Sex and the Zero Suit: Why Samus was Great Only in Metroid Prime

[Khuutra]

theRepublic said:

Khuutra said:

Samus's identity is the suit, and in how the player identifies with her. When Nintendo tries to go beyond that, they have made a mistake.

I wouldn't go that far.  If Samus is only the suit, Samus becomes the generic space marine.  The very fact that she is a woman sets her apart.  That she is a total badass only makes it better.

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I think I have come to agree that Nintendo went to far with the first Metroid.  I have no problem with the leotard for one ending.  I think it leaves no mistaking that she is a woman under the powersuit.  Only removing the helmet for one of the endings I think can leave thinks a little ambiguous given the technology.  That there is another ending where she ends up in a bikini does go to far.  It turns Samus into the award.

In point of fact I agree with this: I hold that Samus is the essentially perfect faceless/voiceless hero, which is enhanced by the fact that she's a woman when almost every other example of that character tape is male. Trying to characterize her beyond that, to give her expressed feelings (especially womb feelings) is going too far