| Nuvendil said: Getting hung up on wavy hair is silly, imo, since it is a more or less meta element. It was there cause it was popular in *our* world, not the setting :P . The first one I always viewed as her being younger anyway. But it's her character that I think it represents best. Strong, determined, fearless. The latter one I'm not as down with the tone of the character (more reflexive, not sure if that would fit her even in her thirties), more with the style of the art with its detail and sense of "weight." Also, she's genetically altered, so they can always handwave visual anomolies :P Also, helmet hair. |
I don't think it's silly at all. It was a defining attribute to her character for over a decade. The reason why it was there doesn't matter. She canonically has big, wavy hair, and then suddenly she doesn't. It's not like Zelda where it's a bunch of different Links. The only explanation is that she's, for some rediculous reason, straightening her hair before exploring alien planets. That clearly makes no sence and completely goes against her character, so realistically there's no reason she should have a sudden change like that.
She went from being a 6 foot tall, visibally muscular, blonde and wavy hair woman in her thirties to a like 5'6'', super skinny, straight yellow haired woman who, while still in her thirties canonically, for some reason now looks like she's 20. It doesn't make any sense. And they can't hand wave the change, because she literally looks like a completely different character. They don't even wear the same cloths under the suit anymore. It bothers me because it completely betrays her character. And no offense, really, but it doesn't matter how young you viewed her. She isn't young at all. The first Metroid takes place in her like mid to high 20's. By Fusion, she's at least in her low 30's.
This is how she looked like in official Super Metroid art:
Yet somehow she looks like 10 years younger in Fusion, a game that takes place chronologically after Super.
