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** This Troper still remembers how ecstatic she was when she finished the game as an eleven-year-old girl and found out that.... [[Samus Is a Girl|You know]]. The ending of Metroid was huge CMOA for female gamers everywhere, even if it did involve a PG-rated striptease.

* Super Metroid has two characters get a CMOA in the same scene. The fight with Mother Brain isn't going too well--she transforms from a helpless brain in a jar to a towering, drooling, screeching beastie and has Samus at her mercy. Just as Mother Brain's charging up for the final blow, {{spoiler|the Metroid hatchling Samus saved from Metroid II shows up all grown up and drains Mother Brain into submission, then transfers the energy to Samus while taking heavy fire. It brings Samus back to full health before one last shot from Mother Brain kills it. After its heart-rending death squeal, Samus stands up. Hello, [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower|Hyper Beam]]. Hello, [[Theme Music Power-Up]]. And hello, ''[[Mama Bear]]''.}}

** This scene is even ''visually'' awesome: {{spoiler|Before, your most powerful weapons were barely scratching Mother Brain. The Hyper Beam, on the other hand, ''[[Curb Stomp Battle|sends her reeling with each hit.]]''}} [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz3aF1kw5k Here] is a link to watch the battle.

* In ''Zero Mission'', after destroying Mother Brain, Samus' ship crashes, forcing her to trek through the pirate mother ship without her powersuit, constantly having to dodge the murderous pirates and their powerful weapons. At the end of the level, Samus discovers a new powersuit in the Chozo Ruins....a ''far more powerful'' powersuit than her old one. Cue the [[Transformation Sequence]]! Cue the [[Theme Music Power-Up]]! Cue the mass amounts of buttkicking that commences when Samus can now kill the pirates with one shot, instead of the other way around!

* And really, how many planets can one woman detonate before she becomes the Queen of [[Badass]]?

** I'm gonna go ahead and say 42. Just throwin' that out there.

* ''Metroid Fusion'' has several in the final segment of the game. {{spoiler|1=After hearing from her computer that there are TEN SA-X running around (clones of Samus) and that the federation is coming down to capture the clones and study it, Samus decides to send the research station crashing down into SR388, even if it means killing herself in the process, which she acknowledges to the computer. The computer's personality then changes, deciding to help Samus while taking the personality of Adam, Samus's long gone commanding officer and mentor. "Any objections, Lady?" In a Super Metroid moment, Samus fights the Omega Metroid and one swipe knocks her health down to one. One of the SA-X appears, ignoring Samus and shoots the Metroid with its Ice Beam. The Metroid kills it, which releases the parasite. Samus absorbs it, which full heals her, gives back the Ice Beam, and changes Samus' suit color to the traditional red, orange, and yellow. If that wasn't enough, Samus' ship arrives after the battle to help her escape. It wasn't the computer controlling the ship, but the friendly creatures that Samus released much earlier in the game}}.

** Don't forget, that canonically, Samus {{spoiler|rescued said creatures in Super Metroid ''while Zebes was about to explode.''}}

* In the manga, when Samus finally got out of being [[The Chick]] and [[Took a Level In Badass]], she has three CMOAs:

*** Gee whiz... that outfit makes her look like Carmen Sandiego!

* Ah hell, I'll just say it: the Metroid series is a Crowning Franchise of Awesome for the Video Game Medium as a whole.

** '''[[Metroid/Laconic|Armored lady hunts aliens and pirates, in space.]]''' No arguments from me.