History Characters / MetroidSamusAran

* AllLovingHero: [[EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnea With a few exceptions]], Samus is kind and compassionate to any non-hostile life form she comes across, whether they be humans, aliens, animals, or even a baby Metroid.

** Mother Brain, the rogue A.I. responsible for the devastation of Planet Zebes, the death of Samus' adoptive father, and the murder of the Baby Metroid, all to fuel her own megalomaniacal ambitions.

* HorrorHunger: [[spoiler:She begins to show it in ''Metroid Dread'' as her awakened Metroid DNA sets in, as after counter-hitting an enemy that tried to attack her and stunning it, she instinctively makes to consume it with her new power. She has to physically restrain herself to finish it with her Arm Cannon instead, the effort leaving her visibly panting afterwards. Unfortunately for her, Raven Beak creates another situation for her to use her new feeding ability, and as it's against the ''Power Bomb-wielding E.M.M.I.'', she has no choice.]]

* MsFanservice: Averted most of the time since she spends the majority of the games in her Power Suit . However, it is played fully straight at the end of most ''Metroid'' games. If- the player manages to beat the game under a certain amount of hours, Samus will take off her Power Suit and shows just how much of a beautiful woman she is. In earlier games, she is usually depicted in a leotard, bikini or tank top. In later games, it's the Zero Suit. She also gets quite a bit of MaleGaze in ''Zero Mission'', ''Other M'', and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series. These aspects of her are severely downplayed in the ''Metroid Prime'' games, ''Samus Returns'', and ''Metroid Dread'', where while she is still stunningly beautiful the games do not emphasize any of her sexual aspects in any way. In the grand finale of ''Manga/MetroidSamusAndJoey EX'', [[spoiler:we get an image of her naked body as she was bidding farewell to Joey]].

* ProudBeauty: She seems to be very proud of her looks (and who could blame her) and she loves to show off her beauty to the player at the end of each game by letting her hair down and posing attractively.

* 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]], two 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.

[[center: [-[[Characters/{{Metroid}} Main Character Index]] | '''Samus Aran''' | [[Characters/MetroidTheMetroids Metroids]] ([[Characters/MetroidMetroidPrimeAndDarkSamus Prime]]) | [[Characters/MetroidSpacePirates Space Pirates]] ([[Characters/MetroidMotherBrain Mother Brain]] | [[Characters/MetroidRidley Ridley]]) | [[Characters/MetroidXParasites X Parasites]] | [[Characters/MetroidGalacticFederation Galactic Federation]] |\\
[[Characters/MetroidTheChozo Chozo]] ([[Characters/MetroidRavenBeak Raven Beak]]) | [[Characters/MetroidBountyHunters Bounty Hunters]] | [[Characters/MetroidOtherAntagonists Other Antagonists]] | [[Characters/MetroidOthers Others]] | [[Characters/MetroidNoncanonicalCharacters Noncanonical Characters]]]]-]

* 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. So far the only game where both her personal objectives and the mission she's being paid to do have aligned is ''Metroid II'' / ''Samus Returns'', where the expressed goal is total elimination of the Metroid species from their homeworld of [=SR388=] because of the danger they present and she accepts the job understanding that it needs to be done.

* 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. So far the only game where both her personal objectives and the mission she's being paid to do have aligned is ''Metroid II''/''Samus Returns'', where the expressed goal is total elimination of the Metroid species from their homeworld of [=SR388=] because of the danger they present and she accepts the job understanding that it needs to be done.

* 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. So far the only game where both her personal objectives and the mission she's being paid to do have aligned is ''Metroid II''/''Samus Returns'', where the expressed goal is total elimination of the Metroid species from their homeworld of SR388 because of the danger they present and she accepts the job understanding that it needs to be done.

* 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.

** In the games proper, particularly ''Samus Returns'' and ''Dread'' thanks to the addition of the melee counter, Samus can do things like parry physical strikes from creatures and machines ''much'' bigger than her, such as Omega and ''Queen'' Metroids, Kraid, and war machines with just a well-timed swing of her ArmCannon arm. She can also throw around creatures larger than her such as the Zeta Metroid, which she grabbed by its tail and swung it to the ground midair.

** In the games proper, particularly ''Samus Returns'' and ''Dread'' thanks to the addition of the melee counter, Samus can do things like parry physical strikes from creatures and machines ''much'' bigger than her, such as Omega and ''Queen'' Metroids, Kraid, and war machines with just a well-timed swing of her ArmCannon arm.

* SuperStrength:

Nintendo's first ever ActionGirl and the TropeNamer of SamusIsAGirl.

Nintendo's first ever ActionGirl and the TropeNamer of SamusIsAGirl

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

'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' ActionGirl of Nintendo's [[VideoGames Video Games]].