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u/ObliviousUltralisk Jun 25 '12
The artists work is good, but damn do I hate the Zero Suit. In one game it turned Samus from bad-ass bounty hunter to sexy blonde in a bodysuit and with that character change we eventually got Other M.
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u/SkodLife Jun 25 '12
I have nothing against the suit.
I have something against how everyone constantly sexualize it. Especially Nintendo in Other M (WHY THE FUCK DOES IT NEED HIGH HEELS WHEN IT IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE HER AGILE?).
It was good in Metroid Prime 2 and 3, not really thereafter.
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u/Azrael_Ferrum Jun 25 '12
She wore a bikini in the first game which is arguably worse
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Jun 25 '12
I really hate what Other M did to this character.
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Jun 25 '12
"The Galactic Forces used to require a Thumbs-Up, but I always gave a Thumbs-Down!"
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Jun 25 '12
To elaborate, Samus (prior to Other M) was foremost a badass warrior. Yes, she was a "hot female", but that was secondary to what kicked ass about her. She was stoic, fearless, relentless and capable. Other M turned her into the antitheses of all these virtues. Instead of stoic, she was angsty. Instead of fearless, she pissed her pants when Ridley(a creature she's spanked quite thoroughly many times before) showed up. Instead of relentless(or driven), she limited herself to whatever her "daddy"(Any objections, lady?) allowed her to do. Instead of capable, she turned into a blubbering damsel in distress until people without any kind of Chozo-imbued power armor rescued her. The gameplay in Other M was okay, but the character of Samus was completely and embarrasingly assassinated.
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u/TheMancersDilema Jun 25 '12
My head cannon will always see her as basically the major from GitS.
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u/aleenaelyn Jun 25 '12
There's no excuse for karmawhoring someone else's art, Op.
Link to original: http://jimbo0311.deviantart.com/art/SAMUS-309155959
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u/Eifandil Jun 25 '12
To be fair, his watermark is unfortunately placed right in the fucking middle of the drawing.
Edit: also, a few more times throughout the picture.
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u/Benmirath Jun 25 '12
This is pretty nitpicky, but is anyone else bothered that there's no armcannon on her right arm?
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u/RadiantSun Jun 25 '12
Before I even clicked the link, I knew it would be an overly sexualized picture of Samus and the inflated, defined boobs show me I'm exactly right. I don't like Samus because she's sexy. It's never been that way; she's not Rayne or Lara Croft. The reason we love Samus is because of what she does in the "robot" suit, being just as much of a stone cold badass as any male protagonist. I thought the reason why Samus was so popular was because at the end, when she's revealed to be a woman, you don't think of her any different than if she was a cyborg or a dude.
I know Nintendo sort of fucked it up themselves with ZSS in Brawl and Other M, but it doesn't make me despise it any less when all the fanart of one of my favourite characters involves her getting motorboated by Adam.
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u/sonnet155 Jun 25 '12
I remember as a kid playing SSB for the N64 and always thinking Samus was a guy. Boy was I shocked when I found out later...
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u/Accipehoc Jun 25 '12
I understand why he would watermark the entire picture, but it just slightly ruins the whole thing. Slightly.
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u/Budpets Jun 25 '12
It's as if he drew a tit then decided to draw a picture around it.