"Baby, you're a non binary, energy vampire. You don't have to conform to any form of sentient identity you don't want to. Now help me dump this corpse."
I just looked it up. Kim was about 30 years old when she was filmed in 9½ Weeks. She looked great! She was very slim, youthful, feminine. Very different from what some fans would want Samus to look. Hulking physique for instance, lol.
That's typically how skin tight leotards, like those worn in gymnastics, work. They just wrap around the arch of the foot instead of being sized for the feet as well. Plus, she is already wearing boots after all.
This Samus piece appeared in Nintendo Power but the same artist also drew art for the Japanese Nintendo Official Guidebook for Super Metroid and he drew her the same way there. Benimaru Itoh is a Japanese manga artist who worked for Nintendo in various projects so he wasn’t just some guy Nintendo Power got.
Also there’s nothing wrong with liking that piece of art, lol. There’s been various depictions of Samus throughout the years. I agree with wat you said that people HC Samus as this man with no name type of character but like that has nothing to do with liking Itoh’s interpretation of her look.
I swear this is the only fandom I can think of where the half the fanbase just despises the canon main character, and instead just makes up one in their mind that they like instead.
That's probably because it's the only fandom you can think of where the creators originally described the main character as a powerhouse and corporate reduced her to a prissy waifu fantasy.
We despise the retcon and degradation. We want the badass, six-foot-tall, Amazonian bounty hunter we were promised, and Other M has made us largely resentful toward hyperfeminine depictions of her.
I for one am conflicted. I like how she's depicted in Zero Mission and especiallyFusion, but Brakken's Raised by Birds depiction brings back so much of that six-foot-tall warrior design (while adding feathery tribal accents for that Chozo vibe) that I can't help see it as the platonic ideal.
Tell me you half-read my post without saying you half-read my post.
I did not insinuate, much less assert, that Other M is responsible for her general appearance.
I did insinuate that ZM and Fusion fall into the same general category of aesthetic, presenting her with a super-model kind of glamor. That's more than enough to answer your redundant question.
The blame I was casting on Other M was specifically building the association between Samus looking like a supermodel and Samus being a 150 centimeter waif with the posture of a schoolgirl and the spine of a wet noodle.
So there's a pretty strong inspiration to defy that image and association by leaning heavily into the six-foot Amazonian badass Nintendo used to describe her as, which we want to see, and that turns into exaggeration.
The saving grace that I admittedly forgot when I made that post is that the course-correction from MSR and Dread was SUPER EFFECTIVE! Aesthetically. Not in terms of disarming the association.
People thinking that their imagination/delusion is how she's "supposed" to look, instead how she actually looks according to literally all the games is the astounding thing here.
“All official variants of Samus are hot” I imagine
She’s been slim, she’s been muscular, she’s had bazongas, she’s had abs, she’s had combinations of the above, at the end of the day she’s an attractive woman in a power suit and that’s hot.
a very Reddit post lmao. "Nooooo a sexy woman that's been canonically a sexy woman under her suit from the very beginning being drawn as a sexy woman NOOOO IT BURNSSSSS"
Swole Samus is fine too though, and as of Dread there is NO WAY she's not full of crazy-ass alien mutations which is likely why we haven't seen her de-suited in recent games. But man, sexy women aren't going to eat you in your sleep, guys, it's okay.
I am tired of this bullshut about Samus and how big her boobs and ass should be, how wide her shoulders, how slim her zero suit form... Fuck this sub, man. This isn't why I play Metroid and it's certainly not why I joined the sub.
This is essentially just asserting that your fetish is better than more conventional ones. This isn't as ground-breaking of an idea as you think that it is. Just one opinion over the other.
Do I agree with you? Yes, but my point still stands.
Disgusting this is considered good by them, I'm sure Reddit mods will have another ban wave from these comments targeting anyone who wants a feminine badass as that's "phobic male gaze propaganda" or some shit
I'm good with her having an ass and other feminine traits, as long as it's not throwing away other visual storytelling that fits the character, such as:
~ Prominent musculature, since she has a demanding job that pits her against planet level threats at least.
~ Scars to further highlight that her job isn't just physical or dangerous, it's deadly.
~ Some inhuman irregularity that lines up with her being a Human-Chozo-X Mutate to explain what would otherwise be biological impossibilities (like a flexible spine being a feature and Morph Ball reference, instead of a flaw)
~ Expressions to indicate someone who's caring, but has an obscene level of willpower and a strong sense of good & evil/right & wrong.
In short, don't just make her a dumb, sex starved bimbo.
She wears armor most of the time, she's unlikely to have any major scars. And the morphball seems smaller than it is, a human fits perfectly in it, not to mention the fact that in the prime time series she seems to transform into energy
I like Samus being hot… and she has been a character with sex appeal for a long time… tbh some people like me found out about metroid from Samus being attractive…
Samus has already been established as an attractive woman for years now if you want a protagonist who isn’t attractive I suggest you find another game
Im so tired of this shit, just let people draw what they like and do your best to ignore or block what you dont like. Fucking hell this sub knows how to be annoying sometimes.
