![]() ![]() Brawl: Alésia Glidewell (Zero Suit Samus)Ĭharacter Background Samus in her power suit with the Varia upgrade enabled. She speaks frequently throughout the game, both in dialogue and narration. In Metroid: Other M, Samus is fully voiced. Brawl, she was given brief lines of dialogue, though she only speaks when not wearing her power suit. For Samus's appearance in Super Smash Bros. This trend held throughout the rest of the Prime series. However, this voice is limited to grunts, shouts and other vocal exertions rather than dialogue. Metroid Prime, released on the same day as Fusion, was the first game in which Samus was voiced. In Metroid Fusion, Samus was given extensive dialogue for the first time, as the game was the first in the series to include a friendly character that she routinely interacts with. However, Super Metroid gave Samus text dialogue for the first time, albeit briefly, as she narrates a recap of the major events of the first two games. She has no dialogue, and the stories in each game are told purely by in-game action. In Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus, Samus is a silent protagonist. All Metroid titles released since Zero Mission have retained this particular look as Samus's canon appearance. The game also introduced the Zero Suit a blue bodysuit that Samus wears underneath her power suit that has become her standard attire when not seen in her armor. Retaining her blonde haired/blue eyed appearance, her hairstyle was changed to a distinctive ponytail. Samus's physical appearance became standardized in Metroid: Zero Mission. In Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion, she's blonde, but has a distinctively different look to her appearance in each game. For example, at the end of the original Metroid, she appears to be a brunette in the ending sequence, but her coloration changed if the player played the game without her power suit a feat possible after completing the game under a certain time or through the use of passwords. On the other hand, Samus's own physical appearance varied wildly in the early games, and was reserved only for viewing by players that managed to complete the games under stringent time and/or item collection requirements. Samus as she appears at the end of the original Metroid. However, in later games, as Samus has seen more suit styles and upgrades, the appearance of her suit has varied dramatically from the stripped down Fusion Suit in Metroid Fusion to the Light and Dark Suits of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Predominantly yellow and orange with a red helmet, the appearance of her suit has become one of the most iconic aspects of her design. In the earliest years of Samus's existence, her most common appearance was defined by the look of her power suit. However, players that completed Metroid in under two hours, or who used special passwords, discovered that Samus is, in fact, a woman. Even the instruction manual for the original game referred to Samus as a male. Created at a time when female protagonists were largely unheard of in the medium, her gender was initially kept as a surprise thanks to the concealing nature of her power suit. Samus is one of the most well-known female protagonists in video games. She is a bounty hunter in the science fiction setting of the Galactic Federation. Samus Aran is the protagonist of Nintendo's Metroid series. Overview Samus, in and out of her iconic power suit. ![]()
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