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Samus Aran
''Metroid-szereplő
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Tervező	Makoto Kano
Szinkronhang	Angolul: <br\>Jennifer Hale (2002–2007) Alésia Glidewell (2008) Jessica Martin(2010) <br\>Japánul: <br\> Ai Kobayashi (Metroid: Other M)

Samus Aran (サムス・アラン; Hepburn: Samusu Aran) egy kitalált szereplő a a Nintendo Metroid videó játék sorozatában. Első játék, amelyben feltűnik az a 1986-os Metroid. Samus a galaktikus federáció volt katonájából lett fejvadász, robotpáncélt visel és rakétákkal és robbanóanyagokkal felszerelt. A sorozat szerint a galaktikus federáció megbízásából hajt végre fejvadász feladatokat, mint például megküzd az űr kalózokkal, és a vezérükkel Ridleyvel. Az eredeti Metroid karaktereit Makoto Kano tervezte, kivéve Samust, őt Hiroji Kiyotake alkotta meg. Az ötlet, hogy a karakter nő legyen, csak a játék fejlesztése közben jutott eszükbe, amikor az alkotok eldöntötték, hogy egy érdekes csavar lenne a játék végén, hogy kiderül a karakter neme. Samus az egyik első nőnemű videojáték főhős, és a mai napig az egyik legnépszerűbb a rajongók körében.

Samus szerepel mind a tizenegy Metroid videojátékban, de feltűnik a sorozaton kívül is. Szerepel a Captain N: The Game Master' képregényváltozatában, mind a három részében a többjátékos verekedős játéknak, a Super Smash Bros. sorozatnak, és Cameoszerepben a 'Super Mario RPG (1996), Kirby Super Star (1996), és Kirby's Dream Land 3 (1997) videojátékokban.

A karakter már fiatalon árva lett. Egy földönkívüli avianoid nevelte fel, aki a Chozo fajhoz tartozik. A Chozo harcosként nevelte, és megfertőzte a vérével, hogy még tökéletesebb harcos váljon belőle. Ugyancsak a Chozo adta neki a robotpáncélját. Ez a páncél képessé teszi egy Morph Ballá alakulni, ami egy gömb, ez a képessége hasznok amikor kis helyen kell átjutni, például egy csatornán.

Leírás

Super Metroid játék kézikönyve, egy fiatal szőke 191 cm magas és 90 kg tömegű(páncél nélkül) lánynak írja le. Általában robotpáncélt visel, ami megvédi a legtöbb veszélytől,amivel szembe találkozik. Ezt a páncélt lehet még erősíteni a játék során felszedhető tárgyakkal. Legtöbbször a páncél egyik karján található egy ágyú, amit feltöltve extra erős lövés érhető el, néhány rakéta, és különböző robbanóanyag. Ez a páncél képessé teszi egy Morph Ballá alakulni, ami egy gömb, ez a képessége hasznok amikor kis helyen kell átjutni, például egy csatornán. A páncél képes különböző tárgyakat scanelni, hogy megtudjon róluk többet, egy horgonyt kilőni, hogy át tudjon jutni olyan helyeken mint például egy szakadék. A Metroid II: Return of Samus játék óta, Samusnak van egy űrhajója is, ahol a játékos tud menteni, feltölteni az életét vagy a lőszerét. Samus a robotpáncélja nélkül csak a videó bejátszásokban tűnik fel.Metroid: Zero Mission játék óta simert a Zero Suit ami egy testhez simuló ruha, amit a robot páncél alatt visel.

A Metroid e-manga bemutatja Samus származását is. A K-2L nevű bányász bolygón született és nevelkedett. Gyerekkorában Ridley vezetésével megtámadták az űr kalózok a bolygóját. A támadásban életét vesztette mindkét szülője és a bolygója is elpusztult. Az árva Samust egy madarakhoz hasonló idegen faj, a Chozo találta meg. Ők elvitték a bolygójukra Zebesre. Samus DNS-séhez hozzá adták a Chozo DNS-t is, hogy a lány ellenállóbb legyen az idegen körülményeknek. Ezen a bolygón harcosnak képezték és megta ettől az idegen fajtól a robotpáncélját. Besorozták a galaktikus federáció rendőrségébe, de leszerelt mivel összeveszett a parancsnokával, Adam Malkovich-csal. Samus ezután kezdett szabadúszó fejvadászként dolgozni, később még a galaktikus federáció adott neki küldetéseket,mivel a lány igazságérzete és különleges képességei miatt szükségük volt rá. Legtöbb küldetésén olyan nem kívánatos életformáktól kell megszabadítania a világot, mint például a Metroidok, akik az élet energiát biológiai fegyverré tudják alakítani.

