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Why did the Varia suit become her iconic look over the standard power suit?

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>>723603625 (OP)
Everywhere I go I see him..

>>723603625 (OP)
Super Smash Bros for the Nintendo 64

>>723603625 (OP)
Shoulder generators are cooler than pauldrons

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>>723603625 (OP)
Would this series be nearly as popular if Samus was a man?

First radical change to Samus's physical design, greatly changes Samus's visual silhouette, changes Samus's color-scheme, continues the gender ambiguity on Samus as Metroid's worst-kept secret by emphasizing her upper-body and shoulders over her legs and waist

>>723603625 (OP)
To be fair it was almost always the poster/box art suit sans Fusion + Zero Mission and Dread.

>>723603625 (OP)
Because it looks better.

Samus has big hips

First, the silhouette with the shoulders is much more distinct
Getting the Varia is a nearly universal milestone across the series, and barring some minor alterations (and the really really really unfortunate Fusion design) it keeps that consistent look

>>723603625 (OP)
im the only person who likes the flat shoulders more also i never played a single metroid game in my entire life

>>723603625 (OP)
you are in the varia suit for most of the game

>>723603625 (OP)
Power suit looks really bad in prime but it looked really good in Zero Mission.

>>723603996
Dread did an amazing job of feminizing Samus's design while not doing whatever the fuck Other M did, who knew all they had to do was give her armor a bigger ass and legs

Interestingly it's also an attempt at Zero Suit-izing the basic Power Suit and alluding to the fact that the Fusion Suit and the healing Power Suit are supposed to be after getting scalped by the Federation in that surgery (remember that Metroid Fusion predates the Zero Suit as an idea), by giving the Power Suit a predominantly blue color-scheme and incorporating wedge boots ala SSB Ultimate

>>723603996
unlike every other suit shes nude under the fusion/dread suits

>>723603996
Yeah.

>>723604962
Isn't she attached to her suit from fusion onwards? Doesn't that mean she IS naked all the time? Like, that's her skin now.

>>723603625 (OP)
gravity suit is peak

>>723605564
I might be wrong but I believe the suit "couldn't be removed" only in as much as it couldn't be taken off while she was comatose from the infection, hence the Feds chopping off large parts of it
The death animation and high speed/item discovery end screens still have her taking the suit off

That said it is hotter to imagine Samus viewing the suit as part of/her true body

>>723605564
The suit's biologically attached to her or an actual part of her being in some way, retroactively, in every installment

>>723607280
Fusion does make the case still that there's some actual biology going on with both the Fusion Suit and the Power Suit, most especially where beam weaponry is concerned, since there's a big fuss about Samus's new Metroid-derivative genetic makeup actually outright rejecting an Ice Beam upgrade even if the Federation were to send over data for it

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>>723607280
>There's a stray bolt between her legs which is an erogenous zone now

>>723603625 (OP)
Because it's one of the early powerups, so you spend most of the game with it.

>>723607387
It's always been that way. The "fusion" layer is an artificial quasi-biological thing that hooks straight to her nervous system both for maintaining reaction time in the armor as a whole, and also for linking haptic feedback to the armor as if she's touching things directly. We just never got to see it directly before the outer armor had to be cut off.

>>723603625 (OP)
Because it looks better. Nintendo was wise enough to make the prime 2 varia (i.e. the best one) the "default" marketing suit for samus

>>723604337
>Dread did an amazing job of feminizing Samus's design
I disagree, the shoulders are pathetic and the boots are utterly retarded. I think prime 4 does a better job with the viola/slimmed down varia suits but those aren't perfect either

>>723608249
Bush status?

>>723608517
He's mostly just been painting since he left the white house.

>>723603625 (OP)
It was a decision made back with Metroid 2. It just looks more cool than the regular suit.

>>723604962
?

>>723608567
Hopefully he repents.

>>723608567
Kek

>>723603625 (OP)
It shouldermogs it

>>723608709
lick lick lick lick

>>723609467
GOD DAMN that shit looks good

Sex with balls

Why are there games where she starts fully "powered up" with all the abilities from the previous game, but she has varia suit instead of gravity suit?

Samus should be black in the next game

>>723613074
that's just Pharah

>>723613136
Did I stutter?

>>723603894
The only really see that she's a she after you beat the games thst made the series popular to begin with, so probably?

Yea, you can see her outside the suit if you die in Super Metroid, but I wouldn't say "you can see a chick in skimp suit drawn with dinky pixels if you suck shit in this game" is exactly a selling point.

>>723603625 (OP)
The original metroid power suit was a lot more greebly and 80's like and didn't translate as well in art or the technology of the screen representing the armor. In metroid 2 the Varia suit upgrade had to be given the iconic bulkier look with the legs and shoulders in order to distinguish the difference on the screen used and was basically so good they reused it in super and later Fusion/prime series although in prime 2 it gets a more sleek futuristic makeover.

>>723607403
I like to imagine the entire crotch plate is sensitive