She’s tall but she’s way too narrow to actually fit the shoulders on the suit. It’s one of those weird game oversights, like how many game building interiors are too large for the exterior to contain.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I don't think it's an oversight as much as it is simply the design of the suit to have large pauldron-like shoulders that also make it look like mechanical joints. And I mean, the biggest "how does that work" thing for me has always been the morph ball. How does she not just liquify?

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The issue is that her arms would have to be cut off at the shoulder to fit into the arms of the suit. This fan-made diagram shows what I mean:

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Her arms are actually bunched up in front of her so she can hold a little Xbox controller

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

She can morph into a spaceball - I can believe the detached shoulders.

[–] fishbone@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My absolute favorite thing about the morphball is that even in canon it's a total mindfuck that makes no sense. Very light lore spoilers for Metroid Prime 1:

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There's a couple of research scans that essentially describe Space Pirate reverse engineering of Samus' morphball tech that basically say "This morphball shit is a lost cause. All our test crew have ended up as extremely dead pretzels. We should just quit while we're behind on this one."

[–] WayTooDank@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The morph ball is usually half the height of samus' full sprite, which would make it a whole meter in diameter (iirc super metroid is the only exception). Most people could fit in that comfortably.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

What if she does?