A karakter eredete

The style for the original Metroid game was designed to be a cross between the side-scrolling gameplay of the Super Mario games and the exploration and puzzle-solving aspects of The Legend of Zelda series, with inspiration from science fiction. The game's characters were conceived by Makoto Kano, while Hiroji Kiyotake designed main protagonist Samus Aran. Samus is able to collapse into a ball to travel through tight areas. The ability, called the Maru Mari (meaning "round ball" in Japanese) in the original Metroid (1986), and later the more popular title of Morph Ball in Super Metroid, was conceived by the developers because it required less effort to animate than "a cyborg crawling on all fours", and the producer for Metroid, Gunpei Yokoi, took advantage of this shortcut.

The game's atmosphere was influenced by Ridley Scott's film, Alien (1979). Series co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto recalls, "We were partway through the development process when one of the staff members said 'Hey, wouldn't that be kind of cool if it turned out that this person inside the suit was a woman?'" The developers voted on the concept, and it passed. The game's instruction manual refers to Samus as if she were male to keep her true gender a secret until the end of the game. Samus was one of the first major female protagonists in a video game. Sakamoto noted that during the course of the Metroid series, developers constantly try to express Samus's femininity without turning her into a sex object. Samus's image was based on actress Kim Basinger from 9¹⁄₂ Weeks and My Stepmother Is an Alien. Sakamoto and Kiyotake said that the character's last name "Aran" was taken from Edson Arantes do Nascimento, the birth name of famous soccer player Pelé.

Megjelenése

A sorozatban

Sablon:Metroid Story Order In Metroid (1986), Samus is tasked by the Galactic Federation to track down Space Pirates on their home planet of Zebes. At the end of the game, she battles Mother Brain, the organism that controls the defenses in the Space Pirate base, and escapes in time to avoid the base's self-destruction. In Metroid II: Return of Samus (1992), the Galactic Federation once again commissions Samus, this time to exterminate all Metroid creatures on the planet SR388. She travels deep into the planet's caverns, where she encounters a Metroid Queen. After dispatching the creature, Samus discovers a small Metroid hatchling, which she spares. The baby Metroid follows Samus to her gunship, after it imprints on her. In Super Metroid (1994), the baby Metroid is stolen by Ridley. She travels back to the Space Pirates' rebuilt base on the planet Zebes. Locating the now fully grown Metroid, Samus discovers a new and more powerful Mother Brain. She defeats it with the help of the Metroid, which sacrifices itself to save Samus. In Metroid Fusion (2002), Samus returns to the planet SR388, where a parasitic infection nearly kills her. Galactic Federation scientists surgically remove large sections of her corrupted Varia Suit and inject her with the baby Metroid's DNA to save her, which alters her suit's appearance dramatically. To prevent the parasites from spreading beyond SR388 and the space station orbiting above it, Samus sets the station to crash into SR388 and barely escapes before both the planet and station are vaporized. Metroid: Other M (2010), which takes place between Super Metroid and Fusion, provides more information about Samus's backstory and emotional connection to both the baby and her former commander, Adam Malkovich, as well as her relation to all four Mother Brain designs, namely Zebes' Mother Brains, Aurora Unit 313 and MB.

In Metroid Prime (2002), Samus travels to the planet Tallon IV, which contains a Chozo colony in ruins and a Space Pirate base. There she learns of Phazon, a mysterious mutagen that can alter the genetic material of an organism. Samus is eventually able to access the source of the planet's Phazon contamination, a meteor impact crater, where she defeats the Phazon-infused creature Metroid Prime. In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2004), Samus is sent to the planet Aether, a Phazon meteor-ravaged planet split into light and dark dimensions. There she battles the Ing, creatures that are able to possess other organisms, and Dark Samus, an evil doppelgänger of herself formed from the remains of Metroid Prime. In Metroid Prime Hunters (2006), Samus competes against six rival bounty hunters in a race to recover an alien ultimate weapon. In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007), Samus is infected by Phazon and is slowly corrupted by the mutagen while she works to prevent it from spreading to other planets. By the end of the game, she renders all Phazon inert by destroying its original source, the planet Phaaze, and defeats Dark Samus.

