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[–]Retardation_station 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Samus is one of the most hardcore video game protags ever!

An intergalactic bounty hunter who slaughters space pirates wholesale with a fucking beam cannon that's strapped to her arm. I'd be shocked if anyone, regardless of sex, didn't feel empowered while playing a metroid game.

It's not even samus either. There are so many female protags that are just amazing. Zelda, bayonetta, jill valentine, pretty much every soul calibur character, orchid (killer instinct), terra (ff6), sonya blade, 2B, A2, paula (earthbound), rydia (ff4), tifa (ff7). Katt, Nina and Bleu were the best characters in breath of fire 2. And that's just off the top of my head. Even princess peach stomped some serious ass in super mario rpg.

Stop caring about the sex of the character and just love them for who they are. Fucks sake.

Edit: almost forgot marle and lucca from chrono trigger. Holy shit they had some of my favorite double and triple techs.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Samus is one of the most hardcore video game protags ever!

Didn't you know that, according to Brianna Wu, Samus was a brave and stunning transwhamen all along?

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    [–]Beryl[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    The worst thing is that Samus was in full body armour, so there wasn't even a way to "confirm" it.

    [–]DropItLikeItsHot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Samus actually shows she's a woman if you beat the game under a certain time (back when it was supposed to be a secret), and there've been previous games like Baraduke where the "faceless" pilot ends up being a woman after all, so she wasn't even the first example of such a thing.