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!

** [http://metroid-database.com/manga/official_vol_2_en/ch_0014/scaled/sc_metroid_v02_ch0091.png Talking to the higher ups of the Federation...in a half tank top and shorts]. Just like if someone can talk to the UN dressed like her.

** '''[http://metroid-database.com/manga/official_vol_2_en/ch_0016/scaled/sc_metroid_v2_ch16_145.png THREE! I'll Defeat you by the count of three]'''.

* 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.