Más médiumokban

Samus was featured in a series of comic books called Captain N: The Game Master, published by Valiant Comics in 1990, based on the animated series of the same name, despite Samus never appearing in the cartoon version. In the comics, Samus is depicted as brash, money-hungry, and fiercely independent. An article at 1UP.com describes Samus in the Captain N comics as "rambunctious, reckless, and gets into pissing contests with Lana over Kevin's affections, which makes for some of the most entertaining situations in the series". The reviewer added, "Not to say that the deadly quiet, contemplative Samus who fights for truth and justice in the more recent Metroid games isn't awesome, but there's something compelling about a Samus who's greedy and conniving—and is proud to admit it."

Comic book and manga adaptations of Metroid games were also developed. Samus is a playable character in all three games in the Super Smash Bros. series of multiplayer fighting games, where she can use her array of weapons in combat against characters from other video games. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) also features an alternate form of Samus called Zero Suit Samus, in which the heroine loses her Power Suit and has a different set of movements and attacks. She also stars in the Subspace Emissary fighting Ridley with Pikachu. Samus also cameos in the Galactic Pinball (1995), Super Mario RPG (1996), Kirby Super Star (1996), and Kirby's Dream Land 3 (1997) video games. Samus also makes a non-playable appearance in the Nintendo 3DS game Dead or Alive: Dimensions (created by Metroid: Other M co-developers Team Ninja).

Visszhang

Samus has been generally well-received by video gamers. Paul O'Connor, the lead game designer for Sammy Studios and a fan of the Metroid series, described Samus as a "quiet and mysterious presence in Metroid Prime". While playing Metroid Prime, he felt a connection with Samus after sharing her exploration of an alien world and the catastrophe it experienced. O'Connor commented that curiosity about the unknown is a human trait, remarking that players empathize and identify with Samus because she is often rewarded for indulging in her curiosity. IGN remarked that Samus has a cult following greater than most other female video game characters. In the book Videogames and art, Andy Clarke notes that in the original game, Metroid, the player is not briefed on Samus's past or future; the only interaction that they have with the character is by being her through gameplay, while bits of information can be gleaned from the handbook and through concept art. Clarke remarks, "Samus is very rare for the character intimacy gained solely through game play and for her stasis and then drastic change," referring to the revelation that she is female.

On IGN, Samus was chosen as the most requested character who should have her own movie franchise by the website's users. The website remarked that her tragic past makes her a perfect candidate for a movie, especially the loss of both her parents to the Space Pirates. Among their list of voted characters, IGN considered Samus to be the video game character that "could lead the pack of video game adaptations that actually manage to live up to the source material". The website believed that Samus's theme song should be "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" by Aerosmith because she "spends her time running around in a manly battle suit blasting first and taking names later". Samus's popularity led to a toy line; First 4 Figures, a United Kingdom-based toy company, built 2,500 Varia Suit Samus figures, selling all of them. Nintendo Power listed Samus as their third favourite hero, citing her bravery in the face of dangerous situations. Samus ranked fifth on GameDaily's Top 10 Smash Bros. Characters list. In his review of Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64, Former GameSpot editor Jeff Gerstmann called Samus one of the characters that made Nintendo "what it is today". IGN ranked Samus as the third-best character for Super Smash Bros. Samus appeared in multiple GameFAQs "Character Battle" contests, winning the "Character Battle V" in 2006. GameSpot featured her in their poll "All Time Greatest Game Hero".

Samus' portrayal in Metroid: Other M received mixed reactions. Unlike other Metroid games, where Samus took full advantage of weapons and abilities available, she deactivated most of them until Commander Adam Malkovich authorized their use, despite obvious uses for them. For example, she did not turn on her heat-resistant Varia Suit, which would have let her avoid taking damage from high-temperature rooms, until Adam approved it after she had gone through multiple such rooms. G4 TV's Abbie Heppe considered a portrayal of Samus as "sexist"; she wrote that she "cannot possibly wield the amount of power she possesses unless directed to by a man", and found that her anxiety attack cannot be reconciled with her previous portrayals. The A.V. Club's David Wolinsky echoes the misgivings about Samus's immaturity, petulant behavior, and misguided loyalty. Tae K. Kim of GamePro writes that while the story and Samus' monologues did not compel them, "it helped contextualize her entire existence" which developed the character to "an actual human being who's using the vastness of space to try and put some distance between herself and the past". Justin Haywald of 1UP.com found the portrayal "lifeless and boring" and "nonsensical".

