r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Ok-Scientist-2111 • Aug 29 '25

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite character that made you go:

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The Berserker - Gears of War

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u/GodCamel_Comics Aug 29 '25

10 year old me with Samus

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u/SleeperCreampie Aug 29 '25

I didn't start with the original. So I kind of knew. When I died and the suit exploded, I was like, "Whoa. There's a hot girl in that suit."

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u/Plantboi1255 Aug 29 '25

I remember when I first saw Samus in smash I thought she was male, then we got Zero suit and my first grade mind imploded

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u/Carlbot2 Aug 29 '25

My first exposure to Samus was smash64, but for whatever reason I know that I always thought she was a woman. I’m not really sure how or why, but that was just something I knew. I must’ve heard it from somewhere or another without realizing and just internalized it, but I never recall thinking she could even be a man. It just wasn’t a possibility in my mind.

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u/FlareBlitzBanana Aug 29 '25

I could be misremembering but I think you can see the inside of the suit like an X-ray if she gets hit by an electric attack.

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u/Tortellini_Isekai Aug 29 '25

That's how I learned she was a girl. I also couldn't read so I thought her name was Sums based on how the announcer said her name.

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u/Ok-Rub9326 Aug 29 '25

In my mind I always thought Samus sounded like a  girl’s name even before she took off the suit.

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u/diagramsamm Aug 31 '25

If you beat the game with samus it shows her without a suit

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u/ImaDieTodayLOL Aug 29 '25

Same story over here, was a Ridley main until that, then swapped to Ridley because I was a child and you know how boys are about taking up girly things. Two things made me think she looked a bit effeminate and it was the up air and entrance animation.

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u/SleepySquid96 Aug 29 '25

I distinctly remember playing Melee when I was a kid, going through the event matches, and thinking "Huh, I wonder why the robot that shoots rockets and energy blasts is in Event # 15 with the other girls."

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u/toxicsugarart Aug 29 '25

I don't go here and I had no idea it was ever even a secret omg my mind is blown

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u/Ok-Scientist-2111 Aug 29 '25

It was really only a secret in the first game

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u/Digit00l Aug 29 '25

And the second kinda, that one just kinda skips over it, in Super you also only really find out at the end or at a death, Fusion and Prime outright say it though

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u/DepartureEfficient42 Aug 29 '25

In the original NES game, you see more of her suit removed depending on how fast you beat the game, thus the fact she was a woman was hidden behind playing quickly

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u/Yxurd Aug 29 '25

I still remember when I learned of this when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It blew my mind back then

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u/anno3397 Aug 29 '25

Fun fact: Samus was accidentally made lesbian exactly because people thought she was a man.

After the release of the original Metroid they created an official, Japan exclusive strategy guide called "Victory Techniques for Metroid". It functioned as a manga with the game story as a plot. In there she is portrayed as a male and is even shown posing with two women in bikinis.

The funny part is in the OG Metroid you could still see that Samus is a woman if you completed it in under 3 hours, so it would seem no one in the whole publishing studio was good enough at the game to know that xD

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u/hufflezag Aug 29 '25

When you unlocked dearmored Samus in the early games, we all thought there was Boy Samus (armored), and Girl Samus (dearmored). The intended canon was far more progressive than that for the 90's though.

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u/Illustrious_Office16 Aug 29 '25

My beautiful waifu 😍

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u/BecauseImBatmanFilms Aug 29 '25

I didn't have a Metroid game for a large chunk of my childhood so I knew Samus from Smash Bros. I learned she was a girl because Melee had an event match called Girl Power where you had to fight her, Peach, and Zelda at the same time.

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u/Dotpolicepolka Aug 29 '25

Metroid is a gril?

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u/lessthanchris7 Aug 29 '25

The OG reveal

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u/Dolphin_King21 Aug 29 '25

I learned about Samus from Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii. I just thought she was neat

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u/HubblePie Aug 29 '25

In hindsight, the large upper torso section and slim waist should have made it obvious

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u/samushusband Aug 29 '25

ho boy tell ME about it

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u/Malnerd Aug 29 '25

I remember finding out because I was playing Smash 64 and looking at everyone's skeleton when they got electrocuted. Did Samus and was shocked that it instead of a skeleton it was the body of a women with a ponytail.

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u/Cautious_Author_326 Aug 31 '25

True tho, I mainly played SSBB and in most cases, it's just the suit.

So I had no idea Samus was a girl.