Samus Aran

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Samus Aran File:MOM Samus.png Samus from Metroid: Other M

Game(s) All Metroid games All Smash Bros. games Off-Game Appearance(s) Metroid Manga Home Planet K-2L Gender Female Voice Actor(s) Jennifer Hale (Prime Series) Jessica Martin (Metroid: Other M) Alesia Glidewell (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) Family Rodney Aran (father) Virginia Aran (mother) Race Human

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Samus Aran is an intergalactic Bounty Hunter and the main protagonist of the Metroid series. Her first appearance was in the original Metroid, released in 1986. Her birth planet is K-2L, an earth colony. Samus Aran is a bounty hunter of prestige fame, often employed by the Galactic Federation. Samus's history is somewhat mysterious and is often left with wide gaps. Her past is best described in the Metroid Manga, although it is debatable whether the manga is canon or non-canon, though images from the Manga appear in the Japanese Metroid: Zero Mission Gallery. Other than the Metroid Manga, primary sources for her history are Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Other M.

Biography

Samus started out as a young girl on the mining colony of K-2L with her parents Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran. When she was three years old, her hometown was visited by the Chozo, a bird-like race. They came in peace, and Samus immediately found a spark of interest with one of the Chozo elders, Old Bird. The two became close and built up a deep and warm friendship.

Much to Samus's dismay, a Space Pirate flagship landed on the innocent colony and a raid ensued, led by none other than the dragon-like bioform Ridley. Samus's three-year old mind could not comprehend the nature of violence, and assumed Ridley was a visitor, and asked him if they could become friends. Feeling humiliated and embarrassed in front of his unit, Ridley made a strike to ultimately kill Samus. Just as any mother would protect her kin, Virginia got in the way of the strike and suffered a fatal blow. Rodney also sacrificed himself to destroy the Space Pirate flagship. Ridley deserted the scene, but one mistake was left under all the dust of the battle; the mistake was indeed Samus Aran, the only survivor of the attack. After her mourning sorrows, she vowed to have her revenge on Ridley.

When all hope for a young Samus seemed to be lost, Old Bird and the rest of the Chozo came to her aid. The Chozo voyagers brought Samus to their home planet, Zebes. Unfortunately, Mother Brain predicted that Samus's frail body could not withstand harsh life in Zebes. The Chozo hoped to evade this problem by infusing her with Chozo blood and giving her the Power Suit, a bio-mechanical suit with many weapons and functions, thus giving birth to the powerful bounty hunter popularly known in today's Metroid franchise. For several years in grueling training, Samus was taught by the Chozo their culture and their ways of battle. As a teenager, her physical attributes far surpassed those of a regular humans. However, when the time came, Samus left the Chozo to join the Galactic Federation, a organization created to bring justice in the regions of space.

The Female Hunter

When Samus arrived at the Federation Academy, her abilities exceeded the Federation's expectations. She was given even greater superhuman strength, and was issued into the Star Trackers, an organization in which one in a million officers reaches its requirements. She was placed under the order of Commander Adam Malkovich, who found great trust and faith in Samus. He always finished an order by stating "Any objections, lady?" as a symbol of trust. A few years later, however, Samus mysteriously disappeared. The period of absence is shrouded in mystery.

Documented Incidents

First Mission to Zebes

Main articles: Metroid/Metroid: Zero Mission

Some time after the Space Pirates had established a power base on Zebes, the Galactic Federation hired Samus Aran to destroy Mother Brain and the Metroids the Pirates were amassing. After defeating Ridley and Kraid, Samus gains access to Tourian. There, she defeated the Metroids and Mother Brain which activated a self destruct. She managed to escape from Tourian, but was attacked by the Pirates in orbit around Zebes and her gunship was shot down. This left her without the protection of her Power Suit with only her emergency pistol for defense and with no choice but to infiltrate the Pirates' Mother Ship.

After evading the many Zebesians aboard the ship, Samus finds an ancient test left by the Chozo. Defeating it, Samus gains a more powerful suit that enables her the use of all items she had acquired on the planet. She then works her way to the top of the Mother Ship where she battles a mechanical version of Ridley. After destroying the machine, the ship's self destruct is activated forcing Samus to steal a small Pirate vessel before the ship was destroyed.

