History Fanfic / SagaMetroid

* WorldsGreatestWarrior: Gyda was the Champion of the Grendakal clan and was regarded as one of the greatest fighters alive period and for good reason, holding her own against an entire army of RAID super soldiers and agents to buy her son enough time to escape.

* WorldsGreatestWarrior: Gyda was the Champion of the Grendakal clan and was regarded as one of the greatest fighters alive period and for good reason, holding her own against an entire army of RAID supersoldiers and agents to buy her son enough time to escape.

* TheFederation: Both the Galactic Federation and the Omdyn of Democratic Council Omnipragmatist Republics. The Federation being more of a Liberal take on the concept and the Omdyn being more of a Council Communist take. The Galactic Federation is by WordOfGod based more on the European Union than the United States, with its component members essentially still being sovereign and maintaining their own militaries as well as the joint Federal military. The Omdyn's inner workings have yet to be explored in-depth but there are already signs of strong efforts to allow for component cultures to retain their identities and self-determination.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Mother Brain may be an uncaring jerk about it, but she is correct in that Samus, as a frail child, is completely unsuited for survival on the harsh environments of Zebes, which is part of why the Chozo augment her.

* PsychicPowers: Featuring very prominently, seemingly universal among Progenitors and also not too uncommon among modern species either. Arne and Samus also have Psychic abilities, but while their potential is said to be absolutely enormous, its raw and untrained and only a small portion of it is actually used; primarily serving to protect them from hostile effects.

* SpacePirates: Of course. The formal name for their organisation is the Confederacy of Dismor, and they're portrayed as a very loose band of actual pirate fleets, warrior culture clans, crime syndicates, fascist dictatorships, military juntas, corrupt megacorporations, and other such scum and villainy bonded together in search of mutual profit and conquest. With their ruthless Darwinian hierarchy and exaltation of cruelty and predation, kindness is systematically weeded out of their society as a culture rife with bullying and violence upon those who show weakness weeds out those seen as soft. Many still hold onto more altruistic ideals, but they're regarded as perhaps the most violent and terrifying of the universe's superpowers. WordOfGod is that they're called Space Pirates due to the initial contact with them being through their raids on other societies, leading to a nickname that ended up sticking that they ended up appropriating to show how little they care for the scorn of other cultures.

* SuperReflexes: When Samus first gets her new genetic abilities, this is one of the most immediately noticeable powers she has, as she's able to perceive the world in slow motion and count the individual flaps of an insect's wings.
** Samus and Arne are notably routinely able to avoid lasers and hypersonic projectiles, and when combined with their precognition, are only reliably hit by either extremely fast enemies or by boxing them in with too much firepower to find room to dodge with or by forcing them to take a hit for something else.

* SexyDiscretionShot: A romantic encounter between Arne and Samus at the end of chapter 3 of Forlorn after their first day of getting to know each other quickly cuts out after their first kiss with the note that what happened between the two of them in Arne's temporary bedroom was only of concern to the pair. Likely due to the pair being twelve and Omega stating on the discord that while he thinks pretending adolescents don't have sex is unrealistic, it's never necessary to go into extensive details about the nitty-gritty of how they had sex.

* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted hard. Extrapolating from how casually Samus is able to visit the fictional Tetra galaxy in Hunters as well as note that the Ki-Hunters came from beyond known space, the radius of known space is measured in billions of light years and so far not one of the characters has even been to the Milky Way. Samus is born in the Whirlpool Galaxy and Arne in the Pinwheel Galaxy; both of which are millions of light-years apart.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Thoroughly averted. Arne and his parents both have Red Eyes and have consistently been both heroic and kind hearted. This will likely become somewhat the case after Arne's fall into becoming Sylux, but WordOfGod is that even as Sylux, Arne is still heroic and kindly; just deeply hurting and isolated and considerably more ruthless as a fighter.

* SuperStrength: Even without their armor, Samus and Arne are enormously strong, with their upper limits yet to be clearly defined. Notably, even as a toddler, Samus could easily shift boulders due to the universal genetic augmentations present in the 50,000s.

** The N'Kren are interpreted as a more benevolent one of the Necrons from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' entirely due to the similarities in name.

* HateSink: There is almost nothing likeable about the Alimbic General Zurvduat. Even Ridley is at least a rather jovial fellow and Viper is at the very least; relentlessly professional. The only redeeming quality of Zurvduat seen so far is his commitment to his species' future and his competence as a leader.

** Viper serves one to King Ghidorah, particularly the most recent iteration of him from the 2019 film, ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters''. The most notable deviation besides being made smaller and faster is having fur due to being pseudo-mammalian, and having ice-based powers instead of electric ones.

* {{Expy}}: The N'Kren are interpreted as a more benevolent one of the Necrons from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' entirely due to the similarities in name.
** Viper serves one to King Ghidorah, particularly the most recent iteration of him from the 2019 film King of the Monsters. The most notable deviation besides being made smaller and faster is having fur due to being pseudo-mammalian, and having ice-based powers instead of electric ones.

* TheDreaded: Trace is feared to the point where the very idea that he might have interest in Arne's school gives the usually confident Taellarja a great deal of fright. Trace is notably no older than Samus or Arne, and is considered a spoiled Prince of the Kriken Empire, yet he evokes Ridley levels of fear.

