Board 8 > Wait wait wait, Samus weighs 198 pounds?

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CalvinbalI
02/12/12 9:36:00 AM
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Also, it's cool to see how she fits in a suit that it really seems she shouldn't be able to fill out.

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02/12/12 9:37:00 AM
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Japan is really bad at guessing how much things should weigh. Sagat in SF weighs like 170 pounds but is 7'5" and made out of muscle.

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02/12/12 9:37:00 AM
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02/12/12 9:39:00 AM
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all woman

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PartOfYourWorld
02/12/12 9:42:00 AM
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That would put her at around the same size as Junior dos Santos, the reigning UFC heavyweight champion.

EDIT: Sorry, she's not quite that big. She is about the same size as most UFC light heavyweights, however.

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02/12/12 9:42:00 AM
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From: Anagram | #002
Japan is really bad at guessing how much things should weigh. Sagat in SF weighs like 170 pounds but is 7'5" and made out of muscle.


yeah, that and Punch-Out!! characters are my usual examples of ridiculous weight numbers

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 9:43:00 AM
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At that height that's not as much as it sounds. Especially if you assume she's got some muscle mass, which weighs more per volume.

But there's also the fact that the Japanese are terrible at giving characters realistic measurements. I mean if she's 6'3", Snake is like 6'6", and everyone else in Other M is a f***ing giant.

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TimJab
02/12/12 9:44:00 AM
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she's 6'3" and really muscular

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02/12/12 9:48:00 AM
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Rad Link 5 posted...
At that height that's not as much as it sounds. Especially if you assume she's got some muscle mass, which weighs more per volume.

But there's also the fact that the Japanese are terrible at giving characters realistic measurements. I mean if she's 6'3", Snake is like 6'6", and everyone else in Other M is a f***ing giant.


Snake is 6'6"?! What?! But he's like average in his games, wouldn't that make like every single character except Fatman over 6'2"?

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Xeybozn
02/12/12 9:48:00 AM
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I thought everybody agreed that weight includes her power suit?

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DaruniaTheGoron
02/12/12 9:49:00 AM
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I'm 6'4" and about average weight for a man and I'm probably around 195. If I had a lot of muscle I'd be over 200 easily.

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 9:50:00 AM
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From: Anagram | #009
Snake is 6'6"?! What?! But he's like average in his games, wouldn't that make like every single character except Fatman over 6'2"?


Snake is not possibly 6'6", I am saying he would have to be about that tall for Samus to be 6'3", and therefore there's no way Samus is actually 6'3" and Japanese game designers just have no idea what realistic measurements look like.

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02/12/12 9:51:00 AM
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Xeybozn posted...
I thought everybody agreed that weight includes her power suit?

Then her suit weighs like forty pounds despite being made of metal and the size of a human? Well okay it's made of space metal, but still.

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DeathChicken
02/12/12 9:51:00 AM
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She doesn't wear shoes in that thing? That would hurt after awhile

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02/12/12 9:52:00 AM
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Rad Link 5 posted...
From: Anagram | #009
Snake is 6'6"?! What?! But he's like average in his games, wouldn't that make like every single character except Fatman over 6'2"?
Snake is not possibly 6'6", I am saying he would have to be about that tall for Samus to be 6'3", and therefore there's no way Samus is actually 6'3" and Japanese game designers just have no idea what realistic measurements look like.


Oh okay. Sorry.

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GuessMyUserName
02/12/12 10:00:00 AM
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From: Xeybozn | Posted: 2/12/2012 12:48:47 PM | #010
I thought everybody agreed that weight includes her power suit?


"The Power Suit hides a strong , muscular woman. Samus is nearly six feet, three inches tall, and weighs nearly 200 pounds."

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Xuxon
02/12/12 10:01:00 AM
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since she was just brought up in the Survivor topic and i was curious, i looked it up

THIS woman is 6'3, 179

http://img.poptower.com/pic-4294/crystal-cox.jpg?d=600

even if Samus were that tall, and even if she's muscular, no way she weighs even close to 198

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Pianist
02/12/12 10:01:00 AM
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jeremy lin is 6'3'' and 200lb - if she's ripped (for a woman) and has a huge rack and hips, it would do it

of course the powder puff in SSBB wouldn't be that size

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Pianist
02/12/12 10:02:00 AM
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Xuxon posted...
since she was just brought up in the Survivor topic and i was curious, i looked it up

THIS woman is 6'3, 179

http://img.poptower.com/pic-4294/crystal-cox.jpg?d=600

even if Samus were that tall, and even if she's muscular, no way she weighs even close to 198


i don't believe that, unless that's a weight she cut to for a sport based on weight divisions.

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CalvinbalI
02/12/12 10:04:00 AM
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From: Xeybozn | #010
I thought everybody agreed that weight includes her power suit?


The image pretty clearly defines that as her own weight. In the "Without The Power Suit" section:

The Power Suit hides a strong, musculer woman. Samus is nearly six feet, three inches tall and weighs nearly 200 pounds.

