Adamus

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

Canon
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.

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.

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

 * FAN FICTION