User blog comment:Deadliest9600/Master Chief vs Samus Aran/@comment-108.53.0.211-20111009084117

I like both Metroid and Halo but in all honesty, Samus would destroy Master Chief. Chief's armor may be strong enough to allow him to survive reentry into Earth's atmosphere but people seem to be forgetting that it's too weak to keep Chief alive after a grenade explosion. That's all it takes to kill him. One grenade at his feet. How else can he die? One sniper shot to the head. Or one shotgun shot at close range. Or one (extremely strong) punch in the back. If you don't believe me then you've obviously never played Halo.

Let's try and compare this to Samus' armor. For starters, it was created by the Chozo, a race that is far more advanced than humans, even those in the 26th Century (Halo's setting). But forget about that, let's try and find out just how strong it is. In Metroid Prime 2's multiplayer mode, a missile fired by one Samus at another Samus does 20 damage out of a total of 100. So it would take five missiles to kill Samus. Some would say that this is due to the fact that Samus' missiles are weak. But is it reasonable to say that one of her missiles is not as strong as a standard fragmentation grenade? I don’t think so, but I doubt that everyone agrees with me. Let’s say that a grenade is 5 times stronger than one of Samus’ missiles. This would mean that it would take 5 of Samus’ missiles to kill Chief, whereas one of his grenades would wipe out Samus, right? Well, no. Samus' armor in Prime 2's multiplayer is only at 6.66% of its full power in order to prevent the multiplayer games from dragging out. Since this is supposed to be a fair fight, we're going to assume that Samus is at full power, in the same way that we'll assume that Chief has access to all of his weapons.

So it would actually take 15 grenades to kill Samus. I’m not saying that Chief has to use grenades; I’m just putting the power of the weapons and shields of each character in context. A grenade at close range is just as powerful as a sniper shot to the head, or an assassination, or a close range shotgun shot, or 4 Battle Rifle bursts to the head, etc. At this point, it is clear who has the stronger armor.

As for weapons, I’ve mentioned most of Chief’s and I’ve only briefly mentioned what Samus has access to. In addition to missiles (which home in on opponents), she has a variety of different beams which, when stacked together, are more powerful than her missiles. She has super missiles, which are 5 times (in the Prime games) or 3 times (in Metroid Fusion and maybe in Super Metroid, I could be wrong) as powerful as regular missiles. She has the speed booster, which allows her to run at supersonic speeds and obliterate anything in her path. She has the screw attack, which demolishes anything that touches her while she is jumping. She has power bombs, which are as powerful as super missiles (in the Prime games, I’m not sure about the other games). Chief is an excellent warrior but he just would not stand a chance against Samus in her Gravity Suit. Now if Chief and Samus were to fight each other suit-less, I have no doubt that Chief would rip Samus apart. He weighs over twice as much (maybe even three times as much) and is definitely physically stronger. But with suits on, when the two fight at full power, the winner is very clear: Samus Aran.