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Major characters
Samus Aran
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Nickname(s): | none |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
Samus is a bounty hunter and ass-kicking space jockey, who also happens to be a girl. Except in Metroid: Other M, they flipped the script to highlight the fact that Samus is first and foremost a WOMAN who also does some space exploration when she's not suffering from the vapors. By the next game, Nintendo will have dropped all pretense and just have her parading around in heels and pearls and leaving all the real bug-hunting work to the MEN.
Baby Metroid
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Nickname(s): | none |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
This is the Metroid hatchling that Samus saved in Metroid II and that sacrificed itself to save Samus in Super Metroid. Samus is really sad that it died, because she was projecting her womanly maternal feelings onto it. Even though technically it's always been her job to exterminate every Metroid she encounters because they are super dangerous.
Mother Brain
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Nickname(s): | none |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
Mother Brain is the apparent leader of the Space Pirates. Straightforwardly enough, she looks like a giant brain, and she controls monsters (including most Metroids) telepathically. With the help of the baby Metroid, Samus destroyed Mother Brain at the end of Super Metroid, which means she'll play absolutely no role in Metroid: Other M, whatsoever.
Adam
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Nickname(s): | The Grouchy One |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
Leader of the 07th Platoon of Space Marines. Adam is Samus's former Commanding Officer, and we're led to believe that they parted under somewhat... acrimonious circumstances. Adam gets off on being withholding; his first order of business on the Bottle Ship is to rescind Samus's gear, allowing her to use HER OWN WEAPONS AND UPGRADES if and only if there's a demonstrable need.
Other characters
Anthony
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Nickname(s): | The Black One |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
Anthony is a Space Marine assigned to investigate the Bottle Ship, and an old war buddy of Samus's. He's a pretty friendly guy, but his character model looks a little... pained at times. Probably because he resents being the token black character in the game. Or the designers of this game have never actually seen a black person.
Lyle
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Nickname(s): | The Schnozz |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
One of the Space Marines. I guess his "characterization" is that he doesn't like bugs. Spoilers, he's the first member of the 07th Platoon to die.
James
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Nickname(s): | The 'Stache |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
One of the Space Marines. He has an evil mustache.
Maurice
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Nickname(s): | The Boring One |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
One of the Space Marines. He is the flattest character of the bunch. Which is really saying something.
K.G.
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Nickname(s): | The Needy One |
| First Appearance: | Part 1 |
The Space Marine who is Asian and good with computers. I don't think he even gets any dialogue in this game.