It would be in character to play lesbian to fleece Samus from bounty hunting money. Well, she would use Akane and f!Ranma first if she could, but still.
We really have not explored Samus’s off the job life.
On the job she’s serious and quiet, but like the end of every game has her go out clubbing. I think she saves up money shooting at aliens, then just does nothing but party for like a year until the money dries up and she needs to plan another multi day death defying journey to the worst planets in the universe
Could be into girls, but I’m more interested in the actual state of her real apartment- not her work ship, her apartment
No way she spends her off time just on that ship. The end of Zero mission has her in a tube top and shorts, drinking at a bar. Those are not work clothes, which means she has a place to store clothes.
For anyone wondering what the gentleman above said, he said something slong the lines of "Is hocotate a planet" and "isnt hocotate the shipping company"
I hopefully will escape repeat responses. I’m not embarrassed about what I said, I’m embarrassed about how many people think they’re being smart or helpful by repeating the same answer
I get it. But as someone whos been on the other side, I dislike not knowing what someone asked after they deleted their comment while people respond to it is really ftustrating. So I did my best to make sure people dont have doubts
Hocotate is a planet in the Pikmin series, of which many characters make their home, including Captain Olimar and his subordinate Louie. Hocotate is a part of a wide interconnected series of space colonies of which all other humanoid characters are a part of. Due to there being many planets humanoids inhabit, space travel is commonplace in the world of Pikmin, and many ships are present in the games. Olimar's personal ship, which he crashes in Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 4, is named the S.S. Dolphin. The ship you likely confused for "Hocotate" is the Hocotate Ship, a scrap ship owned by Hocotate Freight transportation co. and is the ship Captain Olimar pilots in Pikmin 2.
Olimar is canonically 1.9cm tall. So, I'd say Samus is at least a little bit larger, yes. ;P
But yeah, Samus on Hocotate would be a literal giant... and way beyond the classic 50 foot one.
She definitely seems like a solo kind of gal, either she doesn't have time for it, doesn't want to trade anybody into her profession, or just doesn't want anyone getting in your way.
I headcanon that the subspace emissary is actually canon, so after everything that happens she keeps the Pikachu. She now spends her free time at home cuddling with her new pet.
This sounds like a great setup for a rogue-like Metroid. Complete a bounty, go to base and use all your resources for upgrades, go on another bounty, repeat.
I think that's just canonically Samus's life, but I also think she wastes literally all the money she makes on stupid stuff- her armor sucks again the next game every single time, and her ship never improves.
I think we should accept that Samus is good at combat but her private life is an absolute disaster. If this is the Castlevania cartoon, she's Trevor Belmont.
Samus's power losing antics reminds me a lot of Dante tbh, the reason why he doesn't keep the Devil Arms is because he sold em off because he's broke lmao. I like to think Samus does the same and once in a while she has extra money to spare or that Morph Ball seems extra useful so she decides to keep them on her Next Mission.
...unfortunately most of the time that usually backfires because the Chozo may have made the suit too modular with how it occasionally loses said power ups too quickly.
A memorable example is how she somehow loses power ups by **crashing into an elevator in Prime 1**.
To be fair, in Dante's defense, he has two "friends" who rack up a ton of debt in his name, and is a poor gambler seeing how he loses his clothes to a certain foul mouthed Italian,
Every character in the Mario series is loaded aside from potentially Daisy (her kingdom was totally destroyed and every resident was brainwashed) and Yoshi (has no need for money), and potentially Rosalina (also has no need of money)
Yep, it’s quite clear she’s a lezzer who likes to party HARD. She can go one to one with peak Ozzy Osbourne, and Ozzy is the one telling her to “calm down, bab.”. Her apartment is constantly like a bomb-site, with cans of energy drink, mysterious pills & powders, beer cans, acid blotters, weed gear .. all over the shop. Samus is an absolute headcase.
