Varia Suit: Difference between revisions

*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 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.

*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.