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* [[Action Girl]]: The first big example in video games.
* [[Anti
* [[Arm Cannon]]
* [[Badass]]
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* [[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]]
* [[Half
*** [[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''.
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* {{spoiler|[[Mama Bear]]: Ask Mother Brain. Oh wait, we can't, it [[Curb Stomp Battle|suffered Samus' rage]] after it killed that Metroid baby...}}
* [[Knight in Sour Armour]]
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Basically everything she steps on triggers a [[Self
* [[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
* [[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.
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* [[Rolling Attack]]: The boost ball can be used offensively. The speed booster can also become this trope in Zero Mission if Samus is in the right terrain.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: [[Trope Namer|Obviously.]]
* [[Shell
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Since ''Metroid II'' on the [[Game Boy]] couldn't use color to differentiate between the different suits, the Varia suit was given big honking shoulders to distinguish its sprite from the regular Power Suit. The design has carried over since then to every subsequent game in the series.
* [[The Silent Bob]]: In the ''Prime'' trilogy.
* [[Spy Catsuit]], [[Form
** [[Combat Stilettos]]: The Zero Suit did not have them until ''Other M''.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Possibly. It's unclear if her given 6'3" height and 198 pound weight is with or without the power suit, but she's significantly shorter than the average male human in ''Other M''. In the Prime games, she's just as tall or taller than the Federation personnel and about the same size as most of the bounty hunters (except the three from Prime 3), so it is easier to believe there.
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* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: In ''Super Metroid'' {{spoiler|when Mother Brain kills the Metroid hatchling that imprinted on her as its mother. Which just gave her the Omega Beam. Cue [[Curb Stomp Battle]].}}
* [[Wall Crawl]]: The Spider Ball. It is limited to magnetic surfaces in Prime, but since Samus can combine it with the boost ball to force herself away from one place and stick to another, it was necessary.
* [[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]]
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* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Hunter Metroids and Metroid Hatchers.
* [[Endangered Species]]: After Metroid 2, which is after Zero Mission and the Primes.
* [[
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: They were created by the Chozo to counteract the X Parasites on SR-388. [[Gone Horribly Right|They did that]] -- and proceeded to devour everything else as well.
* [[Ground Pound]]: How Hopper Metroids attack after entering hyper mode.
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* [[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]]
* [[
* [[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]].
** Arguably all of the non-SR388 Metroids count as well (the ones in the Prime series), since they lost their invulnerability to everything but cold. Justified in that Metroid physiology changes depending on where they're born, and they were all infused with Phazon.
* [[Stationary Boss]]: The Queen Metroid; if you can't beat it, you can leave and come back with more ammo.
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* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[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}}.
=== Anthony Higgs ===
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* [[Back
* [[Badass]]: Formerly [[Memetic Badass]] before he showed his true colours. See "[[Big Damn Heroes]]".
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]
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* [[Trigger Happy]]
* {{spoiler|[[We Hardly Knew Ye]]}}
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Bugs?]]
=== James Pierce ===
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* [[The Blank]]: Possibly. It's not entirely clear if that yellow section of his head where his face would be is a cybernetic face or just a visor. A fan theory is that he's a Ki-Hunter, which would make that yellow part his actual face if true.
* [[Bounty Hunter]]
* [[Colour
* [[Cool Ship]]: Though it's not as prominent as the Delano 7, it can be seen in the intro movie, where Weavel is using it to evade the GF Police. It's also briefly seen on {{spoiler|the Oubliette}}.
* [[Parts Unknown]]: Said in the game's intro.
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* [[Bounty Hunter]]
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: From the hunter himself, to his ice weapon, to the doors that can be opened once Samus gets his weapon, his main color is purple.
* [[
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: The only reason he even ends up fighting against Samus is because his goal is to keep the Ultimate Power out of the wrong hands. Presumably, Samus and the Galactic Federation would fall under "the wrong hands."
* [[I Have the High Ground]]: In the game's intro.
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* [[Bounty Hunter]]
* [[Collision Damage]]: The Dialanche, as seen in the intro. It has to be right when he transforms or at full speed, though, so you're better off using the attack button instead.
* [[Colour
* [[Creator in Joke]]: Retro based his design off a creature from one of their canceled projects. Nintendo Software Technologies wrote his back story with that in mind.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Indeed, the reason why he is seeking the Ultimate Power in the Alimbic system is because it may provide him with an opportunity to find out what happened to the rest of his species.
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* [[Badass]]: The scan visor says his threat level matches Samus's.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: With only ''seconds'' to spare, Rundas [[Catch a Falling Star|saves]] Samus from reaching the reactor of an energy shaft after she just dueled Ridley in a free-fall battle. This was his [[Establishing Character Moment]], and part of what made him so endearing to the fandom.
