In The Mind of: Samus Aran 

Actually in the intro cutscene in Dread, Adam literally tells her she isn’t getting paid enough for this shit. So… no she’s not getting paid a lot for this.

Fun fact about Mecha Ridley. Ridley himself actually built it cause he's a massive narcissist.

Samus: "I learned that killing everything is never the answer." Doomguy: *Unholy laughter*

I am impressed what Mercury Steam did with the Metroid franchise. Metroid Dread has shown us how the Spanish studio has improved since their Castlevania Lords of Shadow days.

“She herself does not need to turn into a beast” boy you’re gonna love the ending of Dread…

You know, I used to think Samus was kinda bland as a character, having only played a couple of the games and not seen any other related media. I assumed that her main and almost only appeal was that she's a badass space warrior and not much else. So thanks for making this video that showed me she's not just a badass killing machine. She's a badass killing machine that loves animals.

after playing Metroid Dread, I feel like this video is far more accurate to Samus

Prime is canon though. Ridley's inclusion in Samus Returns proved it, and then Sakamoto literally confirmed it not too long ago in a Gameinformer interview.

I remember reading in another Metroid comment section that in Super Metroid, when Samus returns to the Space Colony to rescue the baby, Ridley leaves whenever Samus' health gets low enough that it triggers her suit's alarm to go off. Later when Samus has a run-in with the now wild baby, it drains her health as it doesn't initially recognize her probably due to its instincts to feed and survive on the planet since its capture. The baby only stops once it hears that same warning alarm from the encounter with Ridley and flees (as mentioned, most likely in shame). Then, once again, during Samus' fight with Mother Brain, Samus is left with barely enough health that triggers the suit's alarm while Mother Brain charges a final shot. The baby hears the alarm and immediately rushes back to rescue its surrogate mother and ultimately gives its life for Samus. Super Metroid has a ton of these tiny details that is absolutely insane to look back on since its release in 1994. It's even crazier now seeing as what Dread has done and what is open to possibilities for future titles. Great video, all in all! Can't wait for more of these 'In The Mind of: X'.

Playing these games in isolation, it's almost too easy to ignore Samus as a character altogether. She's basically just an avatar to get you to spin, shoot, and solve puzzles. Which is fine, just that I never cared for her as a character... ...until I played all of the games in chronological order (remakes instead of the OGs just for the sake of ease) during the lead-up to Dread, something I hadn't done before this year. And by the time I was heading to fight SR-X at the end of Fusion, something surprised me: by playing through her story like that, I'd become emotionally invested in her story. That would've seemed ridiculous to me when I was younger, but playing them all in order really put her entire journey - her stubbornness, vulnerability, empathy, anger, and unflinching tenacity - into perspective. All told with in-game scenarios and _very_ few cutscenes. Playing through Dread with those four games fresh in my mind like that has been so rewarding. Story beats that I otherwise would've skipped to get to the action now hold enormous weight. All of that accomplished without 200 pages of in-game dialogue or half-hour cinematics. For a series so dark and grotesque, it's kind of incredible how magical 2D Metroid games are, huh?

27:38 This is the first time I've seen this dialog and it's extremely funny to me. I love how Adam's basically like "you _definitely_ shouldn't destroy the station, and _definitely_ not by doing this exact sequence of actions"

You know one way I think Samus's infamous freakout scene could have worked? It makes absolutely no sense that Samus would be frozen in fear at the sight of Ridley. But one emotional reaction that would make complete sense would be blind rage. At this point in the timeline, Samus has faced this monster not once, not twice, not even thrice, but at least five times. And every single time she walked away from his smouldering remains, sincerely believing that her parents had been avenged, only for him to come back again and again. At this point, Samus just going into a berserker state at the sight of him would make complete sense.

