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I'd say he'd be revealed at a big event like next year's E3 (same thing might happen with K. Rool, Mewtwo, Pac-Man or Mii). I see Little Mac as one of the last characters revealed before the game's release for hype purposes; Palutena could be a candidate for the same thing, though, especially considering how much more popular in Japan than Little Mac. Pac-Man could also take the Sonic route of last-minute reveal, but I doubt it since he's probably been prioritized if he's in the game at all. Who knows, though? Maybe we won't see Ridley at all until the game's out (even though I think that's unlikely). Notable mentions go to Toad, Roy, Bandana Dee, etc. if they make it in.
Apparently the pre-Brawl Ridley thread had got locked twice or thrice.
So basically, at this point all potential newcomers could be saved for a big reveal at the end? =P
I think he could be revealed whenever. If they plan on announcing a new Metroid at some point (which they really should in January or E3 2014,) then it'd be obvious to make him go along with that, no matter how close to Smash Bros' release. Otherwise, he might aswell be kept until right before release, since Sakurai likes to tease us.
Cool timing as it would be for a new Metroid to be revealed around the time you mentioned... What if Ridley isn't in the trailer for said game or not even in that new Metroid at all? That certainly wouldn't help his case, as the recency/relevancy cult would just target him more. D:
Unless he's revealed before DKC:TF, I'm pretty sure Diddy will be shown alongside that game.
You forgot Lucario, R.O.B., and Wolf. (I don't really count Toonie as a newcomer.)
I do too. I would not have guessed Olimar to be in the game.
There's but a slim chance Ridley isn't in the next game. Unless it goes for a completely different theme like Metroid 2, Echoes and Hunters did, then I don't see him missing out, and Metroid really isn't in the situation right now where they can allow themselves to take risks with it.
He was only listing newcomers that were revealed before release.
Oh, duh. *slaps my forehead* Well, any chance Ridley would be revealed after release? Even if shortly after release by leakers and whatnot...
Because of his enormous demand, I'm betting on him being announced before release. Sakurai's little nod towards Ridley seems to acknowledge his popularity too. Plus, who wouldn't want a badass dragon on the cover of their game? Casual gamers buy every game that has a dragon on it.
I dunno. With the way developer(s) of the series seem intent for Ridley to be "killed off" now (the original Ridley's remains said to have been destroyed when Zebes went kaboom at the end of Super Metroid, while the cloned Ridley became Metroid food after being weakened and then its remains became food for the X)...
Well, if he gets leaked, everyone here will know about it. I knew the full Brawl roster essentially immediately after the game came out in Japan.
There's still plenty of possibilities for games in between other games (in the continuity) or for the Space Pirates to make another clone or something. If they want Ridley, they can easily finagle Ridley into existence.
Really? I knew no one liked R.O.B., but Lucario and Wolf were both pretty popular, as I recall...
Lucario was hated because Mewtwo was cut presumably in favor of him (which was later proven untrue.) Krystal had more supporters than Wolf, so you can figure where that went.
Ridley has been established dead for a long time, but still he managed to come back in Fusion and Other M. And if anything, Retro can keep on making prequels, which means more Ridley.
True, I guess there's always more in-between places in the timeline they can use to put Ridley in, but other than that... I think perhaps a series reboot or something should be in order. Like that'll ever happen though.
Yeah, as a CLONE, and I'm not sure they would be redundant enough as to keep playing the clone card as an explanation for each time Ridley appears again from here on.
Hell, is it possible to get a different...whatever Ridley is? Or is he the last of his kind? Because if Ridley had kids or something, or even superiors on his planet, they could kinda bring back Ridley without bringing back Ridley? It wouldn't have the same impact though...
Man, our community is super ****** a lot of the time. >_<
The thing with the series developers and one of my issues with them is they seem intent on killing EVERYONE off.
I always thought the Space Pirates were supposed to be incredibly intelligent. I mean, with the reverse-engineering of her equipment you mentioned, plus the cloning process, and modifying Ridley in such a way that the metal doesn't interfere with his normal body, much less actually helps him...plus they had spaceships and such before humans did (I think). Plus Ridley, their leader, is very intelligent.
Ha, I remember laughing about that when I saw it. >_< All people everywhere wanna pet cute things, and maybe they find Metroids cute? They are gross aliens themselves, after all.
I think he was vaguely stated by a source or two to be the last of his kind, though part of me wouldn't mind if that changed.
Well when you put it that way, yeah. It's exactly that, as far as the series' nature of killing things off. I guess to be fair though, Super Metroid was originally intended by Gunpei Yokoi to be the last game. The end-all-be-all if you will; that's why Super came off as conclusive as it did, far as the last Metroid dying, Zebes exploding, and everything. Wasn't until after there was eventually enough demand and after Gunpei's unfortunate death years later that Metroid was brought back, for the better or worse.
Unfortunately, I think that raiding mission the Pirates attempted on the BSL was retconned by Other M, as those Pirates in Fusion likely just turned out to be Zebesian Pirate clones transferred from the Bottleship, like how the clone Ridley's drained corpse was also transferred from there.
Now if only they had made a version of Samus's beams reverse-engineered that Ridley himself could've used. Just thought it'd be awesome to see Meta-Ridley firing dat wave beam or ice beam or something in a similar manner to how Metroid Prime's exoskeleton form did so. Hell, not seeing Omega Ridley shoot a Phazon beam kind of attack out of his mouth was disappointing, as he only shot Phazon from his tail some when doing that one slow spin move.
I'm just thinking of the various ways they could continue Ridley's existence in the series without constantly saying "Oh, he didn't actually die!" They could instead say "Yeah, he died, but they had his brain backed up and built a body that looked far less silly than Robot Ridley and actually they have hundreds of these so now the galaxy is under attack from an onslaught of Ridleys and we're all screwed."
There can always be a new threat to the universe, honestly. That's what happens when we live in an infinite universe (and also because this is a video game). I mean hell, didn't the GF clone Metroids from Metroid guts they scraped off Samus's suit?
Yeah, but can you imagine if Samus, in addition to having to fight this big purple pterodactyl, had to do so while he was attacking her with her own weaponry? Presumably he'd be resistant to that energy...unless the equipment for him had the same flaw the Space Pirates' armor did, and was weak to those weapons. Actually, it could be an interesting fight, where you have to attack him with whatever he's weak to at the time instead of slamming him with a hundred missiles or whatever.
Just making minor nitpicks at this point I guess.
I hate to nitpick, but the universe is thought to be finite.
Hmmm.
I know. xD I agreed with everything but that. Universe is expanding, but finite.
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