Tallon IV Incident

Main article: Metroid Prime

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Samus arrives at Frigate Orpheon.

After receiving a signal from an unidentified distress beacon, Samus tracks it back to a vessel in orbit above Tallon IV and moves to intercept it. Upon her arrival she discovers the abandoned Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, where several experiments, including the reconstruction of geoform 187, were being conducted. After seeing her rival, reborn as Meta Ridley, escape the frigate to the planet's surface, Samus goes down to Tallon IV to investigate further. Once there, she learns that the planet is slowly being corrupted by the impact of a large meteor, which has caused the destruction of the Chozo Civilization on the planet. She also discovers that the Space Pirates are mining the poisonous Phazon and attempting to use it for their own purposes. She interrupts their mining operations and research, and eventually learns that the source of the corruption was inside the Impact Crater, which was sealed by the Chozo before their corruption. Amongst their lore, she reads that the Chozo not only foresaw the coming of a Worm, but of the Entrusted One - a prophecy that points to Samus herself.

Samus gathers the twelve Chozo Artifacts and opens the Impact Crater, confronting and defeating Meta Ridley in the process. Inside the crater, she encounters the source of Phazon on the planet, the Metroid Prime. She eradicates it and leaves the planet, believing her mission completed. However, the Metroid Prime survived, as Dark Samus.

Aether Incident

Main article: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Samus entering the Great Temple.

The disappearance of the G.F.S. Tyr prompts the Galactic Federation to send Samus Aran to investigate. Upon arriving at the planet Aether, her ship is damaged by magnetic storms and she is stranded while the ship repairs itself. She finds the entire crew of the Tyr has been killed by unknown creatures, and their bodies have become hosts for an unknown parasitic biomass. As she explores Aether, she happens across the Great Temple and fights the Alpha Splinter there, acquiring the Energy Transfer Module from it. Afterwards, she meets U-Mos, the Sentinel of Aether and the leader of the Luminoth, who was protecting the final Energy Controller in the Great Temple. He explains that the impact of a cosmic object on the planet caused a division, and that, as a result, Aether exists in a state of Transdimensional Flux. He beseeches her to help the Luminoth stave off their enemy, birthed of that impact, the Ing, using the Energy Transfer Module that bonded with her suit. She accepts, and sets out to collect the planetary energy stolen by the Ing from the Agon, Torvus, and Sanctuary regions to save the Luminoth.

During her mission, she encounters her Phazon-powered doppelganger, Dark Samus, and engages her in combat multiple times; she also dismantles several Space Pirate operations on the planet. She finally makes her way to the top of the dark Sky Temple and kills the Emperor Ing, siphoning the last of the stolen planetary energy which causes Dark Aether to collapse. She encounters Dark Samus again as she escapes and engages her in combat, presumably destroying her, and saves the planet. Unbeknownst to Samus, Dark Samus has once again escaped. After the incident, the G.F.S. Anhur comes to the planet and helps the Luminoth rebuild. They find Phazon left behind by the Space Pirates and bring it back with them.

Phazon Subjugation

Main article: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

About six months after the events occured on Planet Aether, Samus Aran is again issued an objective by the Galactic Federation to head to the Galactic Federation Flagship Olympus for a scheduled meeting with Fleet Admiral Castor Dane and three other hunters: the ice-wielding Rundas, the technical genius Ghor, and the flexible yet formidable Gandrayda. The four hunters are briefed on the recent events of the spread of a digital Phazon virus to several supercomputers dubbed as Aurora Units. As the hunters are briefed, a Space Pirate raid on the Olympus is launched via Space Pirate Boarding Pods. The Space Pirates then launch an attack on the planet being orbited by the Olymupus, Norion. Samus, Rundas, Ghor, Gandrayda, and the Galactic Federation give chase.

On Norion, the hunters and the Federation realize that the Space Pirates have disabled several power conduits that are needed for the digital interfaces to work properly. Before it is too late to notice, Aurora Unit 242 indicates that a Phazon-like meteor is about to crash into the planet Norion and will spread Phazon all over the planet if it is not stopped. Samus and the hunters are dispatched to restore energy to the downed power conduits to activate the generators in order to fire an Energy Cannon to destroy the meteor.

