Samus getting Zero Mission suits in Smash Bros.
The Metroid heroine dons a revealing outfit that pays homage to Zero Mission, but some fans cry foul over skimpy get-up.
The Super Smash Bros. Miiverse page has provided its latest update, and it's quite an eye-opener if you're a fan of the legendary heroine Samus Aran, from the Metroid series.
The character will be getting two new outfits for the game. Both are featured in the screenshots below, and, as you can see, they'll be available in both the 3DS and Wii U versions of the game. As revealing as the outfits might be, they're actually quite loyal to the series, as they made an appearance in the previous Metroid game Zero Mission.
The posting of the pics has drummed up a lot of attention over on the Miiverse page, as over 900 commenters and rising have talked about Samus' new suits. A lot of gamers approved, but there are a few who are less than thrilled about the additions.
"This might be to much for m dad letting me get the game!" said one poster. Notably, previous Smash Bros games have been rated E or T, based on the level of violence.
"...are you kidding?! just... augh! seriously?!" said a user named Clyde.
"What the heck, Nintendo. Stop turning Samus into a feminists' worst nightmare," said "Pappy", another user.
What do you think? Is Nintendo going too far, or simply paying fan service?
Super Smash Bros. will release on October 3rd for 3DS, and later this year for Wii U.
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replyRobert Workman posted a new article, Samus getting skimpy short suits in Smash Bros..
Want to see a different side of the Metroid heroine? Here you go!-
This is newsworthy?
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Dammit Nintendo, first Other M and now this. You had a really good female video game character. Stop ruining it.
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A billion times this. Samus was unique for being attractive without resorting to skimpy clothes and deferring to her "clearly superior" male counterparts all the time. In two games Nintendo has destroyed all of that.
Other M didn't happen. Zero Mission happened... in 2004 on the GBA, WITHOUT ANY BIKINIS INVOLVED.-
These are actually based off end scenes from fusion and zero mission. Also she has appeared in a small top and bottom since the first game. My only real issue is that, in the games, these were specifically considered leisure-wear and as such shouldn't be in smash as a fighting costume.
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Yes, right, sorry should have mentioned that explicitly. I don't really count out-of-character stuff or ending "reward" shots, since that's technically been in since the very first game (her reveal as a woman did involve her in an 8-bit bikini). It's more that the bikini was now part of the main game
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Camn down, you prudes. These are from the GBA game endings. http://www.gamexplain.com/ckfinder/userfiles/images/metroidread4.png
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It's still dumb.
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It's sad when there is more skin in a nintendo game than on chatty.
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WTF?
This isn't upsetting because there's a nearly naked chick in a video game.
It's upsetting because Samus went from a a badass bitch in a metal suit who just happened to be a girl, to a sexy girl who sometimes puts on a metal suit to kill things. It just feels like Samus deserves to not be sexualized. Her character is the suit. Keep her in it.-
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A lot of people tend to think a negative trend RE: gender portrayal in the media isn't that big a deal.
They tend to be straight white males.-
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Maybe you're just confused about what a trend in media is, then?
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Yeah, the strength of Samus as a character isn't that she is *defined* by her femininity, but her bad-assedness.
This is putting her into sexy cheesecake territory.
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Would you say she was a "Full Metal Bitch?"
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Not without the metal, she ain't!
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That's some seriously low quality bait there.
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People act like they have never walked downtown on a hot summer day. OH MY GOD A GRIL WITH LOW CUT CLOTHES?!!!@!!!
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It's not about the outfit. The outfits are fine. It's about the slow degradation of a strong female character. There are plenty of sexy girls in games, we don't need another one. There are very very few powerful non-sexual female characters in games and we don't want to loose one of the great ones.
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You act like they never showed her in skimpy outfits before this. EVERY Metroid game had an out similar or worse to this. http://www.metroid-database.com/features/2d_endings.jpg (left to right, Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid, Metroid Zero Mission (aka where this one came from)
Only differences in the Smash Bros costume and the endings one is that you had to either work to see it or see them in the tips and tricks sections of magazines or guides back in the day (or today via the internet). -
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Shacknews: Where a woman can't possibly be strong AND sexy. Mutually exclusive stuff.
