Tanz's Metroid Blog

A blog for all my Metroid and Metroid related art

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Super Smash Bros Shenanigans

Just a quick explanation for my comic AU.

Samus is the main character of this AU.

She appears non chronologically throughout the Smash games up until post Ultimate.

Most of my comics are set after Ultimate but I will be making comics set during the other games.

Most of my comics are just silly ideas I have for interactions between the characters, hence the subtitle "shenanigans" but I do have plans for more serious comics here and there.

Feel free to ask any questions!

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do you make arts requests?

Not at the moment but maybe in the future I will.

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Thoughts on Samus represented in smash Bros

Outside of the first two games Brawl did it best. Her friendship with Pikachu is very cute and also very in character for Samus to care for small animals. The game does clearly sexualise her(which isn't unlike Zero Mission) but it's just a few camera angles here and there and thankfully she doesn't have any dumb heels and actually looks a bit athletic.

Smash 4 is the worst, she looks like a blow up doll with zero muscle tone and ugly ass heels that make no sense to her series. Like you can have badass ladies with cool heels kicking ass like Bayonetta but that isn't Samus. She's never shown to be some femme fatale who's confident in her sexuality and appearance, Samus straight up prefers being in her power suit and feels very vulnerable in her zero suit(Even Other M understands this) so it feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of her character to have her as a separate fighter from her suited form(I get it was due to technical limitations on the 3DS but they shouldve just cut ZSS or made her an alternate skin for suited Samus). Also I hate the Other M power suit being used as the inspiration for her suited design, it looks so smooth, basic and action figure like.

Smash Ultimate gave ZSS some muscle tone and shrunk her comically large breasts because fans were very vocal about how bad her design was and how much it sucked to see such an iconic female character be misrepresented in such a sexist way, which is good. I was one of those fans. The heels are still dumb and worse, ugly, but its whatever. Varia Suit Samus still looks like the OM design which sucks but again it's whatever.

Also I think her taunts in both forms suck. Her ZSS taunts don't feel very in character but her taunts while in her Varia Suit are so fucking boring and bland it actually annoys me lol. Like Samus has consistently been drawn or rendered in her own game series with really cool poses and she has so many abilities that could be used in a taunt but we get nothing interesting! Not only that they added a stupid taunt I hate that has no precedence in the games and makes no sense to how her arm cannon even works!

For the next Smash game I hope they start characterising Samus like she was in Dread, I hope she has either the Dread Power suit or Varia suit as her base design and I hope they stop characterising ZSS and base Samus like they are two different people, though I'd prefer ZSS was cut or made into an alternate skin for base Samus. Also for the love of god I hope they update her moveset so she actually fights and moves like she does in her home series.

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Would it be too unlike Samus to do the "That's Mama Luigi to you Mario" meme? Y'know, based on her relationship with the baby Metroid and Pikachu in Smash Brawl lol

I don't think she'd outright do that lol. I think it would be more in character for her to look super serious and scary but then she's like carrying the baby Metroid in like one of those harnesses you put on your chest. Or her being kind and doing parental things for the baby while her unwanted child, Dark Samus, looks on annoyed as hell from the sidelines.

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can you draw dark samus meeting sylux?

I've got some stuff with Sylux and other Metroid villains on the backburner, he'll show up eventually.

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Get cherished, idiot!

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'Discovery' + 'Legacy'

The Chozo Searcher

We don't know much about her, but we know she was the first one on Elysia to discover Phaaze, and that she wore some impressive sleeves.

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I'm not changing the way I draw the Star Fox cast lol.

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Legacy Suit.

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Advice of varying quality.

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I personally don't see Samus as trans but I don't think she's a cis woman either. She was raised by the Chozo, a race that have no apparent gender norms or roles, even Raven Beak who is obsessed with power and strength is not sexist, none of the Chozo see Samus as lesser for being female because why would they? The only female Chozo we know of was an astrologer and scientist on Skytown and was well respected from what we can find from the scan logs. So yeah I don't think Samus would see herself as a woman because what even is a woman or a man to the Chozo?

Then in Other M we see how angry she was as a teen to be reduced to just a woman and handled differently from the men in the Federation. Adam calls her Lady as a joke, Anthony calls her Princess for the same reason but to Samus that must've just been like another insult until their bond grew stronger. I think that's why she cut her hair short, she wants to look more gender neutral like she did as a child, she doesn't like being seen as just a girl.

She's a Metroid. The ultimate warrior, not the ultimate female warrior because that part just doesn't really matter. I think Samus would express herself with fashion however she finds fun and enjoyable, not because she sees it as a way to express her gender.

Also side note I think a fun idea for her enjoyment for eye makeup and heels is because the Chozo naturally have glowing eyes and are generally pretty tall, it's like she wants to fit in with her family. Likewise I see the lines on her Zero Suit as a stand in for the natural lines Chozo have on their skin like with the Mawkin tribe.

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It's been so nice actually having time to draw again. Finishing up some comics at the moment.

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Interesting scenery.

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What If Raven Beak Boss Fight Intro Quotes in Super Smash Bros.

"What is a human? A miserable little whip of secrets."

Raven Beak to Simon Belmont or Richter Belmont

Raven Beak doesn't seem like the type to wax poetic, even when speaking with Samus he keeps it brief.

He'd probably gloat after winning a fight though.

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Metroid Other M is a propaganda movie made by the remnants of the space pirates to try and make Samus look lame as hell. That's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it.

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The universe's coolest DMV.