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Samus Aran

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Articles About Samus Aran
Notable Appearances Canon - Super Smash Bros.
Parasitic Versions Dark Samus - SA-X
Non-Canon Shounen Oh Game Comics - Wanpakku Metroid
“ My past is not a memory. It's a force at my back. It pushes and steers. I may not always like where it leads me, but like any story, the past needs resolution. What's past is prologue. „

Background

Samus Aran is an intergalactic bounty hunter and the protagonist of the Metroid series.

The daughter of Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran, she lost her parents during a Space Pirate raid on her home of K-2L. Later, Samus was adopted by the mysterious Chozo and taken to Zebes, where she was infused with their DNA and raised to become a warrior. Once she reached adulthood, Samus joined the Federation Police and served under the Commanding Officer Adam Malkovich. Though she ultimately left to become a Bounty Hunter, she was nonetheless hired by the Galactic Federation on many occasions. Equipped with her cybernetic Power Suit, Samus has become famous for accomplishing missions previously thought impossible. Her most renowned achievements are the destruction of the Space Pirate base on Zebes, her role in ending the Galactic Phazon crisis, her extermination of the Metroid species, and her disobedience of orders at the Biologic Space Laboratories research station where she chose to destroy the deadly X Parasites rather than turn them over to the Galactic Federation.

Samus broke ground early in the gaming world when she debuted in the 1986 game Metroid. Originally players were under the impression that Samus was a male, as even the instruction booklet suggested this. However, completing Metroid in under five hours revealed Samus to be a young woman. Although Samus wears the Power Suit throughout most of the Metroid series, she traditionally removes it at the end of most games, often as a result of satisfying certain conditions such as completing the game quickly or with a high percentage of the game's items collected or even both.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Samus Aran’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Samus Aran was originally a native of the Earth colony K-2L, where she lived with her parents Rodney and Virginia Aran. At the age of three, the colony was visited by the Chozo, who hoped to obtain some of the Afloraltite that the colony mined there. During this visit, Samus caught the attention of Old Bird, one of the Chozo elders. The two of them went for a walk where they began to strike up a friendship. Samus began to call him “Grandpa” and Old Bird introduced her to Pyonchi, a Rabbilis whom she adopted as a pet.

However, a Space Pirate raid led by Ridley soon commenced on the colony. Finding herself face-to-face with Ridley himself, the naive Samus asked him if they could become friends. In response, Ridley attempted to kill Samus, but her mother pushed her daughter out of the way at the cost of her own life. Meanwhile, Samus' father sacrificed himself to destroy Ridley’s flagship. Little did Ridley know that, in killing Samus’ mother and attempting to kill Samus, he succeeded in creating his greatest enemy.

Now orphaned, Samus was the sole survivor of the attack on K-2L. Eventually, the same group of Chozo found her alone and stranded on the destroyed colony and Old Bird decided to take custody of Samus. The Chozo brought her to their planet, Zebes and raised her. In order to survive the planet's harsh conditions, Samus was infused with Chozo DNA [1], and later gifted an advanced Chozo Power Suit.

Samus trained under the Chozo for many years, and had surpassed the physical limits of ordinary humans by 14. The Chozo were initially unsure if she was able to become a true warrior until they witnessed her compassion for a flock of Iono Feria that went insane as a result of exposure to Badger Clover. After Old Bird told Samus that she had his confidence, she left the planet for the Federation.

Enrolling in the Federation Police, Samus excelled in the academy, and was promoted to the Star-Trackers, an elite force that only one in a million police officers was qualified for. Under Chief Hardy, one of her early assignments was to the human planet Jigrad, which the Space Pirates had recently enslaved. When the pirates threatened to execute a child slave named Damara simply for being unfit for work, Samus and her squadmates Kreatz and Mauk attacked without orders. This led to the first Federation imprisonment and interrogation of a Space Pirate - a matter which also involved a military leader named Adam Malkovich, leading to his introduction to Samus. The interrogation revealed that the Space Pirate’s actions on Jigrad were just a distraction from their invasion of Zebes. Hardy ordered Samus to wait for the Army to be deployed, but Samus and her teammates disobeyed and traveled to Zebes to aid the Chozo. After a run-in with Adam, she was told that she was given 48 hours before the army arrived.

Samus, Kreatz and Mauk arrived at Zebes and learned the Space Pirates were hoping to gain the whole of Chozo knowledge. The Chozo either fled or surrendered and the first Metroid was rogue in the base. Samus discovered that Mother Brain and the Chozo Gray Voice established a "satisfactory cooperative relationship" with the Pirates, in which Mother Brain would be their new leader and use them to reunite the galaxy. Mother Brain offered Samus the role of "master" of the Space Pirates - an offer that Aran quickly refused. At this time, Ridley arrived and taunted Samus over the death of her parents. All of this triggered Samus' posttraumatic stress disorder due to the repressed memories of the K-2L attack, with it being severe enough that she begged her comrades to kill her before Ridley does so when they came to rescue her. Samus was later saved by her squadmates causing a distant distraction and the newly rescued Chozo helped Samus get over her posttraumatic stress. Samus donned her Power Suit and defended the party from Ridley, who then retreated to defend Mother Brain from an attack by Gray Voice, who had revealed his true allegiance and was attacking Mother Brain. Learning about Gray Voice’s plight from the rescued Chozo Platinum Chest, Samus wanted to assist, but decided to help the evacuation. While escaping, Samus somehow felt Gray Voice's final moments due to their shared DNA and heard his final words telepathically. Stating that she had become strong, the dying Chozo asked that Samus use her power to help protect the beings in the galaxy who needed it.

After breaking atmosphere in an ancient Chozo ship, Samus, her teammates and the Chozo were rescued by the Federation Army led by the Federation Army Special Ops Battleship VIXIV, commanded by General Adam Malkovich.

After the infiltration of Zebes, Samus (Between 15–17 years old) worked on the VIXIV under General Adam Malkovich. Here, she met Anthony Higgs and Adam's younger brother, Ian Malkovich. It remains unknown how long she served with Adam’s unit, but long enough to develop a strong relationship with Anthony, Ian and Adam. Adam would always finish his orders with the question, "Any objections, Lady?" as a way of cementing the trust between the two of them. Samus felt like Adam was the only person who truly understood her, and grew to view him as her best friend and surrogate father figure. However, Samus would leave the VIXIV after the death of Ian, whom Adam sacrificed to save 300 innocents on the Lusitania.

Samus vanished completely, abandoning her post in the GF Police. In Metroid: Other M, she stated that her reason for doing so was that she was still young and relatively inexperienced at the time. Samus did not resurface until a few years later. By this time, she became universally renowned as a Bounty Hunter by singlehandedly hunting down numerous Space Pirates, including stopping an assassination attempt at the inauguration of Chairman Keaton. So much of her life during this time was shrouded in mystery that the public believed her to be a male cyborg, not the same woman who graduated first in her class at the GF Police.

Now a renowned Bounty Hunter, Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation. Previously, a Federation Planet Reclamation Division had been sent to capture Metroid specimens for study, but the Space Pirates had swept in, killed the crew, and stolen the Metroids. The capture of this creature was a disastrous blow to the Federation. With hundreds of Metroids under their power, the Space Pirates would inevitably begin a campaign to conquer the rest of the universe. Galactic Civilization would end.

After a long and harrowing search, the Federation Police tracked the Pirates to Zebes. They launched an invasion, but Pirate resistance was too strong. After much debate, the Federation decided to turn to Samus to infiltrate the base at Zebes. She was given two objectives:

’’’Destroy all Metroid organisms.’’’ and ’’’Defeat the Mechanical Life-Form Mother Brain.’’’

Samus arrived on Zebes and soon discovered that in order to access the central Space Pirate base in Tourian, she had to kill the two Pirate leaders situated on the planet: her old foe, Ridley, and his partner Kraid. After discovering various Chozo artifacts located in multiple locations on the planet that served as upgrades for her suit, Samus was finally able to access the lower depths of Brinstar, where she discovered Kraid waiting for her. A fierce battle ensued, which ended in Kraid's defeat. Samus then headed into the deep volcanic regions of Zebes, where she had several surprising encounters with Imagos, gigantic insects that grew from enormous grub-like larvae. When Samus arrived at Ridley’s lair, she soon encountered the Pirate leader, who had just arrived moments earlier after being sent to inspect the planet. The two faced off, with Samus intent on finally avenging her parents’ death. The bounty hunter emerging the victor. However, unbeknownst to Samus, Ridley did not die from his crippling wounds.

After defeating Kraid and Ridley, Samus was granted access to Tourian, where she discovered that the Space Pirates had apparently underestimated the Metroids’ intelligence. A massive breakout had occurred, and all Pirate personnel present at the time of the breakout were dead. Mother Brain herself, however, was protected by her Chozo-built facility and so completely unharmed. As a result, Metroid cloning had proceeded as though nothing happened, so the Metroid population had risen to an astonishing level. Samus engaged the Metroids she encountered but found that they were impervious to most of her weaponry. Only by exploiting their weakness to cold with the Ice Beam could Samus hope to overcome them.

Samus soon arrived at Mother Brain’s chamber and fought her way past the defense systems. The two engaged in an arduous duel, but Mother Brain was ultimately defeated. Unfortunately for Samus, Mother Brain's death activated a hidden fail-safe that began a countdown for the self-destruction of the entire Pirate base. Samus barely managed to make it out to her gunship in time.

Unfortunately, escape was not as easy as Samus had expected. As soon she left the atmosphere, Space Pirate vessels ambushed her; during the ensuing chase, Samus was shot down, and her ship crash-landed back on Zebes. Samus survived, but the explosion had destroyed her Power Suit. The only weapon left available to her was a mostly-useless stun pistol. Her only option was to sneak inside the Space Pirate Mother Ship, which had landed in a nearby valley, in hopes of hijacking a ship and escaping. The next morning, Samus climbed in through the air ducts and began her infiltration. She privately admitted that sneaking in to a highly armed area like the Mother Ship, especially while she was in her Zero Suit, was not the wisest strategy, but knew that she had no other options but to do so. Unfortunately, her plans were quickly botched when she was spotted by several Pirates, who quickly set off alarms throughout the entire ship. Though she managed to outwit them many times, Samus was ultimately forced to retreat to the nearby ruins of Chozodia.

In the ruins, Samus discovered a sacred Ruins Test which she had visited once as a young child. Upon her discovery, the Test activated; Samus had to face a mirror image of herself along with powerful bolts of lightning hurled by the hieroglyphic. Ultimately, Samus succeeded in passing the test, and the statue rewarded her with the Legendary Power Suit, and unlocked the three Unknown Items she had previously acquired: the Plasma Beam, the Gravity Suit, and the Space Jump. Now more powerful than ever before, Samus stormed the Pirate Mothership, leaving many dead Pirates in her wake.

Eventually, Samus made it to the bridge of the Mothership where she discovered the Ridley Robot, a gigantic robot built in Ridley’s likeness. The robot engaged her in a fierce battle, but Samus was easily able to destroy it. As it shut down, it activated the self-destruct for the Pirate Mothership. Samus raced through the corridors of the Mothership, battling numerous Pirates along the way, until she managed to hijack a Space Pirate Escape Ship. Samus quickly flew out of the ship and left Zebes as the Pirate Mothership exploded behind her. Samus had fulfilled her Zero Mission.

Three years later, Samus’s next mission led her to another planet in the Zebesian system: Tallon IV. She intercepted a distress signal sent from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon and immediately flew in to investigate. Once inside, she found dead and dying pirates everywhere while vermin ran amok in the ship. It did not take Samus long to discover the source: a Parasite Queen the Pirates had been performing experiments on had broken out and stationed itself in the Frigate’s Nuclear reactor core. Samus killed the creature, but the dying beast slipped into the reactor, causing a malfunction that threatened to destroy the entire vessel. Samus ran for her life through the ventilation tunnels, but to her great surprise, she found herself reunited with Ridley, who had been given many cybernetic implants and been transformed into a powerful cyborg. Samus chased him through the ship, but along the way, an explosion rammed her into a wall, causing her Power Suit to malfunction. This caused most of her abilities to go offline, leaving only the Arm Cannon functional. Samus quickly left the dying frigate and chased Meta Ridley in her gunship, but he proved faster than expected and soon disappeared from her radar. Samus was forced to track him on foot, and so, even in her weakened state, she chose to land on the planet below: Tallon IV.

After traversing the jungles in the Tallon Overworld, Samus discovered an elevator which led to some deserted Chozo Ruins. There, she discovered that 50 years previously, a colony of Chozo had come to the planet to regain their spirituality. Unfortunately, a mysterious meteor eventually struck the planet, bringing with it a Great Poison and The Worm. The Great Poison quickly began spreading across the planet, killing most life in its path and corrupting the rest into savage mutants. Many of the Chozo were driven insane and became menacing spirits; the few survivors fled to an unknown location. The remaining sane Chozo on Tallon IV, now reduced to mere ghosts, managed to seal off the Impact Crater within a seal called The Cipher, locking up The Worm and most of the Great Poison with it. The Space Pirates fleeing the destruction of the base at Zebes had then landed on the planet; they began mining the Great Poison (which they named Phazon) after discovering it could be used to enhance the fighting potential of various creatures, including themselves.

