Damn awesome picture.

(Where's the part where she turns into a crying child?

Why yes, I did just recently watch Character Assassination: Authorized, why?)

Well, when you let the guy who brags about having a version of Super Metroid's death animation with Samus naked and being the only one who knows where does she have a mole (he called it beauty mark or something like that) have complete authority over the development of a game focusing on a character considered badass by the western community, things just don't turn our very well.

blopa said:
Well, when you let the guy who brags about having a version of Super Metroid's death animation with Samus naked and being the only one who knows where does she have a mole (he called it beauty mark or something like that) have complete authority over the development of a game focusing on a character considered badass by the western community, things just don't turn our very well.

I prefer to think of it as Japan-US cultural Differences+poor writing=DISASTER, myself.

The root of the problem isn't the less-than-stellar writing (although that's a contributing factor), but the fact that the West and the writers in Japan have been seeing her differently the entire time, this is just the first it's emerged overtly. For instance, they refused to allow a bounty-hunting subplot in Prime 3, because apparently they didn't mean to translate it as "bounty hunter" in the first place and thought that having her hunt bounties would go against her character.

MD5 mismatch of http://img04.deviantart.net/621c/i/2016/237/b/5/metroid_anniversary_fan_art_by_noe_leyva-d45nima.png