Mother Nature in Metroid

I always kind of had a similar vision of Samus as Sakamoto did (in more of a motherly sense). Minus the more blatant inconsistencies you pointed out, the fact that the series is named "Metroid" despite the fact that the goal is to destroy the Metroids... The implication that if the Metroids are gone...then there isn't really any more story to tell. The story of Samus is the story of the Metroids. The balance between the fight to destroy them to save everything else, and to at the same time keep their species from completely dying out. Samus killing them, yet saving them, being nearly killed by them, and yet saved by them. It's just interesting seeing this ecological niche managing to survive over time. There's a great sense of balance, an invisible hand keeping both sides (humans and other creatures versus the Metroids) from ever being completely wiped out, and a certain tenderness required to pull back from dealing the final blow and destroying the last of a species.

There's a great sense of respect for the Metroids, that they are in some way needed, a necessary "evil", that is later vindicated when Samus truly does need them to survive. And then even further when revealed that their planetary ecological disasters are balanced by their preventing universal ecological disasters (X Parasite). It's such a fragile state the way all these different species fit into the picture, and they all have a theme of strength hiding fragility (Samus' suit, Metroid's ice, X's Metroids). Duality, fragility and strength, the power to destroy and the curiosity to preserve life, respect for life but fighting it in the fear of death...it all punctuates how much this series is tied with the balance of Mother Nature. That's why I looked at Samus in a motherly way.