Samus journeyed through Tallon IV, regaining her lost weaponry and collecting sacred Chozo Artifacts, learning along the way that the Chozo had prophesied that she was the one destined to destroy the Worm and the Phazon there. She also swept through the Phazon Mines the Pirates had set up, destroying the Phazon-infused experiments she found there. Samus eventually confronted the most powerful of these mutated Space Pirates: the Omega Pirate. After a challenging battle, Samus managed to defeat the beast, but in its death throes, it fell on Samus and melted into pure Phazon. The viral radiation dramatically altered her Power Suit, turning it into the Phazon Suit; fortunately, this corruption proved beneficial as it allowed her to safely come in contact with and harness the power of Phazon.

Having collected all the Chozo artifacts and suit upgrades, Samus returned to the Artifact Temple and activated the Cipher in preparation for entering the Impact Crater. Just before the statue's seal deactivated, however, Meta Ridley flew in and destroyed the statue. He then attempted to kill Samus, but Samus managed to burn off his wings then overload his life-support. Just as Meta Ridley was brought to death’s door again, the Temple's Chozo statues there fired powerful lasers at his chest, blasting him off of the edge into the abyss. The Chozo Ghosts within the statues then undid the seal themselves, allowing Samus into the Impact Crater. Inside, Samus discovered the sleeping Metroid Prime, the source of all Phazon on the planet. Samus managed to destroy its armor, forcing the creature to reveal its true form. Unable to damage it further with conventional weaponry, Samus was forced to overload it by harnessing pure Phazon via her Phazon Suit. The Metroid Prime began to die, but in a last-ditch attempt to save itself, it shot out a tentacle and absorbed Samus’s Phazon Suit before exploding. Samus ran for her life as the entire Impact Crater burst into flames. Though Tallon IV had been cleansed of Phazon, The Worm was not yet dead and would soon be reborn as Dark Samus.

Some time afterward, a mysterious telepathic message was sent out from the Tetra Galaxy saying, "The secret to ultimate power resides in the Alimbic Cluster." Samus was sent by the Federation in order to determine the truth about this message. Unfortunately, the message had also been received by other parties and soon many other hunters began heading to the Alimbic Cluster, each with their own motives for seeking the "ultimate power". To gain it, one had to find the eight Octoliths which would power the Alimbic Cannon, allowing access to a structure in another dimension called the Oubliette. The Octoliths were all under guard by robotic beings: the Cretaphids and the Slenches.

Between skirmishes with these beings and the other hunters, Samus discovered that the Alimbics, the former inhabitants of the Alimbic Cluster, had been experiencing a time of peace and prosperity until a monstrous being named Gorea had arrived in the form of a comet and began wreaking havoc upon their civilization. The Alimbics were forced to sacrifice themselves to seal away Gorea within the Seal Sphere, which was kept in the Oubliette. They also left a cryptic prophecy on how one might defeat Gorea.

After collecting all eight Octoliths and using them to activate the Alimbic Cannon, Samus and the other hunters raced to the now-accessible Oubliette. The other hunters got there first, and inside discovered an immobile structure. They began firing at it, mistakenly believing it to hold the ultimate power. To their surprise, Gorea instead emerged from the broken structure. Samus arrived just in time to see Gorea shoot out massive tentacles and drain the other hunters of their powers. The defeated hunters disappeared, and Samus alone remained to fight Gorea. She first activated the panels around the arena in accordance with the Alimbic prophecy, then began battling Gorea by exploiting its link to the Seal Sphere. Gorea then revealed its final form and continued its assault. Fortunately, Samus gained access to the Omega Cannon, which allowed her to defeat Gorea's second form. Gorea and the Oubliette exploded, while Samus and the other hunters escaped with only their lives. Once she was back in the safety of space, Samus received a vision where three Alimbic spirits appeared to thank her.

Samus was soon given yet another assignment from the Galactic Federation; this time, she was asked to track down a missing brigade of Federation Marines, GFMC Task Force Herakles. Samus headed to the planet Aether located in the Dasha region of space, where the troopers’ distress signal was coming from. Samus attempted to land on Aether, but her gunship was caught in the dimensional storms raging on the planet and was badly damaged. Luckily, her ship landed not far away from the troopers’ makeshift base. Upon entering it, however, she found she was too late: All of the troopers had died in an attack by unknown assailants. Before she could discover the source, many of the dead troopers reanimated and began firing at her.

Samus fled the base, with the undead troopers in pursuit, but once she was safely outside, she encountered something even stranger: A mysterious black and blue being wearing a suit similar to hers was entering a mysterious portal to an unknown location. Samus followed the being into the portal, only to find herself in a nightmarish replica of the room she had been in, where her dark twin was absorbing a large quantity of Phazon. The being then destroyed a crystal near Samus, which was generating a force field protecting the hunter from the region's poisonous atmosphere. The double then departed, leaving a vulnerable Samus to the clutches of savage creatures that quickly surrounded and overwhelmed her. Samus was forced to retreat back through the portal, only to learn that the dark creatures had robbed her of many of her suit upgrades.

Samus made her way through the catacombs of Aether until she discovered the source of the distress signal: the Federation troopers' damaged ship, the GFS Tyr. Accessing the ship’s log, she discovered that the Task Force had been stranded on Aether when their ship was damaged in pursuit of a downed Space Pirate frigate. Eventually, they were all killed after repeated assaults by Dark Splinters, though one of the troopers managed to send the distress signal before his death.

Samus’s ship was still repairing itself, so she went on a search to identify the cause of the attack and recover her stolen weaponry. She began finding signs of an intelligent civilization living on Aether and chose to investigate. Her search eventually led to the Great Temple, where she found dozens of beings suspended in cryogenic hibernation. Before she could investigate further, she was immediately attacked by an Alpha Splinter, which was almost immediately possessed and transformed into a Dark Alpha Splinter. Samus managed to kill it, but a strange glowing object emerged from the dead insect and entered her suit.

Samus continued exploring the building until she encountered a being known as U-Mos, the Sentinel of the Luminoth. U-Mos informed her that his species, the Luminoth, had migrated to the planet after being drawn by its unique energy. They had lived in peace until a meteor much like the one that impacted Tallon IV impacted the planet, straining the planet’s fragile dimensional stability and tearing it between two different dimensions in spacetime: the original Aether and a twisted, corrupted version called Dark Aether, which was home to a malevolent race called the Ing; it was the Ing who were responsible for the deaths and possession of the troopers, as well as the theft of Samus' upgrades. The Luminoth had been involved in a long war with the Ing for the Light of Aether and were at the verge of defeat when Samus had arrived. U-Mos also revealed that, after her battle with the Dark Alpha Splinter, Samus had recovered the Energy Transfer Module that had been stolen by the Ing years earlier. Now that she had it, she could transfer the planet's energy from Dark Aether to Light Aether; without it, the shadowy replica would collapse forever. Samus agreed to seek out the Energy Controllers to restore the Light of Aether to the Luminoth.

Samus’ mission took her all through Aether and Dark Aether, where she faced many Ing attempting to kill her for assisting the Luminoth, as well as several skirmishes with her mysterious double, who was dubbed "Dark Samus". She also reclaimed her stolen weaponry from the various Ing Guardians who had made use of it, and obtained Luminoth upgrades such as the Dark Suit. Once she had restored the three energy controllers to transfer the Light of Aether, U-Mos thanked her with the Light Suit, a suit that contained the Light of Aether within itself. Then, he told her of her most dangerous task: to reach the final Energy Controller, hidden within the Sky Temple. To enter the Sky Temple, though, she had to find the nine Sky Temple keys scattered about Dark Aether.

Within the Sky Temple, Samus faced the Emperor Ing, a mighty behemoth that ruled the entire Ing race. Although she was almost defeated, Samus prevailed, killed the Emperor, and obtained the last of the planetary energy. Without the energy, Dark Aether started to fall apart, leaving her with only minutes to escape. Samus raced down to the Sky Temple gateway, but before she could flee the crumbling dimension, Dark Samus confronted her once more. The two dueled to the death, but Samus took advantage of her foe's sole weakness — an overload of Phazon — and defeated her doppelganger once again. In her weakened state, Dark Samus attempted to steal Samus’ Light Suit, but instead dissipated into thin air. Samus then entered the portal, leaving Dark Aether to collapse behind her. The Luminoth, who had just returned from their cryogenic sleep, rejoiced and thanked Samus for freeing them from the Ing. Samus then gave them back the equipment she had borrowed from them, returned to her gunship, and she flew off into the vast darkness of space.

Six months later, Samus was summoned to the battleship G.F.S. Olympus in orbit with the rest of the Federation fleet above the planet Norion in the Kalandor region, where she would receive her instructions for her next assignment. On the way over, however, she experienced a nightmare of Dark Samus' resurrection, as well as an anomaly within her cryostasis (which is heavily implied to have been caused by Dark Samus itself). On board the Olympus, she met with Fleet Admiral Castor Dane and Aurora Unit 242, along with fellow bounty hunters Rundas, Gandrayda, and Ghor. Dane and 242 informed of their mission:to deliver a vaccine to the Aurora Units in that system, who were suffering from a Space Pirate-engineered virus. Just as the mission briefing ended, the Pirates launched a surprise attack; all the bounty hunters, including Samus, headed down to their ships to assist with the battle at Norion’s main base, fighting any Pirates they encountered in the corridors. Upon landing there, Samus was informed the Space Pirates had disabled the generators to Norion’s planetary cannon; thus, she and the other hunters were given the responsibility of restoring them while the Federation Marines held off the invading Pirate forces.

Samus and the other hunters raced through the base, turning on each generator they found to restore power to the cannon. The situation soon became dire when the Federation discovered why the Pirates were attacking: a massive Leviathan was headed on a collision course with Norion. The invasion was intended to stall the Federation fleet until the Leviathan could arrive and crash into the planet, spreading Phazon everywhere. Samus headed to the final generator, only to find her old nemesis Meta Ridley waiting for her. In the ensuing melee, Meta Ridley broke through the floor and the two of them hurtled down the 1600-meter shaft, dueling all the way. Just as Samus finished off Meta Ridley, Rundas came down to rescue her and the two flew out of the shaft together. Samus restored the final generator and she and the other hunters rushed straight to the control tower to activate the cannon. As soon they made it to the top, though, they encountered Dark Samus, who had indeed been resurrected by consuming the Pirates' Phazon supply. After a brief struggle, Dark Samus incapacitated all four of them with a massive burst of Phazon, then flew off. Though barely conscious, Samus managed to fire the cannon just before she fainted, destroying the incoming Seed and saving Norion.

One month later, Samus awoke to discover that she and her fellow hunters’ bodies were self-producing Phazon, with no negative side effects to their health. The Federation medics working on her had therefore equipped her with a Phazon Enhancement Device. Through this suit, she could harness her own Phazon to enter Hypermode, a function that would allow her to energize her suit and weapon systems with Phazon and giving her access to devastating powers. Samus was then informed by the Aurora Unit 242 that her fellow hunters had awoken two weeks before she had. They had also been given PEDs and were dispatched to the planets Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld, which had also been struck by Leviathans. Unfortunately, the Federation had lost contact with all of them one week later. Samus was then tasked with completing the missing hunters’ missions to destroy each Leviathan, as well as finding out exactly what caused the Federation to lose contact with them.

Samus first traveled to the planet Bryyo, where Rundas had been assigned, and learned that the Leviathan infecting the planet was protected by two shield generators. Samus obtained the locations of the generators from a downed Federation ship, the G.F.S. Theseus. After leaving the ship, though, she noticed Rundas watching her from a distant cliff. Travelling to Bryyo's eastern region to destroy the first generator, she discovered Rundas' ship had already landed before her.

Along the way to the generator, Samus learned that her internal Phazon - once thought to be benign - could cause her body to overload with Phazon - meaning that every use of Hypermode put her at risk of being completely corrupted by the Phazon. Soon after, she encountered Rundas himself, and made to greet him; however, his uncharacteristic silence gave her pause, and he left her without a word. Shortly afterward, he saved Samus from waves of Pirates, but then attacked her as well; Samus realized that her comrade had succumbed to his own corruption, and was now a slave to Dark Samus' will. Reluctantly, she was forced to fight her former friend in a grueling duel, ultimately defeating him. But as she approached Rundas, spikes of ice erupted from the ground, impaling Rundas and killing him instantly. To Samus' shock, the specter of Dark Samus then materialized, and absorbed Rundas' body before Samus could intervene.

Following Rundas' death, she then proceeded to destroy the two generators, leaving Bryyo's seed exposed. Flying directly into the bowels of the Leviathan, she destroyed the corrupted Mogenar war golem within, which released a massive wave of Phazon that caused Samus' own internal corruption to spread. Nevertheless, she proceeded to destroy the Leviathan's core, saving Bryyo from further corruption.

After being briefed by Unit 242, Aran proceeded to the planet Elysia, which was home to Skytown, an ancient, floating Chozo facility where Ghor had been assigned. Fighting past SkyTown's corrupted robotic inhabitants, Samus found her way to SkyTown's Aurora Unit 217, to whom she successfully administered the vaccine. However, the now-corrupted Ghor intervened, using his Plasma Cannon to sever 217's connections to the AU network. Shortly afterward, she discovered Ghor attempting to sabotage her Gunship, and was forced to fight him. After Ghor's defeat, the spectral form of Dark Samus again arrived to absorb him; Samus tried to save her fallen hunter, but could ultimately do nothing but angrily clench her fist. After fixing the damaged AU network, Samus was informed that the Federation had located the GFS Valhalla, and was asked to investigate. Upon arrival, she found it a desolate ghost ship, filled with corpses and Phazon-mutated creatures. After an initial investigation, she returned to Elysia, and the Aurora Units informed her of a plan they devised to bypass the shield protecting Elysia's Leviathan: Gather three components to a Theronian Bomb, which would then be dropped into the seed's shield. Unfortunately, this meant that Samus also had to be on board the bomb to defend it from Pirate forces, and flee before impact in an Emergency Evacuation Pod. After the shield was breached, Samus again destroyed the Leviathan's guardian - this time a corrupted robot known as Helios - and then the Leviathan itself.

