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AceOfScarabs I am now a shiny stone~ from Singapore Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
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#11501: May 24th 2016 at 9:57:28 PM

Figma: Zero Suit Samus in development

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Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#11502: May 24th 2016 at 10:09:08 PM

Fuck, it's the Other M design with the stupid wedge heels.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#11503: May 25th 2016 at 9:28:43 AM

No votes for single-handedly wiping out the entire metroid population of SR388 one at a time?I like to think that she was on the planet for a couple weeks, constantly hunting down and killing one metroid after the other in an incredible feat of endurance.

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#11504: May 25th 2016 at 9:44:13 AM

If the question means, "What do people in-universe regard as her greatest accomplishment?" then I'm pretty sure the answer is,

"That depends on what you think would make a TERRORIST great. Is it the planets she's destroyed or our military installations that she MURDERED? You tell me which of her countless crimes deserves the most commendation."

Prior to the events of Fusion that answer was probably something different but at this point I'm sure the PR machine is working overtime against her. Like, there's probably reports about how she committed genocide against the Metroid population all on her own initiative and her name has been conspicuously erased from records of Mother Brain's defeat and replaced with the vague, "an agent of the Federation", that sort of thing.

edited 25th May '16 9:46:24 AM by TobiasDrake

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#11505: May 25th 2016 at 10:24:49 AM

^^ That's impressive but kind of was a bad idea overall

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#11506: May 25th 2016 at 12:00:18 PM

Yeah! Now it's so much harder to make a Metroid plot!

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#11507: May 25th 2016 at 12:06:35 PM

In Metroid II's defense, it was written at a time when endless franchising wasn't really a thing that every story ever made receives. They weren't especially concerned with preserving the potential for future sequels in the 90's.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#11508: May 25th 2016 at 12:28:10 PM

I've had some ideas about that.

We've seen other varieties of Metroids on planets such as Tallon IV and Elysia, and they're not nearly as powerful as the classic ones. Would it be too weird to sorta imply that it was specifically the nigh-invulnerable, dinosaur-mutating SR388 variety that was considered a threat to galactic peace, and thus only the SR388 variety that Samus actually extincted? Then you can have the other Metroids still appear without having to explain that they were cloned from THE BABY or somesuch.

Perhaps the weaker xenomorphic Metroids are degenerated descendents of the powerful SR388 strain, or perhaps inversely the Chozo bioengineered the SR388 strain from the weaker Metroids.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#11509: May 25th 2016 at 12:56:05 PM

In fairness, even the threat to galactic peace doom metroids of SR-388 aren't that hard (for Samus) to kill with the right equipment.

Sorta don't really get their hype.

I mean, except the Super Metroid Ze Baby which was immune to ice. But not to rainbows.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#11510: May 25th 2016 at 1:00:35 PM

I thought Mother Brain killed it with its blue Spaghetti-O's, not its rainbow beam?

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#11511: May 25th 2016 at 1:03:37 PM

She did. Mother Brain lost the rainbow beam when the Metroid munched on her skull. She had to resort to spamming blueberry Cheerios while the infant was busy transferring the rainbow beam to Samus...somehow.

Frankly, this entire fight was part of a nutritious breakfast.

edited 25th May '16 1:04:07 PM by TobiasDrake

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#11512: May 25th 2016 at 1:05:41 PM

Oh yeah. I forgot.

That's even sillier.

The blueberry cheerios were a much less impressive attack than the rainbows or even the pots of gold

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#11513: May 25th 2016 at 1:05:46 PM

[up][up] Presumably, the ability transfer thing is how Samus gains her powers back from the X in Fusion.

edited 25th May '16 1:05:58 PM by Serac

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#11514: May 25th 2016 at 4:28:54 PM

After the events of Fusion Samus is a walking container for metroid genetic material. Anyone who wants to make their own metroids just have to track her down capture her and take some of her genetic material to make their own metroids. I mean, that doesn't sound like it would be too difficult, does it?

Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#11515: May 25th 2016 at 4:32:32 PM

Apparently, absorbing the SA-X at the end of Fusion fully restored Samus' DNA and scrubbed all the Metroid-ness from her being.

This series has a bad habit of wiping out Metroids multiple times.

edited 25th May '16 4:33:20 PM by Pulse

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#11516: May 25th 2016 at 4:33:24 PM

I choose to ignore that because its dumb.

Its so dumb.

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#11517: May 25th 2016 at 4:45:15 PM

But the Metroid DNA is suppose to be the thing that lets her not just get SA-X in the first place...

IE its what makes her weak to ice powers. cause she developed the same weakness to cold due to the genetic trait

edited 25th May '16 4:46:30 PM by FrozenWolf2

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nomuru2d Gamer-turning-maker from Port Saint Lucie, FL Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Longing for Dulcinea
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#11518: May 25th 2016 at 4:56:35 PM

It restored her body's DNA. Keep in mind that her suit also had Metroid DNA integrated into it to facilitate absorbing the X Parasite into her body in the first place, and that it only worked because her suit was already integrated with her DNA.

edited 25th May '16 4:56:59 PM by nomuru2d

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#11519: May 25th 2016 at 5:01:17 PM

In other words, getting rid of Samus' metroid genetic material by absorbing an X Parasite should be impossible, and if anything, the opposite of what happens.

nomuru2d Gamer-turning-maker from Port Saint Lucie, FL Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Longing for Dulcinea
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#11520: May 25th 2016 at 5:04:16 PM

Given that the suit still remains the same after restoring Samus (but with the old color scheme instead), I'd think that absorbing the last bit of Samus' stolen DNA allowed the suit to repair her body and just cycle out the remaining Metroid DNA back into itself.

Basically the suit would be the reason why she isn't a fucking grotesque monstrosity after absorbing so many different X Parasites with a whole ton of different species.

edited 25th May '16 5:05:18 PM by nomuru2d

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Pulse The Fool from Yadayadaville Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#11521: May 25th 2016 at 5:05:31 PM

[up][up]Sakamoto isn't the best at writing plots, as I'm sure we're all aware by now.

[up]Yeah, more or less that's what the game made me think.

edited 25th May '16 5:06:03 PM by Pulse

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#11522: May 25th 2016 at 9:08:30 PM

I still hope we get to see those later Metroid stages in 3D one of these days.

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#11523: May 25th 2016 at 10:21:39 PM

So, for a fanfiction, I need to think of an official title for the Zebesians/space pirates. I'm thinking:

"The Zebesian Hegemony"

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#11524: May 26th 2016 at 4:12:20 AM

Basically the suit would be the reason why she isn't a fucking grotesque monstrosity after absorbing so many different X Parasites with a whole ton of different species.
Uh, no? The game specifically stated Samus could restore her suit by absorbing X parasites and that different types of x parasites restored different things. Absorbing large core x was even theorized to be able to restore suit functions.

Yellow and blue recovered damage, green ammo, red both. The loss of the suit's functionality was the result of pieces being cut out out her/it, core X restores some functionality, doing what the yellow, green and red do on a larger scale.

X are the monsters that eat DNA, Metroids are the ones that eat energy. Solid gives them indigestion and DNA, as a form of matter rather than energy, would likely fall into the latter category (either A: giving Metroids gas and bloating, B: being turned disintegrating dust strands, or C: both)

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