IIRC, the story that I heard years ago was that this originally came from a promotional comic for the original Metroid, and Nintendo at the time didn’t want to reveal Samus’s gender for some reason and basically had to call this canon as a result when asked about it.
I don’t remember exactly, but I think one of the early Metroid games had an ending that had a scene revealing Samus is a woman.
IIRC, the story that I heard years ago was that this originally came from a promotional comic for the original Metroid, and Nintendo at the time didn’t want to reveal Samus’s gender for some reason and basically had to call this canon as a result when asked about it.
I don’t remember exactly, but I think one of the early Metroid games had an ending that had a scene revealing Samus is a woman.
@EldritchFeminity
Yes. It’s the ending of the first Metroid from 1986. Given you finished within a certain time or used a cheat code.
I get the story though. But I want to check it by finding this promotional comic and canon thing. So I’m asking people to help me to point me to it.