Samus Aran

Abilities/Skills

Outside of her power-suit (her Zero Suit form), Samus is amazingly athletic and can easily survive a fall from heights that would be impossible for a normal human. She can also run faster and jump higher, easily out performing an olympic-level athlete (her natural abilities are super-human at best). She was infused Chozo DNA (turning her into a chozo/human hybrid) shortly after being brought to Zebes by the chozo after the death of her parents (this was done as humans lack the ability to adapt to Zebes), which may explain her enhanced abilities. As a result she appears to able to adapt to places (and planets) difficult or impossible for a normal human (like Zebes and Elysia’s Skytown, both of which were originally chozo settlements). She possesses a statuesque figure that is quite limber allowing her to squeeze through Morph Ball-sized openings (thus allowing for stealthy infiltration and easy access). Samus was taught & trained by chozo since she was 3 to age of 14 (according to volume 2 of manga), at this point she was allowed to leave Zebes & return to the Federation, where she later joined the Federation Police. She was then formally trained by Federation Police (either though an acadamy and/or boot camp programs). The full extent of her Federation training is unknown, however she proably learned various Federation protocals & procedures, doing field reconnaissance (as she does the manga’s volume 3), & likely trained in the use small-arms like the Paralyzer pistol (and possibly GF Energy Rifles). She makes use good use of these abilities (allowing her to survive long enough to regain her Powersuit) when she is stranded on Zebes after her ship is shot down, following Mother Brain’s defeat in Metroid: Zero Mission. She also appears to be a decent shot & pilot (even though these skills are often augmented by her Powersuit and/or Gunship technology).

During the events of Metroid Fusion, Samus is infused with the Infant Metroid’s cells to save her from X Parasite infection. This alters her cellular structure, giving her the ability to absorb the X into her system and can regain her lost powersuit abilities by absorbing Core-X or Hard Core-X. Sadly, there was a downside to this as she also gained the Metroid’s one weakness: an extreme sensitivity to cold temperatures (this weakness is later bypassed after absorbing the Mega Core-X & regaining the Varia Suit, giving her the ability to freely absorb Blue X). She is now a Chozo/Metroid/Human Hybrid, technicially making her last living Metroid which is fitting as the name “Metroid” means “Ultimate Warrior” in the chozo language (not to metion its the name of the series itself). It is unknown if Samus gained the Metroids’ unique ability to leech life-energy. She doesn’t seem to possesses the Metroids’ ability to levitate. After absorbing SA-X’s Core-X, Samus gains the Omega Fusion Suit and all her lost powersuit abilities (including her Ice Beam)

NOTE: in my last post it states that master chiefs first armour was the MJOLNIR Mark IV, but it is a Mark V

MC
Childhood and Spartan Training

When he was a child, John-117 lived in Elysium City, on Eridanus II. John-117 is said to have had brown hair, freckles, and a small gap between his front teeth. At the age of six, he was identified by Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey as one of 150 preliminary candidates, for the SPARTAN-II program. John was an ideal physical candidate, standing a head taller than his schoolmates, having perfect physical proportions, possesing great strength and exhibiting quick reflexes. His genetic structure also stood up to Dr. Halsey’s rigorous requirements. When Dr. Halsey and Lieutenant Jacob Keyes visited Eridanus II to study him, they were impressed with his intellect and more importantly, his luck. In a final test of his viability as a candidate, he was asked to determine which side an old coin would land on. He watched the coin as it flew in the air and caught it before it could land. Dr. Halsey believed that he either 1) Saw what side it landed on and called out that side, or 2) He picked what side he wanted.[2] John and 74 other six-year-olds were “conscripted” — covertly kidnapped from their homes without their own or parents’ consent or notice — and replaced with Flash Clones which later died of natural causes. In this way, the parents would never know that their real children had been kidnapped. Any who were enrolled in the SPARTAN program were never able to communicate with their old parents.[3]

John was renamed John-117 and began a new life that eliminated all aspects of civilian life. The Spartans trained under Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez for eight years, receiving tutelage in history and military strategy as well as weapons and physical fitness training. He bonded early with Kelly and Sam, who would be the only close friends he would ever have. Sam’s untimely death in 2525 at the hands of the Covenant affected John profoundly.

