Thread:BowserRulesAll/@comment-29605082-20161118232815/@comment-27109830-20161119115026

Blond video-game merc's who became as such due to the actions of the winged main antagonists (who also happens to be their eternal rival and VERY hard to kill), mainly due to taking away their loved ones and seemingly making them suffer for no reason, because they're just that sadistic, which resulted in them becoming cold, emotionally fragile and would rather be left alone to make sure they won't have to go through such pain again (even though they aren't entirely alone, which they failed to realize for a long time). Both thanks to their weapons of choice and being cloned of powerful alien entities, which grants them superhuman physical characteristics (Cloud due to being a clone of Sephiroth, possesses Jenova Cells, and Samus due to being the last survivor of her home world, was adopted by the Chozo and infused with their DNA to survive), and you could consider it a duel between opposites, as Cloud mainly uses a large sword with brute force and magical attacks to overwhelm his opponents, while Samus mainly relies on variable suits and her arm cannon with her intellect to beat opponents, thus having several rival themes, such as Battle Of The Genders, Sword VS Gun and Magic VS Technology. There might be more, but this is what i've noticed so far.