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* [[Action Girl]]: The first big example in video games.
* [[Anti-Hero]]ine: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type I and Type II]].
* [[Arm Cannon]]: Her primary weapon among a veritable arsenal.
* [[Badass]]:
** [[Badass Abnormal]]
** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: So far her family, adoptive family, {{spoiler|adoptive Metroid child}}, mentor, and close friend/possible boyfriend have all been horrifically killed, with her unable to do anything about it.
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* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Easily the greatest warrior and hunter in the cosmos, Samus is more than adequately equipped.
** This even carries over to ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'', where Zero Suit Samus is the [[Character Tiers|highest-ranking]] female on the roster.
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Purportedly her profession, but some overseas developers think Nintendo's refusal to include actual bounty hunting in the games indicates it's a translation screw-up. Despite this, they seemed to have no problem with the manga showing her hunting bounties.
* [[Building Swing]]: The grapple beam in Super and grapple lasso in Prime. This becomes less important with the space jump/screw attack, but Prime 3 gives the lasso more functions to keep it relevant.
* [[The Chosen One]]: According to Chozo prophecy.
* [[Cool Ship]]: Her Gunship.
* [[Determinator]]: An absolute given, considering her suit's defences rely on maintaining a zen level of focus during battle, which doubt can cripple. But one particularly impressive display of willpower she displays is in ''Metroid Prime 3''. She staves off Phazon Corruption longer than any of her fellow bounty hunters, in spite of being given the largest dose of radioactive venom by her arch-nemesis. And even retains her mind when at its very origin. With the poison coursing through her veins she descends into the core of the planet Phaaze and wipes the floor with her dark doppelganger, endures the cancer being (unimaginably painfully) purged and ''somehow'' manages to escape back up to the surface before the world blows apart.
* [[Doom Magnet]]: Inherited from the Chozo. Person, planet, species... once she gets there, if they haven't already suffered tremendously (and they often have), they will. Not necessarily by her design or intent, mind you, but it inevitably happens anyways.
** Subverted with the Luminoth, as she actually ''does'' help them out with no negative side effects to them in the long run.
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* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Tall, buxom, gorgeous, athletic, highly flexible, intelligent, a strong and aloof exterior hiding a girl in need of a big hug... We could be here all night.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: She knows a fair bit about mechanics, evidenced by designing her own gunship in Prime 3, repairing circuitry, energizing dead systems, and by her notes in some scans.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: A gorgeous blonde, and about as kind of a mercenary as you could possibly know. She ''has'' to be an optimist to endure what she's been through.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: In the end, she's anywhere from as much 95% human to as little as 10%. For most of the series, she's mostly human with a little Chozo, but then ''[[Metroid Fusion]]'' adds in Metroid. From ther,e fans will debate about whether exposure to X Parasites has messed up her genes further or not; Nintendo itself has been silent. {{spoiler|The game shows the X parasites were destroyed by her Metroid vaccine. Metroids eat life energy, not solid food, so she's not integrating absorbed X physically into herself, but fans still argue.}}
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Ever wonder why she looks different in the]] ''[[Fridge Brilliance|Fusion]]'' [[Fridge Brilliance|endings?]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Has had ''several'', although it only got in the way of her work in ''Other M''.
* [[Hurting Hero]]
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Her suit can hold over 200 missiles, even in the NES game. Later games not only retain this missile carrying capacity but add things such as power bombs and ammunition for much stranger weapons.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: To an extent, as she was raised by aliens. Non-mammalian aliens, at that. Not to mention that she's not entirely human herself anymore.
* {{spoiler|[[Mama Bear]]: Ask Mother Brain. Oh wait, we can't, it [[Curb Stomp Battle|suffered Samus' rage]] after it killed that Metroid baby...}}
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* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: All promotional material for the first game outright lied and said that Samus was a male cyborg. This extended to the game manual itself. Of course, this was to preserve the surprise at the end.
* [[Not Quite Flight]]: The space jump in the 2D games; downgraded to a [[Double Jump]] in Prime, but then get the screw attack in those games, and she's back to jumping canyons. The shine spark also qualifies.
* [[One-Man Army|One
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks again, Ridley]].
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Is a bounty hunter who is yet to be seen doing any actual bounty hunting. Her work would suggest she's more like a mercenary.
** She claimed to be searching for a bounty in Super Metroid, so it could be assumed most of the games we play are special situations where someone contracted her, or she's just sidetracked and she would be hunting bounties if not for it.
** For Metroid Prime 3, Retro Studios initially planned for Samus to do some actual bounty hunting. She'd get a list of possible jobs to do, earn rewards, and use the cash to buy upgrades for her equipment. Nintendo didn't like the idea, and after some back-and-forth, Retro realized there was a language issue, and that "bounty hunter" isn't exactly the best description of what Samus is supposed to be. The Retro developers started joking that she was a "pro-bono hunter" instead.
* [[Powered Armor
** [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Although she is still a bit agile outside the suit, Samus is unable to take down even a basic Space Pirate trooper without its help. Averted in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]].'', for [[Competitive Balance]] reasons.
