Who is Dark Samus?

hey that bounty hunter again of all places i found you faker faker and think you are the fake hunter around here you're comparing yourself to me huh you're not even good enough to be my fake and make you eat those weights the result from the combination of samus's DNA with a radioactive face on Dark Samus is a human manifestation of the dangerous substance with unknown powers and is probably one of the series most recognizable antagonists while the character that we'll know first showed up in Metroid Prime to Dark Samus s origins comes from the ending of the first metric crime game on the Gamecube and its secret ending from collecting all the items scattered across its world now before I continue I want to simply clarify that I'll be referring to Dark Samus as a female since the lock books in Metroid Prime 2 & 3 refer to the character SS she and so those are robot unit 2 for 2 in a voice dialogue in corruption he is this is where Jackson is and remain under four seasons I'm just saying this up front to avoid any confusion with the audience yes Dark Samus is canonically female get over it many years ago a strange meteor crash on the distant planet Talyn for spreading a strange radioactive material capable of overcoming all life forms on the surface known as face on which the Pirates wish to harness for military purposes and after Thor ting their plans salmon's the sense into the impact crater to confront the planets alien source of face on the creature known as Metroid Prime after an intense battle Samus managed to defeat the metroid primes core essence thus making the creature return to its original face on form were an attempt to hold on to the hunter world self-destructed however the creature was instead only able to grab onto samus's face on suit and managed to rip it off from crap which allowed Samus to escape before the explosion took place and destroyed the chozo temple sometime later the small amounts of face on the remained on the site were enough to fuse themselves together with the DNA in the armor that allowed the substance to reincarnate in the form of a doppelganger simply referred to as Dark Samus with its new form and identity Dark Samus instincts commanded to absorb more phazon in order to grow in strength perhaps in a way to complete its original evil scheme sensing that talent for no longer carries enough supplies of the material she sets out to find more in space which eventually will lead her to reach planet either and encountering with her original counterpart although she had many boss battles in the game each time Dark Samus was defeated she ended up scattering her body into the air into small particles so she could survive and let her reform her body at another location they had a sufficient source of face on this is perhaps why at the end of echos she appears to be translucent since at this point she hasn't managed to gather enough face on to fully regenerate her body during Metroid Prime - Dark Samus would find herself searching all around the planet trying to consume more face on a times fighting against the Pirates to steal the resource since she required more energy and confronting Samus whenever the two ultimately crossed paths perhaps because deep down she knows that Samus is the only threat they can put a stop to her plans because it turns out that the doppelgangers true intention for collecting Faison was to be able to continue its original goal from back in Tallinn for and spread the substance wherever it can and with her new form she was no longer trapped to a single planet and could spread the face on across the cosmos granting her control over the universe by corrupting the mind of anyone who gets consumed by the substance a plan that would have come to fruition during Metroid Prime 3 if it weren't for Dark Samus sort of dropping the ball and not getting rid of a Samus when she clearly had the chance so much for your master plan the Federation's home base is still intact whether you at least managed to take out samozang her silly friends oh yeah about that I've heard this meet crazy Faison being but not all of them unconscious and since I felt it was too easy I just decided to leave but hey at least on the bright side her friends do my bidding now wait so let me get this straight you went all the way to norian ambush the bounty hunters which single-handedly knocked him unconscious and then you just left yeah that seems to be about right so you didn't take the opportunity to kill Samus while she was defenseless hey who are you to quit my methods they are far too complex for your tiny brain to comprehend soon that wretched hunter will be at my command and then no one will be able to stop me Whitley sir we received a report that the hunter has made her way to brio and she's attacking our base of operations so I guess your plan didn't quite turn out as you expected now did it that's fine just give it some time soon she'll be one of us you will see sir reports indicate that the Hunter has managed to destroy the Leviathan seat on Brio and now she's making her way to Elisha you seriously don't think it would be a good idea to maybe I don't know go and stop her maybe infect her with more face-on or something you know get the job done oh man it's