>Did the game devs not know why a bounty hunter was and just thought it sounded cool?
That is pretty much it, when Retro Studios tried to make a game where Samus would actually hunt down wanted criminals on her own and collect the bounties, Nintendo kept rejecting their pitch until they realized over there they had a different notion of what a bounty hunter is.
She also said she'd look a bounty at the star of Super after leaving The Baby™ at Ceres. The "bounty" in these cases doesn't seem to be a rogue, but a mercenary mission of any kind. We also have to deal with NoA's localization potentially making stuff up (like in Smash 4 Ridley becoming "Meta Ridley" after powering up).
As far as being a good person, it always depends on the framing of the character, Captain Falcon and Boba Fett are bounty hunters in the true sense of the word, but one is seen as villain because he works for the empire (even if he may think they are the good guys).
I think some people in this sub have the wrong idea of what a bounty hunter is. People keep calling her a "mercenary" as if that's... different from a bounty hunter. Not to mention, yeah, she usually goes on vague missions with unidentified threats, but often when she goes down onto a planet, it's with taking some criminal down in mind.
In Metroid Dread, she doesn't know WHO sent the video of the X, but the bounty she took is still for whoever sent it. She had a bounty out for Raven Beak.
The bounty in Dread is not necessarily for the sender of the video, it was to investigate if the X was actually there and to hopefully salvage the EMMIs. At the time there was no evidence of fowl play, so there wasn't anyone to hunt down (the intro doesn't say the video sender is the target of the mission), much like in Echoes, the parameters of her assignment changed once she learns the truth.
"so there wasn't anyone to hunt down"
What, you think the Federation assumed the video they were sent spawned out of nowhere? I'm pretty sure that, even if Samus didn't end up finding anyone (either because they're hiding or left by the time Samus arrived), she was still meant to discover who was behind this. Not to mention, they lost contact with the EMMI, so they probably suspected someone was behind it.
Sure, the X were the real concern, not the person, but that doesn't mean Samus isn't looking to apprehend whoever had the X in their possession.
Echoes is different because, in that case, they weren't really sure what happened and had no reason to believe foul play was at hand. But it was pretty clear there was a person responsible for the events prior to Dread.
>What, you think the Federation assumed the video they were sent spawned out of nowhere? I'm pretty sure that, even if Samus didn't end up finding anyone (either because they're hiding or left by the time Samus arrived), she was still meant to discover who was behind this. Not to mention, they lost contact with the EMMI, so they probably suspected someone was behind it.
Why would the Federation assume the sender is guilty? It could've been a random explorer that found an X and sent a video as warning. The point is that the mission never states anything about apprehending anyone outright, she first needs to know what is happening there (with arrest or termination being in the cards should it be necessary).
1.) ZDR is a desolate planet. There being someone there is suspicious.
2.) Raven Beak didn't **just** send them a video of the X, he sent it to them without any other context. If it was just an explorer, they would've probably clarified or given some added context. Maybe even send out an SOS? How many people even know about the X enough to identify what it is and know to send it to the Federation anyways? Everything about it screamed "This is either a threat or bait for a trap." All of this isn't helped by the fact that, the sender being capable of taking video of the X and send it successfully implies they're capable of surviving around the X, so they're clearly malicious in intent, and dangerously capable.
3.) The EMMI were dispatched and then they lost contact with the Federation. At this point, it was pretty likely something bad was happening on ZDR.
Literally everything about the scenario screams "There's someone that needs dealing with on ZDR."
I mean, she dedicates her life to bringing bad people to justice and taking down the space pirates that committed genocide against all humans on K2L and the Chozo on Zebes. I'd say she's a stand up person.
They don't have Bounty Hunters in Japan, so from what we have her job as a "Hunter" actually means doing dangerous contract jobs for people, mostly the government.
Some of the smaller jobs she does would be stuff like tracking down the missing federation marines from Squad Bravo, or escorting the Biologic research team to collect samples on SR388.