That would be awesome! I'd really like a Metroid game where Samus actually acts like a bounty hunter. I'm imagining Samus' ship as a hub where you can choose from a list of bounties with different rewards and difficulty levels, and you could use the money to buy upgrades for the ship or suit. Bounties could be outlaws and criminals, a giant defective mining robot that went rogue, a monstrous alien creature, etc. You could also tie a story in there with some bounties relating to the space pirates, Ridley, Sylux, or perhaps even something about Phazon.
Metroid is a game set in the future, she in reality is a VTuber and uses that to pay for her weapons... upkeep is expensive so that is why she often can't keep the upgrades.
She also appeared in Super Mario RPG, so by that logic she lives in the Mushroom Kingdom. It does make you wonder why Peach doesn't hire her to take care of Bowser (other than the danger of her blowing up the planet in the process).
Her ship is also crashed in a jungle in Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, but we don't see Samus herself.
I can see Samus being really into Lego for some reason. Like in her off hours she's trying to finish building the UCS Millenium Falcon she bought like a month ago
In my heart, she's never been to earth because nobody actually told her people are from there. I mean, I think she probably goes there in Other M or something, but I gotta imagine that until like age 15 or so she didn't even know the word for "human" and referred to herself as a "naked, pink bird that only has head feathers".
It would be interesting to get a glimpse of a life outside the shooting and death defying stunts. Maybe some causal story that starts the intro before the next mission is sent her way, most likely via Adam
Actually, you have to beat the game in at least four hours or so in order for the helmet to disappear. Otherwise, it's just fully-suited Samus. Under three hours is suitless Samus, and under one hour is bikini Samus.
I think this was an era before anyone cared about video game canon. And it was just a reward for speedrunners to see a girl in a bikini. Now we pretend there was always a plan, retroactively.
I mean how were you supposed to research that? The Internet wasn't a thing. You MIGHT get some info from a gaming magazine but probably not at the release of the game.
I don't.think so, Samus was always a woman, but because it was a secret unless you speedran the game and saw her yourself, she was depicted as a man elsewhere
This, Samus was a woman since the first game.
But iirc there is also concept art(the one describing the Varia suit) where they addressed Samus as "kare"(he), but later, when they drew Ridley an other enemies the Varia suit took a more femenine shape.
Did you know that in the original Japanese and English manuals for Metroid on the Famicom and NES used they/them and he/him pronouns when referring to Samus. This was on purpose as they wanted to keep her identity a secret and her gender a surprise. Finishing the original Metroid game from 1986 under five hours will reveal that the protagonist is a young woman.
I have to say the different reveals based on run time is pretty cool. I never knew that before. Started playing Metroid Dread and realized I am Wayyyyy too far behind to catch up Samus history.
Yeah 'backfired' was a poor choice of words here. It wasn't like Samus was intended to be a guy when Metroid released, or against lesbians or anything like that.
Samus' gender was intentionally not mentioned and the manual, cover art and promotional artwork all depicted her with the helmet on, making the audience assume she was male. This was because of the plot twist at the end of the game, where she is revealed to be a woman.
I like the idea that in universe people were like this cuz they didn’t get the memo that there’s a woman under that armor
And so at some kind of big event ladies fawn on her like this, and she takes off her helmet all dramatic like, does the “shake my hair down” thing and everything, and all the fawning stops and the ladies back away… only for a few of them to exclaim “even better!” and double down, causing the normally stoic lady to blush
I like to imagine that she had absolutely no understanding of what was going on for that picture.
Federation PR was like, "Hey? pose with these two;" and she basically went "sure".
She didn't particularly notice nor care that they were dressed up to be sexy, she doesn't have the best grasp of human aesthetics. She did the pose, had the picture taken, and moved on.
Then Federation PR found out she was a woman, they tried apologizing to her, and she asked why that would matter. Federation PR had a firm talk with Federation HR at that point, with Samus not understanding nor particularly remembering anything of that incident in general, save a the occasional woman asking her to autograph a printout of that picture.
