Samus Aran
Samus Aran is a fictional video game character created by Nintendo, and stars in the Metroid
game series. She is notable for being one of the few non-sexualized female video
game characters, although several of the Metroid games do portray her in somewhat revealing attire if one completes the
game under certain time restrictions. In addition, original information on her character was purposely vague and many simply
assumed she was male.
Stats
Samus Aran dressed in what seems to be a more normal space suit, as seen at the end of
Metroid: Zero Mission.
- Species: human (she was infused with Chozo
blood and much later with Metroid
DNA; the existence of her cybernetic implants is still conjectural)
- Job: Space-faring bounty hunter for the Galactic Federation
- Sex: female
- Height: 1.90 m (6'3") in the suit according to the Metroid II instruction booklet
- Weight: 90 kilograms (198lbs, 6oz) in the suit according to the Metroid II instruction booklet
- Age: unknown (she appears to be somewhere in the mid-20's to early-30's range)
- Homeworld: Presumably born on Earth colony K-2L, raised on Zebes
- Official hair color: blonde
- Official eye color: blue
Fictional biography
Samus Aran is the legendary bounty hunter who is well-known for defeating the Space Pirates and wiping out the dangerous Metroids. Though she was at first rumored to be a male cyborg, Samus revealed her true identity after she defeated the Space Pirates on Zebes. Her reputation grew as her reliability
almost always guaranteed success in her hired jobs.
Samus was the daughter of two colonists on the Federation colony world K-2L. When she was quite young, the species known only
as the Space Pirates destroyed the colony, leaving Samus as the sole survivor. A group of Chozo picked up the distress signal
from the colony, and took Samus with them to their home on planet Zebes. They raised her as their own, infusing her with their
blood for her to gain their natural powers.
In Metroid: Zero Mission, Samus has flashbacks to her
childhood with the Chozo when she sees a mural depicting a Chozo warrior, and also as a sequence of pictures in a connectivity
bonus between Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission.
How and why Samus eventually left Zebes is a bit of a mystery. According to the Metroid Prime instruction manual, the Space Pirates attacked Zebes and wiped out most of the local Chozo
after discovering the Metroids. However, it goes on to say Samus was growing up at the time; this clashes with the plot of
Metroid: Zero Mission, which says that Samus grew up on the very same planet.
Samus is rarely seen without her Chozo-designed Power Suit. In addition to providing protection, the suit augments her
physical abilities, allowing her to leap great distances or scale vertical cliffs. The suit is also modular, able to equip many
different upgrades to increase versatility.
Chozo Lore entries
These Chozo Lore entries are from the North American Metroid
Prime. Although they do give some insight on what the Chozo thought of their adopted human child, these entries were
among those removed from the PAL version of the game.
A doodle probably made by Samus when she was younger. It was found on a mural on Zebes.
Newborn
The power of our temple has been enough to halt the spread of the poison on Tallon IV, but that which remains thrives and
grows more concentrated, gnawing on itself in the dark passages beneath the planet's surface. Whether it can ever be truly
destroyed is not for our eyes to see. But there is something else. We Chozo are drifting, tumbling through space and time as the
Great Poison eats away at our sanity. We wake in dreams. As the veil of lunacy descends, as past and future blend and shuffle,
one image appears and flickers through the landscape, wraithlike. It is the Hatchling, the Newborn, walking the path of
corruption, a lone figure shining in the toxic shadows. She comes dressed for war, and her wrath is terrible. Do our eyes look
backward, seeing the Hatchling as she once was? Or does she approach even now, arriving in our race's last hour, a savior clothed
in machines crafted long ago by Chozo hands? Poisonous clouds drift across our vision.
Hatchling
As we struggle with the Great Poison, something stirs at the edges of our vision. It is the Hatchling Samus. We feel her,
across the void, as she hunts the corrupted. Will our fates again be one? As our pride shatters, will prophecy become real? When
all strength wanes from the Chozo, will it be the Hatchling who fulfills our legacy? True sight eludes us, for the Poison gnaws
at all vision, leaving seers blind and filled with despair. Truth's blessing may come too late.
Metroid games and cameo appearances
By order of US release:
- Metroid (1986 - NES)
- Nintendo's Tetris (1989 - NES) (Cameo)
- Metroid II: Return of Samus (
1991 - Game Boy)
- Super Metroid (1994 -
SNES)
- Super Mario RPG (1996 - SNES) (Cameo)
- Kirby Super Star (1996 - SNES) (Cameo)
- Kirby's Dream
Land 3 (1997 - SNES) (Cameo)
- Super Smash Bros. (1999 - N64)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001 - GameCube)
- Metroid Prime (2002 -
GameCube)
- Metroid Fusion (2002 -
Game Boy Advance)
(Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion were released on the same day)
- Metroid: Zero Mission (2004 - Game Boy Advance)
- Metroid (2004 - Game Boy Advance) (a port of the original, see Classic NES Series)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004 - GameCube)
- Metroid Prime: Hunters (2005 - Nintendo DS)
Super Smash Bros.
In the Super Smash Bros. franchise, Samus is a heavy aerial
fighter, her weight being exceeded only by heavyweights like Donkey Kong or
Bowser. Her flying kicks are among the most
powerful in the game. In addition, she can use an array of projectiles inspired
by her weapons from the Metroid series, including the Power Beam, Morph Ball Bombs, and Missiles.
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