With Elysia saved, 242 then informed Samus that the Federation had received an Emergency GF communication capsule from Gandrayda revealing the location of the Pirate Homeworld. On the planet, Samus learned that much of the planet was rendered inaccessible by deadly Acid Rain, but received a communication from an escaped Federation Trooper NZG41, who claimed he knew how to bypass the rain. Samus saved the trooper, but soon discovered that "NZG41" was actually a disguised Gandrayda, who was now fully corrupted. Samus fought the final hunter in all of her various forms in a vicious battle, but ultimately the shapeshifter fell. Like Rundas and Ghor before her, the screaming Gandrayda was absorbed by Dark Samus, but this time Samus grimly accepted the fact that there was nothing she could do, looking away as Gandrayda died.

After the battle and further investigation of the Pirate Homeworld, Samus disabled its planetary shield, allowing the Federation’s fleet to launch a full-scale assault on the planet. Samus personally led a team of Demolition Troopers to destroy the security door of the cargo line leading to the Homeworld's Seed. There, she encountered and defeated her old nemesis once again, now reborn as Omega Ridley. All of the Leviathans had been destroyed, but Samus had been corrupted to the point that she was now literally glowing with Phazon.

Afterward, she returned to the Valhalla to investigate its depths, and discovered that the Pirates had ignored most otherwise-valuable equipment, taking only one thing: The vessel's Aurora Unit, 313. In addition, she found the codes required to access the Pirates' Leviathan Battleship.

With this, Samus and the Federation were able to launch a final battle to destroy the newly discovered planet Phaaze - the source of all Phazon and Dark Samus' place of origin. Traveling with the Federation via a wormhole created by the Leviathan Battleship, Samus descended to the planet while the Federation kept the Pirate forces busy. As soon she set foot on Phaaze, Samus absorbed dangerous amounts of Phazon and was nearly corrupted completely; even after venting all her available energy tanks and locking herself in permanent Hypermode, she was living on precious borrowed time. Venturing to the planet's inner sanctum, she encountered Dark Samus, and, after a long battle, Dark Samus merged with the stolen Aurora Unit 313 that was linked with Phaaze's core. After one final battle, Samus was able to overpower and destroy both her doppelganger and the Aurora Unit. Since the Aurora Unit was linked to the planet's core, its destruction caused a chain reaction that resulted in the destruction of Phaaze and the erasure of all Phazon from the universe, including the Phazon inside Samus' body. The Federation fleet escaped via another wormhole, but lost contact with Samus in the process. Just as the Federation had given up all hope of Samus' survival, she flew in and reported that the mission had been completed, closing the curtain on the Phazon saga.

After leaving the celebrating Federation fleet, Samus returned to Elysia, where she mourned the loss of her fellow bounty hunters on this mission. Eventually, she left Elysia and headed off to find her next mission, but failed to notice a mysterious gunship following her.

After a Space Pirate presence was discovered by the Galactic Federation in the Bermuda System, Samus was called in to investigate. The Bermuda System is a three-planet solar system with abandoned Galactic Federation facilities. The Federation Force, a team of highly trained soldiers wearing Mech suits modeled after Samus's Power Suit, was already there. Samus worked alongside them to battle Space Pirates, saving the group from a Rohkor Beetle at one point, but mostly gathering intelligence for them.

At some point, she was taken hostage by the Pirates and somehow put under mind control. When the Force boarded the Doomseye, a large Space Pirate battle station, the Pirates used technology from the ancient Bion race to increase Samus's size and forced her to fight the Federation soldiers. The Federation Force bested her and she was seemingly crushed by falling debris. The blow freed her from mind control, however, and after recovering, she saved the Force twice, first by destroying a group of Elite Pirates, and then by catching the soldiers with her ship when they were sucked into space. Samus told the Force that meeting them had been an honor, and then thanked them for saving her and the universe.

What happened after this period of time is unknown. However, ultimately the Galactic Federation decided that the Metroids were too dangerous to exist, given the devastation they had caused in Pirate hands. After two failed attempts by their own troops, the Federation asked Samus to exterminate them herself, given her long experience in dealing with the creatures.

Arriving on SR388, Samus learned that the planet's environment caused Metroids to mutate into different forms, each stronger than the last. She also discovered ancient Chozo ruins, including a golden seal that was tied to the corrosive purple liquid blocking access to deeper areas of the planet; every time Samus managed to successfully kill all the Metroids in an area, the seal would lower the liquid levels, allowing the hunter access to deeper levels where stronger Metroids were hiding. Her search finally led her to the Queen Metroid, which was responsible for the reproduction of the entire Metroid species. Samus managed to kill the beast and thus believed herself to have successfully eliminated the Metroids for good. As she continued down the tunnels, however, she found a single Metroid egg. As she stared at it, an infant Metroid hatched out of the egg and, upon seeing Samus, imprinted on her as its mother. Samus felt compassion for the infant and, going against her orders, took the Metroid Hatchling to her gunship and made preparations to leave the planet.

Before she could actually leave the planet with the infant, however, an unexpected threat arrived and grabbed the Metroid: her old foe, Ridley. Samus fought him over the baby, eventually grabbing his tail as he was flying away and proceeded to blast him directly in the exposed abdomen at point blank range until he was forced to let go of the baby Metroid before promptly blasting him in the wing and sending him flying into a cliff. However, Ridley rose from the rubble and resumed his attack on Samus, eventually blocking her attacks and throwing her against a wall before pinning her down to blast fire at her. She was saved by the baby, who proceeded to absorb enough energy from Ridley to rejuvenate her, allowing her to triumph over the Space Pirate leader. Afterwards, she then left the planet with baby.

Samus, knowing how valuable the Metroid hatchling could be to the Federation, headed to the Ceres Space Colony, and chose to turn it over to the scientists there, who believed they could harness the infant’s power for the good of mankind. Confident in their findings, Samus proceeded to leave the station. However, she had not even left the asteroid belt where Ceres was stationed before she received a distress signal from the scientists. Returning to Ceres, she discovered that the Space Pirates had attacked the station in hopes of stealing the Metroid. Ridley himself had captured the infant and was about to make off when Samus arrived. After a brief struggle, Ridley flew out of the station and set the self-destruct to destroy the entire station. Samus barely made it out alive, flying away in her gunship while Ceres exploded behind her.

She managed to track Ridley and the other Pirates to Zebes, discovering that the Space Pirates had rebuilt their old base on the planet and had returned to their old plan of cloning Metroids. Mother Brain had returned as the head of the base, as had Ridley and Kraid. Two new Pirate generals had been recruited as well: Phantoon, a ghostly being that haunted the Wrecked Ship, and Draygon, a massive Evir which presided over Maridia. After defeating them all, Samus was granted access to Tourian. She proceeded to exterminate the Pirate-cloned Metroids she found there, but was suddenly attacked by a massive Metroid, far larger than any she had ever seen. All her weaponry was useless against it, and soon the Metroid had drained her suit to critical levels. Just moments away from her death, the Metroid relinquished its hold and fled after figuring out that it was Samus, leadin Samus to realize that it was the Baby, enhanced through unknown means.

Samus continued through Tourian until she encountered Mother Brain and proceeded to destroy her tank as before. Though she appeared to be defeated, Mother Brain suddenly emerged from the wreckage in a massive new body. Samus fought with all her might, but Mother Brain retaliated with the Laser Brain Attack, leaving Samus near death once more. Just before Mother Brain could launch another blow, the infant Metroid suddenly arrived, sucked the life out of Mother Brain, then began transferring the life to Samus. Mother Brain was not yet dead, though, and it began attacking the Metroid. An energy shot from Mother Brain finished off the Baby, but Samus had been revived and used Mother Brain’s own Hyper Beam against her until she was no more. Mother Brain's death triggered yet another self-destruct mechanism, only this time, the entire planet was engulfed in the explosion. Samus escaped with her life, while Zebes, the ancient home of the Chozo and her childhood home, was lost forever.

Although she managed to escape from Zebes, Samus was injured from her fight against Mother Brain and from the mission overall, eventually resulting into her admission into a hospital. Samus recovered and flew off, but she still mourned the loss of the Baby. After several weeks of drifting aimlessly, Samus received a "Baby's Cry"-type distress signal directing her TO a facility known as the BOTTLE SHIP. She found that a Federation vessel had also received the S.O.S. and had docked on the BOTTLE SHIP. The crew of the ship, to her surprise, was the Federation squad she had been a part of when she had been enrolled in the GF Army, the 07th Platoon, consisting of several soldiers, namely Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich. She and the team were forced to cooperate in order to overcome the apparent dangers of the BOTTLE SHIP; Samus was allowed back onto the team provided that she followed Adam's orders. After restoring power to the Main Sector and being sent to inspect the Biosphere, Samus came across a small, furry creature that stopped to stare at her.

After much discovery and exploration, Samus arrived at the Exam Center toward the rear of the Biosphere. There, she met up with her comrades and activated a computer terminal. The data revealed that the BOTTLE SHIP was a research station where bioweapons were being bred under the directions of Madeline Bergman. Noticing a large lizard-like creature attacking the soldiers outside, Samus raced to help them, but was ambushed and almost killed before Anthony shot it off of her, said creature fleeing immediately afterward. They then found the body of Lyle Smithsonian, who appeared to have been mauled by the creature. Samus also found the lifeless shell of the small white creature she saw earlier, which was actually the immature form of the lizard beast that had attacked her. Samus pursued the creature into the Pyrosphere but was soon ordered to go to the Cryosphere to search for survivors. There, she found the body of Maurice Favreau and noticed a young woman staring at her. From events that had taken place, Samus deduced that there was a traitor in the platoon and nicknamed him The Deleter. Returning to the Pyrosphere, she then discovered the beast she was tracking was actually her nemesis, Ridley. He hurled Samus' old friend Anthony into a pool of Lava, angering Samus and empowering her enough to defeat Ridley once again, though he managed to escape.

Entering the Bioweapon Research Center while tracking the Deleter, Samus once again encountered the young woman, who identified herself as Madeline Bergman and explained what was going on. The BOTTLE SHIP scientists were trying to create a special forces unit modeled after the Space Pirates, which was then succeeded by cloning Metroids off fragments of the Baby on Samus' suit. An AI that recreated Mother Brain's thought processes so that the Metroids could be controlled was also developed, and nicknamed MB. Madeline gives Samus the directions to Sector Zero, a secret area on the BOTTLE SHIP containing the Metroids and MB. Samus set off to destroy them, however, Adam raced off to stop her. Samus walked to the entrance and was suddenly shot when about to kill a Metroid, being weakened by Adam so that she couldn't strongarm her way past him. He gave her his last orders and proceeded to detach and destroy Sector Zero. Samus mourned his death, but eventually recovered and swore to finish the mission.

Returning to the Bioweapon Research Center to locate a survivor and find and defeat Ridley, she found the latter reduced to a dried husk, and later came across several hatched Metroid Eggs. Samus is then attacked by a Queen Metroid, who spawns Metroids as Samus engages it once again. Samus then chased the survivor, who also identifies herself as Madeline Bergman. Madeline cleared up Samus' confusion: she had actually met MB earlier. MB then stepped in and aimed a Freeze Gun at the two of them before numerous Federation Marines invaded and froze her. She then summoned an army of Ghalmanians, Mighty Griptians and Desbrachians to attack, but is ultimately killed by the Marines. As Madeline mourns, The Colonel steps in and praises Samus' work during the mission, but states that she is now an outsider due to the death of everyone in the platoon, and thus she cannot have any contact with Madeline. However, it turns out that Anthony survived his encounter with Ridley by freezing a Magdollite, revealed when he volunteers to escort Samus back to her ship. Leaving the BOTTLE SHIP with the two of them, Samus reflected on Adam and MB as she flew towards Galactic Federation Headquarters.

Several days later, the Federation decided to destroy the BOTTLE SHIP. Samus returned, however, to recover an important item. Progressing through the environments once again, and defeating her old foe Phantoon, she eventually reached Adam's post, finding his abandoned helmet. Embracing it, Samus reverted to her Zero Suit, and held the helmet as she raced to her gunship.

SR388 was now free of Metroids, and so the Galactic Federation decided to send in a research party to investigate the planet. Due to her previous experience with the planet and its inhabitants, Samus was hired to serve as a guide to the researchers, to collect samples of life for the Biologic Space Laboratories research station. The researchers and Samus arrived on the planet, and when they were trying to capture a Hornoad, a mysterious organism injected itself inside Samus. Thinking nothing of it, the team continued on their mission. After their search was completed and the team returned to their ships, the parasite, which had infested Samus' central nervous system, caused her to fall unconscious. Though her gunship crashed into an Asteroid belt, Samus was safely ejected from the ship and her escape pod was retrieved by the BSL. She was far from safe, however, as the parasites (which would later be named X) continued to spread throughout her body.

