History Characters / MetroidSamusAran

* 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.

* TheAce: Incredibly experienced and talented warrior in both ranged and close-quarter combat, genius historian, supreme hacker and technician, master of espionage and stealth, extremely knowledgeable biologist, keen survivalist, unrivaled acrobat, master linguist, eagle-eyed archaeologist, professional particle physicist, top-tier xenologist, immensely skilled pilot, all-round engineer, enlightened meditative spiritualist, intuitive tracker, skilled chemist,[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking neat CoolShip designer and a gorgeous and voluptuous hottie.]].

* TheAce: Incredibly experienced and talented warrior in both ranged and close-quarter combat, master of espionage and stealth, extremely knowledgeable biologist, keen survivalist, unrivaled acrobat, master linguist, eagle-eyed archaeologist, professional particle physicist, top-tier xenologist, immensely skilled pilot, all-round engineer, enlightened meditative spiritualist, intuitive tracker, skilled chemist,[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking neat CoolShip designer and a gorgeous and voluptuous hottie.]].

* TheAce: Incredibly experienced and talented warrior in both ranged and close-quarter combat, extremely knowledgeable biologist, keen survivalist, unrivaled acrobat, master linguist, eagle-eyed archaeologist, professional particle physicist, top-tier xenologist, immensely skilled pilot, all-round engineer, enlightened meditative spiritualist, intuitive tracker, skilled chemist,[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking neat CoolShip designer and a gorgeous and voluptuous hottie.]].

* TheAce: Expert warrior in both ranged and close-quarter combat, keen survivalist, unrivaled acrobat, master linguist, eagle-eyed archaeologist, professional particle physicist, top-tier xenologist, immensely skilled pilot, all-round engineer, enlightened meditative spiritualist, intuitive tracker,[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking neat ship designer and total babe]].

* TheAce: Expert warrior in both ranged and close-quarter combat, keen survivalist, unrivaled acrobat, master linguist, eagle-eyed archaeologist, professional particle physicist, top-tier xenologist, immensely skilled pilot, all-round engineer, enlightened meditative spiritualist, intuitive tracker, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking neat ship designer]].

* 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.

* AnimalMotifs: Metroids, the species local to her frachise. She is the project of the Chozo for the Ultimate Warrior, she has a deep sense of family, shares history with them, and ''[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie becomes one]]'' over the course of ''Fusion'' and ''Dread''.

* BoobsAndButtPose: Shown in [[https://www.smashbros.com/wii/en_us/characters/images/zerosuit_samus/zerosuit_samus.jpg this]] picture.

** And with Adam Malkovich acting as a sort of father figure, you could say that Samus really has [[UpToEleven ''five'']] daddies.

->'''Voiced by:''' "JH"[[note]]uncredited pain grunts; thought to be Creator/JenniferHale[[/note]] (''Metroid Prime'' series), Creator/VanessaMarshall (''Metroid Prime'' series, uncredited death scream), Alesia Glidewell (''Super Smash Bros.'' series), Jessica Martin (''Metroid: Other M'' English), Creator/AiKobayashi (''Metroid: Other M'' Japanese), Nieves "Nikki" García (''Metroid Dread'')

->'''Voiced by:''' "JH"[[note]]uncredited pain grunts; thought to be Creator/JenniferHale[[/note]] (''Metroid Prime'' series), "VM"[[note]]uncredited death scream; thought to be Creator/VanessaMarshall[[/note]] (''Metroid Prime'' series), Alesia Glidewell (''Super Smash Bros.'' series), Jessica Martin (''Metroid: Other M'' English), Creator/AiKobayashi (''Metroid: Other M'' Japanese), Nieves "Nikki" García (''Metroid Dread'')

* SexyWalk: Averted throughout the series as most of the early 2D games didn't really focus on this since Samus is running all the time, and the ''Prime'' games spend much of their time in the first-person view. ''Other M'' started to lean into this with some of the close-up slow-walking over the shoulder camera instances. And then ''Dread'' fully embraced this trope, especially in its cutscenes where Samus sways her hips in a very feminine manner as she walks, helped by the ''Dread'' suit hugging her legs quite tightly.

