Awesome / Metroid (Manga)

• Samus's parents show just where she got her Mama Bear instincts from. Virginia, Samus's mother, doesn't even remotely hesitate to throw herself in the way of a giant, sadistic pirate dragon intent on killing her daughter for fun, and buys Samus time to escape to somewhere safe. Rodney, Samus's father, finds the Space Pirates' enormous stock of plundered Afloraltite, a volatile substance used as fuel by most ships, after sneaking aboard their cargo ship in the panic of the attack on the K2L colony to try and sabotage them. After being cornered by two pirates with only a welding laser to defend himself, he turns his laser on the Afloraltite while making his last thoughts about his family. The ensuing explosion nearly kills Ridley, leaving him gravely wounded and one of only two survivors of the blast. The other survivor? Samus.
• In the manga, the Chozo Scholar, Gray Voice, pretends to betray his people when the Space Pirates invade Zebes. He then reveals that he was just looking for a chance to take out Mother Brain, and, dusting off an old Chozo suit of Powered Armor and a beam stave that eclipses anything from Stargate, starts blasting away at Mother with energy pulses that are too ancient for her more modern shields to compensate for. This is also in spite of the fact that the Chozo have all psionically vowed to renounce all violence under a Geis of crippling pain.
  • Mother gets desperate and calls in her chief-lieutenant, Gray then fights Ridley to a stand-still, in close-quarters combat and it is only when Mother uses some sort of mental attack accompanied with a Breaking Speech, that Gray is incapacitated long enough for Ridley to impale Aran's foster-father on his barbed tail. Gray proceeds to walk off this mortal wound, destroy one of the pursuit craft harassing Samus's escape and plant the Varia Suit for his daughter at a Chozo shrine just before Ridley consumes him with a jet of plasma breath.
  Ridley: So you came all this way. You're a tenacious bastard... Crawl to your tombstone, old man! You may refuse to die... But your friends will!
  • One for Miss Aran also, who is standing on top of the unarmed ship and manually sniping Pirate vessels out of the sky while she rides through the atmosphere; likening it to defending against a thousand spears with a single sword. Sam succeeds.
• When Samus finally Took a Level in Badass, she has three CMOAs in Volume 2:
  • Power walking with a◊ bad-ass white long coat. It just shows how awesome she is, especially when she easily defeats twelve power armoured GF Marines, while wearing it, then rescues Chairman Keaton with a single shot.
  • Samus... dressing down the higher ups of the Federation... while wearing her tank top short shorts ensemble◊! No one can get away with arguing the point with world leaders dressed so. Well Samus does, baby!
  • THREE! I'll defeat you by the count of three!◊.
  "If you're capable of it, then let's count together!"

  • Then she quashes her fear, fries out Ridley's muscular system, freezes his twisted body and turns him into a burnt crisp with a super missile. While counting to three.