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The reason Ridley is so popular is sort of a hydra of reasonings, really. The ones I know of (and some that I myself have, but others may not) are that:
According to the Lore, he murdered Samus's parents.
But yeah, Ridley is essentially the Bowser of Metroid, Samus's Ganondorf, and the second most important Metroid villain. And I can imagine him getting in having a size slightly bigger than Bowser's, and not looking "awkward", despite so many people INCLUDING Sakurai disagreeing with me.
Other M (though indirectly) indicates that it happened through Samus' Ridley-induced PTSD attack (which would only make sense if Ridley caused her to develop it in the first place), so it seems to be canon anyways.
Ridley does speak in the manga, and he's usually implied to have quite high intelligence (and even his trophies in Smash make note of it). As for his presence, Ridley is the one character that Samus hates with a passion, even moreso than Dark Samus or Mother Brain.
So Ridley does have a character, it's just that the games seem to skim over it often.Ridley said:
Exactly.
(the duck)(the balloon fighter hat) they all fly as much as ridley does outside of smash and they're fly around freely was taken away.
Really? I'm pretty happy with 2 Mario's, 3 Link's and 2 Duck Hunts. I would be over the moon for 2 Ridley's with one being playable.
We have 2 Marios & 2 Links. How is one playable Ridley, and one Boss Ridley a problem? O__o
and yet the trophy acts like it is the original Rildley (appeared in metroid 1, "long standing-rival") and he can suddenly turn into meta Ridley.
Then that's a faulty description.
It really frustrates me when people think Dark Samus will be a Samus clone...if you've played the Primes then you'll see how different she is from Samus...Dark Samus and Samus share the charge shot, missiles and morph ball and that's it...heck you'll see it just by how she behaves as an Assist Trophy...
Didnt say it wasnt but hey there it is. Says something about what sakurai thinks.
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Ridley has only been at a size comparable to a playable Smash fighter in the original Metroid and the Melee intro. While, yes, you can downsize him, the issue is one of relativity and proportion: Olimar and the Pikmin are at the same relative size to each other as they are in the Pikmin games proper, which is the key thing, as a character's "actual" size changes overall depending on the stage they are on. As far as proportions go, this is really the biggest issue with downsizing Ridley; he has huge wings, a long neck, a wide stance, a big head, and lanky proportions. His hitbox would be enormous if he had all of these kept even at Bowser's height.
The conflict is a matter of roles. With playable characters, there is going to be overlap on depiction of characters by very design; there can be matches where up to 8 players pick the same character. However, there is only one boss, with no precedent for obtrusive non-playable characters also having a playable role.
*cough* Mother Brain *cough cough* (But yeah, I'm not sure that she has much chance to end up being playable in any Smash game.)
I'll just leave this here.
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Bagan: I decided to redo the model (by that i mean that i edited Other M model again, but without using previous version). Now it has better beak (its not as curved and has no weird shading on it), better spikes on the back, no elbow and leg spikes, longer teeth, longer tail spikes, different tail spike that resembles classic Ridley's usual arrowhead-like tail spike, shorter tail, bulkier arms, spikes on eyebrows, thinner head, etc.
Also, do you notice anything weird on this image?
it's working for me. It might be on your end.
Darn. I wonder why I can't see it?
Yeah.... It's really a problem for her to be called Dark Samus (two counter in the same name), when she is probably the most unique of all evil clone of Nintendo!
When you really think about Sakurai's view of Dark Samus could be that she is too similar, as the description of her Brawl trophy states that she is the same as Samus except for colour (which is far from the case)...which could be the main reason why she isn't a playable character at the moment...