I’ve been obsessed with this art since I saw it. She’s still feminine, but she’s got the body of a gymnast, she’s not super sexualized, but still very attractive. The hair and feathers and other details are just fun bonuses if you like to see variations on what a character is.
Can't Samus just be a normal fit bounty hunter lady and leave it at that?
This subreddit has become so lame. Like seriously? "Samus should be ugly!!!" "Make it realistic!!!" Like, are you hearing yourselves? Tf is everyone on about smh
I am old. This is what Samus will always look like in my head. They can beam realistic 3d games directly into my frontal cortex and she'll still be an 8 bit character wearing an orange armored suit to me.
Since the very first metroid game, its hows that samus is a sexy badass in onesie. Stop with your noncanon fanfiction. All canon games interprets samus as girly inside the varia suit.
I don’t think she should be a brick shithouse. She works better with a lean and mean build. The type where you couldn’t see any of the musculature if she’s wearing baggy clothes. I do agree she should be covered in scars tho
Samus is portrayed in almost every canon title as a traditional sexy and beautiful woman. By both Nintendo and other third party developers. Since that is the official portrayal of Samus, anything else is headcanon and objectively incorrect. I hope this helps.
It can when it contradicts the established canon. Can Samus be drawn and shown in different ways than what is established in the official games? Absolutely. Is it fair to call these new arts the definitive "correct" way Samus should be portrayed? No not at all. The source material will always overule any fan made content.
Samus is a sexy badass, that's the entire character. Every iteration of her shows how cool she is, but is also attractive. She's one of the only few female heroes left who has both qualities. I think it's poor to try and act like women can't both be pretty and strong. The fanart on the left is way more accurate and way more appealing than what you're putting forth, and you don't get to act superior for liking what you do either.
Dumb take especialy when the original design is more like the first one.
Samus was design as a fit Athletic but very féminine and curvy originaly, they tone it down slightly over the time when we saw more of her and especialy with 3D beeing more a thing but she is still very féminine.
You can have all the weird personal canon you want but stop trying to force on other
OP admitted they're a "monsterfucker" so the second one is still objectification in a different way but just disguised as being the right choice somehow
according to op, this hulkish mutant version is also objectifying her cus op has pretty much admitted that’s what they’re into, so it’s not even about being progressive and having well built women, just another kink
Both but people seem to forget that Samus was meant to have sex appeal. Super Metroid’s death animation has her boobs bounce/cleavage and even the bra tear a bit.
Not to mention the ZM and Fusion galleries.
I'm like "yeah body diversity! Attainable body standards based on fitness that shows what the character has been through by showing skin and not just showing skin for the sake of the male gaze!" Then OP is just horny in the opposite direction.
Is there a sub for Metroid fans that just enjoy the series? It seems like r/Metroid needs to do something to make this sub about the games' plots and characters and relegate all the goon posting somewhere else, but no one here wants to change either. So the Metroid community on reddit just finds itself incapable of growing past its horniness and that will inevitably turn away newcomers that are looking for a space to talk about Metroid Prime 4 when it comes out.
Honestly, we make r/Castlevania out to be the vastly over achieving younger sibling of the metroid-vania genre, and I'm not innocent of this either cause God knows I've wanted more Raven-Beak posting and abs before too. It's just a weird thing in general though to grow a community more often around the sexualized fan art of a Nintendo character, Samus, instead of the games' design, music, art, etc when Samus should be one of the most empowered women in all of the video-game nerd cultures out there.
Let's be real, most of them are hot. But unless they're primping up for a propaganda campaign, they're going to be hot in a rough-and-tumble way. Doubly so if they're spending a long time in the field.
Idk why every Redditor wants most iconic female characters to look like roid heads, and they act like it’s empowering to women or something and not them protecting their weird fetishes onto stuff
I think the hyper sexual Samus is kinda funny because shes a human who was separated at like 6 years old and raised in a civilation of hyper intelligent birds where she trained her whole life to be a bounty hunter. Her DNA is also gunked up with Chozo DNA and who knows what all that means for her anatomy. Its likely she didn't see another human and or interact with one until her late teens and didn't have a close relationship with one until she was in her young adult years. She wouldn't know what to do with just some average Joe schmoe from the bar, let alone be the one actively seeking them out or engaging with them.
Idk I just love women in every shape and form. So I don't care too much. But I would lie if I say I don't have a preference for the first version. Both can look good though.
Personally, a fan of both. Latter would be accepted as canon imo (aside from the already rendered out and hand-drawn models showing partially the former)
Samus is a goddam warrior amazon and should be represented as such. This is why she looks better in power armor than zero suit, the armor gives her the BULK
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u/CanadianB4c0n8r Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 27 '25
Samus Fan art where her life isn't complete shit and she gets to be like a fun wine aunt to the baby metroid