i don’t remember where i read this so take it with a grain of salt, but i remember reading about Retro Studios talking with Nintendo during the development of Metroid Prime and Retro asked if Samus could actually do some bounty hunting for once
and Nintendo was like “what do you mean?”
and Retro was like “You know. Accept money to hunt down wanted people.”
and nintendo was just like “what??? what?! no! no she can’t do that! why would you even ask!”
and Retro had to explain to Nintendo what a bounty hunter was, because evidently they thought the phrase “bounty hunter” meant “cool space explorer” and not “person who accepts money to hunt people”
Headcanon accepted: Samus became a bounty hunter because she thought it just meant cool space explorer
