Metroid/Characters: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"My past is not a memory. It's a force at my back. It pushes and steers. I may not always like where it leads me, but like any story, the past needs resolution. What's past is prologue."}}

 

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: The first big example in video games.

* [[Arm Cannon]]

* [[Badass]]

** In ''Corruption'', the final battle on Phaaze is implied to be this as well, considering Samus' reaction {{spoiler|to each of the Hunters' deaths}}, making it clear that by the time the final fight comes, she's ready to rip the one responsible (Dark Samus) apart.

* [[Rocket Jump]]: Bomb jumps; as bombs float in air, it can be done at least twice in all games, and taken to ridiculous levels in some. Powerbombs can be used for this effect too in the games where they aren't explicit room cleaners.

* [[Rolling Attack]]: The boost ball can be used offensively. The speed booster can also become this trope in Zero Mission if Samus is in the right terrain.

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: [[Trope Namer|Obviously.]]

[[Hell Is That Noise|"Skreee!"]] }}

 

 

* [[Achilles' Heel]]: They're really weak to [[Kill It with Ice|ice attacks]], but the SR388 and Tallon IV strands outgrow this weakness eventually, trading it for others.

* [[Endangered Species]]: After Metroid 2, which is after Zero Mission and the Primes.

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: The Zeta, Omega, and Queen Metroids are basically alien dinosaurs.

* [[Ground Pound]]: How Hopper Metroids attack after entering hyper mode.

* [[Insectoid Aliens]]: Alpha and Gamma Metroids fall into this category.

"Any objections, lady?" }}

 

 

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Is actually seen in battle gear in Other M.

{{quote|"Hey punk! Don't you know how to treat a lady? Let me teach you a lesson about subtlety!"}}

 

 

* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: He and Samus.

{{quote|"Godspeed, Samus."}}

 

 

* [[Bowdlerisation]]: <s>Damn</s> NO!

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime Hunters''}}

 

 

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Sylux is never referred to by gender-specific pronouns, leading to the common [[Epileptic Trees|fan theory]] that Sylux [[Samus Is a Girl|is female]].

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime Hunters''}}

 

 

* [[The Blank]]: Possibly. It's not entirely clear if that yellow section of his head where his face would be is a cybernetic face or just a visor. A fan theory is that he's a Ki-Hunter, which would make that yellow part his actual face if true.

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime Hunters''}}

 

 

* [[Bounty Hunter]]

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime Hunters''}}

 

 

* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]: His alternate form shoots explosive stingers.

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime Hunters''}}

 

 

* [[The Big Guy]]

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime Hunters''}}

 

 

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: His race, the Kriken, thrives off of being this, almost to the extent of putting the [[Space Pirates]] to shame.

{{quote|"Between the two of us, this should be a breeze."}}

 

 

* [[Badass]]: The scan visor says his threat level matches Samus's.

{{quote|"[[Memetic Mutation|That seems... inefficient.]]"}}

 

 

* [[Arm Cannon]][[Guns Akimbo|s Akimbo]]: Two in his armor in addition to a [[Chest Blaster]]

{{quote|"You know, you should never trust strangers, Sammy."}}

 

 

* [[Bounty Hunter]]

"[[For the Evulz|Kill as much as you want! Have fun!]]" }}

 

 

* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Samus.

* {{spoiler|[[Creepy Child]]}}: In ''[[Other M]]''. {{spoiler|Somehow ironic how Ridley seems to be creepier when he's a cute newborn chicken thing.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Deader Than Dead]]: Let's see, as of ''Fusion'' his clone was reduced to ash, and then the station it was on was sent to a planet that then ''exploded''. On the other hand, he's already been cloned once, and since Samus is an outlaw at the end of ''Fusion'', it's not impossible that he won't be revived in some fashion, given that Ridley is the natural choice to hunt down Samus}}.

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The American art for the first ''Metroid'' game showed Ridley as a weird dragonfly thing instead of the more familiar space dragon. This might have been due to the art being based on his in-game sprite, which admittedly was rather vague on his appearance beyond "winged monster."

** Not to mention him being the same size as Samus.

"'Defective product’.... Me...?!! A defective product... You dare claim that I am defective...!!" }}

 

 

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Retconned in the ''Prime'' series as an organic machine built by the Chozo, instead of the Space Pirate leader. This is in the manga too. The Manga reconciles these roles (she takes the pirates over), but Other M seems to disregard both the ''Prime'' series and a bit of the manga (saying that the pirates can't function without her).

"[[Memetic Mutation|Science Team has vapor for brains.]]" }}

 

 

* [[Exclusively Evil]]

{{quote|"ROAAAAAAR"}}

 

 

* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]

* [[The Brute]]

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]

** Also, the green on his body that is portrayed as scales in all later games is portrayed as ''fur'' in the original's American artwork.

* [[Fake Ultimate Mook]]: "Fake Kraid" in ''Super Metroid'' was actually in the same room as Kraid in the original. This was to add dramatic effect once the player entered the next room and saw just how gigantic the real deal was.

{{quote|Debut: ''Super Metroid''}}

 

 

* [[Airborne Mook]]: Their wings can be shot off, but they are still dangerous when grounded.

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid''}}

 

 

* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: The Chozo on Tallon IV returned from their Higher Plane of Existence to deal with Phazon, but many were twisted into insane ghosts by it while sealing the bulk of the stuff away.

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Fusion''}}

 

 

* [[Aquatic Mook]]: They create some mermaid pirates if you stick around to see it.

{{quote|"Through vigilance and strength, we create peace."}}

 

 

* [[Always Lawful Good]]

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{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''}}

 

* [[Exclusively Evil]]

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime''}}

 

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Dark Samus during the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes was certainly depicted as being completely insane, namely due to being imbalanced at a molecular level, almost to [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka Palazzo]] levels.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Despite her psychopathic nature, she actually shows some degree of compassion towards Metroids held captive by the Space Pirates in the second game. {{spoiler|This makes sense because she ''is'' a Metroid.}}

* [[Recurring Boss]]

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Inverted: She starts out as being completely insane in Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. By the time of Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, however, she has become sane enough to make complex plans that ensure that she succeeds, although she does retain a high degree of instabilitiy.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Samus, obviously but given the series continuity, this is partly retroactive. In fusion Samus talks about how the SAX must be stopped before it ever realizes potential and becomes a threat to the galaxy, which is exactly what we see Dark Samus do. {{spoiler|The kicker is that by becoming part Metroid she is even more like Dark Samus, despite having an opposite motivation and is fighting what functionally might as well be her old self since it has most of her old abilities.}}

{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Prime Hunters''}}

 

 

* [[Batman Gambit]]: It sent the distress signal to all of the Hunters in the galaxy so that they would find the Octoliths and set it free.

 

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