
Throughout the series, she executes missions given to her by the Galactic Federation and the Chozo while hunting the antagonistic Space Pirates and their leader Ridley (and his robotic duplicates), along with the manipulative cybernetic supercomputer Mother Brain, the energy-draining X Parasites and Metroids (with Samus adopting one of the latter), as well as rogue Chozo Raven Beak. Raised and infused with the DNA of the Chozo, Samus Aran is an ex- soldier of the Galactic Federation who became a galactic bounty hunter, usually fitted with a powered exoskeleton that is equipped with weapons such as directed-energy weapons and missiles. She was introduced as a player character in the original 1986 video game Metroid. She was created by Japanese video game designer Makoto Kano. Samus Aran ( Japanese: サムス・アラン, Hepburn: Samusu Aran) is a fictional character and the playable protagonist of the video game series Metroid by Nintendo.