*** That might be because she was basically unarmed (that paralyzer doesn't really count) without it.
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* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: How Samus handles water; becomes less of a problem with the gravity suit or gravity boost.
* [[Wall Jump]]: Generally becomes redundant when she gets the space jump and screw attack, except for Prime, where the space jump and screw attack are used for wall jumping.
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Introspective, calculating and spiritual. That one silent scene of Samus surveying the burning, destroyed Chozo Temple at the end of ''Metroid Prime'' before closing her eyes with some curious, subdued emotion; cements her ''forever'' as one of these.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: And my mother. And my adoptive alien race.
** Or at least drove the latter into hiding beyond the corporeal world.
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* [[Achilles' Heel]]: They're really weak to [[Kill It with Ice|ice attacks]], but the SR388 and Tallon IV strands outgrow this weakness eventually, trading it for others.
* [[Asteroids Monster]]: Fission Metroids, the pieces don't share the original whole's weaknesses either.
* [[Attack Animal]]: For the Chozo. The space pirates and Ing, not so much.
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Phazon Metroids, which to be fair, may be because of their ability to leave local space times but miniroids do it too without that benefit.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: They are flying jellyfish with mouths like leeches and weakness to cold and/or missiles.
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* [[Miracle-Gro Monster]]: Instead of metamorphosing, the Super Metroid just kept getting bigger. Metroid Prime was also small at one point in time.
* [[Monster Lord]]: The Queen Metroids. Mother Brain sorta plays this role in lieu of a Queen. The Metroid Prime commanded a few as well.
* [[Personal Space Invader]]: They were worse in the first game where it took multiple bombs to dislodge them, which might result in you accidentally being blown back into their grip. It only takes one to get them off in ''Metroid II'' and ''Metroid: Zero Mission''.
* [[Power-Up Letdown]]: The stage between Phazon and Hatcher can't even fly.
* [[Shoddy Knockoff]]: In-universe, the Mochtroids are this to the genuine article. Sure, they drain Samus' energy, but they can't latch onto her properly, and they are weak against pretty much any weapon, not just ice and missiles. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And they don't even have the right number of nuclei]].
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* [[Starfish Aliens]]: There is not a single thing in their biology that makes any sense by our standards.
* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: The basis of their existence.
* [[Vampiric Draining]]: No puncture wounds though. Those teeth/claws are used for gripping their victim, not as the mechanism for the draining.
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=== General Adam Malkovich ===
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* [[Badass Normal]]
* {{spoiler|[[Brain Uploading]]}}
* [[The Captain]]: In ''Metroid: Other M'', he leads his squad into the BOTTLE SHIP.
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: Ian Malkovich
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Though it is questionable if it was even necessary, something the computer in ''Metroid Fusion even mocks him for}}.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: {{spoiler|His sacrifice of Ian Malkovich, and himself
* [[Mission Control]]: In Metroid: Other M'', after telling Samus that if she wants in on his investigation of the BOTTLE SHIP then she'll have to conduct herself as one of his soldiers and obey his orders to the letter, he spends most of his time in the command center monitoring her progress and issuing commands. His helpfulness in this regard is questionable.
* {{spoiler|[[More Expendable Than You]]}}: His reasoning for {{spoiler|going to Sector 0 in Samus' place}}.
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: He ordered a ship to detatch, saving the lives of his crew while sacrificing his brother in the process. He does not break down at all.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Maybe it is a symbol of his authority, or maybe his authority lets him get away with it?
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: "Any objections, Lady?"
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Adam gets called out by Samus for {{spoiler|shooting her in the back and then letting her linger long enough to almost become food for a possibly invulnerable Metroid}}.
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* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: He and Samus.
* [[Badass]]: Formerly [[Memetic Badass]] before he showed his true colours. See "[[Big Damn Heroes]]".
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Well, he would be leader of his squad as a breach trooper, but a General is around, for some reason, so he's obviously outranked.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: He's revealed to lack hair at the end of ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Big Guy]]: He's the biggest person in Adam's squad, taller even than Samus.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Saves Samus from Ridley in his undoubted [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. In a less awesome but still important one, he puts the brakes on the Bottle Ship, preventing it from [[Colony Drop|smashing into the Federation HQ]] and giving Samus time to finish off the Metroid Queen. Finally, at the end, he interrupted the [[Government Conspiracy]] and rescued Samus by pulling rank.}}
* [[BFG]]: The plasma cannon on his back.
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{{quote|"I'm fine, but did it have to be bugs?"}}
* [[Trigger Happy]]: When confronted with a single bug, he shoots it into a pulp and keeps shooting.
* {{spoiler|[[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: He's killed offscreen after the squad splits up}}.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
=== James Pierce ===
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{{quote|Debut: ''[[Metroid: Other M]]''}}
* [[The Engineer]]: His official role within the squad
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]
* {{spoiler|[[Kill It with Ice]]: A victim. The Deleter killed him with a freeze gun and left his remains in the artic biosphere}}.
* [[Mr. Fixit]]
* [[Rapid-Fire Typing]]: When trying to access the BOTTLE SHIP's files.
* [[The Smart Guy]]
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