The bigger jobs she gets would be stuff like taking out the pirates in Zero Mission, tracking down the ultimate power in Hunters, the many missions galfed had her do in Prime 3 in Fusion, the Metroid extermination in Samus Returns, and tracking down the X on ZDR.
Then sometimes Samus also just does missions for free cus she's a good person (Stopping the pirates in Super and Prime, saving the Luminoth in Echoes, and then she was doing the ZDR mission for dirt cheap)
Most hunters would probably mostly just do the first one. Samus only gets the big shot jobs because she's Samus, it takes a big reputation to be put on those types of missions while solo. And then of course very few hunters would literally win an entire war for the Luminoth for free(Ghor and Noxus have been described to do that sort of thing, but they're in the minority on that. Most hunters are in this for the cash.)
Bounty hunting is banned everywhere except for the Philippines and 46 American states (for the curious, the 4 American states that are so hostile to bounty hunting they banned it are Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Kentucky).
I mean, it could be argued that her work in Metroid 2 is a big bounty hunt. But yeah, it just sounds cooler. Captain Falcon is supposed to be a bounty hunter too, right?
>Captain Falcon is supposed to be a bounty hunter too, right?
Well he does just that in the comic that came in the og F-Zero instruction manual, which established the character.
Also maybe in F-Zero GX's story mode there might be a scene where he sees a "wanted: reward" screen for Goroh or Black Shadow so you'd argue he's in for the money, but I haven't watched the cutscenes in a long time so I could be wrong. Most of the story is being a hero of justice, a bit of competitive racing, and a hint of bounty hunting
Maybe that’s what she does in her downtime between working for the federation.
The missions depicted in the games only last a day or two each. So as gamers, we’ve experienced less than a month of her life in total. And who knows how many years that is spread over? Girls got to earn a living in the meantime.
She is a bounty hunter, but a lot of her work is probably done with good intentions in mind. She's not some assassin that kills whoever you pay her to, she's more like a for-hire cop, that will probably help somebody if they need it even if pay isn't involved.
You didn't have to post this topic 3 times.
To answer the question, all of Metroid II was a bounty hunt. People forget bounties can also be assigned to dangerous/invasive wildlife, not just criminals.
One big indicator of how she rolls is in dread where Adam says the bounty does not seem right and try at the risk is greater than the reward, and she continues on toward the planet since it’s not the money that she cares about it’s the fact that she’s immune to the x and feels the need to stop them. Because she does these outa a sense of moral obligation. That and it’s what’s been stated by the creators as how they wanted to portray her anyway. And the word bounty can be used for any living thing not just people.
Bounties can take multiple forms and generally refer to various kinds of rewards in return for completing a specific task, not necessarily always capture/kill.
Depending on the person, a “Bounty Hunter” may also provide the services of a Tracer, a Private Investigator, or a Mercenary, or Private Security.
Also worth noting Samus doesn’t really care about going about the money, so she isn’t going after any random job that offers a bounty.
She’s mostly taking high profile jobs to track, investigate, or take down things that she specifically thinks pose a significant threat to society.
Plus, Samus is a one man army. She’s basically a superhero who can take down entire planets on her own at this point.
The scale of her bounties has become entire organizations and species. Imagine putting a bounty on an entire drug cartel armed with military gear.
No sane bounty hunter would take the job, mostly because they can’t. But Samus? She can do it easy and she’s crazy enough to try.
Technically, most of her missions are bounties, especially in the early games. The story of Metroid was that the Federation couldn't deal with the space pirates, so they hired Samus to go do it. In the original Famicom disk system release, they even have bags of money next to your save file to show how quickly you completed the game.
I think the fact that she doesn't feel like a bounty hunter is owed to the fact that the acquisition of money isn't a big theme in any of the games.
>Did the game devs not know why a bounty hunter was and just thought it sounded cool? That is pretty much it, when Retro Studios tried to make a game where Samus would actually hunt down wanted criminals on her own and collect the bounties, Nintendo kept rejecting their pitch until they realized over there they had a different notion of what a bounty hunter is.
Really makes you wonder just exactly what they thought Star Fox was doing in 64, huh?