[[caption-width-right:349:''"Are you not afraid? Those who don't worry about dying in the future won't fight for their lives in the present."'']]

* 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. In ''Other M'', ''Samus Returns'', and ''Dread'' she can now do combat counters and moves in addition to her firepower.

* NiceGirl: While she isn't the most social person or [[TheStoic prone to emotions]], she is shown to be a compassionate and gentle woman who wants to make the galaxy a better place. For example, instead of coldly killing the Metroid hatchling, she spares it once she realizes it isn’t hostile, [[MamaBear protects it from Ridley]], sees that it used for beneficial research, and fights through all of Zebes to get it back. She also took the time to rescue the Etecoons and Dachora before Zebes was destroyed and saved planet Aether and the Luminoth from the Ing of her own volition and with no expectation of reward. In ''Dread'', after taking the time to listen to Quiet Robe's plight, she reassures him in the Chozo language that she will stop Raven Beak's plans to conquer the galaxy.

* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Samus in ''Other M'' does often does this in her narration as her stoic demeanor doesn't express that much emotion.

* Really700YearsOld: Inferred. She has the appearance of a woman in her twenties to thirties, but even if she's not exactly this ''yet'', her Chozo genetic properties ensure she won't be dying peacefully in her bed any time soon.

* OneManArmy: She was called in to Zebes to solve what orbital bombardment could not. Generally speaking, her Power Suit, arsenal, and enhanced agility, strength, and reflexes make her difficult to manage even with a group of enemies.

* BigEater: Not that she has much of a choice to begin with. She feeds on the X in the B.S.L. station to regain health and missiles.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Though she presents herself as a mostly unflinching gun-for-hire almost all of her documented jaunts are ones she took as a matter of solving a problem or eliminating a threat by personal choice, not one accepted simply to line her pocket. Even missions that start out as assignments (such as ''Fusion'', where she is being deployed to investigate an explosion at the Biologic Space Laboratories) turn into personal battles by the end (Samus deeming the X Parasites cannot be allowed to escape the B.S.L.). That said there have been allusions to jobs she's taken as a matter of occupation rather than personal investment (such as her first encounter with the X, where she was on escort detail for the Biologic research team), they simply aren't the ones that you get to play out.

* EatingTheEnemy: After being infected by the X and receiving the Metroid Vaccine which mutated her genome into making her part Metroid, this became Samus's primary means of dispatching the X infestation on the BSL space station: preying on every single one she came across through absorption on physical contact. [[spoiler:This gets majorly ratcheted up in ''Dread'' when Samus's Metroid DNA fully manifests within her and grants her the species' LifeDrinker and EnergyAbsorption powers, able to drain the opposition to a crumbling husk much the usual Metroid way and even able to consume X-mimics whole without even needing to break them back down to their original form anymore. However, unlike her passive attributes gained in ''Fusion'', using this ability carelessly threatens a serious case of PowerIncontinence and spiraling out of control. That said, she outright [[DefiedTrope defies this]] in regards to the X Parasite that absorbed both Kraid and Raven Beak into a ClippedWingAngel form, blasting it with a full-powered Hyper Beam that atomises it rather than absorbing it. This is more due to it having absorbed Raven Beak and as a showcase of Samus' utter disgust towards him, wanting to remove every trace of him from existence and refusing to absorb his DNA by proxy through the parasite]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: At the end of ''Fusion''. With the discovery that the Galactic Federation intend to capture the X Parasites and SA-X for military purposes, Samus immediately turns on them, knowing that such plans are a [[EvilIsNotAToy disaster waiting to happen]], destroying both the BSL station and planet [=SR388=] to wipe out the X.

* OneManArmy: She was called in to Zebes to solve what orbital bombardment could not. Generally speaking, her Power Suit, arsenal, and enhanced agility and reflexes make her difficult to manage even with a group of enemies.

* OneManArmy: She was called in to Zebes to solve what orbital bombardment could not.