And yeah, I'm not saying that her height/weight is infeasible, it seems totally within the realm of possibility. Tina Thompson is a former WNBA player who was 6'2 and 178 lbs. While she's muscular, her proportions aren't in any way preposterous.

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GuessMyUserName
02/12/12 10:05:00 AM
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Samus's breasts obviously weigh 10 pounds each

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CalvinbalI
02/12/12 10:06:00 AM
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And add another twenty for dat ass.

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Xuxon
02/12/12 10:08:00 AM
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well, if the weight is based on when she competed in the olympics, she was definitely less flabby but even more muscular. she's admitted to taking steroids then.

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metroid composite
02/12/12 10:12:00 AM
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Then her suit weighs like forty pounds despite being made of metal and the size of a human? Well okay it's made of space metal, but still.

40 pounds? Where do you get that number? That would make her 155 lbs, which would make her borderline underweight based on BMI.

She's 6'3" and highly muscular. (And like...D-cup boobs based on the picture, which would add a good 5 or so pounds over a more typical tall-skinny build like my family). I probably would have guessed around 185. But 195 is...actually pretty reasonable. It's on the upper end of what I'd guess, but definitely within believable range.

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:12:00 AM
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Yes, between her huge muscle, boob, and ass, Samus could totally be that heavy at that weight.

However

Samus is not 6'3". No effing way. Just look at her in comparison to anyone at all, in Smash Bros. or even her own games.

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Pianist
02/12/12 10:13:00 AM
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Xuxon posted...
well, if the weight is based on when she competed in the olympics, she was definitely less flabby but even more muscular. she's admitted to taking steroids then.

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probably 4%-5% body fat in that pic there, which is unhealthily ripped even for a guy - even a really athletic woman should have more like 12% bf minimum - and if you do the math that increase in body fat should take her to around samus's listed weight

(though i agree that japan sucks and probably got lucky in listing samus's weight correctly. i mean, that height is ridiculous to begin with. she looks 5'7'' usually)

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:13:00 AM
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From: Ed Bellis | #024
In Brawl, Olimar is also a short little human as opposed to the size he's apparently supposed to be in the games, which is pretty tiny


We don't know that the planet he's on isn't just giant!

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GuessMyUserName
02/12/12 10:16:00 AM
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there's your weight

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metroid composite
02/12/12 10:19:00 AM
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Rad Link 5 posted...
Samus is not 6'3". No effing way. Just look at her in comparison to anyone at all, in Smash Bros. or even her own games.

This image was from Super Metroid.

You know, from the Original Trillogy, not the later BS we all like to pretend is non-cannon.

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:26:00 AM
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I had no idea we pretended Fusion, Zero Mission, or any of the Primes were non-canon.

Pinball and Other M, sure, I've heard people pretend they're non-canon.

(Also you're looking for "canon." "Cannon" is the artillery gun.)

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Biolizard28
02/12/12 10:27:00 AM
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From: metroid composite | #030
You know, from the Original Trillogy, not the later BS we all like to pretend is non-cannon.


Please don't turn Metroid into a Sonic tier whinefest.

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GuessMyUserName
02/12/12 10:32:00 AM
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looks like we need a distraction

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10 pound breasts

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:38:00 AM
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From: GuessMyUserName | #033
looks like we need a distraction

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10 pound breasts


Those... are a lot more than ten pounds.

I remember reading breast weight can very roughly be estimated at 1.6 lbs times the cup size (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.). I am not a breast scientist, so I have no idea if that's true, but if we assume it's true, Samus looks like she's got Ds, maybe DDs. So she'd have right around seven pounds of breast.

This is much better than talking about which Metroid games are canon.

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metroid composite
02/12/12 10:41:00 AM
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Biolizard28 posted...
Please don't turn Metroid into a Sonic tier whinefest.

For plot? I happily will.

Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid had a closed plot-arc. They weren't designed to have sequels or prequels or extra stuff added on. it was a pretty tight well-defined plot. (And frankly pretty well-written, particularly the Metroid II instruction manual).

Every plot they tried to add in the modern games felt decidedly tacked-on and a little bit silly.

For gameplay--gameplay of the modern games is fine--no real complaints there.

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azuarc
02/12/12 10:42:00 AM
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I can somewhat believe the weight, given the height. But I don't believe the height. The only thing I can say that remotely defends 6'3 is that humans have been getting taller over time and she is often in zero- or low-gravity settings. So 6'3? Eh, maybe, even if it's exceedingly rare to find women over 6'0, let alone 3 inches over. That's like finding a dude that's 6'8.

But I only somewhat believe the height because pictures I've seen of her zero suit don't really look that muscular. I mean, clearly the suit does most of the work in movement, because it weighs 200 lbs on its own. So it's not like she needs to be buff to use it. I'm sure there are 6'3 women who do weigh 198, but Samus' physique doesn't appear to be nearly THAT muscular.
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GuessMyUserName
02/12/12 10:43:00 AM
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I wonder what it'd be like with 10 pound breasts

*cups self*







........................................... what?

