Death Analysis: Samus Aran

Death Analysis: The Scourge of the Space Pirates, Hope of the Galaxy, Daughter of the Chozo, Many-Suited Hunter, Samus Aran!

Cosmic Year 2,000, The Galactic Federation maintains peace and order in the milky way galaxy. The Chozo, a race of birdlike aliens and masters of technology in the whole of the universe are visiting a small Earth colony K-2L when the planet is unexpectedly attacked in a devastating raid by the space pirates, led by the scourge of the galaxy, Space Dragon Ridley. The only survivor is a young 3-year old girl who had previously befriended the visiting Chozo and were with them at the time.

The Chozo took the young orphan Samus Aran under their tutelage. In order to better survive the inhospitable world of Zebes, the homeworld of the Chozo, they genetically altered Samus, integrating human and chozo dna together.

The Chozo knew that a dark time was on the horizon for a galaxy, with many threats appearing. They created many protections against it, but Samus, they symbolic child, was their final hope for the galaxy. She was trained by them from a young age and when she came of age, she donned the Chozo Battle Armor developed by the wisdom of the Chozo Elders and their superintelligent AI Mother Brain. With it she became the famed scourge of the space pirates.

Suits:

Samus, like a lot of girls, likes to accessorize. However unlike most girls, for Samus new accessories means new upgrades to her power armor to make it even more powerful.

Samus has essentially 8 different chozo suits used by her canonically, along with her zero suit, and I will go over all of them.

 

Zero Suit:

Zero Suit Samus is Samus without her Chozo Power Armor at all. This form is by far her weakest form, though it still the dangerous bounty hunter of the galaxy

Samus lived all her life on Zebes. Zebes, according to the scan in Metroid Prime has a mass of an absolutely monsterous 4.8 TRILLION teratons or 4,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, as mass twice as large as that of Jupiter (and apparently there is a lot of planets with similar mass in the Metroid Universe going by scans, to the point that there is a classification for how inhospitable they are, Class XIX). All this mass is concentrated on a planet with a diameter similar to Earth, 11,700 kilometers compared to Earth's 12,742 kilometers. This would give Zebes a gravity 960 times that of Earth's!

Samus can tank this level of force on her body, and even on a planet like this is a superhuman able to superleap at will. Samus in her zero suit was even able to survive a crash landing barely any distance from the epicenter of the crash when her ship was shot down over Zebes, a feat that would have imparted nearly 10 kilotons of energy on her body.

If there is one thing her Zero Suit does boost, it's her stealth ability. Zero Suit Samus in Zero Mission was able to sneak get around on the Space Pirate Mothership without getting caught.

She is armed with her emergency pistol. This pistol is "rather useless", only being able to stun and not hurt space pirates. That said it is able to destroy large quantities of metal in one-shot.

Base Armor:

Samus' base armor and her weakest armor that all the others build on. It is able to read Samus' thoughts directly allowing for faster reactions. 

In this Suit Samus' capabilities are drastically boosted. This Armor should easily be stronger then other Chozo weaponry created in an ancient era, which are capable of creating a massive mushroom cloud and destroying space pirate ships in atmosphere from the surface of Zebes. 

With this suit Samus was able to blitz space pirates. The same space pirates were able to conduct a spacefight around multiple planets in non-hyperspace, indicating ftl reflexes. She was also able to fight Base Ridley, who can regularly fly around planets in short spans of time. 

Varia Suit:

Initially a mistranslation of "Barrier" Suit, Varia Suit adds another layer of armor onto the Base Power Suit. It grants far increased protection from damage of most types. Everything from Superheat, to Sub-Zero Temperatures to Tiny Parasites fail to have any affect on the Varia Suit. This suit is Samus' most iconic and is what she starts with in the Metroid Prime series. 

Gaining this power allows in Metroid Prime for all damage to be reducted to 10%. The Newly aquired Varia Suit allowed Samus to tank the breath attack of Ridley which was able to destroy much of a mountain on Zebes. Due to Zebes' gravity this was a gigaton level feat. 

With the Varia Suit Samus was able to fight and defeat Gorea.in a dimension of anti-matter. The same Gorea wiped all life from the Tetra Galaxy in the span of 3 months, a feat that require speeds at least thousands of times lightspeed, likely millions of times. 

Gravity Suit: 

The Gravity Suit's grants a further increase in defense onto the Varia Suit, but as the name implies, it's primary purpose is to negate the effects of gravity on Samus, allowing her to operate normally in situations with differing gravity like underwater or in the vacuum.

