[quote=Kalamadea]
Samus is my favorite heroine ever. She's just completely badass when you disregard her characterization in Other M. That's my only complaint about Other M; how it made Samus like a rookie all over again on her second to last mission, relying on Adam to determine when her tools should be brought online. If she were characterized properly, Adam would have no authority over her.
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Wasn't it also horrendously sexist, considering that the original point in the NES game was that 'the badass character is a woman all along', and making her dependent on some boringly normal man kind of took away a bit of her cred as a powerful female.
That said, Japan is hardly the most progressive country in it's approach to female characters >.<