Much has already been made of the powerup mechanic: that Samus already has them all in her overnight bag but refuses to use them until her commanding officer—with whom she has surrogate daddy issues up the delicately sculpted arse—authorizes it. This leads to a rather notorious moment when Samus blunders through an extremely hostile atmosphere without protective clothing because daddy didn't specifically order her to wear some, putting her on the intellectual level of one of those robot vacuum cleaners.
Oh, Betilla the Fairy has arrived to give us a new power. ("Now you can punch with your fist!") ...Oh. Punching. Well, that's not really a power-up and more of a "thing-that-every-breathing-person-with-a-fist-can-do" up, but whatever, it is what it is.
(Later)
Maybe the next Betilla power-up will be something exciting. ("You now have the power to hang.") Ah, the power to hang? Hang? I'm sure most people with hands could do that, but I suppose we're talking about the same guy who couldn't punch a second ago.
(Later)
Maybe the next Betilla power-up will be something exciting. ("You now have the power to hang.") Ah, the power to hang? Hang? I'm sure most people with hands could do that, but I suppose we're talking about the same guy who couldn't punch a second ago.
—Caddicarus on Rayman
"Just for the record, we did know about electricity before rocketry. It's combining the two that's the big step forward!"
— "Electrics" technology blurb, Kerbal Space Program
