I'm talking about your post in here, Post #11 where you only state "The manual shows Samus in her armor, so I don't have any reason to think that's her outside of her armor." You didn't post your link to said manual until AFTER I quoted my source.
The cover of the Metroid II Game boy "manual" you refer to only says "Instruction Booklet" (go back and look at your own linked source cover image). You were straight up inaccurate in your description of which "manual" you were referring to, so yes you are at fault for anyone's failure to notice "the manual" was from Metroid II: Return of Samus.
Not implying any nefarious motivation behind it on your part, but you incorrectly described the booklet you were referring to and therefore cannot hold anyone else responsible for not guessing correctly.
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You wanting an exact measurement is just that, but it doesn't change anything. I'll go with the updated version while you continue to fervently believe in some 1994 guide not even made by the developers of RoS. You don't need exact measurements when you can observe with your own eyes that something or someone is taller or shorter.
So the only way you can be right here is if you dismiss that measurements matter? What does that tell you?
From the very onset of this topic, we've been talking about exact numerical measurements, whether it's weight units in Smash Bros, or feet/inches in Metroid canon.
Nothing anyone has found thus far states Samus is 5'3" like you claim. Your source stating the Varia suit is 6'3" is superseded by the newer OFFICIAL source updating that to state that Samus herself is 6'3", direectly specifying the description is of Samus herself. This is what you're ignoring because it proves your information both outdated, vague and unquantifiable. The Super Metroid guide is not outdated and things are automatically outdated simply because of their age. Official documents are only rendered outdated when a newer source or document is officially published that directly refutes and updates information asserted in the previous document. You can argue that an Official Nintendo guide is not an Official Nintendo guide all you want, doesn't change the fact that it's an Official Nintendo guide. If I had cited a Prima guide you might have a point, but alas.
Why do measurements matter?
Because all those images show for certain is that in Other M, there is a greater height difference between Samus and the suit. That means that either Samus is shorter than 6'3", *OR* that the suit is taller than 6'3". Both can be true. How do you not get that this is all relative?
Since the most updated hard measurement we have on either states Samus is the one that's 6'3", that means the suit is that much taller. The only way for you to refute that possibility is to give an official source stating how tall the empty Varia suit is that's more recent than Super Metroid.
These model images alone prove nothing.
Finally, since you still haven't cited your source for those ripped model images, what guarantee do any of us have that you didn't just scale down Samus' Other M model to only appear shorter than the Prime model? If you look at the models, Prime Samus' head is a lot larger than Other M Samus', meaning that their bodily proportions are nearly identical. If you know anything about biology you know human skull size doesn't vary that much among adults based only on height. Not saying you did that at all, but you need to understand that these refutations are valid and are only quelled by quantitative numerical measurements from updated official sources.