Adamus

Adamus is a friend ship between Samus Aran and Adam Malkovich from the Metroid fandom.

Past
Before Samus Aran started her career as an independent bounty hunter, she served under the portion of the Galactic Federation led by Adam Malkovich whom she was friends with for a long time to which Samus saw him as a father figure to her. Adam would often end with asking her, "Any objections, Lady?". It wasn't until the day when Adam's brother, Ian was repairing a drive unit on the Lusitania, though it quickly went critical with Ian still inside. As Adam orders his men to disengage the ship, Samus protests and tells him to give her time to save him before doing it, though Adam insists on going through with it anyway and the Lusitania was ejected with Ian still trapped inside. This incident would end with Samus leaving the Federation to find her purpose, which has her becoming a bounty hunter.

Metroid: Other M
Years later, the two of them meet again on the BOTTLE SHIP when they received a distress signal from it. Adam asks what brought her here, which he refuses to disclose any information to her, referring to her as an outsider. After they defeat a Brug Mass, Adam sees Samus's support as beneficial and brings her under his temporary command. Adam has her disable her weapons and power-ups and disallows her from using them unless he allows her to use a certain power-up. For most of the narrative, Adam often gives her orders to do something or to regroup with the rest of the group. During Samus's fall into shock upon seeing Ridley again, Adam was attacked by the Deleter and lost communication with each other. After the Deleter disables the bridge, Samus takes advantage of the lack of contact with Adam and "authorizes" the Space Jump and Screw Attack to get across without him knowing or trying to stop her. During Samus's encounter with a baby Metroid, Adam knocks her out with a freeze gun, knocking her out and disabling her Power Suit before freezing the baby Metroid turned hostile. When she comes to, he explains that he wasn't sure if this one is immune to low temperatures and what was happening in the BOTTLE SHIP, with the ringleaders being behind the cloning of the Metroids and the Space Pirates. Adam takes it upon himself to destroy Sector 0 even if it would end up costing him his life, as Samus protests him going through with it and offers to do it, though Adam already made it his decision and goes through, but not without telling her, "No objections, right Lady?", with Samus responding with an initial thumbs up before turning her thumb down, and managed to disconnect it from the BOTTLE SHIP and dying in the explosion. Later at the Galactic Federation HQ, Samus would give the late Adam a thumbs up, while a passing Anthony Higgs jokingly gives her a thumbs down, with her noting the similarities and differences between Adam and Anthony.

Metroid Fusion
While Adam as a human does not appear due to him being deceased, his consciousness survives through an AI that becomes Samus's companion throughout her adventure through the B.S.L. Station to investigate the mysterious attacks of the X-Parasites caused by SA-X. Due to Samus's Gunship being destroyed due to her falling into critical condition from infection of the X-Parasites, she was given a new purple Starship that gives her access to the computer she calls ADAM when it was behaving in a similar manner. In one of her monologues about Adam, he would often call her "Lady" which would have otherwise sounded sarcastic if he said it to someone else, but he managed to make it sound dignified which she names the computer after him. In another monologue, she notes that he always ends with him asking, "Any objections, Lady" when he gave an order, he knew she would never disagree to. She also would recall that the real Adam was relentless in criticism but always cared who isn't overly obsessed with duty when she grew suspicious of the AI. When she later confronts ADAM about the Galactic Federation's activities in the now destroyed Restricted Zone and objects to their activities when they took interest in the X-Parasites and the SA-X and during the argument, she accidentally calls it Adam out loud which changes the computer's tone as they engage in a natural dialogue as Samus explains who the real Adam is and how he made the sacrifice of using the self-destruct program, as there are some who live and some who would inevitably die. After ADAM has a change of heart and lets her go against the Federation's orders and defeats SA-X, activates the self-destruct program, defeats Omega Metroid and is able to escape unscathed. While Samus is concerned about the potential repercussions they might receive for doing the right thing, ADAM assures her that at least one person might believe them.

Metroid Dread
Samus and ADAM were sent to planet ZDR, due to a video footage of an X-Parasite there along with the E.M.M.I. research robots having gone missing. ADAM insists that this bounty might not be worth the risk, she goes through with it anyway. During Samus's expedition through the planet, ADAM often gives hints and sometimes brings up story elements related to ZDR's history, while warning her of the E.M.M.I. robots that were hacked and reprogrammed to target her for her Metroid DNA. Later on, it was found that Samus and ADAM had long lost contact with each other since their arrival and the "ADAM" that was communicating with her throughout the adventure was actually Raven Beak in disguise, who tricked her into activating her Metroid powers so he can end up cloning her, though Samus's primal rage turns her into a Metroid and gave her the upper hand in defeating him. As Samus makes it back to her ship, ADAM stops her from touching the controls as he warns that doing so will drain the ship of energy, which would leave no hope of escape. Fortunately, Quiet Robe X arrived and he was absorbed to allow her to return to normal and safely use the ship's console to make an escape.

Fanon
Adamus depicted in Metroid: Other M has been exhibited with sharp criticism due to how cold and overly harsh Adam was to Samus despite her being fully capable and how Samus, who is known for doing things on her own being overly submissive and more vulnerable than the fans are used to seeing from her and how both of them end up making some poor decisions that end up making things worse for them. The Metroid Manga was praised for their depiction of their relationship as shown with Adam being a more reasonable authority figure and the two of them parting on a high note for both sides. Fans have depicted them in a platonic friendship due to age difference, though various het ships have also been made for them which they would ship the present day Samus with Adam since they are both adults at this time.

Fandom

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