* [[Bond One
* [[Bounty Hunter]]
* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}}
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* [[Man Child]]: According to scans, her psyche has "a high degree of youthfulness."
* [[Mega Manning]]: {{spoiler|Samus gets Grapple Voltage from Gandrayda}}.
* [[Green
* [[The Rival]]: She really wanted to prove herself a better bounty hunter than Samus, who in turn [[Unknown Rival|didn't even know who Gandrayda was]] until Metroid Prime 3.
* {{spoiler|[[Shape Shifter Swan Song]]}}
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* [[Badass]]: It's heavily implied that the only person in the entire galaxy who is a threat to him is Samus.
** Let's see what he (chronologically) accomplishes:
*** Prior to the series, he single-handedly annihilates ''dozens'' of space colonies (including the one Samus lived in, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|whoops]]) and occupied Zebes, wiping out the remnants of the Chozo civilization.
*** He fights Samus one-on-one in ''[[Metroid]]'' and, while losing, manages to not only survive the fight but escape the endgame explosion, ''and'' lives through his injuries long enough for the pirates to save his life by making him a cyborg.
*** In ''Prime'', the newly roboticized Meta Ridley is more or less the only Space Pirate to live through the destruction of their frigate, and later survives not only a thrashing by Samus but being blasted by the statue guardians of the Artifact Temple.
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* [[Archnemesis Dad|Archnemesis Mom]]: With Samus.
* [[Big Bad]]: More often than not. Could be considered the most prominent [[Big Bad]] of the main series.
* [[
* [[Death By Irony]]: Almost manages to kill Samus in ''Super Metroid'', but is suddenly attacked by the fully-grown {{spoiler|baby Metroid she stole}}, which chomps her head in retaliation. Ha!
* [[One Bad Mother]]
* {{spoiler|[[One
* [[Scare Chord]]: The melody for her battle music in ''Super Metroid'' consists of these.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: In the non-canon [[Captain N]] show.
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* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The rising four-note phrase in her battle music from ''Super Metroid'' actually sounds a lot like the three-note motif used for Man in ''[[Bambi (Disney)|Bambi]]''.
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]
* [[Well
=== Zebesian Space Pirates ===
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** According to logs taken from the original ''Prime'', the pirates did some poking around into the Morph Ball technology, but only to have their results ''break every bone in the test subjects' bodies''. Needless to say, that venture took them nowhere.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The two space pirates that guard Ridley's lair in ''Super Metroid'' have been called "Ninja Pirates" due to their characteristic fighting style.
* [[For Science!]]: Even they think that their Science Team has [[Memetic Mutation|vapor for brains]].
* [[Genre Blind]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: In ''Echoes'' only.
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** [[Giant Mook]]: Elite Pirates. Omega Pirate is a [[King Mook|Giant Giant Mook.]] Also berserker knights, of which the Berserker Lord is the boss version.
** [[Heavily Armored Mook]]: Armored Pirates Troopers and Armoured Militia. Advanced and assault troopers count too.
** [[Kung Fu
** [[Mecha Mooks]]: Aeromines, Crawlmines, Crawltanks and various drones.
** [[Nocturnal Mooks]]: What the shadow pirates are supposed to be, but some are too stupid to stay in the shadows.
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** [[Humongous Mecha]]
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Presumably, it had joined the war against all living things before the Ing took it over.
* [[
* [[King Mook]]: It is essentially a gargantuan Quad robot. {{spoiler|Even down to the Command Module and Main Body being able to fight separately.}}
* [[Mighty Glacier]]
* [[Yin
== Others ==
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* [[Androcles' Lion]]
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Arguably the biggest damn hero in the entire series.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hive Queen]]}}: {{spoiler|Since ''Other M'''s Metroid Queen is cloned straight from the baby and only special infants have the genetic coding to become queens, it would appear that the hatchling was indeed an infant Queen.}}
* [[Last of His Kind]]
* [[What Measure Is a Non
=== X ===
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* [[Intangible Man]]: Hunter Ing; they still can't handle the light of Aether, but Samus's light beam is trivial to them.
* [[Invisibility]]: Some Ing have methods of this, to the point they can hide from ''echolocation and sonar''. Mostly notoriously their flying caches.
* [[Mini
* [[Mook Carryover]]: They make a point to possess Pirate Troopers, as they are already used to following orders.
* [[Rite of Passage]]: Ing are forced to fend for themselves as larva, then fight dangerous opponents after maturing. The idea is to make the young ones rely on each other and hate all other lifeforms, and it seems to work.
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