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* [[And You Thought It Would Fail]]: According to a interview with Yoshio Sakamoto, ''Super Metroid'' was close to being put down not one, not two, but three times. And one of the biggest critics of the game was actually Gunpei Yokoi... yeah, that's right, the creator of the series. Reportedly, he often angrily asked the team "Are you trying to make a goddamn masterpiece?". Well, the game came, and it was pretty much a masterpiece, and Gunpei apparently liked it so much that he for a long time used it as a reference of how a good game should be. Sadly, he and Sakamoto never had the time to make up before his unfortunate death.
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Mother Brain in the NES game is a stationary target whose only methods of attack are her turret cannons and rinkas. It's a tricky fight, but if you have enough missiles after you destroy the Zebetites, it's far from insurmountable.
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*** For a [[Final Boss]], Mother Brain isn't all that challenging. She has three attacks for most of the fight, then gets a fourth when low on health, but none of them deal very much damage and are fairly easy to avoid. The room is a single screen large and, due to Mother Brain's sprite design, the player can almost always hit her by aiming diagonally up at her. Finally, if the player comes here with even a moderate amount of missile upgrades, Mother Brain will go down fairly quickly. This all adds up to a [[Final Boss]] where you just stand in the corner of the room with a shoulder button held down bombarding them with missiles, only needing to occasionally jump to avoid an attack.
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*[[Awesome Art (Sugar Wiki)|Awesome Art]]: Ever since ''Super Metroid'', nearly ''every'' game in this franchise (most notably ''Metroid Fusion'' and the original ''Metroid Prime'') has had some of ''the'' best graphics on its system.
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** Zero Suit Samus from ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'' also has this effect on a certain portion of the fandom.
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* [[Complete Monster]]: Ridley in the manga, which isn't all that far off, all things considered. His whole motivation for what he does is implied to be nothing but simply [[For the Evulz]].
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Ridley has gathered a big fanbase around him (and in the manga, he was essentially the one who steals the show). Also, Rundas from ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3'', Sylux from ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' (the {{spoiler|appearance of a ship that looks like the Delano 7 in the 100% ending of ''Corruption''}} may have been a nod to Sylux's popularity), and [[Memetic Mutation|Anthony Higgs]] from ''[[Metroid: Other M]]''.
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** Nobody really knows what Kraid is or what his actual connection with the Space Pirates is, beyond being a high-ranking member, but everyone sure loves to speculate. Pre-''Zero Mission,'' a lot of them focused on whether he grew or was enhanced between the original game and ''Super Metroid,'' because he went from being tiny to being huge.
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** In fact, Other M was designed mostly to get the Japanese to buy it; it worked, but at the cost of losing a good part of the (much larger) American fanbase.
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* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: "Skreee!"
** Ridley's screech in ''Fusion'' and ''Zero Mission'' is like listening to someone use a chainsaw on a chalkboard.
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* [[Internet Backdraft]]: The Zero Suit alone has sparked discussions and flamewars about whether or not Nintendo turned Samus into a slut. Whether your definition of [[Stripperific]] extends to [[Latex Space Suit]] or goes to [[Absolute Cleavage]] and [[Thong of Shielding]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|will determine your standing]].
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* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The rising four-note phrase in Mother Brain's battle music from ''Super Metroid'' actually sounds a lot like the three-note motif used for Man in ''[[Bambi]]''.
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** Also, Admiral Castor Dane, in part due to a scene where it seems he's standing in the Urtagian acid rain, which is strong enough to kill well-armored Samus in a few seconds, with no protection<ref>The flagship above him probably acts as an umbrella, but you still have to wonder if ''some'' rain gets around it...</ref>.
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* [[Misblamed]]: At one point, Yoshio Sakamoto gave an interview with Kotaku where he said that he initially wanted ''Other M'' to be "on-rails." What he ''meant'' by on-rails was "on a 2D sidescrolling plane." What the article gave the ''impression'' of with what he said, however, was "[[Rail Shooter]]." Unfortunately, the misinformation spread like wildfire, and fans were up in arms over how Sakamoto was trying to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|derail]] the series with an unneeded [[Genre Shift]]. The uproar dissipated once Sakamoto was able to clarify what exactly he meant.
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* [[Scrappy Level]]: The second play through of Sector 2 TRO, in ''Fusion'', is arguably the hardest part of the game due to the plant overgrowth, lack of weak enemies, and the fact that every enemy you do encounter deals at minimum 1 bar of energy in damage (nevermind the SA-X, who takes 3 of them every time you touch her).
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* [[Scrappy Weapon]]: As a general tradition of ''Metroid'' games (not counting ''Metroid 1'', the ''Metroid 2'' [[Video Game Remake|trilogy]] and ''Metroid Fusion''), standard Missiles basically become one of these once you make it far enough into the game; the only purposes that they serve effectively enough to justify their limited ammo are opening doors, making "early game" enemies easier, and being an extremely easy thing to "rapid fire" into bosses. Oh, and that's not even '''mentioning''' how much more powerful Samus' beam often ends up becoming when compared to standard Missiles ('''especially''' in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' and ''Super Metroid'')...
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** Also, ''Metroid Prime 3'' eliminated '''[[Understatement|quite]]''' a bit of the combat difficulty of ''Metroid Prime 2'' by giving Samus an always-available [[Infinity Plus One Sword|Hyper Beam]].
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* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: The hunters' backstories are this.
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** Sylux's backstory states that it has a deep-seated hatred of the Galactic Federation, ''especially'' Samus. That's pretty much all we ever find out. {{spoiler|Though his ship is possibly seen in [[The Stinger]] for ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', so there's a chance of developing this}}.
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* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: The voice that did the line "The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace." in ''Super Metroid'' is actually voiced by a man named Dan Owsen, who, according to Kenji Yamamoto, was someone who made frequent visits to Japan. And so they selected him to do the voice in the opening script.
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