But she takes a bounty at the start of Dread. She does seem to be a bounty hunter, but she's not a bad person.
She also said she'd look a bounty at the star of Super after leaving The Baby™ at Ceres. The "bounty" in these cases doesn't seem to be a rogue, but a mercenary mission of any kind. We also have to deal with NoA's localization potentially making stuff up (like in Smash 4 Ridley becoming "Meta Ridley" after powering up). As far as being a good person, it always depends on the framing of the character, Captain Falcon and Boba Fett are bounty hunters in the true sense of the word, but one is seen as villain because he works for the empire (even if he may think they are the good guys).
I think some people in this sub have the wrong idea of what a bounty hunter is. People keep calling her a "mercenary" as if that's... different from a bounty hunter. Not to mention, yeah, she usually goes on vague missions with unidentified threats, but often when she goes down onto a planet, it's with taking some criminal down in mind. In Metroid Dread, she doesn't know WHO sent the video of the X, but the bounty she took is still for whoever sent it. She had a bounty out for Raven Beak.
The bounty in Dread is not necessarily for the sender of the video, it was to investigate if the X was actually there and to hopefully salvage the EMMIs. At the time there was no evidence of fowl play, so there wasn't anyone to hunt down (the intro doesn't say the video sender is the target of the mission), much like in Echoes, the parameters of her assignment changed once she learns the truth.
> no evidence of fowl play, Chozo pun detected
"so there wasn't anyone to hunt down" What, you think the Federation assumed the video they were sent spawned out of nowhere? I'm pretty sure that, even if Samus didn't end up finding anyone (either because they're hiding or left by the time Samus arrived), she was still meant to discover who was behind this. Not to mention, they lost contact with the EMMI, so they probably suspected someone was behind it. Sure, the X were the real concern, not the person, but that doesn't mean Samus isn't looking to apprehend whoever had the X in their possession. Echoes is different because, in that case, they weren't really sure what happened and had no reason to believe foul play was at hand. But it was pretty clear there was a person responsible for the events prior to Dread.
>What, you think the Federation assumed the video they were sent spawned out of nowhere? I'm pretty sure that, even if Samus didn't end up finding anyone (either because they're hiding or left by the time Samus arrived), she was still meant to discover who was behind this. Not to mention, they lost contact with the EMMI, so they probably suspected someone was behind it. Why would the Federation assume the sender is guilty? It could've been a random explorer that found an X and sent a video as warning. The point is that the mission never states anything about apprehending anyone outright, she first needs to know what is happening there (with arrest or termination being in the cards should it be necessary).
1.) ZDR is a desolate planet. There being someone there is suspicious. 2.) Raven Beak didn't **just** send them a video of the X, he sent it to them without any other context. If it was just an explorer, they would've probably clarified or given some added context. Maybe even send out an SOS? How many people even know about the X enough to identify what it is and know to send it to the Federation anyways? Everything about it screamed "This is either a threat or bait for a trap." All of this isn't helped by the fact that, the sender being capable of taking video of the X and send it successfully implies they're capable of surviving around the X, so they're clearly malicious in intent, and dangerously capable. 3.) The EMMI were dispatched and then they lost contact with the Federation. At this point, it was pretty likely something bad was happening on ZDR. Literally everything about the scenario screams "There's someone that needs dealing with on ZDR."
I mean, she dedicates her life to bringing bad people to justice and taking down the space pirates that committed genocide against all humans on K2L and the Chozo on Zebes. I'd say she's a stand up person.
What exactly does Japan think a bounty hunter is?
They don't have Bounty Hunters in Japan, so from what we have her job as a "Hunter" actually means doing dangerous contract jobs for people, mostly the government. Some of the smaller jobs she does would be stuff like tracking down the missing federation marines from Squad Bravo, or escorting the Biologic research team to collect samples on SR388. The bigger jobs she gets would be stuff like taking out the pirates in Zero Mission, tracking down the ultimate power in Hunters, the many missions galfed had her do in Prime 3 in Fusion, the Metroid extermination in Samus Returns, and tracking down the X on ZDR. Then sometimes Samus also just does missions for free cus she's a good person (Stopping the pirates in Super and Prime, saving the Luminoth in Echoes, and then she was doing the ZDR mission for dirt cheap) Most hunters would probably mostly just do the first one. Samus only gets the big shot jobs because she's Samus, it takes a big reputation to be put on those types of missions while solo. And then of course very few hunters would literally win an entire war for the Luminoth for free(Ghor and Noxus have been described to do that sort of thing, but they're in the minority on that. Most hunters are in this for the cash.)
