Dark Samus, UNMASKED! (Metroid Villain Review)

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[@SmashMarioPro]

Hey, Co-Editor here. My first real time editing something like this. Felt I had alot of expectations placed upon me. Thank you for givng me this opportunity Fawful. Hope to work again soon. Would appreciate any and all feedback so I can improve going forward

[@stevenwhitear]

500 views after nearly an hour is catastrophic! I thought this video was really well put together, great work!

[@Anton-de5vu]

It’s dope to see you moving up in the world

[@doswallo]

Just keep on doing what you're doing! The editing in this video was wonderful. All the footage, clips, and visuals were accurately related to what was being described, and with excellent cuts and timing, too!

[@kingbash6466]

I love how Nintendo can take concepts as basic as "Dark Samus" and "Dark Pit" and turn them in into multilayered, well-written characters in their own respective rights. Dark Samus alone goes through more development and growth than most modern day protagonists from the biggest AAA companies.

[@carnage0685]

But Retro Studios created Dark Samus...

[@DarkRavenWolf50]

​@@carnage0685Was still signed off by Nintendo so they had to atleast look at the character concept and go "this sounds amazing".

[@iced_cassowary8728]

Dark Samus is a great character, dark pit is an edgy recolor OC.

[@kingbash6466]

@@iced_cassowary8728 Tell me you didn't play Kid Icarus Uprising without telling me.

[@iced_cassowary8728]

@kingbash6466 I didn't lol.

[@jeremyrossi2716]

Dark Samus has one more massive feat that wasn’t mentioned: as shown in Metroid Prime 2’s 100% completion, even if her physical body is destroyed, so long as Phaaze is still alive she can regenerate infinitely. Let me reiterate: the only way we theorize to PERMANENTLY kill her is to DESTROY A PLANET. Keep in mind the sheer concept of Metroid Prime 4 might mean that Dark Samus’ mortality being tied to Phaaze isn’t even true and DS might just have straight up IMMORTALITY.

[@ZachStone3213]

I figured that Prime 4 might have the Metroid Prime husks on Phaaze come into play. Imagine a legion of Dark Samus' "offspring" taking up their "mother's" cause after her demise.

[@johncronk8867]

It might be something like a saw in a fanfic, where Dark Samus revived from the random Phazon particles and debris left in space, which is why it took her so long to regenerate this time, and means she is made of the last Phazon in the galaxy.

[@jeremyrossi2716]

@@johncronk8867 that’s the other main theory on her immortality being linked to a factor. The thing is that Phazon isn’t like a a small breed of animals you could put down in a kennel; it’s a naturally occurring substance that’s spread to various planets throughout the galaxy in Metroid. Trying to destroy every trace of Phazon would be like trying to eradicate every single trace of gold on Earth. It’d be like if Voldemort made sand-not just one grain, but the entire substance-a horcrux. It may not technically be outright immortality, but it functionally basically is.

[@kotlolish]

A lot of theories are floating around Prime 4... for one.. we might not encounter dark samus at all. They are dead.. but knowing of *sigh* Metroid Prime Federation Force and Metriod Prime Hunters... It's kinda obivious who a certain "Sylux" truely is. An unknown being in a prototype suit and hates the federation, follows Samus and fights like her even using it's ship. It's alt form is faster and can chain bombs. It's main weapon DRAINS ENERGY?! And at the end of Prime 3 an unknown ship chases Samus who speculated to be Sylux's ship... I think we can confirm that part of the Federation may have tried to make their "own" Prime. The Evidence is in Fusion. The outcome in Dread. The Clues in Hunters and Federation Force. Phaaze, Phazon and Dark Samus maybe gone, but it's corruption never left. Also let's be real.. Metroid Baby DNA + Phazon samples to make a suit to hold off phazon = "Let's make our own phazon metroid"

[@raoullupin5412]

@@kotlolish *facepalms and mutters* Somehow considering they were willing to mess with the X parasite and try to use it, that rogue corrupt faction in the Federation being arrogant enough to want a Metroid Prime of their own and think that they can control it and making one wouldn't surprise me. Seriously, who's at the corrupt faction's head, Metroid's version of Masayoshi Shido? That unnamed rogue corrupt faction in the Federation is like the Weyland-Yutani of Metroid at this point!

