Goku later receives martial arts training from Kame-Sen'nin, meets his lifelong friend Kuririn, and enters the Tenkaichi Budōkai ( 天下一武道会, lit. In the anime, the soldier is changed to another soldier referred to as " Orlen" in the closed captioning for the Ocean Dub VHS tapes. At first glance, the main character's attempt to fight the demons that once inhabited the earth was depicted as a heroic story, but the battle eventually developed into a final war between gods and demons, and the development of the story, which overturned the theory of goodness, had a great impact on those who watched it. During that mission, she discovers a recording of Old Bird, where he reveals the existence of the Metroids and that the Chozo made them for peacekeeping purposes. As this happens, Ridley enters the room and asks if Mother Brain was joking about Samus being the Pirates’ new comrade.

Gray Voice looks on from a distance as this exchange occurs and ruminates that Samus is the only thing that was left of K-2L, a young woman blessed with love. For the first time, there is a choice between having the Japanese dialogue with Toei's original Japanese music or English dialogue with either Funimation's dub music or Toei's original Japanese music.

In the manga, Samus is an officer in the Federation Police, serving with the aliens Kreatz and Mauk under their CO Chief Hardy. Chairman Vogl pleads to expand the military capabilities of the Galactic Federation, but he is rebuffed by Keaton who does not want to involve the common man in a war against the Space Pirates. However, they do not retain the original dub and contain a new English dub produced by Funimation's Texas cast.

The timing of when certain details are learnt about the Metroids’ nature by Samus and the Federation differs between the manga and the games. It is suspected that the entire civilization of Planet SR388 was destroyed by some unknown person or thing, and there is a strong possibility that the life-form just discovered was the cause of the planet’s destruction.Ridley rebuffs him by saying Gray Voice is a beast himself, a bird that cannot fly, and piercing the Chozo with his tail. In Cosmic year 20X5, a Galactic Federation exploration vessel discovered an unknown organism on SR388. Filler does not come only in the form of side stories, though; sometimes it is as simple as adding some extra attacks into a fight. Samus also apologizes for making Kreatz and Mauk worry, after which the latter two jokingly ask if Samus is really back to her senses because she otherwise would never say sorry. In the Japanese manual of Super Metroid, it is also explained that Samus and the Federation both discover the Metroids’ artificial nature only after studying the Baby from SR388.