I don't think it's an oversight as much as it is simply the design of the suit to have large pauldron-like shoulders that also make it look like mechanical joints. And I mean, the biggest "how does that work" thing for me has always been the morph ball. How does she not just liquify?

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The issue is that her arms would have to be cut off at the shoulder to fit into the arms of the suit. This fan-made diagram shows what I mean:

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Her arms are actually bunched up in front of her so she can hold a little Xbox controller

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

She can morph into a spaceball - I can believe the detached shoulders.

[–] fishbone@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My absolute favorite thing about the morphball is that even in canon it's a total mindfuck that makes no sense. Very light lore spoilers for Metroid Prime 1:

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There's a couple of research scans that essentially describe Space Pirate reverse engineering of Samus' morphball tech that basically say "This morphball shit is a lost cause. All our test crew have ended up as extremely dead pretzels. We should just quit while we're behind on this one."

[–] WayTooDank@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The morph ball is usually half the height of samus' full sprite, which would make it a whole meter in diameter (iirc super metroid is the only exception). Most people could fit in that comfortably.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

What if she does?