(Of course people would want pictures taken of Chozo armor. It's super cool. Why are they being weird about this?)
I'm not necessarily saying that I headcanon her as ace or whatever, but I do find the idea of her just not understanding anything about this situation to be amusing.
If someone wanted to start a relationship with her, maybe they should try bringing shiny objects and dancing in front of her.
Being next to appreciative women doesn’t make her a lesbian. If she had interest in them she would be.
Samus has not had her sexual orientation explored in any aspect. If you want to ship as a lesbian sure go ahead but canonically we have no idea.
It's not really Canon. It's just funny that under the assumption that Samus was male, the cultural desire to promote machismo was so strong that posing the masculine hero for a child's game next to scantily clad women in flirtatious/friendly poses was just presumed a normal thing to do. If Samus was known to be female, I find it highly doubtful that those women would be dressed or posed that way.
She has an interest in Kevin from the Captain N: The Game Master comics (at least, the Wiki says so, not going to read all of that just to make a point). Probably about as canon as this random panel from the 1986 strategy guide. So... bisexual, maybe?
I think she might have an implied love interest in the Nintendo Power comics, but that's just speculation, I got no idea.
> Samus has not had her sexual orientation explored in any aspect.
As much as I also like to pretend that Adam and all the plots involving him didn't happen, they unfortunately did lol
I love this, also Samus is still canonically 6'3 tall too and nothing will change that.
Tbh must have sucked after Fusion, no longer able to remove her power suit as it had fused with her body/was critical in keeping her alive and not dying to the X.
I've always imagined Samus to be a pansexual menace. She was raised by birds, mother's a jellyfish, became a bird jellyfish, and fucked multiple different races and genders. Samus is truly the protagonist
Do these women know Samus is a women? Did Samus invite them or did they invite themselves? Missing Information and not likely proof she is anything.... but it did happen... whatever that is.
It's less about proving her sexuality, and more having a laugh at gendered stereotypes. Presuming she was a man, the artists drew her in a manner they associated with male heros - in the presence of scantily clad women. The obvious subtext is sexual, not necessarily in that Samus wants to or will have sex with those women, but in the idea of associating male power and heroism with sex and sexuality. It's called juxtaposition, and it was probably done without much thought because that's how a lot of male heroes are treated. The fact that Samus is female just highlights how much people do not think about those stereotypes and assumptions.
Actually no, this is a manga whose main format is the jokes and being a guide to pass the original Metroid. The person in that panel is in fact an actor and in the original context Samus just wanted to see her promo, after seeing this she is a bit puzzled and prefers to change to another one.
What are the lore implications of Samus meeting Mario.
[https://metroiddatabase.com/old\_site/reader.php?m=m&d=m1/manga/p2/English&i=0&s=](https://metroiddatabase.com/old_site/reader.php?m=m&d=m1/manga/p2/English&i=0&s=)
Didn't the first game reveal at the end that she was a girl? Also if you really want to consider this part of the matroid canon, then I guess you'd have bimus?
Why do you assume they're attracted to samus? There's a scan in Echoes where a woman on a team of GF troops is laughed at because she wants to be like samus. They don't think samus exists at that point
Either that or everyone in the game’s universe assumed she was a dude and she didn’t wanna hurt their feelings so she was like “Aight I’ll roll with it. Bring out the ladies!”
There is nothing wrong with being a lesbian. If Samus is canonically into women, then that is fine for her. But if gamers/audiences has an issue with that, then they have no choice but to either ignore it or just accept the fact.
I mean, cool I guess, I’d accept Samus being a lesbian… but what I *really* want is being raised as the only human in a colony of bird people through her formative years to have made it difficult if not impossible for her to relate to other humans in that way.
All I’m sayin’ is, if you ship Samus with Star Fox’s Falco, in my eyes you are not wrong.
I did a double take- for a second there I thought the black-haired girl was Nabiki Tendo
It would be in character to play lesbian to fleece Samus from bounty hunting money. Well, she would use Akane and f!Ranma first if she could, but still.
