Guys I did legitimately go door-to-door at work today and get my friends to vote. Probably got another 50 votes all told.
Watch out, KP will call you out for cheering for your favorite!
Was Metroid ever a thing in Europe btw?
Can't speak for the rest of Europe, but my only exposure to anything Metroid related was Mother Brain in the Captain N show and it took until 2006 for me to discover Samus in the first place. When I first saw her in Super Smash Flash, I legitimately thought she was some sort of Xbox/Halo character.
Granted, I was too young for the SNES era and didn't grow up with the N64 outside of Mario 64, 1080, Banjo and Pokemon Stadium.
I loved Super Metroid and I was in England then so yeah it was a thing