Samus Aran

About

Samus Aran is the lead character from the Nintendo Metroid franchise. She has been a popular Nintendo hero, appearing in Nintendo spinoff games such as Super Smash Brothers, and has inspired memes and fan art.

Origin

Samus was introduced in the first Metroid game, released August 6th, 1986.^[1] Samus is a galactic bounty hunter with a powerful exoskeleton suit which has weapons such as missiles and mines. In the first game, her gender is not revealed until the end of the game, announcing her as one of the first female protagonists in video game history.

Spread

Samus has since appeared in every Metroid game, as well as every Super Smash Brothers game. In 2004's Metroid: Zero Mission, another form of Samus in which she is portrayed as a blonde in a skin-tight blue jumpsuit called the Zero Suit was revealed (gameplay shown below, left). Zero Suit Samus made her console debut in Metroid: Other M (shown below, right), which some fans received poorly for the overt feminization of Samus.^[2] Zero Suit Samus appeared in Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Super Smash Brothers Wii U.

Samus has been called one of the most influential characters in gaming, and is in the Guinness Book of World Records Gamer's Edition as the first playable human female character in a mainstream video game. Much discussion has been given to Samus' gender and sex appeal in gaming journalism, as journalists have debated Samus' cultural impact as a feminist icon as well as a sexual character. Samus has been portrayed in various pieces of fan art on Tumblr and DeviantArt.

Related Memes

Horny Samus

Horny Samus is an image macro series in the styling of Advice Animals that utilizes the character Samus Aran from the Metroid video-game series as the focus of many sexually-stimulated jokes.

The Baby

THE BABY is a catchphrase referring to the Metroid larva that appears in Metroid. Online, the catchphrase is typically iterated in the forms of comment spams and shitposts by Metroid fans to poke fun at its repeated utterance by Samus Aran in Metroid: Other M, wherein the main protagonist is portrayed as an emotionally fragile and insecure character in stark contrast to her strong and confident persona from the previous titles.

Samus Weight Gain

A particular strand of fan art related to Samus is centered around body inflation, particularly of Zero Suit Samus. On October 30th, 2016, YouTuber WeightGainGirl uploaded a compilation of Samus Body Inflation fan art that gained over 217,000 views (shown below).

It's also a relatively popular subgenre of Samus fan art on DeviantArt (examples shown below).^[3]

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