* CompleteMonster: By the time that Ridley became generally known to the universe, it is far too late for him to have any chance of redemption. By word of Omega, the last possible kernels of goodness in him died long ago and all that's left is one of the most purely evil beings to have ever stalked the stars.
* DoomedByCanon: Samus and Arne's relationship is doomed to be pulled apart as the two reach adulthood, leading to Arne staging his disappearance, stealing the Sylux armour, and taking on a new identity. Samus is similarly doomed to come into conflict with the R.A.I.D due to their confirmation as being the group behind the Federation's sinister projects in Fusion. To a smaller degree, Ridley's seeming death in the first arc; Genesis; is not going to stick and Mother Brain will end up betraying the Chozo and Ian and Adam will both eventually die. And of course, Samus' parents were never going to survive and Zebes will be conquered by the Space Pirates.

* TeenGenius: Most of the young characters seen so far are brilliant due to being high performing students in academies for the superhumanly gifted; but Arne and Samus, in particular, put the likes of Lex Luthor or Iron Man to shame. Casually designing very complicated equipment, effortlessly demonstrating mastery of numerous esoteric fields of science and engineering, and being broadly familiar with a wide array of history and philosophy. All at the very onset of puberty.
* TheRemnant: The population of Alimbics that were in stasis when their Empire was destroyed by Gorea are all that's left of their species. This essentially makes General Zurvduat the de-facto leader of their greatly diminished race.
* SexyDiscretionShot: A romantic encounter between Arne and Samus at the end of chapter 3 of Forlorn after their first day of getting to know each other quickly cuts out after their first kiss with the note that what happened between the two of them in Arne's temporary bedroom was only of concern to the pair. Likely due to the pair being twelve and Omega stating on the discord that while he thinks pretending adolescents don't have sex is unrealistic, it's never necessary to go into extensive details about the nitty-gritty of how they had sex.

* DoomedByCanon: * ForegoneConclusion: Samus and Arne's relationship is doomed to be pulled apart as the two reach adulthood, leading to Arne staging his disappearance, stealing the Sylux armour, and taking on a new identity. Samus is similarly doomed to come into conflict with the R.A.I.D due to their confirmation as being the group behind the Federation's sinister projects in Fusion. To a smaller degree, Ridley's seeming death in the first arc; Genesis; is not going to stick and Mother Brain will end up betraying the Chozo and Ian and Adam will both eventually die. And of course, Samus' parents were never going to survive and Zebes will be conquered by the Space Pirates.

* AdaptationNameChange: In canon, Sylux was implied to be the character's actual name. Here, his name is Arne Eriksen Skjoldr with Sylux being the name of the project that created the Armour seen in hunters. Samus also gets a middle name in the form of Eabha.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In canon, while the relationship between Samus and Sylux was unknown, it was heavily implied that Sylux despises Samus for some reason. Here, the two become childhood friends and even fall in love; though by WordOfGod it's a doomed relationship due to outside circumstances. Though one that will be repaired after Omega's take on Metroid Fusion.

* {{Expy}}: The N'Kren are interpreted as a more benevolent one of the Necrons from Warhammer 40,000 entirely due to the similarities in name.

* GeniusBruiser: Samus and Arne are both smart enough to make Tony Stark blush. They not only designed their starships, but were also the ones who designed and assembled their power suits using Chozo and Alimbic technology respectively as a base; and Samus even created a new cryogenic subweapon so effective that the Chozo actually decided to copy it after seeing it. They can effortlessly do extremely complicated math in their heads, and show a tremendously broad array of knowledge and familiarity with STEM fields and many of the humanities.

* {{Jerkass}}: Zurvduat is a thoroughly repugnant and meanspirited person and is outright abusive to Arne, devastating his self-esteem and giving him serious PTSD over the years. He constantly refutes Arne's attempts to form a father-son relation with him, and has outright beaten him in the past. Even to the Chozo and his fellow Alimbics Zurvduat is frequently rude and insulting.

* NoSell: Samus and Arne are virtually immune to most esoteric or weird effects of psionics or magic and other similar weird abilities; as per WordOfGod this includes stuff like reality-warping, attacks against their souls, durability bypassing abilities, mind control, or even attempts to teleport them against their will. This is an artifact of their tremendous but entirely latent PsychicPowers and magic potential.

* {{Precursors}}: Generally called Progenitor Cultures within Saga; including groups such as the Chozo, Alimbics, Luminoth, N'Kren, Ylla, and a number of original species such as the Fairy like Faera. They fought a tremendous war with a foe known as the Krazimak Domininion long before the present that ended in the Dominion being sealed away in a prison dimension after their defeat. By the present, most are faded or fading.
* TheRemnant: The population of Alimbics that were in Stasis when their Empire was destroyed by Gorea are all that's left of their species. This essentially makes General Zurvduat the de-facto leader of their greatly diminished species.

* SuperStrength: Even without their armour, Samus and Arne are enormously strong, with their upper limits yet to be clearly defined. Notably, even as a toddler, Samus could easily shift boulders due to the universal genetic augmentations present in the 50,000s.

* AdaptationNameChange: In canon, Sylux was implied to be the character's actual name. Here, his name is Arne Eriksen Skjoldr. Samus also gets a middle name in the form of Eabha.