Samus from Zero Mission to Super Metroid at Seeing Ridley: "How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, old man!?" Samus during Other M: **Shooketh**

I really like the reflection inherent to Samus. Like, she kind of feels like a personification of "beware when fighting monsters that you do not become a monster yourself". She goes on a planetwide genocide like Ridley, with the main difference being that when she comes across a harmless (even friendly) Metroid specimen, instead of laughing at its weakness and putting it down, she takes it and embraces it. She ends up exploding basically every planet she ever goes to. When she faces the SA-X as part Metroid, it's literally a reflection of what she was, not just a corruption. She's the Metroid running from the scary space goddess born of technology and genetic alteration. And she literally becomes part Metroid and maybe even part X, and at the end of Dread it becomes clear that she's the most powerful Metroid to ever live, but she still retains her humanity. I think that's what makes her such a cool and interesting hero, is that she refuses to abandon a certain softness inherent to humanity.

oh boi can't wait for adam to show up and tell grim how to proceed with the video.

The conclusion to this video hits so much harder after playing Dread, considering what happens there.

Thanks for being the only person in the whole world to have read my reddit thread about the inconsistencies in the Metroid manga lol

Samus keeps needing the help of animals to escape from exploding bases in her ship. She should maybe install some voice controlled autopilot on that thing one of these days

god i absolutely LOVE the delivery of your lines. the "as together they KICK his purple ass to the GROUND!" line was absolutely amazing. that line alone deserves a sub

28:51 Pretty sure it was mentioned somewhere in Other M that the baby Metroid would have become another Queen had it lived. Which is honestly a nice precedent to what Samus almost became in Dread had Quiet Robe X not intervened.

Samus doesn't need plot armor.. She has BIRD MAGIC

Other M is a weird quandary for me since I like the ideas behind the story. It’s just the execution of those ideas was sadly not done well in a convincing manner.

You could have included the Prime games. They are canon, as Samus Returns AND Sakamoto himself both confirm. They take place between Metroid Zero Mission (Metroid 1) and Metroid Samus Returns (Metroid 2)

Damn, Samus has been through up some shit. This series has the potential to be an amazing movie series. Samus Is easily in my favorite female character.

Honestly, you've done her story the justice no other RU-vidr has done. No one else ever covered her training at Federation and her first visit to Zebes after the training.

thank you so much for giving our Lady the love she deserves. I teared up at that final music box cut of the main theme. 10/10

Nice video. A few notes: - The Federation officials behind the BSL station and all that in Fusion was only a certain faction in the Federation. She still works with the Federation afterwards, she is just wary that they may not all be as benevolent as they seem - Samus' breakdown with Ridley in Other M was more about her character arc in that game. She felt helpless the entire game, and Ridley "coming back to life" was the last straw before she had a freakout. It wasn't 100% PTSD Otherwise, great summary!

You completely missed the part of the story where she's married to my self-insert character in my fanfic. C'MON MAN.

22:54 "you aren't my superior anymore. No."

Dude, you're hilarious and fairly family friendly which I appreciate! Loved the video and all the great connections of Samus' character throughout the series. Thank you for making this! :)

Samus would get really giddy at the sight of a brand new rideable lawn mower.

I also love what they did with Samus in Metroid Dread, she really gives off Doomslayer vibes. But yeah, great video, every Metroid fan should see this

28:45 Small note, since the Queen Metroid in Other M is a clone of The Baby, it stands to reason that it would have evolved into a Queen rather than an Omega Metroid.

Would love to see how you incorporate Dread into this video

....This scares me. Will she eventually become the bad guy? The Galactic Federation already sees her as a threat. That lullaby was a nice touch. This was my first video from you. You earned my sub sir, thanks for all your hard work!

This video is pretty damn good I knew Samus since playing Smash on the N64 but not once played one of her games or knew anything about her backstory

Grim: "I won't go too much into Other M" Me: "Oh, so I can watch the video, wouldn't wanna be spoiled for the game!" Grim: "So, here's tons of important cutscenes and spoilers for Other M. You're welcome! =)"

This was a phenomenal video. I love how you formatted this like a story instead of just reviewing the games.