When the Spartans were eight years old, they went on a training mission in which they were dropped over a forest located deep in some snow-capped mountains and expected to get safely to their extraction Pelican. The children also had instructions to leave the last child arriving behind, or the punishment would be painful.But John-117 knew that he could not do that. This made him the leader he is now. When the group came upon the Pelican, it was guarded by armed men. Those men were actually UNSC soldiers, but were not in uniform, and in addition to the fact that the Spartans may have never seen Marines before, therefore mistaken for a hostile threat. John showed early acumen in critical thinking and tactics, not wishing to take it for granted that guards would be friendly toward the children. He came up with a plan to take the men down, capture the dropship, and ensure the safe extraction of every team member, as he made sure he was the last person aboard. To do this he ended up hijacking a UNSC dropship with the help of Déjà, and beat down the men with stones and many feet, causing severe injuries among the Marines, and even death. Chief Mendez was not pleased, as one, John attacked his Marines, and two, no one had been left behind. But Dr Halsey recognized his initiative, and promoted him to Squad Leader of the Spartans.

At the age of 14, John underwent the dangerous and painful process of augmentation that caused most of the Spartans to die, or physically disabled. John-117 was one of 33 Spartans who made it through the process unscathed, while the rest who could still operate were sent for jobs in the Office of Naval Intelligence. When John was only 14 years old, he is also said to have a body of an 18 year old Olympic athlete.

ohn-117’s first mission was against rebels in the asteroid belt of the Eridanus System, where his home world was located. He was slightly wounded by live ammo while leading his squad to capture rebel leader Colonel Robert Watts, without heavily injuring him. He received a Purple Heart after this mission.[4]

Shortly after that, he and his Spartans would fight the Covenant for the next 27 years, employing the MJOLNIR Mark IV armor. John’s first battle against the Covenant was just after they received the Mark IV armor. The Spartans launched with thrusters from a Pelican dropship. Each Spartan carried an Anvil missile with them to destroy a Covenant ship. Only two other Spartans made it to the ship with John, and entered through a hole in its hull, which was put there by a MAC round. These Spartans were Samuel-034 and Kelly-087. They succeeded the mission and blew up the Covenant ship, but lost Sam in the process due to a breach in his suit so he could not go back into vacuum. This first UNSC victory against the Covenant showed John that the Covenant could be beaten, but at a high cost, which was his friend’s life.

John served in over 200 missions against the Covenant, including the Battle of Jericho VII and the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, in which he detonated a nuclear bomb to clear all of the enemy forces from the planet. This was one of only a few UNSC victories. A data crystal was discovered during this mission which contained coordinates of Installation 04 and led up to the events on Alpha Halo. He also received every medal except for the POW (Prisoner of War) medal. He is also considered the luckiest and the bravest of the Spartans.

The Battle of Reach, though brief, was of great significance for John. The majority of the Spartans went to the planet’s surface to protect MAC generators. John, with Linda and James, was sent to a docking station to protect an unsecured NAV database. If the Covenant obtained it they would find out the location of Earth, which was still a closely guarded secret, and one of the few they had left from the Covenant. John was successful, but at a great cost. Linda and James were ambushed by Covenant Elites and both died. John saved four other Marines including Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson. The team returned to the Pillar of Autumn and was placed into cryo sleep as the ship fled Reach and went into Slipspace in hopes of leading the Covenant away from Earth.

Samus Aran

uch of Samus’ life and history is a mystery. She was living with her parents, Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran, on the Earth colony K-2L; they died, however, in a Space Pirate attack on the colony, while Samus was three years old. She was the sole survivor of the raid. Eventually, a group of Chozo found her alone and stranded on the destroyed colony. A chozo who appears to be of great importance decided to take Samus. They brought her to their planet, Zebes, and raised her with Chozo influence. She was infused with Chozo blood[5], and later given the powerful Power Suit, built entirely out of Chozo technology. She proceeded to leave the planet and eventually became a Bounty Hunter.

