Was there any reason for Samus to be a girl?

Was there any reason for Samus to be a girl?

To attract more people. Sex appeal.

I want you to kill yourself.

:^ )

Wouldn't it attract more people if she were a boy? Girls don't play video games, and boys don't want to play as a stupid girl.

I said sex appeal. She was Nintendo's cool, sexy poster girl. Most people didn't realise you were playing as a girl until the end, which also sparked a lot of interest in the game.

>ywn fap to a canon male zero suit samus

Being athletic.
Not having a ballsack.
Being able to eventually seduce men to kill them (she's a bounty hunter after all).
Alien (1979) had a female main character.
Being mother of an alien creature.

shit like that

It's a funny joke

To boost tissue sales

Homage to Alien.

Because it would have made a surprising twist for the time.

At the time, it was a genuinely surprising plot twist (especially considering the manual referred to Samus as "he") that would generate free word-of-mouth publicity.

Was there any reason for Samus to be a boy?

no

that was the whole idea. at the last minute someone said "hey wouldn't it be funny if we made her a girl," and since they were already thinking about alien, they did

even "samus" is probably a misromantization of seamus

Was there any reason for her not to be a girl?

A homage to ripley

The game was made for boys. Girls don't play video games. They just lie and be feminists.

>have 7 - 8 yo, playing Super metroid with my cousin
>trying to beat that first fucking Chozo statue
>so hyped I'm playing standing up
>get killed
>1st time dying on this game
>see samus is a female
>we look at each other disgusted because we thought she was a cool robot the entire time
didn't stopped me to play various other Metroid game later

Samus waving at the screen on the ground

Just like the rest of the game!

was there any reason for Ellen Ripley to be the sole survivor?

Metroid takes quite a bit from Alien, female lead was one of those things and Ridley too