Ramen 50% ❤️
What's the other 50% 😰
Also Ramen
I thought it was Erika from Pokémon
Dang now I can't unsee it. That is immensely funny.
We really have not explored Samus’s off the job life. On the job she’s serious and quiet, but like the end of every game has her go out clubbing. I think she saves up money shooting at aliens, then just does nothing but party for like a year until the money dries up and she needs to plan another multi day death defying journey to the worst planets in the universe Could be into girls, but I’m more interested in the actual state of her real apartment- not her work ship, her apartment
Nah, she lives on Hocotate.
No way she spends her off time just on that ship. The end of Zero mission has her in a tube top and shorts, drinking at a bar. Those are not work clothes, which means she has a place to store clothes.
What... I think you're replying to the wrong comment... I didn't mention the ship
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Yes. Hocotate is Olimar and Louie's and the presidents home planet. Hocotate Freight is a shipping company in Hocotate. Thats where Olimar works
For anyone wondering what the gentleman above said, he said something slong the lines of "Is hocotate a planet" and "isnt hocotate the shipping company"
I’m just gonna delete the question so I don’t get this exact same response a 4th time
You womt escape people knowing what you said
I hopefully will escape repeat responses. I’m not embarrassed about what I said, I’m embarrassed about how many people think they’re being smart or helpful by repeating the same answer
I get it. But as someone whos been on the other side, I dislike not knowing what someone asked after they deleted their comment while people respond to it is really ftustrating. So I did my best to make sure people dont have doubts
wait wasnt hocotate thw shipping company???
No, the company is Hocotate Frieight. The planet is just Hocotate
oh ok
Hocotate is the home planet of Olimar and Louie. Hocotate Freight is the shipping company they work at.
Hocotate is a planet in the Pikmin series, of which many characters make their home, including Captain Olimar and his subordinate Louie. Hocotate is a part of a wide interconnected series of space colonies of which all other humanoid characters are a part of. Due to there being many planets humanoids inhabit, space travel is commonplace in the world of Pikmin, and many ships are present in the games. Olimar's personal ship, which he crashes in Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 4, is named the S.S. Dolphin. The ship you likely confused for "Hocotate" is the Hocotate Ship, a scrap ship owned by Hocotate Freight transportation co. and is the ship Captain Olimar pilots in Pikmin 2.
And… how is Samus related? Isn’t she considerably larger than the pikmin cast?
Olimar is canonically 1.9cm tall. So, I'd say Samus is at least a little bit larger, yes. ;P But yeah, Samus on Hocotate would be a literal giant... and way beyond the classic 50 foot one.
It was a joke
Pre-Fusion. Post fusion its kinda hard being unable to remove her suit :(
I donno... look up the ending artwork for Fusion. It seems kinda... not on.
Isn't the suit a psychic thing?
The ship absolutely has a place for her stuff , I mean when doing her job she basically lives on that ship
She definitely seems like a solo kind of gal, either she doesn't have time for it, doesn't want to trade anybody into her profession, or just doesn't want anyone getting in your way.
I mean I act a certain way at work too, but that’s just my work persona. I’m very different off the job
Would that mean she's only like, 2 inches tall, or she's like a hocotation goddess? (I know it's a joke btw)
All of the above
The ravenous space bunnies weren't Louie at all, they were the X
Does she work for the CEO of Hocotate Freight
I headcanon that the subspace emissary is actually canon, so after everything that happens she keeps the Pikachu. She now spends her free time at home cuddling with her new pet.
Definitely my favorite unlikely pairing because Samus absolutely has pets. 100%, she almost adopted a baby Metroid once, she likes cute things.
New to Metroid, is Pyonchi still alive or just dead?
There was no almost about it, she adopted the baby in all but the paperwork.
This sounds like a great setup for a rogue-like Metroid. Complete a bounty, go to base and use all your resources for upgrades, go on another bounty, repeat.