After becoming the most famed and capable of all Bounty Hunters, succeeding in missions everyone considered impossible, Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation and given the orders to infiltrate Zebes, the planet she grew up on. Apparently, Space Pirates had overrun the world. She had two objectives:

1. Eliminate the threat of the Metroids, a newly discovered species which the Space Pirates were using for evil purposes, and
2. Destroy Mother Brain — the “mechanical life form” or “life vein” and central computer of Zebes’ ecosystem, which had become the leader of the Space Pirates. According to the manga, Mother Brain once served the Chozo but betrayed them to serve the Pirates as part of its own plans.

Samus successfully carried out the mission. This would bind her to this duty as she is often called upon to combat this threat. Afterward, Samus discovered a distress call and upon investigation discovered the source to be the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon on which the pirates were studying Phazon, a highly radioactive material that can mutate lifeforms and has an ability to reproduce itself. Due to escalating events onboard the ship, thanks to Samus, it impacted into Tallon IV’s surface. Samus saw and pursued Meta Ridley, a winged dragon-like monster she had defeated on Zebes, was now rebuilt through the best Space Pirate technology, to the surface of the planet. On Tallon IV she found that the planet had been corrupted by Phazon when a meteor had struck it twenty years earlier. Samus found Chozo lore and ruins on the planet which told of how the meteor hit the planet and brought an evil creature with it, to which they referred to as “The Worm”. The Space Pirates landed on the planet, and quickly built up facilities to mine the highly valuable, and dangerous Phazon, but years earlier, most of the Chozo population had died off due to Phazon poisoning (the survivors fled to an unknown destination). Interestingly, the Chozo lore foretold a “hatchling” would save the planet, with descriptions strongly resembling Samus. Along the way, she discovered through Chozo Lore that an “Evil Entity” had been sealed off in the Phazon meteor impact crater by a series of Chozo Artifacts. Samus found a Space Pirate mining colony on the planet, mining for Phazon to use for experiments on themselves and Metroids to create an unstoppable military force. She halted all Phazon production, but inadvertently acquired an abnormal suit upgrade that allowed her to safely come into contact with phazon, and bolstered her arm cannon with extreme levels of power when in direct contact with pure Phazon – This suit upgrade turned her suit to shades of Black and Crimson (the Phazon Suit). Samus ultimately sought to investigate what was sealed off inside of the impact crater, so she found and collected all of the 12 Chozo Artifacts necessary to break the seal. However, when she approached the seal, Meta Ridley confronted her – he had swooped in and destroyed the portal that lead to the Impact Crater. Samus weakened Meta Ridley and the Chozo Ghosts united and drew their powers together to create a powerful beam that knocked Meta Ridley off of the Temple Grounds and into his “death”. She then found the source of all evil that came within the meteor — Metroid Prime, a mutated Metroid and living off Phazon. Samus destroyed Metroid Prime, which left the Chozo Temple on the verge of destruction, but just before its death it reached out, grabbed Samus and it absorbed her Phazon Suit. This lead to the birth of Samus’ greatest enemy, Dark Samus. Born of Phazon, this new being craved the substance with an avarice intensity, and would do anything to get its hands on it.

Some time after, Samus finds out that the Galactic Federation received a telepathic message from the Tetra Galaxy saying, “The secret to ultimate power resides in the Alimbic Cluster.” The Federation sends her to the Alimbic Cluster to ensure federation control or that it remain secret. She encountered several other hunters who wanted the ultimate power including an enemy of the Federation by the name of Sylux (mentioned below 4 paragraphs down) who stole a ship and a suit from the GF. Her goal was to collect all 8 Octoliths by defeating the guardians. Once she has done so (while also scanning things for information about the Alimbics) she must return to the Planet of Alinos to activate the Alimbic cannon to open access to the Oubliette, a chamber sealed in another dimension to trap away the incredibly powerful and dangerous Gorea, a monster which destroyed the Alimbics. After watching the other hunters get all their power sucked away, obtaining the Omega Cannon (a.k.a the ultimate power), and defeating Gorea, she leaves the Alimbic Cluster.