Once the three hunters arrive at the Energy Cannon's controls after restoring power to the generators, they are encountered by Dark Samus once again, revived by an unknown Space Pirate battleship Colossus before Samus was called to the Olympus. Dark Samus utilizes a source of Phazon embedded inside her and creates a Phazon blast, which renders the four hunters unconscious. Samus, however, is able to remain awake to fire the Energy Cannon, destroying the imminent threat. Oblivious to the hunters, unfortunately, an infection of Phazon has entered their bodily systems.

One month later, Samus awakens to the sight of a female Galactic Federation Fleet trooper in front of her examining her life signs. The trooper states to Samus that the other three hunters are sent to Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld to destroy the Leviathans there. To Samus's and the female trooper's surprise, however, the Federation's medical team notices that the hunters' bodies are self-generating Phazon, and that no negative effect are found on them. Before long, Samus is sent to the three planets to complete her objective. She is issued a PED Suit, which can help her utilize the power of Phazon to swiftly eliminate enemies in rapid succession.

During the mission, Samus notices something odd. She notes that the hunters's traces are becoming more intertwined with traces of Phazon, especially in Rundas's ice formations, Ghor's aggressiveness (a symptom of Phazon Corruption), and Gandrayda's sudden hostility towards Samus. Samus is then forced to kill the three hunters in their respective assigned destinations in order to destroy the Leviathans implanted in Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld. Unfortunately on her mission, Samus realizes that the power of using Phazon to enhance weaponry can severely infect her with the Phazon Corruption's disease, just as it did to the three hunters she became forced to terminate.

After doing so, Samus completed her objectives by obliterating the Leviathans, but Aurora Unit 242 notices another spine-chilling detail. The news they bring to Samus is that there is a planet that is the source of all Phazon that is the source of the attacks from Leviathans impacting distant planets. Also, a stolen and extracted Aurora Unit from the GFS Valhalla is embedded deep within the planet to aid Dark Samus in spreading the Phazon to bring bioforms under their control. Samus is dispatched to the location while the Federation battles a Space Pirate fleet.

Samus then arrives at the Phazon-corrupted planet, and realizes that her Phazon corruption rate has exceeded above seventy-five percent over her bodily functions. Samus's cannot turn back now; her ship refuses to recognize her because of her high Phazon content, which prevents her from entering it. Samus ventures further and further into the more Phazon infested region of the planet.

Once Samus arrives at a Sanctum of the Phazon core, she encounters Dark Samus once again. Dark Samus, again at dangerously high Phazon content, engages Samus in battle. With swift and deadly blows, Samus is able to repulse her evil twin. However, Dark Samus is not completely vanquished yet; she merges with the stolen Aurora Unit 313 in a last-minute effort to eliminate Samus. Samus takes careful aim and ironically, defeats a Galactic Federation-owned machine she once could have made an alliance with. Dark Samus emerges from the downed Aurora Unit and makes one last gesture towards Samus before vanishing into a gas of Phazon, never to be seen or heard from again.

Samus quickly escapes the unstable planet and completes her objective at the cost of many Federation troopers, hunters Rundas, Ghor, and Gandrayda, the GFS Valhalla and many other Federation flagships, and Dark Samus's life. The source of all Phazon is finally repulsed and Phazon becomes a has-been. Phazon has been ridden of in the entire galaxy.

Metroid Homeworld

Main article: Metroid II: Return of Samus

Some time after neutralizing the threat Phazon posed, Samus is ordered to eradicate the Metroid population on the planet of SR388. After battling through the numerous Metroids and other hostile creatures, she arrives in the Queen Metroids lair and destroys the few remaining Metroids found in it. After a fierce battle with the Queen Metroid, Samus emerges victorious and completes her main objective. However, after heading towards her gunship to leave SR388, a Metroid hatches from an egg. Instead of terminating the infant Metroid, Samus takes it to the Ceres Space Colony for the Galactic Federation to conduct research on the specimen.

Return to Zebes

Main article: Super Metroid

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Samus hands over the last Metroid.

Shortly after departing from the Ceres Space Colony, Samus receives a distress signal indicating that it had come under attack by Space Pirates. When she returns to the station, she finds the scientists dead and the Metroid missing. After further exploration into Ceres, Samus encounters Ridley, who is holding the Metroid. She is unable to defeat Ridley before he flees with the Metroid and activates the station's self-destruct. Samus follows the Pirates to a rebuilt Zebes to finish them off and retrieve the Hatchling.