The X had infected so much of Samus' Power Suit that large portions of it had to be surgically removed, drastically altering its physical appearance. She was initially given a less than 1% chance of survival, but fortunately the scientists discovered a cure: Metroid DNA. The Metroids were discovered to have been created by the Chozo in order to control the X. With this knowledge in mind, the scientists used a culture of Metroid cells extracted from the Baby to make a vaccine. The vaccine was an astonishing success; the X were completely purged from Samus' body, curing her completely. However, it also had some unexpected side effects: Now that she was immune to the X, Samus could absorb them to regain energy and Missiles. She also gained the Metroid’s trademark weakness to cold. More than just her biology changed, however; the surgical removal of parts of her Power Suit had left her with a radically different appearance: the new Fusion Suit. She then recalled that, before that point, the Baby had saved her twice, once against Ridley on SR388 and the other time against Mother Brain on Zebes.

Despite her recent illness, Samus was not given furlough by the Federation. She was immediately issued a new Gunship with an onboard computer to serve as an aide. This computer’s personality reminded her heavily of her former Commanding Officer and so, with irony noted, she chose to name it Adam in his memory. Samus was then sent to the BSL research station where the last batch of creatures from SR388 and the infected parts of her Power Suit were sent. She was to investigate an unexplained explosion in the Quarantine Bay. To her great surprise, she discovered that the X Parasite within her Suit had taken on her form, and it had become the SA-X (short for Samus Aran-X). It was responsible for the breach of Quarantine Bay, and as a result, the X ran amok throughout the station. All the researchers aboard the station were dead, and it was up to Samus to contain this breach. The X and the SA-X made many attempts to kill her, but Samus was always able to outsmart them, even in her weakened state.

Eventually, Samus’s missions through the BSL brought her to the Restricted Lab. After acquiring the Wave Beam, Samus was able to bypass the security door and enter inside. Inside the lab, Samus made a surprising discovery: the Galactic Federation were cloning Metroids. Before she could investigate further, she found the SA-X had followed her inside the lab and was releasing the Metroids so it could attack them. The Metroids soon overpowered it, but the SA-X’s breakout had set off the lab’s self-destruct failsafes. Samus managed to escape, but the lab broke away from the rest of the station and exploded, destroying the Metroids and the SA-X together.

When Samus spoke again to Adam, he was angry with her for meddling in top-secret Federation research. He also informed her that the Federation was very interested in his extensive research on the X and viewed it as a wonderful organism with a variety of uses. Several Federation officials were coming to the BSL in hopes of capturing the X and SA-X (due to asexual reproduction, there were now no fewer than ten SA-X aboard the station) for military purposes. Samus vocally disapproved, insisting that the Federation were underestimating the threat that the X posed, and resolved to activate the ship's self-destruct to destroy the X, and herself if necessary.

Adam was aware of this, though, and thus locked all the doors. Samus reacted with outrage when she discovered what it had done and angrily yelled, “Don’t let them do this! Can’t you see what will happen, Adam?” The computer was confused at this response, as Samus had never disclosed her personal nickname for it. It asked for an explanation as to who this Adam was. Samus only told him that Adam was a friend who understood when sacrifices had to be made. From this, the computer was able to correctly deduce that Adam had given up his life to save Samus. However, it disregarded this, since Samus was incorrectly assuming that destroying the station would defeat the X for good, and curtly decided: “When Adam chose who would live, he chose the wrong person.”

Suddenly, something unusual began happening. The computer began adopting the persona of the former Adam. It unlocked the doors and told Samus that her instructions were to head to the Navigation Deck and change the station’s orbit so that it would crash into SR388, so that when it self-destructed, the planet too would be caught in the field. It ended this sudden command with Adam’s famous clincher: “Any objections, lady?”

Refreshed with a new spirit, Samus headed to the Navigation Deck, but the SA-X burst in once more with murder on its mind. Endowed with her new weapons, Samus managed to defeat the clone, continuing fearlessly even when it mutated into a massive beast and then into a Core-X. Eventually, the SA-X was reduced once more to a lowly X, but before Samus could absorb it, it eluded her and escaped into the ventilation system. Disappointed and tired, but still determined, Samus continued her way up the Navigation Deck until she reached the terminal that controlled the station’s orbit. Samus altered its orbit and set off the self-destruct, then proceeded to return to the Docking Bay. When she arrived, though, her ship was nowhere to be found, and she was suddenly ambushed by an Omega Metroid, the evolved form of a Metroid that had escaped the Restricted Lab before its destruction. The creature defeated her in a single blow, but just before it could kill her, the SA-X appeared and began attacking the Metroid with its Ice Beam. The Omega Metroid recovered in time and attacked the SA-X, giving Samus enough time to absorb her doppelganger. Endowed with her Ice Beam once more, Samus made short work of the Omega Metroid. Shortly after killing it, her ship then returned to the station to save her. Samus flew away just before BSL, and SR388, exploded together.

Back in the safety of space, Samus discovered that it is a common practice for the Federation to upload the minds of great leaders to computers and that this is what had happened to Adam. After this point, it is unknown what will happen to Samus, as she disobeyed a direct order from the Federation, and subsequently destroyed all their research aboard the BSL.

Following the Raid on Planet Zebes, Samus responded to a distress call originating from a frontier planet called Liberty. She found that its small village was under Space Pirate attack, and she took her enemies by storm, much to the fascination of a young, reckless boy named Joey Apronika. As she was preparing to leave, Joey pursued Samus in the hopes of accompanying her. She refused and quickly became annoyed with his rampant behavior, although she was forced to save him when they were attacked by Doruba. Samus became reluctant to fire a Super Missile at the beast, because Joey would have been caught in the blast, although he encouraged her to do so.

The pair survived the blast, although Samus ordered Joey to return to the village immediately. He objected, because the two of them had defeated Doruba together. Samus explained that although Doruba might not have posed a challenge, the creature that she was hunting, Dragüd, possessed a life form that is a challenge, and a very deadly one at that: the Metroid. Samus told him the story of her Zero Mission and left. Whilst she ran off to fight Dragüd, Joey followed her in secret using the guise of a molten Pirate skin and pretended that he was going to see the Megaroid, a Metroid created by Dragüd from dead Metroid cells.

The creature escaped containment and quickly began consuming the energy of all Pirates, and the ship itself. It grew into an enormous creature that Samus found was not affected by her favorite tactic of Ice Beam and Missile fire used in tandem. The creature split into numerous crystals that multiplied into living creatures and engulfed Samus before moving on to the Liberty village. Joey collected several Space Torches and used them to lead the Megaroids away while Samus destroyed the Megaroids engulfing her using her Plasma Beam and Ice Beam in tandem to create thermal shock. She then pursued Joey to Mount Pagos, a long inactive volcano that she reactivated with a Power Bomb and Super Missile, which obliterated the Megaroids.

Samus then announced that she was returning to space. A while later, Joey sat at his father's grave and discovered a buried parcel in it, containing his old armor: the Field Knuckle. Samus saw potential in Joey, and promised to take him as far as a large space station where a friend of hers lived. She dropped him off at an engine shop, the Junk Quixote, run by her acquaintance Diesel. The pair found Jealousy, another Space Pirate, instead. He was holding Diesel hostage. The creature summoned his bodyguard, Bomad, to fight Samus. Joey rescued Diesel and fought off Jealousy's Pirates using his Field Knuckle, until Bomad unleashed a gravity bomb that obliterated everything in the room except Bomad himself, Samus, Joey and Diesel. Samus finished Bomad off. Diesel was released, and his first order of business for Joey was to fix the shop.

Some time later, Samus discovers that the Special Forces Ship Otowa disappeared. She tracks it to Degrade, a planet she soon finds has magnetic storms that damage her ship and render her unable to leave (echoing Aether). Samus discovers the ship with only a fraction of its passengers alive, being attacked by Giants. Samus destroys much of the behemoths, but one prepares to eat one of the survivors, Dr. Diana Apronika, Joey's mother. Joey, who has come searching for his mother kills this Giant, saving her. The remainder of the Giants flee, as another creature swarms in the background.

These creatures, Amoks, turn out to resemble large penguins. The survivors stated that these creatures ate a large fraction of their crew. The Amoks then turn on the survivors, but Samus helps them to repel the attack. Samus and Diesel make a plan to use a crashed ship they saw to escape with the Otowa survivors. Two days later, Samus asks Joey about his mother. Joey feels that he is always in her way and that she prioritizes her work. Samus confesses that she envies Joey for being able to grow up with his parents. The Amoks return and charge at the survivors, but Samus holds them off with a Power Bomb.

Diesel discovers a damaged but still functional KI-1 Class Ship, which they hope to use to escape. Inside, Joey discovers a nest of eggs and the mother of the Amoks. Samus finds that her beams have no effect on the creature, and she cannot use her Super Missiles or Power Bombs due to her proximity to the ship, but Joey is able to hold the creature off with his Field Knuckle. As the ship takes off, Samus uses a Super Missile and destroys the creature. The Amoks feed on the corpse, off-screen, as Samus, Joey, Diesel and the Otowa survivors escape in the Junk Hawk and KI-1 ship (towing Samus' ship).

Following the excursion at Degrade, Samus destroys Bioroid Delta III, a combat bioroid that destroyed a ship en-route to a demolition site, and Dangelo, an escaped convict from her past who launches terrorist attacks wearing a Power Suit resembling hers. Joey and Diesel are kidnapped by the Dominion, a paramilitary organization that sells weapons of mass destruction. Samus rescues them and they help her to fight through the Dominion's base on the Demon Planet, destroying several mechanisms modeled after Samus. The Dominion is dealt a destructive blow and Samus is congratulated for her efforts in exposing their existence. Samus is later lured into a trap upon receiving a call from Joey, and then sealed into an Ability Disassembly and Conversion Device, which torturously downgrades her Power Suit and extracts seven of her most important abilities. Joey sacrifices himself to stop Samus from dying. By this point, Samus has accepted Joey as a partner and her anger allows her to easily kill the Body Snatcher, the being that took her powers. Samus is then ambushed by Greed, a dragon-like being resembling Ridley, who takes off for space and challenges her to follow him.

Samus, with Joey and Diesel as company, pursues Greed to the Extreme Galaxy, a lawless sector outside of the Galactic Federation's control. The trio are thrust into numerous dangerous and often physics-defying situations to recover her stolen abilities from Greed's gang, the Greed Corps, and six of his henchmen, the Deadly Six Stars. Samus succeeds in recovering most of her abilities, but after triggering a volcano to kill the last Star, Defen, she lost the Data Capsule containing her Varia Suit.

The trio later discover Greed's real plan: to avenge the destruction of his race, which includes Ridley, that had led the Space Pirates for generations, and to access a destructive power in the ancient ruins on a diamond-shaped planet. Samus is captured and brought to the ruins, where her body is used to allow Greed to obtain the power. While she lies unconscious in the Hall of the Gods, Joey, Diesel and the defecting Greed Corps general Knight battle the other general, Bishop, who wants the power for himself. Bishop reveals that he recovered the Varia Suit from the ocean world, as well as Samus's Plasma Beam. After a bloody skirmish, Bishop is killed and the Capsules join with Samus to revive her and fully restore her abilities. Shortly after this, a black hole is created in space, which begins to impact the entire universe.

Samus, prepared to battle Greed, instructs Joey and Diesel to leave. As they protest, she explains that she heard the voice of an animus dwelling in the ruins, who explained that those who access the power must make a choice between the power of the past or the future. Her hearing this animus makes her the only person who can challenge Greed. Before entering the door, she reveals her true identity to Joey by removing her Power Suit, and promises him that he will rise to do battle in the future. She then rematerializes her Power Suit and storms off to confront Greed.

Inside, Samus discovers Greed suffering a "pathetic" death - he chose the power of the future and is being swallowed by that power. The animus prepares to destroy the universe until Samus points out that she has not made a choice. Rather than choosing the past or the future, she chooses the present. The animus, content with her decision, produces a white light. As Samus touches it, a white hole is produced in space, counteracting the black hole and restoring power to the universe. Afterwards, Samus and Joey go their separate ways and Samus returns to bounty hunting.