* Really700YearsOld: Inferred. Even if she's not exactly this ''yet'', her Chozo genetic properties ensure she won't be dying peacefully in her bed any time soon.

* NiceShoes: She gained a pair of jet boots in Super Smash Bros. You wouldn't think that a street fighting woman with a plasma whip and a pistol would choose high heels to fight in, but she's got them. While they caused a bit of controversy at the time, the jet power function of the boots makes them pretty practical overall.

* BadassAdorable:
** In her younger years. The manga depicts an inexperienced Samus training and using her Power Suit at the age of 14, still with some of the sense of wonderment she had as a young child.
** In ''Other M'', Samus is noticeably kinder, sweeter, more loyal and more naïve than previously shown, but is still a very deadly warrior.

* {{Cyborg}}: The manual for the original ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' referred to Samus as a "cyborg". However, this (in addition to referring to Samus as "him" in the English localization) at first seems to be a deliberate misdirection once she removes the suit and proves to be a human woman. Then, ''[[VideoGame/MetroidFusion Fusion]]'' reveals that Metroid's Power Suit needs to be ''surgically'' removed from her body in order to treat her, and she "regrows" a new suit after being given a transfusion of Metroid DNA. ''[[VideoGame/MetroidDread Dread]]'' further reveals that the suit possesses any biological traits that Samus herself has [[spoiler:such as a Metroid's absorption powers and ability to evolve]]. This all implies that the Power Suit(s) are integrated into part of the wearer's body.

[[TheDreaded The Hunter.]] [[TheChosenOne The Entrusted One.]] [[ForGreatJustice The Protector of the Galaxy.]]

Samus Aran made history in 1986 by being one of the first video game heroines. 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 one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation; which comprises trillions of individuals, some of whom know of other populated galaxies, for which Aran has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum in its defense for the near entirety of 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, or it]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman]] [[FromZeroToHero 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 very beautiful, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest women in video games.

* FlyingBrick:[[spoiler: Her [[BioArmor Metroid]] [[EleventhHourSuperpower Suit]] in ''Dread'' turns her into one, granting her an infinite DoubleJump as well as NighInvulnerability]]. Though in effect it makes her look more like a flying buzzsaw.

* SensualSpandex: Samus Aran's Zero Suit is very tight, especially around her rear, something the camera in [[VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission a]] [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl few]] [[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM games]] loves to remind you of.

* SherlockScan: Thanks to her Scan Visor, though she sometimes adds her own notes -- and [[FridgeBrilliance time]] [[HyperAwareness pauses]] when it finishes the [[AwesomenessByAnalysis evaluation...]]

* {{Troperiffic}}: Have you even seen how long this page is?

* VillainKiller: Samus Aran is an intergalactic bounty hunter, and she lives up to her reputation by accomplishing tasks thought impossible. For instance, some of her most villain kills include [[VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy a Metroid mutated with Phazon to become a massive spidery monster that could imitate her armor to save its life]], [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus the destruction of the Metroid species in its entirety]], [[VideoGame/Metroid1 two]] [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid counts]] of detonating a Space Pirate base (the latter taking [[EarthShatteringKaboom the entire planet it was on with it]]), and [[Characters/MetroidRidley a nigh-immortal sadistic Space Pirate commander that even recovered from Phazon corruption]]. There is a reason that Samus is feared throughout the galaxy.

* BadassLongcoat: Owns a pure white one in the manga, and yes, she can still kick your ass with it. Plus, a matching [[NiceHat nifty wide brimmed sun hat]] that would make the Queen of England jealous to boot.

Samus Aran made history in 1986 by being one of the first video game heroines. 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 one inhabited galaxy under a still as yet unseen umbrella nation; which is comprised of trillions of individuals, some of whom know of other populated galaxies, for which Aran has waged a perpetual war with nomadic inter-stellar brigands and all manner of criminal scum in its defense for the near entirety of 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, or it]] is often mistaken for an urban legend or patron saint of bounty hunters, though supplemental material reveals her to be [[SamusIsAGirl a woman]] [[FromZeroToHero 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 very beautiful, and regularly recognized as one of the sexiest women in video games.