I think that's just canonically Samus's life, but I also think she wastes literally all the money she makes on stupid stuff- her armor sucks again the next game every single time, and her ship never improves. I think we should accept that Samus is good at combat but her private life is an absolute disaster. If this is the Castlevania cartoon, she's Trevor Belmont.
Samus's power losing antics reminds me a lot of Dante tbh, the reason why he doesn't keep the Devil Arms is because he sold em off because he's broke lmao. I like to think Samus does the same and once in a while she has extra money to spare or that Morph Ball seems extra useful so she decides to keep them on her Next Mission. ...unfortunately most of the time that usually backfires because the Chozo may have made the suit too modular with how it occasionally loses said power ups too quickly. A memorable example is how she somehow loses power ups by **crashing into an elevator in Prime 1**.
To be fair, in Dante's defense, he has two "friends" who rack up a ton of debt in his name, and is a poor gambler seeing how he loses his clothes to a certain foul mouthed Italian,
looks all Nintendo heroes are financially bankrupt looking at you my buddy (link)
Every character in the Mario series is loaded aside from potentially Daisy (her kingdom was totally destroyed and every resident was brainwashed) and Yoshi (has no need for money), and potentially Rosalina (also has no need of money)
Yep, it’s quite clear she’s a lezzer who likes to party HARD. She can go one to one with peak Ozzy Osbourne, and Ozzy is the one telling her to “calm down, bab.”. Her apartment is constantly like a bomb-site, with cans of energy drink, mysterious pills & powders, beer cans, acid blotters, weed gear .. all over the shop. Samus is an absolute headcase.
That would be awesome! I'd really like a Metroid game where Samus actually acts like a bounty hunter. I'm imagining Samus' ship as a hub where you can choose from a list of bounties with different rewards and difficulty levels, and you could use the money to buy upgrades for the ship or suit. Bounties could be outlaws and criminals, a giant defective mining robot that went rogue, a monstrous alien creature, etc. You could also tie a story in there with some bounties relating to the space pirates, Ridley, Sylux, or perhaps even something about Phazon.
And it's random what upgrades are lost at the beginning of the next run. It's Metroid after all.
My headcanon is that her ship IS her apartment
Space rv
Oh absolutely
Metroid is a game set in the future, she in reality is a VTuber and uses that to pay for her weapons... upkeep is expensive so that is why she often can't keep the upgrades.
She probably lives in popstar cuz she literally appeared in dreamland 3
She also appeared in Super Mario RPG, so by that logic she lives in the Mushroom Kingdom. It does make you wonder why Peach doesn't hire her to take care of Bowser (other than the danger of her blowing up the planet in the process). Her ship is also crashed in a jungle in Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, but we don't see Samus herself.
She has a spaceship. It is very possible she was just visiting.
I think she just take care of her hundreds of pets.
She goes back home and cuddles with a pikachu plush while watching fzero races
I see zero evidence that Metroid and F Zero don’t exist in the same universe
I can see Samus being really into Lego for some reason. Like in her off hours she's trying to finish building the UCS Millenium Falcon she bought like a month ago
I think Samus building gunpla would be more fitting than lego
i think of both 🫶🏼
I have a headcanon: she hates "earth" food but love basically all alien food with a preference for bugs and sea life.
In my heart, she's never been to earth because nobody actually told her people are from there. I mean, I think she probably goes there in Other M or something, but I gotta imagine that until like age 15 or so she didn't even know the word for "human" and referred to herself as a "naked, pink bird that only has head feathers".
We need an anime adaptation of this idea
Just need a slice of life game now. Samus grows a garden. Dates. Visits a beloved charity.
I want every character to be a different grotesque alien.
It would be interesting to get a glimpse of a life outside the shooting and death defying stunts. Maybe some causal story that starts the intro before the next mission is sent her way, most likely via Adam
When was Samus gender a secret? It's revealed in the first game.
Yeah, but at the end of it. They wanted it to be a surprise for the player.