Gravity-Suit Samus was able to fight with great difficulty the Omega Pirate, a Space Pirate boosted by the power of the Phazon, a semi-sentient energy-virus-corruption that threatened the galaxy. The Omega Pirate was significantly stronger then entites that survived a small portion of the energy of the Leviathan's crash on Tallon, an impact calced to be planet-destroying levels of energy. Depending on surface area, it's possibly this would make the Gravity Suit country level. 

Phazon Suit: 

When the Omega Pirate died, it collapsed onto Metroid, and it's Phazon was absorbed into Samus' armor. 

The Phazon Suit is signifigantly stronger then the Gravity Suit and is likely country level. The Phazon Suit cuts damage to Samus in half atop all other bonuses. It also protects Samus from less damaging variants of Phazon and gives Samus a limited ability to use Phazon herself. 

Dark Suit:

The Dark Suit is a special suit created by the Luminoth to survive the atmosphere of Dark Aether, a dark planet created in the split of the planetary energies of Aether. The Dark Suit  gives Samus protection from the corrosive and poisonous vapors of Dark Aether. 

The Dark Suit's power was strong enough to allow Samus to overcome Dark Samus, a Fusion of the original Metroid with Samus' Phazon Suit so the Dark Suit should scale to the Phazon Suit. 

Light Suit:

Created as the perfect fusion of Chozo and Luminoth Technology, The Light Suit is one of Samus' strongest armors. It is powered by the Light of Aether, the planetary energy of all of Aether capable of stabilizing planets, giving it a power source more potent then her previous armors.

The Light Suit gives Samus immunity too all the hazards of Dark Aether, such as corrosion and poisons. Light Suit Samus was able to defeat Dark Samus at her full power who would only a little later, greatly damaged from battle survive a planet-sized dimension collapsing in on her. This would suggest the Light Suit is Planet Level. Some suggest that the Dark Aether being converted to energy and returning to Light Aether to be stabilized is a feat for the weak Dark Samus, however given Dark Samus was mere PARTICLES at the time, it is highly unlikely she survived any kind of significant fraction of the energy. The dimension collapsing however is concentrated on a single point of space. 

PED Suit:

The PED Suit was created from the Galactic Federation modifying Samus' Armor to allow her to "safetly" use the power of Phazon. Overusage of the power of Phazon will still corrupt Samus but as she uses the power she also grows stronger, with a nearly fully corrupted Phazon being one of the strongest suits in the series. 

PED Samus went to Phaaze, a living planet and the source of all phazon as described by the artbook:

“No one knows when Phaaze was born.

A planet completely unique in an infinite universe, unlike any that came before it. Phaaze was alive. A conscious, sentient being.

Like all living creatures, Phaaze did its best to ensure the continued survival and prosperity of its race. Every 100 years, seeds, similar in form to meteors, would be fired from Phaaze to planets far away. These seeds, these children of Phaaze, were called Leviathans. Leviathans had the ability to generate wormholes, allowing them to travel to galaxies unbelievably far away."

there her PED suit was put into critical condition and it's strongest state, where Samus was able to beat Dark Samus with the planet itself, even after assimilating Biological Super-Computer Aurora Unit 313, their destruction caused Phaaze itself to explode

Fusion Suit:

Samus last suit chronologically (though she reverts to normal at the end of Metroid Fusion), The Fusion Suit theoretically can be combined with any other suit, though originally was an alternate to her earliest base Power Suit.

When Samus was infected by the x parasite, a horrific genetic monstrosity, radical surgery was required and so the DNA of the baby metroid, samus's symbolic child, who sacrificed itself to save her against Mother Brain in Super Metroid was implanted into Samus. Since Metroids are the natural predator to the x-virus, the metroid dna saved Samus' life, but radically altered Samus and her power armor that is genetically bonded to her due to the x-virus' influence. This technically makes Samus the last of the Metroid entities.

The Fusion suit, without the Varia upgrade, gave Samus a weakness to cold due to the Metroid's weakness to cold. However it also allows the absorption of virus to restore energy and health in the same way that the Metroids themselves did. The Fusion Gravity Suit was able to defeat SA-X, the virus x infected old Varia Suit of Samus that was fully upgraded, even after it evolved into a more monstrous form. As such it should easily scale to the Varia Suit.