Some time afterwards, Samus was contacted by the Galactic Federation, who had lost conctact with a group of Galactic Federation troopers in the Dasha Region on a planet called Aether. There she encountered Metroid Prime again, but this time looking similar to Samus, but corrupted and twisted by the Phazon hunger. This being became known as “Dark Samus”. Samus also found some moth-like beings on Aether called the Luminoth, an intelligent and peaceful species similar to the Chozo. One of their leaders, U-Mos, told Samus that they lived in peace on Aether until a meteor impacted the planet’s surface, splitting Aether in two dimensions — their normal world and the other entirely filled with darkness. This “Dark Aether” was home to a vicious and vile race known as the Ing, which in the Luminoth language means “terror”. She then goes exploring through Aether searching for the Sky Temple keys while also getting new suits and abilitys for herself to survive longer in Dark Aether. Samus then later recovers all of the Sky Temple keys and reaches the Sky Temple itself to fight the Emperor Ing, the ruler of the Ing Horde. She is victorious but when she gets the last bit of energy, Dark Aether starts to collapse into destruction and she must leave in nine minutes only to have Phazon enshroud the exit of the Sky Temple. Dark Samus forces Samus to fight her one last time only to be finished off again and reduced to Phazon dust. Samus managed to restore the planet Aether to its original state. Later, she leaves the planet, with the thankful Luminoth never forgetting how she saved them and their world from destruction.

However, Dark Samus was not totally destroyed. Samus’s final showdown with the creature is to be shown in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Corruption takes place exactly six months after the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, with the player again taking the role of Samus. The story begins with a meeting between Samus Aran and the Galactic Federation, in which she meets three other bounty hunters; Ghor, Rundas and Gandrayda; and help fend off a Space Pirate attack on the GFS Olympus. They are quickly dispatched to the nearby planet of Norion and ordered to activate its defense system to fend off the pirate attack. During this mission, an asteroid-size “Leviathan seed” is sighted heading toward the planet. The Hunters, having restored power to the defense system, rush to the control room, but are attacked by Dark Samus just before activating the system. Dark Samus releases a blast of pure Phazon energy and corrupts all of the hunters. With all of them unconscious, a heavily wounded Samus manages to activate the laser just in time to destroy the Leviathan.

Samus awakens one month later and learns that she and her fellow hunters were corrupted by Phazon from Dark Samus’ attack. However, the Federation scientists discover that Samus’ body was now self-producing Phazon and have even developed a Phazon Enhancement Device (P.E.D.) that allows Samus control her internal Phazon on a safe level and to enter Hypermode. Samus then learns that the other three hunters had left a couple of weeks earlier for missions to three other planets where seeds have been planted, but the Federation lost contact with them seven days prior. Samus is then ordered to destroy each Leviathan Seed one by one and seek the whereabouts of the other hunters.

Samus travels to the planets Bryyo and Elysia and the Pirate Homeworld to find upgrades to further enhance her abilities to destroy the seeds. However, she learns that the Phazon corruption initially thought to be benign can cause her body to overload with Phazon energy which she must expel to prevent total corruption. (If Samus stays in hypermode past an alloted time, she enters corrupted hypermode in which the phazon meter rises up. If the meter maxes out, Samus will be utterly corrupted, transforming into another Dark Samus, which leads to an automatic “Game Over.”) She learns that each of her fellow hunters fell to the Phazon corruption and to protect herself she battles each hunter in turn, killing them. As each hunter falls, Dark Samus shows up to drain the Phazon energy and their abilities from their bodies, with Samus powerless to stop her. Samus is able to destroy the sources of Phazon in both Seeds on Bryyo and Elysia. She also helps the Federation lead an all-out attack on the Pirate Homeworld, allowing her to destroy the Homeworld Seed as well.