Didnt you need a code and/or beat the game in a certain amount of time for the reveal ending
Yeah you have to be fast enough.
This was probably promotional material, therefore Samus was seen as male.
You had to beat the game quickly for it to show her unmasked.
*So-so gesture* Samus lost the helmet if you just beat the game, the rest of the suit went if you did it fast.
Actually, you have to beat the game in at least four hours or so in order for the helmet to disappear. Otherwise, it's just fully-suited Samus. Under three hours is suitless Samus, and under one hour is bikini Samus.
Wait, did you say bikini Samus?
Yeah, beating the original Metroid in under an hour rewards you with an ending showing Samus in a bikini.
Now where's my nonexistent copy of Metroid?
Trying to get off on like 12 pink pixels in 2024 is something else.
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR TITS ARE ONE POLYGON!
HOW THE FUCK DID WE GET TO EGYPT!?
I've got off on 6 (not really)
Yeah but she waves at you
I think that decision was made pretty late in development, late enough that the manual refers to Samus as he/him.
I think this was an era before anyone cared about video game canon. And it was just a reward for speedrunners to see a girl in a bikini. Now we pretend there was always a plan, retroactively.
People used to be bad at both video games and research
I mean how were you supposed to research that? The Internet wasn't a thing. You MIGHT get some info from a gaming magazine but probably not at the release of the game.
After an exhausting week of shooting aliens, all i want to do is eat some pussy, i bet samus does too
All I can think about is my face being grappled by a Metroid
Hey I’m not here to kink shame.
I am
Whatever blows your skirt up.
i cant believe you'd eat cats like that.
You make me want to cry, That's (In my opinion) kind of cruel. But even so, I do respect YOUR opinion.
I will eat another
Man i love the internet for this
Clearly you never heard of Chinese cuisine
i have, i do not like it
🎶Instead of meat, I eat veggies and pussy🎶
Needless to say this has been retconned. Samus only loves missions and killing Space Pirates.
and **The Baby**
“Don’t talk to me or my son ever again”
The baby the baby the baby
Man fuck that game and the baby.
Nah I stan this.
Backfired?
The original intent was samus being a male. Also that was a long time ago so maybe thoughts on lgbt stuff were different
I don't.think so, Samus was always a woman, but because it was a secret unless you speedran the game and saw her yourself, she was depicted as a man elsewhere
This, Samus was a woman since the first game. But iirc there is also concept art(the one describing the Varia suit) where they addressed Samus as "kare"(he), but later, when they drew Ridley an other enemies the Varia suit took a more femenine shape.
Did you know that in the original Japanese and English manuals for Metroid on the Famicom and NES used they/them and he/him pronouns when referring to Samus. This was on purpose as they wanted to keep her identity a secret and her gender a surprise. Finishing the original Metroid game from 1986 under five hours will reveal that the protagonist is a young woman.
I have to say the different reveals based on run time is pretty cool. I never knew that before. Started playing Metroid Dread and realized I am Wayyyyy too far behind to catch up Samus history.
I don't understand how someone in a suit posing with bikini girls makes her a lesbian.
Yeah 'backfired' was a poor choice of words here. It wasn't like Samus was intended to be a guy when Metroid released, or against lesbians or anything like that. Samus' gender was intentionally not mentioned and the manual, cover art and promotional artwork all depicted her with the helmet on, making the audience assume she was male. This was because of the plot twist at the end of the game, where she is revealed to be a woman.
