Samus Aran: In vs Out of armor

We've seen how Samus acts when she's in armor. All business, maybe a word if needed here or there. She's a professional killer and Warrior.

However, we've also seen that when the armor's off and she's not on duty: she's still a girly girl underneath. She wears her sports bra and joggers out to the bar, cuddles cute animals, and despite the obvious disadvantages: she keeps her hair long and loose, with a ponytail being as tight and short as she gets it.

Now, this isn't to say the armor is what makes her Samus. She doesn’t stop being herself when it’s on, but the mask is both metaphorical and literal.

When there’s business to be done she’s in combat mode and acts precisely, exactly, silently, and efficiently. She’s Metroid, the ultimate warrior, one who can defeat anything and annihilates planets and organizations to achieve the goal she sets out to do.

But when she feels safe and doesn’t have to be 100%, her softer traits come out. She’s the Human who could make friends with any animal from back on her homeworld, who saved the animals and spared the infant.

Samus is both Metroid and Human, but her line of work requires she be one or the other at any given time. She can’t afford to try making friends when Phantoon is mobbing her, but when she isn’t in danger she seemingly values and nurtures the Human in herself.

Some could call it weakness, but I think it’s defiance. She won’t let the traumas of her past define her, and she won’t let herself become an automaton or someone only interested in power. Which may well be why she can handle the ungodly amount she’s amassed. It might be why she willingly disables her equipment after major missions, and sticks to the Varia suit rather than keeping Gravity.

All that in mind: how many plushies did she have aboard the old gunship from 2 & 3, and how many did she replace aboard the new purple one?