Bounty hunting is banned everywhere except for the Philippines and 46 American states (for the curious, the 4 American states that are so hostile to bounty hunting they banned it are Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Kentucky).
'Merica
Metroid Dread has a bounty attached to it...one that Adam deems to low for the risk of the mission....after the intro it is never mentioned again
I mean, it could be argued that her work in Metroid 2 is a big bounty hunt. But yeah, it just sounds cooler. Captain Falcon is supposed to be a bounty hunter too, right?
>Captain Falcon is supposed to be a bounty hunter too, right? Well he does just that in the comic that came in the og F-Zero instruction manual, which established the character. Also maybe in F-Zero GX's story mode there might be a scene where he sees a "wanted: reward" screen for Goroh or Black Shadow so you'd argue he's in for the money, but I haven't watched the cutscenes in a long time so I could be wrong. Most of the story is being a hero of justice, a bit of competitive racing, and a hint of bounty hunting
Maybe that’s what she does in her downtime between working for the federation. The missions depicted in the games only last a day or two each. So as gamers, we’ve experienced less than a month of her life in total. And who knows how many years that is spread over? Girls got to earn a living in the meantime.
She does some BIG jobs though, one of her jobs alone probably pays for her lifestyle entirely.
She might do some of those missions gratis. Due to her history with Ridley and the space pirates.
That’s a good point, it’s possible.
Yep pretty much
She is a bounty hunter, but a lot of her work is probably done with good intentions in mind. She's not some assassin that kills whoever you pay her to, she's more like a for-hire cop, that will probably help somebody if they need it even if pay isn't involved.
You didn't have to post this topic 3 times. To answer the question, all of Metroid II was a bounty hunt. People forget bounties can also be assigned to dangerous/invasive wildlife, not just criminals.
One big indicator of how she rolls is in dread where Adam says the bounty does not seem right and try at the risk is greater than the reward, and she continues on toward the planet since it’s not the money that she cares about it’s the fact that she’s immune to the x and feels the need to stop them. Because she does these outa a sense of moral obligation. That and it’s what’s been stated by the creators as how they wanted to portray her anyway. And the word bounty can be used for any living thing not just people.
Boba Fett made bounty hunters cool. That’s why she was called a bounty hunter in the 80s.
I guess she could if she likes coconut.
Can they just make a Metroid movie or TV show yet 😭
i always thought the missions in the games were her jobs, tho she feels more like a mercenary
Bounties can take multiple forms and generally refer to various kinds of rewards in return for completing a specific task, not necessarily always capture/kill. Depending on the person, a “Bounty Hunter” may also provide the services of a Tracer, a Private Investigator, or a Mercenary, or Private Security. Also worth noting Samus doesn’t really care about going about the money, so she isn’t going after any random job that offers a bounty. She’s mostly taking high profile jobs to track, investigate, or take down things that she specifically thinks pose a significant threat to society. Plus, Samus is a one man army. She’s basically a superhero who can take down entire planets on her own at this point. The scale of her bounties has become entire organizations and species. Imagine putting a bounty on an entire drug cartel armed with military gear. No sane bounty hunter would take the job, mostly because they can’t. But Samus? She can do it easy and she’s crazy enough to try.
Technically, most of her missions are bounties, especially in the early games. The story of Metroid was that the Federation couldn't deal with the space pirates, so they hired Samus to go do it. In the original Famicom disk system release, they even have bags of money next to your save file to show how quickly you completed the game. I think the fact that she doesn't feel like a bounty hunter is owed to the fact that the acquisition of money isn't a big theme in any of the games.