Kriptonite said:
Torrasque said:
While I think it is interesting to see gender swaps like these, I am not ok with Samus being portrayed as a guy... She is the queen of gaming, and it was a HUGE deal when people realized she was a girl. Making her a guy kind of defeats that in my mind.
Wait, wait, wait... Now you've gone and confused me.. You're against Samus being 'guy-ified' because she's such a strong female character[footnote]Which, in my opinion,
The Other M ruined..[/footnote] but you're okay with iconic male characters being girl-ified? That seems kind of..odd to me.
Samus is special because she is THE iconic girl of all gaming. She was the first time that the gender assumption was bent.
I think it would be amusing to see guy form of Samus, but not as cool as any other gender benders. I mean, space marines already exist, and they are mostly guys. Samus is the special one because she is Samus! If you gender bend Marcus Fenix or Mario, it is amusing because they are very strong guy characters, but they aren't THE guy character.
Make sense?
TL;DR version is: Samus is special because she is.