Metroid Prime is back after 20 years and fans are still at war over how Samus fits in her power suit
Decades later, Metroid fans are still locked in a civil war (opens in new tab) over a question that's getting increasingly stupid answers: how the heck does Samus Aran fit inside her power suit?
Samus's proportions have been weird and inconsistent over the years. A spread in Nintendo Power magazine around the era of Super Metroid suggested that she's 6'3" tall and weighs in at 198 pounds, and described her as a "strong, muscular woman." An illustration goes so far as to show how she fits inside the power suit.
But Samus's visual design has evolved in the years since Super Metroid. Putting aside the questionable ways her out-of-suit design has become shorter and less muscular over the years, there's been a clear upgrade in the range of motion of the power suit's arms. This illustration's suggestion that her shoulders don't even enter the ball joints of the power suit simply does not work with the modern version of the power suit.
The debate over how Samus exists in physical space has been going on for ages, but the release of Metroid Prime Remastered has reignited the debate. The illustration in the tweet below provides a pretty solid example of what's wrong here. The suit is far too narrow at the waist to support someone with broad enough shoulders to actually fill out the power suit, and the gap in the power suit's armpit makes it clear that she's not just holding her arms at her sides.
r/Metroid - a subreddit dedicated to a series about a human bounty hunter raised by alien bird ghosts who becomes a jellyfish alien-hybrid and can turn into a ball the size of her head - is having a civil war about how her arms fit into her suit. Diagrams are being deployed pic.twitter.com/ucluQVReXaMarch 2, 2023
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