The Aurora Unit 242 then discovers the location of planet Phaaze, the source of all Phazon in the universe and Dark Samus’ place of origin. Traveling with the Federation through a wormhole, Samus arrives and descends on the planet. Samus begins absorbing dangerous amounts of Phazon energy, nearly corrupting her completely, but manages to prevent this by venting all her available energy tanks and locking herself in permanent Hypermode. After venturing to the planet’s inner sanctum, she battles Dark Samus one final time, who then fuses with a stolen Aurora Unit that is linked with Phaaze’s core. Samus is able to defeat Dark Samus, which destroys the Phazon in her body and causes the planet to self-destruct. The Federation fleet escapes through another wormhole, but also lose contact with Samus in the process. Eventually her ship appears, and she reports that her mission is complete, then flies off into the bowels of space. If the player collects every pickup until the game’s end, a special ending shows the (rumored to be) Delano 7, Sylux’s ship (Samus’ hidden rival as revealed on Metroid Prime: Hunters), following Samus’ gunship as it flies off.

At this point, the Galactic Federation deemed the Metroids too dangerous to exist. Samus was then sent to SR388 by the Galactic Federation to exterminate the remaining Metroids. Once there, she finds that Metroids mutate into different forms, each stronger than the last. She successfully annihilates all the Metroids and their queen, though upon leaving the planet she finds an egg. As she stares at it, an Infant Metroid appears out of the egg and sees Samus immediately, believing her to be its mother. Samus, going against her orders, takes the Metroid Hatchling to her gunship and leave the planet. She takes the hatchling to the Ceres Space Colony, where the scientists plan to study the Metroid and their scientific properties.

Just as Samus is leaving the station, a distress signal is sent from the station to Samus. She returns to Ceres and finds bodies everywhere. She goes to the room containing the Metroid Hatchling and sees Ridley stealing it. After a struggle, Ridley flies out of the station to Zebes, with Samus chasing him. Back on Zebes, Samus discovers that the Space Pirates have rebuilt their base on the planet and have resuscitated Mother Brain, as well as Ridley and Kraid. She once again defeats Kraid, Ridley, and Mother Brain (along with Phantoon, Crocomire, and Draygon which were new commanding bosses) and with the aid of the infant Metroid, who gave up its life to save Samus. Samus leaves the planet as a self-destruct timer counts down, causing the planet to explode just as Samus leaves it.

The Galactic Federation soon had another mission for the famous Bounty Hunter. She was to go with Galactic Federation troopers to SR388 to collect samples of life for the Biologic Space Laboratories (BSL). The troopers and Samus land on the planet, where Samus and the troopers were trying to capture a Hornoad when a parasite latches itself inside Samus. After the mission is complete and she is back in her gunship, the parasite had infested her central nervous system, causing her to lose consciousness and drift into an asteroid belt. Fortunately, she was ejected from the ship and the escape pod was retrieved by the BSL and transported to Galactic Federation HQ. The parasite that attacked Samus was known as the “X Parasite”.

The X had infected large portions of her Power Suit that it had to be surgically removed, drastically altering her physical appearance. She was given a minimal chance of survival. However, they found a cure. Using the Infant Metroid cell to make an anti-X vaccine, which saved her, showing that the Metroids were the main predators of the X on SR388, though now that they are extinct on the planet, the X roam free and populate without competition. A new suit was given to Samus — the Fusion Suit.

Samus is then sent to the BSL research station where the last batch of creatures from SR388 and the infected parts of her Power Suit were sent. She is to investigate an unexplained explosion in the Quarantine Bay. For this mission, she is overseen by a computerized Commanding Officer, her second CO. Upon investigating the station, she finds that the X Parasite has taken the form of her Varia Suit, known as the SA-X (Samus Aran X). Based on the asexual division of the X, there are at least 10 SA-X on the station. Samus also learns a disturbing fact on the station — she finds out that the Galactic Federation had been conducting a secret Metroid breeding program. Once the SA-X discovered this, the section that housed these programs was detached from the station, with Samus barely escaping and one of the SA-X disposed of. This destroyed the Federation’s research. Samus then moves on to change the orbit of the lab so that it would impact SR388. But before she can do this she faces a SA-X. She destroys it but is not able to absorb the X inhabiting her armor. Upon evacuating the station, she finds an Omega Metroid waiting for her at the docking bay. She tries to fight it only to be injured badly. The SA-X comes back to kill the Metroid but is slaughtered. The Core-X floats over Samus advertising its availbility to her. Samus absorbs the X and used her new Ice Beam attack to finish off the Metroid. In the end Samus discovers that her former CO Adam Malkovich was the computer on the ship. It turns out that the minds of scientists and military leaders are frequently uploaded to computers. He spoke to her in her anger over the fact that the Federation was on its way to the lab to capture the SA-X for study. Her ship was piloted back into the docking bay by Etecoons and Dachoras (Strangly, Adam unable to pilot the ship itself). Samus then leaves the station. It is unknown what the Galactic Federation’s current view of Samus is. While she did defy a direct order by the Federation, there were extenuating circumstances and the true threat of the X parasites was not known to the Galactic Federation at the time the order was given.