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azuarc
02/12/12 10:45:00 AM
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Rad Link 5 posted...
10 pound breasts
Those... are a lot more than ten pounds.

I remember reading breast weight can very roughly be estimated at 1.6 lbs times the cup size (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.). I am not a breast scientist, so I have no idea if that's true, but if we assume it's true, Samus looks like she's got Ds, maybe DDs. So she'd have right around seven pounds of breast.

This is much better than talking about which Metroid games are canon.



Never heard that before, but that's interesting. Is that for the two breasts combined, then? My friend's wife, who has very large boobs (understandably since she's a bit heavy,) said her's probably weigh about 5 lbs each. I couldn't even guess what cup size you would call her. F, probably.
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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:45:00 AM
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You don't want to know what that much weight would do to your back.

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GuessMyUserName
02/12/12 10:46:00 AM
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to hell with my back let me dream

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CalvinbalI
02/12/12 10:47:00 AM
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On a tangential note, I looked up Maria Sharapova because I knew she's pretty tall. 6'2, and her WTA profile claims 130 pounds. Now Sharapova is quite slender (and beautiful), but there is no way in hell she only weighs 130. At 5'10 I weigh that much and am basically a twig.

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:47:00 AM
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From: azuarc | #038
Never heard that before, but that's interesting. Is that for the two breasts combined, then? My friend's wife, who has very large boobs (understandably since she's a bit heavy,) said her's probably weigh about 5 lbs each. I couldn't even guess what cup size you would call her. F, probably.


That's for the two combined, yeah. What I actually read was that a single breast is .8 lbs x Cup Size, so 1.6 lbs x Cup Size should be for both.

And I mean the source was a bra maker handbook, so I've got at least some faith in it being right.

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TsunamiXXVIII
02/12/12 10:48:00 AM
#43:


Rad Link 5 posted...
From: Ed Bellis | #024
In Brawl, Olimar is also a short little human as opposed to the size he's apparently supposed to be in the games, which is pretty tiny
We don't know that the planet he's on isn't just giant!


Yes we do. The planet he's on is Earth. Future-Earth, anyway... Pikmin 2 makes it more obvious, because instead of rebuilding his ship, he's collecting treasures that are really just common bits of litter, like dead batteries and stuff.

But yeah, they outright stated that they had to make Olimar larger for Brawl because his actual size would just be too small to work. IIRC, his canon height is supposed to be about the same as the diameter of a quarter.

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:50:00 AM
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GMUN, perhaps you have heard the story of Icarus.

A young man who flew too close to the sun and so his wax D cups melted and he plummeted to the Earth, dying on impact.

Learn well from this story.

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CalvinbalI
02/12/12 10:51:00 AM
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By the way, the Mk II in MGS4 lists Solid Snake as 182 cm, which is just under six feet tall. But it's silly to try and use Brawl as a size comparison when you've got the likes of Olimar and Bowser in there.

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02/12/12 10:52:00 AM
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From: metroid composite | #155
For plot? I happily will.

Metroid, Metroid 2, Super Metroid had a closed plot-arc. They weren't designed to have sequels or prequels or extra stuff added on. it was a pretty tight well-defined plot. (And frankly pretty well-written, particularly the Metroid II instruction manual).

Every plot they tried to add in the modern games felt decidedly tacked-on and a little bit silly.

For gameplay--gameplay of the modern games is fine--no real complaints there.


So you haven't actually played the Primes then, which are also a closed plot arc, only tangentially related to the first three. Not adding to it at all.

You could sort of say this about Fusion, but if nothing else Other M at least made its connection to the first three incredibly cohesive.

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GuessMyUserName
02/12/12 10:52:00 AM
#47:


... D-cups grant the power of flight?!


I MUST HAVE THEM

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:53:00 AM
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Fusion could have been the start of a cool plot arc, but instead the Primes were more popular and we never got any sort of follow up on the power hungry space council.

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Rad Link 5
02/12/12 10:56:00 AM
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From: GuessMyUserName | #047
... D-cups grant the power of flight?!


I MUST HAVE THEM


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02/12/12 10:57:00 AM
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azuarc posted...
I can somewhat believe the weight, given the height. But I don't believe the height. The only thing I can say that remotely defends 6'3 is that humans have been getting taller over time and she is often in zero- or low-gravity settings. So 6'3? Eh, maybe, even if it's exceedingly rare to find women over 6'0, let alone 3 inches over. That's like finding a dude that's 6'8.

*looks at self*
*looks at sister in next room*

Um...not -that- rare. And one of my father's male PhD students was 6'9", so...if you're claiming that doesn't happen in men I've got news for you.

What's your argument here anyway? "Samus is not your average woman?" Umm...why would you expect her to BE average?

But I only somewhat believe the height because pictures I've seen of her zero suit don't really look that muscular.

So...what you're saying is that she should actually be taller to justify the weight?

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