Isn Samus supposed to have some kind of secret-identity-thing goin?
Sorta. In the original Metroid, Samus’ identity was a big secret until you finished the game in a decent amount of time. The big shocker was that this killer bounty hunter was a woman. (At the time I suppose it was a big ooh-ahh to Americans who never thought of a woman as a videogame hero, always the damsel in distress. Guess they’ve never seen an episode of the Dirty Pair…