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To be fair, the subject is video games and you know it's always been a problem. The female character is always in some sort of low cut, skimpy "armor", while the comparable male looks like a fucking tank. I'm not trying to go into this argument, just pointing out the very long history of the issue.
It's very rare that it's about being practical instead of sex appeal. I could buy that Samus is wearing this outfit under her Varia suit. It gets hot, I'm sure. But to wear it while just fighting? Stupid. Hell, Samus in anything other than a Varia-like suit is stupid. It's not Samus. Do they do this for Link? Beyond maybe a different color tunic, he's always in the same-looking iconic tunic with the Hylian shield because he's Link (though they could do Link prior to getting the green tunic, but I don't think they've ever done that).-
Man, I would totally support Nintendo putting Link in a sexy outfit. Let's get some equal opportunity hotness up in here.
Honestly, I think making the guys more sexualized is just as good of a solution to gaming's gender problem as making the girls less sexualized. But that's just me. I know we can't actually do that because a bunch of straight male geeks would throw a fit. Just look at the backlash at BioWare.
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The bikini appearing once before in a remake of a remake (seriously) doesn't make it "loyal to the series". All it means is Nintendo is going through a concerted effort to slut up Samus.
Look, I could give a crap about a stupid outfit by itself, but the direction Samus took starting in Other M has been freakin' awful. Stop trying to feminize Samus and bring back badass hulking destroyer Samus. She was raised by a race of wise bird-like warrior aliens; I doubt her upbringing involved much focus on girly clothes and looking hot. -
Eh at least it is paying homage to the old GBA stuff. But really it serves no purpose other than fan service and adds nothing of value to the game. I still think the real problem with the Zero Suit Samus in the new Smash are the industrialized stripper heels they gave her.
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NWS for naughty language not visuals.
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For some reason I had always thought I heard that Samus' suit was fused to her somehow, like something about the nature of the suit just became part of her body (sort of like a cyborg)
Was this ever the case and if so why did they abandon it? As far back as MP2 we've seen shots of her outside the suit.-
Originally, her Zero Suit was part of the whole interface, meant to aid in her controlling the Varia suit proper. The weird pink pattern on her back is actually where the Varia suit connects to her nervous system, or something like that. It wasn't fused with her though as far as I know.
She did wind up fused with her suit in the appropriately named Fusion, though. Short version: she was attacked by a parasite whose only natural predator was Metroids, they had to inject her with a Metroid-based vaccine to save her, and in the process of all that almost dying the organic components of her suit wound up fused with her more or less. Oh, and she got the Metroid weakness to cold.-
^This, also, by canon, Fusion is the furthest in the future of all Metroid games.
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Nintendo Power actually ran a Super Metroid comic way, way back for a number of issues. They show her in and out of the suit and go over her back story, not really sure how canon it is.
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11111/111119281/3106762-4053678321-npcom.jpg
http://www.metroid-database.com/manga/listing.php?vid=1
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Well fuck. Samus is a Space Marine, not some Lara Croft boob babe. Stop ruining her Nintendo!
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It's actually existed through all the games:
http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Justin_Bailey
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Boob zoom type stuff, this.
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That was a single-frame ending you could get if you met some rather difficult requirements in beating the game. This is an outfit you can unlock for the ENTIRE game. One is an after-events "what the character does on their day off" shot. The other is tarting her up for the duration of gameplay.
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Yeah, and that stuff was a little silly. But it was a small thing that you saw AFTER you played the whole game. In Metroid Prime, the biggest clue of your gender was the reflection of your face in your own helmet when explosions happened.
Releasing marketing screenshots where she's just another generic blonde bombshell is a different sort of thing entirely.
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That looks like her outfit from Super Metroid when she dies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6h8Nkx7cqg
And I agree with everyone else...this just seems dumb to do with the character...unless they also include Mario in just his briefs and Luigi with only afoil dick wrapper and a death stare on, I'm against this (actually, I want THAT Smash Bros.)
