Metroid: Other M/Fridge
Fridge Brilliance
Other M just seems like a random subtitle until you notice as an acronym it reads "MOM". Also if you place the M before Other it reads "Mother" signifying Samus's "relationship" with the baby Metroid and MB's relationship with Madeline Bergman.
- In fact, the "Other M" in the title probably refers to MB, since she is an alternate Mother Brain.
- Take a look at the fake Madeleine Bergman's hairclip. Remind you of anything? It looks like the red nuclei in the core of a Metroid.
- Also, Madeline Bergan warns us about MB. For a while, some could think that it was just the initials for Mother Brain. It's in fact a little more complicated, since they played with those initials : MB are the initials for Mother Brain, but also the initials of the director of the project, Madeline Bergan. We are lead to think that MB and Madeline Bergan are in fact one and the same person, but it's in fact a Red Herring : MB stands for Melissa Bergan, who impersonated her own mother.
- Phantoon is the extra boss. Anyone remember what section he was the boss of in Super Metroid? The Ghost Ship. At the end of the game, Samus is all alone on the BOTTLE SHIP, making it a ghost ship.
- Have you ever noticed that chronologically, every Metroid game that takes place after Adam's death uses the Ridley theme as the escape music? (Yes, including this one.)
- A possible explanation about why the baby Metroid in Super Metroid got so dang BIG: It was destined to be a Queen; how else do you think the scientists got a Queen's DNA patterns if their only source of said DNA was the remains on Samus's suit?
- Ever wonder how Nightmare and Ridley's remains end up on the Biologic Space Labs in Fusion? Ever enter the rooms those two bosses' remains are left in during Other M's postgame portion only to notice that their remains are now missing?
- Also, ever wonder why Ridley's body collapses so easily in Metroid Fusion when you encounter it in the freezer? That's not the sort of thing you usually see frozen corpses do. Unless, of course, that frozen corpse was drained of all its energy by a Queen Metroid and turned into a dry, gray husk.
- Samus' reaction to seeing Ridley seems incredibly out of character, until you realize that, at least according to some sources, Ridley never actually died until Super Metroid, the game before this one. It's not that she's scared of Ridley, it's that she's freaking out because he's supposed to be dead.
- Alternatively, Ridley's previous deaths took place between large spans of time. Other M is right after Super. He's not only supposed to be dead, he came back in record time!
- No, it isn't. It's apparently supposed to be taking place long enough after Super that Metroids and Space Pirates are beginning to fade from memory. Considering how much they fucked everyone up, that has to be a while.
- In fact, the "Other M" in the title probably refers to MB, since she is an alternate Mother Brain.
Fridge Horror
Did Adam die quickly and painlessly in Sector Zero's self-destruction? Or did he suffer an incredibly painful and horrific death having the life sucked out of him by innumerable ice-proof Metroids?
- Provoked in-universe by Samus when she wonders whether or not Anthony was conscious as he burned up in lava.
Fridge Logic
- The authorization system falls apart as an excuse to withold upgrades the moment Samus collects the only two new abilities in this game and immediately activates both upon acquiring them without waiting for Adam's permission.
- The Power Suit working like a Henshin Hero's completely breaks Fusion's entire plot. Being in a coma implies a lack of concentration. Hell, it even breaks other parts of Other M's plot: how the hell did the Feds scrape Metroid goo off the Suit without her knowledge?
- You can keep going with that. If the armor isn't a physical object but just something Samus can summon at will, how was it destroyed in Zero Mission? Yes, she turned it off before the crash, but she could have just turned it on afterwards. Then there's Corruption, where she's KO'd by Dark Samus, yet her suit was still active. Otherwise, how did the GF integrate the PED into it?
- To add to those examples: How did the Feds retrieve genetic material off of her suit while she was unconscious?
- You can keep going with that. If the armor isn't a physical object but just something Samus can summon at will, how was it destroyed in Zero Mission? Yes, she turned it off before the crash, but she could have just turned it on afterwards. Then there's Corruption, where she's KO'd by Dark Samus, yet her suit was still active. Otherwise, how did the GF integrate the PED into it?