Other Equipment:

Samus possesses a large variety of other weapons, that take forever to list. So you better be grateful ;)

Sensory Equipment:

Samus has a number of different pieces of sensory equipment to help her examine her environment. Her base helmet contains a selectively transparent visor and a hud that allows her to view her health level, energy level, and amount of ammunition. It also has a radar that allows her to scan for nearby enemies.

Samus' scanner can decrypt data in mere seconds and can scan enemies for history, information, and weak points.

Various upgrades allow Samus's scanner to see thermal and x-ray waves, as well as through low-light on Dark Aether and to see soundwaves.

Movement Technology:

Samus has a number of tech abilities that facilitate her movement. The most famous of this is her morph ball, where she turns her body into an orb 0.8 meters in diameter capable of laying bombs. This form has multiple upgrades like the spider ball, which allows her morph ball to stick and roll on walls so long as she is not damaged, and the Hyper Ball, which allows forms of Samus with phazon (Phazon Suit and PED Suit) to create arcs of lightning laced with phazon. 

Another useful one is her grapple beam, which lets her grapple environmental factors (or enemies) to sling herself along. After the defeat of Gandraya, Samus gained the ability to make her grapple course with energy PED Samus can also use the grapple to inject an enemy with phazon

Samus can use her screw attack ability, which allows her to create a controversial versus show charge her jumps with energy turning herself into an energy blade.

Samus can use her speed booster to boost herself at past supersonic speeds even on planets with heavily intense gravity like Zebes. This is suplemented with the Shinespark ability which allows her to transfer for momentum from her running into a vertical jump. 

Beams: 

Samus' most famous weapon, from her arm cannon she can produce a variety of beam attacks. And by a variety I mean a metric ton of them.

Her Standard is her famous Power Beam. This fires an energy blast from her arm. It allows Samus to destroy Space Pirates who can survive on the insane gravity of many Metroid Planets.  It can be upgraded in a vast variety of ways. The Charge Beam upgrade allows the beam to be charged for more power. The Long Beam allows for the beam's range to be increased from 3-10 meters to hundreds of meters. The Wide Shot or Spazer shot allows for the firing of 3 beams at once. The Wave Beam upgrade allows Samus to release waves of energy able to harm Ridley himself. Samus can also control the temperature of this attack. She can use Ice Beam to shoot a freezing cold attack or can use Plasma Beam to shoot superheated plasma able to disintegrate most enemies.

Samus' most powerful "normal" beam is likely her Hyper Beam. Attained from the sacrifice of the baby Metroid who absorbed the energy of Mother Brain and transferred to it's "mother" Samus, the Hyper-Beam is symbolically the power of Samus' fury. The Hyperbeam fires rainbow colored energy blasts capable of destroying Mother Brain, a being much stronger then most of Samus' suits. A much weaker state of Mother Brain was able to create low exatons of energy with her self-destruction. The Hyper Beam is likely stronger then this.

Samus has more beams that are rarer. Phazon-Powered versions of her can use the Phazon Beam which can fire blasts of phazon to corrode enemies. She can use the Dark Beam which fires dark energy at her enemies which temporarily paralyze them. She can also use the Light Beam which shoot balls of white-hot energy that are harmful to the beings of darkness. And she can use both with her Annhilator beam which mixes light and darkness to launch a combination matter-antimatter homing blast at her enemies.

Samus also possess the nova beam, a high-energy beam that can ignore Phazon armor to allow her to easily beat Phazon-based enemies.

Missiles:

Along with her beams, Samus can use missiles as a mobile projectiles. These missiles can home in on enemies (in the 3-d games) but Samus carries a finite amount of them. She can fire 5 missiles in unison called a Super Missile for a much more damaging attack. 

While not as many as Beams, Samus has numerous variations on missiles. She can use Seeker Missiles to fire 5 missiles at once at 5 separate targets. Ice Missiles do as the name suggests, freeze those hit. This can be augmented by Diffusion Missiles, an invention of the Galactic Federation which can shoot a freezing missile volley outwards as a spray.

Much like with her beams, a Phazon-Powered Samus can use Phazon-versions of her missiles called Hyper Missiles.

Charge Combo:

Special Attacks made by combining a certain type of beam with another type of projectile.

The Wave-Buster is the Charge Combo of the Wave Beam, capable of producing a homing stream of electricity that can stun an enemy

The Ice Spreader is the Charge Combo of the Ice Beam, able to freeze a larger area

The Flame-Thrower is the Charge Combo of the Plasma Beam, able to create a continuous fire attack.

