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Samus SSB4 palette swaps 1-4 — Four of Samus's eight alternate costumes in *Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.*

Alternate costumes^{[citation needed]}, also known as color changes,^[1] color schemes,^[2] color variations,^[3]^[4] and costumes,^[4] are different color palettes and costumes for a character, used primarily for differentiating players in multiplayer gameplay. For characters from the Metroid series, these costumes are most prominently featured in the Super Smash Bros. series, although they also appear in the multiplayer modes of the Metroid Prime series as well as in Nintendo Land.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes[]

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The multiplayer mode of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime Trilogy has up to four players playing as Samus Aran, using her Varia Suit model from Echoes. The following color palettes are used for each player:

Player 1 - The normal Varia Suit.
Player 2 - Silver armor with green highlights.
Player 3 - Green armor with orange highlights.
Player 4 - Blue armor with orange highlights.

Aside from Player 1's suit, none of these color schemes directly correspond to any sources from official Metroid media. However, Player 2's colors resemble the official artwork of the Ruins Test armor from Metroid: Zero Mission, Player 3's green costume is analogous to Green Samus from Super Smash Bros., while Player 4's blue costume is evocative of Armstrong Houston from the Super Metroid comic.

Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt[]

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Up to four players can play as Samus in the multiplayer death match mode, with each one using a different color palette for Samus's model. These color schemes appear to be based on the multiplayer costumes from Echoes. Each costume has its own FMV intro sequence, which plays for its respective player before the match: [1]

1P - Samus's default Varia Suit, based on the design from Echoes.
2P - Dark green with yellow highlights. This costume is also used by the Xenomorph that Samus battles at the end of Regulator. P3 from Echoes.
- Intro FMV theme is a sped up version of Prime's "Samus Appears" but with the end cut off and with electronic keys.
3P - Silver with blue highlights. Similar to the P2 color from above. Loosely based on Dark Samus or the Light Suit.
- Intro FMV Theme is a dubstep-like version of "Samus Appears".
4P - Blue with orange highlights. P4 from Echoes.
- Intro FMV Theme is a electric "chime" version of the "Samus Appears" theme.

Metroid Prime Hunters[]

In the Multiplayer Mode of Metroid Prime Hunters, up to four players can select the same Bounty Hunter. The first player with that Bounty Hunter will always have the default canonical color scheme, while any additional players will be automatically assigned alternate color palettes determined by the order of players; for example, if two players pick Samus, the second Samus player will be assigned Samus's second color scheme, regardless of whether they are player 2, player 3, or player 4 in the match. During team matches, all players are assigned a color scheme that indicates which team they are on (orange or green), even if this may make them difficult or impossible to distinguish from a second player on the same team.

These color changes do not affect players' HUDs or their portraits on interfaces such as rankings. In first-person, the "Arm Cannon" color will reflect the color of the costume they wear, but the highlights will match the default costume's when using the Power Beam.

Samus Aran[]

Default - Samus's default Varia Suit, based on the design from Echoes.
Purple - Second costume. Mauve with pale blue armor, dark purple chestplate and helmet, with a purple Arm Cannon and neon cyan highlights, resembling the Gravity Suit.
Blue - Third costume. Cyan and mauve armor with blue helmet and chestplate, with a blue Arm Cannon and orange highlights. Resembles the player four costume from the Echoes multiplayer and Armstrong Houston's armor.
Black - Fourth costume. Black and gray with red highlights and a red Arm Cannon. Heavily resembles the Phazon Suit.
Green Team - Light green with dark green helmet and chestplate, with lime green highlights and green Arm Cannon. Resembles Green Samus.
Orange Team - Orange and peach armor with vermilion helmet and chestplate, with yellow highlights and orange Arm Cannon. Resembles the default Varia Suit.