just been along me I think I'm just got to go back to phase and watch some space flicks before calling it a day I think you guys can manage it that clearly hasn't worked in the past now has it it's gonna be fine she won't be able to even find your homeworld and it's not like the Federation is gonna show up and set a full-scale invasion and revenge now is it well since everything seems to be settled I'll be seeing you smash laters remind me again why they we even thought it was a good idea to follow her plans she's controlling our brains man in Metroid Prime 3 Dark Samus was able to command the space pirates by controlling their minds with a power of the faceoff and use them to help spread the substance by crashing Leviathan meteors into various planets which are the same ones that landed on talent for and either on the previous games these meteors originate from Planet phase known as the source of all Faison and it's here where Sam is in Dark Samus after last combat before the doppelgangers ultimate demise for when Samus emerged victorious she set off a chain reaction that led to the destruction of the planet supposedly also destroying all the phazon in the universe alongside it leaving no way for Dark Samus to regenerate her body afterwards one of the biggest mysteries remaining from the character comes from her last struggles during the climactic battle on dark either that she slowly approaches Samus before once again spreading her body on to the air and while there isn't the concrete answer to what she intended to do in this moment my personal theory is that she perhaps found a way to infect Samus with a face on corruption but wasn't able to test it out due to the lack of phazon in her body before fading away into aiders orbits but she was instead able to use his ability in metroid prime 3 where she not only successfully was controlling the minds of the space pirates but she also managed to take over the minds of the other bounty hunters that were alongside Sam as an Orion those being able to amass an army of her own to fulfill her ambitions although Nintendo games are notorious for implementing the dark alter-ego of the protagonists at some point in their series the key aspects of what makes Dark Samus extremely alluring is the character's commanding and menacing presence there is always an air of uncertainty with Dark Samus and you even get to see a hint of anxiety coming from Samus from confronting her that really adds up to her presence and creates a unique tension but you don't really get to see in other games from the company then this sense of unease really translates beautifully into her boss fights since Dark Samus behaves much differently than other common enemies by being able to jump away from your lock-on deflecting your barrage of missiles creating clones who attack you on their own accord and surprising you with unique attacks that are clearly inspired by samus's arsenal from the past it also helps that in prime to Dark Samus pops in every once in a while making you believe that there might be an upcoming battle even when there isn't one planned yet which puts players on their toes and help sell the air of mystery and anxiety that makes her so popular amongst fans you never quite know what she's planning or where she might appear next actually a fun fact about the character is that the producer of the prime Series kansuke Konami did not consider making a sequel to the game until he saw the final scene after the credits so perhaps in a way we have to thank Dark Samus for inspiring the decision of making the prime series into a trilogy in fact when you take a moment to think about it Dark Samus is one of the few characters who are being able to best samus in combat some points in the games as seen in the opening moments in Metroid Prime 2 before Samus loses four power-ups and later on in Orion during the events of Metroid Prime 3 the other characters who have completed a similar feat are Ridley and Mother Brain during the opening and ending of Super Metroid respectively the Omega Metroid at the end of Metroid Fusion the Federation force members during the game's final mission now though I wouldn't say that really counts and technically also the ex parasite that became the SI X at the beginning of fusion a solo storytelling detail as some people might have not noticed at first is that during Dark Samus is deaf in Metroid Prime 3 the camera focuses on her left arm she races it up to the air while opening and closing her hand which is a reflection of the same action she made during her birth on the first game of the trilogy which in a way is a cool imagery to symbolize the characters destruction especially when you consider that afterwards we see the face on that was once growing inside Samus finally disappearing severing the ties between the two characters another fun fact is that contrary to what you might expect in Metroid Prime 2 Dark Samus is weak against a dark beam instead of the light beat this is because she is technically a life-form that was born on the normal or light dimension if you may and while she still takes damage from the light beam it won't deal extra damage to the clone because she's in a creature native to dark ethers dimension by the way the reason why Dark Samus