[@vysedynabyte]

The fact that Dark Samus went from acting on survival-instinct to grand plans of galactic domination and sport, is even more terrifying after remembering that during the final battle against her in MP3, after a certain mechanic, she has does an actual demonic EVIL LAUGH

[@adamjsher04]

I can now never undo the knowledge in my brain that the entirety of Metroid Prime all stems from a Metroid saying "Would".

[@neon_spotlight]

Phazon is like the dragon type from pokemon. Somehow weak to itself But also kind of fucking terrifying Oh, and without the ice and fairy weaknesses

[@AzureMoebius22]

Now there are dragon types that have counters for those weaknesses.

[@docbaker3333]

God Minion Your Eloquence is one of the reasons I love this series so damn much.

[@FawfulsMinionCountdowns]

Thanks. :)

[@alvaroperez2349]

I wonder what Prime 4 will do with Dark Samus’s potential as a threat… *if it ever will come out…*

[@shadowdragun]

Consoder they've confired the dark samus saga is over and she is Permanently dead, they won't

[@alvaroperez2349]

@@shadowdragun im sure they’ll at least be referenced in an Easter egg or something.

[@dataexpunged4784]

They're gonna give us Darker Samus

[@alcatrazjyh6293]

Dark Samus: *weak to the very thing that created her in the first place* Dragon-Type Pokémon: First time?

[@aidanhammans9337]

Hey, it’s a common trope to make all powerful substances/energy weak to more of the same. Can’t much contain infinite energy without a container.

[@alcatrazjyh6293]

@@aidanhammans9337 Fair point

[@MacNava]

I feel like this is Fawful’s version of the Black Air Force Round Table.

[@bryceknowles1380]

You’re not wrong

[@jeremyrossi2716]

It says a lot about how OP Dark Samus is when she has good odds against SUPERMAN if she can adjust her Phazon’s radiation to mimic the radiation of a red sun.

[@chazon1780]

IIRC, there was a comic issue where Superman found himself near a melting-down Nuclear Reactor, causing hit to INSTANTLY shrivel up and almost die. I think his powers have to do with him being able to absorb Non-ionizing radiation from stars like the Sun, hence why Red Dwarves make him so weak (And, in theory, Blue Giants would make him even more powerful than on Earth). If his body absorbs Ionizing Radiation the same way, Dark Samus doesn't need to adjust her Phazon's radiation output. Keep it on full blast and he'll either die to Phazon Radiation Poisoning, or worse mutate and become yet another pawn of the Phazon Corruption. The fact that he CAN'T use Phazon against Phazon without harming himself seals his fate.

[@uzumazin5099]

@@chazon1780 Oh, Yod. Imagine Phazon Kal-El! Heck, Phazon Omni-Man! Phazon Kakarot! Phazon Beerus! Phazon Doomsday! The possibilities, no. The certainty is endless and dreadful! The Metroid Prime is truly raising a Phazon zombje apocalypse in every world she BARELY touches. Every demon. Every god. Everything.

[@jeremyrossi2716]

@@uzumazin5099 except Alien X and whatever lucky schmuck gets their hands on the Infinity Gauntlet in time.

[@dataexpunged4784]

​@@uzumazin5099I think the most truly horrifying Phazon-corrupted character to think about would be the Thing from the movie of the same name. The Thing already has a similar goal to Phazon, that being assimilating living creatures into its hivemind. What sets it apart from Phazon is its ability to perfectly mimic any living creature it has assimilated, being able to infiltrate and infect nearly an entire research base even when they're aware of its presence and constantly on guard. Now imagine if Phazon could perfectly take over and mimic any living creature without drawing any attention, with no blue glowing lights or anything like that. Wait, now that I think about it, I'm essentially also describing the X-Parasites, and everything I just said also applies to them.

[@uzumazin5099]

@@dataexpunged4784 Spooky.

[@DjDeadpig]

NGL, I wonder how an interaction between Dark Samus and Darth Vader would play out.

[@dinodude8899]

Vader would stand *ZERO* chance. I don’t care HOW OP the Force is, if Dark Samus merely *existing* can cause such massive damage to entire planets to the point that one literally split into two completely identical yet somehow more monstrous copies of itself, one side of which is basically in it’s own *dimension.* I don’t think Vader can do much.