They should make a show out of this. I'd watch the hell out of that.

I really love the final joke about Anthony appearing because, even if it most probably wasn't intended, Anthony is one of those few people who did the right thing when it was needed to save Samus. So it's actually more than just a joke if you think about it.

oh my god, thank you so much for this. hilarious and informative as heck!

I love Samus. The Metroid series has been my favorite for a very long time. I honestly got into because of Prime. But I was actually old enough to appreciate the game at that time. When Super Metroid came out I just ran around shooting and jumping lol. I did replay all the games I could once I was able to start buying them. I wanna buy a Switch now just to try out Dread.

Apparently, due to a grave translation error that was left unchecked, the Federation wasn't the one responsible for what happens in Fusion and Other M. In fact, the Federation as a whole agrees with Samus' decision, while the orders to step back and let the X live was a result of an old, discontinued military faction within the Federation.

3:42 Damn You're also a Shiki Tohno enjoyer? Legend

This video really made me appreciate Samus' characterization across the many Metroid games. Next, "In the Mind of *The Baby*".

1:51 I don't know why that made me laugh so much

2:29 The Prime trilogy is between Zero Mission and 2

I'm so glad Grim made this video. If he made a video on Doomguy, it's only fair to make one for his wife too.

Hey, thanks for not including the Prime games :) haven't had the chance to play them yet so I was happy to revisit the whole main story without spoilers :D

7:19 OK, that was clever.

You could also a raven beak to the small group of doners

Yes! I was just playing Dread! Let's go!

3:03 “KYRIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!” Gotta love poking fun at DMC4 :)

Make that 3 bird dads

15:40 AH!!! HE SAID IT! HE SAID THE THING!

From having PTSD from seing Ridley to not giving a shit.

>wanted to be friends with everything >Loves animals and always saves/keeps them >Doesn't like orders/rules >Known for disobeying them (Mostly when they dont make sense to her) >Suffered experienced trauma emotionally and not contextually >clearly not good at picking up cues as to what she was being trained for >Isolated herself and prefers to act on her own, in the company of her pets >Lack of empathy in some aspects while having non discriminating empathy in others >Overall rational/logical thinking aimed at best problem solution possible >Not very communicative through words and overall seems like a distant character except when you get snippets of her emotions (Or read the backstory) SHE IS AUTISTIC

Dude I'm having this problem I don't want to have fixed. Every 20 freakin seconds your damn jokes make me laugh so much I miss the plot and have to rewind the video 😂😂😂 Amazing. Instant sub 😂🙌

This video was awesome!! Thank you!!!!

I’d love to see you recap the Dread storyline, oh boy!! 🤣

This is exactly the video I wanted to see after finishing Dread, thank you.

i love your energy lol you funny asf great vid

Hoo boy. Did Dread add more depth to her. I kind of want a follow up to this now.

24:47 "The baby. The baby. The baby. Babies cry. Baby. Baby. The baby. The baby." "SSHHUUUTTT UUUUUPPPPP!!!"

6:05 OH MY GOD I'M CRYING

Even just the few short clips shown here reminded me how good the art and bosses were in Fusion. Guess it’s time to replay again.

It's actually Raven Beaks DNA that was used on Samus. Reason why he calls her his daughter.

The memes are ON POINT

What a funny, informative, and well-edited masterpiece of a video

This was really well done

I think super Metroid REALLY DESERVES a remake

Man you really deserve more subscribers!

The baby approves of this video. It really does suck that youtube fricks over longer content because you can feel the heart here.

0:03 - 0:08 That opening edit was one of the funniest things I’ve seen in awhile!

hang on wasn't the events of zero mission her first mission as an idepentent bounty hunter hence the name zero mission

And now, time to add Dread’s Story into the mix! (She’s become a Metroid now.... what will this mean for the games to come??)

i love how ridley wanted to kill samus, got trashed by rodney aran , ate the parents and some survivors and got trashed multiple times by the girl some years later until she killed him and also grey voice was stronger than ridley he couldn't defeat him only because of his mental barrier

Gets aeion abilities in Samus Returns. Forgets these abilities, until Metroid Dread.