On Zebes Samus encounters several enemies she has encountered in the past, such as Kraid. New additions are also imported into the Pirate forces. After defeating Kraid, Phantoon, Draygon, and Ridley, Samus gains access to a rebuilt and pulchritudinous Tourian where she discovers a host of Metroids. She later confronts the Metroid Hatchling, who has grown to a massive size; it appears to be in its adult stage. The Metroid feeds on Samus's Energy Tank and leaves her with a single unit of energy before flying off.

Once recovered, Samus works her way to Mother Brain. Though she manages to destroy Mother's containment vessel, Mother rises up from the ground with a mechanical body and fires an energy beam that is powerful enough to immobilize Samus. Before Mother is able to kill Samus, however, the Hatchling attacks, draining Mother Brain's energy. Afterwards, the Hatchling begins replenishing Samus's energy, even as it is assaulted by Mother Brain. After her energy is restored, the Metroid again tries to attack Mother Brain but is killed in the process. As a result of the Hatchling restoring Samus, all of her beam weapons are replaced by the far more powerful Hyper Beam which she uses to destroy Mother Brain. Immediately after Mother Brain is defeated, a self-destruct sequence is activated. Samus escapes, and the entire planet is demolished in the explosion.

Other Appearances

Super Smash Bros. Series

Samus has appeared in all three games of the Super Smash Bros. series. Her basic special attack is her Charge Beam, which she begins charging when the B button is pressed. She will finish charging when the B button is pressed again, or the beam is fully charged. This can then be fired by pressing B once more. She can fire Missiles, which can either home in on opponents, but with weak attack power, or fully charge them, at the expense of their homing capabilities. She also has the ability to switch to Morph Ball form temporarily in order to drop Bombs. Bombs can be used to perform 'bomb jumps' in a similar manner as the Prime series. She uses her Morph Ball form for another attack, Screw Attack, which attacks opponents while jumping highly. She also has a Grapple Beam, which can be used to grab opponents, or the edge of the stage, helping her chances of survival. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, she also gains the ability to switch between Power Suit and Zero Suit form, via her Final Smash. For her Power Suit Final Smash, Zero Laser, she fires a massive full-power beam, the power of which is so great it shatters her Power Suit, leaving her in Zero Suit form. The broken remnants of the Power Suit can then be picked up and thrown at opponents to cause a small amount of damage. To regain the Power Suit, Zero Suit Samus must utilize her Final Smash again.

Samus's Character Info

Samus:

• Samus Aran is the toughest bounty hunter in the galaxy. Using a special suit powered by the technology of the bird people which allows her to execute daring acrobatic feats, Samus pursues the airborne life form, Metroid, throughout the universe.

Trophy Info

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

• Samus:

The intergalactic bounty hunter named Samus Aran. Orphaned at an early age, she was taken in and raised by the alien race known as the Chozo. The Power Suit she wears is a product of their technology. Her unique combat skills combined with her athleticism and Arm Cannon have seen her through countless missions.

Sprites

Game	Power Suit	Varia Suit	Gravity Suit
Metroid	File:Samus M1 Front.gif		--
Metroid II: Return of Samus	File:Samus m2 Front Sprite.png		--
Metroid Fusion	File:Samus fu Sprite.png	--	--
Metroid: Zero Mission	File:Samus Power Suit zm Front Sprite.gif	File:Samus Varia Suit zm Sprite.gif	File:Gravity Suit sprite2.png

Trivia

• Though Samus is usually portrayed with blonde hair, in the original Metroid and on a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Samus is shown with brown hair.
• Samus made a brief appearance in the cartoon series MAD's episode Gaming's Next Top Princess. The series parodies many icons from pop culture and other recent modern events, with Gaming's Next Top Princess focusing on Nintendo females, parodying the television series America's Next Top Model. Samus, along with Princess Peach and Zelda were the three finalists in the America's Next Top Model challenge. Samus might have won, but they did not reveal it. The cameraman, a Lakitu from the Mario series, noted Samus looked stunning without her Power Suit. She was to have a modeling picture with a Ridley but a few minutes later, she killed Ridley.

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