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Speaking of the Noble Nine and pictures: this is like that Snake/Bowser match on steroids. Unlike Snake/Bowser, there was no expectations here -- and then Samus gets a zero suit picture. She does well at the start, as you'd expect, but then just crumbles after an hour. Her lead hits 800 votes and then she just gives up. By 6am, Tifa has the lead. It might be the first time that a NN character has lost the lead outside of the first few minutes of a match.

There's just no way to know what the day vote will bring and if it means much for Samus. Theoretically the Boost that helped out Snake should help out Samus here -- but nope, she's powerless without her armor. I don't even think we grasped the full effect of what was going to happen here because we thought her attractive look would minimize the damage.

Samus recovered, but the damage was done - after Mario in 2005 (notice how I keep coming back to this?) and then this match, Samus had fraud stamped on her forehead. Zelda should be easy enough -- 2006 Zelda, anyway -- but Snake? This Snake? How was she going to bounce back after being embarrassed like this? We've seen pictures before, but this was something different. Samus was a fraud.
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