MY HEADCANON ABOUT SAMUS'S POWER SUIT
Hello Everybody! Today, I will be talking about how Samus Aran fits in her legendary power suit seen throughout the Metroid series.
This is the sequence Samus undergoes from her Zero suit to her power suit, which is known as the Varia suit. From there, Samus can enter Morph Ball mode.
That Morph Ball mode was something a lot of people seem to wonder how she can fit into that.
That is when many find the proportions of the suit very different from Samus's own body shape due to the suit's rather bulky design. They wondered how Samus could fit perfectly into the power suit and imagined scenarios like this:
It was hilarious, but I have an idea of how the bounty hunter fits in her power suit. It all has to do with one of Samus's famous abilities - The Morph Ball!
Before we get to that, we should get to how Samus got the suit in the first place. It was said that Samus received the power suit during her adolescence from the Chozo who raised and trained her.
Here we see a flashback of Samus being worked on by Chozo scientists.
You can clearly see wires going through Samus's back. While that was obviously when she was being imbued with Chozo DNA, she was likely being modified so she could morph into her Power Suit, and only she can wield.
Also, whenever she is out of her power suit, she is in her zero suit. The one that Samus usually wears is seen as the one that allows her to put on the power suit. The thing I noticed was the glowing symbol on her back, the same area where the wires were when she was being modified.
Though I believe that may have to do with her ability to put on the power suit, there are case wear Samus wears different versions other than the one everybody knows and loves. In Fusion, A game that takes place after the most beloved Metroid game, she was wearing a different attire after removing her power suit (fusion suit).
Throughout the series. Notice how we never get to see the power suit by itself (Besides many fanarts, of course), it always magically appears and disappears on Samus. The only time we did was back in Smash Bros Brawl, though that was separate from the Metroid series. That means that the power suit is 'inside' Samus the whole time.
Remember how I theorized about the zero suit back symbol? As seen in the intro of………… Other M, we get to see that along with the chest symbol glow right when Samus materializes the suit.
"How does Samus fit in the power suit?" While doing my research, I discovered one image that has an idea of how and why I believe the power suit is technological and organic, and it was this scan image for the save stations in Metroid Prime 1.
It shows what Samus's skeleton looks like under the power suit. Clearly, the ribcage, shoulders, and bones have been extended to fit the suit.
My scenario for how she puts on the suit is that her shoulder joints and torso expand to fit her suit's upper torso and shoulders, while her limbs are also expanded. With that, I believe her whole biology was modified for her transformation to happen.
One thing I noticed was mostly in the Prime series, where she removes only her helmet. Her human head remains the same for the most part, but notice that her entire neck is robotic. With the scan image, I believe her head remains unaltered while her entire body is.
Another thing is her arm cannon, which covers the entirety of her right forearm; I believe that her right hand is the cannon itself, even going as far as thinking she can morph the cannon back into her arm.
Remember the symbols from Prime 1?
She can still make the gestures to activate the different beams and likely many other cannon abilities like grapple and missiles.
Now, for how she enters her morph ball form. You see, my theory is that since she was biologically enhanced. Her armor morphs while her entire body turns into some kind of energy matter within the morph ball. The same matter is what her body would be made up of when she dons the power suit. Samus may spawn her bombs from the bottom of the green line that goes along her ball form. That same green line may actually act as her 'eyes' to see where she is going.
Now there you have it! I discussed how Samus put on the power suit and how she can enter her morph ball form. I am sure there are people with similar explanations to that who do not want to make mine the official one, and let them share their ideas
