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Yea but for some reason a portion of the Metroid fanbase has this weird thing that Metroid should be different and retire their most marketable villain. Ridley isn't even the main focus of most games he's in. He's perfectly capable of being the old villain while coexisting with all the new we get.
Can't tell if this is a joke or if you don't know what King Boo does. He actually has a huge pool of moves to pull from between the three Luigi's mansion games. You might be thinking of the walmart brand King Boo they put in Mario Kart and stuff.
I think it's because Metroid is a series that actually tries to craft an ongoing narrative with some semblance of actual story progression, so many fans think it's just really goofy having Ridley constantly keep coming back from the grave and diminishing his overall credibility as a threat.
That's just the price you pay for being a reaccuring villain. Zelda has a far deeper story but most don't care about Ganon returning because they have the whole reincarnation gimmick. It doesn't discredit the threat he brings.
Speaking of, I know it’s a dead meme by this point, but we could really use that Mother 3 release in the West.
Purple Theory Lives !!
Yea Super Metroid holds more weight. Other M opened the door since we know that cloned corpse was Fusion Ridley. As long as there's a trace of DNA or something out there floating in space he can come back, which he 100% will because Nintendo isn't retiring Metroid's most well known villain.
Oh, she kept it just... Nintastefully.
Wait, the Other M Clone is the same one in Fusion? Strange thing to retcon but I don’t see why they’d do that without wanting the OG Ridley to return.
Cloneception
Yea Other M explained how there was a frozen Ridley husk in a Galactic Federation station. Other M Ridley turned into a lifeless husk so they could easily store him away. Basically means OG Ridley's body is unaccounted for. Probably exploded from Zebes, but that never stopped him from coming back before.
Perhaps, but considering how many times he's exploded and the series finally continuing it's hard to imagine they'll just leave it at that. I like having Ridley come back from death again and again to be a haunting reminder of her past. Uhhh, bad Other M scenes not included of course.
No matter the game, Ridley speculation never dies.
Oh yeah, almost forgot Kraid was back. I don't think anyone was expecting (or particularly wanting) him to show up again.
There was concept art of him for Prime.
Please spoiler for those who aren’t in the know. (Most of us know but there a couple who don’t)
And also Metroid fans has been clamoring for his return forever. The fanbase, or at least those who watched the trailers, went absolutely wild upon seeing him back in the flesh.
Trust me, I have seen Nightmare Ridley, Meta-Ridley, and Robo-Ridley (the latter from Zero Mission). He’s gonna come back.
You see, I'd be okay with giving him a break for a game if it hasn't been 19 years since Fusion. Metroid doesn't get enough games for me to be ok with that lol. First HD Metroid I sure as heck want space lizard to be given good treatment.
I think it is silly to feel a spirit event means anything- particularly as advertisement for a game that might not have a character added until 18+ months later. But, I'm a big fan of King Boo as a character, myself. Though I imagine he would be as a Mario character.
This is exactly what people said about Byleth (minus the liking him part)
This is pretty much the reason I think Ridley will be relegated to some sort of non-canon post-game boss or a statue or even a multiplayer thing if Dread does the recent Nintendo thing of sticking co-op minigames everywhere. (Though if that was a thing it'd probably have already been announced by now.) Even more than the juggernaut Legend of Zelda, Metroid is the only Nintendo franchise that seriously gives a heck about that game-to-game plot. The entire Metroid series has really only taken place over a really short time iirc. IDK if it's a couple years or months but still all very short for a series with nine games in it. Like someone mentioned earlier, we literally see the dead corpse with our own eyes, and that's fiction media code for "no this is really it I promise"
Ultra Dee is just the Helper to Hero Parasol Waddle Dee. Goated ability, Let's get it.
I'm not trying to argue that we're gonna get some Mario character based on this stuff, more so just saying LM3 missing a spirit event doesn't imply that we're getting King Boo, like at all. It's not really that he's slept on as much as it is that he's kinda unlikely. Even with the direct or indirect representation they had, they absolutely still could have gotten spirit events, but were missed out due to already being represented, being out prioritized by other games etc.
Here, choose which pill to take. The blue pill will make you forget about Metroid forever. The red pill will make your interest in Metroid go higher than it was before.
