Why is samus called a bounty hunter if she works for the galactic space police throughout 99% of the series?

Because the Japanese thought the words bounty hunter sounded cool without actually realizing what it means.

She’s an elite mercenary more than anything else.

what is independent contracting, she's obviously getting W-9s and not W-2s.

You fucking moron play zero mission, her parents were killed by Ridley and she was rescued by the chozo, they were bird people hence all the bird statues you plug into all the time, the suit is not something that she "puts on" she actually manifests it from her DNA it's a biosuit powered by her own life force, the chozo gave it to her
through gene splicing because they believed she was Jesus

same reason captain falcon is a bounty hunter
sounds cool

Because originally they didn't know what the word actually meant and thought it sounded cool. When Retro wanted to add actual Bounty Hunting to Prime, Nintendo/Sakamoto were confused and didn't think that was in character for Samus. Retro had to explain that the word they were looking for in English was actually Mercenary, but it had become so ingrained that they kept it as Bounty Hunter and rolled with the idea that she did Bounty Hunter/Mercenary Missions for the GF against the Space Pirates.

>no one reads my post on what Samus actually is official and just come up with their own headcanons
Why do Metroid fans do this?

Because Metroid has shit story made by inept hacks.

She's like a mercenary, she takes jobs that just happen to be for the good of civilization.

Because nobody said what you said wasn't canon, and what everyone else is saying is official too. Nintendo thought the word was cool, that is legit official. It wasn't fixed to her being a mercenary group within the GF until later.

Is there a lore reason for why she loses most of her abilities between games? Like does the suit only have a short memory or something

they are the ones that put out the bounty's

Wouldn't mind a mission structure a la luigis mansion 2 for a metroid game.

Play Federation Force. It sucked.

Who else would hire her if she wants to stay in the lawn? Most real life mercenaries work for their own nations and allies exclusively to avoid diplomacy issues

Did the alpha chozo get to repeatedly fuck her to try and get her pregnant? Like every time she was treated like a bitch in heat at a breeder farm as they tried to create a new master race? Just curious.

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Like another user said, the suit is "biological" in her dna or some shit, so it would make sense that the suit itself is coded as a core part, and upgrades are assimilated as vestigial DNA that would eventually be discarded.

If metroid is a bounty hunter what does he do with the booty money?

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Likely same reason we've had this thread dozens of times.

Dilate

I always assumed when she wasn't doing tasks for the feds, she was doing smaller jobs that could be done without her Power Suit.

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Does Samus have a small amount of cybernetics in her body?

It's actually really inconsistent. Bonus endings for Metroid games show she can physically remove her helmet, and other times she can materialize her suit at will. Not just Other M, but Zero Mission, Prime 2, and Prime 3 canonize this.

No, it's just a gameplay reason. Retro would try to explain it in the Prime games by making her suffer damage or other stuff which would cause her to lose most of the suit upgrades though.

Gentleman, how do we evolve the Metroid formula?

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Open world 3rd person platform-shooter

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In Fusion it needs to be surgically removed from her and the under layer is fused to her body

From what I've seen she works only for British Broadcasting Corporation.

Now make it a giant 3D underground labyrinth that's carefully interconnected.

There you go. Though I always figured the goopyness of the X fused it to her body and shit.

This guy stopped making this

Not him but that's not how it works, the suit becomes a second skin to Samus the second she puts it on, when the suit is on, it's always fused with Samus until she mentally wills it off. Don't understand how after all these years people still believe that.

So does Samus have a small amount of cybernetics in her body?

>t's always fused with Samus until she mentally wills it off.
It's not. She can take off the helmet physically.

When she mentally gives the order to do so.

She is booty hunter.

Now you're just headcanoning user.

Retro said somewhere that a portion of Prime 3 was going to consist of choosing bounty targets and tracking them down to various planets, but Nintendo was appalled at the idea. Callnig her a "bounty hunter" is seemingly a case of the Japs picking English words that sound cool without understanding what they mean. Notice how the manual for Metroid 1 calls her a "space hunter" instead.

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Who knows. I don't think it's been stated in any game that Samus had any, but it's certainly a possibility given all the stuff she has.

Not really. The Prime games try to sorta justify it by having her go through some really arbitrary bullshit at the beginning of each (knocked against wall, dogpiled by monsters) that makes her lose it all. Personally, I just think she puts the stuff back when she's done. She definitely gives the Luminoth their shit back in Prime 2, and she was raised by the Chozo, so maybe she just sees using the various Chozo artifacts as borrowing them and feels obligated to return them to their resting places. The only time she couldn't feasibly do that was in Super, which led right into Fusion, where she got her whole suit mangled anyway.

No, I'm not

I fantasize about this as well. Good taste.

>Samus has to mentally give the order to physically remove her helmet. I know this because I say so

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why does it matter?

That's how her suit works through mental commands, suit doesn't come off unless she wants the suit off, if she's in trouble like in Fusion the suit locks itself down for safety.

Who would know that Boba Fett knock off is blonde bimbo with big ass and tits.

>Now you're just headcanoning user.
>Samus: However, during the journey, the X multiplied within me, corrupting large areas of my Power Suit.
>Samus: It then came to light that the organic components of my Power Suit had become so integrated with my system that it could not be removed while I was unconscious. Large portions of my suit had to be surgically removed, dramatically altering my physical appearance. However, the X in my central nervous system were too embedded to be removed safely. I was given a minimal chance of survival.
Nothing about locking itself down. Normally I don't care enough to argue about small shit like this, but man this is really outta nowhere.

Because bounty hunters in reality work with the police.

>That's how her suit works through mental commands
The suit is a piece of physical hardware that she has the ability to somehow summon or dismiss at will thanks to space bird powers. It is entirely corporeal technology, uses ammunition, is vulnerable to being hacked, etc. If it is a physical entity it stands to reason that she would physically control it while being physically present inside of it.

I really wish you learn how to comprehend, the suit is integrated with her system while it is on, when she gives a mental command to take it off the suit dematerializes and is stored in the Zero Suit or she can physically take it off after a mental command. I bet you're one of those retards that think she's permanently fused with the suit.

You know that gives his argument more of a foothold right?
I mean, they had to forcibly remove the thing.

why does it matter? It has no effect on the gameplay. she could be called pea soup as long as she shuts the fuck up like a woman should.

More like advance alien tech from an ancient bird race that can convert matter into energy and energy into matter. She also controls the suit through mental commands, what part of the suit is a second skin do you not understand?

Saying something is a "second skin" is a fucking metaphor. You could say the same thing about Captain King's MJOLNIR armor.

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It literally works the same fucking way, Chief and Samus control their suits with their minds, his this is how they're able to move around in them so well. Do you think these are regular suits and that they move them with their bodies? Please tell me you're not this stupid?

Why do so many videogame girls gotta look like my ma?

Because Metroid is trash