Gravity Suit
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| Gravity Suit | |
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 An ending picture of the Gravity Suit from Metroid: Zero Mission. | |
| Featured in | Metroid /Zero Mission Metroid Prime Metroid Prime Trilogy Super Metroid Metroid Fusion |
| Properties | Damage reduction, negates water resistance and reduced visibility, negates damage and friction of some types of magma, allows High Jump, Space Jump, and Speed Booster to work in these locactions. |
The Gravity Suit is an upgrade for Samus Aran’s Power Suit (as its name implies, the Gravity Suit is known for negating gravity effects that would hinder Samus). The Gravity Suit enhancement is obtained after the Varia Suit, and the addition turns sections of Samus’s armor purple, reduces the damage she takes (to a greater extent than the Varia alone), and allows her to move in fluid unhindered by the resistance and pressure it would normally exert. (In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes the latter ability is instead granted by the Gravity Boost accessory, as the game is focused strongly on the light/dark conflict, having it in there would replace the dark suit, which would lessen the effect they were trying to create.) In most games the Gravity Suit also prevents Samus from being damaged by magma. In Super Metroid and Zero Mission, it is the final suit Samus acquires.
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[edit] Benefits Chart
The following chart details the benefits bestowed by the Gravity Suit in each game:
| Game | Damage reduction | Other benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Super Metroid | 25%* | Allows free movement underwater and provides protection from most types of magma. (Upper Norfair) |
| Metroid Fusion | 50% | Allows free movement underwater and provides protection from magma. (Sector 5) |
| Metroid: Zero Mission | 50% | Allows free movement underwater and provides protection from magma. |
| Metroid Prime | 50% | Allows free movement underwater, and improves visibility underwater. |
*Note that the Gravity Suit alone provides only 25% damage reduction, but when combined with the Varia Suit, the damage reduction is increased to 75%. Other numbers represent total reduction, as in other games she cannot use the Gravity Suit without the Varia.
[edit] In other media
In the Super Smash Bros. series, Samus’s standard outfit is the Varia Suit, and a purple-blue alternate color scheme resembles the Gravity Suit.
[edit] Brawl
[edit] Trophy
"A Power Suit that provides even more damage protection than the Varia Suit. This Gravity Suit also allows Samus to move without water resistance when underwater. In most games in the series, this suit also blocks lava damage and friction. In addition, it allows Samus to use item bonuses like the High Jump, Space Jump, and Speed Booster, even when underwater or in lava."
[edit] Sticker
- Gravity Suit Samus Metroid: Zero Mission [Weapon] Attack +11 (Samus, Zero Suit Samus)
[edit] Appearances
- Super Metroid (SNES, 1994)
- Super Smash Bros. (N64, 1999)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (GCN, 2001)
- Metroid Fusion (GBA, 2002)
- Metroid Prime (GCN, 2002)
- Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA, 2004)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, 2008)
- New Play Control! Metroid Prime (Wii, Japan-only 2009)
- Metroid Prime Trilogy (Wii, 2009)
[edit] Trivia
- Even though in most games the Gravity Suit protects from lava, in Metroid Prime it can still take damage if you fall in the lava in Magmoor Caverns.
- Despite ending Metroid Zero Mission, Metroid Prime, and Super Metroid with the Gravity Suit, Samus starts the games taking place after these with the Varia Suit.
- It should be noted that in Super Smash Bros Brawl, there are two Samus Clones that have suits similar to the Gravity Suit, albeit with a purple visor.
- In Metroid Prime the orb on the back of Samus' hand, her visor and the grooves of her shoulder pads for the Gravity Suit are blue but in the other games they are green.
[edit] Gallery
 The Gravity Suit in an ending picture from Metroid: Zero Mission. |
 Samus runs towards the Screw Attack in her Gravity Suit. |
 The Gravity Suit seen in Metroid Prime. |
 The Gravity Suit seen in Metroid Prime. |
 Samus in a Save Station wearing the Gravity Suit, in Prime. |
 Samus wearing the Fusion Gravity Suit in Prime. |
 Samus after recovering Gravity Suit functionality in Metroid Fusion. |
 Samus contemplates after escaping the Restricted Laboratory. |
 The Gravity Suit's Trophy in Brawl without text. |
 The Gravity Suit's sticker from Brawl. |
| Samus Aran's Suits |
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| Power Suit | Varia Suit | Gravity Suit | Fusion Suit | UAM 1 Phazon Suit | Dark Suit | Light Suit | PED Suit | Hazard Shield Zero Suit | Bikini |
