Metroid/Awesome: Difference between revisions

** 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!

{{quote| "If you're capable, we'll count together."}}

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

* The entire Metroid Prime Trilogy is going to be [[Updated Rerelease|re-released]] on the Wii, the first two games remade with Wiimote Controls, and the token system, the multiplayer mode from Echoes will still be in the game, and Corruption is also on the disc. And all of this is only 50 dollars? 3 of the best games from the Gamecube and the Wii for 50 dollars, and they were improved... This may just be my love of the franchise coming out, but just hearing about that is a gigantic crowning moment of awesome.

** [[Up to Eleven|The pre-order deal nets you a T-Shirt]]. [[No Export for You|Unfortunately that part of the deal is only valid in the US]].

***** Don't forget clone. Twice.

*** Being blown apart, having the pieces atomized, and having whatever was left after the atomization be on [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Zebes when it when BOOM.]].

*** Not even five minutes. Most real life people with PTSD would probably need a sit down, some counseling, and a non-stress environment for a while to get over a debilitating onset of PTSD. Samus takes about a minute-and-a-half, tops, to decide to stop freaking out and start jamming plasma beams down his throat. She freezes up, then gets ground against the wall in a room filled with ''lava'', while her power suit's on the fritz, and she '''bounces right the hell back''' and, as mentioned below, kicks Ridley's ass so thoroughly that his only option is to [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|GTFO]] like his ass is on fire.

** Oh yes. Say whatever you will about Samus's portrayal in that scene, but it made Ridley out to be a [[Creepy Awesome|completely unstoppable killing machine]]... which is what he is.