[@crumchyboi4972]

A monumental W for Philly

[@annagroelly]

Philly fan club

[@C_Arson]

I imagine a lot of people who only know Dark Samus from Smash would be surprised to find out how much of a terrifying biological clusterfuck she is underneath the armor.

[@gemraldkid6304]

I do find that making her an echo fighter doesn’t quite convey the entire picture.

[@Chaos89P]

She's a genetic Frankenstein's monster underneath! Human, Chozo, Metroid, and Phaaze DNA in one skeletal beast.

[@galfinsp7216]

⁠@@Chaos89Pthat makes sense. The former two from Samus, and the latter two from Metroid prime.

[@aidanhammans9337]

@@Chaos89PDidn’t you just describe normal Samus?

[@Chaos89P]

@@aidanhammans9337 No. I don't know if that "Phazon Seed" had Phaaze DNA in it, not to mention Samus only gets Metroid DNA in Metroid Fusion, which take place after Metroid Prime 3.

[@JarahKnuckey]

What I find is really scary about Dark Samus... Think about this. It's literally *living radiation.* Not a living bomb, *living radiation itself.*

[@aaliyahrosado7365]

Whoa, that's what her face looks like when she's unmasked.

[@mauroperez2848]

It's crazy at just how much Dark Samus and Phazon as a whole managed to achieve in only three games thus far. To think that a substance like Phazon turn what was basically a simple alien creature into one of the most powerful and vile villains to exist is nuts. I also consider it to be more terrifying than the SA-X. Whereas the SA-X was going mostly by instinct, Dark Samus chose to be a monster in both outside and within. How fitting that the being that nearly corrupted the whole universe is a dark mirror of it's greatest protector.

[@PhillipCross2K]

I'm so happy you finally covered my favorite villain! Thank you so much!

[@mattbks]

Big ol W for you man!

[@Thunderman-2001]

You think this is crazy when it comes to Phazon Corruption? Wait till you see my episode "Outpost" taking place 12,000 years after Dark Samus turned good for reasons I won't get into. PS, that is her after the intro. She can shape shift in my AU.

[@raoullupin5412]

Yeah... she's fucking terrifying! Yeah, the X Parasite was, does and likely always will have me screaming like a little girl due to what it's capable of, but it still works mostly by instinct... Dark Samus not so much!

[@mailman019]

LOGAN DOUBLE FEATURE LFG! Also, shoutout to my man, Philly. You've earned this video, hombre!

[@cameroncooper5941]

For the longest time Prime 3 was my only entry into the franchise, and BOY did it leave an impact.

[@rmzing]

Came here fresh from the Banjo countdown. Simultaneous releases on this channel? Christmas isn't for another three months, but we're already having the feast!

[@ThatBluDude]

You have a knack for taking stock baddies I hardly think about and turning them into horrifying monstrosities that will make me lose sleep. Good stuff.

[@pokemonboy59832]

I do really want an UNMASKED review on King K. Rool, I love the King of the Kremlings so much!!!!!!

[@mannington8045]

One of my favorite parts of Minion’s general content, especially Unmasked and Halloween lists, is how he’s not afraid to lean into a lot of speculation and theorization. It adds a lot of creative freedom and captures a real primal kind of feeling for playing games, only accentuated by his writing and delivery. It doesn’t ever feel like he’s forcing us think like that, it feels more like an invitation to ponder all the what ifs, even if they don’t have any ground or merit outside of our own belief. That level of creative boldness is one of the reasons he’s stuck with me as a top-tier top-tenner for so long. Keep up the good work

[@Hamantha]

All I’m hearing is that Dark Samus and Samus could body Ganon

[@sonicgamingkirbyfan2005v-xm2rl]

0:09 bench me! bench me!! IM TASTY!!!😂😂😂😂

[@insertcreativename802]

Let’s hope the rest of the prime trilogy gets remastered, then we’ll get to see more of this terrifying animal again!

[@Inferno144]

It only took someone like Fawful's Minion to make it hit; Yeah, Dark Samus doesnt have any actual combat experience. She was born like, 3-5 years between Prime 2 and 3. Phazon was all she had going for her and it did the job just fine...until it came to Samus herself. A legendary bounty hunter KNOWN for her extensive combat experience and overwhelming adaptability. Dark Samus sighed her death wavier the instant she corrupted Samus with Phazon.