Kanden[]

Default (Yellow) - Kanden's default appearance. Black with yellow highlights and a secondary light green color for the inner sections.
Purple - Second costume. Purple with pink highlights and a secondary bluish-gray color that replaces the default appearance's green inner sections.
Red - Third costume. Dark red with neon-red highlights and a secondary gray color for the inner sections.
Blue - Fourth costume. Navy with neon-blue highlights and a secondary mauve-gray color for the inner sections.
Green Team - Green with lime-green highlights and a secondary grayish-green colour for the inner sections.
Orange Team - Dark orange with orange highlights and a secondary grayish-orange color for the inner sections.

Spire[]

Default (Orange) - Spire's default appearance. Brown with yellowish-orange highlights.
Green - Second costume. Brown with green highlights.
Pink - Third costume. Brown with a reddish tint and pink highlights.
Cyan - Fourth costume. Brown with a paler tint and cyan highlights. Perhaps coincidentally, Elben Schafers' render for Spire uses an almost identical color scheme.
Green Team - Olive with neon-green highlights.
Orange Team - Sienna with orange highlights and cyan eyes.

Weavel[]

Default (Gray) - Weavel's default appearance. Green-tinted gray with yellow highlights.
Red - Second costume. Red with yellow highlights.
Blue - Third costume. Blue with orange highlights.
Yellow - Fourth costume. Yellow with cyan highlights and hair.
Green Team - Light green with orange highlights and dark red hair.
Orange Team - Orange with silver highlights and gray hair.

Sylux[]

Default (Blue) - Sylux's default appearance. Dark blue with neon-green highlights.
Yellow - Second costume. Dark green with yellow highlights. Resembles Kanden's default color.
Purple - Third costume. Purple with neon-purple highlights.
Cyan - Fourth costume. Cyan-tinted navy with neon-cyan highlights. Heavily resembles Dark Samus.
Green Team - Green with neon-green highlights. Resembles his second costume.
Orange Team - Dark orange with orange highlights.

Noxus[]

Default (Purple) - Noxus's default appearance. Purple with light blue highlights.
Yellow - Second costume. Dark purple with predominantly yellow and pink highlights.
Teal - Third costume. Dark gray with teal highlights and cyan eyes.
White - Fourth costume. Purple-tinted gray with white highlights. In bright areas, the entire costume can become completely white.
Green Team - Green with lime-green highlights.
Orange Team - Orange with yellow highlights.

Trace[]

Default (Red) - Trace's default appearance. Dark red with scarlet highlights.
Teal - Second costume. Teal with yellow highlights. Resembles a Guardian.
Yellow - Third costume. Yellow-green with cyan highlights.
Purple - Fourth costume. Purple with pink highlights.
Green Team - Green with orange highlights.
Orange Team - Orange with cyan highlights.

Super Smash Bros.[]

Alternate costumes are sets of costumes usable by every character in the Super Smash Bros. series. While most are simple recolors, certain characters (for example, Wii Fit Trainer, Corrin and Inkling) have male and female variants, some change entire outfits (such as Zero Suit Samus or Ridley), or even turn the fighter into another character (for example, Olimar into Alph, or Bowser Jr. into the Koopalings). They are purely cosmetic and do not provide benefits to their respective characters.

Each character's number of costumes varies, although Metroid fighters have had a consistent number ranging from five to eight. With the introduction of 8-Player Smash in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, every character has eight costumes in that game and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Unlike in the Metroid Prime games, players can freely choose any alternate costume on the character selection screen before a match. However, two players using the same character cannot use the same alternate costume. In the first three games of the series, certain costumes of Samus or Zero Suit Samus would be what she would use in team battles when playing on the red, blue or green teams. In Smash 4 and Ultimate, any costume can be used, and an outline with the character's team color will appear around them instead.

Samus[]

Most of Samus's alternate costumes resemble her Suits from the series, but only change the color scheme of the Varia Suit rather than the suit proportions as a whole.

