The Queerness of Samus Aran

Hell, the whole bomb thing. Maybe her suit at least has a cloaca?

morph ball oviposition

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MORPH BOMB OVIPOSITION
GONNA BLOW THAT PUSSY UP

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buk buk muthafuck

alright alright

definitely like, pin feathers around the face is a feature i can’t not imagine on Samus nowadays

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and like, no matter her birth assignment (quick aside though, just wanna put forward that i see no reason why a trans woman can’t be for all women in the same way an AFAB woman can BUT ANYWAY she was like, raised by aliens so what meaning would human gender even have for her eska) i can’t imagine her as pretty

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only reason i said this is cuz as much as i love getting my grubby goblin hands on fictional ladies and decreeing that they are Trans it’s nice if she can be a tall and strong afab, some of the samus is trans people qualify that she’s trans because of those qualities which i think is unnecessarily shitty to cis women

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Samus is totally pretty but only if you like roughness and birds and sweat.

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It’s also a little weird in light the terfy tendency toward phrenology, and “accusing” any afab women who don’t fit into a certain box of being trans. Like athletes, frequently.

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yea I brought this up in my original post about it, i just don’t think the idea that “samus is Manly so she must be trans” is good or healthy for anybody lol even though i do kinda get it from a “ahh she’s just like me” angle

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What I like about the (probably accidental) queer-coding of the character, the series, and its themes is that it kinda dances around that problem by not defining anything. Like, you can look at her and her situation and what she goes through and go, AH, without being limited by notions like, well, she’s buff and huge, therefore blahblah. Those just become dimensions of ambiguity in a soup of many others.

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this has serial mom energy i approve

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I don’t have nothing to add to the conversation, other than this fan-art, i like it a lot:

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i got metroid fusion for christmas the year it came out and I remember distinctly being terrified by the idea that samus was now fused to the fusion suit for the rest of her life. like just the idea of a sanctuary like the inside of the varia suit becoming a weird invasive prison fucked me up as a child

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picturing samus in chunky white shoes after labor day pointing her blaster at serial mom threatening her to try something

did she sign your poster or does she just have her name written on her armor

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i vaguely remember writing it on there in front of some people (thats definitely my handwriting) as part of some bit, but i cant remember what the joke was at all

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Here is my embarrassing gay secret: I really, really love Metroid but I’m extremely bad at all the 2D ones because I get incredible anxiety fighting tough enemies or bosses. I don’t want to let Samus down! The SA-X was awful. I’ve felt this way since I was like, 9. I just don’t want her to get hurt because of my mistakes!!

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Aran the side of caution

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Ridley’s always a massive pushover though. in the first game he can’t even hit you if you’re standing next to him!

idk if this is the kind of post that belongs in this thread but the final SA-X fight is a textbook example of bad boss design in my mind. it’s super easy when you know what to do (shoot ice missiles, jump to other side, repeat), but immediately punishes any attempt to experiment or get creative. (in other words, the kind of thing I’m pretty sure Felix was complaining about with sekiro, though the idea of an entire game building upon that as a basis is weird enough that i find it compelling)

the first 90% of fusion is a great first half of a game but there really isn’t anything worth seeing after you get the wave beam

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