User blog comment:Lasifer/The Console Wars: Master Chief vs. Samus Aran/@comment-91.121.166.108-20130406002254

In this battle the equipment is really even over all. It seems to be safe to say that Samus has the advantage in close, but her chief has longer range weapons. So instead i'll address the warrior behind the armor and weapons. Who is the the better warrior in mentality, thinking and physicality.

In mentality, Chief wins, as Samus has shown to have times of emotional weakness that affect her ability to fight, especially when she was confronted with a reborn Ridely, she totally shut down. Chief on the other hand is almost like a machine, to the point normal soldiers actually think he is one. He executes tasks with cold and lethal precision, Samus act more like a human being, stopping and somtimes taking time to look at thing that interest her, in Meotroid the other M she shows this several times. Chief will analyze a threat and and neutralize it, his thinking process is more military like than Samus, given his entire life was geared towards serving the military, Samus not so much.

In terms of who thinks more quickly and has better "intelligence." it's a wash, neither really shows it as their strong suit, while they are both quiet smart, it is overshadowed by combat skill, so I can't really judge these areas because they aren't addressed in great enough detail in either game to make a fair comparison. So I'd say that is even.

In terms of physicality, chief win this as well. Spartans are incredibly strong, capable of putting their finger through a skull with no effort. Samus doesn't really show case her physical strength as much, while it is undoubtedly high, Spartan strength is going to higher. However strength is not the only thing to consider in terms of physical strength, speed would also fall into this category as well, and this falls in samus favor, she is faster than him in terms of pure running speed, his works in her favor, she can in theory close the distance to gap that gives chief and edge and use her superior close range weapons.

So who wins? In the end the winner is however can kill their opponent first. That that in my opinion is Chief, because of his mentality. He'll go for the kill the second he can, where as Samus is not always known to do this, she once stopped to watch a baby Metroid rather than kill it or try to attack it even, and watched with some curiosity as "Little Birdie" followed her, and this creature turned out to be Ridely in his larval form. She can also lose her concentration more easily than Chief and has so on a number of occasions, where as Chief continues on his mission till it's done, no matter what.