As far as I can remember, considering my Wii's been gathering dust over the last year or so, that's not the case; in the Prime series at least, you seem to get new abilities before boss fights which will specifically require the new equipment you've acquired in order to triumph, just like the Zelda games.

I think I got samus mixed up with kirby, still, this is a mafia adaptation so we can only guess at what she can do.

I think that it's already been theorised that Samus was one of the killers last night, so it's a possibility that she targetted you; however, I wouldn't say you're a bad townie based on being killed in the first phase... I'd guess it was just a random choice.
That was an attempt at selft depricating humor.