Saturday, July 1, 2017

Tropes vs Samus Aran

I recently finished replaying Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (henceforth MP3). For the uninitiated, the player character in the Metroid games is sci-fi bounty hunter Samus Aran. Notably among video game protagonists, Samus is a woman, which came as quite a surprise to those who played the original Metroid in 1986. The surprise was aided by the manual referring to her using male pronouns. More importantly, however, Samus spends almost the entire game clad from head to toe in robotic powered armor.