Celebrity….

Wow, really :P? Coolers ^^ Something that surprised me was that a japanese man made her (no offense there but in Japan women are’nt really that respect -have I heard from my teacher- And the thought of making her powerful surprised me and made me proud and happy over japan

Yeh, I said that before. Nintendo overdid samus abit since she’s a female, trying to give her some respect in the gaming era, making her a wierd amazonic female (190cm length 90kg weight w/o suit)

So.. Nintendo’s childy thoughts there =) But the games are fun ^^ try em.. If you like puzzles blended with amazing enviroments and beutiful nature (or more like pretty nature)

Metroid Prime 1: Receive a distress call from an abandoned pirate frigate. Follow Ridley to Tallon IV. Explore each section to unravel the mystery of the meteor that had crashed there while fighting Space Pirates. Destroy the Metroid Prime.

Metroid Prime 2: Investigate the Federation Landing Site. Meet the Luminoth. Get energy from Dark Agon Temple and bring it to the Great Temple. Get energy from Dark Torvus Temple and bring it to the Great Temple. Get energy from Dark Sanctuary Temple and return it to the Great Temple. Find the Twelve Keys (don’t remember if its actually twelve). Go to the Sky Temple and defeat Dark Samus and the Emperor Ing. All the while, fight Dark Samus and the Space Pirates.

Metroid Prime 3: Flee the GFS Olympus. Save Norion. Destroy the Bryyo seed. Destroy the Elysia seed. Defeat the Space Pirates at the Pirate Homeworld. Explore the GFS Valhalla. Destroy Dark Samus and Phazon on Phaaze.

Halo 1: Find giant ringworld, halo. Defeat aliens. Find oracle. Get index. Fight flood. Escape. Destroy halo!

Halo 2: Start on space station. Save it. Go to Earth. Slipspace rupture to Delta Halo. Defeat Prophet of Regret. Transport to High Charity. Kill Flood. Go to Ark and Escape back to Earth.

Halo 3: Jump 2 kilometres off the Ark onto hard ground and survives without A SINGLE bruise. Fight aliens. Flood on Earth. Fight flood. Slipspace jump to Installation 00. Go through desert & the Ark. Defeat Covenant once and for all. go to crashed flood infested destroyed High Charity. Go to halo. Destroy and escape. float endless days in a destroyed ship.

Metroid Prime: Do something. Run around killing space pirates and bosses and whatnot. Bleh bleh.

1st game: stop halo and get off halo and escape the flood.

2nd game: find the index and get off delta halo and head to earth.

3rd game: stop the prophet of truth from activating halo and kill him. and you must find cortana AND wipe out the flood.

