skills.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Samus in ''Other M'' does this ''more'' than a few times.
* TomboyishPonytail: Sometimes seen with a ponytail when out of armor, especially in later appearances; for obvious practical reasons, she almost always wears this hairstyle under her helmet. It definitely helps reinforce her no-nonsense ActionGirl nature even when she doesn't have her Power Suit on.
* {{Transhuman}}: As of ''Fusion'', parts of Samus' suit are fused to her nervous system, and she's part Metroid and Chozo. Despite that, she still resembles a human.
* WalkDontSwim: How Samus handles water; becomes less of a problem with the gravity suit or gravity boost.
* WalkingArmory: When fully equipped, Aran totes more firepower than all of our world military's combined.
* WallCrawl: The Spider Ball. It is limited to magnetic surfaces in Prime, but since Samus can combine it with the Boost Ball to force herself away from one place and stick to another, it was necessary.
* WallJump: Generally becomes redundant when she gets the space jump and screw attack, except for ''Prime 2'' and ''3'', where the Space Jump and Screw Attack are used in tandem for wall jumping.
* WarriorPoet: Introspective, calculating and arguably spiritual. That one silent scene of Samus surveying the burning, destroyed Chozo Temple at the end of ''Prime'' before closing her eyes with some curious, subdued emotion; cements her ''forever'' as one of these.
* WeaponAcrossTheShoulder: When at rest, or to show confidence. Sam likes to rest her cannon back over one of those big spherical shoulders of hers.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Highly regarded as being so, very few can stand against her and hope to live.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: And my foster father. And my adoptive alien race.
** Or at least drove the latter into hiding beyond the corporeal world.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Samus's appearance in the post-game screens from ''Fusion'' looks radically different than the appearance established in ''Zero Mission'' and the ''Prime'' series, with much lighter (and wilder) blond hair, and an almost completely different build.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: According to the first official tie-in manga, Samus is only supposed to be 17 during the events of the first game. But there is an indeterminate TimeSkip in between both volumes and the ''true'' Zero Mission, so a lot of fans call foul. Also, thanks to her Chozo blood, her age is practically impossible to determine.
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