General Information

Name: Samus Aran

Origin: Metroid

Sex: Female

Age: 3 years old when taken in by the Chozo (The Metroid timeline lists her being adopted by the Chozo as taking place in 2058, whereas she was born in 2055) 16 when she joined the Federation Force (The Metroid timeline lists Samus leaving Zebes and joining the Federation Force taking place in 2071), 20 during Zero Mission (The Metroid timeline lists the events of Zero Mission taking place in 2075)

Classification: Protector of the Galaxy, Hatchling

Species: Initially Human, Chozo/Human Hybrid (Her body was infused with Chozo DNA to increase her body's adaptability to the Chozo's planet)

Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Height: 190 centimeters/6'3" (Noted officially to be 190 centimeters)

Weight: 90 kilograms/ 198 pounds (Noted officially to be 90 kilograms)

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Samus Aran is a bounty hunter whose willing to ignore orders and go beyond laws if it means saving people. Was willing to go against the rogue Federation Force's plan, going as far as to sacrifice her own life to kill all of the X Parasite's so that they would not go and wreak havoc throughout the galaxy)

Protection Level: Cosmic Protector (Samus protects the galaxy from the likes of the metroids whose very existence poses a threat to the entire galaxy, getting the title protector of the galaxy)

Codex Statistics

Key: 2003 Manga | Zero Mission

Grade: S | S

Tier: 8-A physically, Higher with attacks from her suit, Far Higher with Emotions, 7-B with Power Bombs | 8-A physically, Higher with attacks from her suit, Far Higher with Speed Booster, Even Higher with Screw Attack & Emotions , 7-B with Power Bombs

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City District level (Potency) physically (Is a genetically engineered warrior who can harm those who can harm her), Higher with attacks from her suit (Should be comparable to Grey who could break through Mother Brain’s shields which Mother Brain stated were the same shields protecting the planet that required planetary tech from Ridley to penetrate a small part of it through. Mother Brain could also transform the entire planet of Zebe into a fortress), Far Higher with Emotions (Her emotions allow her power to skyrocket), City level with Power Bomb (Used a power bomb to erupt a sleeping volcano[1], which a volcano can release 24 megatons of energy[2]) | City District level physically, Higher with attacks from her suit, Far Higher with Speed Booster (Completely invulnerable in this state being able to destroy any block and enemy in her path), Even Higher with the Screw Attack (Can completely one-shot enemies who were unaffected by all of her other weapons) & Emotions, City level with Power Bomb

Durability: City District level physically (Survived her crash landing on Zebes, can take hits from space pirates), can absorb Higher levels of energy (The suits are noted to be equipment that passively absorb energy attacking Samus allowing her to survive hits from Mother Brain. Absorbed an attack from Ridley) | City District level physically, can absorb Higher levels of energy (Can absorb attacks from Mother Brain)

Striking Strength: City District Class (Potency), Higher with suit, Far Higher with Emotions | City District Class (Potency), Higher with suit, Far Higher with Emotions

Lifting Strength: Class 10 (Due to weighing about 90 kilograms, Zebes with a gravity of 960 times that of earth would cause her to weigh about 90,000 kilograms) | Class 10

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Her movements are so quick that space pirates and others do not notice her) | Superhuman (Leaves behind afterimages with her movements), Supersonic with Speed Booster (Is stated that Samus moves at supersonic speeds with the speed booster. Moves so fast that she has a constant afterimage behind her)

Attack Speed: At most Relativistic+ | At most Relativistic+

Reaction Speed: At most Relativistic+ (Could grab and shield a child in the middle of lasers being shot at her) | At most Relativistic+ (The speed booster enhances spaceships capable of intergalactic travel, can react to spaceships mid-flight during these states. With the ships moving this fast during intergalactic travel. Can avoid lightning, can avoid lasers from Ridley Robot)

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Was infused with Chozo DNA in order to survive the harsh environment of Zebes for years), can reach up to Limitless with Phazon Absorption (Can shoot out a limitless supply of phazon amplified attacks as long as she can keep absorbing phazon)

Range: Standard Melee, Kilometers with Energy Beams (Can fire her beams at Meta Ridley while he is far out in the sky) & Ice Manipulation (Ice Beam froze the ruins site), Higher with the Imperialist (The Imperialist fires a thin and lethal laser beam with high accuracy over long distances), Universal with Phase Drift & powers of Animus (Can completely slow down time with the phase drift, used a white hole across the universe to restore it), Cross-Dimensional her ship (Can travel outside of the 3rd dimension into higher dimensions), Can find beings a Multi-Universal distance away with X-Ray Visors (Can find Chozo Ghost going outside of existence with the X-Ray Visor)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (Consistently referred to as the greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy, has repeatedly single-handedly taken down entire armadas of space pirate fleets along with the ground team they’re stationed with, a feat seen as so impossible that one of the higher ranking galactic federation soldiers noting this feat to another was dismissed as a myth with the federation soldier considering Samus big foot or santa claus. Said Space Pirates are also noted to be well trained in weapon and melee combat. Could easily shoot a small bullet from outside the bar. Easily decoded Space Pirates scriptures in two hours. Is a master of the power suit completely unequaled to anyone else that have used lesser copies, with the power suit being made by the Chozos the most intelligent beings in the universe)

Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Due to merging with Chozo DNA Samus has gained superhuman strength and agility), Fighter's Intuition (Effortlessly defeated several Galactic Federation bodyguards with quick grapples, strikes and kicks. Easily defeated corrupted federation soldiers with hand-to-hand combat), Human Achievements (Consistently referred to as the greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy, has repeatedly single-handedly taken down entire armadas of space pirate fleets along with the ground team they’re stationed with, a feat seen as so impossible that one of the higher ranking galactic federation soldiers noting this feat to another was dismissed as a myth with the federation soldier considering Samus big foot or Santa claus. Said Space Pirates are also noted to be well trained in weapon and melee combat. Could easily shoot a small bullet from outside the bar. Easily decoded Space Pirates scriptures in two hours. Is a master of the power suit completely unequaled to anyone else that have used lesser copies, with the power suit being made by the Chozos the most intelligent beings in the universe), Weapon Mastery (Firearm Mastery; Can masterfully aim and use her arm cannon in combat, such as when she could perfectly pinpoint and hit only the weapons of the enemies), Acrobatics (Her chozo dna allows her to use her immense physical strength to leap far into the air and further), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance) & Aquatic Breathing (Has an oxygen tank inside suit allowing them to breathe in space and underwater. Her power suit allows her to breathe in space and underwater without additional equipment), Precognition (Analytical Prediction) & Instinctive Reaction (With SenseMove, Samus can automatically avoid attacks from her sensing danger causing her jets to move her out of harm's way), Adaptation & Power Absorption (Samus' body was infused with Chozo DNA so that she could adapt to harsh environments, such as acid rain. Samus’ suit can upgrade itself to be compatible with unknown material it has never absorbed before giving it access to use new abilities), Fusionism & Power Mimicry (Samus can take any other species DNA and infuse it with her own gaining their abilities and weaknesses), Astral Projection & Empowerment (If Samus is at all incapacitated or killed she will enter a state where she leaves her current body to hear the final thoughts of Grey, in which she will be given a far more powerful suit), Accelerated Development & Statistics Amplification (Samus’ battle power will rise and her power will exponentially increases in order to fight and protect those she cares about), Data Manipulation & Transmutation (If Samus has weapon and ammunition stored as data in her suit she can transform the data of weapons into tangible forms), Regeneration & Restoration (Mid-Low passively; Her suit passively repairs broken parts and small injuries. Low-Mid with concentration. With concentration, Samus can restore her missile supply and health), Immortality (Quantum Immortality; Samus upon being scanned on a save station has quantum state image of her saved making her always ress back to that point in time, this makes her unkillable to the point that even if there is a complete self-destruction of a planet or base she can still return thus one would need to kill her at all points in time to permanently get rid of her, even if a universe collapses and she’s saved within said universes save station, she can still return back), Technology Manipulation (The power suit reacts to Samus' thoughts, thus allowing her to be protected from damage in her zero suit state by automatically coming in an area she’s about to be attacked in), Body Control (The power suit is described as a “sort of second skin” for Samus protecting her zero suit from any form of harm), Energy Absorption (Samus’ suit absorbs all the energy from attacks allowing Samus to withstand various attacks, absorbed an attack from Ridley), Transformation (Transformative Arsenal; Samus can transform into her power suit state whenever she pleases), Adaptation (Her suit will at times adapt in situations that are fatal to Samus, for example in Metroid Prime Samus is susceptible and can take damage from the smallest amount of phazon, after defeating the Omega Pirate who is filled with Phazon and the enemy falls on her filling her with phazon the suit adapts to this protecting her by creating the phazon suit which resists the affects of phazon and can fire blasts of phazon), Energy Manipulation & Power Nullification (The power suit can shoot out charged energy blast, that can disrupt energy shields), Passive Attack Reflection (Her suit seems to passively reflect back beams shot at her. Can deflect projectiles by swinging her arm), Status Effect Inducement (Can stun enemies with counter), Explosion Manipulation (Can set explosions down with bombs), Durability Negation (Wave Beam can travel through objects hitting one's internal body), Ice Manipulation (Can freeze with the ice beam), Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Dimension Manipulation, Matter Manipulation & Dimensional Travel (Samus when warping through space warps into a higher dimensional plane and thus materializes her ship back into the 3rd dimension when reaching her location).


Resistance to Acid Manipulation (Adapted under the acid rain of Zebes), Mind Manipulation (Is able to resist Mother Brain’s influence that allowed her to control all of the space pirates and Ridley), Biological Manipulation (Samus' Thoha genes can slow down the process of DNA inserted in her causing her to fully transform into a species)

Equipment

This dropdown contains all of her equipment. Each game lists what's standard for that game to avoid confusion of what she does or doesn't have.

  • Morph Ball: Originally known as the “Maru Mari” which is japanese for “roll up”, the morph ball is the Alt-Form of Samus Aran and allows her to turn into a sphere 0.8 meters in diameter. It allows her to enter small tunnels and openings, which often lead to previously inaccessible areas.
“ Maru Mari - Get this, and Samus' body will become round, allowing entry into narrow passages. „
“ This ability allows Samus' suit to curl into ball form and navigate narrow passageways. (Press down twice) „
  • Long Beam: Samus' basic Power Beam normally dissipates after a short distance. With the Long Beam equipped, however, her shots are capable of traveling much farther. This upgrade also slightly increases the strength of the Power Beam. This weapon has later been merged with the regular power beam as Samus is able to shoot it as far as she wants without it dissipating.
“ It lengthens the attacking range of your beam. It can also boost the range of the ice beam and the wave beam. Useful for attacking enemies from a distance. „
“ Obtaining this power-up increases the range of Samus' beam weapon, including the Ice and Wave Beams. This power-up allows Samus to destroy enemies from a safe distance. „
  • Missiles: Missiles have appeared in every single game to date in the Metroid series. They are a more powerful weapon than the normal uncharged Beam, dealing 4-5 times as much damage depending on the game, and are useful in destroying Brimstone walls, Zebetites, and Missile Blocks. The 2D side-scrolling Metroid titles feature rapid-firing missiles. In their usual form, the Missiles have a rocket shape with gray colouring and pink stripes. The total number of missiles Samus can acquire varies from game to game.
“ When you collect one, you will receive five Missiles. You can defeat any enemies that show up with one Missile. „
  • Charge Beam: The Charge Beam is a power-up that allows Samus to charge up her current beam and release a more potent version of it.
“ Obtaining this power-up allows Samus to charge beam energy into a single, powerful beam blast. „
  • Bombs: Bombs are the basic weapons for Samus Aran's Morph Ball. Although bombs are not of great use on many normal enemies, they can break certain objects and activate bomb slots. When Samus is near a detonated bomb, she will be propelled upwards. This is a Bomb Jump.
“ Lets you set Bombs in ball form. It's good for damaging enemies on the ground and destroying rocks. „
“ After acquiring this ability, Samus can set Bombs while in Morph Ball form. In addition to damaging enemies, they can destroy some blocks and walls. Samus has an unlimited supply of them. To use them, press the B Button while in Morph Ball form. „
  • Plasma Beam: The Plasma has the unique capability to pierce through multiple foes, ultimately obliterating them. When combined with the Wave Beam, it becomes virtually unstoppable and extremely destructive as each shot will pass through both hostile enemies and solid material.
“ This powerful beam can blast through multiple enemies. „
  • Power Grip: The Power Grip is an item received in Metroid: Zero Mission that enables Samus to grab onto ledges with her left arm. While holding onto a ledge, Samus could either pull herself up, aim and shoot or jump from one ledge to another. If the Morph Ball has been acquired, Samus could pull herself into tight spaces by automatically shifting into ball form as she enters them.
“ The Power Grip is an item received in Metroid: Zero Mission that enables Samus to grab onto ledges with her left arm. While holding onto a ledge, Samus could either pull herself up, aim and shoot or jump from one ledge to another. If the Morph Ball has been acquired, Samus could pull herself into tight spaces by automatically shifting into ball form as she entered them. „
  • Ice Beam: The Ice Beam is one of Samus's signature beam weapons, it fires a potent beam that has the power to freeze most enemies. Due to Samus’ tech being superior to most other bounty hunters tech, her ice beam should be superior to the Judicator which approaches temperatures of absolute zero.
  • Space Jump: The Space Jump is a highly advanced Chozo-designed movement system that allows Samus to Spin Jump repeatedly in midair.
  • Speed Booster: According to the Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission Instruction Manuals, the Speed Booster allows Samus to run at "supersonic speeds." The Speed Booster, as the name suggests, will greatly increase Samus's speed whilst she runs. She also becomes invincible, as noted in the Super Metroid instruction manual.
  • Hi-Jump: As indicated by the name, the Boots allow Samus Aran to jump much higher.
  • Spring Ball: The Spring Ball is a power-up that allows Samus Aran to jump in Morph Ball form without Bomb Jumping.
  • Varia Suit: The Varia Suit, alternatively referred to as Barrier Suit and Varia Feature, is a Power Suit upgrade. In general, the Varia Suit reduces damage taken and protects Samus Aran from extreme heat. The maximum temperature that the Varia Suit can protect against is unknown, but the Gravity Suit is generally required for some of the higher temperature liquids. The name "Varia" is a mistranslation of the word "barrier" (although the Return of Samus manual uses the correct translation), which describes its shielding properties; coincidentally, it also resembles the English words "variety" or "variable", referring to how the suit can handle a variety of temperatures, a trait demonstrated in Metroid Fusion.
  • Wave Beam: The wave beam is a beam item for Samus that goes through objects and walls, effectively negating durability.
  • Super Missile: The Super Missile is a weapon often found in the Metroid series that provides a stronger alternative to normal Missiles. It is usually one of the stronger components of Samus' arsenal.
  • Gravity Suit: The Gravity Suit is an upgrade for Samus Aran's Power Suit. As its name implies, the Gravity Suit's primary function is to negate extreme gravitational effects around its wearer, such as zero gravity in space.
  • Screw Attack: The Screw Attack is one of Samus Aran's most iconic and powerful Power Suit upgrades. It is an advanced movement system that allows Samus to emit energy waves from points on her armor while she somersaults into the air, turning her into a rotating energy blade of destruction, making her invincible in the process.
  • Zero Suit: The Zero Suit is a skintight full-body jumpsuit worn by Samus Aran underneath her Power Suit, and appears after many recent Metroid game endings, and in some parts of the games. While in this suit, Samus takes much more damage but is more agile. She is capable of grabbing and hanging from ledges and performing Wall Jumps due to her already-present superhuman acrobatic skills from her Chozo DNA and training. In lieu of the Morph Ball, Samus navigates small paths by crawling on her hands and knees. In Zero Mission and Other M she also carries the Paralyzer with her, which briefly stuns her foes with an energy blast, but must recharge between shots. It is unknown what the Zero Suit is made of, though it appears to be comprised of some sort of firm polymer that allows Samus to stretch in different positions while still holding together. It is also unknown how Samus gets into and out of it, as the suit does not have any zippers or belts. It is possible that it is removed in a similar way to the Power Suit: by deforming at Samus' will.
  • Paralyzer: The Paralyzer is a weak, but still useful emergency backup weapon. It is chiefly used to stun enemies, and is equipped by Samus Aran in instances where she is unable to use her Power Suit.
  • Fully Powered Suit: The Fully Powered Suit was acquired by Samus Aran in Metroid: Zero Mission. Known alternatively as the Legendary Power Suit, it was rewarded to Samus upon completion of the Ruins Test, which replaced her weaker, normal Power Suit, lost in her Gunship's crash. This Suit is bulkier than the basic suit Samus was used to, though its notable feature is the larger shoulder pads with green accents that make up the Varia's most recognizable appearance, which first appeared in Metroid II: Return of Samus. The Legendary Suit is implied to be an older model.
  • Power Bomb: Power Bombs are one of Samus' most powerful weapons. They must be deployed via Morph Ball mode; a few seconds after being deployed, they detonate, destroying most enemies within a very large radius, often covering an entire screen or more. Only one power bomb can be deployed at a time. In Metroid Fusion, the blast also appears to cause a vacuum that can draw ordinary X Parasites (including ones that came from enemies killed by the blast itself) to the center of the blast. They are also capable of harming members of several Metroid strains.