doesn't take any damage from dark aiders atmosphere is because well this is actually really never explained in the games so I guess it's another case of everyone's favorite explanation the one and only vert magic because when something doesn't make sense in the metroid universe just blame it on the Choson but in all seriousness it probably has to do with something relating to the fact that her body is completely made out of the phazon which probably makes her immune to dark aiders toxins just moving outside of the metric game's Dark Samus has made several appearances in other media most notably in a manga series called Metroid Prime episode of aether which was published over the span of seven issues of the Japanese monthly comic bumbum manga magazine starting in July of 2005 this story is a basic retelling of the events from Metroid Prime 2 with some additional secondary characters in the form of some surviving Federation troopers where Dark Samus plays a role of a secondary threat to the ink swarm that is trying to overtake our heroes and almost at the Great Temple not surprising the manga was never released outside of Japan although today that's not much of an issue since it's easy to find fan translations online and I'll leave a link to one of them in the description for anyone who wants to give them a read it's worth your time if you ask me like I talked about before Dark Samus has made a prevalent appearance in the Super Smash Brothers series having a trophy with a type willem brawl and making an appearance as an assist trophy on smash for Wii U and 3ds before finally joining the rosters and EKKO fighter in Smash Brothers Ultimates I have already addressed all the characters references in the game on another video so if you're curious on the matter you can check out the video on the title card or with the link on the video's description one other example says most iconic features is her sinister laugh that is prevalent Lee heard in the games and according to Clarke when the person behind developing the game's sound engine the laugh as well as other voice clips from the doppelganger were created by combining unused recording of samus's grunts and screams of pain and then heavily processing them with a games engine this was intentionally done to help further establish a connection between the two characters another small easter egg comes from one of the game's concept artists andrew jones who was in charge of creating some of the iconic creatures from echoes including our favorite phazon infused clone at one point Jones created a thousand self-portraits probably for practice or as a study but it's known for saying that quote my portraits are quite a departure from my metric concept work but I think you would be surprised that there are a few of the portraits that were the inspiration behind the final bosses in prime 1 and 2 which probably means that perhaps the face of Metroid Prime and the one seen in the translucent Dark Samus are probably based on some of its self-portraits with a dawn of metrics evolutionary jump into the 3d world with a prime series the guys at retro studios dedicating themselves to offer the franchise with some newfound life while still respecting its roots by giving us a chance to witness the world through samus's eyes but in order to make this new direction be able to stand on its own it required a new threat and with the inclusion of the face on there was no better way to truly show how dangerous and mysterious this substance was by how it was capable of gaining sentience and copying the strength of the galaxy's most capable hunter Dark Samus was a perfect way to represent how powerful and destructive the face son really was and with its ominous and alluring presence she quickly captivated the hearts of many fans and became one of the series most recognizable and compelling villains because it seemed that she had her own agenda for once we were in stopping the pirates plans for galactic conquest or fighting an alien species that was too dangerous to be left alone but instead we were fighting something far more sinister and whose ambitions were further from our understanding and that only helped corrupt the minds of the players into trying to learn more about this iconic nemesis and perhaps this was an intentional way for the developers to make us really understand this doppelganger true power 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Keywords: Metroid, Samus, Chozo, Orpheon, Crocomire, Nintendo, Ridley, Luminoth, Dark, Who, is, analysis, look, gandrayda, ghor, rundas, prime, trilogy, corruption, smash, ultimate, trivia, fun, fact, animation, echoes, shirts, merch, switch, gamecube, wii, gunpei, retro, studios, development, insight

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Length: 16min 3sec (963 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 22 2020

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[u/SilverSAS]

My waifu, that's who

[u/Masters_1989]

I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but I looked around and saw no posting of it. They make nice videos of Metroid (and other things), and are quite a nice person.

Enjoy.

[u/SqeeSqee]

pretty sure Dark samus is not Phazon, she's Metroid prime wearing a phazon suit.