when did we find out samus was a girl
Samus Aran The series' co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto recalled, "We were partway through the development process when one of the staff members said 'Hey, wouldn't that be kind of cool if it turned out that this person inside the suit was a woman?'"[18] The developers voted on the concept, and it passed.[8] The game's instruction manual refers to Samus as if she were male to obscure her real sex until the end of the game.[6] Sakamoto noted that during the course of the Metroid series, developers constantly try to express Samus' femininity without sexually objectifying her.[18] Samus' image was based on actress Sigourney Weaver in her role as Ellen Ripley from Aliens, and actress Kim Basinger from 9½ Weeks and My Stepmother Is an Alien.[19] Sakamoto and Kiyotake said that the character's last name "Aran" was taken from Edson Arantes do Nascimento, the birth name of the famous soccer player Pelé.[17]