{"id":608962,"date":"2019-05-07T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/?p=608962"},"modified":"2019-05-07T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:43:40","slug":"art-surfaces-for-gaming-cartoons-that-werent-produced-including-metroid-with-a-male-samus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/art-surfaces-for-gaming-cartoons-that-werent-produced-including-metroid-with-a-male-samus\/","title":{"rendered":"Art surfaces for gaming cartoons that weren’t produced, including Metroid with a male Samus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some incredibly interesting promo art has surfaced from an estate sale for a former DIC Animation City employee. Four cartoons are featured: Double Dragon, California Games, Castlevania, and Metroid. <\/p>\n

You’ll notice that these images are all branded with “Super Mario Bros. Power Hour”. It’s unclear what this is about, though Kotaku speculates that it was possibly a planned expansion or sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, which started airing in 1989. <\/p>\n

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The one piece of art that’s most interesting here is Metroid. We know that Samus is female, but the image depicts the character as a man instead. Was DIC unaware of Samus’ gender? Or did they want to have a different take on the character?<\/p>\n

Here’s the full set of art:<\/p>\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t