10 Video Game Characters Too Angry To Die
3. Samus Aran - Metroid
When you think of angry videogame characters, Nintendo’s Samus Aran is probably not the first one you’d pick.
That was, of course, until Metroid Dread came out. The incarnation of Samus who exists in Metroid Dread is P*SSED.OFF.
That’s fair enough. Samus has been through a lot throughout her long bounty hunting career and – we’ll try and keep this as spoiler-free as we can – everything she’s been through comes to a head during the climactic moments of Metroid Dread, and all of Samus’ pent-up rage comes out in one fell swoop as she basically becomes a walking tank of death wielding an extremely powerful beam weapon.
Samus also feels more angry than she usually does in Metroid Dread. This is a bleak, hostile environment the likes of which she’s never seen before, and Samus’ incredible abilities and challenging foes combine together to give the character more personality than we’ve previously seen.
It’s even present in the way she casually deflects enemy attacks with her new parry ability; almost like she just doesn’t have time for this crap anymore.