<P> The series ' co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto recalled , `` We were partway through the development process when one of the staff members said ' Hey , would n't that be kind of cool if it turned out that this person inside the suit was a woman ? ' '' The developers voted on the concept , and it passed . The game 's instruction manual refers to Samus as if she were male to obscure her real sex until the end of the game . Sakamoto noted that during the course of the Metroid series , developers constantly try to express Samus ' femininity without sexually objectifying her . Samus ' image was based on actress Sigourney Weaver in her role as Ellen Ripley from Aliens , and actress Kim Basinger from 91⁄2 Weeks and My Stepmother Is an Alien . Sakamoto and Kiyotake said that the character 's last name `` Aran '' was taken from Edson Arantes do Nascimento , the birth name of the famous soccer player Pelé . </P>
<P> The series ' co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto recalled , `` We were partway through the development process when one of the staff members said ' Hey , would n't that be kind of cool if it turned out that this person inside the suit was a woman ? ' '' The developers voted on the concept , and it passed . The game 's instruction manual refers to Samus as if she were male to obscure her real sex until the end of the game . Sakamoto noted that during the course of the Metroid series , developers constantly try to express Samus ' femininity without sexually objectifying her . Samus ' image was based on actress Sigourney Weaver in her role as Ellen Ripley from Aliens , and actress Kim Basinger from 91⁄2 Weeks and My Stepmother Is an Alien . Sakamoto and Kiyotake said that the character 's last name `` Aran '' was taken from Edson Arantes do Nascimento , the birth name of the famous soccer player Pelé . </P>
when did we find out samus was a girl
when did we find out samus was a girl
the end of the game
the end of the game