Notable Techniques

This dropdown contains all of her notable attacks and techniques
Melee Counter: Samus can deflect projectiles and defend against attacks by swinging her arm.

Counter Hit: Samus counters an enemy's special attack to stun the enemy and automatically take aim at it. Paralyzer: A sidearm used by Samus while in her Zero Suit, the Paralyzer is a weak but useful pistol that can be used to stun opponents, allowing Samus to capitalize on them being stunned or fleeing.

Beams: Samus' arm cannon is equipped with many forms of attack, including her primary form of her attack, her beams, which she uses for long-range combat. As modular as Samus' Power Suit itself, Samus can stack and combine the effects of her different beam weapons to use many of them at once and increase their power.

  • Power Beam: Samus' default weapon and an integral part of her original Power Suit. It has a range of three to ten meters under normal circumstances, but after Samus gains the Long Beam, both its range and power are permanently increased as Samus permanently incorporates the Long Beam into her weapon systems.
  • Charge Beam: Not a beam, exactly, but an upgrade to Samus' arm cannon that allows her to charge up her beam attacks to greatly enhance their strength. While Samus is charging her arm cannon, she draws in nearby health and ammo pickups. The Diffusion Beam causes her charge shots to explode and release several other smaller charged shots after hitting an opponent or an obstacle.
  • Grapple Beam: Though it is a beam and can damage opponents, the Grapple Beam is primarily used for mobility, firing a tether that allows Samus to swing across otherwise impassable gaps. It can also latch onto certain enemies. The Grapple Lasso upgrade allows Samus to use it to tear off doors or enemy shields and armors, and the Grapple Voltage allows Samus to channel her energy through the beam or drain energy from enemies she catches with it. She can use this to overload opponents with Phazon and kill them.
  • Ice Beam: One of Samus' signature beam upgrades, the Ice Beam can be used to, as its name implies, freeze opponents, allowing Samus to destroy them with less issue or even use them as platforms.
  • Plasma Beam: The most powerful of Samus' standard beam upgrades, the Plasma Beam fires thin rays that can easily pierce through multiple enemies at once, dealing extensive damage. In the Prime series, the Plasma Beam is instead fire-based, shooting an incredibly hot stream of molten energy that can instantly incinerate opponents.
  • Spazer Beam: The Spazer Beam splits Samus' shots into three when she fires, allowing her to cover a much greater area with her gunfire. It is effectively identical to Samus' Wide Beam, which splits her shots into three separate rings instead of three separate lasers.
  • Wave Beam: A more powerful upgrade to Samus' regular beam that fires oscillating wave energy that can pass through walls, armor, and forcefields. In the Prime series, the Wave Beam is instead electricity-based, fires three smaller shots at once, and can lock and home onto targets. When charged, it fires a single burst of electricity that can stun opponents.
  • Annihilator Beam: A secret but extremely powerful Luminoth weapon that combines light and dark energy to fire a concentrated matter-antimatter shot that homes in on targets and has an incredibly high fire rate. When charged, it fires a slower blast that explodes on contact with its target with a wide blast radius, stunning all opponents caught in the explosion, referred to as the Disruptor. It can also interface with sonic technology.
  • Dark Beam: A Luminoth weapon that mimics the dark energy used by the inhabitants of Dark Aether, the Dark Beam fires blasts of swirling, strange energy, and can be charged up to encase targets in a brittle but immobilizing shell of dark energy that she can shatter with a missile, called the Entangler.
  • Light Beam: A Luminoth weapon that draws upon the light energy found within Aether's atmosphere, using this power to fire searing beams of light that can pass through enemies and set them alight. When charged, the Light Beam instead fires a scattering of white-hot spheres that home into locked-on targets and set them on fire, dubbed the Lightburst.
  • Nova Beam: A high-frequency beam used by the Space Pirates in mining operations. Designed to be used in conjunction with the X-Ray Visor, the Nova Beam can be used to its full potential in such situations, as Samus can see through armor and fire the Nova Beam through any weak spots she sees. It is particularly effective against Phazite armor.
  • Omega Cannon: An Alimbic superweapon that fires a slow-moving sphere of timed radioactive energy that can travel a great distance before it explodes. Thanks to its immense power, it was capable of destroying Gorea, who could regenerate from being destroyed by weapons such as the Shock Coil and became invulnerable to them in its second form. Even when unused, the Omega Cannon emits high levels of gamma radiation, making it an incredibly powerful weapon.

Missiles: One of Samus' primary weapons, the missiles add an explosive, ballistic component to her armaments, much more powerful than her basic Power Beam. Samus' basic missiles can home in on targets after Samus locks onto them, or can be fired more quickly without tracking capabilities. Samus usually carries around 250 of these regular missiles with her at maximum.

  • Ice Missiles: An upgraded version of the missile that has freezing capabilities, allowing Samus to freeze and destroy her opponents. These are further upgraded during Metroid Fusion with the Diffusion Missiles, allowing Samus to charge up her missiles so that when they explode, they have a much larger blast radius and freeze all opponents nearby.
  • Seeker Missiles: An upgrade that allows Samus to fire up to five missiles at once, locking onto up to five different targets, potentially including weak points she's spotted on an opponent.
  • Super Missiles: A much more powerful form of a missile that flies at a higher speed, causing a massive explosion on impact. Usually separate from Samus' regular missiles, they act as an upgraded version of them in Metroid Fusion and acts as the Power Beam's Charge Combo in the Prime series. If distinct, Samus has, at most, 50 Super Missiles on her.
  • Charge Combos: Charge Combos are greatly enhanced versions of Samus' regular beams that she can use by combining them with her missiles. Super Metroid and the Prime series have their unique Charge Combos.
    • Darkburst: The Dark Beam's Charge Combo, which uses a massive amount of dark energy, fired as a sphere, to violently wrench open a dimensional rift that engulfs those caught in the blast, drawing them into another dimension if not killing them outright.
    • Flamethrower: The Plasma Beam's Charge Combo, which emits a three meter long beam of fiery plasma that ignites everything it touches, allowing Samus to quickly burn her opponents to ash. Its equivalent in Super Metroid sends out four ring-shaped plasma bolts that spread out around her, contract, and then fire out in four different directions.
    • Ice Spreader: The Ice Beam's Charge Combo, which fires a homing blast of ice that shatters on impact, creating a fast-spreading layer of ice that quickly freezes everything in its blast radius. Its equivalent in Super Metroid instead surrounds Samus with four circling bolts of ice that will damage and freeze any opponents they run into.
    • Sonic Boom: Samus' most powerful Charge Combo, the Annihilator Beam's variant. Condensing matter and antimatter, it fires a sonic blast that instantly travels to its target and rips open a distortion in space and time, exploding and eradicating whatever was caught in the blast.
    • Spazer Beam: One of the Special Charge Beam Attacks, this technique fires two spazer bolts that circle Samus before shoot up into the air and then descend on her surroundings as a wave of energy.
    • Sunburst: The Light Beam's Charge Combo, which fires a painfully bright sphere of searing light, casting rays of light over its surroundings, tracking onto opponents and burning them to ash before the sphere explodes in a burst of white-hot light.
    • Wavebuster: The Wave Beam's Charge Combo, a sustained fire weapon that fires a stream of electricity at Samus' target, tracking them while continuously electrocuting and stunning them. Its equivalent in Super Metroid manifests four spheres of energy that Samus can aim and fire.

Bombs: Samus' primary weapon when utilizing the Morph Ball, which she sets down, generally to destroy obstacles, though they remain useful in combat as well. These small explosives function on a timer and can float in the air if Samus sets them while jumping or falling. By using the explosions of her bombs to propel herself upwards, Samus can reach locations that she normally would not be able to.

  • Power Bombs: One of Samus' most powerful weapons, the Power Bomb is a bomb of such force that it can destroy planets. A few seconds after being deployed, a Power Bomb explodes in an omnidirectional wave of heat and energy that can vaporize anything caught in the blast with ease. Samus generally has a limited amount of Power Bombs, 74 at most, but in Other M they act as charged up versions of her regular bombs. In Fusion, they have a vacuum effect that draws in X Parasites.

Affinity Weapons: The Affinity Weapons are the distinct special weapons used by the different bounty hunters of Metroid Prime: Bounty Hunters, which Samus has collected and could utilize during the events of that game.

  • Battlehammer: Weavel's Affinity Weapon, a high-caliber weapon powered by a miniature nuclear reactor, the Battlehammer fires arcing, explosive blasts of energy, similar to a mortar. While it cannot be charged, it has a high rate of fire.
  • Imperialist: Trace's Affinity Weapon, a sniper rifle that fires a highly accurate laser beam and can zoom in on targets.
  • Judicator: Noxus' Affinity Weapon, the Judicator is powered by cold fusion synthesis and fires supercooled plasma at its targets at temperatures that approach Absolute Zero. It can ricochet off of walls, and, when charged, it fires three shots at once.
  • Magmaul: Spire's Affinity Weapon, which is powered by a hyperstatic hydrogen core and fires projectiles formed from superheated magma that can bounce off walls and explode. When charged, the explosion is much bigger and more damaging.
  • Shock Coil: Sylux's Affinity Weapon, a stolen Federation prototype that fires a concentrated beam of high-density neutrinos, homing in on targets and dealing damage on a subatomic scale.
  • Volt Driver: Kanden's Affinity Weapon, which draws upon the energy of the planet's electromagnetic field, converting it into high voltage, multi-terawatt bursts. It has a high rate of fire, and when charged, can fire a slow, explosive sphere of energy.

Others

Standard Tactics: Samus will normally use the scan visor to understand her enemy and find either a weak point or their fighting tactics. With this they’ll use the best weapon for combat or use a combination of weapons for the best result. Samus can also use hand to hand combat or call her ship for an aerial strike if need be. Along with this if Samus believes it’s a battle she cannot win head on she will go into stealth and try to find an opening on the opponent.

Weaknesses: The power suit is based on Samus’ emotions and thoughts, thus anything done to her emotions could weaken the power suit, for example getting hit with PTSD. If Samus stays in hyper mode for too long or gets corrupted, she’ll become another Dark Samus. Due to having the Metroid’s DNA, Samus shares their innate vulnerability to cold temperatures. Though this only applies to the base fusion suit.

Note: Tallon Chozo’s have reached full transcendence and enlightenment to the point that they were able to create equipment to hold off the Phazon curse that brought them back into the main universe. Due to this, the suits on Tallon would be far above any other suits made by other Chozos.

Note 2: The Metroid Prime games are noted to be apart of the overall Metroid timeline.

Suits

For individual suits profiles click on one of the following:

Articles About Samus Aran's Suits
Main Suits Power Suit - Varia Suit - Gravity Suit
Prime Trilogy Suits Phazon Suit - Dark Suit - Light Suit - PED Suit - Harzard Suit
Current Suits Fusion Suit - Metroid Suit


This dropdown contains a full run-down of all of Samus' suits if one does not wish to go on separate profiles or wants to know the speciifc powers of each suit.

Background

The Power Suit is a suit of powered armor designed by the Chozo. This term applies to both Samus Aran's Chozo Battle Suit Ver SA1-4468-VM6-P in its basic form without any upgrades. The word "Power Suit" is short for powered armorsuit.

