@bronzeagetruecel i fully believe that if metroid had come out today and everyone thought metroid was a dude, as soon as you found out she was a hot girl in underwear or a skin tight suit inside of the armor, dudes would be all over it.
no, if metroid came out these days and was made by a western studio, there would be some messaging about "girl power" with samus defeating the patriarchy and then once she takes off her suit she looks like a man with a butch lesbian haircut and a box frame body.