History VideoGame / MetroidZeroMission

* AdaptationalBadass: All three of the main bosses go through this.

** Ridley goes from a goofy looking purple alien into a massive badass space dragon.

** Red hatches only take one missile instead of five to open now, and Tourian's ten-missile yellow hatch is removed completely, so you don't have to waste missiles. In Hard Mode, where you only get two missiles per expansion, this is a blessing.

* EmbeddedPrecursor: Beating the game allows you to play the original NES ''Metroid''.

* NintendoHard: Easy and Normal are pretty much a breeze, but Hard Mode feels the closest to the original game's difficulty. While Samus thankfully doesn't start at 30 Energy every time you start the game up (unless you saved the game in that state), all expansions are halved, giving you only 2 Missiles per tank, but notably the 12 Energy Tanks only give +50 to your Energy max, meaning 699 Energy is the max assuming you found them all. Even the least of the enemies can easily destroy you in a few hits until you get the Varia Suit, which mitigates this somewhat. By endgame, however, the gloves fully come off as the Zebesians can deal ''200 damage'' with each shot even once you've acquired the new suit, giving you at ''best'' 4 hits tops.

* SamusIsAGirl: In contrast to the original game, the remake doesn't even try to hide Samus's gender, [[ItWasHisSled since it's a well known secret now]]. Thus, a glimpse of Samus's eyes occurs at the beginning, her unarmored body can be seen on the death screen, the back of the game's box refers to her as "her", and [[spoiler:a whole level is spent out of armor when Samus's suit is destroyed.]]

->''Planet Zebes... I called this place home once, in peaceful times, long before evil haunted the caverns below. Now, I shall finally tell the tale of my first battle here... My so-called Zero Mission.''
-->--'''Samus Aran'''

!!''Zero Mission'' provides examples of:

* BareYourMidriff: Samus wears a casual outfit that exposes her midriff in half of the ending images. [[note]]Normal 100%, Normal 100% in under 2 hours, Hard 100% in under 2 hours, and Normal 15%. The outfit also makes a semi-obscured appearance in the Hard 15% picture.[[/note]]

** Not far from the Space Pirate Mother Ship, you can find a few rooms from the Wrecked Ship, which makes an appearance as a full level in ''Super Metroid''. The Mother Ship also has robots similar to the ones on the Wrecked Ship. The Mother Ship's normal theme is a remix of the Wrecked Ship theme, and its more urgent theme is a remix of the underground Crateria theme.

** The fact that [[spoiler:there is more to the game after defeating Mother Brain]] is less of a surprise if you noticed that [[spoiler:there are blocks that can only be destroyed by Power Bombs, but you don't have those yet.]]

* NintendoHard: Easy and Normal are pretty much a breeze, but Hard Mode feels the closest to the original game's difficulty. While Samus thankfully doesn't start at 30 Energy every time you start the game up (unless you saved the game in that state), all expansions are halved, giving you only 2 Missiles per tank, but notably the 12 Energy Tanks only give +50 to your Energy max, meaning 699 Energy is the max assuming you found them all. Even the least of the enemies can easily destroy you in a few hits until you get the Varia Suit, which mitigates this somewhat. By endgame, however, the gloves fully come off as the Zebesians can deal ''200 damage'' with each shot even once you've acquired the new suit, giving you at BEST 4 hits tops.

** Chozodia starts like this [[spoiler:due to the nature of its stealth-based gameplay, but it opens up once you get all your stuff back]].

* DiabolusExMachina: The extended story is kicked off by [[spoiler:Samus being shot down by Space Pirates while leaving the planet, destroying her ship and suit, and then getting inmediately captured by them to top it off.]]

** Surprisingly, ''Samus herself'' also does this at the beginning of the game, and also when she [[spoiler:wakes up in her cell after being captured.]]