4:01 😂 wish the kazuya hair and eye was there

15:04 cue terminalmontage samus saying the baby

Superior Content as always J grim

You know, as someone who's been a fan of the series for a long time and played pretty much every game I could get my greedy claws on, I have an unpopular opinion. Despite the rather stupidly shoehorned PTSD bits, Other M was a pretty fun game, and I liked playing it quite a bit.

Hadn't raided your archive much yet, this one popped up in my suggested feed after watching the Mind of Kratos, had to watch it... excellent breakdown, loved it. Though it did grind my teeth the way you pronounced her surname. 😂 Say it with me now... Aran... "uh rahn"... or "uh ron" either way... but not like "Aaron" heh. Keep up the great work, need more like yours in my feed.

Ridley:takes the baby Metroid and flee tô zebes Samus:ow shit here we Go again

This is probably the greatest retelling of Samus's story. You're wild, entertaining, and eccentric. Loved all the little asides and touches. Informative and hilarious. Keep it up mate!

Funny enough, I also learned Samus's gender through Smash.

That “me?” guy with that stupid look on his face had me dying lmao

I honestly think SA-X was scarier than the EMMIs

I think the Metroid DNA that comes up in Fusion was actually collected during Other M… I seem to recall it being a plot point that the Federation’s decontamination procedure allowed them to harvest cells from her power suit from when the baby Metroid was killed directly above her. That’s presumably how they were also able to clone Ridley, though I’ve never been clear on why they did that. Maybe they’ll go into Ridley’s race someday… who knows, maybe Prime 4 will do something similar to Prime 3’s introducing the pirate homeworld.

My FAVE Nintendo Character!

Metroid Dread be like *IMMA FIRING MA LAZER!*

This video is great. You did this with great editing and equal passion for the topic, and it shows quite wonderfully. Glad you did your research and found out about the manga! It was a good read. And I think you got the best reason why most of us don't really appreciate the PTSD Samus experienced for Ridley showing up. You _could_ excuse it as being caught in a moment of weakness for seeing her killer back from the dead again, but I find it a weak excuse at best. Samus already went through this PTSD over a decade prior in the manga, and then got the support she needed to help her power through it... FIVE times (Metroid, Prime, Prime 3, Samus Returns and Super Metroid) since then. Ridley showing up a sixth time shouldn't have been a problem for her at this point. At this point... she would've been far more likely to just roll her eyes and say "it's so irritating, having to kill you yet again." But you justifying why she allowed Adam to boss her around and getting *really* upset about him having to die... makes sense, begrudging as that acceptance is, since it clashes so heavily with the rest of her actions throughout the series. Adam was the last one left she had that was close to her, and now, he too sacrifices himself for her, just like everyone else did. That's gotta hurt, no matter how tough you are. Makes her reactions in Fusion more sensible in that light. I'm curious, Mr. King. Have you played Dread yet? What are your thoughts on it, if you did?

i like prime a lot that fps style is just rally cool to me

Alright. The "Do you remember?" gag was worth the price of admission alone. Now i have to explain to my friends why I'm sending them a 33-minute video for a 2 second joke, but it'll be worth it.

A big thing you missed with Zero Mission is that she doesn't get the gravity suit from this test. What she gets is actually a an Older yet "Legendary" version of the power Varia armor suit. When she firsts picks up the upgrades for space jump, gravity suit, and plasma beam, her Suit isn't compatible with them because they are older technologies. Once she gets the Legendary power suit from the trail those older technologies are useable because they are compatible with this older, yet more intigratible and stronger version of her suit armor.

Brooooooo The X gunna give it to ya part surprised me

cant believe his first game is actually dread

Now we wait 3 mouths for the next video

Oh hey, it's just Kraid

4:00 fuck you for that Kazuya laugh lmaoo that was priceless !!