[@demi-femme4821]

It's kind of cool that The Metroid Suit in Dread shares a lot of similarities to Dark Samus' Prime 3 design.

[@Anton-de5vu]

I mean the phazon overload weakness isn’t to to great an issue, since it’s so difficult to wield phazon safely let alone effectively

[@rpgrage7711]

I can't wait to watch these once I'm off work it's always great to see a new fawful's minion video let alone 2 at once

[@potatoefanner2098]

Top 17 Banjo Kazooie Worlds?!? Can’t wait!

[@Hello_World_not_taken]

Congrats SMP for becoming an editor! 🎉🎉🎉

[@slimebob5137]

Been watching since elementary school and still get hyped seeing ur uploads a week before college classes start keep it up ❤

[@nifinland]

Even though it's no way my call or anything, if there's one villain I'd like to see covered in Unmasked!, that would be Eobard Thawne, also known as Professor Zoom, Reverse-Flash and man in the yellow suit: scientist from a distant future obsessed with Barry Allen, the Flash, finds a time capsule containing his hero's suit, experiments on it and gets powers. Flash by a sheer coincidence arrives in Thawne's time and then he begins to fabricate crimes just so he could fight crime alongside his hero, gets busted from what he did and then decided to try again, legitimately and when he was ready, he travelled back in time to go see his hero again, but found out that he didn't matter to Barry's life in any way... except that in Flash Museum he found out that he was destined to be Scarlet Speedster's greatest enemy, and so he did become just that, doing ANYTHING he could to make Barry's life as miserable as possible by being as petty and cruel as humanly possible. And thanks to the fact he was in the timestream when Flash created Flashpoint timeline, Thawne became a living paradox, meaning that he can do ANYTHING in whatever time period without the fear of concequence and can come back to terrorize Barry no matter how many times he gets killed. And ALL OF Thawne's ridicilously circutious schemes are just means to spend time with Barry, because, as Thawne's yellow costume says, from the very beginning, he wanted to be Kid Flash, Barry's sidekick, but fate is a cruel mistress, and cheats at cards, so Thawne had to be his hero's enemy and one of the most broken AF villains in DC Comics. Not just with how powerful and fast he is, he's broken, literally, figuratively, mentally, physically, temporally. Easily my favourite evil copy in all of fiction. Sorry Dark Samus.

[@LordBloodySoul]

Phozon is the Draw +4 and Uno Reverse card in one pack xD

[@maddosshmillore]

Fawful’s minion double feature? Yes please!

[@somerandomcritic4397]

Yeah double upload from Fawful!

[@voidastralbirth]

Let us manifest Metroid Prime 4, together!

[@jaketaller8567]

9:57 So that’s where Smash Ultimate got that name.

[@amyburnett8760]

Two uploads in one day. Someone’s been busy.

[@adamtheriault6743]

...oh my god what if in metroid prime 4 we played as dark samus, on the brink of death, having to regain several of their phazon powers over time, while the samus part of her starts taking more influence, making her a dark hero, reflecting how modern samuss metroid piece has started taking more influence of her, in dread, with the ending being saving samus from that bounty hunter that made a cameo at the end of 3, and the two of them taking a moment, with samus recognizing dark samus, but shes become...something more, something...better, in a good way We could even finally maybe get a shot of helmetless dark samus, potentially, as the speedrunner ending secret, to show how much shes evolved internally, her body now becoming a sort of biological exosuit, akin to samuss metroid suit Holy fuck thatd be sick, that literally came to me out of nowhere

[@stevenwhitear]

500 views after nearly an hour is catastrophic! I thought this video was really well put together.

[@SageofLight777]

Damn, *two* whole uploads? You're spoiling us, dude. Today, we feast.

[@Awesomest915]

6:58 Oh god, you just made me imagine a Phazon-infused Symbiote. Nightmare to end all nightmares.

[@magolor3219]

Not even three minutes in and I’m already losing it at “Birdie Bozos” I am simple, not childish. 2:52 here’s the timestamp. Enjoy.

