Metroid general

[Suited Bird]

My understanding was it was a localization error, the Japanese manual for Metroid used gender neutral pronouns to refer to Samus ("They turned into a ball to go through small passages!", while the US and EU got a booklet that was translated with masculine pronouns for Samus ("He charges his beam and fires!") so it was arguably MORE surprising when players actually learned she was a Bird.

I think it's important to remember that the people who say this stuff are a minority of terminally online weirdos. The vast majority of Metroid fans probably never even heard of this "controversy". And the idea that Nintendo would ever consider even for a second making Samus canonically trans is just ridiculous.

It all because a really badly worded translation since Hirofumi Matsuoka used the word "newhalf" (a slag for tranny at the time) to describe Samus......which also could be referring to Samus being half fucking bird/Chozo.

Nintendo would do small bird jokes with Samus way before they ever do any tranny stuff.

These posts are TANZANITE TRVTH NVKES from Aryanheaven.

 

[Susie Legion Simp]

It all because a really badly worded translation since Hirofumi Matsuoka used the word "newhalf" (a slag for tranny at the time) to describe Samus......which also could be referring to Samus being half fucking bird/Chozo.

Nintendo would do small bird jokes with Samus way before they ever do any tranny stuff.

This is what I always assumed when I heard about the "newhalf" thing, I assumed it just from her being "half human" because of the Chozo blood or whatever.

 

[LightDragonman1]

For a lot of people, at least according to sites like TV Tropes, said joke about Samus’s gender is a no-take-backsies moment.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

Samus received the Metroid DNA to cure her X infection. Of course, in Other M we learn that THE BABY contained Queen Metroid DNA. This is on top of her Chozo Mawkin DNA, and at the end of Dread she receives Thoha DNA.

I'm sorry, but Samus is a mutt at this point. But she's arguably the Mutt Queen AND that's pretty cool B)