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7 unusual facts about Samus Aran


Nintendo tumbler puzzle

As a tribute to the deceased creator of the puzzle and former Metroid series director, Gunpei Yokoi, the puzzle made a small cameo appearance in Metroid Prime for GameCube, Samus Aran would have to use her morph ball form and charges to interact with it, once completed would allow her spider form morph ball entrance to a higher level of the chamber.

Roberta Murgo

The face of Roberta Murgo was the inspiration for creating the most famous drawing of Samus Aran, protagonist of the game Metroid.

Samus Aran

In Metroid Prime Hunters, Samus competes against six rival bounty hunters in a race to recover an alien ultimate weapon.

In Metroid, the Galactic Federation sends Samus to track down the Space Pirates on their home planet of Zebes.

In Super Metroid, just after giving the hatchling to a Federation research station, Samus tracks the hatchling (stolen by Ridley) to a newly rebuilt Space Pirate base on Zebes.

Introduced in the 1986 video game Metroid, Samus Aran is an ex-Galactic Federation soldier who turned into an intergalactic bounty hunter, usually fitted with a powered armor suit with weapons that include directed energy weapons and missiles.

What's past is prologue

The phrase was used in a commercial for the video game Metroid Other M, indicating it was a prequel to the 2003 title Metroid Fusion because the events of the game explained what happened to Adam Malkovich, Samus Aran's former CO.


Nintendo Comics System

Simon Belmont and Mega Man were appropriately replaced by Samus Aran, the Metroid heroine who had not appeared in the cartoon, and Mother Brain's second-in-command became Uranos, the demigod from Kid Icarus.

Super Mario Bros. Crossover

Samus Aran, from the Metroid games, also has a gun she can fire and which gains power with powerups.


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