* GameChanger: Samus destroys Mother Brain and blows up the Space Pirates' base on Zebes, just as she did in the original game. [[spoiler:Then Pirate ships ambush her starship and send her crashing back down to the surface, where she gets quickly found and taken captive by a patrol, thanks to the destruction of her original suit.]]

** The prison level is the most straight example of this, being completely linear due to [[spoiler:a escape mission where Samus lacks her suit. The paralyzer is the only item you find, and is impossible to advance without it. There is also no way to visit it again after escaping]].

* PsychoactivePowers: WordOfGod on Samus's suit is that it's formed together from will and needs Samus's bravery to remain active. [[spoiler:When she crash-landed on Zebes and got captured, her confidence was lost and thus she couldn't resummon her suit. Returning to the Chozo ruins and completing the challenge of the Ruins Test restored her warrior's spirit and thus let her suit return.]] [[FlipFlopOfGod Except the supplementary material]] specifically state [[spoiler:that the suit acquired from Chozodia is a different suit, and the entirety of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'''s plot depends on the fact that Samus's suit is a physical object that remains intact when she's out of commission, and can be removed and hijacked by an alien parasite.]]

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: [[spoiler:Getting shot down and losing your Power Suit? Taken prisoner and put in shackles? Running and hiding from just about everything?]] [[spoiler:A Chozo Trial boss fight later]], then The Hunter, who strikes fear into the hearts of the Space Pirate legions, is reborn, more powerful than ever, and [[RoaringRampageofRevenge slaughtering her way through the Pirates' ranks]], complete with ThemeMusicPowerUp.

** Surprisingly, ''Samus herself'' also does this at the beginning of the game.

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: [[spoiler:Getting shot down and losing your Power Suit]]? Taken prisoner and put in shackles? Running and hiding from just about everything? [[spoiler:A Chozo Trial boss fight later]], then The Hunter, who strikes fear into the hearts of the Space Pirate legions, is reborn, more powerful than ever, and [[RoaringRampageofRevenge slaughtering her way through the Pirates' ranks]], complete with ThemeMusicPowerUp.

* DiabolusExMachina: The extended story is kicked off by [[spoiler:Samus being shot down by Space Pirates while leaving the planet, destroying her ship and suit.]]

* GameChanger: Samus destroys Mother Brain and blows up the Space Pirates' base on Zebes, just as she did in the original game. [[spoiler:Then Pirate ships ambush her starship and send her crashing back down to the surface, now without a suit, weaponless, and with little hope of escape.]]

* PsychoactivePowers: WordOfGod on Samus's suit is that it's formed together from will and needs Samus's bravery to remain active. [[spoiler:When she crash-landed on Zebes, her confidence was lost and thus she couldn't resummon her suit. Returning to the Chozo ruins and completing the challenge of the Ruins Test restored her warrior's spirit and thus let her suit return.]] [[FlipFlopOfGod Except the supplementary material]] specifically state [[spoiler:that the suit acquired from Chozodia is a different suit, and the entirety of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'''s plot depends on the fact that Samus's suit is a physical object that remains intact when she's out of commission, and can be removed and hijacked by an alien parasite.]]

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: [[spoiler:Getting shot down and losing your Power Suit]]? Running and hiding from just about everything? [[spoiler:A Chozo Trial boss fight later]], then The Hunter, who strikes fear into the hearts of the Space Pirate legions, is reborn, more powerful than ever, and [[RoaringRampageofRevenge slaughtering her way through the Pirates' ranks]], complete with ThemeMusicPowerUp.

* BareYourMidriff: Samus wears a casual outfit that exposes her chest in half of the ending images. [[note]]Normal 100%, Normal 100% in under 2 hours, Hard 100% in under 2 hours, and Normal 15%. The outfit also makes a semi-obscured appearance in the Hard 15% picture.[[/note]]

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: There is at least one spot in the game where you can become permanently stuck from attempting to explore more of the area than you need to.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: There is at least one spot in the game where you can become permanently stuck from attempting a SequenceBreak to explore more of the area than you need to.