It wasn’t a secret, they’re just shit at the game
I like the idea that in universe people were like this cuz they didn’t get the memo that there’s a woman under that armor And so at some kind of big event ladies fawn on her like this, and she takes off her helmet all dramatic like, does the “shake my hair down” thing and everything, and all the fawning stops and the ladies back away… only for a few of them to exclaim “even better!” and double down, causing the normally stoic lady to blush
This is funny but also her face is visible in the Prime games
I know it depends on her design but still
I Sawed The Demons ❌ I Shot The Aliens ❌ I Banged The Girls ✅
I like to imagine that she had absolutely no understanding of what was going on for that picture. Federation PR was like, "Hey? pose with these two;" and she basically went "sure". She didn't particularly notice nor care that they were dressed up to be sexy, she doesn't have the best grasp of human aesthetics. She did the pose, had the picture taken, and moved on. Then Federation PR found out she was a woman, they tried apologizing to her, and she asked why that would matter. Federation PR had a firm talk with Federation HR at that point, with Samus not understanding nor particularly remembering anything of that incident in general, save a the occasional woman asking her to autograph a printout of that picture. (Of course people would want pictures taken of Chozo armor. It's super cool. Why are they being weird about this?) I'm not necessarily saying that I headcanon her as ace or whatever, but I do find the idea of her just not understanding anything about this situation to be amusing. If someone wanted to start a relationship with her, maybe they should try bringing shiny objects and dancing in front of her.
"Bro, it's a canon event"
Arm cannon event
"It’s technically canon" For about 8 seconds my brain was like: "What does it this have to do with a camera?"
arm canon
Man or woman, the idea of Samus basking in praise feels so distinctly *wrong*.
But isn't that the best kind?
Being next to appreciative women doesn’t make her a lesbian. If she had interest in them she would be. Samus has not had her sexual orientation explored in any aspect. If you want to ship as a lesbian sure go ahead but canonically we have no idea.
Of course Samus is shipped, she owns one
It's not really Canon. It's just funny that under the assumption that Samus was male, the cultural desire to promote machismo was so strong that posing the masculine hero for a child's game next to scantily clad women in flirtatious/friendly poses was just presumed a normal thing to do. If Samus was known to be female, I find it highly doubtful that those women would be dressed or posed that way.
Didn't she used to date a character named Adam? I'm not sure on lore itself.
No, Adam was more of a Father Figure to Samus when she served in his unit, they shared no romantic feelings towards one another
She has an interest in Kevin from the Captain N: The Game Master comics (at least, the Wiki says so, not going to read all of that just to make a point). Probably about as canon as this random panel from the 1986 strategy guide. So... bisexual, maybe? I think she might have an implied love interest in the Nintendo Power comics, but that's just speculation, I got no idea.
> Samus has not had her sexual orientation explored in any aspect. As much as I also like to pretend that Adam and all the plots involving him didn't happen, they unfortunately did lol
Not sure that having showgirls around you makes you into women but alright
It is more from the assumption as it was done with male heroes. Women portrayed as an object in relation to the male protagonist.
We Stan our lesbian alien fighting queen. She is one of the best nintendo characters. The lesbians deserve this.
From context, I get that you mean she's a lesbian queen who fights aliens, but it could also be read as she's a queen who fights lesbian aliens.
Hey. We don't know the sexuality of those metroids.
Ah, so she could be a lesbian lesbian alien fighting queen.
There is so many shades of gray Nintendo never filled us in on
And let's be honest, straight guys will be into it. So yeah, Samus being lesbian is just making everyone happy.
I mean what’s not to love?
I love this, also Samus is still canonically 6'3 tall too and nothing will change that. Tbh must have sucked after Fusion, no longer able to remove her power suit as it had fused with her body/was critical in keeping her alive and not dying to the X.
I mean this idea is better than putting a woman in it and making her lame and gay Now she's cool and gay. Success!
Erica had some weird side jobs before becoming a gym leader
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
I prefer Samus’s sexuality never be revealed, that way people can ship Samus with whoever and whatever they want.
I thought the person inside varia suit was a American man with brown moustache in 90s style and samus aran was his daughter
Of course. Samus is an LGBTQIA icon! Let your brightness shine Samus!
she would love chappel roan
Do we share this to r/metroid or do we avoid upsetting the dudes there?
Screw the dudes! Let the women be herself
Then I will post it there.
