32 Facts About Zero Suit Samus

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Zero Suit Samus was created by Japanese video game designer Makoto Kano.

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Zero Suit Samus was introduced as a player character in the original 1986 video game Metroid.

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Zero Suit Samus Aran is an ex-soldier of the Galactic Federation who became a galactic bounty hunter, usually fitted with a powered exoskeleton that is equipped with weapons such as directed-energy weapons and missiles.

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4.

Zero Suit Samus is the protagonist of several Metroid games, films, manga series, and a comic book continuation of Captain N: The Game Master.

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5.

Zero Suit Samus appears in the film Metroid: The Sky Calls, portrayed by actresses Jessica Chobot and America Young.

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Zero Suit Samus has featured in several other game franchises, including as a playable character in every installment of the Super Smash Bros.

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Zero Suit Samus is recognized as one of the earliest female video game protagonists and has remained a popular and well-received character.

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8.

The Power Zero Suit Samus can be reconfigured into a small, spherical form called the Morph Ball, which allows her to roll through tight areas, such as tunnels, and use Bombs.

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9.

Instances of Samus appearing without the Power Suit occur mainly in cutscenes, such as post-game screenshots of her in more revealing clothing, which are unlocked depending on difficulty level, game completion, or play time.

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Metroid: Zero Mission introduced the Zero Suit, a form-fitting jumpsuit that she wears beneath the Power Suit.

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11.

In Metroid: Other M, the Zero Suit is capable of materializing the Power Suit from within itself.

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12.

Zero Suit Samus was born and raised on the Earth mining colony K-2L, and when she was a child, the planet was raided by Space Pirates led by Ridley in an attack that killed her parents and destroyed the colony.

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The orphaned Zero Suit Samus was then found by a bird-like alien race known as the Chozo, who brought her to their home planet, Zebes.

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14.

Zero Suit Samus's image was based on actress Sigourney Weaver in her role as Ellen Ripley from Aliens, and actress Kim Basinger from 9½ Weeks and My Stepmother Is an Alien.

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15.

Zero Suit Samus did not speak in the original NES games but she did in Super Metroid but only in the prologue.

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Zero Suit Samus is eventually able to access the source of the planet's Phazon contamination, a meteor impact crater, where she defeats the Phazon-infused creature Metroid Prime.

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In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Zero Suit Samus is sent to the planet Aether, a Phazon meteor-ravaged planet split into light and dark dimensions.

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18.

In Metroid Prime: Federation Force, Zero Suit Samus is tasked by the Galactic Federation to investigate the Space Pirates' presence in the Bermuda System and provide intelligence to the Federation Force.

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19.

Zero Suit Samus appears as a playable character throughout the Super Smash Bros.

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20.

Zero Suit Samus is featured in a series of comic books called Captain N: The Game Master, published by Valiant Comics in 1990, based on the animated series of the same name, though Zero Suit Samus never appears in the original cartoon version.

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21.

Zero Suit Samus appears in the film Metroid: The Sky Calls, and was portrayed by actresses Jessica Chobot and America Young.

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22.

Zero Suit Samus makes cameo appearances in the games Galactic Pinball, Super Mario RPG, Kirby Super Star, and Kirby's Dream Land 3, and a non-playable appearance in Dead or Alive: Dimensions by Metroid: Other M co-developers Team Ninja.

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23.

Zero Suit Samus is one of the twelve original amiibo in November 2014.

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Zero Suit Samus is one of the first major female protagonists in a video game, predated by one year by Toby Masuyo from Namco's Alien Sector.

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25.

Zero Suit Samus is a supremely talented action figure, and in the closeups on her helmet you can kind of see that she wears mascara, but that is all.

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26.

Zero Suit Samus has been well received by the video game community.

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27.

In 2001, IGN remarked that Zero Suit Samus has a cult following greater than most other female video game characters.

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Zero Suit Samus was chosen by the users of IGN as the most requested character who should have her own movie franchise by the website's users, the staff remarking that her tragic past makes her a perfect candidate for a movie, especially the loss of both her parents to the Space Pirates.

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The book Videogames and Art noted that in the original Metroid the player is not briefed on Zero Suit Samus's past or future; the only interaction that they have with the character is by being her through gameplay, while bits of information can be gleaned from the handbook and through concept art, adding, "Zero Suit Samus is very rare for the character intimacy gained solely through game play and for her stasis and then drastic change", referring to the revelation that she is a woman.

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30.

Unlike other Metroid games, where Zero Suit Samus took full advantage of weapons and abilities available, she deactivated most of them until Commander Adam Malkovich authorized their use.

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31.

GamesRadar wrote that Other M painted Zero Suit Samus, widely considered a strong female lead character, as "an unsure, insecure woman who desperately wants the approval of her former [male] commanding officer".

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Zero Suit Samus was ranked fifth on GameDailys 2009 list of top characters in the Smash Bros.

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