Bob Chipman of ScrewAttack applauded the elaboration on Samus's character. He argues that her breakdown is an accurate depiction of posttraumatic stress disorder and that she is portrayed as a three-dimensional character, a step up from the fans' long-standing misconceptions of Samus as "pathologically emotionless man-hating ice queen". Chipman also feels that "supposedly enlightened gamers and game commentators" are making gender assumptions that are "all in [their heads]." GamesRadar wrote that Other M painted Samus, widely considered a strong female lead character, as "an unsure, insecure woman who desperately wants the approval of her former [male] commanding officer". Erik G of Koku Gamer wrote an article titled "The Psychology of Samus and the Roles of Adam and Ridley" defended Samus in Other M. Game Informer listed her 1st on their list of the "Top 10 Dorks of 2010", citing her "lame backstory" in Other M.

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As a female in a male-dominated role, Samus has been considered a breakthrough for female characters in video games. GameDaily considers Samus the video game industry's "first dominant female, a femme de force that didn't rely on a man to save her". They also listed the discovery of her gender as the greatest moment in Nintendo history. The Irish Times found it refreshing to learn that the series' protagonist, who is "well disguised under the suit of heavy armour", is female. In the book Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections by Gail Hawisher, Cynthia Selfe, and James Paul Gee, they wrote that Samus is perhaps the most nonsexualized female video-game character ever, a belief shared by Steve Rabin, who in Introduction to Game Development also considers Samus as one of Nintendo's most popular video game mascots. Justin Hoeger wrote in The Sacramento Bee: "Unlike most other female video game characters, Samus isn't some husky-voiced bimbo in tight leather included only for sex appeal. Samus is tough, silent, heavily armed and spends most of her time in a bulky suit of high-tech Power Armor." She was listed on GameDaily's list of hottest blondes in video games, described as both one of Nintendo's most famous protagonists as well as a "curvaceous, drop-dead-gorgeous woman".

The Toronto Star argued that the sexual politics surrounding Samus and the Metroid series needed to stop, as they considered it unwarranted. They remarked that although Samus is female, it is not a significant characteristic after considering the fact that she spends most of her time in a suit of armor that "precludes creepy ogling". The newspaper believed that the "big crazy shock to the gaming public" that followed after Metroid revealed that Samus is female was "some seriously misspent energy [...] Metroid Prime's heroine is not a woman for the benefit of the sweaty/excited crowd, and neither is she a standard-bearer nor a courageous leader in the struggle for video game civil rights. She is a supremely talented action figure, and in the closeups on her helmet you can kind of see that she wears mascara, but that is all." Rupert Goodwins of The Independent wrote, "Samus Aran [...] is apparently female, although the Transformer-like suit she wears could just as easily contain a large centipede; it's hardly a breakthrough for feminism."

GameDaily ranked Samus seventh on a list of the Top 50 Hottest Game Babes, describing her as "a refreshing change of pace, a tough, no nonsense warrior that isn't afraid to remove her famous orange and yellow power suit and let her hair down, especially to reveal her skin tight clothing". The website also ranked her number one on a list of the Top 25 Nintendo Characters of All Time. In another article, they listed the "smart and sexy heroine" archetype as one of their Top 25 Video Game Archetypes, using Samus as an example. UGO.com ranked Samus 11th on a list of the Top 11 Girls of Gaming, eighth on a list of the Top 50 Hottest Sci-Fi Girls, and twentieth in a list of Top 100 Heroes of All-Time. The website noted that the original "jaw-dropping moment" was when Samus was revealed to be a woman in the original Metroid, a moment which Game Informer considers to be the greatest twist in video games. GameTrailers named Samus number one on a list of the Top Ten Women of Gaming, and number three among Axe's Top Ten Gamer Babes.

Hivatkozások

• Sablon:IMDB character
• Samus Aran at IGN