A Chozo known as Dryn was apparently instrumental in the development of the technology. In the Metroid Manga, Mother Brain claimed to be the creator of Samus' original Power Suit. Two specific models are well-known: the first was a suit given to Samus in her teenage years by the Chozo who raised her (seen in Metroid: Zero Mission). After being attacked by Space Pirates, Samus lost the ability to summon her suit, and was briefly forced to proceed in her Zero Suit. After completing the Ruins Test, her fighting spirit was restored and she received another Power Suit. This second suit of armor was of ancient design, based on its depiction in Chozo prophetic murals and its compatibility with older Chozo-produced upgrades such as the Space Jump, Plasma Beam and Gravity Suit.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of the Power Suit. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Samus's Power Suit comes with a standard Power Beam and the Oxygen Supply Equipment allows her to survive almost indefinitely underwater and in outer space, including the ability to resist most airborne toxins. Its basic functions are not always sufficient for a busy Bounty Hunter, so the Chozo used a modular construction allowing the suit to be outfitted with a wide variety of weaponry and additional armor. The Chozo themselves left many such tools on various planets they inhabited, including the Varia and Gravity Suit upgrades. The Luminoth, another ancient race technologically equal to the Chozo, were able to produce modifications compatible with the Power Suit, including the Dark Suit and the Light Suit (although they were unrecognized until Samus met U-Mos). A considerable amount of the suit is biological, which presumably resulted in the Suit's Phazon corruption following Samus's encounter with the Omega Pirate. Exposure to the large quantity of unrefined Phazon ore caused a kind of mutation, rendering the suit impervious to radiation from blue Phazon, and allowing Samus to fire the devastating Phazon Beam under certain conditions.

On its most basic level, the Power Suit contains 99 units of energy that sustain it (this amount is increased by 100 whenever Samus gets an Energy Tank) and if completely drained, it becomes unable to protect Samus, and she is forced to revert to the Zero Suit, a blue bodysuit that grants weaker protection, and is equipped with a stun pistol, the Paralyzer.

While active, the Power Suit bonds with Samus biologically, and cannot be taken off without her cooperation. It has been observed on many occasions that the methods which Samus uses to remove the Power Suit is to have it dematerialize with a bright flash. When the suit is inactive, Samus is able to retain the upgrades within herself until it becomes active again (observed in the events of Metroid: Zero Mission). However, it has also been observed that she can have it materialize at will, (seen several times taking place in the origins manga, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and at the start of Metroid: Other M), suggesting that this suit is not meant to be removed like regular armor, and that it is somehow put on or taken off by using an energy-to-matter process (it also has been shown that at least the helmet can be removed manually, as Samus demonstrates this in some of the special endings in the series). When this is not possible, the Galactic Federation has been able to modify it while she is unconscious. In the first instance of this, they added PED functionality to take advantage of a Phazon infection in her bloodstream, creating the PED Suit. Later, the weaker Fusion Suit is built on the remains of Samus's Power Suit after large portions were surgically removed due to X Parasite infestation.

The Power Suit is apparently able to assimilate almost any technological upgrade into its system, regardless of the upgrade's origins (in some cases such as the Energy Transfer Module before Samus meeting U-Mos, it will be listed as unidentified). This is shown when Samus acquires the Hazard Shield and Nova Beam, both of which are of Space Pirate design. The suit, however, was once unable to assimilate the Plasma Beam, Gravity Suit, and Space Jinwmip upgrades in Metroid: Zero Mission, despite being of Chozo origins. This was due to the fact that her old Power Suit was developed in a fairly recent time period and not compatible with the three, archaic upgrades.

While Samus worked with the Federation Police Force, she had a symbol on the left shoulder of her Power Suit. It looked like a spiraling galaxy, possibly a Federation mark. Another small feature of the Power Suit is a glowing green (or blue) "L" shape on the left chest plate. In Metroid Prime, the shape points inward, rather than outward, like in other games. In Metroid: Other M, the Power Suit has a yellow/gold coloration with the large shoulders of the Varia Suit, though it should be noted that this was likely due to her possessing the Varia Suit feature, which remains inactive until Adam authorizes its use. However, in Super Metroid the front-facing sprite used in elevators and save points has flat shoulders, though this is likely attributed to Samus having only the basic Power Suit at the time. The large-shouldered yet yellow Power Suit is likely a result of the Legendary Power Suit. Despite this, when the Varia reverts to the Power Suit in Metroid Prime, the shoulders become flat and orange and stretch all the way to her shoulders, while before the obtainment of the new Power Suit, the shoulders "fan" up and extend (in height) past Samus's head. This is shown again in Metroid: Samus Returns when she begins the game with only her basic Power Suit, Power Beam, and Missile Launcher, though like in Metroid Prime her suit regains its round shoulders after obtaining the Varia Suit.

In Metroid: Other M, Samus' visor is most of the time transparent, allowing her face and hair to be seen, but often her visor will flash light green, becoming opaque. How she can see through it during this is unknown, though it is likely that it works akin to a one-way mirror allowing Samus to see out while others cannot see in. She normally does this in combat situations, but disables the tint when talking or in a non-hostile situation. When her health drops to critical levels, the tint turns red-orange, but back to green when she restores enough energy. The visor does not do this in other games; instead it is normally semi-transparent.

General Information

Name: Power Suit

Origin: Metroid

Age: Unknown (The original power suit was created back when Samus was a teenager)

Classification: Chozo Battle Suit, Samus Aran’s armor

Wielders: Samus Aran

Codex Statistics

Tier: 8-A to 7-C

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City District level (Potency) (Earlier versions of the power suit should be comparable to Grey who could break through Mother Brain’s shields which Mother Brain stated were the same shields protecting the planet] that required planetary tech from Ridley to penetrate a small part of it through. Mother Brain could also transform the entire planet of Zebe into a fortress. Equipped with an ice beam, which at a maximized range could freeze the surface of a star. Could theoretically make a super power bomb, which had enough power to destroy the planet) to Town level (Potency) (Later versions of the power suit are used by a Samus Aran who during her battle with Integras her battle power increases to where she is able to defeat the Integras when beforehand she couldn’t even dent him with her attacks, it is also noted that the Integras is 500 times more powerful than the prototype Samus fought equally with initially. Can later on fight an army of Integras.)

Durability: Can absorb up to City District levels to Town levels of energy (The suits are noted to be equipment that passively absorb energy attacking Samus allowing her to survive hits from Mother Brain. Absorbed an attack from Ridley)

Travel Speed: It is equipped with speed boosters that grant Supersonic travel (Is stated that Samus moves at supersonic speeds with the speed booster)

Range: Kilometers with Energy Beams (Samus can fire her arm cannon at Meta Ridley while he is far out in the sky) & Ice Manipulation (Ice Beam froze the ruins site), higher with the Imperialist (The Imperialist fires a thin and lethal laser beam with high accuracy over long distances), Can find beings a Multi-Universal distance away with X-Ray Visors (Can find Chozo Ghost going outside of existence with the X-Ray Visor)

Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses (Samus’ suit is built with an infrared ray scope allowing her to see even in the dark. Can detect the Shadow Pirates who use invisibility cloaks to sneak attack. The Thermal Visor uses thermography, allowing Samus Aran to locate enemies or objects by their heat signatures. It can be used to see Shadow Pirates and is also useful in total darkness, extreme cold, and in poor weather conditions, like those in Phendrana Drifts; though it functions poorly in superheated areas, such as the Magmoor Caverns. The X-Ray Visor can be used to spot invisible enemies and enemies that move outside of existence, even those that don't appear to the Thermal Visor, and it also allows Samus to see through flesh (when she lifts her arm in front of the visor, the bones in her arm can be seen), Bendezium, Cordite, and Sandstone. It can also detect illusions), Cosmic Awareness (The suit’s visors can translate telepathic messages from spectral beings. Samus’ suit can pick up on transdimensional activity), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance) & Aquatic Breathing (Has an oxygen tank inside the suit allowing Samus to breathe in space and underwater. Her power suit allows her to breathe in space and underwater without additional equipment), Homing Attack, Extrasensory Perception & Information Analysis (With the combat visor, gives her the basic feedback she needs to survive. It monitors her energy levels, all ammunition remaining, danger levels, and gives her feedback from the environment to pinpoint any anomalies to send her in the right direction. When enemies appear, they are surrounded by a reticle However, the Combat Visor only sees things in this dimension; therefore objects outside the visible spectrum or interdimensional objects cannot be seen. The scan visor, Samus can scan certain objects to learn more about them or perform a function. When a scan has finished, the game action freezes to allow Samus to read its contents. If Samus scans a creature, enemy or boss, Samus will gain useful hints on how to beat them, such as weak spots and behavioral patterns. Her morph ball bombs can home and attack themselves onto an enemy), Data Manipulation, Information Manipulation, & Transmutation (If Samus has weapon and ammunition stored as data in her suit she can transform the data of weapons into tangible forms. With Crystal Flash, Samus’ power suit can transform all of her weapons into health. Can convert data into her suit to gain further information about areas, such as getting an entire map, though she can do this even without her suit. Can download data of areas to get maps. Can hack into areas and oversurge them), Power Absorption (With Crystal Flash, Samus can absorb all of her weapons in order to heal herself completely), Regeneration & Restoration (Mid-Low passively. The suit passively repairs broken parts and small injuries. Low-Mid with concentration. With concentration, Samus can restore her missile supply and health), Technology Manipulation (The power suit reacts to Samus' thoughts, thus allowing her to be protected from damage in her zero suit state by automatically coming in an area she’s about to be attacked in), Body Control (The power suit is described as a “sort of second skin” for Samus protecting her zero suit from any form of harm. With the morph ball can change her suit into the shape of a ball to access smaller areas), Energy Absorption (Samus’ suit absorbs all the energy from attacks allowing Samus to withstand various attacks, absorbed an attack from Ridley), Adaptation (Her suit will at times adapt in situations that are fatal to Samus, for example in Metroid Prime Samus is susceptible and can take damage from the smallest amount of phazon, after defeating the Omega Pirate who is filled with Phazon and the enemy falls on her filling her with phazon the suit adapts to this protecting her by creating the phazon suit which resists the affects of phazon and can fire blasts of phazon), Energy Manipulation & Power Nullification (The power suit can shoot out charged energy blast, that can disrupt energy shields. With the charge beam, can charge in the energy to fire a more powerful blast. With the grapple beam, creates a beam of energy to swing around), Passive Attack Reflection (Her suit seems to passively reflect back beams shot at her. Can deflect projectiles by swinging her arm), Status Effect Inducement (Can stun enemies with counter), Explosion Manipulation (Can set explosions down with bombs), Durability Negation (Wave Beam can travel through objects hitting one's internal body), Ice Manipulation (Can freeze with the ice beam. With the ice beam can freeze beings in mid air, this extends to it being capable of freezing pure energy. The Ice Spreader is a Charge Combo for the Ice Beam in Metroid Prime. It uses a charged Ice Beam shot and 10 Missiles to create a powerful, homing blast of ice that can travel up to 20 meters until reaching a target. When this occurs, the shot explodes and creates a fast-spreading layer of ice over the target and surrounding area. The target and nearby enemies will either die or be frozen), Statistics Amplification (The range of her beam increases with the long beam. The speed booster boosts her speed while running. The hi-jump increases her maximum jump height. The morph ball increases one’s attack and defense everytime it bounces), Explosion Manipulation (With missile launcher, can fire out explosive missiles, and bombs, can fire out highly explosive bombs), Surface Scaling (Can grab and hang on to ledges with the power grip), Electricity Manipulation (Samus’ suit can reboot the technology and electricity of old broken down machines. Wave Beams are electrical energy that can kill Pulse Bombus and Scatter Bombu), Multiple Jumps & Flight (With the space jump, can jump continually into the air infinitely), Hacking (Can hack into areas to open locked doors), Magma Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, & Deconstruction (The plasma beam’s molten energy can turn enemies to ash), Fire Manipulation (The Flamethrower is the Beam Combo for the Plasma Beam. When this beam combo is unleashed, it emits a three-meter range continuous beam of fiery plasma. With Magmamaul, her weapon is powered by a hyperstatic hydrogen core, and fires cohesive projectiles of superheated magma), Vibration Manipulation (Plasma causes seismic activity), Momentum Manipulation (With boost ball, Samus stores up momentum before releasing it all in one instant to propel herself in a specific direction), Acrobatics & Multiple Jumps (Physics Defying; Can double jump with the space boots), Magnetism Manipulation (Can pull in beings and objects with a charged shot), Non-Standard Interaction (Metaphysical Interaction; Can kill the Chozo Ghost who are completely immaterial and can phase in and out of existence), Radiation Manipulation (With the Omega Cannon, a weapon with massive gamma radiation), Cold Manipulation (Using a sub-zero energy core, the Judicator is capable of firing thin blasts of freezing ice. The projectiles can bounce off a limited number of objects when fired, and can either freeze or destroy most targets with a few hits. Using a charged shot unloads three ice projectiles simultaneously, the temperature of the projectile almost reaches absolute zero), Electromagnetic Manipulation (With the Volt Driver, draws energy from the planetary electromagnetic field and converts it into multi tera-watt bursts of high voltage), Matter Manipulation & Life Manipulation (Shoots a contreated beam of high density neutrinos with the shock coiler which drains the target’s health), Absorption (Can absorb the energies of the light and dark aether), Aura (With the scan pulse, Samus is enveloped in a blue orb which releases outward in a pulse, revealing Map data over a 9x9 square range around her, and breakable walls, floors or blocks within that range will begin flashing and beeping for 10 seconds), Forcefield Creation & Statistics Amplification (With the Lightning Armor, Samus has a lightning forcefield around her that absorbs all attacks from enemies Aeion is consumed anytime it prevents physical damage and it strengthens Melee Counters), Can damage enemies with somersaults with the screw attack.
Resistance to Acid Manipulation (Unaffected by the acid rain of Zebes), Ice Manipulation (Can break out of ice potent enough to freeze the surface of the sun. Can break out of being frozen), Absorption (None of the Megatroids could life absorb Samus), Gravity Manipulation (Could resist gravitational crushing, along with her morph ball naturally resisting it), Matter Manipulation (Can resist her atoms disintegrating), Poison Manipulation (Can take hits from War Wasp who have venomous stingers that can even penetrate steel), Technology Mimicry (Samus’ tech cannot be properly mimic’d even by highly intelligent beings in verse who can work with phazon)

Other

Weaknesses: The power suit is based on the user's emotions and thoughts, thus anything done to their emotions could weaken the power suit, for example, when Samus gets hit with PTSD.