As a fighter who has been in every single game of the series, Samus's alternate costumes have varied over the years. However, four of her costumes have remained consistent:

Orange - Her default appearance, based on her Varia Suit in Super Metroid (until Melee), Metroid: Zero Mission in Brawl, or Metroid: Other M (3DS/Wii U onward). Used when Samus is on the red team from Super Smash Bros. until Melee.
Pink - According to Masahiro Sakurai, this costume is based on the Gravity Suit from Super Metroid.^[5]^[2] However, it more closely resembles her Varia Suit in Missile Mode in Metroid. Used when Samus is on the red team in Brawl.
Green - It is called "Green Samus" by Sakurai.^[2] On the original Super Smash Bros. website, this costume was referred to as "mass-produced Samus", a reference to Gundam. Used when Samus is on the green team from Super Smash Bros. until Brawl.
Purple - Resembles the Gravity Suit; it is officially referred to as the Metroid Prime Gravity Suit starting in 3DS/Wii U,^[2] although it actually predates Metroid Prime due to appearing in Super Smash Bros. and Melee. From Brawl onwards, the visor and lights are colored blue as they are in Metroid Prime and Metroid: Samus Returns. Used when Samus is on the blue team from Super Smash Bros. until Melee.

Her other costumes:

Blue (Brawl onwards) - Resembles the Fusion Suit. It does not change the suit proportions, but instead features the Fusion Suit's blue and yellow pattern over her Varia Suit model.
Brown (Super Smash Bros. and Melee) - Changes the orange shoulder pads to brown while retaining the green visor, yellow torso and inner thighs, and red helmet and chestplate.
Brown (Brawl onwards) - Based on the Dark Suit.
White (3DS/Wii U onwards) - Based on the Light Suit.
Dark Blue (3DS/Wii U only) - Based on Dark Samus. In Wii U, a battle with Ridley and "Dark Samus" (represented with Samus with this alternate costume) is simulated in the Event Match Galactic Avenger, which involves Samus killing the two on the Pyrosphere stage to "avenge [her] parents". It was replaced in Ultimate due to Dark Samus becoming a fighter in her own right.
Black (Ultimate only) - The entire suit is black, with yellow highlights. While not confirmed to be based upon any specific source from the Metroid series, this color scheme resembles that of the Power Troopers who copied Samus's Power Beam in Metroid Prime. It also resembles Kanden, but since this costume is not used for his Spirit Battle, this was likely not an intentional reference. The suit's color scheme also resembles that of a Demolition Trooper from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

Super Smash Bros.[]

Melee[]

Brawl[]

Nintendo 3DS and Wii U[]

Ultimate[]

Zero Suit Samus[]

Zero Suit Samus's costumes have remained mostly consistent through her appearances, although two of her costumes in Brawl were replaced in subsequent installments.

Blue - Her default appearance, wearing her Zero Suit as it appears in Metroid: Zero Mission (Brawl) or Metroid: Other M (3DS/Wii U and Ultimate).
Dark Blue - Resembles her Zero Suit at the end of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, but with darker blue accents instead of silver. Used when Zero Suit Samus is on the blue team in Brawl.
Pink/Red - Resembles the Justin Bailey leotard in Metroid, but with blonde hair instead of green or brown. Used when Zero Suit Samus is on the red team in Brawl. In 3DS/Wii U and Ultimate, the outfit is a darker red.
Black - Resembles her first Casual Outfit in Super Metroid.
Purple (Brawl only) - Not based on any known outfit, although it corresponds to Samus's Metroid Prime Gravity Suit costume.
Green - Not based on any known outfit, although it corresponds to the Green Samus costume in Brawl. Used when Zero Suit Samus is on the green team in Brawl.
Silver (3DS/Wii U onwards) - Resembles an outfit worn by the younger Samus in the Child Mode endings in Metroid Fusion, as well as the Gunship Mii's Zero Suit in Metroid Blast.
Shorts - Blue (3DS/Wii U onwards) - Changes the Zero Suit to the Casual Outfit in Metroid Fusion.
Shorts - Orange (3DS/Wii U onwards) - Changes the Zero Suit to the Casual Outfit in Metroid: Zero Mission. This is referred to as Zero Suit Samus's 7th Color in an Original Games/Settings loading screen Tip in the Wii U version: "Zero Suit Samus's seventh color variation is a unique orange outfit. This outfit first appeared in certain endings of Metroid: Zero Mission"