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*The Varia Suit is the only suit to appear in every ''Metroid'' game, though ''Super Metroid'' is the first game where the Varia Suit gained its heat-resistant traits, and ''Metroid Fusion'' adds that it can also resist similarly-extreme cold. | *The Varia Suit is the only suit to appear in every ''Metroid'' game, though ''Super Metroid'' is the first game where the Varia Suit gained its heat-resistant traits, and ''Metroid Fusion'' adds that it can also resist similarly-extreme cold. | ||
*In ''[[Metroid: Other M|Other M]]'', Samus is supposed to avoid activating suit features that could damage the environment. Though neither the Varia nor the [[Gravity Suit|Gravity Features]] are known to do so, she does not activate and [[Adam Malkovich|Adam]] does not authorize them until after she has had her first encounter with dangerously hot environments and lava, and after the first battle against the gravity-manipulating [[Nightmare]], respectively. | *In ''[[Metroid: Other M|Other M]]'', Samus is supposed to avoid activating suit features that could damage the environment. Though neither the Varia nor the [[Gravity Suit|Gravity Features]] are known to do so, she does not activate and [[Adam Malkovich|Adam]] does not authorize them until after she has had her first encounter with dangerously hot environments and lava, and after the first battle against the gravity-manipulating [[Nightmare]], respectively. | ||
*In the first ''Metroid'', the Varia Suit was simply a then-pink version of the then-orange Power Suit. ''Metroid II'' was developed for a monochrome display, so the now-standard pauldrons were added, and artwork had already recolored the suit to be orange versus the Power Suit's new yellow. ''[[Zero Mission]]'' attempted to make peace with things by establishing two different Power Suits: the first is used throughout most of this first mission and retains the 'palette swap' nature (now orange) from the original game when the Varia Suit is applied to it, while the pauldrons and etc are part of [[Legendary Power Suit|a different suit Samus obtains after losing the previous one]]. Similarly, ''Fusion'' introduces | *In the first ''Metroid'', the Varia Suit was simply a then-pink version of the then-orange Power Suit. ''Metroid II'' was developed for a monochrome display, so the now-standard pauldrons were added, and artwork had already recolored the suit to be orange versus the Power Suit's new yellow. ''[[Zero Mission]]'' attempted to make peace with things by establishing two different Power Suits: the first is used throughout most of this first mission and retains the 'palette swap' nature (now orange) from the original game when the Varia Suit is applied to it, while the pauldrons and etc are part of [[Legendary Power Suit|a different suit Samus obtains after losing the previous one]]. Similarly, ''Fusion'' introduces the brand new [[Fusion Suit]] and makes the Varia (and the Gravity) Suit a palette swap of this base. | ||
*The term 'varia' is a corruption of the English word 'barrier'. Strangely, the North American and European manuals for ''Metroid II'' refer to the suit itself as the 'Barrier Suit', and the in-game 'Varia' item as an upgrade to create it<ref>{{cite manual|Barrier Suit<br />Becomes enabled when Samus finds the Varia.|[[Metroid II: Return of Samus]]|14}}</ref>. The whole concept would simply be named the Varia Suit going forward. | *The term 'varia' is a corruption of the English word 'barrier'. Strangely, the North American and European manuals for ''Metroid II'' refer to the suit itself as the 'Barrier Suit', and the in-game 'Varia' item as an upgrade to create it<ref>{{cite manual|Barrier Suit<br />Becomes enabled when Samus finds the Varia.|[[Metroid II: Return of Samus]]|14}}</ref>. The whole concept would simply be named the Varia Suit going forward. | ||