Gallery

Images & Artwork
  • Two Samus' in multiplayer mode of Metroid Prime 2

    Two Samus' in multiplayer mode of Metroid Prime 2

  • Samus Aran, as she appears in Metroid: Other M.

    Samus Aran, as she appears in Metroid: Other M.

  • Metroid Fusion's artwork gave various brief insights into Samus' early life.

    Metroid Fusion's artwork gave various brief insights into Samus' early life.

  • Samus facing Amorbis in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

    Samus facing Amorbis in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

  • Early art of Samus.

    Early art of Samus.

  • Samus Aran in the top endings of Metroid, Metroid II, and Super Metroid.

    Samus Aran in the top endings of Metroid, Metroid II, and Super Metroid.

  • From the Super Metroid Players' Guide

    From the Super Metroid Players' Guide

  • Samus Aran as she appears in Metroid: Zero Mission

    Samus Aran as she appears in Metroid: Zero Mission

  • Samus Aran as she appears in Metroid: Other M

    Samus Aran as she appears in Metroid: Other M

  • Samus Aran as she appears in Metroid: Samus Returns.

    Samus Aran as she appears in Metroid: Samus Returns.

  • Samus Aran in her Zero Suit, demonstrating her athletic abilities.

    Samus Aran in her Zero Suit, demonstrating her athletic abilities.

  • Samus gains an additional boost of power, in addition to the upgrades it provides, as seen in this Metroid: Other M art.

    Samus gains an additional boost of power, in addition to the upgrades it provides, as seen in this Metroid: Other M art.

  • Samus during the invasion on Norion.

    Samus during the invasion on Norion.

  • Metroid Prime: Federation Force boss fight against Samus

    Metroid Prime: Federation Force boss fight against Samus

  • Samus Aran in her signature Varia Suit from Metroid Prime.

    Samus Aran in her signature Varia Suit from Metroid Prime.

  • Early concept art of Samus Aran.

    Early concept art of Samus Aran.

  • Concept art for Samus in Metroid: Zero Mission

    Concept art for Samus in Metroid: Zero Mission

  • Promotional poster released by Nintendo in March 2015 to commemorate Women's History Month in the style of Rosie the Riveter: "At the end of the first Metroid game, Samus Aran shocked players by revealing her gender, making many fans question why they assumed she was male in the first place."

    Promotional poster released by Nintendo in March 2015 to commemorate Women's History Month in the style of Rosie the Riveter: "At the end of the first Metroid game, Samus Aran shocked players by revealing her gender, making many fans question why they assumed she was male in the first place."

  • Topps waxpack

    Topps waxpack

  • Metroid: Zebes Invasion Order featured the earliest depiction of her face.

    Metroid: Zebes Invasion Order featured the earliest depiction of her face.

  • Super Metroid guide.

    Super Metroid guide.

  • Metroid Fusion/Metroid Zero Mission

    Metroid Fusion/Metroid Zero Mission

  • Metroid e-Manga

    Metroid e-Manga

  • Nintendo Comics System

    Nintendo Comics System

  • Metroid (Magazine Z manga)

    Metroid (Magazine Z manga)

  • Metroid (Magazine Z manga)

    Metroid (Magazine Z manga)

  • Metroid (Magazine Z manga)

    Metroid (Magazine Z manga)

  • Metroid EX

    Metroid EX

  • Metroid: Zero Mission

    Metroid: Zero Mission

  • Metroid: Zero Mission

    Metroid: Zero Mission

  • Metroid: Zero Mission

    Metroid: Zero Mission

  • Metroid: Zero Mission

    Metroid: Zero Mission

  • Samus's eyes in Zero Mission.

    Samus's eyes in Zero Mission.

  • Metroid Prime

    Metroid Prime

  • Model of Samus's right hand from Metroid Prime.

    Model of Samus's right hand from Metroid Prime.

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid II: Return of Samus

    Metroid II: Return of Samus

  • Metroid: Samus Returns

    Metroid: Samus Returns

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid Other M

    Metroid Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid Other M

    Metroid Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M (textures)

    Metroid: Other M (textures)

  • Metroid Fusion

    Metroid Fusion

  • Metroid Dread

    Metroid Dread

  • Samus Aran without her power suit in Metroid NES

    Samus Aran without her power suit in Metroid NES

  • Justin Bailey outfit, gives Samus green hair

    Justin Bailey outfit, gives Samus green hair

  • Scanned case covers (Japanese)

    Scanned case covers (Japanese)

  • Scanned case covers (Japanese)

    Scanned case covers (Japanese)

  • Japanese guide

    Japanese guide

  • Nintendo Power Vol. 29

    Nintendo Power Vol. 29

  • Nintendo Power Vol. 29

    Nintendo Power Vol. 29

  • Nintendo Power Vol. 29

    Nintendo Power Vol. 29

  • Nintendo Power Vol. 29

    Nintendo Power Vol. 29

  • Nintendo Power Vol. 29

    Nintendo Power Vol. 29

  • Nintendo Fun Club Newsletter

    Nintendo Fun Club Newsletter

  • Topps sticker

    Topps sticker

  • Topps stickers

    Topps stickers

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid

    Super Metroid

  • Super Metroid guide

    Super Metroid guide

  • Super Metroid guide

    Super Metroid guide

  • Super Metroid guide

    Super Metroid guide

  • Super Metroid guide

    Super Metroid guide

  • Super Metroid guide

    Super Metroid guide

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee

    Super Smash Bros. Melee

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee

    Super Smash Bros. Melee

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee

    Super Smash Bros. Melee

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee

    Super Smash Bros. Melee

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee

    Super Smash Bros. Melee

  • Early model

    Early model

  • Space World 2000 demo

    Space World 2000 demo

  • Job Ad Render (Feb 2001)

    Job Ad Render (Feb 2001)

  • Gene Kohler

    Gene Kohler

  • Gene Kohler

    Gene Kohler

  • Gene Kohler

    Gene Kohler

  • Gene Kohler

    Gene Kohler

  • Gene Kohler

    Gene Kohler

  • Gene Kohler and Rick Kohler

    Gene Kohler and Rick Kohler

  • Gene Kohler and Chris Voellmann

    Gene Kohler and Chris Voellmann

  • Metroid Prime (commercial)

    Metroid Prime (commercial)

  • Metroid.com

    Metroid.com

  • Textures for her hair in the ending.

    Textures for her hair in the ending.

  • Samus Aran development transition from Nintendo GameCube Preview Disc DVD

    Samus Aran development transition from Nintendo GameCube Preview Disc DVD

  • Wallpaper

    Wallpaper

  • Early "chibi" design

    Early "chibi" design

  • Early "chibi" design

    Early "chibi" design

  • Zero Suit diagram

    Zero Suit diagram

  • Samus' face diagram

    Samus' face diagram

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Andrew Jones variant with Dark Samus)

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Andrew Jones variant with Dark Samus)

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Danny Richardson)

    Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Danny Richardson)

  • Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

    Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

  • Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

    Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

  • Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

    Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

  • Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

    Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

  • Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

    Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt

  • Metroid Prime Pinball

    Metroid Prime Pinball

  • Metroid Prime Pinball

    Metroid Prime Pinball

  • Metroid Prime Pinball

    Metroid Prime Pinball

  • Metroid Prime Pinball

    Metroid Prime Pinball

  • Metroid Prime Pinball

    Metroid Prime Pinball

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo Power Vol. 193 poster

    Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo Power Vol. 193 poster

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Metroid Prime Hunters

    Metroid Prime Hunters

  • Nick Kondo

    Nick Kondo

  • This render would later be used in Retro Studios hiring notices for Metroid Prime 4.

    This render would later be used in Retro Studios hiring notices for Metroid Prime 4.

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Sammy Hall rough compositions.

    Sammy Hall rough compositions.

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Not part of the in-game Concept Gallery.

    Not part of the in-game Concept Gallery.

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

  • Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

    Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

  • October 2007 issue of Official Nintendo Magazine.

    October 2007 issue of Official Nintendo Magazine.

  • Conceptual storyboard for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption by Ben Sprout.[1]

    Conceptual storyboard for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption by Ben Sprout.[1]

  • Todd Keller

    Todd Keller

  • Sammy Hall

    Sammy Hall

  • Sammy Hall

    Sammy Hall

  • Sammy Hall

    Sammy Hall

  • Sammy Hall

    Sammy Hall

  • Metroid Prime Trilogy

    Metroid Prime Trilogy

  • Metroid Prime Trilogy

    Metroid Prime Trilogy

  • Metroid Prime Trilogy

    Metroid Prime Trilogy

  • Metroid Prime Trilogy

    Metroid Prime Trilogy

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Metroid: Other M

    Metroid: Other M

  • Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

    Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

  • Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

    Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

  • Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

    Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

  • Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

    Official Nintendo Magazine (by Joe Roberts)

  • Gamestop e-mail

    Gamestop e-mail

  • Nintendo Official Guidebook for Metroid Other M

    Nintendo Official Guidebook for Metroid Other M

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • Gallery Mode

    Gallery Mode

  • 3DS main art

    3DS main art

  • Wii U main art

    Wii U main art

  • Samus

    Samus

  • Fusion Suit costume

    Fusion Suit costume

  • Super Metroid Gravity Suit costume

    Super Metroid Gravity Suit costume

  • Dark Suit costume

    Dark Suit costume

  • Metroid Prime Gravity Suit costume

    Metroid Prime Gravity Suit costume

  • Green Samus costume

    Green Samus costume

  • Light Suit costume

    Light Suit costume

  • Dark Samus costume

    Dark Samus costume

  • Zero Suit Samus

    Zero Suit Samus

  • Casual Outfit

    Casual Outfit

  • Casual Outfit

    Casual Outfit

  • Illustration / Ryuji Higurashi（CAPCOM）

    Illustration / Ryuji Higurashi（CAPCOM）

  • Wii Fit Trainer reveal artwork.

    Wii Fit Trainer reveal artwork.

  • Pac-Man reveal artwork.

    Pac-Man reveal artwork.

  • Bowser Jr. reveal artwork.

    Bowser Jr. reveal artwork.

  • Duck Hunt reveal artwork.

    Duck Hunt reveal artwork.

  • Ryu reveal artwork.

    Ryu reveal artwork.

  • Corrin reveal artwork.

    Corrin reveal artwork.

  • Bayonetta reveal artwork.

    Bayonetta reveal artwork.

  • Whiteboard drawing from 2012 depicting Zero Suit Samus.

    Whiteboard drawing from 2012 depicting Zero Suit Samus.

  • This artwork is reminiscent of a Metroid Prime render.

    This artwork is reminiscent of a Metroid Prime render.

  • Hobby Consolas-exclusive poster. This artwork is reminiscent of a Metroid II render.

    Hobby Consolas-exclusive poster. This artwork is reminiscent of a Metroid II render.

  • Games Tribune September 2017 cover. Art by Jaume Font.

    Games Tribune September 2017 cover. Art by Jaume Font.

  • Alternate cover by Isabel M. Fernández.

    Alternate cover by Isabel M. Fernández.

  • In-game Samus Returns Art Gallery

    In-game Samus Returns Art Gallery

  • Larger version of previous artwork, but cropped

    Larger version of previous artwork, but cropped

  • Metroid: Samus Returns Artbook

    Metroid: Samus Returns Artbook

  • Sliding

    Sliding

  • Morph ball

    Morph ball

  • Metroid Dread art book.

    Metroid Dread art book.

  • Samus and Joey

    Samus and Joey

  • Tetris DS

    Tetris DS

  • Dynasty Warriors Vs.

    Dynasty Warriors Vs.

  • Bayonetta 1 & 2

    Bayonetta 1 & 2

  • 3DS Metroid game (unreleased)

    3DS Metroid game (unreleased)

  • Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

    Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Toys
Power Suit models

Battle Records

None.

References

  1. ↑ Samus and Joey Volume 1 Chapter 4
  2. ↑ Volcanoes also release mind-boggling quantities of energy, though usually not quite on the scale of hurricanes (thankfully for those who live near!). But if we look at a well-known major volcanic eruption, the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, we find that: "In all, Mount St. Helens released 24 megatons of thermal energy, 7 of which was a direct result of the blast. This is equivalent to 1,600 times the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima" (U.S. Geological Survey)
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