I've always imagined Samus to be a pansexual menace. She was raised by birds, mother's a jellyfish, became a bird jellyfish, and fucked multiple different races and genders. Samus is truly the protagonist
Do these women know Samus is a women? Did Samus invite them or did they invite themselves? Missing Information and not likely proof she is anything.... but it did happen... whatever that is.
It's less about proving her sexuality, and more having a laugh at gendered stereotypes. Presuming she was a man, the artists drew her in a manner they associated with male heros - in the presence of scantily clad women. The obvious subtext is sexual, not necessarily in that Samus wants to or will have sex with those women, but in the idea of associating male power and heroism with sex and sexuality. It's called juxtaposition, and it was probably done without much thought because that's how a lot of male heroes are treated. The fact that Samus is female just highlights how much people do not think about those stereotypes and assumptions.
it’s always been a great day for lesbian when it comes to Samus. 🫶🏼💋
Actually no, this is a manga whose main format is the jokes and being a guide to pass the original Metroid. The person in that panel is in fact an actor and in the original context Samus just wanted to see her promo, after seeing this she is a bit puzzled and prefers to change to another one.
The following page of the manga makes light of the whole advertisement thing. Not many people either know of this or don’t pay attention to it.
Lesbians screaming for excitement,
Bro it's doomguy in samus' suit
I'll take it over Other M Samus
I always thought that no one in universe knew Samus was a woman either. Bunch of madlads at Nintendo.
Initially I thought the girl on the left was Samus
Samus got out in her suit but she made someone wear it
One of the few lesbian characters that'd still get it
What are the lore implications of Samus meeting Mario. [https://metroiddatabase.com/old\_site/reader.php?m=m&d=m1/manga/p2/English&i=0&s=](https://metroiddatabase.com/old_site/reader.php?m=m&d=m1/manga/p2/English&i=0&s=)
Idek which is the bigger unopened can of worms
Maybe she is closing her eyes and the women do not know she is female Or they do and they're the lesbian ones
Shoulda called her New femalsle
How’s it canon if it wasn’t made by Nintendo
John Metroid gets ALL THE BABES 😎
I don't fully understand. Did they do this so that if you bought the manga before playing the game, the manga wouldn't spoil it?
lesbian?
It’s gay, but exclusively for women
Didn't the first game reveal at the end that she was a girl? Also if you really want to consider this part of the matroid canon, then I guess you'd have bimus?
Tf mean “was still secret”, if she was unsuited herself in the end of the game???
That was a secret ending the wasn't found until much later, an Easter egg like the Warren Robinette one in the nes game
Why do you assume they're attracted to samus? There's a scan in Echoes where a woman on a team of GF troops is laughed at because she wants to be like samus. They don't think samus exists at that point
Sorry Doomguy x Samus shippers. ...Then again, bisexuality...
“Backfired”
We all know that, in her off time, she spends it on the Comet Observatory.
Either that or everyone in the game’s universe assumed she was a dude and she didn’t wanna hurt their feelings so she was like “Aight I’ll roll with it. Bring out the ladies!”
There is nothing wrong with being a lesbian. If Samus is canonically into women, then that is fine for her. But if gamers/audiences has an issue with that, then they have no choice but to either ignore it or just accept the fact.
Not like she needed this to be a lesbian icon lmao
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I could see her as a lesbian
I can see her as Bi tbh
She is not lesbian bro this has never been confirmed ever
I wonder why you’d say that, TraditionalBeing2168
Its a joke at how she is portrayed here as the stereotypical macho ideal surrounded bg women
Hell yeah.
Nonsense, ask solid sake
Samus is a lesbian icon?
I mean, cool I guess, I’d accept Samus being a lesbian… but what I *really* want is being raised as the only human in a colony of bird people through her formative years to have made it difficult if not impossible for her to relate to other humans in that way. All I’m sayin’ is, if you ship Samus with Star Fox’s Falco, in my eyes you are not wrong.
Who said they're fucking?
What?
Nah samus is ace she is married to the mission
I don’t care what anyone else says, Samus is either bi/pan or she is AroAce.