Do I have a memory-distorting brain tumor?

Okay guys, I've been wondering about this for a long time.

The first metroid game I ever bought was Prime (though I had played others at friends' houses), and I remember first being acquainted with Samus' backstory by reading the prime manual. I distinctly, and I mean DISTINCTLY, remember it saying that Samus Aran was a chozo name that means "last hope," and that the chozo named her that upon adoption. This is why Samus is only an infant when the chozo adopt her in my fanverse; it seemed to me that if they gave her a new name, she must have been too young to talk at the time.

A couple of years later, I have my first look at the MZM manga, where it seems that Samus Aran (daughter of Rodney and Virginia Aran, no less) is the girl's birth name, and that she was already walking and talking by the time of the K2L raid. My reaction to this, naturally, was "LOLWUT????" I later found out, thanks to Mental, that Samus is an Irish name, the female equivalent of Seamus. Before I had thought it was just a retcon, but now I was getting really confused.

I no longer have my Prime manual, but I've looked at it online and it doesn't say anything about how Samus got her name. The thing is, I swear I remember leafing through the manual, reading that passage, and thinking "wow, that's really badass!" Were there multiple versions of the manual? Maybe the one I looked at online was the PAL version or something?

This is something a lot of people have asked me about after reading my fan fiction, and I've been increasingly at a loss as for how to answer them. I'm really quite baffled as to how I could have gotten this into my head; if it wasn't in any version of the Prime manual, where the hell did I get it from?

[Lazarius]

Reading through the PAL Manual now, and though there's nothing about the name,

Deep below the surface of Zebes, the Space Pirates researched Metroids for many years. At the same time, Samus Aran was growing up among the Chozo, orphaned as a young girl during the Space Pirates' raid on the neighbouring planet K-2L.

Deep below the surface of Zebes, the Space Pirates researched Metroids for many years. At the same time, Samus Aran was growing up among the Chozo

Space Pirates researched Metroids for many years. At the same time, Samus Aran was growing up

Space Pirates research Metroids on Zebes. Samus grows up at the same time. What.

Also,

neighbouring planet K-2L.

K-2L neighbours Zebes?

[AuroraUnitComplex]

Do you think you might have read something in the Chozo lore talking about Samus as maybe a savior or hope, and then gotten that confused with what you thought you saw earlier in the manual? The words "last" & "hope" are mentioned multiple times in there.

For example, an excerpt of the lore entry entitled "Hope":
"Was she this way before? When we Chozo found her,
a fledgling orphaned on a savaged planet,
did a warriors pulse already beat in her veins,
filling her with righteous fury? Our hopes lie with her."

Even if that wasn't where the idea came from, the beginning of that same lore might perfectly describe your situation

"More and more, our tormented minds turn to the Newborn. As the world continues to shift into brutal, disconnected images, she remains inarguably real [...]"

[1upD]

Maybe it's just powers of suggestion or something, but I seem to remember that too. Like you, I'd say it was from the Metroid Prime manual....Wierd. Check the Fusion manual just to be sure. Was it in your fanfics? Maybe that's where I remember it from. Or maybe I'm just confused....

Maybe it's just powers of suggestion or something, but I seem to remember that too. Like you, I'd say it was from the Metroid Prime manual....Wierd. Check the Fusion manual just to be sure. Was it in your fanfics? Maybe that's where I remember it from. Or maybe I'm just confused....

It was in my fanfics, but it was only in them because I thought I had read it in Prime.

[1upD]

Maybe it's just powers of suggestion or something, but I seem to remember that too. Like you, I'd say it was from the Metroid Prime manual....Wierd. Check the Fusion manual just to be sure. Was it in your fanfics? Maybe that's where I remember it from. Or maybe I'm just confused....

It was in my fanfics, but it was only in them because I thought I had read it in Prime.

Oh...sorry, then. It was a good idea though.