He carries 2 arms.. of free choise.. or 3! With dual wield :)

also sorry melos but that comment at 1:19 made absolutely no sense to me :P

The dark and light beams are just copies.. and I don’t think they should count

ANd in Metroid Prime Corruption she mixes energy.. I mean that would like make an imba gun! a gun overwhelmed with power! I mean Chief lacks Stamina (Show’s clearly in halo 3.. Blame bungie) So if his shield is a gonner he is a gonner.. Oh wait! OVER SHIELD! hmm =) nice one…. still she’ll brake it down eventually! But wait! Cloak! THAT HE STOLE FROM PIRATES (and they call arbiter bad -.-) Aww shiet :S i noticed that she has a thermal visor… Heat seeker that is for the one’s that are unsure =)
Hmm Gravity hammer!! But wait once more.. Are’nt like pirate’s huge like hell like pounding on her like hell? If she survives that then she must survive the gravity hammer =/ (The Gravhammer is imba ano!! but it’s more of a Sheegot punch.. the grown one not the baby)

So atm she does overwhelm him… But if they’re stripped of thier equipment then that would be abit more fair =)

But I know something that might buff em abit fair

Put em both in thier non-upgraded gear.. some peeps think that might be a fair fight..

I mean I’ve learned to like chief… (though i hate them hating the Arbiter insead of the chief -.- why aiming at me!! he’s the hero not me!)
Oh well.. Chief fans =) Some of you say chief is Agile guile and strong etc. But What makes you say samus isn’t ^.- Okay I’ve seen cheif like punchin enemy vehicles do death xD i mean taht made me laugh as a sinister man. But Chief in halo 3 has been weakened xS… Why? well He has only a shield.. not health like in the first halo… So blame bungie there =/ They made him weaker -.-

Honestly, the only edge I can think of that Master Chief could have is Cortana. Having a superintelligent AI in your head would no doubt work to his advantage. Then again, Samus can interface with her ship–and, again, visors provide tactical information.

also im sure samus would have some tactical expertise (she’s probably not an idiot , thats just the person playing), chief isn’t the only battle hardened warrior in this competition.

Mobility: Samus’ suit is bulky and restricts movement, but it enhances speed, from her plain old strafing dash (Metroid Prime) to the hyperdash (Super Metroid). She also has the Space Jump and Screw Attack, which would keep her airborne, not to mention the Screw Attack transforming her into a mobile sphere of pure energy. Then there’s the Morph Ball, and its various techniques. Master Chief’s armor enhances his physical attributes, but lacks the bells and whistles of Samus’ Varia Suit. Advantage: Samus.

Weapons: Samus can carry at least four different Beam types, aside from her standard Power Beam. Her beams don’t require ammo, with the exception of the Light and Dark beams–for convenience’s sake, let’s say she’s got her MP1 armaments. Then there’s her missile launcher, which has a nice, healthy stock of up to 250, and her beam/missile combos (Super Missile, anyone?). Then there’s her Morph Ball bombs, power bombs, and the Boost Ball, which could be used as a weapon (against Quadraxis, for example). For Master Chief, anything that can be a weapon, is a weapon; the only problem is that there might not be enough ammunition to hold him over. Advantage: Samus.

Experience: Master Chief is quite a bit older than Samus, and has a wealth of combat experience. He’s an accomplished leader and a great strategist. Samus’ experience as a hunter is substantial, but she lacks the decades of field experience that the Master Chief has, as well as his tactical expertise. Advantage: Master Chief.

Overall: A close fight, but Samus wins, overwhelming Master Chief in the end.

samus and cheif are pretty descently matched, except samus has all her guns on her already, cheif needs to use guns and ammo that he just randomly finds,

the halo games don’t do a good job of portraying cheif’s actual skills that he’s supposed to have in order to make the game more challenging, so he got downgraded a bit for gameplay

i personnally love chief more than samus, but with all due respect samus takes the cheese due to agileness, unless a pelican drops by and drops off a scorpion tank ;)

key – monkey… :P it just flowed alright!!! lol :S

i guess… never been called that before – lol

just thinking also, if i imagine chief goin through metroid he’d do okay till halfway through the game in toras bog against the two legged dinosaur things and the moth boss, actually most big bosses would kill him in one hit. also i don’t think his suit wold resist the air of dark aether…

Yeah, fan boys really get on my nerves. It’s a shame that the Halo Fan base is so… Lacking in reasoning skills. (Or at least the ones that are on the internet) Either that or they like it so much they can’t stand anyone else doing otherwise. Although, this goes to just about any game in existence.

[dont kno why i didnt just look at this page before]

the rampade halo fanboys on the other page were beginning to urk me >_>