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* Even in the instruction booklet for the original ''[[Metroid]]'' game, Samus Aran was played up to be a man...or at the very least, a cyborg, with such lines as, "Even the Space Pirates fear ''his'' armor." But beating the game in a very short amount of time treats players to Samus stripping away said armor to reveal...[[Samus Is a Girl|a chick in a bikini]]. take that, [[Distressed Damsel]] archetype!
** 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
{{quote| [[Metroid Other M|"Mother. Time to GO."]]}}
** 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
** Cue the [[Shoulders of Doom|giant]] [[Memetic Mutation|fucking shoulders!]]
*** The game is worth playing for that one moment. You beat a boss without your armor, then about ten seconds of pure awesome go by. Then Space Pirates go boom.
* 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.
** Wait. She's not the Badass Queen yet? She's Samus Aran, DESTROYER OF WORLDS, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|BITCH!]]
** She's [[Trope Pantheons/Combat|the goddess]] of [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|planetary destruction]] for a reason.
* ''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.''}}
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*** A 684,128 kilometer [[Disney Death]].
*** 5 Super Missiles down the throat.
*** A dip in a [[Precision F
*** Massive [[The Corruption|Phazon Mutation]]. (At this point, for those keeping score, he's a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Cyborg Mutant Radioactive Zombie]] [[In Space|Space]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Pirate Dragon]])
***** 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.]].
** All just to respawn in a month because {{spoiler|the Federation's [[Memetic Mutation|Science Team also has vapor for brains.]]}} So I see it as Samus freaking out over the being she watched kill her mother, told her it ate all her family and friends to survive her father's [[Heroic Sacrifice]], which she's been sure was dead {{smallcaps|FOR A MONTH}} (and should have been 7 times over by now) standing before her eyes. I think she's fully [[Justified Trope|justified]] in suffering a [[Ten Minute Retirement|five-minute]] [[Heroic BSOD]].
*** 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.
** And at the end of said battle, Ridley ends up so freaking scared of Samus that he [[There Was a Door|crashes through a wall]] in a frantic attempt to get away from her.
* Are we forgetting the Manga? In it one of the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Chozo]], [[The Obi
* Most of the early SA-X encounters in Fusion involve you running and hiding because the feared evil twin can easily kill Samus with one shot of the Ice Beam and Super Missile (in that order). Once you have the Varia Suit, the Ice Beam won't freeze you (still hurts a lot, though), and by the time you meet SA-X again after getting said Varia Suit, you will be able to turn the tables on it by using Ice Missiles to freeze it. It only buys you about one second to run away, but this troper couldn't help but think "Who's laughing now?!" before running like hell to a hiding place.
** Not just that, but come the end of the game, {{spoiler|you get to ''stomp that thing into the ground'' in a boss fight.}}
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