The Dark-Burst is the Charge Combo of the Dark Beam, able to use dark energy to create a hold to another dimension

The Sun-Burst is the Charge Combo of the Light Beam, able to create an incredibly bright light attack that sets enemies alight if they aren't disintegrated outright. 

The Sonic Boom is the Charge Combo of the Annihilator Beam, able to distort space-time with a powerful matter-antimatter burst

Aeion:

So in 2017, Nintendo decides to just give it up and make Samus a wizard. She can use the natural mystical energy of Zebes to boost her technological abilities.

With Scan Pulse can reveal map data to Samus. Lightning Armor can make Samus' armor pulse with electrical energy. It makes her immune to damage in-game and increases Samus' melee attacks. Beam Burst allows Samus to do extra damage and allows her to rapid-fire. Finally with Phase Drift, Samus can slow down time to half normal speed.

Perhaps her being a wizard explains how she can somehow hit ghosts

Mental:

Samus is an expert fighter by all accounts, having on many occassions outright beat many of the Galactic Federation's best enforces and hunters as well as being the unstoppable hunter to the likes of the Space Pirates. She has good knowledge of the galaxy and it's creatures and has fought a rather....eclectic group of villains.

She has a superhuman willpower, able to resist the control of Mother Brain who was able to mentally control all the lifeforms of planet Zebes and has on occasion shown minor psychic abilities such as prophetic dreams. 

Weakness:

While Samus can get airborne easily, she can not actually fly and needs a spaceship to travel the cosmos. Some of Samus' weapons, specifically missiles, are finite and while she has a very large amount it is possible for her to run out, meaning she will likely be a bit conservative with them. Also Samus' Phazon Abilities are dangerous to use and she is less likely in-character to use them.

Other M also tried to claim Samus had PTSD but this is......VERY inconsistent with the other games of the series.

Personality:

"In the vast universe, the history of humanity is but a flash of light from a lone star. The life of a single person should be lost in space and time. But among the stars, there is one light that burns brighter than all others. The light of Samus Aran. Her battles extend beyond her life, and etch themselves into history."

Samus generally seems like a very stoic, brooding and contemplative personality. She despises the villains of the galaxy and hunts them down to honor her fallen parents, her human parents and her chozo parents, alike. That said Samus has a compassionate side hidden, being protective of the weaklings of the galaxy. More then anything, Samus hates those that attack the defenseless. When she was growing up on Zebes she surprised the Chozo Elders by not attacking a species of wild butterfly creatures as everyone else was doing but instead disarming them and making peace with them. Samus is known by her superiors as being wholly unpredictable and impossible to predict.

What Mother Brain is afraid of, life and it's unpredictable ability to create new futures and to adapt, that is embodied in Samus. The Chozo foresaw a number of dark threats to the universe that no single system could possibly stop, and so as the last hope of the galaxy, they did create their symbolic daughter Samus, an indomitable will that adapted be what was needed to stop what threats emerged. Samus represents the Chozo's hope; peace for the entire universe.

Summary:

+Tier 12-11

+Island-Country Level DC/Durability Normally, Potentially Planetoid Level with Hyperbeam, Planet Level with Light Suit and Full-Power PED Suit.

+MFTL Reflexes, MFTL Speed in most forms

+A Variety of Weaponry and Equipment

+Sensory Equipment

+Energy-Projection

+Enhanced Strength

+Element Manipulation (Light, Darkness, Fire, Ice, Electricity, Plasma)

+Matter-Antimatter Attacks

+Dimensional BFR

+Phazon (Corruption, Corrosion, Mental Manipulation)

+Time-Slowing

+Can distort spacetime

+Can Grapple Around

+Can use bombs and power bombs

+Can absorb parasites as health and energy

+Resistance to most Physical Haxes

+Mental Hax Resistance (Planetary)

+Can hit Intangibles

+Scanning

+Can bypass Phazon Shielding

+Low Level Psychic

+Superhumanly Skilled Fighter

-Can't fly

-Limited Ammunition for some of her weaponry

-Phazon can be dangerous to use

Possible Opponent:

Samus Aran vs Iron Man:

Apparently the casuals want this matchup and it doesn't seem unbalanced. The theme seems to be just having power-suit using heroes that have a large number of suits, and having an iconic energy blast attack.

Next Time:

Thanks to my friend Thor-kun for as always making my next times, he does a great job on them!