Anonymous commented at 2011-10-29 22:09:23 » #913468

I always wonder, why are the shoulder pads so MASSIVE?

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Anonymous commented at 2011-10-29 23:13:24 » #913500

To house Samus' body in morph ball mode.

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Anonymous commented at 2011-12-22 06:08:40 » #957253

no the pads have nothing to do with morph ball mode metroid1/zero mission,fusion and super metroid have all proven samus doesnt need the pads for morph ball

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Nullname commented at 2012-01-08 02:35:41 » #971697

...to look boss?

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Anonymous commented at 2012-10-09 15:44:20 » #1177879

I just head-canon it away as shield projectors.

Space magic!

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Anonymous commented at 2013-04-25 00:13:24 » #1308755

Same reason the Emperor has such huge pauldrons in wh40k.
Because people have no sense of what is useful, but they do look sweet. Seriously, if you wore the damn things in real life it would limit your range of motion so badly that.... Actually, I think I realize why Samus can't aim straight up in the primes now.

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Anonymous commented at 2013-04-25 01:11:58 » #1308789

Actually, some official artwork depicts some technological bits in her shoulderpads. So they probably do actually have some kind of function. We just don't know what they are exactly.

Perhaps it's extra energy reserves or something.

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Anonymous commented at 2013-07-25 21:18:34 » #1366974

There's also the fact this game came first came out in the 1980's. Shoulder pads were in.

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Anonymous commented at 2014-02-15 00:43:16 » #1488030

I've always thought it weird that this suit has such huge shoulders. I guess it's a big problem for her getting hit from the sides. I guess she don't need to look to her sides... and can't look behind herself without turning her whole body around. Also.... just saying, it's probably more important that you protect your body more than your shoulders. Her boyd has the least amount of armor. wtf is up with that? You need giant shin pads, but leave your stomach totally exposed?

Anyway, I know it's just to look cool, but just sayin... she would not be able to see much with those shoulder pads.

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BaconMinion commented at 2014-02-16 11:07:18 » #1488815

At the time they were added because Metroid 2 didn't have any color to show the difference between the default Power Suit and the Varia Suit. Then it became a standard, and they just got bigger with the Gravity Suit.

So I always figured those giant shoulder things housed what made the Suits actually work beyond the default.

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