[@MrMazingme]

soo now i wonder, Sai-X at full power. (max stats as samus was in the prime trilogy w all samus upgrades and skills) or dark samus if she succeeded in absorbing a whole planet of phazon? (assuming she got her goal at the end of prime 3)

[@roberttew6073]

I find myself curious as to your thoughts on Phazon in a separate video. It's nature as a corruptive force is rather fascinating. Though, one wonders how the Metroid Prime shells ended up on Phaaze. Dark Samus is not the only enigma. Creatures like Gorea from Prime: Hunters comes to mind. The various Hunters. Then there's Sylux. An enigmatic Hunter with a chip on his shoulder towards the Federation, and Samus by extension. There are theories that he might have been a part of the "Horus Rebellion" mentioned on cut terminals in Metroid Prime 3. Others that he might have been raised by militant Choze, who we now know as the Mawkin. Another suggests he might have some familiar ties to Samus herself. I wonder, what secrets lay within Prime 4?

[@HOLDENPOPE]

Dark Samus is the embodiment of the trope 'From Nobody to Nightmare', basically the villain version of 'From Zero to Hero'.

[@CyColt]

grammar clarification. Logan is not saying "worm." He is saying Wyrm. Which is a type of Dragon. The thing about Dragons is that there are a lot of ways for them to appear. Who's to say evolution couldn't turn a Metroid effectively into a Phazon Dragon?

[@The_PokeSaurus]

"I defy you to look away from Dark Samus."

[@emeraldparmesan6431]

Holy fuck I needed this. Thanks bean man!

[@HaxMastr]

Logan with the double upload? I won't complain

[@AkumaKuma104]

Glad to be back on the High-Tier Patrons and on a Metroid video no less!

[@KingOfMumbles485...]

Dark Samus is Pennywise from IT.

[@springdude1165]

This should be fun

[@powerbolt2846]

the bean's back with a bang

[@GeneralDragon011]

Your best option against Dark Samus is plot armor? Shooooot, where can I get some of that stuff?

[@leonides1527]

Metroid prime looked at ridleys persistent of going after Samus and said "bet"

[@adamseeker2956]

Are you gonna cover live action villains on Unmasked, Fawful? If so, I think you'd have a field day covering OZ's Vern Schillinger.

[@kaijushaman0679]

Mr. Minion I think you just turned me into a Metroid fan.

[@jimn3097]

Finally philly's episode, 1000000/10 video

[@tinotcg5815]

Damn bro went crazy

[@squeethemog213]

Damn good vid. Love the censors, they add so much fun to this. Prime 2 was my first metroid game so Dark Samus holds a special place in my heart 😃

[@BudofSharon]

💜‼️🤠 Double feature!!

[@Boba427745]

Probably never happen but would love to see Giygas

[@project-x-khowlett]

Please, PLEASE cover William Afton sometime down the road; I’d kill to see that review

[@meganpayette5996]

Since you already did Bill Cipher not too long ago. Perhaps you should do either The Core (Amphibia) or Emperor Belos (The Owl House). Whichever you prefer really.

[@helluvasinger3548]

@Fawful’s Minion would you ever consider doing an unmasked on the Lich from adventure time he is such a deep, complex and lovecraftian type villain who is truthfully terrifying I think he would be amazing for an unmasked if you see this tell me what you think and please let me know how I can make this happen

[@meta527II]

7:34 did it have that attack in the original?

[@redwaltz_019]

Can we get an Unmasked on a Final Fantasy villain, like Sephiroth or Kefka?

[@CyColt]

If we're looking at Villains of all Types. Then let's take a gander at Cell from Dragon Ball Z.

[@KnightedSilverWolf]

THIS IS JUST A RECAP FILLED WITH NONSENSE

[@ericwijaya2119]

Well this video is pointless, I mean Dark Samus already WAS unmasked in the thumbnail

[@meta527II]

14:30 how is that UNFORTUNATE that they’re easy to find?

[@kirbysuperstar5494]

I still wanna see Plankton

[@colefisher4365]

I have never played any metroid games, where do I start if I want to

[@FawfulsMinionCountdowns]

Metroid Zero Mission.

[@GBA-049]

@@FawfulsMinionCountdowns Always the best option

[@ianoliver2224]

Metroid Prime is possibly the SCARIEST villain in video games I’ve ever seen other than Dark Matter!

[@SpitefulBulborb7]

yoooo

[@cosmicspacething3474]

17:44 Call me the contrarian to all the contrarians lately, but I’m already sick of the “PURE evil” narrative. Dark Samus was literally set up for madness, what makes you think it WOULDN’T end up turning irreversibly horrifically evil?